that's the only break you get. >> jim kavanaugh, thank you.. >>> let's go to israel. that's where one newspaper is describing the days of judgment as playing out right now. the security has been overhearing an overhaul to strengthen the netanyahu government. it puts the court to rule on the extent of its own power. outside, the protesters hit the streets for a second-straight day, furious over what they see as an illegal power grab by the prime minister and his allies. >> it's good to have you back, amir. what's the latest from inside the court? >> right now, here in israel, it's after 9:30 p.m. the justices have been sitting in their chairs nine hours, listening for and against, for the law that limits their own power to conduct judicial review overing decisions. this is a delicate situation, where the court has to decide if a law that limits its own powers is perhaps unconstitutional. they are making the argument because the law removes a key check on the power of the government, the court needs to strike it down. in an amazing moment we had

with me now nbc's kathy park following all of it for us, e retired atf special agent in charging, jim kavanaugh, and former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, glenn kirschner. so many questions. i can only imagine what this is like for that community that has been living in fear. we know that he was being brought in for questioning. do we know if he's cooperated? give us any other details you have both about the community reaction but also what we know about danelo cavalcante right now. >> reporter: hey, chris, good afternoon to you. obviously a huge sigh of relief for this community on edge for the last two weeks, but incredibly this manhunt ended not too far from where we are standing right now. we're about 25 miles north of the chester county prison. cavalcante escaped roughly two weeks ago now, and we are standing at this tractor dealership, and we are told according to authorities that cavalcante was cornered in the woods behind me here shortly after 8:00 this morning, but we heard from lieutenant colonel bivens earlier this morning. he said there was a series of events that playe

i want to bring in jim kavanaugh. i'm sure you were taking a listen to the press conference as well and the apprehension of danelo cavalcante. before we dig into the details of it all, give me kind of your first reactions when you were hearing it. >> i thought it was great news. great news for pennsylvania. great news no officers were hurt. frank said he was carrying a gun and he had a scope on that rifle. it's progressed. but we've used that a lot on cases and i would say they had that technology there early. but what happens is, the canopy -- a man can get in that canopy it's so thick. they can get glimpses of the heat signatures sometimes, but the canopy can be so thick. remember, the plane can't go up and look over a 30-mile circumference of woods. it's not effective in the daytime because there's a lot of people moving around anyway. you can get a heat signature of people moving around in the daytime, but who are they? they're people on their farm and property and normal activities. it's most valuable at night wh

pennsylvania, and also standing by with us, clint watts and frank figliuzzi and atf special agent jim kavanaugh. walk us through all we just learned about how cavalcante was finally captured. >> reporter: ana, i tell you what, i think you kind of mentioned one of the big headlines here that cavalcante was taken into custody and no shots were fired. the big concern was this could have gone any number of ways. but the true beginning of the end for cavalcante began shortly after 1:00 a.m. where law enforcement using a fixed winged aircraft, using some pretty advanced technology called thermal imaging where they can see someone's heat signature. they were able to track him to a specific location within the broader perimeter. then some bad storms rolled through with lightning, so the airplane had to leave, but they were able to pick up that signal again shortly after 8:00 a.m. this morning where they were able to zoom in on a tractor supply company. and so using that technology from the sky but also using old school technology, feet on the ground and k-9s, they were actually able to encircle cavalca