destruction and of an explosive device. this is the third major security incident this year for the u.s. capitol police. here s nbc s garrett haake. reporter: after five tense hours parked outside the library of congress, warning police he was armed with a powerful bomb. floyd ray roseberry climbed out of his pickup truck and crawled toward police. he gave up and did not resist and our folks were able to take him into custody without incident. reporter: the 49-year-old north carolina man s surrender captured on video. a peaceful end to a day-long standoff that rattled washington. and a capitol community still traumatized by the events of january 6th. guys, i found my place to park. reporter: roseberry parked his struck about a block from the capitol just after 9:00 a.m., live streaming on facebook as he reported himself to 9-1-1. looks to me like i m getting ready to make a phone call. reporter: he made rambling, anti-government statements and said he had a bomb in the tr
a federal judge ordering a mental evaluation for a north carolina man who sparked a bomb scare outside of congress. he s ordered to be held without bail pending that evaluation. he s charged with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction for the standoff and bomb threat outside the library of congress on thursday. the scare forcing evacuations at the library, the cannon house office building and the supreme court. roseberry streaming the standoff live on facebook as he demanded president biden s resignation. he s back in court on wednesday. in mississippi, a growing number of children who aren t eligible for covid vaccines are being sent to the hospital with covid. nbc s ellison barber spoke with parents there and takes us inside a field hospital and this is also one of the least vaccinated states in the nation. reporter: kendis, lindsay, vaccination rates in mississippi have started to pick up in recent weeks.
election, and this guy, roseberry is described as a lone actor, but give us a broader sense of the ecosystem in which he was swimming. he is a lone actor, but he kept saying that the southern patriots agreed with him, and they were coming with him, and there is no proof that it was happening, but he felt that way because of the talk on the internet about this sort of thing. and the places that helped to plan getting people to the capitol on january 6th talked about, you know, got people on the buses and posted pictures of the planes full of people headed to the capitol on the 6th, and those places are still up on the internet and for the last several months they had cooled off, but those places are angry again, and those places are angry that sham audits are not turning up anything, and trump is not reinstated any time soon and now it is back at a fever pitch, and there is no one
was no bomb. but what police described as bomb-making materials. throughout the ordeal, capitol police used inventive ways to attempt to quell the situation. we tried to negotiate with mr. roseberry. we first started doing that with a whiteboard. just writing messages back and fwo forth. we used a robot to get a telephone down to him but he would not use the telephone. reporter: eventually, five hours after it began, roseberry gave up. he gave up and did did not resist and our folks were able to take him into custody without incident. reporter: his precise motives remain unclear. but based on his social media monologues, politics were a big driver of his angst. his son christopher told cnn that his father took a much greater interest in politics after donald trump was elected. biden s victory made him very upset. since biden got elected, he s just been, like, man, he doesn t like change, i reckon. christopher roseberry said. adding his father told him, quote, i m sticking up
congress, directly across from the u.s. capitol. and claimed to anyone that would listen that his truck had a bomb. hey! call the police and tell them to come out here and clear the capitol. tell em to clear the capitol. he quickly got the attention of capitol police. they began to clear the area. at 9:43, they tweeted this urgent warning. uscp responding to a suspicious vehicle near the library of congress. please, stay away from this area. then, at 9:54, less than an hour after roseberry arrived, they sent this message to staffers on the hill telling them, among other things, if you are in a public space, find a place to hide or seek cover. that began a long and tense standoff between roseberry and police. one that would include an evacuation and lockdown of buildings across a three-block radius as police attempted to wait roseberry out. all right, guys. looks to me like i m getting ready to make a phone call.