A lot, both on and off camera. Our justice correspondent pamela brown is in fort hood. Pamela, what is the latest tonight on what youre hearing . Reporter well, a u. S. Military official with direct knowledge of the investigation telling our Barbara Starr that that traumatic brain injury that lopez had reported actually came from a reported fall during patrol, not from a traumatic event related to combat. And john, we learned from military officials today that there was an argument that escalated between lopez and another soldier in the moments right before this shooting. Officials believe that was the impetus. And according to a father of one of the victims, it all started over a leave request form. Cnn has learned in the weeks before his deadly rampage at fort hood, Army Specialist ivan lopez was creating a stockpile of ammunition. Sources say when lopez bought his. 45 caliber semiautomatic handgun at this store, guns galore in killeen, texas on march 1st, he also purchased what one
Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is the western edition of the broadcast. From the beginning of the mystery of malaysia air flight 370, search crews have been in a race against time. The black box produces a ping for an average of 30 days after a plane goes down, and now on day 29, Chinese State media report a chinese ship in the southern indian ocean hearing a signal that is the same frequency as what would be put out by the planes data recorders. But as seth doane reports, no one is confirming this is the signal and there have been a number of false alarms so far. Reporter this chinese ship, a haixun 01, in the eastern part of the search zone, when the crew reportedly detected the signal. Searchers also found some white debris about 55 miles from where they received the ping, but an australian official says they cannot confirm that the signals or the debris are connected to the missing jet. Search crews are using pinger locaters from the u. S. And britain, but neither h
The search area has changed dramatically. This is a huge change. It was 29,000 square miles. Its now 22,000 square miles. That drop in just one day. The search area is now roughly the size of west virginia. Yes, still huge, but remember, we were talking about a search area originally bigger than the continental united states. And they have picked up new signals that they say could be from the planes black boxes. It had been two days, as you know where they said look, were feeling worse about this and worse about this. We havent reacquired the signal. Now they have two more times. Could this be it . The question is time is running out. It is day 34 of the search. The batteries in the black boxes are fade mortgage as each day passes. Its pretty incredible if in fact they are still working at this point. The australian ship ocean shield i was just showing you first picked up two sets of underwater pings on saturday, and now reacquired the signals twice australia time tuesday. All four sig
Theres good news tonight about the soldiers wounded this week at fort hood. 10 have been released from the hospital and returned to duty. The six still being treated are all improving. Three who were in Critical Condition have been upgraded to fair. Late today, the army announced a Memorial Service next wednesday for the three who died. Sergeant first class Daniel Ferguson of tampa, florida. Sergeant timothy, owens of effingham, illinois. And Staff Sergeant Carlos Lazaney of puerto rico. As for what drove specialist ivan lopez to kill them before taking his own life, the army today was downplaying any Mental Health issues. We have two reports. First, anna werner at fort hood. Anna. Reporter scott, ivan lopez had complained to military doctors that he had suffered a traumatic brain injury in combat. Late today, Lieutenant General mark milley told us that so far investigators havent found anything to back that up. So far, we have not discovered any specific dramatic event, wounds receive
Good evening. It has been almost a month of tantalizing clues and crushing disappointment in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and so the latest discovery is being met with caution and held breaths. An underwater signal, perhaps from one of the planes black boxes, has been picked up by a chinese search vessel in the south indian ocean. For the families of the 239 people aboard the plane who have suffered so many false leads, the thought that once again the answer to this mystery could soon be in reach is at this point almost too much to hope for. Nbcs ian williams is in perth, australia, where the search is being coordinated. Ian, what s the latest . Reporter good evening, lester. Well, four weeks on and with time is fast running out for find the blag boxes, the latest reports have skbren rated some hope but also a good dose of cauti caution. The signal has the same frequency as that have that emit bid the planes black box data reporter the report said they had yet to accompl