investigation was that the massacre at fort hood could have been prevented. this is not a case where dots had to be connected, in order to figure out that we had a serious threat. the dots were already connected. there was just a fail tower act. reporter: the report states that although none of the d.o.d. noir the fbi had specific information about the attack, they had sufficient information about hassan s radicalization, the violent islamist extremism, but failed to understand it and act on it. the report describes how as early as 2003, hassan s radical ideology was no secret to his fellow students in the army. his rhetoric was so ark larming and so radicalized that two of his fellow officers described him as a ticking time bomb. he did things like repeatedly told classmates and superiors that his devotion to shirria law
voicemail, i don t know, my heart just dropped. hey dad i can t remember it all. but, hey, dad, there is some crazy. blankedy-blank down here, shooting everybody. i have been shot. i received a phone call from my mother because she saw something on the news and she was quite panicked and she was like, there has been a shooting at fort hood. i got a flight the next morning and i was out. reporter: what kind of condition was he in? [mumbling] i knew he valid to have his abdomen opened up. the doctor told me, you know, we don t know how he s going to make it or what condition he s going to be in, but i was so happy to see him alive. [playing taps ] what happened this past thursday will impact the family, the fort hood community and our army for a long time to come. reporter: five days after the massacre, president obama
out or anything like that, you know? i mean, that s something that stuck in my mind, too. reporter: just minutes after hassan opened fire, two civilian police officers working on post sarge sants kimberly nunly and mark todd respond, they saw major hassan, firing outside the srp buildings. nunly, who fired the first shot, was three times before hassan was taken down. hassan s massacre left 13 dead and 43 wounded. all of fort hood, the size of 32 football fields, serving more than 45,000 soldiers was on lockdown. straton and panning were taken away for emergency care. i called my father. he didn t pick up. when i listened to his
judgear it is fort hood shooting, in a message released hiding in yemen, terrorist anwar al-awlaki praised the hassan massacre. americans refuse to admit that its foreign policies are the reason behind a man like nidal hassan. reporter: anwar al-awlaki was killed by helfire missiles from a u.s. predator drone. for the victims of the fort hood shooting, life will never be the same. we both changed since that day. reporter: how s that? emotionally. you know, when you are in something like this, you both, in essence have some issues of ptsd from this. reporter: have you two bullets inside of you? uh-huh. yeah. i can feel them. i can feel the bullet in my leg. reporter: george straton returned to his father s home, after leaving the army in december, 2011. the son that i sent to the army when he was 17, there is nothing like they cent.
hassan s massacre left 13 dead and 43 wounded. all of fort hood, the size of 32 football fields, serving more than 45,000 soldiers was on lockdown. straton and panning were taken away for emergency care. i called my father. he didn t pick up. when i listened to his voicemail, i don t know, my heart just dropped. hey dad i can t remember it all. but, hey, dad, there is some crazy. blankedy-blank down here, shooting everybody. i have been shot. i received a phone call from my mother because she saw something on the news and she was quite panicked and she was like, there has been a shooting at fort hood. i got a flight the next morning and i was out. reporter: what kind of condition was he in? [mumbling] i knew he valid to