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Afternoon. there are s.w.a.t. teams on scene. tactical units, sharpshooters, as well as heavily armored vehicles here and just monitoring the situation. they're just waiting. it is very cold. it is very snowy. they do believe that curt myer is inside. they don't know whether he's alive or not. earlier reports that they were going to send in tear gas and going to send in robots. but that right now unconfirmed. that was the plan, whether they decided to end up doing that. they have been keeping us a far distance away. the governor saying that everybody should stay back because it is such a fluid...

Eric rudolph was able to make a deal like this in the first place avoiding the penalty? >> it boils down to one word, dynamite. he had stoll an lot of dynamite from the murphy, new yoorth car area and he had hidden underground and had made a bomb. had it gone to trial, if there was appeal and boy scouts troops put a stake in and blew up. >> professionally, the plea deal, i can understand the reason it was made. expedite things, insures he'll never harm anybody else. it shortened the whole procedure by years. personally, i wished there had been a trial and he had been sentenced to death because...

In criminal activity. when you're taking on a bomber, when the s.w.a.t officers surrounded them at 2:00, 3:00 this morning. he would have flown a pipe bomb at them. could have had his car area booby trapped. they went in to get him. incredible detective work. thankfully they weren't hurt. >> harris: and now the williamson county sheriff. your department is sharing task force and resources. the last 12 hours have been very interesting. tell me about the apprehension, the move-in first before this guy blew himself up. >> let me be clear. our role as a sheriff's department was very limited. obvio...