headquarters down in texas we learn more how police tracked him down. steve: good morning brian and ainsley. i don t know if you can hear it, right now we are actually not only in front of the police station here in downtown austin, texas. we are underneath interstate 35. we saw chief manley from alongside interstate 35. it was four or five miles to the north of where we are as the chief just detailed, last night about 9:00 they had used all sorts of cell phone evidence and video from that fedex store and they found out hot guy was. it turns out he was hold up at a hotel in round rock, texas, not far from where we are right now. they were waiting for a tactical team before they engaged him but for some reason the guy got in the car and they did not want him blowing anything else up, so they went for a little while and then he pulled over on a frontage road.
took him that long, 10 more days to make the next bomb and then he got better and better at doing this and more confident. ultimately led to police catching him. brian: meanwhile chief manley moments ago as we started our show and leap from fox & friends first to fox & friends described the last moments before the suspect seemingly blew himself up. detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our swat officers back and one of our swat officers fired at the suspect as well. the suspect is deceased and has significant injuries from a blast that occurred from detonating a bomb inside his vehicle. brian: we know he is a 24-year-old white male. we have no idea at this point of the motive. that could come together quite quickly as you realize who he is. confirmation of his identity. then you fan out to his family and friends. his co-workers.
and some of our s.w.a.t team who helped in the aftermath of this. other than that, an investigation portion were very limited. when i got on scene around 2:00 this morning that s when i spoke briefly with chief manley and the bomber was already deceased and evidence collection started and things of that nature. harris: sheriff chody, the important work since that 2:00 a.m. call was to protect everybody from what may have been left behind. talk to me about the work that s being done. i though that there is at least one robot involved. that s exactly the message we want to bring to our community. we ll reecho chief manley s comments, if you see a specific package, continue the protocol we ve been doing the past two weeks that s call 911. let the pros take over the calls for service. over the past two weeks our calls have increased a great deal. we had over 35 calls for
can respond and deal with those packages. thank you. i would like to say today is a great day for law enforcement. i would like to thank the partners. chief manley did an unbelievable job. the federal government brought full resources here to solve this and to stop the injuring and the killing that was occurring. as the chief said, we re not done yet. sit a long day ahead. we are concerned there may be other packages still out there. he we need the public to remain vigilant especially today as we go through this investigation. we will be here as long as it takes with our partners to figure out exactly what happened, why it happened, and how it happened. and we re committed to staying here with the austin police department for as long as it takes to make sure we understand exactly what happened here. i would just like to say this is
men and women that you work with. chief manley, to you and to your officers, to this literally army of both neighboring cities and state and federal agencies, thank you. and i d just like to close with just really a thought for the families in our community who lost loved ones or who had loved ones seriously hurt in these incidents. our heart remains with you as you go through your healing process and your time of sorrow and we stand by you and with you in your time of need. with that, we will open it up for questions.