0 there was confusion at first because they thought he made his stand in the woods. but this afternoon, he went in to the home of an elderly couple who owned a cabin in big bear and he tied them up. and then he stole their white pickupickup truck. in the chain of events the fish and game authorities came in contact with the white pickup truck and shoot-out ensued. then more forces were brought in and christopher tonor made a way to local cabin and started to shoot out authorities. now we're told he wounded two deputities. they called in tactical units and called in all hands on deck because they know how crafty he has been in five days. the scanner traffic and sources tell us they know which of the cabins that christopher corner is holed up in. this is the fox affiliate k.t. in. run out of ammunition. it's in their favor as they try to close in on this guy later on. one thing i would add, lapd had a tough situation on their hands as they try to scale back the investigation if possible because they didn't know where he was. they had the cover bases here in l.a. with the protective detail. they couldn't abandon big bear. they hadn't found him yet. charlie beck said until this guy shows up, edead or alive if you will, he had to keep the protected detail on the lapd families he targeted. at this point in time, we are happy here in lapd, happy that they finally got the guy surrounded and might bring it to an end. trace? >> william la jeunesse, stand by for breaking news if you would. give people the idea of the context here. the cruisers of that, the live pictures, you can see the cruisers on the road, roa roadside. one of the two main roads that go in and out of big bear. see the compound in the middl middle? we believe that is where he is holed up. a shoot-out at this location now, off and on for 35 minutes. william said he has only what is on him. but we learned when he conducted the home invasion that he tied up the elderly couple that he also apparently procured a weapon from them. so he may have one more weapon in his arsenal to use against police. if you are just joining us, very important to know, he has opened fire on police officers. wounding two more deputies or police officers. on top of the young couple he is suspended of killing last week. the police officer he is suspected of killing and two others he wounded. he talked about the current police chief charlie beck who is meticulous about making sure that the information about corner i they are releasing very little unless it pertains to capturing the man. i want to bring in the former lapd police chief bill bratton. i have to get your perspective on this. we talked to lapd. they are right now sitting back and waiting. what is the police first priority in a case like this? sit and weight or is there a time they will go in? >> the first spirit going to be the public safety. that they are not going to risk lives needlessly. from the descriptions that have been coming out in the last hour, the suspect is contained in a physical environment. that makes it easier in a wooded area. safety is going to be first and foremost with time and effect on their side now. time is more on their side if it's believed that the suspect does not have captives or hostages with him. the speculation about the fire power, stay away from that. you have no idea what he has as far as weapon power at this junkture. the end story is never going to the story as the beginning story. the lack of information, there is speculation going on. the good news is if this is corner, he is in a contained situation. this will be a matter of time. >> you know, you make a good point there. this is good advice to stay away from, how much fire power he has. the emotional element. he went after two former guys, lapd officers. resources in place. the police force are well-trained in these issues. this incident began involving the lapd. the lapd is only there in an assist function. this is jurisdiction of the local police department. up in that area. they call assistants in, the primary responsibility rests with them in the jurisdiction. the lapd is not making comments at this time. this is not their operation. >> chief, let me expand on what you are saying. lapd being in a support role. we got word that lapd has two helicopters and 20 ground swat members now standing by at san bernadino airport, the closest airport to look for the word to come up and help in the case. we should point out if we can, that chief bratton was the chief of police in the era, where christopher corner was with the los angeles police department. i know you don't recall meeting him but there is a picture circulated in the media that you met him and gave him a coin or medal previous to his dispatch to iraq or afghanistan because he is also or was also reservist in the navy. do you recall or do research in his background? was he justify fired? to charlie beck now reopening the investigation. your thoughts on that, sir? >> i have no recollection of meeting him and the photo that is on display is one that would have been taken in my office, and people were activated in the military service to meet and great them, give them one of the challenge points. as they are called. military cus custom, as token of respect. he sent back that or one just like it. anderson cooper at cnn. in terms of the issues he raised and the manifesto and the way the department is responding to it, it's handled well and professionally. chief beck is a consummate professional and doing outstanding job in leadership of the department throughout this. >> while i've got you quickly, i want your opinion on this. we got breaking news. the helicopter pictures may go away shortly because now the sheriff department in san bernadino is asking the media and all helicopters to pull away from the scene. we saw a little bit of this last week in a hostage situation where the boy is held under ground. they don't want the tactical strategies given away. they will ask for the helicopter pictures to go away and deal with it on their own. they say gunfire is being exchanged between law enforcement and the suspect. they don't want to put anyone in dinger or put police officers in danger. is this standard operating procedure to get the helicopters and all eyes off of what the police are doing now? >> actually, i'm surprised it has take then long to get you out of there. you are in a position to significantly impede the operation and impact the safety of the law enforcement personnel moving in on him. it is likely he has access to television on the location he is at so there is a need on law enforcement to mitigate your need to report the news getting you out of the area as far as the helicopters. looking at the video are streaming live there is potential to give him tactical advantage in defending against the assault police could be making on him. i know it kills you to pull back from the scene you have to respect desire to be concerned with the officer safety out there. >> that makes perfect sense. we have two police officers shot today. we have had three shot in the past week. we don't want to endanger more officers' lives here. chief william bratton. chief, if you could stand by for a couple of minutes i want to get news in here. while we have the pictures up to -- okay. i understand. we graciously appreciate you standing by with us. i want to give people the lay of the land. the helicopters are pulling out here. that cabin that our fox affiliate kttv was focused in on, we believe that is the cabin that christopher corner barricaded himself inside or hidden inside and firing shots out. that was right by road. highway 38. there are main highways in and out of big bear. highway 18 that goes in through, coming up through riverside county. highway 838 that goes down to dan bernadino county. that is where they are now. in the past six days they have been scouring the mountains with the law enforcement authorities. hundreds and ups. but on the day that christopher corner disappeared and thought to be hiding in the mountains when they found the struck, they started to scour the mountains and it started snowing. they got 14 to 16 inches. the cabin is right by the road. winter cabin. in the hills that he is thought to be, loaded with summer cabins they probably didn't get to all of them because it's our understanding that along with the fire power and limit fire power he didn't have any cold weather gear with him. in the hills during the snowstorm. i want to bring in fox news producer jen burden on the ground for us in big bear. give us an idea. the helicopter is out. we can't get a look at what is happening on the ground. give us an idea of the police presence and your understanding of the shoot-out. >> we are kept five miles back on highway 38. a couple of highway patrol with the street blocked off. we tried to approach them and they told us to get back. they are keeping us back here. we can't see from where we are now. we are seeing unmarked vehicles, vehicles with tires on. flying by us. going through the blockade where the gun fire is going on. we are kept five miles back for our safety. we can't see much from here. >> what are they telling you? a lot of roads are blocked off. they blocked out 18 below the shoot-out. unclear if it's blocked out in big bear. are you hearing from your end that they are allowing anyone to go on highway 18? the other main road of big bear. is this area on lockdown for the foreseeable future? >> the entire area is on lockdown. we were coming down 38, we were stopped before we got to this area ten miles back. we were only allowed through because we had press credentials. they weren't letting the public through. they are not letting people in or out in a wide area around this. >> she has been up there since the search began and can give you an idea of the flavor of what the police department and the sheriff department has been through over the past six days. this started snowing hours after christopher corner disappeared. we are back, this is video, because the live pictures have gone away. they have asked us in deference to the police officers and their aboutty call obligation to pull away from the scene. not show where the police are, because chief bratton was pointing out you don't know if he has television inside the cabin. he could be watching us and watching the police. aiming his weaponry toward them. they want to pull out. we can assure you that the la lapd, the lapd is not involve involved. san bernadino sheriff department and riverside police arevod in this. fish and game may also be involved. they have cabin surrounded. this is only a matter of time, matter of time before they do what they have to do. they have time on their side because christopher dorner is not going anywhere. if you go back to his manifest toe, the 21-page rant, where he said he was wrongly fired by the l.a. police department and he wanted to exact revention on 40 officer he is said in there, not quoting but loosely quoting that he would not come out of this alive. he threatened the police officers, saying i never had a chance to have a family. and now i'm planning to kill yours. in doing so, they believe that the for a get it was daughter and the fiance of the daughter, the person representing him, the lawyer representing him in the hearing that ultimately led to him being fired from the l.a. police department that he said ruined his name. i want to get back to william la jeunesse because again we heard that lapd waiting for call order. waiting for the word. they have two helicopters in 20 swat members waiting to control up the mountain and join this. on scanner traffic they are waiting and looking for an area for another medical helicopter to land so they can get one of their injured deputies out. we believe they ferried one out and we think they are looking for another landing area to get the second police officer or the deputy flown out of that. what are you hearing from your end? >> we know that san bernadino swat is on the scene, and l.a. county is at the san bernadino airport waiting to be air lifted to the scene. two helicopters. i'm told the cabin he is in, has a large stone chimney. the kill will stop when i have justice. earlier today, inside the building behind me. they said they would reopen the case that he claimed he was unfairly fired partially due to race. so they agreed to conduct internal review of what happened and reinterview witnesses. to allow them to speak freely and not fear retribution themselves. on the other hand, we expected to lure corner in and give him an opportunity to say listen, we will have your day in court. you can speak out and we will look at what you have to say with the allegation against the department. on the other hand, yesterday, you had a riverside county district attorney filing murder charge against special services against corner that called for or allowed for the death penalty. if you believe that this guy was in mexico or out somewhere, who might be enticed to the idea i might clear my name and give me a fair shot. but on the other hand why bother if you are facing the death penalty. but the problem is to connect the dots. you have different information from different sources. you have an affidavit from the marrable with isolated information to force to us say what happened in between here? they put up a $1 million reward leading to his arrest and today it's up to $2 million as the l.a. county board of supervisors pitched in $100,000. that generated information, clues coming in to the task force, possible sights of corner or friends or acquaintances to tell detectives where they thought he might be or going. according to the lapd, a lot of information -- chief beck is on the scene, i'm told by the producer. en route to the scene. sorry. here they said a lot of the information was good. some wasn't. they had to go through it periodically to see what is good and what was bad and see what panned out. the case, that the guy broke in the cabin. he left in that vehicle, that led to where he is now. >> eric: the chief, charlie beck. >> the police chief is en route to the command center on the scene there. as we talked about earlyer the reason you see a wide shot from the fox affiliate kttv of big bear and the big bear valley is the faa has just issued on behest of the police a temporary flight restrictio restriction. that means you cannot fly over the area, you cannot fly over the shoot-out that is going on right now with christopher corner who has been on the run for seven days. and the sheriff deputy from san bernadino and riverside and waiting to go up in that area. i want to bring in kimberly guilfoyle. this is an interesting legal scenario. you have a standoff, kimberly you are from the area. legally speaking you have a standoff going on. christopher corner says he has no intention of coming out of this alive at all. he wanted to exact revenge on 40 lapd officers. we has shot five officers, hitting four and killing one. now a guy is holed up with fire power saying he is not coming out alive. is there any way they can negotiate with him saying look, if we come out now, this might not be as bad as you this. this is a death penalty case. he knows the law and he knows he is going to death row if he gets out of this. >> if out goes to district attorney office, they would make a decision and the penalty is used in the office. he is looking at a death penalty case. he could try to see if he could negotiate for himself a life without possibility of parole. the first line of defense is save lives. they have concern for public safety. you have multiple agencies. a number of tactical units. you have to factor all of this in. they have to coordinate together to work together and decide who will take the lead. you heard from the chief it's the local sheriff office and deputies there in charge. not operation of the los angeles police department, although they do have tech units on stand by, at the airport. the first thing is get someone in to do negotiation to try to work and compromise a safe ending to the situation so no more lives are lost. if that is not the case, they have the benefit of daylight. it's 2:26 in the afternoon. west coast time. daylight for more hours now which will benefit the officers there to get clear lines with the situation. like the chief said, pulling back, so the suspect is not able to see if they are moving in. they describe the building and having a chimney. possibility of dropping it in the area to startle and gain tactical advantage to the suspect if they decide they have to proceed and move in with deadly force. they will hold back and wait to see what they can do to put in a team and make a decision. >> time is on their side. kimberly, stand by if you would. kim said of the timing, 2:27 in the west. the sun sets around 5:30. dark around 5:45. in the mountains. the sun sets in the west in california. mountains to the east. darker earlier up there. they have three hours, maybe more of daylight left. we know that christopher corner was throwing smoke grenades on the officers when he encountered them. on top of the weaponry, he had smoke grenades. kim, are we hearing from kttv? i want to dip in, if i can, to the local coverage of kttv, they are going wall to wall with this as well and we see if they have a different perspective on what is going on, in the shoot-out. listen. >> where they believe christopher corner is hiding out. this is a lot of what is occurring here today, old-fashioned police work of trying to focus in on the suspect. to end this in a peaceful way. >> this is down the hill from big bear. isolated and only one road. there is only one main road in and out of here. >> it looked like -- from kevin earlier in sky fox an isolated group of structures, too. didn't look like it was any other homes nearby. this is earlier tape of sky fox. before we zoomed out wide. you can see the group of cabins in theer the. >> the ok pants you report one got loose and got authorities but he was recognized by some fish and game personnel. >> fish and game warden or deputy or a regular office they're controlled the area. >> we believe it's san ber din know county sheriff. >> two deputies wounded. >> this is possible they were patrolling together. the idea is not out on parol alone. >> the reason with have had to widen out the shot. they brought law enforcement in the area. they believe he is located in a cabin. we are erring on the side of caution and we don't know what will transpire in the ensuing moments or hours. but right now, it would appear that we are in a standoff situation that authorities have the upper hand. they cut off access to that area. >> i'm trace gallagher live in los angeles. continuing breaking news coverage of what you see in middle of your screen. a standoff in the san bernadino mountains involving the police officers, many of them. the man who has been on the run for a better part of a week. we believe that corner following a shoot-out, that two police officers or sheriff deputies were wounded is now holed up inside a cabin, very near highway 38. that runs out of big bear to riverside county. police officers on scene barricaded themselves behind the car. they have surrounded theca by and put up a wider perimeter around that if he got outside the initial perimeter. what they are doing right now is trying to gather a floor plan of thatca by to figure out what the lay-out is exactly. upstair, downstairs, bedrooms. what places could he be hiding? we had brat top on the phone earlier saying what police now have benefiting them is time. it's 2:31 in the west. three hours, maybe more of daylight. and they believe in fact, dorner is inside the cabin. this is man that a week ago shot and killed, we believe, say police, a young woman and her fiance. that young woman was the daughter of the person who repr