Army specialist ivan lopezs life inside out looking for what brought him on post with his own private mission to kill. Were learning too about how the shootings unfolded moment by moment and how the aftermath is being so very deeply felt in the fort hood extended family. Lets go first to justice correspondent pamela brown with the latest on the investigation. Pamela, the big question tonight is one of motive. What are we learning about the why . Why ivan lopez went on this rampage . Reporter that is the big question, john. Investigators still trying to figure out what the trigger was. But were learning from sources that theyre looking into whether he was angry over canceled leave, looking into whether that might have played a role. General milley spoke here earlier today, general at fort hood, said there was a possible verbal altercation between lopez and another soldier right before the shooting happened. So theyre looking at that as well. General milley making it clear here that lopezs long history of mental instability was a fundamental underlying cause of what happened here yesterday. We have an active shooter currently on fort hood. Reporter 4 00 p. M. Wednesday specialist ivan lopez walked into the first medical brig grade building on base, opening fire on his fellow soldiers. Take shelter immediately the base immediately goes on lockdown just after the first 911 call is made at 4 16 according to mission telitary o. That call was made by two Wounded Soldiers who demonstrated heroism and presence of mind to go ahead and make a 911 call. Reporter witnesses say lopez isnt finished. He gets into a vehicle and fires off more shots, then walks into a second administrative building and opens fire on soldiers there. Fear sweeps across the base. It litt literally looks like if you were going into a room and turned on a light and there were a bunch of bugs and they scattered. Everybody went to their rooms, locked their doors, and you could just feel the intensity and the sense of fear in the area. Reporter within 15 minutes, local Police Arrive on the scene surrounding the base. We have some people on the ground. We have multiple gunshot victim victims. Reporter outside in a park lot, a military Police Officer confronts lopez. He walks toward her, raises his hands in the air, then suddenly reaches into his jacket and pulls out his gun. She saw that, interpreted that is that as a threat, correctly so, engaged him with small arms fire, at which time then the shooter did a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Reporter tens of thousands of people remain hunkered down in fear while Police Search every building. Nearly six hours after the shooting began, the allclear is given. Four people are dead, including lopez, 16 more injured, rushed away on stretchers to the hospital. Tonight some remain in serious condition. But the general of fort hood says selfless acts of heroism likely prevented this from being an even bigger tragedy. There were folks inside some of these buildings who performed very heroic personal acts in saving others. Theres at least one chaplain that im aware of that shielded and saved other soldiers. Reporter and john, were learning from sources that lopezs wife has been cooperating with authorities. She has been since last night. Also we noknow the fbi and Army Investigators are looking through lopezs computers, cell phones, talking to witnesses trying to figure out what the motive was. At this point general milley saying there appears to be no clear connection between lopez and his victims. Pamela brown at fort hood for us. Thank you so much. As always in the immediate aftermath of one of these tragedies there is intense focus on the shooter. We all understand that. But we dont want to overlook the people who lost their lives or had their lives change forever. At the end of the day its their stories that should be remembered, not some killers. So tonight we remember Army Sergeant timothy owen, one of the three killed yesterday. He grew up in illinois and missouri in a Statement Released to 360 his family says he was outgoing and enjoyed taekwondo. Any say he was going to make the army his career. Hes survived by a wife and two children. Sergeant Timothy Owens was 37. We dont yet know much about the other two fatalities nor many of those injured. We do know that those who love wounded major Patrick Miller have been talking to social media. They say hes been through a pair of operations so far to repair a stomach wound and is doing much better. Major miller has been in the army since 2003 and served two tours of duty in iraq. That said, there does continue to be new information at least for now on the man who did this. It will take time ft. Piercor s of his life to be understood and figured out how they figure into this rampage. Some thims are unknowable. For the moment theyre fragmentary, contradictory and emerging as we speak. Now latest from miguel marquez. Reporter the hours leading up to specialist ivan lopezs deadly rampage gave no hint of what was to come. You see him coming down the stairs. He says goodbye. Thats the last you saw of him hours before the attack. Yeah. Reporter she says bradley moved into his off basement building about a month ago. He and his wife and young daughter were approachable and normal. You said hello to him, talked to him . Yes. What did he seem like . He seemed pretty fine, happy. He didnt seem like the type that would do what he did. Reporter at 12 30, just moments later he paid the rent, added his wifes name to the lease and left. Still no sienl of trouble. Commander Sergeant Nelson vigas worked clothe closely with him for a year and a half. One of my best soldiers in the organization. He has the dynamic leadership. He was an outstanding soldier. He would take initiative. He showed great leadership and very great military discipline. Reporter lopez spent nine years in the Puerto Rico National guard one year in egypt sinai desert in 2011. He spent four months driving trucks in iraq. He went awn to fort bliss near el paso. In february he transitioned here to fort hood. He had a clean record in terms of his behavioral, no outstanding bad marks for any kinds of mainly misbehaviors that we are yet aware of. Reporter yet there were concerns lurking just beneath the surface. Lopez asked for help with ptsd but had yet to be diagnosed with it. We have very strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable psychological or psychiatric condition. Reporter he had been prescribed powerful antidepressants and the sleep drug ambien. He was getting help. He was seen just last month by a psychiatrist. He was fully examined. And as of this morning we had no indication on the record of that examination that there was any sign of likely violence either to himself or to others. No suicidal ideation. Reporter the gun lopez used in his killing spree, a smith and wes son. 45 like this one. It was purchased legally and properly sources say on march 1st at guns galore here in killeen. Its the same place major nidal hasan purchased his semiautomatic pistol before his 2009 rampage. Even though lopez bought his gun legally, the military says any gun on base must be registered. His was not. Miguel marquez joins us now from fort hood in texas. Miguel, the authorities have been pretty clear here. They do not think lopez had any connection to any kind of terror groups, correct . Reporter they are saying that outright, everything that they are looking into right now there is no indication of that. They cant even tell whether this is a premeditated attack at the moment. They are checking out claims there was an argument with some of the soldiers beforehand. The gun they say was legally purchased. Why he brought it onto this base, though, yesterday is not clear. At this point they cant say its premeditated and no ties to terror. John. Miguel marquez with us the man behind this ball. Thanks so much, miguel. Want to quickly update you on dangerous weather including in parts of texas. Lets turn to chad myers in the weather center. We understand there was a confirmed tornado touched down near the area of denton north of dallas. Just an hour ago just south of the town of crum just west of denton, very close to the denton airport. Im sure well get very quick responses there on how much damage was caused. John, this storm is so big, theres snow on the north side and theres Severe Weather on the south side. Thats not all that unusual for that to happen. But from st. Louis all the way down to dallas, texas tonight we have the potential for Severe Weather. The biggest threat right now is near belle, missouri. Thats that storm right there. And belle, missouri, you are under a tornado warning. If you can hear me and see me, get inside the house. Get away interest windows, get under something sturdy. This storm is rotating. Now, just to keep in mind, if this storm stays together and it continues to move to the northeast like its going, st. Louis, youre a couple hours away but its certainly not out of the question that that could be in your neighborhood. Not all that long, probably after your sun set. All the way back down to springfield, missouri were seeing storms. Every one of these storms, john, tonight could get stronger. Each one of them, if its all by itself its called a supercell thunderstorm. Not when they line up but when they become a supercell thunderstorm they could rotate enough to put down a tornado. The most dangerous tornadoes are the ones that happen when youre sleeping. Chad, you said each one of these storms could get stronger. Is this situation going to continue throughout the night . Without a doubt, each one of these storms because were waiting. Im almost down to texas here. This is now oklahoma. Every storm tonight could get bigger because the energy from the west, over near amarillo right now, is coming into these storms. If these storms get more vigorous with that cold air aloft, think about this. If you have a hot air balloon and you put more air in it its going to go higher faster. But if you have the same hot air balloon but make the air above it colder, its also going to go up faster. Thats what this energy out west does. Its going to make the air above it get colder, and so these bubbles of air that are thunderstorms will want to go up more vigorously. That could cause them to rotate. That could cause more tornadoes, john. Good information, chad myers, ominous pictures from texas and beyond. Well stay on this all night. 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Ed, what more do we know about the wounded at this point and their condition . Reporter john as you said so well there, so many people clinging to any kind of information they can get a this point. Really pull foing for all the victims hospitalize last night. There are several amounts of good news on this front. There were nine of these victims that were taken to a hospital nearby temple, texas, about a 30minute drive from here. Five of those patients have already been discharged. The three that we were most concerned about, three soldiers that were in Critical Condition have been upgraded to serious. So there seems to be some Good Movement there. There are also three sole years that are being held at the hospital on post here at fort hood. But were not aware of the conditions of those three soldiers. But many of the people who some of them suffered several gunshot wound. There were other people who were hurt and injured with broken glass and that sort of thing. And one of the victims that we do know about, shooting victims who has survived is a man by the name of major Patrick Miller. He is from alleghany, new york. His mother sent out a tweet earlier today saying please say prayers for my son. He joined the army back in 2003, got his masters in business from syracuse university. So a lot of people pulling for all of these soldiers very intently here in the Fort Hood Community tonight here, john. Everyones pulling for them. Good news as some of their conditions seem to be improving. General milley earlier today made a point of saying many of those hurt could be the most important witnesses in the investigation. Have any of those who have been released been talking to authorities yet . Reporter we suspect that has been going on. It depends on the conditions and some of these patients and victims ability to speak with investigators and whether or not theyre ready. As you mentioned, one of the things the general mentioned this afternoon as well, theres a strong possibility that the shooting that what led up to it was an argument between ivan lopez and another soldier. So perhaps one of these victims witnessed something that they can shed a lot of light as to exactly what transpired there. Obviously speaking to these people directly will be a key into piecing everything together there in those final moments leading up to the shooting. Some of the Key Information they want to find out as these victims recover and as this entire community recovers. Ed lavandera at fort hood, thanks so much. Want to turn to dr. Matthew davis, director of trauma at scott and white Memorial Hospital where of the wounded were rushed to after the shooting. Three patients are still being cared for tonight. Dr. Davis, thank you so much for joining us, taking the time to talk to us. Wonder if you could tell us the latest conditions of those who are still in your care. Sure, john. Thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it. Tonight we have four remaining in the hospital here at scott and white. We have one whos in Good Condition and was potentially slated to be discharged today but due to some late testing will probably stay until tomorrow. We also have three that were the ones initially listed as critical and have since been upgraded to serious. Im happy to report that those are doing well. Theyre stable and have been improving continuously since theyve been here. That is wonderful news, dr. Davis. Is it too soon to know if all those who are wounded will be able to make a full recovery . I think that its too soon to know that on at least a couple of them. We may have some long term issues that may require some rehab. There may be some longterm potential disability for one of two of them. Its a little bit too early for me to say whether or not thats absolutely going to be the case but were concerned about that and weve been directing our efforts towards detecting ways that we can prevent any kind of longterm disability right now. We are also concerned clearly about not just their physical state but emotional state. Were working on that as well. Indeed. Understandable. I know this has been a dramatic 24 hours from you. We also know again from general milley that some of the most important witnesses to this crime may be some of those people who have been in and out of your doors over the the last 24 hours. Have you been able to learn anything from them about what went on on this post . I dont have any real specifics on that. I believe there are military investigators that have been speaking with some of them. And general milley may be able to speak to that question a little bit more thoroughly. All i will say is that in the very brief conversations that ive had with them, which were just kind of their general comments, just that it was a shocking episode, it felt very surreal, it was a very unexpected thing in the middle of a workday. And beyond that, the details of this shooting im not privy to all those details right now. I understand. Shocking and surreal. What makes it even more shocking and more surreal, dr. Davis, is what this community went through five years ago in 2009 and what you went through five years ago in 2009 at this hospital, treating patients in another shooting rampage. What went through your mind when you heard that there was another shooting at fort hood . When you heard there were going to be more patients coming to your hospital . Yeah. I think the first thought was a little bit of disbelief. I think we had felt that the first event went fairly well from a Health Care Perspective here. Weve obviously taken that episode seriously and have worked really hard to be able to respond to a similar event in the future. But you never really think that Something Like thats going to happen again. This is something were really all shocked about. But once the reality of the situation kind of set, in then everybody had a job to do and we got down to work. And that job was to take care of our patients. I want to say that i think theres been a tremendous amount of cooperation between Darnell Army Community Hospital as well as the regional firefighters, paramedics who were on the scene, and scott and white is a level one trauma center. I want to congratulate those individuals on their hard work. I think they saved many lives yesterday. I think there are a lot of people who want to congratulate you tonight on the phenomenal work youve been doing. We only hear great things about your facility. So thank you. And you know, i think its safe to say we all hope you never have to go through Something Like this again. Dr. Davis, thanks. Agreed. Ahead, what role if any did posttraumatic stress play in ivan lopezs rampage . Well explore the subject with dr. Sanjay gupta and retired Major General spider marks ahead. Later we will update you on the search for flight 370 from Western Australia where new information is expected shortly. That and we continue to follow the breaking news on the tornadoes hitting the midsection of this country. Another one just reported moments ago in missouri. This is what it looks like there right now. This is mansfield, missouri. Well bring you the latest information about this touchdown straight ahead. Is where she grew up. What . announcer the 2015 Subaru Forester girl what . announcer built to be there for your family. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. At od, whatever business youre in, thats the business were in. 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There were folks inside some of these buildings who performed ver heroic personal acts in saving others. Theres at least one chaplain that im aware of that shielded and saved other soldiers, broke some windows, got them to safety. I think the performance of the medical staff, initial performance of medical staff at darnell was exceptional. Ive seen a lot of medical staffs perform at combat. The performance at darnell and performance at scott and white easily rose to those of combat standards. At 1616 hours yesterday is the first 911 call. That call was made by two Wounded Soldiers who in and of themselves demonstrated heroism and presence of mind to go ahead and make a 911 call. Youve gottan in stalgs thats strong, resilient, were professional soldiers. A very High Percentage of combat veterans here. So the morale of soldiers is serious, its professional, and were going about our duties to take care of this and move on and take care of the families. The fort hood shooter served in the iraq war but his records show he was not directly involved in combat. Ivan lopez was being treated for depression and anxiety. And although he was not officially diagnosed with posttraumatic stress or posttraumatic stress disorder, it matters what you call it. Well talk about that in a second. He was in the process of being evaluated for it. We may never know if ptsd was a factor in this incident. Just last month a psychiatric evaluation showed no sign that he was a danger to himself or a danger to others. So joining me now to talk about this, chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta and cnn military analyst Major General james spider marks. We know Army Specialist lopez had behavioral and mental issues and was in the process of being evaluated for ptsd. General milley said he was in the system. Generally speaking, can you explain the evaluation process here . How long it takes, what this entails . Sure. While there is screening effort for a lot of returning soldiers, the first step oftentimes they have to identify they may be having some of these symptoms and seek out an evaluation. So thats an important first step. It can take some time to get an evaluation when youre actually going through this. Unlike a routine physical exam, a thorough evaluation for ptsd can take a couple of hours. Its pretty intensive once they do it. Youre looking for evidence of some sort of trauma, either real or perceived threat you may have had. You sort of reimmerse yourself in this or reexperience it. You may be having avoidance type things. Ultimately theres a change in mood that affects how you conduct your life. But they have to sort of evaluate for all of this. What was the trauma, how long ago did it occur . It can take some time for the symptoms to develop. So its tough sometimes. I will point out, the science has emerged. There are now more objective findings in the brain that can be imaged to show what ptsd looks like in the brain. There are researchers who are looking for genetic predispositions. Two soldiers seat same thing, have the same experience. Why does one develop ptsd and the other not . Thats where the research is headed. General marks, you see when soldiers come home from deployment its standard procedure to go through mental and health evaluations. Explain this to me. What happens is when a soldier comes back from a deployment, whether its deployment specifically in a combat zone or extended deployment and they go over and execute tasks in a very controlled environments, isolated from everybody else, isolated from their families in their home post, when you return the unit is held together. Thats objective number one. Primarily because all of your buddies and comrades that have been together during this period of stress as sanjay has pointed out, theyre the best indicatingers. They know whats abherrent behavior. Its important to hold them together during this period of reintegration. Youre going through an environment of stress where you were extremely narrow and deep where the throes and complications of living are moved to the side. Youre in a very stressed environment, have missions to accomplish. So your focus gets very very deep. Now youre brought back into a world thats very chaotic, very broad. Youre suddenly a lot more narrow and all over the map. Somebodys asking you to cut your lawn and youve got to go fill the car up with gas. 48 hours ago this didnt matter at all. Now its the most important thing in my life. This period of reintegration really forces the unit really encourages the unit to Stay Together and to evaluate each other. So its important, and its a requirement to go through this reevaluation, this medical reevaluation upon redeployment. Its mandated. So is this period upon redeployment, this period right when you get back, sanjay, is that the most important time here . Is that when you need to be screened . Or does being screened later help as well . Specialist lopez served in iraq three years ago. Yeah. Right. The time frames a little bit difficult to sort of pinpoint. But i think there is some case to be made if you look at the science for screening later on as well. A couple of reasons. One is that some of the symptoms of posttraumatic stress may not appear for a month. Those are still considered the immediate symptoms a month later. But the longerterm, more chronic or persistent symptoms can take up to several months to develop. So i think it really does make the case that a screening is necessary probably upon return but also a few months after that as well. I think everyone wishes we were not having this discussion about this topic after an incident like this. But talking about posttraumatic stress in the military, spider, is so important. I know its so important to a lot of people in and out of the military. How we talk about it is important, too. I know a lot of veterans dont want it called posttraumatic stress disorder. They point out that its not a disorder, its an injury. Like getting your arm hurt. George w. Bush the former president talked about this also. What are your thoughts about this . Completely concur. Sanjay is the expert to describe the difference between a disorder or an injury. Clearly i would say that everyone suffers. When youre in this type of environment, everyone suffers and then everybody accommodates and can compartmentalize and can adjust to this type of posttraumatic stress. Its a matter of stress and how you handle that stress. And i think it will evidence itself across the board in a whole bunch of different ways. To sanjays point, the fact that ptsd and the evaluation for ptsd might be better served later on really comes to the point of how often do the army is a parapitetic organization. You come back and star burst. You go in a whole bunch of different directions. There are permanent change of order requirements. You move around. It should be, and im not certain that it is, a routine evaluation when soldiers have to be medically evaluated, which they are annually, that this become a very foundational piece of all of that. We know about this case. They say ivan lopez was in the system, was assigned mist. We dont know yet. That will be discussed in the coming days to be sure. Dr. Sanjay gupta, general spider marks thanks. We have breaking news, tornadoes touching down both in texas and missouri. Look at these pictures right now. Tens of millions of people in the central u. S. In the path of these powerful storm systems. Well get the latest from meteorologist chad myers just ahead. 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Were also hearing there will be a News Conference in the coming hours from the man who is heading up the search effort. Kyung lah joins us now with the latest on australia. Here we are 28 days into this. Whats the latest on todays search effort . Reporter todays search effort will have more assets in the area than weve seen. Weve heard the Prime Minister of australia say that were still in the ramping up phase, and certainly the numbers revved of that. You mentioned the 14 planes. There are up to ten military planes, four civilian plains, three of those civilian planes will have sport spotters aboard. Continue assets going into the search. Theres also that British Nuclear submarine as well as the hms echo. Interesting language, new language were we heard today. The new british vessel the hms echo were told will be conducting a specific search today. What does that mean . This about a specific location . If so what are they looking for . Reporter thats a little unclear. Were hoping to learn much more about what the hms echo will be doing during that News Conference with angus houston. What we do know is that the search is going to generally be in the area that it was yesterday. It is being divided into three specific locations of concentration. Thats where theyre going to be looking today. Kyung there, has been a lot of talk over the last several hours about this News Conference from the people running this search. An operational News Conference where were expecting some new information. Can you tell us what this might be . Reporter what we know this is real gloig to be the first substantial News Conference being led by the man who is in charge of then tire operation. He did make comments when he took control on sudden. But this is really going to be the first update, the first briefing that hes held with reporters since then. And so we are expecting well at least learn new details about how its going so far. We have heard from the Prime Minister. He did point out yesterday, john, that it is something that is an enormous effort, a number of countries involved but still no debris. It will be very interesting for figure out what he has to say, including on that specific search by this british vessel. Kyung lah, thanks so much for joining us. Just a short time ago i spoke with commander William Marks of the u. S. Navys seventh fleet which is taking part in this search. Commander marks, weve been told to expect some kind of big operational News Conference some point. Do you have any information about this . Have there been any developments that youve heard of . Any positive developments you think they might be announcing . Hello. Its about 7 30 in the morning here in the western pacific. So looking through the information that came in through last night i do not have any significant developments. The hms echo we understand is now conducting a specific search, were told. What exactly does that mean, a specific search . And why now . Do they have any information thats letting them close in on a certain area . Well, right now we are making the best judgment call we can based on the life running out of the black box. So the echo is out there. We also moved the ocean shield with cooperation with the Australian Government that has the tpl, the towed pinger locater and the blue scan the sonar side. So really the best thing we can do right now is put these assets in the best location, the best guess we have, and kind of let them go. And so thats what were doing now. I have not seen any conclusive evidence found of any debris or wreckage from the aircraft. So for now we just do the best we can and make the best estimate we can and put them out there. At this point you said its the best we can do. To be blunt here, are you just hoping to get lucky . Yes. We are. So the area is still hundreds of miles big. And we fly every day our p 8 and even back to the p 3s. Weve flown 300,000 square nautical miles of coverage. Until we get conclusive evidence of debris, it is just a guess. Fridays search involves 14 planes, nine ships. What do you say to those people who will look at this and say, that may be a lot to you, but couldnt there be more . Yeah, good question. When requested well provide the best assets we can. How much do you throw at this . I dont know. One thing is youve got to be careful. You dont want another accident out here. So theres been tremendous coordination of the air space management, water space management. The australian Prime Minister said today quote we cannot be certain of success. But do you and your team remain confident that you can find this plane . We all know and especially those pilots and the air crew that every time it takes off we have nine hours of search time. Nine more hours, 15, 16,000 square miles that were going to cover that day. And every time it takes off theres a little bit of hope and optimistic. And every time we fly over something and get a hit on our radar, theres that little bit of hope that it could be a piece of evidence. That we can help get closure for these families and help solve this mystery. So the spirits are still pretty high. This is what we train for. Commander marks, we wish you the best of luck. Thank you for joining us. Thanks. Appreciate it. Well have much more on the search for flight 370 coming up. Were going to check in with our panel of experts next. Also i want you to look at this. Look at those threatening skies right now in st. Louis. There has been a tornado touch down in the area with more expected throughout the night. In just a little bit well check back in with our chad myers. Save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. D Everybody Knows that. Well, did you know pinocchio was a bad motivational speaker . I look around this room and i see nothing but untapped potential. You have potential. You have. Oh boy. Geico. 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David gallo, leader of the search for air France Flight 447. And cnns safety analyst daft s david soucie an author of why planes crash. Let me start with you here. Just before the break i spoke to commander marks of the seventh fleet. He basically told me theyre just trying to get lucky here. Right now were searching off the sides of the ship with the towed ping locater. Just trying to get lucky. Didnt inspire much confidence in me i have to say. Is that really the best they can do right now . I know what he means. I know how it sounded. It didnt sound particularly didnt inspire confidence. But i know just what he means. That lacking any shred of evidence on the surface or the pings, youre hoping against hope youre going to put a vehicle in the water and hear something or find something on the surface. You cant take anything away from the dedication of those teams. Theyve got to be exhausted by now and yet they keep going because they understand the importance of finding that aircraft. Im sure theyre doing whatever they can, david gallo. Is there one piece of this equipment, towed pinger locater or blue fin submersible, which one of those is probably the most helpful right now . Well, right now i think its the towed pinger, tpl, because its got the ability to listen for that pinging. But thats got to be pretty close. Its like throwing a dart. With that youve got to be fairly close. With the blue fin 21, it does sea floor surveys. But again youve got to be in the right neck of the woods for that to be effective, too. So its pretty tough going right now. Miles, we also heard commander marks tell us a short time ago that the u. S. Might provide more assistance if t malaysians ask for it. Right now the malaysians havent asked for it . I thought they did ask for it at one time. Maybe they need to be clearer. Just say look, send us an Aircraft Carrier, more p 8s, p 3s. I thought his answer was a bit of a sidestep saying we dont want planes to bonk into each other. That can be worked out. A lot of people say send an Aircraft Carrier. Why arent there 50 planes and not 20 planes . Some sort of flat top vehicle, ship. Maybe need the George Washington in japan for strategic reasons. But theres plenty of assets in the u. S. Navy that could come into play. Once you put an Aircraft Carrier of some kind in the region, you dont have the range issues. You have people right on target. Thats what you want to go after. David soucie, the search area has shifted yet again. Now northward. This is clearly a deliberate action here to move this around as their best guess. But every time they move it leads to the question how do they know this is the right one. By knowing what isnt the right one. Theyre moving it out of those areas. And i think that theyre getting to a certain percentage of coverage on the areas that theyre at and then saying look were at 50 , 60 , 70 , whatever the number and we havent seen anything. Lets abandon that and move it over to this area. Relocate those assets into another area. As miles points out why not have more assets doing that. But as we were talking about that i remembered working in hawaii when there were so many helicopters there uncontrolled in a kind of a quick tourism issue over there, there were a lot of helicopter accidents. But helicopters are different than airplanes for sure. You can work around those issues with airplanes. But i can appreciate his concern for safety. But i think, too, what i heard in his voice was i would like to have more assets but theyre not being asked for. Interesting. David gallo, a week and a half ago we used to see satellite pictures every day, from a japanese satellite, from a satellite from thailand, from france, from the united states. Now were not seeing anymore of these satellite images. I an i sum tssume the satellite still taking the pictures. Do you think were not seeing them now because theyre taking them and all the stuff turns up to be debris or just empty . Ive asked that question too, john. Thats been my question of the day. What happened to the satellites . Why arent they training the satellites up and down that arc. There was very little success for the planes to find what the satellites saw and for the ships to find what the planes saw. So maybe theyve given up on that particular strategy as being noneffective. Or maybe those satellites are doing what theyre supposed to be doing elsewhere on the globe. Maybe they stopped telling us because they didnt want to get everyones hopes up and dashed again. Miles, i think its odd we havent seen them in over a week. It is. I suppose when you have that many air assets actually covering an area, the satellites become irrelevant in that particular area. Maybe they should be looking in other places. And maybe thats happening. Maybe were just not seeing them. Because it does provide false hope for the families. Miles, all 227 passengers have now been cleared. The malaysian Officials Say they dont think theyre at all involved with this. At the same time they still say were investigating this as a criminal investigation. But there could still be a mechanical reason behind it, too. Doesnt seem to narrow it down very much. No, it doesnt. The process of elimination is very difficult in this case. When you talk about the search area, the passengers, they havent specifically said the cabin crew has been eliminated from suspicion. They seem to be pushing toward suspicion on the flight crew, the captain himself. But nothing is limited. No clues yet. Miles obrien, david gal low, david soucie, thank you so much for being with us tonight. We are expecting a press conference on the latest regarding the search. We dont have the exact time, but we have been told it will happen in the morning. It is morning there now. Son sure to stay with cnn. Meanwhile weve just received reports of another tornado. This one about 30 miles northeast of dallas. A tornado outbreak this evening in that state. Also in missouri. These are pictures right now of missouri. Clearly threatened right now. Chad myers is tracking this all. Well be back with chad in just a moment. Ive always kept my eye on her. But with so much health care noise, i didnt always watch out for myself. With unitedhealthcare, i get personalized information and rewards for addressing my health risks. But shes still gonna give me a heart attack. Thats health in numbers. Unitedhealthcare. They dont know it yet, but theyre gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. 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Near princeton, farmersville and merritt the tornado was on the ground just north here. This is i 30, this is 380, state highway 380, that was one of the tornadoes on the ground. The next one were worried about moving into st. Louis, we could have 50 or 60mileperhour winds with that storm. That could cause damage. These watches go for the next five or six hours. If youre in the plains you need to Pay Attention tonight, john. These are ominous pictures, chad. Chad myers, thanks so much for that. That does it for this edition of 360. Thanks for watching. Make sure you set your dvr so you never miss 360. Smerconish starts right now. Good evening, im Michael Summer smerconish. Sources are telling to us stand by for new information in the missing flight 370. Well bring it to you. Well look at how Malaysian Airlines is beefing up its cockpit security. Who better to address that than one of the pilots flying flight 175 on september 11th. 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