he described the initial request for help at 1:49 p.m. that day from the former capitol police chief as rioters breached the complex. chief sund, his voice cracking with emotion, indicated that there was a dire emergency at the capitol. and he requested the immediate assistance of as many available national guardsmen that i could muster. immediately after that 1:49 call i alerted the senior army leadership of the request. the approval for chief sund s request would eventually come from the acting secretary of defense and be relayed to me by army senior leaders at 5:08 p.m., about 3 hours, 19 minutes later. i already had guards on buses at the armory ready to move to the capitol. the secretary-general s january 5th letter to me withheld that authority for me to deploy a quick reaction force. i found that require to be unusual. i have 39 years in the national guard. i was in the florida guard, hurricane andrew. i ve been involved in civil disturbances, so i believe that numbe
returned home to florida without her. in a moment, we will be joined by crime fighter, john walsh, whose efforts and viewers have led to the capture of so many suspects over the years. first, though, our randi kaye in moose, wyoming, with the very latest. randi. reporter: and john, so many tips and so many amateur internet sleuths posting about this case online, including one woman here in wyoming who says that she believes she picked up gabby petito s fiance, brian laundrie, while he was hitchhiking. so today, we retraced her steps and figured out where the two of them first connected. and where they separated and here s what we found. hi. my name is miranda baker and on august 29th, my boyfriend and i picked up brian at grand teton national park at 5:30 at night. um, i am hoping this can help someone identify him. reporter: that is miranda baker sharing her story on social media about she believes she and her boyfriend picked up gabby petito s fiance, brian laundrie
reporter: that is miranda baker sharing her story on social media about she believes she and her boyfriend picked up gabby petito s fiance, brian laundrie, when he was hitchhiking. we picked him up like i said at 5:30. he approached us asking for a ride because he needed to go to jackson, which we were going to jackson that night. so i said, you know, hop in. um, he hopped in the back of my jeep. we then, you know, proceeded to make small talk. reporter: she says the chance encounter happened on august 29th, five days after gabby last facetimed her family. miranda says before he got in her jeep, the man offered to pay her $200 for the ride. she says he offered this explanation for what he was doing out there on his own. he then told us he s been camping for multiple days without his fiancee. he did say he had a fiancee. and that she was working on their social media page back at their van. reporter: this is the bay where miranda baker says she picked up brian laundr
i am told by a spokesman for the north port police department that all of this was found about a two or three-mile walk into the reserve from this entrance here behind me about a 45-minute walk is how it was described. and keep in mind, this entrance is where the laundrie family car, a mustang, was found by north port police on september 14th and tagged as an abandoned vehicle. so if these remains do belong to brian laundrie, and if it was him who drove the car here, then he did take a walk fairly deep into the reserve. and, anderson, we have also been able to confirm that the laundrie parents brian laundrie s parents were also here at the reserve when these remains were discovered earlier today, anderson. sorry, just two quick questions. sorry. how how far from where these items with found to the the place where the car was left? reporter: about two or three miles is how it was described to me by the spokeman for north port police. in the carlton reserve, this park
and keep in mind, this entrance is where the laundrie family car, a mustang, was found by north port police on september 14th and tagged as an abandoned vehicle. so if these remains do belong to brian laundrie, and if it was him who drove the car here, then he did take a walk fairly deep into the reserve. and anderson, we have also been able to confirm that the laundrie parents brian laundrie s parents were also here at the reserve when these remains were discovered earlier today, anderson. sorry, just two quick questions. sorry. how how far from where these items were found to the place where the car was left? reporter: about two or three miles is how it was described to me by the spokesman for north port police. in the carlton reserve, this park where we are, this entrance serves as an entrance, one of several entrances into the carlton reserve but the remains were found in the carlton reserve about a 45-minute walk from this spot. and you said brian laundrie s pa