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Instead he credited the investigators tireless work, interviewing witnesses and combing ditches for shell casings. joining me now is jim cavanaugh, atf special agent who has worked in kansas city, so, jim, what can you tell us about the kind of investigation that would be done to try to catch these kinds of shooters and what might the motive be? >> we shoulding the motive is going to be unclear right now. maybe the chief will uncover that for us, joy, in the press conference. i think the way the...

Back at the command post, the young woman known to police as hill barbie must decide whether to talk. investigators determine barbies real identity. despite her initial claim she is not underage. she is 19-year-old heather giardan. >> you got kicked out of the house, how old were you? >> 18. my grand may kicked me out because i called her a bitch. >> heathers past to prostitution began with desperate circumstances. >> i wanted to go to school and they prevent med from going to school because i h...

Vehicles. were going to search that site and try to find it. theyve said really nothing officially. so everything is coming through china media rather than the command post in australia. i realize its almost 11:00 at night in australia and in beijing, for that matter. but something something out, a press release, something that youre on this, youre working on it. youve deployed appropriate resources. were hearing nothing in an official capacity to really know whats going on. and, also, in terms ...

>> yeah, i heard the feedback. the problem i have with this is we criticize the malaysian government from losing control of the message in their command post running this investigation. now its been -- the search part has been in the hands of the australians and theyve lost control of it. the fact that were getting reporting by way of xinhua, a chinese-owned newspaper, government-owned newspaper, i should add, cctv china, which is also government-owned the network, based on reports from aircraft...

Tell us about the security measures and what you know about them. >> well, sean, you were talking members not being able to carry weapons on base. thats true, of course, except the military police officers on base. they also have contracted police on many bases. at any rate, they are all law enforcement officials that have all been trained. they all go through active shooter training. im told by former fbi special agent that that training has changed in the past several years, much because of th...

Tell us about the security measures and what you know about them. >> well, sean, you were talking about soldiers and service members not being able to carry weapons on base. thats true, of course, except the military police officers on base. they also have contracted police on many bases. at any rate, they are all law enforcement officials that have all been trained. they all go through active shooter training. im told by former fbi special agent that that training has changed in the past severa...

>> from the beginning, the misstep was with the malaysian officials running this case. you have the police on one hand. you have the civil aviation authorities in malaysia. you have the defense ministry in malaysia and then the neighbors countries and their radars and their systems and the satellite company. you have many things going on at one time and it is being run by really at the top a group of individuals without the experience. what we have found in these kind of cases is that you need t...

Related at all. we are told that there are possibly two shooters, one in custody and possibly wounded and eight possibly that have been shot by the one or both assailants. at this point as the fbi and others come in you say local law enforcement there setting up a command post, what is actually happening as you have been in these things? what can you tell us is your best guess? >> one thing that happens in these shootings, these active shooters that i responded to you always get a report of a se...

Able to confirm the number of injuries. but you were saying that you heard there could be 15 which may include the shooter who has been killed. >> i would like to add in a situation like this as evan perez mentioned earlier you have kind of a fog of war situation and oftentimes much of the information coming in to a command post or coming in to the headquarters, whether its at fort hood or relayed back to the pentagon or fbi headquarters, oftentimes the initial reporting coming from the scene is...

Example. >> reporter: and two weeks may be slightly optimistic. it is a very large space that these crews are looking at, which is the indian ocean. >> we know air france, that was, what, two years? have we heard anything from angus houston or anyone else heading up this search as far as months? are they even going there with years? >> well, there was a headline in the local newspaper here that says perth expects to be the command post for years. thats years, plural. and remember, air france, th...