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Was a kid. my mother had a gun under her pillow. i have no legs. this is my nightmare. i want to protect the woman i love the most and when i heard that window slam, it was the beginning of the worst night of my life. compelling terms for setting the stage for my fear and almost inability to act in these circumstances. >> i think its compelling in terms of his fear. everyone has been talking about the fact that he did not have his prosthetic legs on which means he could certainly be in this stat...

Very much. lets bring in mary schiavo and david soucie and former faa inspector. thanks to both of you. a couple of common sense questions before we get into the frenzied forensics. david soucie, battery life. why are we guessing? everything has a use by or sell by date these days. why dont we know when the batteries stop? >> what theyre certified nor is 30 days. with any certification you have to have a safety margin or faker and that factor is expected time could go as long as 35 days. whats m...

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Shots, more random gunfire? what do you think happened? >> im not a forensic pathologist, so describing those kind deaf tails may be a little bit difficult but these were destructive gunshot wounds from a high caliber weapon. obviously, these were impacting different parts of the body. some fairly mild, superficial-type injuries, including extreme graze-type wounds and others involving vital structures such as the neck, the abdomen. >> were many of them shot multiple times? >> from my best abili...

Prior agreement between the fbi and the u.s. army in particular that soldier on soldier will be handled by army criminal investigative division, with fbi support, both in the forensics and any other leads that need to be covered in the investigation. >> we should know soon enough, peter bergen, if there was some terrorist inspired motive for what happened today, as there clearly was with major nidal hasan. >> in the case of nidal hasan, he had given a number of strange briefings, which a number ...

Many have attended the fbi national academy. and so they are very used to working together. >> so this is fbi eequivalent? >> yeah. they have the -- they dont have the total range of capabilities that the bureau has but they have a very significant capability. and they work with the fbi all the time. and the fbi forensics and technical capabilities can be brought to support them. but if it is a military person they will have the entire responsibility including the base commander who will be doin...

Co-pilot? well talk to a forensics expert because we know theyre investigating this here about the voice analysis. this is cnns special coverage. peoi go to angies listt for all kinds of reasons. to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angies list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. youll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that were expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angies list and look for p...

Been examining the computer hard drives of the two pilots who were in the cockpit as well as the hard drive for the flight simulator of the lead pilot. and there are reports that they have done a thorough examination and have come up empty, have come up with a dead end. is that true? >> i have seen nothing yet that has come out of the investigation that would lead me to conclude that there was some -- anything other than a normal flight that something happened, something went wrong. again, theyr...

Find the answer, but so that all of this data is being streamlined into a central location? realtime? so were getting a loop? les what do you think? >> i mean, all of these tools combine together to make an accident investigation more accurate. so, i mean, airplane signals, if that -- it becomes more available, more prevalent. this combined with the flight recorder will definitely help in an accident investigation. i mean, theres all of this stuff, it can be combined in realtime data, that the d...

In malaise ya. are you satisfied that the trajectory hints towards the southern indian ocean that the plane would have run out of fuel and that barring some kas strofic event given what we know from the pings and that flight path that it hit the water. >> i think we now know by the route it took and how ntsb calculated it, we can rule out the northern curve which was generated primarily by conspiracy theories. >> but a lot of families, including some we interviewed clung to that. >> lack of evid...