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Minds turned on them. and their murders took on dimensions that were not only shocking, they were unimaginable. >> my name is howard franklin street jr. im 38 years old. ive been down since 1993 for shooting my mom. >> during our first day of shooting at wabash, our "lockup" crew met frank street, an inmate housed in the prisons residential treatment unit. at the time of the interview, street was experiencing involuntary tremors due to his medication. >> i started having delusions that people we...

He made elaborate plans to build a retreat and he was moving files from the white house to rooid park. >> this is being laid out and pretty clear. >> after war broke out in september of 1940, he put a caveat in it. if there was a major war, he had to reconsider. he never finally made up his mind until before the democratic convention. >> what was that doing to the party? >> it was paralyzing. >> for not him, who would they rally around? >> are there was no one. the only people running was his vi...

John kirby, chief of information for the u.s. navy. thank you so much for coming in. we appreciate it. so the "new york times" is reporting that alexis worked for this hewlett-packard subcontractor called the experts and that the severities callexp hotel and said he was unstable and they were bringing him home. did the experts ever let the navy know that? >> we are asking that same question right now. i dont have any indication that they did. matter of fact, we would like to understand that a li...

Idea about any of these problems. he was the life and soul. amador, is that a familiar thing when people get to adult age they can mask these problems from even their closest family? >> absolutely. its very common. because half of the people with the most serious illnesses, people who hear voices and have delusions like this man did dont understand theyre ill and see other people react to them as looking a bit off if not, quote, crazy and so they learn not to talk about with certain people like ...

Those parents dont have the ability to say, no, you cant buy a gun. >> unlike the warrens in if navy yard shooting case, she had no idea about any of these problems. he was the life and soul. amador, is that a familiar thing that you hear when people get to adult age that they can mask these problems from even their closest family? >> absolutely. its very common. because half of the people with the most serious illnesses, people who hear voices and have delusions like this man did dont understan...

Guns. as we saw rick warrens son was able to easily buy one on the internet and saw the naval yard shooter went to a gun store. >> right. i think we have to be clear about the fact that in both cases when you have a child thats now not a child after 18, thats an adult, you have no access to their mental health records. >> unlike the warrens in if navy yard shooting case, she had no idea about any of these problems. he was the life and soul. amador, is that a familiar thing when people get to adu...

Having a security clearance in the united states government is you werent convicted of a crime? >> neil: but i could see why he would do it from his perspective. obviously it negates whatever snooping the nsa is doing and all the cyberheads, under the guise of keeping us safe. it missed the culprits in boston and this. >> somebody has to tighten this up. if it was the first time we would say lesson learned. but something is seriously wrong with the way were doing security clearances, background ...

Aaron alexis mental health but there are a lot of checkpoints where maybe a friend or loved one or family member could have intervened and it seems funding towards public education of the signs to look for would be helpful here. but help us educate our viewers. what are the signs that a friend or loved one needs help and is there a difference between just being mentally ill and needing help and someone who actually may be turning towards violence? >> absolutely. its been said repeatedly that onl...

With a mental disorder characterized by occasional spells of impaired speech and delusions. >> i hallucinate and disappear from work, a bunch of things i thought was going on inside my head. i decided to go out and go back to my family. >> six months after leaving the military, burden was arrested when he crashed his car into security gates at tampa international airport. >> i thought people were taking me and trying to kill me. so that explains it all. running to the gate. i was trying to get a...

Mentally unstable, i mean, normal people who dont have a mental health issue simply dont do that or am i wrong? is there just a state of pure evil? can you do it without being mentally unstable? >> i get asked that all the time on the stand. dr. amador isnt everybody that kills somebody mentally unstable? no. the majority of people dont kill people. look, in this case, something is different. i think maybe 100 years from now well see something different in the brains on people who kill in this w...