this ordeal began august 3, the day hannah anderson vanished after cheer leading practice in san diego county. the next day the bodies of her mother and brother were discoveredhe burned out you ruins of dimaggio s home. the first definite break in the case came thursday. a horse back rider reported coming across a man and teenaged girl wednesday in the wilderness n near cascade, idaho. friday searchers were pouring in to the area. e we re joined buyer ty the sheri office of public information. what can you tell us now about the condition of andrea and the next steps? hannah s condition as miguel told you, she is doing well physically. and we are looking at reports
. it is the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. outdate on the small plane that crashed into two homes in connecticut. killing at least four people. former microsoft executive and his teenage son were confirmed on the plane. intensive search for a missing california girl is under way in idaho. police say a horseback rider spotted 16-year-old hannah anderson and her alleged kidnapper in the wilderness. family of nelson mandela says the former south african president s health is improving. his daughter says the 95-year-old anti-apartheid leader is now able to sit up for several minutes at a time. he was admitted to a hospital two months ago because of a lung infection. there s new reaction to president s plan to reform the government s surveillance programs and a news conference yesterday president obama said
like you heard, it is an isolated area. very mountainous part of idaho. now authorities zoned in on this area because on wednesday, a horseback rider reported seeing hannah and james dimaggio about six miles outside of cascades, eyed mope the horseback rider told authorities that they had some small talk and said he saw a tent and it appeared that they were camping out. i think he described the interaction as odd. but nothing alarming. when he got back to his home, i belie when he saw the reports about the amber alert he did think that, you know what, they looked pretty familiar. the horseback rider called the police immediately. he ended up telling them that he thought that i did image joe hannah appeared to be in good health and from his perspective, it did not appear that hannah was being held against her will. authorities swarmed the area yesterday morning. they actually found dimaggio s
has oprah claiming racism. good morning. good morning. i m victor blackwell. and i m brianna keilar. it s 10:01 on the east coast. you re in the cnn newsroom. new this morning, the sun is up in idaho where authorities hope this will be the day they track down james dimaggio. he escaped into the massive frank church river of no return wilderness area with 16-year-old hannah anderson. as for her brother, authorities say remains found in the rubble of a fire where 8-year-old ethan anderson was found, well, those are his. the search for hanna is now focused on the idaho wilderness where the last people to say they saw the two say there was nothing that seemed wrong. there was nothing immediately alarming about this pair. the horseback rider said they did appear to have gear with
authorities were very cautious about approaching that car first because there s concern that james deimagineeo may be armed with explosives. a bomb squad was able to check out that car yesterday them. found no sign of explosives. vet from here in san diego must still search to see if there s any evidence, including includes that might lead them to dimaggio and anderson. with respect to the spotting of the two of them, they were hiking apparently. where did that happen? and what kind of an area is that? it is a very rural, wooded, mountainous, treacherous area a few miles outside the town of cascade. a horseback rider spotted them hiking through that area on wednesday.