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Outside of washington waving a handgun, wearing what appears to be explosives and ordering everyone in the lobby to stay still. we now know the suspect was james jay lee, whose long list of demands included a change in discovery channel programming. as word of the hostage situation spread, nbc news producer called the discovery channel general number. suddenly, lee himself picked up the phone. >> no one has been shot. >> do you have a gun? >> i have a gun and i have a bomb. i have several bombs strapped to my body ready to go off. i have a device that if i drop it, if i drop it, i'll explode. ...

Rambling nonsense. we didn't want to characterize it that way because we knew he had hostages and we knew that because he was talking to one of our producers. we were on the phone with the muontgomery police asking them how they wanted us to proceed. they asked us to keep him on the phone and keep him talking. the lunch hours was just ending when the gunman walk under to the discovery channel headquarters just outside of washington waving a handgun and ordering everyone in the lobby to stay still. we now know the suspect was james jay lee whose long list of demands included a change in discove...