Pennsylvania School Bus Driver Due to Appear in Court Today
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Now another story from the courts, a Pennsylvania school bus driver is due to appear in court today. He is charged with kidnapping 13 children and taking them in the school bus on a bizarre detour that spanned two states and more than 100 miles. Our Deborah Feyerick is in Exeter Township, Pennsylvania. That is near the starting point of this odyssey. Deb, good morning.</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn. Well, a very happy day here at Exeter Church. This morning, there was a service, the congregation coming together to celebrate those 13 kids who got home safely very late last night, this after bizarre ride when the bus driver, Otto Nuss, decided that he was going to take them to Washington. He even asked some of the kids with maps, saying this was a trip for history.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We went a different way than we were supposed to, and then we got lost a couple of times, like a lot of times, so he kept on asking us to come read and a map to him, and he had Washington D.C. circled.</s>FEYERICK: The driver had a semiautomatic rifle behind the seat. We spoke to two children who were on that bus. One of them told us that one of the younger kids spotted the rifle and got a little scared. However, the students says, at no time did they really fear they were in danger. As a matter of fact, one of the eighth graders said they made a game of all this, waving to passing cars and trying to get trucks to honk their horns. The driver treated pretty well in terms of this, in terms of giving them a bathroom stop, and then treating to lunch at a Burger King. When one student put up a sign that says call 911, the other students encouraged him to take down. This is the level of trust that they had in the bus driver. Now how did this all end? Well, it turns out the driver ended up getting lost. He told the kids he would stop and ask police officer for directions, but instead, he surrendered to the police officer. Nuss is now in federal court. He will be processed. They're doing a background history on him, and then he will be arraigned later today. The charges against him will be read, likely to include federal kidnapping, because he did take those kids over state lines, but they are here. They are in good health. The church in very good spirits over the fact that they were returned safely -- Daryn.</s>KAGAN: Good to hear this one has a happy ending. But the legal odyssey for Mr. Nuss will continue however. Deborah Feyerick, thank you so much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com