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good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. im amarillo walker. im victor blackwell. thank you for sharing your morning with us the back half of the weekend. easy start to the sunday smile is so big this morning. im feeling good. im feeling good. heres what were watching for you this morning. special operation forces evacuated american personnel from the u. s embassy during heavy fighting and clashes in sudan. now u. s officials are trying to figure out ways to help private am...

Reporter no other gun man is found. At this point it looked like he acted alone. Reporter officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. Lets get much more on this. I want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. Great to have you on the program. We want to talk about Airport Security to start off with. Should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a firearm when h...

Rule in sudan, but they cant agree over who will ultimately be in charge of this to fighting forces. and that is why this place victor camera. appreciate that. larry madonna. thank you. joining me now is cnn military analyst and retired air force. colonel cedric leighton. leighton good morning to you, colonel. first off, talk to us about how difficult an operation like this was to pull off. can you just walk us through the planning and also the execution of it? i mean, we heard from us officials...

>> reporter: no other gun man is found. >> at this point it looked like he acted alone. >> reporter: officials wont say if the suspect was targeting someone on an arriving flight or if hes cooperating. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> lets get much more on this. i want to bring in jeffrey thomas, an aviation perspective, joining us from skype. great to have you on the program. we want to talk about airport security to start off with. should we be alarmed that this individual was able to check in a ...

This may lead to clues, though from an aviation perspective and show us there may be other parties involved as well. we cant rule out that there may have been something wrong with the aircraft. >> brian alexander, thank you very much. >> thank you, brooke. coming up next what is this piece? what does it do? i want to help you better understand what it is because well take you to a tarmac and look firsthand at this boeing 777 flaperon. we spoke to an expert who actually noticed something on thi...

You surprised that that phrase was used as plainly and specifically as it was? >> im not an aviation expert, so im reliant on what ive heard from the people on the various shows commenting on, you know, the level of skill and the deliberatesy that the plane took evasive maneuvers and the transponder was turned off and happened just at this handoff period which would be this window of vulnerability. based on all thal, from the laymans point of view from the aviation perspective, it seeps delibera...

Window of vulnerability. so, based on all that, you know, from the laymans point of view, from the aviation perspective, it seems deliberate. you know, could there be another theory? sure. absolutely. >> msnbc national security analyst, don borelli. thanks so much. were going to talk about the mysterious disappearance of flight 370 later in the show with three commercial airline pilots. theres a lot of other news to get to today including what the nra has done, what the nra has to do with the ...

Commenting on, you know the level of skill and the deliberacy that the plane took evasive maneuvers and the transponder was turned off and happened just at this handoff period which would be this window of vulnerability. so based on all that you know laymans point of view from the aviation perspective, it seems deliberate. you know, could there be another theory? sure. absolutely. >> msnbc national security analyst, don borelli. thanks so much. were going to talk about the mysterious disappear...