cnn received chilling images from inside a kidnapper s bunker. the story absolutely horrified the country earlier this year when a 5-year-old boy was snatched off his school bus in alabama and held captive in this underground bunker for nearly a week. cnn s ailelina machado gives us inside look at the bunker. reporter: this is an inside look at the underground bunker where jimmy lee dikes held a 5-year-old boy hostage for six days, just released photos show alabama and federal investigators processing the scene. here is a picture showing one of two beds. small flashlights hang on the wall. water bottles are within reach. a notebook and an animal calendar sit on the bed. the fbi released the photos along with audio of a
passengers. was the bus driver the only person shot? yes, ma am. hang in there, honey. you re doing so good. i m so proud of you, okay? neighbors told cnn dikes was a paranoid anti-government loaner. here s what the 65-year-old told negotiators. people are going to be standing up to this [ bleep ]. incompetent, self-righteous, bunch much sorry [ bleep ] in government that tell nothing but [ bleep ] lies. law enforcement sources told cnn authorities used a camera to monitor what was going on inside the bunker. while fbi hostage rescue team trained on a model of the structure nearby. agents reportedly saw dikes holding a gun. prompting the rescue operation. dikes, they say was armed and managed to fire at agents before he was killed. authorities found two explosive devices. the boy, named ethan, was alive and returned to his family. alina machado, cnn, atlanta. wow.
water bottles are within reach. a notebook and an animal calendar sit on the bed. the fbi released the photos saturday along with aud though of a profanity laced phone call between hostage negotiators and dikes. you go ahead and send somebody [ bleep ] down to their death. the chilling audio gives us a better sense of dikes state of mind as the days wore on and negotiations deteriorated. if that sorry son [ bleep ] doesn t respond to me by 5:30 this afternoon or whatever time it is, by god, i will not be talking [ bleep ]. authorities say dikes stormed a school bus in midland city, alabama on january 29th. a 15-year-old boy on the bus told dispatchers how a man shot the driver and snatched one of the children. okay. is he on the bus? did he take the kid off the bus? he took the kid off the bus. the bus driver, charles poland was later hailed a hero for trying to protect his young
if we get a wind gust, it s going to be brief. we re not seeing the organized supercell thunderstorms we ve had the last couple of days. that threat moves from around northern virginia up toward the northeastern part of the u.s. tomorrow. we ll continue to watch it. at least the threat is a little lower than it has been the last five days. we ll take anything. a little lower is good. thanks, tom. four months after that bunker standoff in southeast alabama involving a 65-year-old man and a 5-year-old hostage, remember that? today the fbi is releasing audio from the gunman, photos from the inside of the bunker and part of the 911 call by a student who was on the bus when the ordeal began. more now from cnn s alina macha machado. this is an inside look where jimmy lee dikes held a 5-year-old boy hostage for six days. alabama and federal investigators processing the scene. here s a picture showing one of two beds. small flashlights hang on wall.
mississippi river are in trouble with floodwaters. crews have been able to contain the dikes but more rain is on the way. two more people are in trouble in china with the total number of deaths at 20 because of bird influence. the justice department preparing to file charges again the only surviving suspect in the boston marathon terror attack. that sets the stage for a major legal battle as a group of republican lawmakers are urging he be treated as an enemy come budgetant and not a common criminal. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live in washington. jennifer, who wants hip designated enemy combatant? senators john mccain and congressman peter king and lindsay graham. are there other conspirators? where do they get rod radical