retiring! the announcement was met with, well, laughter, disbelief. eventually, he got a standing ovation. no exact date, but letterman is about to turn 67, poppy. he says his final show will be some time next year. right. he has the longest tenure of any late-night host, 32 years. wow! and immediately on twitter, people were like, hey, i know, how about late night with jay leno ? who do you think could replace him? i ve seen some rumblings about ellen. oh, maybe. she s so good. she s so good where she is right now. i don t know if i were ellen i d try to mix up the secret sauce. double duty. we ll see. but he s been great. best of luck. we ll keep watching for the next year. breaking news on the search for missing flight 370. the search is narrowed. there s new technology in the water this morning. we re live with all the developments, next.
for that flight, the latest on the missing plane investigation with our jim clancy in malaysia and the families, their agonizing wait goes on. also now to the shooting rampage at ft. hood, texas, the second mass killing there in five years. investigators just trying to piece together why army specialist ivan lopez opened fire, killing 3 people, wounding 16 others before taking his own life. as we learn more about the shooter, a picture is emerging of a troubled, mentally unstable soldier. our george howell is reporting live from ft. hood this morning. and george, you know, it s interesting. you ve been saying to us that this is not the picture of him that anyone that seems to have known him there on the base had. reporter: right, fellow soldiers. they say this was out of character. they describe him as a person, you know, who had a lot of values, an extraordinary individual. all of it, they say, out of character. but when you look at what happened the other day, you do
feeling whenever i found out about the potential of this, you know, when the news began to trickle in, was a little bit of disbelief, you know, how can this possibly happen again type feeling. you know, very quickly, you move to resolve and determination to make sure that you ve got all your systems in places to care for these patients appropriately. and we moved to that pretty quickly. set up our command center and got going. stay with us throughout the morning for continuing coverage of that deadly shooting at ft. hood here on early start, and of course, later on new day. all right, millions of americans in the path of severe storms hitting the midwest, the south. tornadoes, heavy rain, damaging hail. the national weather service reporting a number of twisters touching down across several states. certainly a wild afternoon. absolutely. the storm system drenching parts of indiana, some 3 inches of rain falling there in hamilton county on thursday. it left roads flooded, a nu
co-pilot as being the last voice that was heard from the cockpit. now they say they aren t sure. and in reality, they re not really sure of anything at this hour. back to you, christine. that s right, jim two facts the plane is missing and inmarsat shows it off course heading southward. those are really the only two facts in this case still. jim clancy in kuala lumpur. thank you. and we, of course, are going to continue to follow the latest on missing flight mh-370. but also, breaking news overnight. trees ripped from the grund, homes destroyed, communities left under water. millions feeling the wrath of just a huge storm system, and it s not over yet. indra petersons tracking it all, straight ahead. i m randy, and i quit smoking with chantix. as a police officer, i ve helped many people in the last 23 years, but i needed help in quitting smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. chantix reduced the urge for me to
device tries to detect where the pinger from the black box flight recorder from that missing aircraft might be. it s something that starts, as i say, a new phase in this operation. but the authorities here in australia, which as you mentioned, have taken the lead somewhat because of the geographical proximity of the search area to australia, say that they re also counting on trying to, you know, get some kind of tip-off from the air. they ve got, you know, several planes in the air, at least ten military aircraft, four civilian aircraft as well, with people looking out the windows and trying to spot any kind of debris from the missing airliner. so far, they haven t found any. part of the problem, of course, is the size of the search area they re looking in, absolutely extraordinary size, almost 85,000 square miles of area that they re looking at. there was a press conference earlier today by the head of the search mission, angus houston, former air chief marshal here in australia. take