Hostage negotiators remained in contact with Murphy throughout the standoff, passing food and water through an upper window of the two-storey house, New Jersey State Police Colonel Rick Fuentes said on Sunday morning.

BBC: Two bodies found after New Jersey hostage stand-off

Separately, "A colonel in the Syrian army was shot and killed outside his house, in the city of Deir Ezzor, by unknown gunmen, " the observatory said on its Facebook page.

CNN: Syria says it will allow U.N. to deliver humanitarian aid

Could you -- does the White House have any comment on the latest from Libya, the negotiations with the African Union and Colonel Qaddafi, and then also, about the latest from the Ivory Coast in terms of Gbagbo being imprisoned?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing