While the final stage of the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles police officer, unfolded on live television Tuesday evening â€" with local news channels broadcasting helicopter views of the cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains engulfed in flames â€" the authorities pressed the media to keep reporters at a distance, because, they suggested, the suspect could have been monitoring broadcasts of the operation as it unfolded.
Before the request was made, however, a crew from the local CBS News affiliate KCAL-TV recorded close shots of a gun battle between officers and the suspect that ook place directly in front of them. CBS News has posted that video online, with a partial transcript of the report Carter Evans, the KCAL correspondent pinned down by the exchange of fire, phoned in from the scene.
