state troopers here as needed. aside from him being in custody, we appreciate shed more light on that situation as far as where he will be taken and what if anything else he has said to investigators in this time that he s been in custody, which has now been about 30 minutes. richard? morgan, another part of this is when that first hostage was released, and what was the sense on the ground as you were standing there? because a big question was, boy, we re in hour number, i think, seven or eight when that had happened, and we really hadn t heard any progress. of course that s us on the outside hoping for positive progress. what was the scene on the ground when the first hostage came out? the hostage team was making progress. what was the sense there? reporter: it was generally brought a hopeful note to this
alluing to that which we brought up live. this will be the location of that briefing and we ll go straight to it on msnbc. we still have morgan chesky on the ground who s been following this breaking news story throughout the day. and he was just discussing the one request from the suspect, from the hostage take er, and that was the release of siddiqhi. for those who are not familiar, siddiqhi has a long history with the united states and concerns from counterterrorism experts about her linkages to terrorism. i want to bring in now jim kavanaugh, former hostage negotiator and msnbc contributor. we ve got a minute here before we get into this, but i wanted to get your sense very quickly here. what we expect to hear from this news briefing and what you re learning at the moment, jim. i think they ll probably tell
team and dallas fbi s.w.a.t. team holding the perimeter. as chief miller said, the fbi hostage rescue team is considered one of the crown jules of our organization. they re job is to conduct hostage rescues when necessary. in this case, we had a necessity for that, and they were successful. very proud of them. i m also extremely proud of the team of negotiators, fbi agents and local police officers who worked all day long engaging the suspect and likely saved the lives of subjects through their engagement. it s likely this would have ended badly early in the day had we not had consistent with the subject. i do not have any information now this is part of an ongoing threat. we re investigating. we ll continue to investigate the hostage taker, he ll do not investigate his contacts. our investigation will have global reach. we have been in contact with
eastern, 10:00 local time in texas. following the story out of colleyville. morgan, recap for us what we just learned within the last 30 minutes about what happened on the ground during this hostage situation in texas. of course. well, an 1146 hour standoff has now come to a close in the quiet suburb of colleyville about 30 miles to the northwest of dallas, and we know that within the last 30 minutes, every hostage that was inside congregation beth israel synagogue was released and no one is believed to be injured. everyone will likely be reunited with their family members tonight. and it comes after an incredibly tense situation this morning when a man believed to be armed entered the synagogue and began making demands, some of which were caught on that place of worship s live stream during their saturday services. that live stream was then cut
received some backup support from northwestern hills s.w.a.t. team. i immediately once we heard there was a hostage situation, i called the fbi. the fbi special agent came out. immediately, atf, fbi, texas public safety, and all of our local partners all responded as well. we have had nothing but phenomenal support from our state and local law enforcement and federal partners. at some point in time during the times we were negotiating with the suspect for a period of time all day, constant communication with him, he did release one hostage in the middle of the incident. that hostage was not harmed and he was he s doing well now. the fbi called out the hostage rescue team, which is an elite hostage rescue force out of quantico, virginia. they immediately when they