standoff is over. and we should find out more information about exactly what happened, about the condition of the suspect. we hope to have that for you within the next few minutes. okay. gabe, going back to the individual suspect, the alleged individual holding this 5-year-old boy, jimmy lee dykes, what can you tell us about him as an individual? reporter: well, neighbors from the very beginning describedloner with a deep distrust of government. we have been waiting to hear an exact motive. we know the day after the standoff began last wednesday, he was scheduled to be in court on a misdemeanor charge of menacing a neighbor. again, neighbors described him as a loner who had an extreme he really wanted to protect his property, they said. anytime somebody got close to the property, they felt they had a difficult interaction with him. we also know that he was a vietnam era veteran. nbc news confirmed that he even
latest developments. we know that police have been communicating with the suspect. have we heard any more about a possible motive behind all of this? well, craig, the short answer to that is no. this thing has been going on for more than 118 hours and police are still very reluctant to discuss my type of motive. we can tell you that the suspect is 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes. he has had a few brushes with the law, including one in december where he was supposed to appear in court last wednesday for a scheduled court appearance. but the day before, in that court appearance he was facing a misdemeanor charge of menacing a neighbor. neighbors around here describe him as a loner with a deep distrust in the government. but police won t confirm whether that had any role to play in the motive. on tuesday, that s when the
there s a wariness, as will always has been, that joe biden can i ve been taken by how separate the operations have been. the president does run his own shop. there s wariness but i don t think hard feelings. you get a sense though, john, that the staff has a deep distrust, the president s staff has a deep distrust for joe biden. the staff was more upset than the president was. the president wasn t bhap as was reported, the vice president went to obama and apologized in a very full throated, genuine way. i think for barack obama that was kind of it was over and done with at that point. i think he was hung out to dry on that. they re putting him out in front of millions of people to campaign. they can t be that worried about
tires, golf balls, into the blowout preventer to clog it. the blowout preventer, remember, is the emergency brake on the oil flow. it s supposed to be a fail-safe system. it did not work here. and yesterday in washington, it was the focus of a lot of criticism from a house panel, particularly because bp said there was a hydraulic leak in the blowout preventer, and the battery was dead on what was supposed to be the dead man s switch. monica? okay. anne thompson, thanks for that update. amazing video. well, despite the devastating gulf oil spill, most americans say drill, baby, drill. that s according to a new poll. 60% say they re in favor of more offshore drilling. when it comes to the federal government s response to the crisis, the public is split 45% say it s not done enough, 43% say it has. the new poll also finds voters have a deep distrust of washington and are shifting over to the republican party. a sign of the growing anger toward incumbents.
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