the latest now on the deadly shooting at ft. hood. four people, including the gunman dead. 16 others are injured, some in critical condition. multiple sources tell cnn the shooter was specialist ivan lopez, an iraq war veteran undergoing treatment for depression and anxiety. he shot himself after a military policewoman confronted him just minutes after the shooting began. stay with us for the very latest on this breaking story. now to australia, where the search area for flight 370 has shifted slightly this morning to the west, some 1,000 miles off the coast of perth. eight planes, nine ships criss-crossing the area looking for debris from the missing 777. so far this morning, nothing. let s bring in erik van sebille, an oceanographer at the university of new south wales in
bit closer to land. so, it gives those planes a little bit longer to fly over the region. do we know anything about the area that has shifted a bit west, i think a little bit north as well about weather in that area? is it any better for searching? well, i don t know about that. i haven t seen the latest weather maps, but in general, we are getting into autumn, and that is not the best time of year for us to be in the ocean. but then again, think about that, where they were searching a few weeks ago, in the southern ocean, so much further south, that was the area where we would expect really big storms, really high waves. here, it s actually much, in general, it s much calmer weather. erik van sebille, thank you for joining us again this morning. we ll be right back. [ grunting ]
the challenges? well, i am in the a betting man. i don t know. i don t know what the chances are. i do sincerely hope that we will find it, because i think that everybody involved in this, everybody from the families of the people who boarded this plane to everybody who just sits in a plane every now and then wants to know what happened to this story and wants to know why this happened, what we are seeing. and finally, quickly, you know, a lot of i guess we don t have time to get to the question. we ll get to you again soon. thanks, erik. thank you for being an expert for us. we appreciate it. he s so great. he really knows so much about the ocean there. breaking news in chile, powerful aftershocks rocking the country throughout the night. the latest after the break.
that get there we have a look at it does that get towed high above anything that it would run into? because you re thinking, this can t be running along the, you know, the bottom there of the ocean, or else it s just going to get blocked by how rugged it is down there. absolutely. absolutely. so, they re going to run it high enough in the water column. but the problem is, then, it s quite far, still, to the bottom. so, just like with any sound you make, the further away you are from the pinger, the quieter it is and the harder it is to actually hear it. so, on one hand, you want to be as close as possible, but on the other hand, you want to be a little bit far away so that you don t run into mountains, but also that you cover a larger area and you can actually see further to the sides, if you want. wow, that is simply amazing. when you look at what they re trying to do there. do you have any hope, erik, that they re going to be able to find either an intact piece of that fusela
they ve been debriefing the reporters on what these pilots and the spotters are seeing, erik, and they re not coming back with sightings of debris they think are tied to mh-370. what will we be expecting from floating debris in this part of the ocean? well, this part of the ocean where they re searching now, you get closer and closer to the center of the garbage patch, which is an area where everything that s floating in the ocean kind of accumulates. there s garbage patches in all of the different oceans, including the famous one in the pacific ocean near hawaii. there s also one in the indian ocean. so, everything that s being thrown in the ocean or that got into the ocean from land in the last 60 years slowly accumulates there. and there s just so much floating debris around there that it s really like searching for a needle in a haystack, literally. there is just all this litter around. now, this location, possibly the only silver lining to this is that the location, again, mov