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Operations but they were mostly packing up and being in combat and seeing your friends and colleagues being killed and fearing for your own life is far more traumatic than just being in a combat zone. but ptsd is not a simple on/off switch, not like you have it or you dont have it. you can have a few symptoms of psd which will bring out other problems, financial problems, problems with your spouse, problems with your family, previous drug or alcohol problems you might have. and ptsd can come and...

That he suffered from traumatic brain injury. now we know that he was on medication. he was getting treatment here. but as you mentioned, he was still in that evaluation process for ptsd. >> george, thank you. carol it was interesting. actually ended up having part of my breakfast this morning here with an army major, just sort of asking him about what he thought about the story. and he said really just two points i took away. one, no one can jump to conclusions as to whether or not 234is 4-year...

You anticipate eventually going into surgery? >> there are a couple that are still under evaluation. at this time, i cant comment on those. the remainder of them appear that they will not need surgery. >> you said three were in critical. does that mean that six are in serious or five are in serious? >> three are critical. serious probably considered down grading to fair overnight. or upgrading them would be the correct term to a better condition. >> ones on the way do we know anything about that...

Stage about this man, ivan lopez? >> good morning, ashleigh. a full investigation underway. the army a short time ago offering some additional details underscoring that their current information shows this soldier was undergoing treatment for a variety of behavioral mental health psychiatric disorders including anxiety and depression. the secretary of the army says that he had -- the soldier, lopez, had just undergone a full mental health evaluation and that there had not been any reason to chan...

Civilians? >> my understanding is theyre all current military, eight males and one female. theyre ages 21 to up to 40s. theres varying degrees of military service. low 20s to mid-40s. i dont want to get held to a specific number, but thats what i understand. >> the neck injury, whats the chance of that -- >> thats not clear right now. i dont want to put a percentage on that. weve been working through just kind of evaluation of that injury with techniques, having our surgeons and spine team at th...

♪ ♪ ♪ updating this mornings breaking news. another deadly shooting at americas largest army base. >> at least four people are dead at ft. hood, texas, including the gunman who killed himself. at least 16 others are wounded. >> the gunman is identified as active duty soldier ivan lopez who was undergoing psychiatric evaluation for anxiety and depression and was on medication. moving on to this now, in the past few weeks, gm recalled millions of cars. but there is still concern those ca...

What i dont understand is if he had a problem and under diagnosis why did he in the midst of that move to a new location. you want to have a continuity of care. he moved to ft. hood and just got there two months ago. he was immediately placed back into the evaluation status. >> important to note, this man was supposedly suffering from depression, anxiety and other psychiatric complaints that were being treated. so it was definitely an ongoing thing. again, this is a developing story. the firearm...

Undergoing continual evaluation so that will change over the course of time, im sure. >> and we will give an update, probably in another couple hours. we can give you a little bit more information about the specific injuries and. >> can you say why you dont expect any additional patients? >> thats the information that were receiving right now is that theyre not anticipating that theyre going to transfer anymore over, although, i suspect that could change as well, just depending on the condition ...

Like i said, you are amazed at the spirit of people in these moments. they are in good spirits. [ indiscernible question ] >> like i said earlier, i am amazed at how brazilian people are, specifically the military. they are very grateful patience, and they are good people. >> is there a specific instance tonight? >> nothing specific, just the general spirit. >> did many arrive wearing their uniforms? >> a few did. some had them removed for evaluation prior to arrival here. >> thats about it. >> ...

Surgery? >> a couple are under evaluation. at this time i cannot comment on those. the remainder appear that they will not need surgery. >> three were in critical, does that mean that six are serious or five are serious? >> i dont what to mess up my math. three are definitely in critical. the remaining five are classified as serious. we will upgrade them to a fair, to better conditioned overnight. >> do you know anything about that patient? >> it may be a facial injury, but i dont know anything ...