"Barefoot Bandit" Arrested; Playing for the Title
WHITFIELD: All right, checking our top stories right now. Police say charges will not be filed in the fatal shooting of a California toddler. The two-year-old was accidentally shot by his nine-year-old brother yesterday. Police say the boy was playing with a gun he found in his house when the gun went off. And Israel is warning an aid ship not to break its blockade of Gaza. The ship, backed by a charity group connected to Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, left Greece yesterday. Organizers say it is carrying 2,000 tons of aid and could reach Gaza in three days. Israel calls the project a provocation. It comes more than a month after a deadly raid by Israel's military against another aid ship. And BP is using robots to slowly position a new containment cap in place over that ruptured well head in the gulf. It is expected to take several days before the massive new cap is secured. Meanwhile, crude oil is gushing freely into the gulf. BP says the new cap will contain most, if not all, of the oil flowing from that well. The Barefoot Bandit's days of eluding police are at an end. Police say 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore is behind bars in the Bahamas. He was arrested early this morning after a dramatic high-speed boat chase. Our Susan Candiotti is in New York with details on the capture.</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka. As you said, he's been on the run for about two years, and even his film rights have supposedly been sold to 20th Century Fox, so we're going to be hearing a lot more about this in the days and weeks and months to come. But this is Colton Harris-Moore. He is only 19 years old, as you said, the Barefoot Bandit, and he has been on the run, crisscrossing at least five states that we can think of, winding up in the Bahamas. Apparently, what happened last night in the Bahamas, and you're seeing file tape of him now, he, according to police and others who were - saw this happen, stole a boat - stole two boats, and wound up on this high-speed foot chase and then it got onto water as well, and finally they - they had him trapped. He ran his boat aground, and in fact they shut out the engines of the boat. According to police and others, at one point he put a gun to his head, but it turns out, I am told, that the gun was not loaded, threatened to kill himself, and eventually police did take him into custody. So it's been a wild ride for this young man. His saga started, as we said, almost two years ago. He was - pleaded guilty of three counts of burglary. He was sent to a juvenile detention center but managed to escape. And then he stole a plane at one point in Idaho, flew to Washington, then he escaped, as I said, from this group home and then made his way across the country, even is indicted on a federal charge of stealing a plane in Indiana. And then, last week, authorities say that he took this plane, flew it to the Bahamas and they were able to track him there because of a - a beacon that was on the stolen plane, and the U.S. Coast Guard traced it, tracked it to the Bahamas where you saw and heard about the rest of it unfolding. So it's been quite a time. We took - talked with someone earlier today who told us that it was his little 32-foot boat that was stolen by this young man, that they shot out the engines and that's when they were finally able to put the cuffs on him. What happens next? Well, he will be arraigned in the Bahamas, and we did speak earlier. There was a press conference earlier, with the Bahamas National Police, and here's what they said, summing up the arrest. OK, we don't have that after all, but they did say that they caught him without too much of an incident. He was not injured. They said he is in good health. He will be arraigned later this week, and eventually, at some point, is expected to be extradited to the United States. I talked with the assistant agent in charge at the FBI Seattle office where this whole thing began, and I asked him for his reaction to the arrest as well as the fact that 58,000 people have signed up to be fans of his, followers of his, on Facebook, and he said he really found that to be pitiful, that he's been made a hero in the eyes of so many people who think that he's done a great thing by managing to elude the police for all this time. But not anymore. He's in jail.</s>WHITFIELD: Wow. So Susan, what does his family have to say?</s>CANDIOTTI: Well, we tried to reach out to the mother. I don't believe that we have talked with her yet, but one of our CNN affiliates has, and she said that she was proud of her son, actually. That is what the quote is, coming to us from our CNN affiliate in Seattle.</s>WHITFIELD: Wow. What an incredible story. Susan Candiotti, in New York, thanks so much. All right, meantime, halfway across the world, the World Cup final game is just moments away, and fans are simply going crazy. We'll take you live to Amsterdam and Madrid because those are the two teams that are - two teams that are in the quest in Johannesburg.