russia, a dominant position. great power game is back in the middle east, and it is telling the assad government, which we were against before we were for them, that they now can stay in power forever, even though they used chemical weapons on their own people and have engaged in massive human rights abuses. so i think it s a bad policy. i think most republicans and democrats think it s a bad policy. you forgot to mention brett mcgurk, who he has been the isis negotiator, very capable in the middle east since 2015, appointed by obama but very highly regarded under trump, resigned early. he was planning to leave in a couple months, just as mattis resigned. i just don t get it. and last point, there s an election going on in israel, and benjamin netanyahu i think found it important to stand next to our national security adviser bolton the other day to get a different answer. i think that s important to our
jacksonville office is james casey. he says the kidnappers appear to be dee activating quin s cell phone after each of the calls they made to reid. somebody in the scheme was smart enough to take the battery out of the cell phone, because we were able to, through some technical capabilities, determine that that phone was not only off, but had no power to it at certain times. meaning you can t trace it? meaning you can t trace t. while there was no pinpointing an exact address where quin s calls were originating, technicians were tracing pings when the phone was in use. those are the electronic connections made when a phone hits a particular cell tower. and that gave investigators a general idea where quin might have been held. fbi agent tony kravit was selected as the lead crisis negotiator for the bureau. we re tracking the phone and we re thinking that, you know, we ve got some leads. agents felt they were making progress, but then suddenly the phone was also pinging fa
pointing an exact address where quinn s calls were originating, technicians were tracing pings when the phone was in use. those are the electronic connections made when a phone hits a particular cell tower, and that gave investigators a general idea where quinn might have been held. fbi agent tony kravit was selected as the lead crisis negotiator for the bureau. we re tracking the phone and thinking we ve got some leads. agents felt they were making progress, but suddenly the phone was also pinging farther away. the kidnappers and quinn might have been on the move. sheriff s detective howard cole was sent in pursuit. it was believed that quinn gray s cell phone was being tracked to an area west of orlando. but something had gone wrong. before tracing the calls, investigators had to get a judge s approval. and in the rush to fill out the proper paperwork, someone made a small, but critical error.
quinn s calls were originating, technicians were tracing pings when the phone was in use. those are the electronic connections made when a phone hits a particular cell tower, and that gave investigators a general idea where quinn might have been held. fbi agent tony kravit was selected as the lead crisis negotiator for the bureau. we re tracking the phone and thinking we ve got some leads. agents felt they were making progress, but suddenly the phone was also pinging farther away. the kidnappers and quinn might have been on the move. sheriff s detective howard cole
is there any way that we can go to any of our crews on the ground? we want to talk to our producer in the booth really quick. one of the reasons we are waiting to talk to them is we have rick montanez there at the scene and angie crouch actually had a friend who was there and we re trying to hook the two of them up. we want to let you guys know it s 4:56 right now and we are starting the nbc 4 news at 5:00 early. we are staying on top of this breaking news in silver lake. a massive police response outside of a trader joe s sxwlp that s right. shots have been fired. we re told there could be hostages inside. and we have team coverage in place. in the air gil layoffas has been following it. on the ground multiple reporters following this. we re going to go right up to gil leyvas in news chopper 4 bravo. and gil, you have been keeping us up to date. what is the latest here as we reach 5:00? kathy, i can tell you that the s.w.a.t. team is in place and the negotiations continue at thi