greenhouse jr. and stafford as well facing second-degree murder charges in the boy s death. the boy s father is still in the hospital. nick valencia has traveled to louisiana. what are you learning about these officers past? reporter: good morning, victor. we are learning that at least one of these officers has a checkered past, a history of getting into trouble, at least according to the local newspaper here. 32-year-old derek stafford who, according to the paper, has been part of this police department in marksville the last eight years, was indicted on two counts of aggravated rape within the time he was a police officer here. one of the cases daets bates ba 2004 and another case in 2012 but in 2012 the cases were dismissed. we are learning this morning both officers charged with the murder of that 6-year-old jeremy mardis are also involved in several civil lawsuits tied to excessive force. cnn has attempted to reach out
might think that. the missile was not weaponized and no arms there. president obama is meeting with israeli prime minister benefiti benefiting anyone netanyahu tomorrow in d.c. tomorrow. officials say no final agreement is planned on u.s. defense aid to israeli. nobel prize, cast a vote in the myanmar elections in decade. they are optimistic the election could bring real change to the military-dominated government. cnn has been told there were attempts of violence and attempted voter fraud. 99.9% certain is how sure one u.s. official is that a bomb
ian, thank you. let s bring in cnn aviation analyst peter goels and michael wi wise, an author. peter, to you first. 99.9% certain is what one official says. what more do they need to become 100%? i think the only thing they need is for the egyptian government to acknowledge that this was a terrorist act. they have the information they need to make the voice recorder will have a sound at the end of it. it can be analyzed, it can be compared to previous terrorist acts. you know, you could look at the pan am 103 bombing over lockerbie and compare that sound to this sound. they can tell whether it is a high order explosive or not. now the egyptians have to bring forth the physical evidence that
an unexplained noise heard in the final second of the cockpit voice recorder seems to support that theory but the egyptian government says more analysis is needed. this morning, we have with us mike poole. a long time crash investigator and expert and data recorder analysis. good to have you with us this morning. good morning. i want to read something reported by cnn afgs france 2 and once of the investigators said an explosion was heard on that recorder. how much can be determined about the cause of that noise? can it be determined that it is an explosion simply by that cockpit voice recorder? well, there s been a lot of research done over whether you can tell the difference between the sound of a bomb and the sound of structural failure, which is called explosive decompression. at altitude, the aircraft is a vessel pressure. when you have a fuse language
nick, what have we learned specifically about these officers? reporter: good morning. according to local newspaper here, town talk that 32-year-old derrick stafford was indicted on two counts of aggravated rap. he has been be a police officer the last two years and in one of those cases the alleged rape case happened when he was a police officer. one dating back to september of 2004 and another in 2011. a year after the indictments came down the case was dismissed without prejudice meaning the charges could come back. the other officer is involved in several civil lawsuits and tied to excessive force. cnn has looked into this and neither one of them, from what we know, has ever been convicted of a crime. we have attempted to reach out to local official here and not gotten back to us and family members for those two officers charged in this death of the of-year-old have not gotten back