evidence than he was at making bombs, and you know, looking at that van, i mean, i m reminded of churchhill s quote, a fanatic is a guy who can t stop talking and won t change the subject. you can just see inside the mind of this guy. he s a fanatic about this topic, and he wanted to go after his targets. so yes, a treasure-trove of evidence, lots of fingerprints. was it a fingerprint really that broke the case. they were able to get a latent print off the envelope, likely ran it through the system, got a hit on his arrest, dna off a couple of ied parts inside the envelope. checked with fdle, the florida state agents, got a pretty good match. it s not a total, it s a pretty close match. that s in the probable cause affidavit and also some of the misspellings. of course he lived near the mailing center, and of course when you see his van, the motive, so they had a pretty good criminal complaint, some good initial charges.
are there people that have not been here before that don t know the entire story? i m guessing evers s got a pretty good interesting i ll give a brief recap and then tell you the update from today and then i ll give you an opportunity to ask questions. what i would ask that we all do is let me call on you for the questions. don t everybody shout at me. let me call on you and i will repeat the question so everybody hears the question. you may have to remind me to repeat the question as we re going. good enough? all right. yesterday afternoon shortly after 12:00 p.m., we had officers, 18 individual officers, including command staff, that was here on scene at twin peaks. that contingent of our officers including an assistant chief, it included sergeants, it included
our martin savidge found one vicksburg resident who knew trouble was coming and literally rose above it. they come in and they did it in a day s work. reporter: what day was that? mother s day. reporter: so you raised the house on mother s day? yes, sir. reporter: it is probably a good day to do it. oh, yeah, it was. reporter: considering now the fact that this house is one of the few that s still dry in the neighborhood. yes. reporter: mom got a pretty good present. oh, yeah, she loves it. best mother s day present ever. there you go, so a little planning for the worst and it turned out well for that family at least. that man s home doesn t have a single drop of water in it. the plumbing and electricity also still working. right now thousands of homes are flooded, though, and 3 million acres of farmland damaged. that s what we can see. in louisiana beneath the
employment, energy, education, that s not a plan, it s a campaign strategy. i think it s a very effective one. choosing these three things actually i think is really, really smart. employment, that s obligatory. energy, that s the red meat. i mean, obama s got a pretty, i think, vulnerable energy policy for republicans and romney to go after. then education is sort of the humanizing component of this campaign strategy. and it has the benefit of ill l illiteration. this is actually a smart three pronged approach for romney to focus on over the next few weeks. although it s worth noting on the education piece, he was speaking to the latino coalition in a bid to shore up votes where he s cratering in the polls and doesn t talk about the one thing that s near and dear to the latino community in the states which is the immigration question and sort of goes on to an education speech that basically undermines no child left behind which was a major piece of bush era legislation,