they shot this suspect, james lee, who and he is now dead. they shot him when it became apparent to them that the hostages were in danger. they had been monitoring him on the discovery channel s security cameras, and they actually had a police officer, ait appears inside of the lobby area of the first-floor area, so when it was apparent that the hostages were in danger, they took this action. listen to what the police of chief for montgomery county said a short time ago. the suspect is reported that he pulled out the handgun that he came in with, and pointed it one of the hostages. it is unconfirmed now whether he actually fired the weapon or not. but at that point, our tactical unit moved in. they shot the suspect.
able to say anyone who was in that space. does it look to you that s what s going on? there are police converged around that area? on our screen, the picture we re getting from wjla, that part of the building, because of the time of day, is completely in shadow. we can see the building but you can t see what s going on at the base of the building. we see cars moving around there a little bit. i assume these are all police cars you re seeing? yes, all police cars. there are several unmarked cars. but, yes, all police cars. and just from where i can see, there are six police officers positioned immediately outside of this lobby area. several others, of course, at other at the other end of the building and positioned behind some of the police cars. is that an area that normally has people walking around or is this the kind of thing where it s offices and you drive in and you go into the garage and go to your office? no, this is a it s
with two boxes and two backpacks that we suspect may have explosive devices in them. he pulled out a hand gun and may have been fired a round when he came in. we re in the process of trying to confirm that. told everyone to stop moving. several people ran out of the lobby area. in the end he had three hostages, a security other ind. all three male. the hostages were all male. over the course of the next several hours, we, our trained negotiators spoke with this man. he, at obviously had a number of issues with discovery.
squad truck that pulled up to the scene and let at least two people out. we believe right there on the lower right hand woargs of your screen, that glass area, we believe that would be the lobby area. at last reports the lobby area is where they were focusing. i saw three or four police officers wandering back and forth. south would indicate to me that they don t have a line of sight with this guy in those windows. if they are look at him, they could be looking at them. so the speculation is they are focusing on their security cameras. i have seen a number. police officers walking around in the front of the area. at the same time we saw a number of people who work in the building walking out the back side of the building across the street to those bushes up towards across the street in front of that building over there. so there are two sides of the building where there seems to be
most eery thing to be in a hotel of this size. there are 1,200 rooms here. all of these people who are staying here have had to be evacuated. we woke up this morning about 7:30 and you could hear these alarms that were sounded through the hotel. in addition to that, there were security guards going from room to room. they were pounding on the doors telling people to get out, get out, tsunami warnings. people here take this very seriously, especially the local people. in 1960 a tsunami came through and it was devastating to hilo and some of the other areas around the island, as chad said. if it hits one area, that doesn t mean the other areas are safe. these are continuous waves of water, continuous surge. so i am standing in the lobby area of the hilton looking out on to the water right now. i can tell you, it is so calm,