deputies are finding out in the field. this is a friend of my husband who happens to be former law enforcement. so they are all texting each other. so, as soon as can i give you a name, i will. but what a loss this is going to be. shepard: yeah. back to you guys. shepard: man alive, christina, thank you so much. so many sacrifice so much us and get caught up in the middle of this. we re reporting from rome tonight where it s just past midnight, 17 minutes past actually 17 minutes past 1:00 in the morning. can i tell you this is a story that has been covered here. this is being watched around the world. nowhere closer than at the los angeles police department where our correspondent william la jeunesse is. william, have we been able to get anything from police about what it is that has happened in the last hour and a half or so in that cabin? it sounds like they have heard no gunshots and they fired tear gas in there which leads you to wonder. what we just heard is that four t
approach, now we have seen several of the local firefighter agencies going up the hill including obviously big bear fire running springs fire has been called to the area, and law enforcement resources continue to pour into the big bear area. but if you are trying to get out of area, as a lot of people are highway 330 is the route to take. highway 38 does remain closed. there was a three-hour backup on highway 330 earlier to get out of town. can i tell you this is the talk of the town, laura. shepard: a lot of road closures and they are getting into the local traffic situation there. but the l.a. times, i want to kill that audio. has just updated its web site for the first time. it gives us a time stamp of local and, again from just three minutes ago, smoke and flames reading from the l.a. times were visible from the area where the fugitive former law enforcement officer christopher dorner was hold up in a big bear area cabin after gun battles with law enforcement officers. law en
checked off. this is the man over the past 7 or 8 days that has evaded police at least five times by our count and they are making sure it doesn t happen again, shep. gigi, out on the road, have the cops given you an idea after these couple of hours why it is they haven t opened up traffic or not? well, they apparently feel very confident that whoever that suspect is that was shooting at them is indeed hold up off of highway 38, as you heard right now has not reopened to traffic. the traffic down hill from big bear and, remember, big bear is a ski resort. lots of skiers up there right now. the way to come down the hill is about three hours. they just decided it wasn t feasible they feel confident they have their suspect off of highway 38. that s why they are opening the road and allowing people to come down off the hill and allowing people in a short while to go back up the mountain. shepard: that makes sense.
weapon from the couple that he invaded their home. but in the past hour and 15 or 20 minutes, there has not been a shot heard coming out of that cabin. though police believe they have their man inside that cabin. shep? shepard: all right. trace, on the left side of the screen you are looking at live pictures just after 4:00 in the afternoon. this is loma linda, california. courtesy of our network affiliate out there. there are checkpoints all around. at one of those checkpoints is our correspondent gigi from fox 11 news kttv for the south land. gigi, what s happening where you are? hi, shep. good afternoon. we are here in big bear. this is highway 330 for folks that are familiar with the area. they just reopened the road just a couple of seconds ago. but for the last three hours, they have been searching every single car that s been coming down the hill at gun point. we are talking about even official vehicles. the concern, of course, that even though they think they
officers down, officer down. officer down. the officer down. another officer down. copy another officer down? fire, automatic fire coming inbound. copy. automatic fire inbound. shepard: automatic fire inbound. so that was the scene. it appears it is now over. let s listen in fox 11 news in los angeles and the surrounding area with live continuing coverage. i do not fear dying. i feel i died when i was fired by the l.a.p.d. yeah. and the smiling photographs of him that he has that we have shown of him with bill bratton and others really belie the absolute evil that he has perpetrated on the south land and his fellow officers. he now as jack called him a murderer. christina is standing by and she has nor on the status of