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Rg and others, they understand the urgency. And they, hopefully, will push to get the hostages home as soon as possible. Ruby chen, we appreciate your time and for sharing your story and the patience and urgency that is needed. Please keep us posted with anything else we can do to help. Thank you for having me. Cnn this morning continues now. Im Phil Mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. This morning the urgent manhunt continues for a mass shooter in maine 37 hours after a rampage at a Bowling Alley and bar and grill. 80 agents have joined the search. Robert card is considered armed and dangerous. The coast guard is searching by air and sea after cards car was found at a boat lunch. He owns a small powerboat. We saw s. W. A. T. Teams converge on cards last known address. Police say they will be back in that area today. They spotlighted the house. They got on a bullhorn to say come out with your hands up, but nobody was inside. As for the motive, there is a key theory emerging. Law enforcement sources tell cnn the suspect recently broke up with his girlfriend and they used to frequent the Bowling Alley and the bar and grill where the shootings happened. His exgirlfriend was apparently signed up to play in a tournament at the bar the same night of the shooting. This morning we are learning of more names. A father and 14yearold son, bill and aaron young were killed at the Bowling Alley. Michael des lawyerers also died. Joseph walker was the manager at Schemengees Bar grille. His father says he died a hero trying to stop the gunman with a knife and moments ago his father told us why he cant hate the gunman who dild his son. You have to let the law do whatever needs to be done. If this person was at the time in his right mind, i believe he would have been a loving person just like we are. There is something that went wrong and i just cant hate him. Remarkable. Despite so much hate in the world, john berman is live in lewiston this morning. John, well, that fathers grief, i think it touches everyone. This is a community trying to grieve, trying to come together, right, john, and they cant because of the manhunt being ongoing . Reporter that was a heartbreaking interview to hear from leroy walker talking about his son. So much loss in this community. As you said, its hard to grieve right now because of the situation at hand, which is this one thing that happened year at Schemengees Bar, they dropped portal toilets in front of the bar. I know that seems like a small thing. That tells you they expect this to be an active crime scene that they are going to have to be processing for some time. They are going to be there, Law Enforcement will be at that bar for a whoichlt thats where eight of the 18 people were killed. And this morning this community, the second most populous city in main, 40,000 people in the wider area here, they are still under a helishelterinplace order. Secure your home, secure your cars is what authorities are telling people here. Local sporting events, High School Sporting events, Football Games, friday night Football Games have been canceled. Volleyball playoffs have been canceled. Thats thought the state because there is so much concern of what might happen with this manhunt. Again, the search very much continues this morning after a great deal of activity not here in lewiston, but about 15 minutes east of here in two towns, bowdoin, which was the last known residence of robert card, the suspect, and lisbon, which is where the suspects car was found near that boat launch. I want to go now to lisbon where cnns Shimon Prokupecz has been for much of the last 24 hours. Shimon, trying to follow that manhunt as it moves about these towns. What are you seeing this morning, shimon . Reporter yeah, well, look, we are not seeing much this morning, john. Certainly different from what We Saw Yesterday morning when we got here and police, the local police here, lisbon police, were out searching am we were with them when they were doing some of the searches. Streets were closed. There were roadblocks. We are not seeing any of that today. Its not entirely clear us to and we are trying to figure out whats going on here today. But we are not seeing the s. W. A. T. Teams that were at the high school, the staging area. We are not seeing that today. We dont know if the search area has shifted to some other town or are they planning to do stuff later today that we just dont know about. But you can sort of sense being in lisbon that people want to try to get back to life. Much of the stores and the locations on our way here today were still closed. We will see as the day goes on whats going on. But we are not seeing activity out here this morning. Perhaps that will change later today. So were trying to get a sense of whats going on. Officials have not been talking about the search. Yesterday they didnt answer any questions about the manhunt. And just by what we saw last night at his home, its very clear at least to this point as far as we know, they have no idea where he is. And so lets see what happens today, i guess, and perhaps maybe we will get an update later today. But so far pits been pretty difficult to get updates on any of the searching here or any information from officials here. Reporter yeah, shimon, a great point, which is that the last time that people in this greater area heard from Law Enforcement was really yesterday late morning. Its been since then. And, yes, they received alerts that the shelterinplace orders are extended, base college, Terrifically Run College In Lewiston here, this morning they sent out an alert saying you have to shelter in place today. The students have been told they can go to the dining hall to pick up food once, but please stay inside if they can. People dont really know where this search stands. Do you expect to hear more from Law Enforcement today . Reporter hard to say. You know, yesterday when they spoke, they took just a couple of questions. Look, we understand that there is an investigation. There is potentially a prosecution if he is captured alive. We get that, right . But i think the fact that we are not getting these updates, weve seen in other searches like in pennsylvania where the police are out every day giving updates on the searches, what they are doing, what they are doing sort of to give the sense that, look, we have this under control, we are informing you, we are informing the community about what we are doing. We are not seeing any of that here. They send out alerts, shelter in place, it affects peoples lives, obviously, businesses. Everyone wants to be safe. Everyone wants to make sure they are not going to get hurt. We totally get that. But we have not seen the updates from officials. And the fact that we are out here today again and we are not seeing that level of activity is a big area to search. We get it. Maybe they are searching somewhere thats not here. Right now we are not seeing that level of activity certainly that We Saw Yesterday. Reporter no, not here either, shimon. I should note that earlier i thought i saw a helicopter. I did not. There have been no helicopters in the sky over us in lewiston today as far as i can tell, which is a change from yesterday. Yesterday at this time there was a search from the air. Doesnt appear to be happening at least not yet. All right. Shimon prokupecz in lisbon where the search had been take it place. We will get much more from you soon. Phil, poppy, back to you. John, thank you. Shimon, thank you. We will get back to both of you. Joining us to talk about a lot of Unanswered Questions cnn chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst john miller. We were asking you a lot of questions about why the strategy is here. Some of the key outstanding issues. Number one, was there another car . They found one car near the boat dock. Was there another form of transportation here . He doesnt have another car registered to him. But yesterday was there another request car question was important. Today it goes from important to very important because we are hitting that 48hour mark, you know, in the next few hours, and this Mornings Team meeting at that Command Center is basically going to be about a reset, which is we did all the things you should do immediately in a tight search grid and did some things beyond that. Now lets go full stop. What are the loose ends to cover and plan forward. How do we extend this search out . And how big is that grid . Because the point you raise, is there another car, did he hop a train . Has he changed his appearance . Is there a phase two to this plan . Are all things that are in the unknown category, would have to be built into the search. What about a boat . So he doesnt have a Boat Registered to him that we could find, which in a Community Like that does not mean he doesnt have access to a boat. All kinds of people share boats. He does have a jet ski registered. That has meaning. If you replaced that, for instance, at that boat launch, dump the car, take the jet ski, and we have seen from the way those rivers wind and go in Different Directions that, could have been an alternate getaway to the other side of the river to a stash car or a switch car. These are all the things that they are talking about. Canada . If he is on the run, particularly mobile with vehicles, how do the canadian authorities play into this . Any sense he could be headed up there . Before the canadians played into this, u. S. Customs and Border Protection played into it almost immediately that night. His picture was pushed up to the Canadian Border and they were told at all Border Crossings, you know, we are looking for this guy and the patrols at the places that arent Border Crossings where people can cross or do cross, they have been looking for him, too. The canadian authorities are aware of it, but the canada thing is a little tricky to me because what do you get by getting away to canada . They are watching the same news we are. Know know the same face we do. We have an Extradition Treaty thats very solid. But its, you know, we cant we cant mirror image rational thinking to an irrational thinker. How carefully, from what you have seen, did he plan this . So we dont know that. We do know that there is a model which is, according to fbi studies, the average active shooter, if you can say such a thing, plans for three and a half weeks before the incident. There are people who already have a large collection of guns and a gripe that comes over the top that can take that down to 48 hours. And there are people who do it for months. But what they have not found in the searches is that document that was the list of things to get, the list of potential targets. You said his social media yesterday was pretty normal . Yeah. His conversations were normal. More important than that, the people around him outside of the last few months say day to day he was a normal guy. Clearly, over the summer and we have to separate this. Its actually an important distinction because there are a lot of people who cringe in this discussion. The active shooter does not equate to Mental Illness. In most cases, 75 , there is no prediagnosed Mental Illness in the active shooter. It does equate to Mental Health issues. Paranoia, anxiety, depression, anger that come up and lead to the incident. John, i want to ask evan perez to confirm investigators recovered a cellphone that belonged to the suspect according to a Law Enforcement official. Does that add you know, wanted to be able to track cellphones, track signals. What does that bring in challenges and perhaps what they can glean from that phone . Well, it tells us that the suspect and probably with his Military Background discarded that for a reason, which is he didnt want that sending a signal. It leaves open the question, if there was a plan and how detailed it was, has that been replaced by a burner that nobody knows about, which is both something to his advantage. But also a potential opportunity to Law Enforcement if they can figure that out. All right. Thank you. So many as always. Questions. Ahead, more on the challenges that Law Enforcement officers are facing in this continuing massive urgent manhunt for the gun man who killed 18 people in maine. Rockets fired towards tel aviv. Crews on moundnd saw some of t explosioions. We a are going t to go therere next. Welcome back. Moments ago rockets fired into tel aviv, israel, striking a building. We learned it injured two people after a second night in a row where Israel Defense forces have conducted targeted raids inside of gaza. Straight to erin burnett live from tel aviv. Talk about what you just saw happen, if you could, erin. Reporter well, poppy, of course sometimes you get a very close time thats there are sirens, the warnings come and within 30 selgds to a minute the actual strikes. Different than ukraine. So here you hear the warning and you see the rocket come in and see it Hit A Building. And we saw that. There were about 11 or 12 and a couple of different series of sirens this morning. One we saw Hit A Building not too far away. An apartment building, four stories. Israeli Officials Say three people were injured, mild to moderate, one a 20yearold man. Again the randomness of what happens here was use that immediate billowing of smoke, looked like a rocket that broke through the iron dome as opposed to a piece of shrapnel. Thats what it appeared to be from this distance. But we could see that. Of course, we can hear the thuds from gaza as the strikes continue. There were again about 300 of them overnight as Israeli Forces continued both the air assault as well as an assault by sea. Special forces assault by sea and by land. They have done that two nights a row where they have gone in gaza a kilometer or two and then after finishing operations strikes against individual operatives and Command Centers back out of gaza. Erin burnett live in tel aviv. We will get back to you soon. Phil. The u. S. Is unleashing new airstrikes on two facilities linked to ran iranianbacked militias. Targeting weapons and a munitions Storage Facility after a series of drone and Rocket Attacks against u. S. Forces in the region. Cnn National Security reporter natasha bertrand. U. S. Officials trying to make clear these are narrowly tailored, in selfdefense, but targeted places where irgc officials were, correct . Thats right, phil. A Senior Defense official told us last night those facilities were occupied throughout the day by irgc personnel and other personnel affiliated with the militia groups that iran backs. It is unclear just how many or if there were any casualties as a result of this strike. A targeted weapons and Ammunition Depot in eastern syria. However, the Senior Defense official seemed confident that there were no civilian casualties at this point. But, look, Secretary Of Defense lloyd austin said these are narrowly tailored strikes and it has nothing to do with the broader israel hamas War Happening right now. This is what he said. He said these narrowly tailored strikes in selfdefense were intended solely to protect and defend u. S. Personnel in iraq and syria. They are separate from the ongoing conflict between israel and hamas and do not constitute a shift in our approach to the israel hamas conflict. Look, the strikes dont come in a vacuum. They are of course a response to the more than 19 attacks that these iranback militias have wagedens u. S. Coalitions and bases in iraq and syria since october 17. According to the pentagon there have been 21 u. S. Service members who suffered casualties, injuries as a result of these attacks, including traumatic brain jumps. So the u. S. Taking this very seriously and this is meant to send a very clear message to the iranback militias these attacks on these bases will not passively kind of accepted by the United States. Phil. See if that message is heeded. Natasha, thank you. All right. Take a look at this video. It was released by u. S. Defense officials and what you are seeing is a chinese fighter coming unbelievably close, within ten feet of a u. S. B52 Bomber Flying over the South China Sea on tuesday. Ten feet. That is literally the distance between poppy and me now. Thats the size of a standard ladder, a basketball hoop. Officials say this is happening more and more often. Put this in perspective. The military considers intercepts like this dangerous within 50 to 100 feet of of a u. S. Aircraft. Ten feet . Way too close for comfort. America is grappling with yet another Mass Shooting and the rise of antisemitism. Next, we will be joined by a rabbi who survived the tree you have Life

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