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Deputies are finding out in the field. this is a friend of my husband who happens to be former law enforcement. so they are all texting each other. so, as soon as can i give you a name, i will. but what a loss this is going to be. >> shepard: yeah. >> back to you guys. >> shepard: man alive, christina, thank you so much. so many sacrifice so much us and get caught up in the middle of this. were reporting from rome tonight where its just past midnight, 17 minutes past -- actually 17 minutes past ...

Fingerprints. so they will have fingerprints very likely. they will have dental records. there is is no rush here. there is a lot of con spur toler aspects to every crime. they have to ignore that, look at science and do your procedures and protect your people. thats whats really important here. we have lost enough people here. we have lost enough brave, patriotic men and some innocent people and lets dont let anything else happen. its just not the time to go in. >> we have lost enough brave and...

Big bear. our producer jen gerden is on scene at a place we dont have a camera but she has eyesight. what are you seeing. >> hi, shep. we are being kept five miles actually away from the main scene where dorner is supposedly hold up in that cabin. we are seeing there is a bunch of police cars, sheriffs vehicles, cops have their guns out. they wont speak to us. they are listening to the scanner radio. and were seeing cop cars fly by here. some guys in swat gear flying by. in the last couple of ho...

I cannot see that from here. im sorry. >> shepard: then i was misinformed. im sorry. im thousands of miles away. that was the information i was given. trace gallagher, what do you have on that? >> you had it exactly right, shep. we are hearing scanner traffic that this cabin is now fully engulfed. now helicopters got a distance away from there that you can kind of see the smoke in the back and were trying to effort that right now. that changes the entire scenario. remember, we said earlier that ...

Smith. >> shepard: there is breaking news now on fox news channel. its 4:30 on the west coast and 7:30 on the east coast. and it would appear that the nightmare of a situation across southern california is over. we know now that authorities surrounded a cabin, that the man you see on the right-hand side of your screen had taken two people hostage, at least a couple of days ago. according to our sources in los angeles. we know that one of those two people escaped. we know that chris dorner, for w...

Air ambulances, if you will, at the local hospitals. we do know, shepard, that l.a.p.d. has a real emotional tie to this case. this is one of their own, who obviously went bad. rogue cop but he has now killed a san bernardino deputy as well as a riverside deputy. and then, of course, the two civilians who were killed as well. basically with this 1 reward or price on his head. you have got this massive possie on his trail after six days it now appears that justice is coming to a head for christop...

He apparently drove down there and ran inside that cabin and began shooting. one deputy in the front and one deputy in the back of the house and the house is now burning to the ground. shep. >> shepard: yeah, our correspondent alicia acuna headed up the mountain right now, alicia? >> hi, shepard. we are headed intoed mountain highway 18 which meets up with 38. you heard trace talk earlier about the location of where chris dorner came in confrontation with fish and game. thats the location we are...

Shep? >> shepard: all right, alicia, thanks. when they moved the reporters back so far from that area. five miles back. didnt allow helicopters in the air. you know, at one point we got reports that he he may have had the h. not 50 cal but he may have the had the ability to shoot surface to air. >> thats what we have heard. we know as you mentioned earlier the smoke bombs that he used. the smoke grenades rather that he used to try to throw police off his track or at least confuse them to give hi...

Waiting to process the crime scene. but that a lot of people, especially a lot of cops, 40 of them named in this vendetta, in this manifesto that he put out there. 40 of them named and their families clearly very relieved by the scene that you are seeing play out live in big bear at 447 in the afternoon here on the west coast, shep. >> shepard: trace, what more do we know if anything about the couple whom he has been holding or had been holding hostage, i guess, until this morning? >> you know, ...

Grenades and cs canisters. >> fish and game was shot at returned fire. >> copy, fish and game e.m.s. were shot at and they returned fire. >> confirm they want to stop all traffic and check it prior to coming off the hill. >> trace: that was from earlier. you can see and hear the tense voices of the police officers involved. we are just getting notice, shep, that the ammunition continues to go off inside that cabin. and now the fire department wants to know if there are propane tanks that could g...