throughout southern california assisting us. we re continuing to provide as much security as we can to the community of big bear. nbc s mike tiaibi is in los angeles. we re beginning to hear there s new information from san diego. there may have been a sight thering. what do you know? there s new information coming in from all over the place. this is a wide search. it s impossible to focus it on any one area because of the unquestioned history of this alleged the suspect over the past five days. he has been from san diego, which is about 130 miles south of where we are right now, up to big bear. 100 miles to the north and and northeast and a lot of territory but this is a state of freeways and there are clues left by the suspect all over the place. in san diego, he was allegedly down there earlier in the week, took a room on the marine base. never did check out and some of his items found in the hotel room. he left a wallet or dropped a wallet on a median strip that was found.