shouldn t be any gouging of prices and storing up on water. they ve got big water tanks in the area and people bringing these 5 gallon water jugs in order to get themselves as much water as they can store in the event power goes down. they are afraid that s going to happen right here. rehema em list in tllis, tha. let s go to ft. lauderdale. mayor jack siler is standing by. mayor, welcome to you. to be clear, you re a little farther up the coast there. what are you expecting and what are you preparing for? are people evacuating? is it likely to become mandatory? how do things stand up there. as of right now we haven t instituted mandatory evacuations but we re encouraging people that if they do have a safe area to go to with family and friends, to make those arrangements to move out by friday. but right now the mandatory evacuation has not been issued but we do have low lying areas and barrier islands and lower
around 10:30 a.m. it s expected to open back up at 11:00 this morning. miami international airport closed at noon yesterday. airport officials there say operations are expected to gradually resume today. let s go to ft. lauderdale, shall we, to get the latest there on the ground is nbc news correspondent blake mccoy. what are you seeing there, blake? reporter: well, betty, good morning. the reason the airport here is reopening this morning at 11:00 is because conditions have improved dramatically from where they were last night. the storm was not as bad here as we were expecting, in fact, the last tropical storm warning has now been lifted for ft. lauderdale, so miami and ft. lauderdale at this point are in the clear as that storm has made its way up. the mayor here says there has been very minimal damage, because the eye of the hurricane ended up staying about 100 miles offshore from ft. lauderdale, so while we did see outer bands bring wind and rain, the most severe stayed offshore
again let s say it doesn t get plea bargained out. let s say this goes to a full military trial. there will be a lot of evidence a lot of statements that could be very difficult for the army to deal with before the american public. what was going on in that unit? how did a commander not know that he had a soldier who was possibly not fit for duty who was planning to walk away? soldiers have said that bergdahl made a lot of statements. did the commanding officer in that small unit on the front line know what was going on in their unit? what was the state of morale? will these soldiers who made these statements be willing to come back and testify under oath? i think we re about to hear from the yep, let s go to ft. bragg. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for coming to ft. bragg today.
deal with those and it is a real challenge to keep track of all those prescriptions, make sure there s no interactions, that s just fact. that is an issue the military is dealing with very significantly across the board. so i think there s good reason to believe we know they re going to look at his medical history, his prescription medication certainly will be part of that investigation, wolf. barbara, thanks very much. barbara starr at the pentagon. we have more now on the ft. hood shooting investigation. let s go to our justice correspondent pamela brown. she s joining us from ft. hood, texas. what are you learning over there, pamela? well, wolf, we re learning that investigators are right now in this moment looking at lopez s laptops, his cell phones, interviewing witnesses, trying to figure out and piece together why he did this, why he opened fire on his fellow soldiers. we can tell you according to sources and from general milley who spoke here earlier today, the general of f
the investigation into the shooting rampage at ft. hood. the dead gunman s service record is just released soon after the base commander shared new details about ivan lopez and his, quote, unstable mental condition. we re also told there will be a major announcement at a news conference involving the search for flight 370. we could get some kind of announcement very, very soon. planes in the meantime, they re getting ready to return to the search area right now. we have a full team of correspondents and analysts covering both stories. they re here in the situation room. they re across the united states and around the world. first, let s go to ft. hood, texas, for the very latest. cnn s miguel marquez is standing by. that service record was just released. there s lots of commendations and medals in there for mr. lopez, but it is very clear that hindsight is 20/20. there were darker things going on in mr. lopez s life.