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Couple. what are you learning more drew griffin about the familys history of domestic violence? >> as we are looking into the backgrounds of these people to find out what went wrong, wolf, we reare finding that there is trouble in the farook home in 2008. this is when his mother was filing for a temporary restraining order against the father. in her petition to the court wrote some very troubling stuff about his father saying he threatened to kill himself. they put him in a county hospital for 7...

What are the theories that police are working on that youre hearing from your sources? >> well, one of the things that they have noted was that there was some communications with people on the fbi radar, people subjects under investigation. these were low level people, these were not high level subjects of investigations so this is not something where they think that they perhaps missed something. these people were clean and had relatively clean backgrounds and looking at travel, travel to saudi...

Law-abiding -- most of them are trap and skeet shooters and law enforcement officers and stuff like that. because i have a large clientele of my former co-workers and stuff that buy guns for friends and family. they buy them for themselves or their hobbyist shooters and things like that. and they have clean backgrounds and they shoot on a weekly basis at different ranges. >> let me ask you this. i want you to answer honestly. its a hypothetical. but a, there was some terrible mass shooting aroun...

They would have passed anyway. its possible they had a private sale of some kind because they found guns they wanted cheaply for sale somewhere else. in terms of figuring out whether or not there is ties to terrorism, ties to radical extremists of some kind, do you have any sense of what direction the investigation is going or if theres anything thats loan about them from the local community and either of their backgrounds thats been a real red flag so far? >> well, what we know from federal off...

Are we any closer to knowing who the other legal furrier was of the other guns and how those guns might have made it to these suspects? >> no, not so far tonight. but the primary shooter, alleged shooter, syed farook, therwa nothing in his background that would have prevented him from buying a gun legally. he had a really, really mundane record here in southern california. so nothing would have stopped him. and then his wife, tashfeen, i mean, shes such a recent arrival that public records usual...

People still actively being shot inside of the building. my goal was to assemble an entry team and enter into the building to engage the active shooter. >> san bernardino police lieutenant mike madden, who was the first officer on scene, who gave a remarkable first-person account tonight of having been the first law enforcement officer on scene, what he encountered when he got inside the scene of that mass shooting yesterday. joining us now is jack dolan, an investigative reporter for the "new y...

Weapons legally according to the atf 2 to 3 years ago. several years ago, al qaeda was looking for people with clean backgrounds, clean records, so they could freely travel when they were targeting the aviation industry. i talked with america west, to their pilots, we talked about this routinely. a guy has a clean background. able to purchase firearms legally. lets move a couple years ahead. this event yesterday at the holiday event, i believe, was just a catalyst. this individual was planning t...

At the numbers? youre not going to solve them all. >> yes, but how do we? >> you start with the idea that, number one, most american, overwhelming majority of americans agree that we should have universal background checks. 40% of all weapons are acquired without a background check in this country. thats a lot of different ways. some of this off of market sales. also generational, just translates, your uncle gives you your first gun when youre 12. >> we dont know yet. >> there are a lot of quest...

We have this backwards and have to get the guns out of the hands of people that shouldnt have them. we can have legitimate gun ownership. the fact that these people can pick up four weapons and two assault rifles and go combat mode. >> two of them were purchased legally, the handguns, i believe, is what were hearing and reporting this morning. >> thats an important point. how would you have kept the guns out of the hands of these people, how do you stop that? >> i dont think you can stop these t...

Jump to conclusions. and there be a back lash. we live in an environment with social media where people have basically instant motive. i see people tweeting at me on twitter and people want to know instantly, rapidly, but the problem is when you talk about, first of all, sorting out these crime scenes, going through the evidence, doing the backgrounds. these things take time. its easy to take, lets say, a writing or something that you recover at the scene and then extrapolate out. i think one of...