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Yelling at someone who is either inside the boat or near it. brian, how long ago were the officers telling the suspect to come out? that was literally probably three minutes ago. we are now being pushed back by law enforcement. we are fading back a little bit behind a dumpster. but we re going to stay as close as we can. clearly they have floodlights on this boat. they are yelling at someone who is either inside it or near it. they seem to be trying to talk to that person. brian, you just tell me whatever you re seeing and hearing as you re hearing it. but can you give me a sense of you said they have lights on the boat. is the entire area kind of floodlit? how lit up is it? the entire area is not floodlit. they just have lights on the boat. there is shrink wrap kind of blowing in the wind around the boat. they have lights on it. we took some footage of it and ....
Of this house. i mean, jeff beatty, formerly with the fbi, with some confidence, the police must feel pretty good about having a secure perimeter around this scene. i m sure they do, but i m sure they will also be cautious about the potential to boobytrap the location as he took cover there within that boat. so he may have boobytrapped the local area so they want to be cautious again, good use of canines or robots to go ahead and make sure as they make their approach, there s no rush. they can be deliberate. he s not going anywhere. they do have it well contained. also joining us is bob baer, formerly cia officer with extensive experience in the middle east, throughout the world. bob, as you watch this operation unfold, and when you hear the information from several sources that a foreign government did request that the fbi interview the older brother, i believe it ....
They all looked fine. they didn t want to talk on camera, but they were literally in their house, they heard all these gun shots. next thing you know, the police are telling them to get out and raced them out. the one man did confirm there is a boat kind of in dry dock or on a trailer, i couldn t understand him correctly, in the backyard. so that s, i just wanted to button that up that those people are fine even though it was a somewhat dramatic escape as the police were getting them out. drew, appreciate that. john king, your sources tell you there had been an engagement of fire. does that mean on both sides, this suspect, possible suspect, had fired back? don t know the answer to that. i was just told by a federal law enforcement official that officers on the scene had engaged an individual they believed to be the suspect they were looking for, then at that point, they had trapped in the backyard and when they believe there was no he was not escaping, they were told to just kee ....
we should point out for our viewers, we ve had this information awhile but for tactical reasons we have not been reporting it. now we are confident we can say we believe the suspect is cornered in a boat. this is a small boat which is in a backyard. correct. it was in dry dock at the time. one of the concerns is that they have there s a house right next to the boat and there was a family inside the house. when we were talking about the fuel, we were talking about is there fuel in the boat. they believe it s a 40 gallon tank so they have to be very careful about that. that s why he was able to get inside. drew griffin who is in watertown initially heard the exchange of automatic fire which kind of alerted us to this uptick in the kinetic situation. drew, what are you seeing? just i want to button up some of the continuing coverage here. david fitzpatrick saw those people evacuated. police officers running out with small children. that family, there s about ten people, they did ....
Being involved. there s so much we don t know about their motive and operational capabilities, about their planning, how long they had been planning this. we do know a possible suspect, authorities according to john king s sources, believe with some certainty that it is a suspect number two, the 19-year-old dzhokhar, who they have been looking for since last night, since these photos were released, cornered in a boat. can you explain, jeff, flash-bang grenades. we talk about this, seen them in movies. how do they work and why would they be thrown now, if the operator s not moving in? well, first of all, the way they work, it s a device that doesn t really have any shrapnel. it has some powder that s designed to burn brilliantly and quickly. pull the pin just like a regular grenade, you throw it and it s got about a two-second delay, then you can adjust the delay before it goes off. it s designed to achieve surprise if you have to enter a room right behind it where there might be arme ....