but they wanted to have her checked out just in case. of course, we have to keep in mind that this has probably been a very traumatic week for her and it started a week ago with the apparent murders of her mother and her brother. the fbi is promising all the resources needed to try to help hannah and her family help with this very difficult time. alex? yeah, absolutely. are you hearing details about the rescue operation? do we know how many fbi personnel were going in there? what do we know? reporter: yeah, we don t know exactly how many. we do know that it was a team of fbi agents who are trained in this tactical missions. they could not land in that area. it was near a lake but an area completely surrounded by mountains. they actually had to land a good ways away and then the fbi agents hiked for 2 1/2 hours before they got to that campsite and that s where they confronted dimaggio and ended up shooting
see if she s okay. her father is coming into this area and they will be reunited. we don t know exactly when that will happen but it will be a important moment for this entire family. absolutely. joe fryer there in boise, thank you. again, hannah is safe and her family says that they are relieved but grieving at the same time. her mother and brother were killed last weekend. sarah and ralph brit, hannah s grandparents, described about hearing the rescue this morning. we got the phone call from brett yesterday afternoon. all he did was say, can you come over to his house. and we have some news. so we got in our car and we didn t know if it was good news or bad news and it was a long drive there. we weren t sure what to expect. when we got there, brett greeted us and he said hannah was safe and jim was dead and hugs, joy,
a the lo of positive movement on issues, like the deficit, like jobs, and certainly in the area of obamacare, we re going to continue to have a lot of fighting. i like how you answer the question. it makes me really happy. anyway, gop controls the house and continues to focus on things like repealing obamacare maybe for the 41st time coming up, what position does it put the democrats in? the democrats are in a great position when they run in 2014 and saying congress is getting nothing done. congress approval rating has never been high, but it s been less than 20% for almost two years. revolutions have been started with more popular congresses than that. if they don t get something done soon, i think this is going to be a pox on both houses. some people think they re actually getting a little bit of work done. patricia, let s listen to an
hospital up here. she was helicoptered to an area hospital after the rescue yesterday to be evaluated and she was met by victim specialists. we understand that her father is heading there today from california and so i think what is next for her is that she s going to be reunited with her family. well, it should be good news for her. we ve seen some of the reactions coming in from her family. they were speaking with nbc earlier today, the grandparents. it s got to be an unimaginable time for her. yes she is safe but her mother and brother were killed. i don t think anyone can really understand just quite what the family has gone through in the past week. i know hannah s father texted cnn last night. he put it best. it s now healing time for them. obviously they are very relieved. they said that they are relieved that she is safe. you re right, there is this
had up in the air, the crew that was up there was able to spot a campsite or a remote camp area that appeared to have two people. as we were able to watch more closely, the fbi teams and the teams that were watching confirmed that they believed this was dimaggio and hannah there on the ground. once we had that information, the hostage rescue teams moved in. there was challenges with getting the teams close enough to the camp but they moved in as closely as possible to get hannah rescued immediately. how long did they have to hike? i mean, this was such a remote area. they couldn t drive anywhere close to the campsite, right? absolutely not. there is no vehicle traffic allowed within this protected wilderness area and the second challenge was the terrain. so it is not flat land. it s very steep, rugged terrain.