and then on the hostel as well. law enforcement sources telling cnn that this person used a fake new jersey id to check in, which at this point was days before the shooting. and here outside the hilton hotel, life goes on people walking by as if nothing happened. but of course, for law enforcement, the priority is not just where this person went, who this person is here. yeah, absolutely. >> omar, thank you very much. all right out front now. mateos, toronto. he was staying in the same hostel on the same floor where police believe the shooter, the suspected shooter, stayed and mateos, i really appreciate your time. i mean, what a bizarre situation you find yourself in. i know you're visiting from brazil you've been staying in the hostel, you've met some people there. um, can we just start with some of the photos you took on the fourth floor of the hostel? where where you were staying? where? um that where police say he was staying. can you tell us anything about that? what it's like in there? what those halls look li

if it wasn't for the clerk at the hostel who flirted with the killer, we wouldn't have a full face picture. and i commend the commanders of nypd detective for releasing those pictures quickly, and also which hasn't been said yet, but really good work by the altoona pd, and certainly the employee at mcdonald's who i would hope cdis going to be 60k richer for giving the tip in. altoona pd also, they didn't dismiss it out of hand. they went into it, like rob said, they interviewed him. find the gun. what's interesting in a new york video when he shoots mr. thompson, if you can watch it all the way through, as he goes past mr. thompson, he doesn't put the gun in the backpack. he stuffs it down the left side of his pants. and he's caught with the gun a week later. now, that shows one of two things. he's a doofus because he's carrying a murder weapon a week later, or this was only one murder and he was going to do more murders, so he wanted to keep the gun. so when the chief of detectives says a manifesto railed against corporate america, that gives me pause that maybe this wasn't the only perso

cnn's shimon prokupecz starts us off from the hostel on manhattan's upper west side. what's the latest you're hearing from authorities yeah. >> so anderson, investigators spent the day here behind me at this hostel focusing on the fourth floor, where some of the folks who are staying here told us the individual was. investigators spent this day here questioning some of them the suspect entered central park here after the brazen early morning killing. we now know that police have reviewed footage of what appears to be the gunman exiting the park nearby on west 77th street and this new video, obtained by cnn shows a person police believed to be the gunman riding westbound on west 85th street. seven, a m video captures what appears to be him on his bike coming around this corner, heading this way. and as you can see in the video, he's not wearing his backpack. 18 blocks north, police began to search this hostel wednesday afternoon. the nypd released these images of what they're calling a person of interest, checking into the hostel, police released the first clear images

the shooting? he checked into a hostel in manhattan's upper west side. after that, he appears to have moved around the city, checking out the hostel on the 29th and then checking back in a day later. unclear where he spent that night. just the latest in a string of leads that police have turned up in the day and a half since health care executive brian thompson was assassinated down in midtown manhattan. including these photos of a man from surveillance footage taken at the hostel. authorities are calling him a person of interest. they have yet to either name him or indicate whether they know who he is, and that he certainly seems to resemble the man who lay in wait for and then executed thompson early yesterday morning outside the hilton. the new york police department is not saying they are one in the same person. there's new video also emerging today of a man on an e-bike whom police believe was the gunman. that's near central park, about 30 blocks north of the crime scene on west 85th street, 15 minutes after the killing. now police say the suspect ex

the hostel where he was staying, required i.d. and payment, but they believe he used a fake i.d. see the places where he seemed really good at this, very professional, i guess, if you want to say that about this, and the places where you are finding the water bottle and the protein bars. >> right. we are going to continue to follow this. it is mind blowing to me, that he is on the loose right now. priscilla thompson, thank you so much. >> you bet. >>> still to come, a scathing declaration of the world's largest human rights organization. what amnesty international says about israel's assault on the people of gaza, next. , next. ♪far-xi-ga♪ ♪far-xi-ga♪ ask your doctor about farxiga. and (♪♪) imagine checking your own heart with medical precision from anywhere. introducing kardiamobile 6l, the fda-cleared ekg that provides six-times more heart data than any smartwatch. and it detects three of the most common arrhythmias in just 30 seconds, including atrial fibrillation, bradycardia, and tachycardia. check your heart with the most advanced personal ekg outside the hospital. get one f

um, you know, they have the footage from inside the hostel. they've tracked him to here, but what happens after? where is he now? and that's sort of one of, i think, the most puzzling thing for folks that they think, okay, so here we are nearly 48 hours since this happened and with all the video and all the technology in this city, it's kind of hard to believe that police have not yet taken him into custody. >> shimon thank you so much. please stay with us on this. i want to turn to john miller, though. i mean, the idea of somebody vanishing into thin air in a place like a major metropolis, like new york city might be equal parts unbelievable. and believable. but how about that bike? we know he didn't walk away. what do we know about the search for this bike? did he purchase it? did he rent it? what? >> so that right now is a mystery. what we do know is there is a piece of video 515 in the morning. the morning of the murder, where he is seen on columbus avenue walking south, probably towards the subway on the way to this attempt. this killing c

the hostel who interacted with him what did he sound like? >> did he have an accent? did he have? >> did he have did he sound like he was from the midwest or from the east coast? >> another important resource police going back in time to thompson's recent background, what was happening in brian thompson's world in terms of the threats that we're hearing about things that the company was worried about, statements made by his widow now about the threats that he was facing former fbi official catherine white says one key resource for law enforcement is the gunman's circle of family and friends. even though we don't know his identity yet, she says someone in that circle likely knows about his grievances with unitedhealthcare and could well step up to help law enforcement. brian todd, cnn washington now, the u.s. >> intelligence community estimates that iran has the ability to produce, quote, more than a dozen nuclear weapons. that could happen if iran decides to enrich its stockpile of uranium, according to a report from the office of the director

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so the hostel, you know the nature of a hostel, they just bunk you up with whoever signs in next, it's like necessarily he knew them but they did have time to go face-to-face with this man. the woman from what i understand that may have been flirtatious, but it may also have been he handed her a fake id, fine, if it was a photo id, her job is to say i can't see you with the mask. she may have, you know, flirtatiously said you need to pull that mask down for me. i don't know if it was flirtatious or if she was being a professional, we would want to speak to her at greater detail about that. you know, he pulled the mask down, bass he flirting or did he not want to arouse suspicion and pulled it down to comply with her. we need to find that out from her. the bicycle thing, when you're come from 59th avenue the best is central park. there's 96 street, there's 100 street you can get out. i know he is not a native new yorker but he did spend ten days obviously casing the area. he would have known that. i'm not sure the bike coming across 85th street we got the video of right there, i don't t

the photos were gleaned from that very hostel, and the man in the picture only lowered his mask. we're told, because a hostile employee was flirting with him. that's according to a law enforcement official. let me bring in first cnn's shimon prokupecz, who is live outside of that hostel in new york city on the upper west side. shimon investigators found quite a lot of clues. i mean, this is a big break in an investigation like this. can you paint the picture for us? what is it like there? and what did they learn well during the day today, police were back out here they started their investigation yesterday at the hostel. >> they learned several hours after the murder that a person of interest was at this hostel. and as you said, that individual arrived here on november 24th. what's interesting is, is that he checks out actually from the hostel on the 29th. then comes back on the 30th and checks in, and then obviously a few days later we get this horrific murder in midtown. so you know, investigators have been out here looking for more video. we saw investigators out through this

get into suspect luigi mangione's cell phone, his backpack found in central park, and access to the hostel where he stayed with strangers before the murder. abc news also learning tonight, evidence is already being presented to a grand jury as authorities work to get him extradited back to new york. aaron katersky standing by with new reporting. >>> also breaking as we come on the air. the major storm slamming multiple states yet again. the great lakes, into the northeast. whiteout conditions. traffic at a standstill on i-90. multiple cars off the roads and wind chills below zero. ginger zee is here. >>> overseas tonight, the stunning images. a missing american found alive in syria. he'd been held in prison for months. tonight, what he says he heard while in his prison cell. and james longman at former president bashar al assad's private residence. and what james was shown underneath the home. >>> tonight, the new and urgent concern over those mystery drones over the northeast. the white house says they do not know who's behind this. lawmakers and authorities telling the white house, the r

it was said to have been taken during an exchange with the receptionist at the hostel when she asked would remove his mask. the police say it was a moment of flirtation and if that is the case, it is a moment that may have given them their most significant piece of evidence yet. no further speculation from the police about motive. that is being discussed more widely. and the concern among the insurance industry more generally. brian thompson was senior executive, chief executive of america's biggest health care company. other companies, we are seeing removing the identities of their senior managers photographs and names from their websites. that shows you how concerning this has been for the industry more generally. >> a stunning skyline. thank you for that. let's discuss the investigation a little further with a retired nypd detective and law enforcement consultant. thanks for being with us. talk to us about this operation. . how do you begin to organize a manhunt like this? what is involved? >> thank you for having me. this is a quite a daunting task to catch someone who took great

the hostel, the clerk at the hostel, said i got to see your face. >> lawrence: they were flirting. >>eve: they were flirting. he has got that smile. he knew enough not to take the hood off but he did flash a smile that's what everybody is going on now because he got flirty. >> it's a matter of time. they probably already have identified him. they are just making -- they don't want to announce it because they probably haven't gone in and gotten him yet. that's clear as day, if you know someone who looks just like that, you are going to call the police. someone has to recognize him. >> >> but it goes, brian, to the sloppiness of it. he is supposed to be this trained assassin. he goes in and trying to cover his face, obviously. >> he decides he wants to flirt a little bit with the lady there. that goes back to him leaving evidence -- i don't want to make light of it. but leaving evidence for the cops to eventually catch him. >> brian: i'm wondering how maligned sociopath at the very least he is. you realize what you are doing. you are about to assassinate someone. your life is essentiall

that is how they put him at the youth hostel on the upper west side. they got a facial. port authority here in new york has a lot of public cameras that are city owned and i would bet that they probably hit a facial recognition hit there. where the buses come up from all over the south and the country into new york. it feels like a matter of time. i hear that they are making progress. >> dagen: alexis mcadams is in new york city with the very latest. alexis. >> some of these big murder cases especially one in new york city they try to keep things on the down low. they don't want the suspect to know what they know about him. he made some big mistakes. his face is out there. police had to put that out there. he was spotted at a hostel and starbucks and i'm being told they are working to put a suspect profile together using dna like possible saliva left behind on a water bottle he threw out here in new york city. take a look on your screen. the photos that we just got into the newsroom yesterday. couldn't be a clearer shot of his face. that's the person of interest in the m

the shooter left the hostel at 5:30 a.m. the morning of the shooting. after the shooting traveling by bike up to central park, then by taxi further uptown to a bus terminal where police believe he boarded a bus out of new york city. and from there the trail goes cold. police are now investigating if the weapon may be a veterinary gun used to put down animals. >> this is a very rare weapon. in essence this is a needle in a haystack, but we have a lot of needles in this one haystack, which works in our favor in law enforcement to apprehend this violent assailant that's on the streets. >> reporter: police also clarified the detail about words written on shell casings saying they were depose, delay and deny, written in sharpie, one word on each shell casing, a possible reference to frustration with the health insurance industry. >> and tom joins me live from the scene of that deadly shooting. we are now entering the fifth day of the hunt for the killer. never like to hear those words you uttered in your piece, the trail goes cold. so where does the search s

what are the odds and coincidences between a fake i.d. used at a hostelt is new jersey based and according to tom with the same name and the chief of detectives over the weekend said was an unusual weapon, larger than normal. they were examining whether it might be a veterinary type gun. we are expected to hear from mayor adams within the next 15 or 20 minutes and see what he has to say. >> okay. i didn't realize that was coming up quickly. cedric, talk about the break before the possible break. right. so, obviously, nypd has been talking every single day getting these pictures out there. but the one that was so critical is the one that's full faced. it may have been as simple as the report is, at that hostel, he was flirting with a girl behind the desk, pulled his mask down, smiled at her, and again, we don't know, we don't want to get ahead of what the reporting is, but it certainly gives people who are looking at someone who is acting suspiciously, a much better idea of what someone might look like than someone with a mask, cedric. >> yeah. that's true

on the morning of december 4th, the defendant left the hospital hostel. excuse me. just after 5:30 a.m. and traveled to midtown for nearly an hour. we allege the defendant waited in the area near the hilton hotel waiting for mr. thompson to appear from 6:38 a.m. to 6:44 a.m., the defendant stood across from the entrance of the hotel on west 54th street when he saw mr. thompson, he crossed the street and approached him from behind. we allege he then took out a nine millimeter 3-d printed ghost gun equipped with a 3-d printed suppressor, and shot him once in the back and once in the leg. the defendant then fled northeast on 54th street and took an e-bike uptown, before getting into a taxi that took him to west 178th street and amsterdam avenue on december 9th, the defendant was spotted at a mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania. the local police were notified he was arrested and he was found with a nine millimeter handgun, a suppressor, and two ammunition magazines, and the same fake new jersey id he used at the hostel. i want to say a word about ghost guns. these weapon

the hostel who interacted with him? what did he sound like? did he have an accent did he have? did he have? did he sound like he was from the midwest or from the east coast another important resource tonight police going back in time to thompson's recent background. >> what was happening in brian thompson's world in terms of the threats that we're hearing about things that the company was worried about statements made by his widow now about the threats that he was facing former fbi official catherine schweid says one key resource for law enforcement tonight is the alleged gunman circle of family and friends. >> even though we don't know his identity yet, she says someone in that circle likely knows about his grievances with unitedhealthcare and could well step forward to help law enforcement tonight, wolf. >> brian todd, excellent report thank you very, very much. joining us now, the former mayor of new york bill de blasio. mayor de blasio, thank you so much for joining us. as you know, the shooting now took place nearly

tell us more about the search of the hostel yeah, right. >> pamela. so sources are telling me and john miller that they believe that this gunman stayed there for a couple of days and some interesting things coming out of the search of that hospital as you mentioned, hostel, as you mentioned, that was on the upper west or is on the upper west side. they say that while the gunman stayed there, he actually wore a mask, as we have seen in all of those images. you just showed your viewers at the starbucks here at the scene of where the killing actually happened. he wore that mask for most of the time at that hostel, even while staying with a couple of other people what we learned, though, either at the check in process or the checkout process police were able to get an image of this person without the mask on however, a hood is up and so they're trying to determine if it's a good enough image where if it's disseminated, can someone identify who that person is, or are they able to identify who that person is? so this could be key in this big question of who

so i am told by some sources he paid in cash at the hospital does hostel used a fake i.d. to check in there and thought he would get away with this whole thing writing an electric bike around the area and may have been staying here in that hostel for at least 21 nights. also the gun that was used in this case i was told is uncommon not usually found a gun stores in the tri-state area. that's all developing here as we continue to find out more information. we also want to take a look also at some other images coming in to the newsroom including these that is of the hostel on the upper west side. they were questioned today and asked to give information about this person at other people were always -- also questions and maybe someone will recognize them and give his name nothing at this time back here live i can tell you the other key piece of information with messages on the shell casings they were written on permanent marker three words and they found them over my shoulder. list take a look at those. deny oppose and defend those words were written on the bully casings

he used at the hostel. i want to say a word about ghost guns. these weapons are increasingly proliferating throughout new york city and the entire country involving technology, that will only make this problem worse. last year over 80 ghost guns and ghost gun parts were recovered in manhattan alone. the nypd and the manhattan d.a. office have been leading in the interdiction of these ghost guns and one thing i want to make clear, they are unserialized and could be printed out but as this case tragically makes clear, they are just as deadly as traditional firearms. this will remain a priority for us here in manhattan. finally, i know there have been questions about the extradition process. the latest that i could offer you is that the defendant is currently scheduled to appear in court in pennsylvania on thursday morning. first, for a preliminary hearing, on his pennsylvania charges, immediately to follow that will be an extradition hearing. we have indications that the defendant may waive that hearing. in which case he would be brought to new yor

the one in the hostel is black. did he ditch the backpack and you know what? if he did and you said this, we'd have found it we put a thousand cops in that park. they scoured every blade of grass in that park. if he ditched it in the park, we would have found it. and that bike coming across 85th street. i'm not sure that's him. you're from 59th and sixth to go to 104th street. naim qassem avenue. best way to go is through central park on a bicycle. but you wouldn't exit at 85th street. there's an exit 96. there's an exit at 100th. and that doesn't look like a city bike to me. so, i mean, is this the guy if it wasn't the guy, we'd know because he himself would have come forward that's a great point. >> and i mean, what are you even talking to? these two sources today, john? i mean, what's their sense? are they still not sure if it's him? >> they are all but certain it's him but until they know who he is and are able to match his fingerprints to one they found at the scene or his dna to dna that they may recover from the evidence they have. they can't be certain

this behind me is the youth hostel on the upper west side were lice are investigating whether or not a guest here paid cash and used a fake i.d. at the same time, lester, the three law enforcement officials are operating under the belief that the suspect may have traveled here from atlanta on a greyhound bus on november 24. >> reporter: new images tonight show the full face of a hooded man the nypd of interest wanting for questions in the early morning killing of a unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. but a law enforcement source confirmed to us that the images were captured here where according to an eyewitness the man in the photograph shared a room with two strangers and checked out on wednesday. one guest who said she did not share the same room saw police arrived last night at 6:30. >> it makes you guess who you are staying with. >> quite scary that we could've been in the same room. >> reporter: the search for a killer hinging on an emerging network of crucial camera images of police probe whether this video taken less than 15 minutes after the murder could be the shooter. the

the brazen murder of united health care ceo brian thompson. this appears to be a premeditated, targeted attack. these photos were taken at a hostelthe upper west side. the alleged gunman checked into the hostel with a fake i.d. and cash and stayed there before killing thompson. it's shocking to folks who were at the hostel at the same time. >> what i heard is that he stayed on -- next to mine. that's crazy. i'm used to violence because i'm from rio de janeiro. not that kind of professional killing. >> police have not confirmed a motive in the murder of thompson police did uncover this. three words were written on the shell casings found at the crime scene. they red deny, defend and depose. ways that insurers try to avoid paying claims. it's also similar to the title of this book which criticizes tactics insurance companies might use. they also showed a photo of the suspect at a starbucks. they say he bought water there and tossed the bottle in the garbage shortly before gunning down thompson. investigators are going to try to get his dna off the bottle. all evidence that could lead to his arrest. >> people know who this person is

i don't have an answer either. >> the same thing he did at the hostel where he has the mask on, but he takes it down to eat. the line from his writings is, i do apologize for any strife or traumas, but it had to be done. frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. the person sitting to my left is probably much more qualified to tell us whether in front of a jury that accounts to an admission, but it's certainly not a denial of what occurred. i think that's something that he's clearly wanting to speak out about this, no better example than what we just saw seconds ago on screen which happened moments ago outside of his court hearing. >> and tie that into, danny cevallos, the fact that if you go to his social media page, you see among other things, an x-ray of a back, and his friends have talked about how he was in a lot of pain, how he had to have surgery and so on and so forth. so what are prosecutors doing right now to build this case? >> remember, there's a lot of information i think that we don't have yet. i wouldn't be surprised if we find out that prosecutors by the time we --

as we've now reported, based on the hostel clerk who was flirting with him and asked him to remove that mask, which led to one of the pictures that has been perhaps the most revealing of who this suspect is. but i'm wondering what you think authorities can glean from the hostel itself given that he used a fake id to check in and he paid in cash what can they glean from his stay there i think what he was trying to do was trying to be a professional. >> he thought that he was being professional by paying the cash and the id. there are some things about this operation which appear to be the professional, but there is the mistakes, the mask, the utilization of a backpack, which is quite extraordinary and unique. so the the agencies and the detectives will be able to focus in on that company and figure out where it was sold company. it is so utilizing these different mistakes and staying with at a at a hostel where he had roommates and other people seeing him come and go those are mistakes that will eventually lead to his capture. >> law enforcement says that he arrived ten days before commi

they can always run genealogical dna, fingerprints obtained, their research warrant executed at the hostele thing i find interesting is according to the new york post he checked into the hospital and came back on the 30th back to the hostel, it said he took an uber. we all know that hoover, you have to put a form of payment into is that uber because you need a way to pay for that usually through a credit card or cash but that is probably through a credit card. the moment you get a form of payment this individual is using, if he continues to use that form of payment you could trace where he is spending money because eventually he has how much cash does he have? eventually a form of electronic payment and that will do identify where he is but there are many sophisticated techniques law enforcement is using. i believe law enforcement has identified this individual. they don't want to say who he is, they want to keep it quiet and continue their investigative efforts. he potentially is not a harm to other people, doesn't appear to be a targeted attack. at the appropriate time to reveal his iden

so at the youth hostel they find this amazing piece of video. e youth hostel, the lady behind the counter asks him to drop his mask, to see his face, to see his smile and he obliges. and that was the picture that went viral. >> that viral photo fueling an exhaustive search. finally, investigators get a tip from a mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania. >> you have one customer saying to the other, hey, doesn't that guy look like the wanted killer that everybody is searching for? and then the employee at mcdonald's overhears that conversation and calls 911. >> within hours, police would give the mysterious face with the flirtatious smile a name. >> police in altoona, pennsylvania, are questioning 26 year old luigi mangione. >> details uncovered about his life make the story even more intriguing. >> he was the most nice, unassuming kid you've ever met. a lot of really good friends, really athletic, two sport varsity athlete. >> he went to the university of pennsylvania, the engineering school where he majored in computer science. >> his personality wa

and they've already searched the manhattan hostel where he stayed, and the backpack he wore when he allegedly gunned down insurance ceo brian thompson. sources also tell abc news prosecutors are now bringing evidence blefore a grand jury, seeking an indictment to strengthen their case for his extradition to new york. >> we will get the defendant here and bring him to justice through our court proceeding. >> reporter: the district attorney declined to comment on the evidence, but police say fingerprints and ballistics tie the 26-year-old to the crime. tonight, mangione remains behind bars in pennsylvania, in a cell just like this one. >> before very long, he'll be brought back to new york, where he needs to be, facing the consequences of that horrific, audacious attack on the streets of new york city, which just really sent shockwaves through our whole community. >> reporter: and around the country, it touched a nerve. in seattle, this chilling message appeared briefly on a road sign, threatening other ceos. the city blaming a private construction contractors. at the university of pennsylvania

the hostel says it is fully cooperating with the investigation.ay the nypd released two new photos of the man wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. one of the photos shows him smiling. meanwhile, authorities searched this hostel 3 miles away from the scene, where police believe the suspect stayed before the murder. >> the police was right there and the fellow told me that his friend was in the same room as that guy. he was like, no, i'm sure that's him. >> reporter: the timeline of the shocking crime played out like this. at 6:15 a.m., the shooter exited a subway station north of the hilton hotel. 2 minutes later, cameras inside a nearby starbucks captured his partially-covered face. around 6:30 a.m., surveillance video obtained by "the new york times" shows the gunman talking on his cell phone while walking toward the scene. minutes later, he shot and killed thompson outside the hotel before escaping through an alley way, then riding a bike to central park, where police say he was spotted on

i want to ask the photo from the hostel. you do believe that is the alleged suspect, correct at the desk. you do believe, do you believe he's wearing different clothing than from what he wore during the commission of the murder? >> the appearance from from when he's checking into the hostel at the desk obviously, it's only a headshot. it appears that he's wearing the same hooded jacket that he was wearing the day of the incident. >> you've been at this a long time. how planned was this? the resources that were involved in this what's your sense of this my sense of this is that he definitely planned this out. >> he arrived in new york city, obviously, before the incident took place we have him on video prior to the incident for almost a half an hour, walking and wandering around the hotel area before he committed this act so, you know, do i think it was planned yes, i do, just in the mere fact that he knew what time the victim was going to be walking by. he knew what hotel this conference was going to be in, and he's been trav

that allegedly matched the one used by the suspect to check into a new york city hostel ten days beforehooting, and allegedly, a large sum of cash. they've also started going through some of his social media posts. they see an x ray of a spine and posts indicating the suspect read books about back injuries. >> we know he has taught he has ties to san francisco, california, and his last known address was honolulu, hawaii. he has no prior arrest history in new york. >> mangione, seen here in a 2016 speech for his top ranked baltimore high school's founder's day ceremony, was valedictorian of his class. >> i'm honored to be speaking to you all today on behalf of the gilman class of 2016. >> the mangione family releasing a statement tonight saying in part, our family is shocked and devastated by luigi's arrest. we offer our prayers to the family of brian thompson, and we ask people to pray for all involved. he attended the university of pennsylvania, majoring in computer science and earning a dual bachelor's and master's degree in engineering. authorities say he was arrested in 2023, in hon

you remember what's interesting is at the hostel, the people that he roomed with said he would never take off his mask but he would just to put in a bite of food. obviously can't eat through the mask. here he is eating at a mcdonald's. this individual spots him and then calls police. they show up and the details from the court documents filed in pennsylvania -- and that only pertains to the ghost gun. so he was going to get arged in pennsylvania regardless because he has the ghost gun, and that's in violation of state firearms laws. but they ask him, have you been to new york recently? and he starts shaking. and that's when the police officers, including the one who arrested him, he's been on the job now only six months, that's the moment when they knew that they had him. prior to that, they did run that identification, and it came back negative. they called that in over dispatch. they check in with the national database. we don't have a driver's license under it. but that driver's license, the fact that he presented it at the hostel and then had it on his person, another huge clue.

used at the hostel. that's great for the prosecutors to lead the jury right to their verdict.ut i think, joy, he had -- i don't think this was going to be one. he talks about the parasites and he talks about the health care industry at large. i thought the first morning this happened when we were discussing it on msnbc, don't only assume that mr. thompson was the only target. he could have been the first starring. it's still a targeted attack. that could have been a first target. and i also just to close, i think his behavior tells us the rest of that same story. he is sitting in mcdonald's. he has a laptop computer. he still has the murder weapon and the silencer, 10,000 in cash in a backpack, still wearing the disguise. if he want to get away, why didn't he toss that gun in the river? >> right. >> and, you know, get a plane to kathmandu or something. no. he was going to do another one. another murder. >> let's talk about some of the things that happened around this. with the mcdonald's where he was caught is now getting flooded with negative yelp reviews. the woman who appar

the upper west side using a fake i.d. and paying in cash. these photos were taken at that hostelges to show the alleged masked assassin's face smiling. reportedly in a moment he pulled his face covering down to flirt with the hostel clerk. police sources saying he shared a room there with at least two other men. >> what i heard is that he stood to right next to mine. i'm used to violence. because i'm from rio de janeiro but not the kind of like cold and articulated killing. >> police are also honing in on the type of gun used in the murder, a firearms expert telling fox this, quote: it is a very unique pistol and they don't make that many of them. if it is the gun, they will be able to narrow him down to a very small number of purchases or purchasers. and while a motive is still not clear as we reported yesterday, the suspect left behind possible clues in the words deny, depose, defend written on shell casings and lye rounds left at the scene. possibly a message to the murdered ceo largest healthcare companies in the world. steve? >> steve: lots of more details. chanley, thank yo

and the big thing, a name. that hostel required idn payment but they believe he used a fake i.d. it's interesting to see the places where he seemed good at this, very professional, i guess if you want to say. the places where you find the water bottle and the protein bars. >> we will continue to follow this. it is mind blowing to me. thank you so much for your help. >>> a scathing declaration from the repressed largest human rights organization. what amnesty international says about israel's assault on the people of gaza. of gaza. playing games! ♪♪ dancing in the par... (high pitched sound) (high pitched sound) (high pitched sound) >>> in 1961 at the height of the cold war, british lawyer and human rights activist wrote an article calling on activists to organize against repressive governments and advocate for human rights. across the divide between soviet and american's. that piece titled the forgotten prisoners marked the creation of amnesty international. today they are the largest, most storied human rights organization and 7 million people involved. they publish reports docum

. >> i guess what he paid at the hostel in cash. so that's limiting right there. >> he seemed to whoever the shooter is choose venues where you could still pay in cash things like the bus not the airlines, things like the hostel, not a hotel where even if you pay in cash, they always want a credit card to secure other charges. that's probably why he ended up in the hostel. >> that's interesting in and of itself. so those pictures that we were looking at, the new pictures that we're getting our first look at today in the taxi, which is interesting, that also on the streets also pointing to a location, miles north of central park, the last place we had known that he was near a bus station. >> that's right. he's actually on a street in the really the upper reaches of manhattan, across the street from a park. but a couple of blocks from that bus station so one investigative theory, which would be logical if he was avoiding airports and airlines, take a bus in, take a bus out. but they've also been checking airports and cameras and lookin

nypd released two new images of the man wanted for questioning. in this one, taken at a hostel where police believe he stayed before the shooting, the man smiling. >> the police is right there. and the fellow told me his friend was in the same room as the guy. >> reporter: thursday, officers searched the hostel a few miles from the crime scene as they pieced together a timeline. officials say the man checked in days before with a fake new jersey i.d., then the morning of the killing at 6:15 a.m., the suspected shooter walked out of a subway station north of the hilton hotel. two minutes later, cameras inside a nearby starbucks captured his partially covered face. half an hour late, police believe he shot and killed thompson outside the hotel before escaping through an alley way and riding a bike to central park where police say he was spotted on surveillance cameras. less than 15 minutes after the shooting, he left the park and was scene on a home security camera. richard esposito is a former nypd deputy commissioner. >> i wouldn't call this person a professional. professionals

the reporting around the release of those images suggest they were taken at the check—in desk of the hostelere asked the person to remove their mask and give her a smile, which he then did, and i think you have to conclude from the quality of that image that even if they are no closer to making an arrest in this case, they must be getting closer to a firm identification of who it is they are looking for. jarrett ley is a visual forensics reporter at the washington post. he explained how the gunman�*s steps had been traced. it's an incredible moment, i believe, forjust the sheer number of video cameras that are present in this part of manhattan. as a forensics reporter, my focus has been on tracking down this footage that we have of the suspect in this homicide in order to reconstruct the movements of the suspect before and after the homicide. in terms of the manhunt, presumably the police are massively helped byjust the enormous public interest in this? i can't speak to what the police have been helped by, but i can speak to what the press has been helped by which has certainly been there h

at the hostel where they were taken, witnesses in shock. kes you second guess who you are actually staying in the host well. >> reporter: a senior new york city law enforcement official telling nbc news before the shooting the suspect bought two protein bars and a water bottle from a nearby starbucks and that authorities were able to locate and collect the discarded items which could contain vital clues. >> it could be some sort of physical evidence, a fingerprint, maybe even some sort of dna that they can trace. >> reporter: the around the clock manhunt continuing to find an allusive killer, responsible for one of the most shocking murders in recent new york memory. and, willie, health care companies appear to be reacting immediately to try to protect their leaders. according to an nbc news digital analysis, companies like cvs health and anthem blue cross/blue shield have edited or taken the photos of executive leadership off of their websites. cvs health confirming they did take those photos off today, we're still waiting to hear back from

on the morning much december 4, the defendant left the hostel just after 5:30 a.m. traveled to midtown. for nearly an hour he waited in the area near the hilton hotel waiting for mr. thompson to appear from 6:38 a.m. to 6:44 a.m. the defendant stood across the entrance of the hotel. when he saw mr. thompson, he crossed the street and approached him from behind we allege he then took out a 9 millimeter 3d-printed ghost gun, equipped with a 3d-printed suppressor and shot him once in the back and once in the leg the defendant then fled northeast on 54th street and took an e-bike uptown before getting into a taxi that took him to west 178th street and amsterdam avenue on december 9, the defendant was spotted at a mcdonald's in a altoona, pennsylvania. the local police were note fight. he was arrested and found with a 9 millimeter handgun, a suppressor, two ammunition magazines, and the same fake new jersey i.d. he used at the hostel i want to say a word about ghost guns these weapons are increasingly proliferating throughout new york city and the country involving techno

they also have details about the suspect�*s movements, saying he checked into a hostel on the upper wested in new york on the 24th of november having travelled by bus, a greyhound bus that left atlanta and georgia. what's interesting about the latest images that they've released is that they show his face very clearly. newspaper reports for unnamed police sources suggest that these images were taken at the reception desk at the hostel and that the man in the images was asked by the receptionist to take his mask off and give her a smile, a very innocent, normal exchange, but if that is true, then that exchange may have given police their most important clue yet, because as i say, the image is a very clear image. you have to wonder, even if they are not yet close to making any arrests here, they must be getting close to identifying the person of interest they want to speak to. , ., ., ,., of interest they want to speak to. , ., �* ., to. tell us more about brian thompson. _ to. tell us more about brian thompson, his _ to. tell us more about brian thompson, his company - to. tell us more ab

kept a mask over his face at all times except for this one unguarded moment when he checked into the hostelllance cameras catching him at a hilton, at a starbucks and getting into a taxi at the bus station where he vanished. police found bullets with the words deny, defend, and depose, a possible reference to grievances with the insurance industry. >> yes, he was the ceo of a health insurance company. in america, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint. >> thompson's murder has ignited online anger against the industry, and over the weekend, the company putting up fencing around its headquarters. tonight, unitedhealthcare says in a statement, our hope is that today's apprehension brings some relief to brian's family, friends, colleagues, and many others. mangione appeared in court moments ago on the local gun charges. investigators from the nypd and the manhattan district attorney's office are here in altoona, starting to go through some of the evident collected here and through the suspect's social media where they see an x-ray of a spine an