affiliate there locally in austin that he. himself up in his car as authorities closed in. this closes three weeks of terror in texas leaving two dead, several injured. police expect to hold a news conference. soon. we will bring that you live, the first hour of "fox and friends first". we continue, see you tomorrow, goodbye. jillian: it is wednesday, march 21st. breaking overnight, in austin, texas, after weeks of terror, while you were sleeping, the serial bomber shot and killed. rob: i 35, 15 miles north of austin where the scene is developing right now off the highway. the latest on this breaking news as "fox and friends first"

continues right now. good morning, you are watching "fox and friends first" wednesday morning. jillian: breaking news we have been following, the suspect behind the bombings terrorizing texas is dead. rob: a big sigh of relief. live look at i 35 through austin just north of austin in round rock where police engaged this suspect in all these bombings. police were closing in on the suspect when he killed himself and his car exploded. jillian: these reports are from local sites, fox news is not confirmed this but there has been an officer involved shooting. police are expected to hold a press conference at any moment. rob: let's bring in steve rogers. looks like the development we have been hoping for that this is finally over after weeks of

being so nervous in this area. and end this case quickly. >> what we don't know and i'm sure we will find out in the press conference would have led the police to the scene. did somebody make a phone call? debate of the police off? take that combined with the bomb that did not detonate, at the fedex center, and interagency cooperation of the fbi and local police, in capture. heather: the police are cordoning the entire area off. the concern is are there more bombs than he is planning to detonate.

is there room, if there was, they will search the room, be very careful because keep in mind there was a bomb with a tripwire. you see that truck, that is the command post they are setting up at the crime scene. rob: the majority of these bombs happened quite a bit south of where the scene is. we are 15 miles north of austin on the i 35, a huge police presence, and the suspect using his cell phone, once it sounds like police got a hold of who this guy was for surveillance at the fedex store to mail the package bomb that didn't explode, got a cell phone information and track the phone on i 35. does this sound like how it has

gone? >> i have got to tell you the real crunch of this investigation, the answer to the question is important. was anybody else involved on, where did he get the bombmaking, down a path that if there was anyone else, there is no doubt he may have ipads, and where did he get material from? this is so important that leads you to a motive. >> where was he making bombs? how do we know there is not more at that location? >> that is why the crime scene you see is cordoned off. is it possible he is working out of that area?

they don't know. we might find that out in the press conference but wherever he was making these bombs they need to find that location because there may be more bombs or bombmaking material, ready to use, had he lived. rob: austin, texas to the north, the scene of a mass shooting, a place where a number of military personnel are based. somebody with this kind of knowledge, not easy to build a bomb out of tripwire, not different skills, this guy was clearly very talented. who do you think this person was? >> hard to tell because he is dead now but based on years of looking at these cases, could be someone with a bone of contention, former military, he wanted to send a message and he was sending that message.

the fact of the matter is even on the internet, a lot of videos where you could learn how to make bombs etc. the tripwire seems sophisticated but goes back to what i said earlier, so important they find a motive and if in fact was there anyone else helping him build those bonds? jillian: what is your message to residents who are hearing this news? on the one hand you have that sigh of relief but on the other hand there are still so many unanswered questions. >> always be cautious. if you have any packages you have not asked for call the police. but take comfort in knowing your law enforcement agencies from fbi to local police worked very hard and quickly apprehended the

suspect. thank god this individual was captured, rest easy, all is well. rob: a major development after a number of bombings, 5 packages exploding in the austin, texas area over the last three weeks, we had a huge development overnight in the last couple hours. police closed in on the bombing suspect apparently at a hotel just north of the city of austin, 15 minutes north of the city and an explosion went off. there were the police involved shooting at this hotel and we are hearing the bombing suspect that has been terrorizing the city has been killed. we don't have information on the suspect weather was a man or woman and don't know if there are any other accomplices but police using potentially cell phone information tracking the suspect's phone to this hotel

where he may have been staying, closing in and this happened in the last couple hours. jillian: we are waiting for a press conference from police. we will bring that live to get that information. this all started on march 2nd, friday morning, 7:00 in the morning when the first package was left on her doorstep overnight and you see the timeline on screen. that person was hospitalized and later died. the next one, on march 12th, one just close to 7:00 in the morning, package found outside exploded and was brought inside. that was when a 17-year-old boy was killed, his mother badly wounded but is expected to live and currently recovering from those wounds. later that morning 11:50 a.m. a similar package exploded across town when that individual picked it up. march 18th, the fourth explosion

that happens at 8:30 p.m. the first that happened at night. this was on the street using the tripwire. rob: that was when everything changed and it became random from that point. police had thought this might be a race issue, i hate crime syndicate to minority homes but the random one that anybody on the street changed everything in this explosion at the fedex facility just outside san antonio, that through off the send, maybe 50 miles south but that may have been just the bomber going to a fedex store sending a package from austin to austin which maybe goes to san antonio to be sorted and comes back through. it does appear most of this was based in the austin area, the san antonio situation was something else. jillian: another question, this

person leaving them on the doorstep, the sidewalk, started sending them through the mail. are there others in transit at this point which is the question we don't know? >> absolutely correct. i am sure the police notified the post office or any deliverer to be vigilant. this is why i am sure you will hear today, the police say because of, be vigilant. if you see something even if you said something, rather be safe than sorry. rob: these packages, what exactly are in the use that makes them so lethal? >> a lot of these bombs are made with nails and shrapnel. when these bombs detonated these are not minor explosions, those thrown nails like bullets and rip you apart. these are the most lethal types of bombs these people make.

you have the gunpowder, types of wiring. it is important the police, with the one that didn't go off, find out what type of bombmaking material this individual had, where he got it from, if in fact there is any evidence, for in the evidence that leads them to someone else. we don't know but we will find out more at this press conference. jillian: we have been alerted the suspect did kill himself as we talked about earlier. there was something that detonated at the scene earlier this morning. rob: they tracked him to his hotel and he might have blown himself up in his car which is a fitting end to a suspected bomber but now we have to wonder how he was in the car. was he in the hotel room? was he about to get away? did he somehow get to the car and do the deed himself, shots fired by police.

jillian: was he planning on another location? >> sounds like because there was an engagement with the police he could have just been walking out of the hotel room when police were arriving. they began to engage him, he got in the car and decided to end it all. the presence of the police put a quick end to this. may be he was with the bomb he detonated. maybe he was going to another location and got a big surprise and he opened the door if that was the case. jillian: i will be curious to hear how police ended up closing in on the suspect. was at the potential of tracking a cell phone or something of that nature? >> 700 law enforcement officers from fbi, local police, state police, remarkable interagency cooperation. rob: they did a fantastic job tying this up really quick. once they finally got a lead they could work with.

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. mac welcome back to "fox and friends first". we will get back to the news from texas but donald trump and when the fight over sanctuary cities despite opposition from democrats. rob: ice agents rearrest illegals who dodged a massive california raid thanks to a warning from oakland's mayor. kelly wright joins us with the latest. >> donald from blasting democrats on the issue of sanctuary cities saying democrats want to protect criminals while his priority is to defend the citizens of the united states. during a roundtable meeting on century city's the president told members of law enforcement and state representatives his administration is determined to

continue its fight against those sanctuary cities, the president taking aim at california claiming the state century city's are putting innocent americans at risk. >> century cities in states like california put innocent americans at the mercy of hardened criminals, hardened murderers in many cases yet house and senate democrats voted nearly unanimously in favor of sanctuary cities. sanctuary cities are dangerous and we are going to take care of the problem. >> reporter: the president gave rare praise to atty. gen. jeff sessions for leading the charge to deal with century cities before adding that his administration is going to win in restoring law and order. evidence of that taking place in california where three illegal immigrants who avoided capture after libby schaff warned about a raid by immigration officers last month were rearrested for new crimes including robbery and spousal abuse.

>> we were told to focus on criminals, the same folks who want us to focus on criminals -- >> reporter: kirsten nielsen said the idea of sanctuary cities has been contorted, perverted and now all we have is a sanctuary for criminals. rob: we have two big stories, austin, texas and extreme weather, the east coast getting pounded with wind, snow and coastal flooding, this is the fourth nor'easter in three weeks. jillian: the storm dumping wet, dangerous snow in maryland, this bus lost control into a creek. >> rose to the skies, 3000 flights already canceled today. senior meteorologist janice dean

tracking all the weather this morning, another busy day. >> a foureaster is what our 4:00 am crew was calling it. it could to more snow on new york city than they have ever seen this time of year. temperatures right now, 38 new york, too warm on the surface but we will get snow later this morning into the midday and afternoon. dc could see one of the biggest snowfall totals for march. future radar two areas of low pressure, one across the mid-atlantic, the other a coastal event and depending where the heaviest bands set up we could see over a foot, a foot and a half, two feet of snow. we will be watching and bring the latest throughout the day today. rob: keep an eye on the storm. jillian: a fox news alert, serial bomber in texas debt

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and killed himself. jillian: fox news has not confirmed that. we are keeping up with local stations. police are expected to hold a press conference at any moment. we will bring it to you live. rob: house republicans blowing past the deadline to draft a $1.3 trillion spending bill. jillian: lawmakers in a race against time to vote for friday's shutdown deadline. griff jenkins joins us from washington dc. >> reporter: here we go again only this time a massive snowstorm may make things more difficult. the house deadline to finish writing the bill is important because they need three days to get it written and sent to the senate for changes to avoid the real deadline which is midnight friday when government funding runs out. funding for the border wall, what to do about the dreamers,

getting daca fixed. guns and something about school safety shoring up obamacare and addressing planned parenthood as well as the sheer deficit reduction numbers, $1.3 trillion. conservatives like jim jordan have real issues. >> spending money on insurance, the obamacare exchange but not to build the border wall is the biggest problem with this legislation. >> if they can't get it done speaker ryan notes it will bring funding for the military. >> the military has been hollowed out in the last week years in this budget agreement fixes that. the budget is almost 20% lower than it was when obama got started. you think the world is getting safer? it is getting more dangerous. >> the house is racing against

the clock. if they pass it in the next 24 to 48 hour is all signs indicated won't be from the way senate leaders are talking, last time rand paul's of the government down over the deficit increase numbers alone. where does this leave us? almost certainly headed for another stopgap spending bill, and if they do fail it will be the third shut down this year and it is only march. jillian: i keep saying time will tell but thank you. rob: there's a lot of space between both parties. a snow day in washington, we won't get anything done today. the suspected serial

rob: local reports say the austin serial bomber is dead after he detonated a bomb in his own car. jillian: the commissioner who captured the boston marathon bombers and former fbi isn't cool that the hunt to capture the unit bomber, to recap the boston marathon brothers, one was killed in a shootout, one captured in jail, after that, what do you have to go through and what our police in texas having to go through right now? >> this is an important day in the investigation. once they have the suspect arrested or deceased they can start to put together the case,

look at the motivations of the individual and learn a lot about how he was able to construct these bombs, what materials or components were used and how that can help us in the future and looking at his motivations, why did he do this? >> you searched for the bomber, we learned a lot about this man that surrounded a lot of people, his motive was so bizarre, just against the direction the world was going into more advanced society. will there be a bizarre motive in these bombings in austin, texas, what was this person trying to prove? >> there could be a bizarre motive. one thing you can rest assured, none of the rest of us think like these people, they are in a class of their own. 50,000 pages of handwritten notes and journals, accounted

for every day of his life and the kind of things that made him gleeful like killing people was beyond the pale. when all is said and done, for whatever the motives are, another angry person and even then, many of us will never understand how someone reach as that point they could commit such evil acts of violence. jillian: the investigation is just starting. police have to locate the suspect's home where the person was making bombs. was it at a hotel? >> a lot of work has to be done. the first thing they are going to do is find where the suspect is from, locate material in his

home, locate any storage facilities, look for more vehicles to find out if there are any devices. all these crime scenes would be cleared by eod personnel am of the evidence technicians that are going to go in and also looking at social media to find out what he has been posting, what he has been saying to people he knows, there will be interviews done by all of his neighbors to all of his neighbors and associates. there is a lot of work yet to be done but chief manley has done an unbelievable job wrapping this up quickly. he is to be credited in this. even though they have a lot more work, the city of austin can rest more comfortably today. rob: talk about these bombs. i can't help but be fascinated by the ability to make something like this, detonates when you wanted to, when someone opens

the box, runs over the tripwire. i suspected this would end with this guy did in the house after he. himself up. this was a skilled bombmaker. help tough is it to make these devices? >> it will be interesting to find out more about this person because everything you said is right. one thing we have to keep in mind is these people teach themselves, and where he might have bombs right now, we will look for places where he might've gone out in the mountains and experiment with these bombs. foothills around san antonio and places in texas where that could happen. if you look at serial bombers, eric robert rudolph experimenting with bombs, theodore kaczynski had detailed notes of experiments of the

bombtesting in montana. that will tell us a lot about how he went about learning and what skill sets he had and developed. one more point i will make, going back to how different these people are, kaczynski was making these bombs and jumping on a greyhound bus, literally sitting next to somebody with a bomb in his arm, package, these are not people who think like us and thank god for that. it is going to be very interesting to see how this develops and as they collect information about his motivations, to see how this person relates to the other serial bombers we dealt with over the years. >> i was in boston after the boston marathon bombing happened and i remember how eerily quiet

the streets were. everybody was in their house trying to find a restaurant, finding more to eat, it was impossible. what is your message to the people of austin and surrounding communities? there's açai of relief but at the same time i would have a hard time letting my guard down yet. >> i think when this guy placed the tripwire device it wasn't a targeted package bomb but a general assault on the community. they have to because this there may be other devices around and i'm sure police are searching everywhere they can to make sure streets and sidewalks are safe. it is important to have a measure of caution in the area but today they can affirmatively believe the bad guy is gone and

this continued assault on the community is over and they can be thankful that the fbi does a tremendous job working with local police. we are really rebuilding bonds and understanding how everything goes together and the people of austin can be confident they have the best policing in the world all around them. jillian: i asked that question because we don't know the person acted alone. how long does it take and how long does it take to bring the process out? >> there is always the possibility of a co-conspirator, someone may have dropped these devices off. we saw that in the because they case but by and large, if they got, he killed himself, there is a better-than-average chance

they have wrapped this thing up. they were probably surveilling this guy before the incident happened and he made a move if this happened in the car so they know more than we know right now. as terry knows a lot of information is not released but police are working diligently on it. >> batf has confirmed yet again the suspect in all these bombings over the last 3 weeks, 6 were found. you look at this whole thing and according to local news reports, it sounds like he went to a fedex store and shipped a device that didn't exploded that could have been the game changer and they do some kind of surveillance, track him to this hotel, that is how it is sounding it is coming together. how impressed are you with how

quickly police and federal agents got this taken care of? this could have drawn out for weeks. >> it could have. we have been bombarded about people being severely critical of the police. we know the fbi has had its own problems but what we are seeing now and probably would have seen last night, this came together after the fedex thing, that is a big quantum leap so they were working all night to get ready for what played out this morning and that is the norm of what happens almost daily, fbi and atf and law enforcement and local agencies work together. if you look at history of terror, the role of the police is being the right place at the right time and using that thing

nobody really understands but police officers and those of us in law enforcement, the police instinct, brings things together and stops terrible things from happening. all the issues we deal with today, nobody should want to do something to get in the middle of that because it works and the way the police do their job every single day, 24-hour day 7 days a week i feel proud of it and i'm going to make sure i will second what ed said about the police chief in austin. it is a tremendous thing for all of us in this career, and why we got into it in the first place. >> how do you prevent something like this? what do you learn from something like this? >> you can't say this enough. preventing these acts is akeem thing between law enforcement

and public. working together, to discuss these things, the more we are successful stopping them cold before they ever happen and if they do happen in the boston marathon bombing trying to bring it all together with the public's help you see it every time and every one of these cases has that aspect even if it has a quick end like this it always came from that connection. >> i completely agree. the community is central to these things. that saying see something say something is the only way to prevent these things. billions of people in certain percentage gravitate towards this, when this happens the family usually has an indication. people close to the person have

an indication of something going wrong, telling officials and letting authorities deal with it, the kind of tragedy we have seen. >> two experts that hunted the most infamous bombers in this country, who better to have on this morning, the suspected serial bombers that has plagued the city has been killed. we will be right back.

jillian: fox news alert, breaking news we continue to follow, the suspect behind the bombings that terrorized texas is dead. >> we are waiting for a news conference at some point. an update from police where we hope to get more information but we do know police somehow tracked the suspect in the austin bombings to this area near these two hotels on i 35 just north of austin, texas and

something went down at this point and the suspect evidently blue himself up using one of his bonds inside his car or vehicle. jillian: to recap, this started on march 2nd. this is been terror in the community for three weeks, 6 months total, 5 exploded over that pure code. we are following this news out of texas that the suspect is dead. extreme weather, the east coast bracing for a dangerous nor'easter bringing snow, wind and flooding, the fourth nor'easter in three weeks. rob: the latest on this monster storm, how is it looking? >> reporter: we have escaped the worst of the snow but it doesn't feel like spring, cold, wind and rain, elsewhere not so lucky.

school bus in frederick county, maryland sliding off the road, no students were on board and the driver wasn't hurt. crews work to clean up the wet, heavy snow. ahead of the storm delaware and new jersey philadelphia declaring a state of emergency. these are areas where some residents are still trying to dig out from the other nor'easter that hit over the last few weeks. the storm is expected to continue into thursday dropping anywhere from 6 to 12 inches of snow to northern virginia and if you are planning to fly, check with your airlines, 3300 flights of been canceled in the us, newark, liberty the hardest hit with two thirds of all flights that will not be taking goff and we learn the office of personnel management close federal offices in dc so a lot of us getting a

snow day. >> must be nice to get a snow day, haven't had one of those in a long time. let's see what is coming up on "fox and friends," a big day in austin, texas outside austin police headquarters. >> you have been looking at live images out of round rock, texas. i don't know if you can hear the traffic but i am here, a couple miles to the north of us this particular threat, interstate 35 is closed and as you have been talking, sounds like last night at 9:00 the cops figured out who this guy was and yesterday morning at this time, the explosion at the fedex facility, 100 miles away they started to put things together, looked at

the cell phone records after they looked at the video and put it together, amazing police work. i have only been here in town for eight hours but this town has been on pins and needles, parents not letting their children go outside at all since march 2nd, people have started flying surveillance cameras and no one from amazon or anything else because they didn't want a box, geraldo rivera joined me here in austin, he will be with us and the very latest but it does look like the serial bomber in texas is dead. kellyanne conway joins us from the white house. a busy 3 hours starts 15 minutes from now. >> we are coming right back.

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>> top republicans cracking down on bias at the fbi. bob goodlatte will subpoena the department of justice for documents on the email investigation. >> here is judge and napolitano. how do you see this playing out? >> very unusual that a republican department of justice is resisting the efforts of a republican house of representatives judiciary committee to find out what happened. when the democrats ran the department of justice, there's an institutional attitude in the doj and fbi to protect their own from scrutiny by the political branches. congress has every right to look

at these documents. >> hard to believe that much in the investigation, rather than the government server. >> you can't bring them down. judge napolitano:. the reason this story has legs was the evidence of mrs. clinton's guilt is overwhelming and the excuse for her exoneration is not credible. asking doj for 1 million pages of documents, what did they get? 3000. many, many things rejected. now we are going to issue a subpoena. this normally doesn't happen.

in another administration a republican chair, the republican speaker would call the republican president who would call the republican atty. gen. and the documents would show up. we don't know where this is going to go. jillian: you mentioned the number of documents that have been uncovered and so far have been turned over, the republicans have a reason to be frustrated? judge napolitano: absolutely. normally the house does not have the subpoena, you have no choice but to comply. if you're not going to supply you run to a subpoena and normally they don't send a subpoena but just a letter. what is the house looking for? political bias rather than law enforcement. rob: we have breaking news out of austin, texas. they are about to give us an

update after the suspected bomber, the austin bomber who has terrorized the city for the last few weeks was finally tracked down sometime overnight near a hotel on i 35. >> i'm chief of police of the austin police department. the special agent in charge of atf, and the special agent in charge of the fbi, austin mayor steve adler and several other members of the austin police department executive team. you are aware it has been a long three weeks for the community of austin as we have dealt with package bombs and other places throughout the community. we have seen members of the community who lost their lives and others whose lives were changed due to significant injuries. we have talked over the past few

weeks about the level of partnership that has taken place with federal officials, local officials and the police department to bring this to a end, and for all the hard work we identified several leads throughout the course of the weeks but beginning in the past 24 to 36 hours we started getting information on one person of interest that we continue to work on and continue to develop and as we continue to do our investigations this person of interest ultimately moved to being a suspect and that is what we started focusing on, his involvement in these crimes. late last night and early this morning we felt very confident this was the suspect in the bombing incident that took place in austin. we had surveillance teams looking for this suspect and we

ultimately located the vehicle the suspect was known to be driving and witnesses told that he was driving and we found that at a hotel in round rock. we had multiple officers from the police department and our federal partners that took up positions around the hotel awaiting the arrival of our tactical teams and have ballistic vehicles here so we could take this as safely as possible. we are waiting for these vehicles to get here. much time had passed and the vehicle started to drive away. we began following the vehicle waiting to get the tactical vehicles, and on the side of the

road behind us. as members of the austin police department swat team approached the vehicle, the suspected native bomb inside the vehicle. and fired at the police officer as well. the suspect is deceased. and detonating a bomb inside his vehicle. we cannot name the suspect at this time because he has not been positively identified yet by the medical examiner and next of kin have not been notified so there will be a lengthy investigation that will take place regarding the officer involved shooting. the investigation will be conducted by the austin police department internal affairs unit with the austin police monitor

participating as well for review of compliance with departmental policy. there will be a concurrent criminal investigation that will take place by the texas rangers of the incident that occurred tonight. this is the culmination of three long weeks for our community and throughout these weeks we talked about the importance of remaining vigilant and looking i want to continue that message was he would stand here this morning though because we don't know where this suspect has spent his last 24 hours and, therefore, we still need to remain vigilant to ensure that no other packages or devices have been left through the community. so as we go through the day today, we want the community to remain vigilant, but i also want to look at where we are now in round rock and remind our neighboring communities of round rock and cedar park and the other cities that we do not know where he has been in the past 24 hours. and we need your