hannah anderson is safe. >> this is a fox news alert, hannah anderson is safe, suspected kidnapper, james dimaggio is dead, the sheriff's department making the announcement just minutes ago. >> during an arrest attempt at the north end of moorehead lake in idaho, suspect james lee dimaggio was shot and killed by an fbi tactical agent assigned to an fbi headquarters unit. hannah anderson was located with dimaggio, she appears well and was rescued and was transported to a hospital in idaho. >> great ending to a tragic story. hannah anderson is alive and apparently being looked at at a local hospital and james dimaggio dead, let's bring in tom brown, the founder of the tracker school that teaches wilderness survival techniques and former fbi special agent. good evening, gentlemen. great news, classic example of law enforcement, you have them in there, a marksman takes him out, there's a shootout, what do you though? >> i can tell you this, when the fbi tactical teams do a lot of work in environments such as this. and tom, has experience training with individuals like this. so, it's very very

brett anderson, the father of hannah anderson who is alive and is apparently been taken to a hospital. james dimaggio is dead reportedly in a shootout with the f.b.i. and local police in an area i believe in idaho which was an area where apparently the largest roadless area in the lower 48 states. it's an amazing recovery of this young girl who has been through so much. her mother murdered, her brother murdered. her taken into this area by dimaggio who apparently was obsessed with her and is now dead. in any event we will have more as the evening goes on. andrew is joining us now. he is a friend of dimaggio. he joins us from los angeles. now andrew, you were scheduled to be on the show to talk about dimaggio. now you just heard that your friend is dead. so, tell us what your emotions are right now. >> first of all, i spoke to laura, jim's sister, the family wishes to express their condolences for all the tragedy that has happened so far. right now, we're asking that they be left alone and people go through me. >> judge jeanine: let's talk about you and james dimaggio. did you ever exp

brett anderson, the father of hannah anderson who is alive and is apparently been taken to a hospital. james dimaggio is dead reportedly in a shootout with the f.b.i. and local police in an area i believe in idaho which was an area where apparently the largest roadless area in the lower 48 states. it's an amazing recovery of this young girl who has been through so much. her mother murdered, her brother murdered. her taken into this area by dimaggio who apparently was obsessed with her and is now dead. in any event we will have more as the evening goes on. andrew is joining us now. he is a friend of dimaggio. he joins us from los angeles. now andrew, you were scheduled to be on the show to talk about dimaggio. now you just heard that your friend is dead. so, tell us what your emotions are right now. >> first of all, i spoke to laura, jim's sister, the family wishes to express their condolences for all the tragedy that has happened so far. right now, we're asking that they be left alone and people go through me. >> judge jeanine: let's talk about you and james dimaggioever expect this k

christina and brett anderson, hannah's parents, had separated. brett anderson moved to tennessee. then according to jennifer willis, dimaggio began to face financial troubles that led to foreclosure on the cabin they all loved. jennifer talked to christina just days before her murder. >> she said, he's having a hard time, losing his house, he doesn't know what to do, he's depressed. she went there to be by his side one last time. that's the kind of person she was. dropped everything and went there for him. >> reporter: that's apparently when dimaggio snapped. christina and ethan's bodies, or what was left of them, were found in this burned down cabin. documents show ethan's body so badly charred, an autopsy could not determine the cause of death. christina anderson had been hit in the head, wrapped in a tarp and left to burn, leaving a host of unanswered questions, including why. >> beside the fact that he's sick, he's a monster, he did what he did, why did it have to happen to them? >> reporter: why did it happen to tina and ethan and not to hannah? >> right. >> reporter: was the

christina and brett anderson, hannah's parents, had separated. brett anderson moved to tennessee. then according to jennifer willis, dimaggio began to face financial troubles that led to foreclosure on the cabin they all loved. jennifer talked to christina just days before her murder. >> she said, he's having a hard time, losing his house, he doesn't know what to do, he's depressed. she went there to be by his side one last time. that's the kind of person she was. dropped everything and went there for him. >> reporter: that's apparently when dimaggio snapped. christina and ethan's bodies, or what was left of them, were found in this burned down cabin. documents show ethan's body so badly charred, an autopsy could not determine the cause of death. christina anderson had been hit in the head, wrapped in a tarp and left to burn, leaving a host of unanswered questions, including why. >> beside the fact that he's sick, he's a monster, he did what he did, why did it have to happen to them? >> reporter: why did it happen to tina and ethan and not to hannah? >> right. >> reporter: i hate

this is a picture of hannah anderson. she is a white female, 16 years old, about 5'7". >> a manhunt began that would span five states. and three countries. >> this manhunt has now stretched into mexico. >> critical hours and days slipped by as the manhunt continued. >> the response time to reports of a missing child is, we think, critical to success. we know that as every minute passes, there is a greater likelihood of harm, and sadly, greater likelihood of fatality. >> we didn't know what was going to happen with her. was his plan to run off? was it going to be a murder/suicide? >> august 6th, three days after hannah was last seen, brett had an urgent message for his daughter. >> hanna, we all love you very much. if you have a chance, you take it. you run. you'll be found. >> coming up, signs of the man hannah calls uncle jim had crossed the line. >> we were driving home, and he just said that he had a crush on her. [ female announcer ] birdhouse plans. nacho pans. glass on floors. daily chores. for the little mishaps yo

anderson. tell me about hannah. tell me about ethan. >> give me a second. >> ethan would do anything for anybody. loved everybody. he was just my buddy. >> just like tina was jenim's buddy. >> she was here at this exact table two weeks ago playing board games. and so that monday was the last time i saw her. and i've kept her text. because i can't -- i don't want to let go of the last little funny things that we talked about. >> and hannah, she had disappeared. >> new information in to cnn suggests that only hannah anderson may have been abducted. >> a man hunt began that would span five states and three countries. >> this man hunt has now stretched into mexico. >> critical hours and days slip by as the man hunt continued. >> we didn't know what was going to happen with her. was his plan to run off? was it going to be a murder-suicide? >> august 6th, three days after hannah was last seen, bret had an urgent message for his daughter. >> hannah, we all love you very much. if you have a chance, you take it. you run. you

this is a picture of hannah anderson. she is a white female, 16 years old, about 5'7". >> a manhunt began that would span five states. and three countries. >> this manhunt has now stretched into mexico. >> critical hours and days slipped by as the manhunt continued. >> the response time to reports of a missing child is, we think, critical to success. we know that as every minute passes, there is a greater likelihood of harm, and sadly, greater likelihood of fatality. >> we didn't know what was going to happen with her. was his plan to run off? was it going to be a murder/suicide? >> august 6th, three days after hannah was last seen, brett had an urgent message for his daughter. >> hanna, we all love you very much. if you have a chance, you take it. you run. you'll be found. >> coming up, signs of the man hannah calls uncle jim had crossed the line. >> we were driving home, and he just said that he had a crush on her. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's starts with freshly-made pasta, and 100%

. >>> kidnapping victim hannah anderson gave her first interview about her abduction. hannah anderson described herself as a survivor and thanked her supporters and reveals new information about her relationship with james lee dimaggio. >> reporter: hannah anderson spoke to nbc for the first time about her kidnapping and rescue. >> in the beginning i was a victim but now knowing everyone is helping me i am a survivor. >> reporter: hannah anderson was kidnapped by james lee dimaggio. mese would find the bodies of her mother and brother at his burned home. hannah anderson responded to questions about why she exchanged text messages with james lee dimaggio. >> they were text because he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn't know the address so i had to tell him the address and tell him i would be in the gym. >> reporter: she also explained why she sent him letters. >> letters were from a year ago when me and my mom weren't getting along. we would talk about how to deal with it. i would tell him how i felt about it and he would help me through it. they were just t

this is a statement from brett anderson. the father of hannah anderson. it says, he just texted this to a cnn, someone here at cnn. it says "i am nervous, excited, saddened for my wife and son and worried what my daughter has been through. it's now healing time. keep us in your prayers." keep us in your prayers. that is from brett anderson, the father of hannah anderson. the information is just coming in now. i want to get now to marissa chavez, a friend of hannah anderson. marissa, you have been speaking as well about your friend. how are you taking this news? >> very happy about it. excited. >> yeah. what do you plan to say to her? because i know you're going to talk to her and probably very soon. >> just make sure she's okay and tell her that she got a lot of support and she still does and everyone's still going to be here for her. >> yeah. maris marissa, you mentioned something about the suspect here who is now dead. you said that you overheard, or she overheard him saying that he had a crush on her? >> yes. i was in the car with him. yeah. >> what di

hannah anderson has been resc d rescued. snatched by james here's how it was announced at the press conference. we are joined by our west coast bureau with reaction. give us the latest. >> the latest is that hannah has been found. the fbi is certainly going to continue to do its investigation on the scene of where it happened and also in the area, particularly further investigation in to the car. the team coming in from d.c. to salt lake city at the moment where it will actually do review. the investigation will move to san diego. it will probably be centered down there. the san diego county sheriffs office that will be dealing with that. but huge sigh of relief here in california. there's been a massive outpouring of emotion and concern for hannah's welfare after this dramatic week of a kidnapping and two terrible killings in san diego. so, huge relief from here. what the authorities intend to do next, as i was saying, san diego county needs to look in to what what happened, how they got in to idaho and what particularly ha

"anderson cooper" coming up next. >>> good evening. tonight, rescuing hannah anderson. what comes after she survived after being in the hands of a killer? stopping and frisking hundreds of people every day. most of whom are guilty of nothing. most of whom are african-american or hispanic. a judge called it a kind of racial profiling. others say it's just good policing. we'll explore both sides and you can make up your own mind. >>> later tonight, what every expecting parent needs to know about a study linking induced labor with autism. how worried should you be? we'll talk to dr. sanjay gupta for the facts. we begin with a young woman's rescue.

hannah anderson was located with dimaggio. she appears well and will be transported to a hospital in idaho. to recap this operation started on wednesday when some hikers saw two people that recement bld dimaggio and anderson. friday morning the blue nissan versa was discovered and that led to a massive federal, state and local manhunt in the idaho area wilderness outside of cascade, you idaho. what a collaborative 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 e

tonight, rescuing hannah anderson. what comes after she survived after being in the hands of a killer? >>> and stopping and frisking hundreds of people every day. most of whom are guilty of nothing. most of whom are african-american or hispanic. a judge called it a kind of racial profiling. others say it's just good policing. we'll explore both sides and you can make up your own mind. >>> later tonight, what every expecting parent needs to know about a study linking induced labor with autism. how worried should you be? we'll talk to dr. sanjay gupta for the facts. tonight we talk about hannah anderson and after a week in captivity.

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we have new details about hannah anderson. the couple that spotted hannah and her suspected captor in idaho says the teen was wearing pajamas and their camping gear looked brand new. >> these people did not want to talk to us whatsoever. and i said to the girl that was soaking her feet, i said what are you doing with your feet in the water? don't you know there's fish in there. kind of joking. then as we turned right away, she didn't make any comment. so we turned to go away and says it looks like we're all in trouble now. all of their gear looked like it was brand new. that was another little flag that wasn't -- just

anderson. tell me about hannah. tell me about ethan. >> give me a second. >> i know this is difficult. i cannot imagine talking about my kids in this kind of situation, but we want people to feel connected to what's at stake here and who may be lost. so please, if you can, tell us about what made these kids so special to you. >> ethan wore his heart on his sleeve. he would give, do anything for anybody. loved everybody. he was just my buddy. we spoke quite often since i've been in nashville, and he would tell me his daily routines. he was just getting back into football for a second year. and hannah was just a beautiful, beautiful girl. very, very good student. hundreds and hundreds of friends. and there was nothing bad to say about my kids. they never did anything to anybody. they were always wonderful. we were pretty tight-knit, even though i was a couple thousand miles away. >> this is a horrific story, obviously, and if there is, i don't know if there can be any good news in all this, i guess is mr. anderson has

kidnapping victim hannah anderson's father speaks out about his daughter's ordeal. >> no one should have to go through this. >> now, it's time for us to grieve and move on to the healing process. >> plus, like father like son. reports of james dimaggio's father once held a 16-year-old girl at gunpoint. a friend tells me about chilling parallels. a woman who was kidnapped when she was only nine, and now katie beers has a message for hannah anderson. >>>dy these things, no one did this to me, no one's to blame for this, but i am. a woman who will not hold back her opinion of anthony weiner. star jones joins me for round three. rescued hannah anderson, disturbing new revelations about the men police believed ab ducted her. joining me now is paul vercammen live in san diego. the story came do a soon to be gruesome end with the death of the number one suspect. what can you tell me about events from the moment we learned about it. >> well, we know there were these ranchers, two couples who came upon the couple of anderson. and, of course, hannah quite by accident. and they discovered them in t

yes, hannah anderson still alive. still unclear at what stage she has learned about her mother's death and 8-year-old brother's death. there will be so many phases of healing and recuperation here. what is likely to be the first one, being reunited with her dad today? >> there's probably a situation where she's in shock trying to process this whole thing. or brain can only handle so much information at one time. a lot of times people disassociate when they go through that. this is probably feeling ser real and will take time to sink in. the key is they had crisis counselors with her yesterday. i'm assuming and hoping the family will get her in therapy and keep her in therapy for a while. the other concern i have is a father and the person that brought this man into the family, a friend for 16 years. >> and there has to be guilt there. >> survivor's guilt is a huge issue and not only hannah and definitely her dad. he will need counseling, too. the tendency as a parent is to want to be strong and take care of everything

hannah anderson was located with dimaggio. she appears well. >> reporter: the fbi team moved in on foot to confront james dimaggio. >> the area where these two individuals were seen is about 30 miles from cascade. the only way to access it is by helicopter. >> reporter: the pair was spotted first from the air near their camp site. teams on foot then moved in. >> special agents with the fbi hostage rescue team along with salt lake city division of the fbi observed hannah and the suspect near morehead lake at a camp site. agents moved in to rescue hannah. the suspect is deceased. >> reporter: fbi releasing few details, saying the entire operation will now be reviewed by a team heading here from washington with dimaggio considered armed and dangerous and hannah a potential hostage, the stakes enormous. >> this is a homicide suspect that was in a very rugged area, and we had a 16-year-old girl. we had to look at tactical issues. it is certainly a complex search. >> reporter: a complex and successful operation ending a week of fear

h hannah anderson was located with dimaggio. she appears well and rescue and will be transported to a hospital in idaho. >> this case brought to mind another murder/kidnapping that ended in idaho back in 2005 that we covered very extensively when a serial killer of multiple sex offender joseph edward duncan snatched an 8-year-old snamed shasta and her brother, 9-year-old duncan after murdering the children's mother and brother and the mom's fiancee, and folks, you may remember how shasta was rescued after the perpetrator brought her out of the wilderness to have dinner at a local denny's restaurant. her brother had already been killed by duncan, and duncan by the way is now serving nine life sentences. craig interviewed shasta in october of last year. >> when she was just 8 years old, shasta groene and her 9-year-old brother dillon were the subject of a massive manhunt in 2005. >> i made it out okay and my brother didn't. i wish it didn't happen that way and i wish we could have both gotten out together. >> for the first time sh

we're talking of the rescue of hannah anderson. let's play the press conference, then we'll talk more. >> you have that prickly feeling. you do what is right. and sometimes it's better to call and be wrong and not call and wish you had. i think everybody that's standing here would have done exactly what we did. there's nothing heroic about it. nothing. just that's what you do. >> do you feel like you were part of a miracle? >> we do now. >> what was it like for you when you got home, turned on the tv, and in that instant you realized that's the -- >> your heart sup here. >> you've been through law enforcement stuff before. is this different? >> it was -- when we put the connection together and we realized that it was possibly her. we didn't know 100% for sure. then you've always got this reservation about are we sending these people out on a wild goose chase? or is this going to be a real thing? but then after we made the phone call, we did what we had to do, and they found that car the next morning, then we knew we'd done the righ

rescued hannah anderson, disturbing new revelations about the men police believed ab ducted her. joining me now is paul vercammen live in san diego. the story came do a soon to be gruesome end with the death of the number one suspect. what can you tell me about events from the moment we learned about it. >> well, we know there were these ranchers, two couples who came upon the couple of anderson. and, of course, hannah quite by accident. and they discovered them in the vast idaho wilderness, they looked way out of place. the fact that he had new camping equipment, he was up on a ridge in an odd place. her feet were in the water. they seemed to not want to discuss anything with them, they were alerted something was odd. later they saw hannah's picture on the news. one of the horseback riders was an ex-sheriff, he knew enough to call his contacts at the state police. in the end it took an fbi crew, they were helicoptered in, they hiked two hours, snuck up on a campsite, and by all accounts, dimaggio, who was armed picked up a rifle, fired once and then the lethal blow, the return f

hannah anderson. we'll have it live this hour. we'll see if he takes questions as well. a dramatic development, paul. stand by, we'll come back to you. >> meantime, other news, including a dramatic move by the attorney general eric holder. he says america's prison population has grown at an astounding 800% in the last three decades and he's unveiled a bold new plan to try to reform what he says is basically a broken criminal justice system in the united states. jessica yellin is joining us now. she's got the details. >> reporter: wolf, the attorney says the nation's overcrowding problem is costing the u.s. too much money, is leading to more crime when prisoners are released and it's often the result of unfair sentencing practices. so he's making changes. a major change in the way prison sentences will be handed down, ordered by the nation's top law enforcement officer. >> it was an outsized, unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, to deter and to

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 states. >> rising waters have claimed another life. this time near c

there she is, 16-year-old hannah anderson. everybody feared the worst when this good family friend jim dimaggio did the worst thing possible to those he loved. the mother killed. her baby brother killed, 8-year-old ethan. the house burned down then they disappeared. the father appeared here. an amazing discovery by a group of horseback riders, one a retired sheriff. the idaho police see things and put together clues. they are right. they are on the trail. the fbi comes in. all the details about saving hannah. she's home safe. we have interviews with the people on horseback who saw them and the police. >> amazing, the little things they saw that raised some red flags. that was the reason why we are where we are today. >>> another story we have been following, a pretrial hearing for a young man we told you a lot about. he made an unfunny joke online about shooting up a school. he says it was absolutely a joke. that joke cost justin carter months in prison and he's facing a felony terrorism charge. we will bring you the latest on

anderson. tell me about hannah. tell me about ethan. >> give me a second. ethan wore his heart on his sleeve. he would do anything for anybody. loved everybody. he was just my buddy. >> reporter: just like tina was jen's buddy. >> she was here at this exact table two weeks ago playing board games. and so that monday was the last time i saw her. and i've kept her texts because i can't -- i don't want to let go of the last little funny things we talked about. >> reporter: and hannah, she had disappeared. >> new information into cnn suggests that only hannah anderson may have been abducted. >> reporter: a manhunt began that would span five states and three countries. >> this manhunt has now stretched into mexico. >> reporter: critical hours and days slid by as the manhunt continued. >> we didn't know what was going to happen with her. was his plan to run off? was it going to be a murder/suicide? >> reporter: august 6th, three days after hannah was last seen, brett had an urgent message for his daughter. >> hannah, we all love you very much. if you have a chanc

hannah anderson, we are told. will take to the microphone any moment to tell the story of her harrowing ordeal. we'll bring it to you live when it happens. first from fox this thursday night a crucial american ally is in turmoil and spiraling out of control. egyptian say more than 600 people are dead in the latest fighting there. and now we know the muslim brotherhood is planning a mass finale tomorrow mass challenge against its government. this was the scene a short while ago. fires on the road. earlier the government officially gave police the go ahead to use deadly force against protesters. these protesters have been burning christian churches and government buildings. and attacking security forces. tonight, all evidence shows this is getting worse, not better. and as fox reports tonight, we cannot know how bad it will get. but, much may destabilize the entire region. [gunfireself] >> shepard: this all began in earnest yesterday when riot police were cracking down on protesters, mohammed morsi the muslim brothe

hannah anderson was located with dimagg dimaggio. she appears well. >> reporter: the fbi team moved in on foot to confront james dimaggio. >> the area where these two individuals were seen is about 30 miles from cascade, the only way to access it is by helicopter. >> reporter: the pair was spotted first from the air near their campsite. teams on foot then moved in. >> special agents with the fbi's hostage rescue team along with salt lake city division of the fbi observed hannah and the suspect near morehead lake at a campsite. agents moved in to rescue hannah. the suspect is deceased. >> reporter: fbi releasing few details saying the entire operation will now be reviewed by a team heading here from washington. with dimaggio considered armed and dangerous and hannah a potential hostage, the stakes enormous. >> this is a homicide suspect that was in a very rugged area and we had a 16-year-old girl, we have to look at the tactical issues. it is certainly a complex search. >> reporter: a complex and successful operation ending a week of

. >>> later tonight, hannah anderson tells her story and why she's glad the man that kidnapped her is dead. >>> stop and frisk, the controversy continues as a war of words continues over a key question. is it plain old good policing or old-fashioned racial profiling. we'll call in philadelphia's police chief to referee. >>> we begin with breaking news, the war, yes, the war being fought tonight on the streets of egypt and the huge problem it's become for the obama administration. at this hour, states of emergencies in effect across the country and at least 278 people, mostly opposition members in cairo are dead. this is new video of egyptian security forces raiding one of two opposition camps this morning. they moved in this morning. you can hear shooting in the background as troops kick a wounded man around. a protester that escaped one of the camps said it's an open car. new video of muslim brotherhood fighters pushing an armored personnel carrier off the 6th of october bridge. remember the bridge is a rallying point leading to tahrir square in the uprising. unlike then, the images

we have new details about hannah anderson. the couple that spotted hannah and her suspected captor in idaho says the teen was wearing pajamas and their camping gear looked brand new. >> these people did not want to talk to us whatsoever. and i said to the girl that was soaking her feet, i said what are you doing with your feet in the water? don't you know there's fish in there. kind of joking. then as we turned right away, she didn't make any comment. so we turned to go away and says it looks like we're all in trouble now. all of their gear looked like it was brand new. that was another little flag that wasn't -- just wasn't normal or natural. >> you're going to hear much more from these trail riders throughout the hour here on cnn. meantime, hannah anderson is expected to rejoin her father brett today for the first time since a once-trusted family friend shattered their lives. hannah was rescued from a idaho wilderness after the fbi shot and killed her alleged captor james dimaggio. also suspected of murdering her mother and