idaho state police. really an effort, a massive effort here to find him because he killed, or accused of killing, hannah's mother, setting his own house on fire, then killing hannah's mother as well and also killing her 8-year-old brother, ethan. the father smoke at length here. brett anderson. on cnn to cnn's chris cuomo saying he was holding out all hope that his daughter was still alive, but he was realistic about his son because at the time his son's body had not been identified. and he said, but, you know, he thought it was probably his son. it was a very tough interview to watch. take a listen here as we go through that. >> my cousin called me and said, did you hear about jim's house? and so i just googled it and found, you know, the pictures and they said there was one body, which at the point i thought was jim, and so i was very upset for jim, and then things just downward spiraled from there. >> tell me about your kids, mr. anderson. tell me about hannah. tell me about ethan. >> give me a second

you are in idaho. tell us about this operation. how it happened and what you're hearing now. >> reporter: well, one thing you just said, don, that caught my interest is moorhead lake. this is an area that was about six miles from where that car was ditched on, presumably on either late monday, possibly tuesday. they were then seen around 5:00 p.m. on wednesday on, by a horseback rider near moorhead lake. so, and then it wasn't until friday morning that this search really kicked off. is you're talking about 48, perhaps 60 hours between the time they were spotted and the time this investigation got going. and here we are on saturday. 72 hours later. they didn't move very far from where they were seen at moorhead lake. so either they were extraordinarily tired. they only got six miles in a day, perhaps, two days. it's incredibly rough territory. we flew over it today. there is smoke in the air from fires. it's hard to breathe. it's very rough terrain. very steep terrain. very rocky terrain. they, described to me as having gear that wa

>>. >> miguel in idaho tonight. in the southeast, the threat of more flash floods tonight in what has become an endless summer of rain. let's get to the latest from the weather channel. kim cunningham. good evening. >> you know it wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have such a rainy summer. getting this rain in the next couple of days. the soil is saturated. we had more rainfall than we want for sure. the ground is very wet. any additional rain, a lot of it will run off or even trees might have a problem. whether they could fall down with gusty winds. this is the problem. especially since the jet stream does not want to move much. we will draw up the tropical moisture and it will get involved around the front and that will be additional moisture and rain coming in this area. we are expecting flash flooding and the potential over the next 24 to 48 hours this this area. back to you. >> nearly three months after a tornado devastated moore, oklahoma, friday was the first day of school. last night we introduced you to the l

you are in idaho. tell us about this operation. how it happened and what you're hearing now. >> reporter: well, one thing you just said, don, that caught my interest is moorhead lake. this is an area that was about six miles from where that car was ditched on, presumably on either late monday, possibly tuesday. they were then seen around 5:00 p.m. on wednesday on, by a horseback rider near moorhead lake. so, and then it wasn't until friday morning that this search really kicked off. is you're talking about 48, perhaps 60 hours between the time they were spotted and the time this investigation got going. and here we are on saturday. 72 hours later. they didn't move very far from where they were seen at moorhead lake. so either they were extraordinarily tired. they only got six miles in a day, perhaps, two days. it's incredibly rough territory. we flew over it today. there is smoke in the air from fires. it's hard to breathe. it's very rough terrain. very steep terrain. very rocky terrain. they, described to me as having gear that wa

in idaho. [ inaudible ] >> i didn't say it was planned. that will come out with more investigation. we don't think this was a spur of the moment thing. i am not prepared to go into details of why we believe that. it has been reported extensively in the media, she was not a stranger to his house. a lot of people would go over there. for her to go to that residence was not unusual and it was after she arrived there that some of the horrific crimes took place. [ inaudible ] >> a matter of hours from the time they thought they saw the tent from some aerial surveillance 'til fbi teams were inserted into the area and made their way towards the campsite. [ inaudible ] i'm sorry? [ inaudible ] >> no. >> what can you tell us about the murder scene? >> not prepared to talk about that yet. i'm sorry. >> do you know if the mother ever confronted the suspect at any point. >> can't tell you that. not that i am aware of. okay. [ inaudible ] >> a lot of investigation needs to be done. a lot of people to interview, comparing what we learn in interviews wit

joining me on the phone from cascade, idaho, is the reporter for the idaho statesman, the main newspaper in the region. john, tell me what time it happened and how it went down. the fbi agents said in a fbi briefing fbi agents in a helicopter or plane spotted jame dismaggio and hannah anderson at 5:20 mountain time. they didn't give us a lot of details, but said that one of the fbi agents shot dimaggio, killed him and they were able to rescue 16-year-old hannah anderson unharmed. >> john, tell me this. was there a gun fight, or was the firing as far as we know just by the fbi sniper taking out the kidnapper? >> we don't know any details. like a question was asked whether there was a confrontation, whether they tried to, you know, get him to give himself up or not or whether they just shot him dead. we don't have those details right now. >> tell me exactly where the takedown took place. how far from the tiny town of cascade from which you are calling us right now. >> we are talking 50, 60 miles east of here. they told us that the shooting took place not far from the area where the man fro

mary young, who is 61, she's from sweet, idaho. mike young, 62, sweet, idaho.mark young, 71, idaho, and he is the one who is a former sheriff there. and then there is his wife, christa john, mark john and christa john. i think they're extraordinary people, marc klass, don't you? >> i think they're absolutely wonderful people. if they hadn't done what they'd done and the way they did it, this might have been ended differently. they could have ignored the fact that these people were out there and just gone on with their lives. they stepped up, they knew it might not pan out but they did exactly the right thing. and hannah and her father are the better for it. >> these are not easy conditions to be out in idaho hiking on trails like this. but the brand new shiny equipment, wendy, you know, pitching a tent in a place where they're like what are you doing up here, this is a lightning rod, there's no water up here, what's going on? obviously dimaggio did not plan all of this, this was just something that i guess he said he thought he could go to this place and it wou

>> miguel marquez in cascade, idaho. thank you so much. i spoke with hannah anderson's close friend marisa chavez earlier. she said james dimaggio seemed to be a nice guy but that he made hannah uncomfortable in certain situations. i read that then she said she wanted you with her if she was going to be alone with him, is that right? >> yeah. whenever like he'd take her to a meet or to practice, she'd always want me there because she didn't want to be like alone with him. >> did her mom know this? did she tell you if she told her mom? >> no, she didn't tell her mom. >> why do you think she didn't tell her mom? >> i think she had told me because he was helping out with a lot of ride situations and he was a close family friend, like she didn't want to ruin anything between them, and she didn't think anything like of it after that. >> cnn will keep you posted throughout the weekend as the search for hannah anderson goes on in idaho. >>> across the country, we've also got these flood watches or warnings in place this morning in about a dozen s

area wilderness outside of cascade, you idaho.rative effort and search and recovery effort really was. the sheriff's department had personnel from san diego up there, very valley county and aida county, unprecedented response by f.b.i., salt lake city, san francisco and f.b.i. headquarters sent units out there to assist in the search along with u.s. marshals. idaho state police officers and customs and border protection. it truly was a joint effort. i'm pleased to say that hannah was successfully rescued and appears to be in pretty good shape. i would also like to thank the media. as you recall, we had not originally ironed the amber alert in idaho but because of the extensive coverage that this horrendous crime received from the media that the hikers in idaho were aware of hannah and missing and their whereabouts. i'll answer any questions. i would like to say there is a press conference in cascade, idaho at 5:30 our time today, 6:30 their time where a lot more details will be provided by the federal, state and law enforcement on

shot dead by an fbi agent in western idaho. frantic weeklong manhunt involving hundreds of police officers and federal agents. 16-year-old hannah anderson's mother, 8-year-old brother, died when their home was burned last sunday. hannah had not been seen since then. a tip led law enforcement to western idaho where james dimaggio was found dead, killed, today by fbi agents. i want get now to marc klaas, of course, the father of polly klaas who went missing almost 20 years ago, october of 1993. marc, you've been a bit critical of the emergency system, the amber alert that was put out in california, and other areas. and -- but now it has come to this. do you think that this amber alert helped in this case? >> ultimately, i do, don. and let me just say how -- how important this is, what an object lesson this has to be for a small agency throughout the country, that if one of your, children is taken, you need to get ahold of the fbi. they have resources that are unavailable any place else. they have -- they have the ability to organ

describe the scene in idaho as you perceive it?om what we know a helicopter out there and spotters in the helicopter, and snipers as well, but they weren't that far in the woods so maybe they were guiding a team in or maybe a shot from the hill, and they had the capabilities of doing both. >> they had the capability of taking him out or from the chopper, but you think that the shots came from the ground? >> i don't know, geraldo, but it is either one, because the sn e snipers are trained in the hee lows and the ground, both. >> and typically in an operation like this, the fbi comes in and they supersede local and state operatives? >> not really, what you will see here is a perfect example of how law enforcement from all levels. the amber alert and the initial law enforcement, and the individuals on the ground where it steps up to have fbi involved and they develop a task force and then in the case, the hostage rescue team came there, and this is a good example of when things get big how law enforcement comes tot and all of the asse

we're also from sweet, idaho. got a ranch there also. >> so questions?>> which one of you guys made that first phone call? >> i made the first phone call. when we got up on the mountain that morning, we hadn't been into the lake fishing for quite a while, so that tuesday morning we took off and went up to the lake and that wednesday morning we rode in, we set up camp and rode in. mike here was the first one to encounter the two hikers, the guy and the girl. red flags kind of went up on him. >> what red flags? >> the girl -- i'll let mike explain that to you what he saw. and then when we went to the lake and then they showed up at the lake and there was just like a square peg going into a round hole. they didn't fit. he might have been an outdoorsman in california, but he was not an outdoorsman in idaho and he didn't fit. so when we got back to the camp that night after fishing, after our twice we encountered them, then we discussed it. then we got home thursday evening and i put all the horses away, took care of our livestock and everything and then we w

in all, more than 400,000 acres have burned in idaho on nine major fires. there are 39 major fires burning in the west. tough times especially in idaho, pam. >> those strong winds are not helping the situation out there. paul, thank you. >>> now let's talk to an idaho man who evacuated his home as the fire got closer. john koth took these dramatic photos of the massive flames and joins me on the phone from haley, idaho. looks like you were close to the fire when you took those photos. tell us about that. >> we are located in the subdivision right about 1/4 mile from the ridge you're seeing there. my family evacuated, i came back to check on the neighbor's house, watch ours and i suddenly found myself with several other firefighters and they were looking for a better view. we wound up on the roof. that's where those photos came from. dramatic fire-fighting. can't praise the firefighters enough for their super human efforts to stop what you see there when it got down to the river below it. >> what was it like to see it and to be there in person? it's just unb

when he was shot in the wilderness out in idaho.riff saying that she was physically near him when he was shot. that must be an ordeal as well for her. >> absolutely. it's another level, another layer on this experience. and again, we don't know what her perception was of her experience with this man. that may have -- in the moment it happened, have been not just horrifying because she's in proximity of a violent death, but she may have really wanted to protect him in some way. we just don't know. she may have been relieved allegation. she may have also understood this was her abductor, but just being 16 near a violent death, i mean, that is enough to give somebody trouble for an extended period of time. you add to that the death of her mother, the death of her brother, the fact that she was abducted, she had been manipulated, she had been helpless. these are things that take some time. indeed, these kids do get through these things, but they need a lot of support, a lot of the people around them connecting with her and supporting he

not even in idaho. did they ever find any evidence of any kind of drug in this idaho case? whole entire night, she was dressed, i mean -- >> reporter: but perhaps most damaging in i.d. i, that recording. that conversation with police. >> she was clothed, and i was taking care of her the whole entire night. >> reporter: why did you tell place at first that there was no sex? >> you know, at that time, i felt cornered, and so i took more of a defensive stance of -- >> reporter: a defensive stance, though, is one thing. a lot of people look at this and say that's a flat out lie. >> you know, you have to understand that i was intoxicated, too. so, there was a lot of gray areas in between -- did we have sex? well, you know, how did this all happen? >> reporter: which is precisely the question the idaho jury was about to answer. >> we the jury, find the defendant, jeffery marsalis -- >> reporter: w ♪ ♪ hanes. a perfect fit for every body. now in colorful new styles. ♪ [ male announcer ] a car that can actually see like a human using stereoscopic cameras... ...and even stop itself

he might have been an outdoorsman in california but not idaho. he didn't fit. >> reporter: few words spoken, but nothing seemed right. >> you don't run into somebody wearing pajamas. >> who was wearing pajamas? >> it looked like pajama bottoms she was wearing. >> she were hiking with a cat, a house cat. it was a way to try to soothe her. >> what are you doing with a cat in here? them cats are only good for wolf, you know to kill the wolf or bring in a mountain lion or something. he just kind of grinned. >> reporter: what really set off alarm bells, he said he was headed for the salmon river. they didn't say it at the time, but knew he was headed in the wrong direction. asked if they feared for their lives, the answer, pure idaho. >> we was all packing pistols. don't go in the woods without a pistol. he might have got one of us, but we would have got him. >> reporter: in the end, they didn't have to. they surveilled the pair for hours. choppers in a u-haul were dropped off more than a two-hour hike from a camp site. they surrounded the camp waitin

also in list well, wyoming, colorado and idaho. by the way, abby is thankfully okay but has visible facial injuries. she was jogging last week when the bear attacked. officials there shot and killed a bear this weekend and now they are waiting for dna results to see if it's the same one. >>> let's get the latest in sports for you. a bittersweet win for the redskins. the sweet first. steelers qb roethlisberger with this interception throw. washington's ryan kerrigan grabs it after he makes it into the -- hey, why not? i'll dunk it on the crossbar. later this one-hander by the redskins. now for the bitter. the redskins backup qb gets injured. washington wins, 24-13. >>> rockies at phillies. dollar dog night. what a bargain. hey, why not? i'll get 12 or 13. maybe not. well, make that three says john mayberry from philadelphia. a three-run homer. that sets up the phillies win, 5-4. five years in the marines. now all steven rhodes wants is to play college football. the middle tennessee state freshman was ineligible because he played in

agents rescued her from a kidnapper in the idaho wilderness.ee reported missing in a mudslide have been found safe and crews are still searching for the two others. >> gregg: hillary clinton may want to hold off writing her acceptance speech. new polls show that voters have a split personality for her. we bring back our political insiders. this is not among democrats, but this is all voters, and hick he has a substantial lead and pat you said it is like 63 to 12 percent among democrats. >> it is huge. >> gregg: who would least like to see win the democratic nomination, look at that. >> look, hillary clinton is dominant among democrats and clearly the frontrunner but with that goes some degree of notoriety and she also is the most polarizing figure and some of that are republicans who don't want the strongest democrat to win and they say she is least likely because she has the best chance. >> gregg: maybe she has a deep pocket super pac helping her out, the miniseries about hillary clinton's a political ad from nbc? >> and it is worse with cnn t

idaho state police. u.s. marshals, the u.s.order patrol and the rest of the team worked tirelessly to find hannah, fbi victim specialists are working with hannah and her family to get them the resources they need as they enter the next challenging phase. of this incident. as the grateful as we are that she was recovered safely, we remember the other victims in the case that lost lives. the evidence response team, along with detectives from san diego sheriff's department will process the crime scene at the site of the rescue. this will still take some time and require a great deal of coordination. as the idaho portion of this case wraps up and transitions back to san diego county. we will continue to work with our colleagues both in idaho and san diego and provide them with any continuing support they might need. it has been said that the greatest weapon against crime is the cooperation of law law enforcement with the understanding of the public and i think this case has proven that. thank you. >> patti bollen, hannah is safe. a

wildfire continues for a 13th day this morning in the idaho mountains. the massive blaze fanning out in several directions right now, pushed by strong winds and with no shortage of dried out brush for fuel. it's just an extended drought. it's been hot, it's been dry. the vegetation here is extremely dry. it's a perfect firestorm. >> reporter: 2,300 families have been evacuated and more than 7,000 now told to pack and be ready to leave in a moment's notice. >> it's a little unnerving, a little unsettling. >> reporter: an uneasy feeling thousands are dealing with across the west. more than 40 wildfires are burning out of control, more than 30 of those sparked by lightning in a region where they've seen at least 600 strikes in the last 24 hours. >> the erratic conditions out here and the erratic fire behavior. >> reporter: unpredictable conditions, crews in the air and along the front line around the clock. jay gray, nbc news, haley, idaho. >>> there's another fight brewing across the country. some congressional republicans are trying to ramp up national su

by going to idaho. there is no good reason for a republican speaker of the house to go to idaho. >> speaker john boehner monday promised a whale of a fight. >> he could very well see the shutdown of the government. >> shut down the government again. >> what is the budget? what is going to happen? >> republicans are not willing to budget. >> congress does need to act. >> for secretary jack lew, we are not going to be negotiating over the debt limit. >> it is debt ceiling by mid-october. >> this is the looming budget battle to defund the obama care act. >> they should be willing to defund it. >> i oppose obama care. >> you can't really de-fund obama care. >> in de-funding obama care. >> please, stop obama care. >> cruz has found kind of a niche. >> attack on john boehner from the far right. >> john boehner is in a pretty tough spot. >> sympathy for john boehner. >> or else they will start to call it john boehner care. >> fire, egypt, immigration, the debt. >> there must be a response. >> our borders are n

and there's lots to do. >> right now hannah is resting in an idaho hospital being evaluated. she's expected to be reunited with her dad later today after a week long serge. >>> james dimaggio is suspected of killing anderson's mother and brother and kidnapping hannah.

that is the very latest from cascade, idaho. >> thanks. it is august and like many americans, president obama packed up and headed for the beach today. for the president it's a little tougher to leave his troubles behind, especially the day after he tried to persuade skeptics the surveillance program is necessary for national security. kristen welker reports from massachusetts tonight. >> president obama began his-day family vacation this afternoon. even on martha's vineyard there was no break from the ongoing debate about his administration's controversial program. >> although i understand the necessity of them for my own protection, i'm concerned that there is no control as to how far they go. >> i am more concerned about safety of the country than any individual liberties. >> on friday the president tried to calm the public by announcing new measures aimed at enhancing transparency and strengthening oversight and the program that governs them. >> we can be more transparent. >> there is sharp disagreement. some are encouraged -- >> i lik

the teenager is safe thanks to four alert horseback riders in idaho.sday they crossed paths with anderson and her abductor, 40-year-old james dimaggio. >> she kind of had a scared look on her face when i first come up the trail. when i turned and talked to him a little bit. i just, had a gut feeling about him. >> reporter: that something was very wrong, suspicion confirmed by a tv news alert one day later. >> and the news flashed on. the amber alert was on the television i've told my wife, i said that is that girl we seen on the mountain. >> reporter: they called police. a posse of 200 law enforcement officers jumped into action. a plane spotted the fugitive and kidnap victim. an fbi rescue hostage team dropped from a blackhawk helicopter and hiked two hours closing in on the suspect. the fbi will not say what happened next except dimaggio was given every chance to surrender before he was shot. hannah was safely rescued thanks to a group of outdoor enthusiast whose sense she'd might be in danger. >> for us to be there at the precise team to interact wi

will converge on cascade, idaho.u sure. and he says, i am sure. this is -- these are the two people. this is your amber alert. >> it was the strongest lead yet. >> it was the most amazing news we have heard so far. there was all the sightings before. and, you know, you really hope that was, in fact, them. but confirmed sighting is all we really have right now. and it means everything. >> but hannah's family was still fearful. knowing that the man hannah once called uncle jim was capable of tremendous violence. >> scared every minute. every minute. i don't know what he'll do. >> with mark john's help, authorities could pinpoint the exact location hannah and dimaggio were last seen. deep inside a wilderness area called the river of no return. andrea deerdon is public information office for the sheriff's office. >> this is mountainous, steep, rugged. there are peaks, rocks, not a lot of flatland at all. there is no road access in. you cannot drive on this land. >> thinking about this fast wilderness area, it is dotted w

friday his car was found in idaho.or brett anderson, an agonizing weight. >> i can't faithom in jim's hea. what happened. obviously he just lost it. >> that was our brianna keilar reporting. today's "cnn hero" is helping homeless mothers to be. she's helping pregnant women get health care, housing and support. >> yearsin ing ago, my daughter were homeless. my main priority was to get high. then i got pregnant again. what am i doing? i need to change. >> i have never met a woman who wanted to hurt her unborn baby but i met a lot of women who did not know how to do the right thing. the common dednominator is poverty. pregnancy is a wonderful window of opportunity. a mother can turn her life around. my name is martha ryan and i hope pregnant women break the cycle for good. you can't just be saved. you have to do the work yourself. >> i learned very early on that prenatal care alone was not enough. >> we need a place to stay as soon as possible. >> we'll help you with housing as well. >> these women needed help with comple

not something you normally see in idaho back country on a camping trip.so when we heard that, i can remember thinking, okay, that's them. and she's alive. let's do this. >> next, two fbi hostage rescue teams were dropped from helicopters deep into the woods. a two-hour hike to dimaggio's camp. they quietly surrounded it and waited for the perfect chance. >> those two hours were pretty tense. we had every reason to believe that he was likely armed, certainly dangerous. >> i think there were a hundred or more feet between dimaggio and hannah at the time tactical activities started. that distance was increasing. >> they infiltrated and jim dimaggio had a rifle. he fired it once. the second time he fired, he was killed probably instantly by the fbi hostage rescue team. >> reporter: it was over. dimaggio was dead, 18 years to the day after his father committed suicide. and one week after she was taken, hannah anderson was rescued. >> this was a, started in earnest yesterday morning and today less than 36 hours later, she is home and she is safe. hannah is safe

let's begin now in idaho.formation on hannah anderson, who has been spotted with her alleged kidnapper in idaho. also, new information involving the second body found in the anderson family's burneded out house in california. it has been identified as that of hannah's brother, ethan. miguel marquez joining us from cascade, idaho, where a press conference is about to get underway hopefully on new developments in the search. >> exactly. we expect briefers to come up momentarily and tell us what they're planning for the day. we know they've just held a long briefing with all the investigators who are pouring in to this area. the level of intensity is incredible. they have been able to block off this area in order to monitor traffic going in and out and today, b this thing starts in earnest. they're going to get hundreds of agents in there. agents that could handle any situation. lethal or otherwise. the concern is that hannah may be a hostage. this is andrea bearden of the sheriff's office. >> along with me, spec

shootout at a camp siet in remote wilderness in idaho. this taking place in the last hour and a half. san diego's sheriff department saying there was a confrontation between f.b.i. officers who moved in after he was spotted at a campsite he had made with himself. we don't know whether it was a drone or helicopter. there was a confrontation. there was a shootout and hannah managed to survive. right now she is being taken to a hospital to be inspected to see if she is okay. her father who was very concerned about her appeal to dimaggio to let her go. they will probably be reunited in the morning. moments from now we are expecting a press conference from the f.b.i. and valley county sheriff's department to explain how the tactical operation played out. we'll have details hopefully how dimaggio died but the best news is that hannah is safe. this goes back a week when her mother and brother were killed at the house. he abducted hannah who we believe had a long obsession with and vanished for three days. his car was found nearby close to the ca

he has pulled back now to safer grour ground in nearby haley, idaho to join us. miguel? >> reporter: lester, good evening. all the fires in the west are feeding on drought-like conditions and is the perfect fuel. fire loves the deep terrains, it explodes out of control when it hits a hill like this. so much of this hill was covered with waist-high debris and brush. when it hit this fire, it took off. tonight, idaho's beer creek fire is the most dangerous, most explosive blaze in the nation, with no sign of slowing down. it's moving in multiple directions, 160 square miles swallowed by flames so far. >> this fire has been very active and very aggressive. it's a perfect firestorm. >> reporter: the inferno, just a mile away from 5,000 homes. >> just an extended drought. it's been hot, it's been dry. >> reporter: firefighters call this an erratic and aggressive blaze, whipped by 30-mile-an-hour winds. 1200 firefighters are on the ground. more resources on the way. crews on the front lines have had little sleep. this back-breaking work is going around the clock. across the we

this is from ireporter john koth in haley, idaho. there's huge clouds of smoke there in idaho.n 1,000 firefighters are battling the blaze and they have a lot to contend with. the beaver creek wildfire has burned more than 1,000 acres and is only 9% contained and officials believe it will continue to spread. >>> sad story here. a bachelor party at a colorado hotel results in the death of a friend of the groom. our denver affiliate kusa reports the man was on the ledge when a screen gave way and plum meted five stories. police say alcohol was found in the room but they believe the death was an accident. >>> a georgia woman accused of misleading the investigation of her husband's murder could learn her fate tomorrow. andrea snooederman was arraigned but the charges were reduced to perjury and hindering the investigation. her husband was killed back in 2010. the ex-boss was found guilty and mentally ill. andrea pleaded not guilty to 13 counts. >>> 16-year-old kidnap victim hannah anderson is preparing for a public memorial service to honor her mother and brother next weekend. they