plan to bomb the school but the material the police found proves otherwise. karen travers has details. reporter: good morning. police in florida say they were very familiar with jared cano. he has an extensive criminal record and was on a police watch list but what this teenager is accused of n n is chilling. tampa police say 17-year-old jared cano meticulously planned his attack for the first day of school next week. he also mentioned his desire to cause more casualties than were suffered at columbine. reporter: yesterday he was arrested for plotting to set off bombs at his former high school. his target, 30 students and two assistant vice principals. but thanks to a tipster they prevented mother nast kerr. at his apartment they found elements to make pipe bomb, shrapn shrapnel, plastic tubing, accentants. they found a manifesto that outlined minute by minute to include detonating explosive devices through the school. reporter: police say cano acted alone and had n
from our hotel room on the side of the building down to get stuff from the car. and i heard some gunshots like it was coming from a machine gun on the freeway side of the hotel. and i said to my sister i think i just heard gunshots. we knew something was going on. we weren t sure. what did you think when you got up this morning? there was police? i thought it was a prank call. then, i, you know once i opened the door, i knew it was serious. investigators are speaking with him. there is voice contact with him from the beginning of the incident. there is dialogue, which is good. and the s.w.a.t. team brought in an armored personnel carrier to help officers get closer to the hotel. that was quite a sight going down the street. there are dozens of law enforcement vehicles as well. and right now, they re just in a mode of, as we said, waiting it out. hoping that this man is going to surrender. live in san rafael, abc 7 news. thank you. and alan wong is with 50 guests who
to our other big story tonight, a mother bart web site is packed. the fbi is getting involved in the cyber attacks as we hear that there s another protest against bart. this was the scene on monday after the group anonymous call for a demonstration against the bart. there were protesting the decision to shut down cellphone service last week because of a rumored protests then. our team coverage begins with kron4 dan kerman. he is live in the headquarters in oakland for more on the latest attack. late this afternoon, the fbi sat down with members of bart police officers union it was their web site that was hacked into and their information that was released. these are the names of 100 into bart police officers as well as their home addresses, e- mail accounts and passwords. the information was posted to the web for all to see by a hacker that broke into the park police officers association web site. i hope the people that did this realize what they have done they have
street. it is right next to the hotel. many of these officers have been lined up for almost nine hours, ready to make the next move, and it could be any minute or it could be late into the night. san rafael police say that this is the armed man refusing to leave his room at the extended stay hotel. a surveillance camera took the man s picture during a shoplifting on sunday at united market on third street. that turned into a stabbing of an employee who tried to stop the man from running away. police say they figured out the suspect s name and location and came here to the hotel to speak with him at 8:30 this morning. they say that s when he barricaded himself inside the room. he says he has a gun and his girlfriend with him. police say when he fired a shot from his room across 580 at 10:45 a.m., that s when they shut down the richmond san rafael bridge, part of 580 and many of the streets surrounding the hotel. there s no rush and it s good he s talking with us and we ll ju
a shot from the room around 10:45 this morning. the chp had no recourse except then to shut down the freeway in front of the hotel room. we have a surveillance camera picture of the suspect taken at the market on sunday. police say this is the same man in the hotel room with the girlfriend now but they don t know the identity of the man. they said think didn t have an identification is what they are saying. 40 residents of the hotel were evacuated and police did send emergency calls to businesses in the neighborhood to let them know what was going on. there are at least 75 police officers maybe more. it s a huge police standoff and according to san rafael police spokeswoman margo rohrabacher. about 75 officers here now, there are s.w.a.t. teams throughout marin and also sonoma county and our hostage negotiators are speaking with him since the beginning of the incident. there is dialogue back and forth which is good. these events sometimes can take a long time and we want a