jimmy lee dikes retired trucker navy veteran abuse cued of killi -- accused of killing a bus driver. there were 22 kids on the bus. he allegedly grabbed the little boy holding that little boy hostage in a homemade bunker. >> i can assure you the negotiators continue to communicate with the suspect. this time we have no reason to believe the child has been harmed. >>> that bunker about sometimes you will see in alabama 4 feet by 8 feet. they will put these in the ground as a tornado shelter. some describe them as a bomb shelter. we are told by people here that he does have electricity and he does have food and investigators fbi swat negotiators are able to communicate. they have pushed a pvc pipe into the bunker or tornado shelter and they have been able to communicate. they have lowered medicine down to the little boy who has illnesses that had to be taken care of on a daily basis. hopefully new information updated in an hour and a half, two hours. >> craig boswell live for us. >> the top five stories making the news at this hour. a manhunt is underway for this man who is considered

they confirmed the suspect is 65-year-old jimmy lee dits. he is holding the boy in an underground bunker. we have learned that he was expected to appear in court on a misdemeanor charge for allegedly threatening a neighbor. live in midland city, new information on this suspect for us. what do you have? >> we have been calling this a delicate situation. we just have been able to confirm information with a source close to the investigation. it's jimmy lee dits. he is described as a loner and survivalist and distrusts the government. no word on the motive. they say the suspect boarded the stop near a church near where i am standing. he refused to let children off the bus and the suspect opened fire. the bus driver died after being shot multiple times. the county sheriff's office identified the bus driver as 66-year-old charles owen jr. he has been a bus driver with the district since 2009. he took the child he didn't know to a bunker on his property down the road. the police source told us that the hostage is okay and that the suspect had allow

trust with the individual that has taken the hostage and that only comes with time. >> mark, i know jimmy lee dikes was not on the radar of the law center. what are they telling you tonight? >> well, what they have told us. and these are investigators in the hood county -- the dale county sheriff's office, is that this man was quite well known to his neighbors for holding apparently quite strong anti-government views, whatever that may mean, precisely. and also that he was known as a survivalist. the chief investigator described him as anti-america. this, according to neighbors. he also talked about what a loner he was. apparently, he had virtually no contact with people around him. and that is about what we heard. what we have not been able to do is connect this man to any group that we know of. >> george, what have you been hearing from neighbors, people in the area about this man's behavior? seems like from what mark is saying from what he heard from investigators, this guy was well known. >> reporter: well, anderson, yes, we spoke to jimmy davis, a neighbor here nearby. and he described d

. >> who was jimmy lee jackson? he figures in your book. >> twenty-six years old and an activist with the voter registration drive in my hometown of marion. and he was shot by a state trooper on the night of february february 18th 1965. eight days later he died. it was his death that spurred the march from selma to montgomery. most people know about that march, but they don't know that it was jimmie lee jackson death the brought it about. done in graphic novel form. >> and the illustrator as well as the author. art is my first love. so this is the way to tell my story it was a way to incorporate some of the images of photography. that motif runs throughout the book. that's why it's called dark room . >> what do you do today? over 500 illustrations. it devoted my time to book tour in speaking to classrooms, universities and otherwise. also beginning a possible second work as a novelist and fiction. >> now, when you visit argentina today, are you an argentinian or an american? >> it's a funny thing. down there i do fe

reporter: police are frantically working to rescue a 5-year-old boy from his armed suspected captor, jimmy lee dikes. >> we hope and pray it will soon be over with. >> reporter: police said the boy is being held in a bunk are eight feet below the ground. he may have enough food to remain for weeks. he's been speaking through a pvc pipe. one neighbor remembered him digging on his property. >> if that is where he was putting pipes, honestly would not be surprised if there were some sort of explosives. >> reporter: police said the boy has mild autism and dikes has allowed the boy to have his medication. the hostage negotiator said it's likely to be patient. >> to move in slowly to get it right. >> reporter: the shaken community is praying for the little boy's life. >> spoke to a young 13-year-old boy. he was very much traumatized because his really good friend was taken and was wondering about his safety and protection. >> reporter: something everybody affected by it are wondering. the pastor said he has been in touch with the boy's family and they're having a really rough time. reporting for abc

say a 6-year-old boy is being held in an underground bunker by a man identified by neighbors as jimmy leeikes, 65 years old. now, this story started late yesterday. police say dikes took the child off of a schoolbus at gunpoint and killed the driver. george howell is about a half a mile from where the boy is being held. it's hard to understand the bizarre and scary story, but we know police are now talking to the suspect. what are, what's happening? are they making progress? what are they talking about? >> reporter: no headway at this point, but they say that the negotiations are still ongoing and the most important thing, you know, the welfare of this 6-year-old boy. they say that at this point, they don't believe he has been harmed in any way. now, we're talking about day two, going on into day three in this underground bunker, some believe in that bunker that dikes has food, electricity and television. >> may be watching television, what do we know about the little boy in the bunker and have they been able to speak to him or only to jimmy lee dikes? >> reporter: well, to our understand

a police investigation identifies him as 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes. the two are holed up in an underground bunker or tornado shelter. police are able to get medicine to the young boy. but officials aren't saying much about communications. they're communicating through a pvc pipe. the gunman bored the school bus in midland city. and then killed the bus driver and took the young hostage. >>> a ferocious storm system raked its way through the country. it's making its way north. at least two people have lost their lives in georgia and tennessee. many have lost their homes and tens of thousands were left without power. nbc's kurt gregory has more. >> reporter: wicked winds whipped through charlotte, north carolina, as rain drenched the queen city, all a part of the nasty storm system marching across the southeast on wednesday. that same system spawned a massive funnel cloud in adairsville, georgia. 100 people were at work when the twister took aim on this plant. thankfully, all were safe. in tennessee, the national weather service confirmed four tornadoes

police sources identify the suspect as a man named jimmy lee, and records say he was due in court on charge of threatening his neighborhoods. >> we now know the reason behind a hoax of football star manti te'o. the man behind the hoax told dr. phil he fell deep supply romantically in love with manti te'o. when dr. phil said was he gay, he said yes and said he was confused. he made up the hoax who manti te'o regards usely girlfriend although they never met. last week, manti te'o said he did not find out his girl was not real until december. >> study found that the the less housework married men the more sex they have. where the wife does all the cleaning, cooging, and shopping had 1.6 times sex more often than men who did the chores but do not use that to avoid helping around the house because that can cause other marital conflicts. >> you are a sharing kind of guy? >> wonder why we have never swept together! >> can we look at the weather? >> leader is the weather. from owe high definition camera, we can get out of the bay on this beautiful day, sunny skies, mild spring like condition

. >> reporter: police sources identify the bus driver as jimmy lee dikes. where dikes is hold up in an underground bunker with the young boy. >> a moon man. >> reporter: the 65-year-old is a military veteran who missed a court hearing today where he was to face charges of menacing his neighbors. police radio traffic captured the chaos. >> just had a bus driver shot, possibly deceased. >> reporter: parents of other children on the bus panicked. >> nobody called and told me anything. so i'm going to look for my son. >> reporter: police said dikes took just the one child, the boy who happens to need special medication, now stuck in a hole difficult for s.w.a.t. teams to reach. >> it's a tricky situation. i suspect that's one of the variables it's going on to this hour. >> reporter: more troubling, we're told he has enough food in that bunker to last weeks, even months, reporting from new york. >> that's awful. >>> a manhunt underway for another person. a gunman who opened fire at a phoenix office building this morning. three people were wounded. one of them is

. >> reporter: police sources identify the suspect as 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes, a man who has beenouble with the law before on charges he fired a gun at a neighbor. the boy is on medication and is said to have special needs. >> at this time, we have no reason to believe that the child has been harmed. >> reporter: police have been in contact with the gunman using a pvc pipe to communicate through. and late today made this heartbreaking request. >> pray. pray. j >> reporter: we are told that this could be a slow process. >> we've got an old saying to use delay in order to save time. the more patient approach they take, the less likely they are to make mistakes, to move the slowly, to get it right, to communicate properly, and slowly and gently unravel this. >> reporter: he says rushing the bunker is the very last resort, especially in a case where the hostage taker may have planned the crime in advance. >> as long as they're talking, as long as they have some sort of dialogue and he's indicated that he's open to talking, then they know that there's the possibility of getting him to

police sources identify the suspect as a man named jimmy lee, and records say he was due in court onharge of threatening his neighborhoods. >> we now know the reason behind a hoax of football star manti te'o. the man behind the hoax told dr. phil he fell deep supply romantically in love with manti te'o. when dr. phil said was he gay, he said yes and said he was confused. he made up the hoax who manti te'o regards usely girlfriend although they never met. last week, manti te'o said he did not find out his girl was not real until december. >> study found that the the less housework married men the more sex they have. where the wife does all the cleaning, cooging, and shopping had 1.6 times sex more often than men who did the chores but do not use that to avoid helping around the house because that can cause other marital conflicts. >> you are a sharing kind of guy? >> wonder why we have never swept together! >> can we look at the weather? >> leader is the weather. from owe high definition camera, we can get out of the bay on this beautiful day, sunny skies, mild spring like conditions,

police have confirmed that 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes is responsible for starting a hostage standoff he shot and killed a 66-year-old bus driver and then kidnapped a 5-year-old boy on tuesday. this is a picture where police say dykes is holed up with the 5-year-old boy. to gabe gutierrez in midland city, alabama. fill us in on the most up-to-date information there. >> reporter: thomas, the standoff has been bizarre from the beginning and is dragging past 40 hours. this morning hostage negotiators have been talking with the suspect thank you a pvc pipe attached to an underground tornado bunker. officials say so far the 5-year-old hostage is unharmed. they're identifying him simply by his first name, ethan. he'll turn 6 in a few weeks. they have been able to bring ethan medicine for an unspecified medical condition and a coloring book to occupy his time. this standoff began tuesday afternoon. a police source close to the investigation says 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes boarded a stopped school bus and demanded several children come along with him. when the school bus driver refused, poli

a police source close to the investigation described him as a 6 a-year-old jimmy lee dike. they are holed up in a tornado bunker. officials have been able to get merchandi medicine to the boy but they are not saying much more. this started tuesday. the man shot and killed the driver and took the young boy hostage. more details as they emerge. >>> a storm system raked its way across the southeast wednesday and is now making its way north. two people lost their lives in georgia and tennessee. many lost their homes. tens of thousands were left without power. nbc's kurt gregory has more for us. >> reporter: wicked winds whipped through charlotte, north carolina, as rain drenched the queen city. part of a nasty storm system marching across the southeast on wednesday. that same system spawned a massive funnel cloud in georgia leaving dozens of homes and businesses destroyed in its wake. 100 people were at work when the twister took aim on this plant, thankfully all were safe. in tennessee, the national weather service confirm four tornadoes touched down. one man was killed by a f

the man through a pvc pipe that extends to the underground bunker where he is hiding. 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes is holding a 5-year-old boy hostage after allegedly grabbing him from a school bus and shooting the driver on tuesday. police say the boy is not hurt and they've been able to give him medicine and coloring books as they continue to negotiate with dykes. >>> president obama's choice to become the next secretary of defense faced some tough questions on capitol hill this morning during his confirmation hearing. republicans grilled chuck hagel on the 2007 surge. he insisted that was not the only issue that defined him. hagel also reaffirmed his support for israeli security and his stance that all options must be on the table to prevent iran from gaining nuclear capability. >>> time to check on business and tech. shares in facebook falling this morning even after the company says it made far more money than investors expected. scott mcgrew, you say investors don't get facebook. >> no, they don't. we've never dealt with a social network that makes $1.6 billion every quarter. there's n

neighbors say the man is 65-year-old jimmy lee dikes, scheduled to appear in court today on charges of menacing neighbors. witnesses say the man came on the bus yesterday afternoon and told the driver he needed to take a child. >> i talked to the girl on the bus and she said he came on the bus with a gun, shot into the ceiling or floor board once and shot the driver three times after asking for a child. >> authorities say they have been communicating with the man through a pbc pipe in the wall of the shelter. >>> the chp's three-month deal to help oakland's understaffed police force expires this week. according to reports the chp offered to extend its help for three more months but only if it gets paid for the service. the demand for pay comes after the city agreed to pay the alameda county sheriff's office for a similar service. the mayor hopes to use state grants to cover some of the patrol costs. >>> new at noon -- new allegations of sexual abuse from a former boy scout. a bay area man spoke out against aggressive abuse he said he endured at the hands of a scout leader. mark dietric

neighbors identify him as jimmy lee dikes.s of age, a retired trucker, vietnam war veteran. this is mark from the southern poverty law center. he tracks hate groups and others on the fringes of society. hear what he was told by the investigator in this case. >> he said that officers after speaking to neighbors and acquaintances of jimmy lee dikes described him as being very strongly anti-government in views. anti-america, whatever that may mean. he also described him as a survivalist. >> the police and fbi and homeland security are on the scene as they have been. the better part of the last three days outside of the bunker. so is george howell. we know that this little boy is 5 going on 6 pretty shortly. he has adhd and asperger's syndrome. any word how he is doing? >> we are all hanging on the last word we got from investigators. we are supposed to get a 1:00 update. we are led to believe what we were told. this boy is physically unharmed. the 5-year-old still in the bunker and physically unharmed. that is good news as we con

authorities say 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes is allowing police to deliver medicine to the hostage. he fatally shot a school bus driver and took the child hostage on tuesday. a hostage negotiator has been trying to convince the suspect to surrender ever since. >>> today the senate is poised to pass legislation raising the debt ceiling. this bill was passed by the house last week. it would extend the federal government's borrowing limit of $16.4 trillion through mid may. without this bill, the government will default on its obligations as early as mid- february. president obama is expected to sign the bill into law as soon as it reaches his desk. >>> still to come when the news continues, the doctor is in. today dr. phil talks to the man behind the notre dame girlfriend hoax and we're going to have a live interview with dr. phil coming up in about 15 minutes. >> but first, see what happens when our own jc hayward meets members of a popular cbs talk show covering super bowl sunday [ male announcer ] when your business is powered by verizon, you can do more business per second. and wit

authorities aren't releasing the suspect's name, but neighbors identifying him as jimmy lee dikes, a5-year-old retired truck driver. some neighbors say he once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe and patrolled his yard at night with a shotgun. dikes was scheduled to appear in court this morning to answer charges he shot at neighbors in a dispute over a speed bump last month. >> i always called him mean man. i tried to get several of the neighbors that -- one who has since moved away, i tried to get them to take action with me, but they didn't want to get involved. >> reporter: the neighbor also says the man knew the school bus driver. the victim reportedly dropped off some food for the suspect monday as a thank you for some repair work. it is not clear if dikes made any demands from his bunker to authorities. in midland city, alabama, elizabeth prann, fox news. >>> a chicago teen-ager was shot to death near her school yesterday afternoon in a park on the city's south side. hadiya pendleton was with a group of friends standing under an awning to get out of the rain when a gunman shot

on tuesday 65-year-old jimmy lee dikes allegedly walked on a school bus, shot the driver several timesnd then took off with that young boy. that driver who was protecting the kids now considered a hero. sadly he later died. police say they were able to talk to the boy. they are right now communicating with the suspect through a pvc pipe. the suspect reportedly was due in court yesterday morning accused of shooting at his neighbors during a fight last month. >>> an active story we're following right now. hundreds of firefighters at a scene of a massive fire at a food processing plant in wisconsin. look at these live pictures. that fire broke out at the echo lake foods in burlington just before 6:00 last night. it forced dozens of people living nearby out of their homes. an area hospital says it has had a handful of walk-in patients dealing with smoke inhalation problems. as of now there are no reports of any major injuries. no word yet on the cause of that fire. the plant processes eggs and egg products. >>> one of the country's largest newspapers may have been penetrated by chinese hac

hostage negotiators have been talking regularly to the kidnapper, 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes, through ventilation pipe. >> that's an innocent kid, let him go back to his parents. he's crying for his parents and his grandparents and he does not know what's going on. >> reporter: police say the two are in a six by eight foot bunker four feet underground. >> i've actually seen the hole, the bunker he's in now. he's got steps made out of cinder blocks going down to it. >> reporter: authorities say the veteran has enough supplies to last for weeks. he is allowing the boy, described as a child with autism, to watch television and take medication sent down through that pipe. alabama state senator harri anne smith has been with the child's mother since the beginning of the standoff. >> ethan's mom did want me to convey a message to the community and the people of this area, that she's extremely grateful for all the prayers. that that's what's getting her through. >> reporter: the ordeal began tuesday, when the suspect stormed a school bus, demanding to remove children. a heroic bus driver, ch

on tuesday after the driver was shot dead the government's been identified as sixty five year old jimmy lee dykes by neighbors. one of the owners of the brazilian nightclub in which more than two hundred thirty people died in the fire has tried to commit suicide while in custody. one of four people arrested after the incident and of us to go into the blaze was found evidence the club could have been overcrowded the fire extinguishers weren't functional. so members of a rescue operation have been killed while saving six trapped miners in northeast china it's believed carbon monoxide was the cause of the deaths chinese mining facilities have a poor safety record with dozens of employees losing their lives or work here. more complications than relief that's the assessment of the u.k. government's tax policies are revealed by the taxpayers alliance figures reveal show the coalition government has raised twice as many taxes as its cut the spy promises to ease the pain reports. by the end of this parliament the u.k. public cuts to some one hundred and nineteen various taxes that all sounds great

those neighbors identify him as jimmy lee dykes, and police say he shot and killed the bus driver who tried to shield his students. dykes and the boy are in an underground storm shelter on dykes' rural property. the police are talking to them through a ventilation pipe. overseas tonight, iran is reportedly planning to use new sen fortunatelie centrifuges that can enrich uranium more quickly. that could enable it to build an atomic bomb sooner than had been anticipated. the white house called this another provocative step and we asked david mart turnpike look into it. >> reporter: the 3,000 new centrifuges would take up to a year to install, so iran still has not crossed the threshold to a nuclear weapon. but to david albright, who closely monitors the iranian nuclear program, this is an ominous development. >> it's iran signaling that they're going to dramatically increase their capability to produce enriched uranium, and it's the thing that everyone's been fearing. >> reporter: the new centrifuges, which iran apparently has been able to produce despite international sanctions, could

neighbors say the property belongs to a 65-year-old man named jimmy lee dykes and authorities have been able to talk to the suspect through a pvc pipe and they have sent down prescription medicine for the child who has asperger's sin drone as well as coloring books and crayons. the boy's family remains hopeful this morning. >> the family was camped out once they heard about it and we got in touch with them just the give them any -- to give them any comfort that they needed. and they're just holding on by a thread right now. hoping to get a resolution to the situation and get their young son back. >> negotiators believe that the child has not been harmed. >>> in the wake of the -- dozens of people were forced to leave homes after a massive fire broke out at a frozen food plant. >> that fire started just after 6:00 yesterday evening at the echo lake foods in burlington, wisconsin. look at this video it's incredible. flames and thick plumes of smoke could be seen high in the sky. about 80 homes were evacuated and firefighters say the eight alarm fire was at the center of the factory and th

authorities are communicating with 65-year old jimmy lee dykes through a pipe. they say the boy is physically o-k. dykes was supposed to appear in court yesterday on charges he shot at his neighbors during an argument in december. he killed one of my doffed. he is the source selfs for a long time he has been left timebomb fifth film shot after refusing to hand over a child. a man suspected of a fatal off shooting has been found dead of it self of inflicted gun shot wound. he walked into a law office wednesday morning and after a dispute during a mediation session opened fire. a 30 year-old was killed. another attorney was critically injured. the body of an american pilot has been found off the coast of italy. air force captain lucas gruenther had been missing for three days. after his f-16 went down in the adriatic sea. he was on a training flight. captain gruenther is being remembered as a compassionate husband, a loving son and a devoted brother. attorneys for george zimmerman want a judge to push back his murder trial date from june to november. zimmerman is

swat teams have been gathered outside the bunker, where authorities say 65 year-old jimmy lee dykes isng the boy. dykes allegedly took the child tuesday afternoon in midland city, after shooting and killing the school bus driver. authorities say dykes was due in court wednesday morning to answer charges that he shot at neighbors in dispute last month. >> still ahead nasa has launched a new space shuttle what it could mean for the future of space flight on the kron 4 morning news continues also today on dr. phil at 4 the man behind the manti teo thank girlfriend hoax is breaking his silence. ronaiah tuiasosopo sits down with a doctor for a first tell-all interview about the hoax that duped the notre dame football star. you can watch the two-part interview right >> we're back at 4:45. let us talk weather and traffic. we have a nice forecast. we have troubles on traffic from erica will tell you more. >> the twinkling lights on the bay bridge. waking up to mainly '30's in the east interior valleys. upper '40's all the calls. >> downtown san francisco 49. 43 in oakland. for 38 in concord an

and then he shot the bus driver. >> reporter: police sources identify the suspect as jimmy lee dykes,.a.t. teams have descended upon and where the gunman is holed up in an underground bunker with a young boy. >> at this time we have no reason to believe that the child has been harmed. >> reporter: neighbors say he has long been a problem. >> i always called him mean man. >> reporter: the 65-year-old reportedly a military veteran who missed a court hearing where he was to face charges for menacing neighbors. police radio traffic captured the chaos he 'ledgedly caused. >> just had a bus driver shot. possibly deceased. >> the suspect has removed a child from the bus. they're on foot -- >> reporter: parents of other children on the bus panicked. >> nobody called and told me anything. now he jumps in her car. i'm going to look for my son. i called home. he's not home. >> reporter: but police say dykes took just one child, a boy who happens to need special medications, now stuck in a hole difficult for s.w.a.t. teams to reach. >> we ask for prayer for all the families involved, and law enfo

authorities are not releasing the suspect's name but neighbors identifying him as jimmy lee dikes, a5-year-old retired truck driver. some of the neighbors say he once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe and patrolled his yard at night with a shotgun. he was scheduled to appear in court this morning to answer charges he shot at neighbors in a dispute over a speed bump. >> he was called the mean man. everybody knew -- i tried to get several of the neighbors, one who has since moved away, i tried to get them to take action with me but they didn't want to get involved. >> reporter: a neighbor also says the man knew the school bus driver. the victim reportedly dropped off some food for the suspect on monday as a thank you for some repair work. it is not clear if dikes has made any demands from his bunker to authorities. in midland city, alabama, elizabeth prann, fox news. >>> a community meeting is being held in loudoun county in the wake of a series of burglaries. it starts the 7:00 tonight at banneker elementary school in middleburg. there have been more than a dozen break-ins since oc

ron da, you know this gentleman jimmy lee dikes, he is 65 i believe. you have had concerns about him for some time. tell me why. >> well, he's just strange. i sold him the property about two years ago. and i'd cleaned it out very nice. trimmed all the trees and treated him. after he moved on the property he put up a barbed wire fence and cut down all the trees. like he needed a clear view of things. so i pretty much avoided him. heard a lot of rumors and a lot of thing that is went on. but like i say, i tried to avoid him. >> rhonda you had an incident involving your dog which was pretty terrifying. >> yes, sir. i live directly across from the -- from him. and as a matter of fact, the video that was aired, that was taken by my son. in my front yard. and i made it clear as soon as he moved in that any animals or people that came onto his property would be killed. and he took one of my dogs went across the middle part of the road, and it was a 125 pound dog and he took a led pipe and he beat the dog until the dog was so badly injured that it died several

the suspect, identified as jimmy lee dykes reportedly has a history of mental problems.ing charges. >>> the first congressional hearing on gun violence since the connecticut school shooting is being held today. the head of the nra will ask congress not to blame law-abiding gun owners for the recent shooootings. while mark kelly and gabby giffords are expected to push for universal back ground checks and limits on high capacity magazines. >>> in medical news, you may want to ask you boss for an earlier lunch hour. people on a diet who eat lunch early end up losing more weight than those that eat late in the afternoon. the body processes sugar differently te pending on time of day. >>> and finally, wow, the definition of american heroism. form eer soldier brendan marroc made a point of wheeling himself sp a press conference on tuesday. he was using transplanted arms. he lost his arms and legs in 2009. that has not stopped him. >> not having arms takes so much away from you. even your personality. i have oversome so much in the last four years. i really, honestly, wasn't wo

jimmy lee dykes has been holding a 5 year old boy. he killed the driver and holding the boy.o appear in court yesterday on charges he shot at his neighbors. >> a team who performed at the presidential inauguration was shot to death at a chicago park. with 11 other teens when a man opened fire. the 15-year-old was hit in the back. so far no arrests have been made. she was in a high school band. >> a makeshift drug lab explodes in a san diego hotel injuring three people. police say a 21-year-old man lit a cigarette and ignited butane. the explosion knocked down three walls and blew out windows in several rooms of the three story building. three people suffered burns. charges are pending in the game. >>> john kerry gives a fair well speech to the senate as he prepares to takeover as secretary of state. the emotion for kerry was clear in his send off speech to his colleagues. >> standing here at this desk that once belonged -- at this desk that once belonged to president kennedy and to ted kennedy, i can't help but be reminded that even our nation's greatest leaders and all the r

. >> reporter: jimmy lee dikes allegedly boarded a stopped school bus on tuesday and demanded that aildren come with him. the bus driver, 66-year-old charl poland jr. blocked his way. he was shot several times, killing him. witnesses say after opening fire, the suspect grabbed ethan who had fainted and took him to the property. neighbors describe him as a loner, survivalist and antigovernment. >> he believed that government is here only to take all of our things and to suppress our rights, and that, you know, government is the great satan. >> reporter: he had been scheduled to appear in court wednesday to face a charge of menacing neighbors with a gun as they drove by his house. a candlelight vigils, prayers for ethan and the bus driver who across this community is being hailed for bravery. >> it should got out to him protecting the children. he started as a school bus driver and ended as a hero. >> reporter: mourning the loss, now the wait is on for the standoff to end. leone gregg, nbc news. >>> a family's outrage after their 7-year-old was handcuffed and falsely accused of stealin

. >> reporter: jimmy lee dikes allegedly boarded a stopped school bus on tuesday near this church andemanded that a few random children come with him. the about us driver, 66-year-old charles poland jr. blocked his way, refusing to let any children go. then the gunman shot poland several times, killing him. officer arrived, and said after opening fire, the suspect grabbed ethan, who had fainted, and took him to his property. neighbors described him as a loner, survivalist and antigovernment. >> he believed that government is here only to take all of our things and suppress our rights, and that, you know, government is the great satan. >> reporter: he had been scheduled to appear in court wednesday to face a charge of menacing some neighbors with a gun as they drove by his house. at candlelight vigils, prayer for ethan and the bus driver, who across the community is being hailed for his bravery. >> my gratitude goes out to him for protecting the children. he started the day as a school bug driver, and he ended as a hero. >> reporter: mourning a loss, now the wait is on for the standoff

neighbors identify him as 65- year-old jimmy lee dykes. >> we discovered that the suspect fled the scene with a small child. >> reporter: police believe dykes apparently shot the bus driver. he apparently built a bad reputation around town. >> i didn't talk to him, especially ar-- after he killed my dog. >> reporter: negotiators have confirmed they've had contact with the child. he doesn't appear to be hurt. >> we just want the whole world that theres this -- that hears this believing that this young child will be able to get home safe. >> reporter: now, in this homemade bunker, this bomb shelter, almost like a tornado shelter that you would put under the ground. apparently the suspect has electricity. he apparently has a television. so fbi investigators have asked us to be careful about certain video that we show in case he's watching news coverage that they don't make this situation any more tense than it is. we're in the second full day of this. >> craig boswell loining us live from alabama. thank you for the update. >>> controversial the comments. >>> plus -- going on right now, the

authorities have not released the suspect's name, but neighbors say he is a 65-year-old man by the name of jimmy lee dikes, who is paranoid, that is how they described him. he had a run-in last year with neighbors. instead he is in that bunker in the front yard with a 6-year-old child. now the standoff began yesterday when the gunman, allegedly dikes, stepped on the school bus, demanding two boys. when the driver tried to stop him, the gunman fired shots and killed the driver, who is being hailed as a hero tonight. the gunman got away with one child, who, as we said s in that homemade bunker. with us is jason howell, also with us, byron sage, and because the suspect allegedly holds extremist views, according to neighbors, george, you're on the ground there, what is the latest. >> reporter: anderson, first an foremost, the welfare of this 6-year-old boy. investigators a short time ago came out to announce that they don't believe he has been hurt or harmed in any way. that is very good, very important news. they say the negotiations with jimmy dikes are still continuing, and through the course of it w