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Streets coming in you can even tell in the town of killeen, somber, very quiet, not a lot of cars out on the road. and the entrances into the main gate completely quiet and guards are stationed up several hundred yards away from the main gate checking cars and asking people why theyre pulling up into the area. so a situation thats very tense and a situation that many people are monitoring closely waiting to go seat conditions of the soldiers that were victims in todays shooting. >> ed lavandara ...

The town of killeen, texas is very close by. one of the things we noted earlier that is worth remembering in all this, in fact this community has not only dealt with what happened on this base, with nidal hasan and this incident but 23 years ago just outside of the base at killeen, one of the biggest shootings in this countrys history at the lubys cafeteria which affected many families connected to this base. so the civilian and the military community here has been through a tremendous amount in...

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...

Capabilities and possibilities. joined by jim sciutto and retired army major james spider marks. appreciate all of you being with us. general marks, the u.s. is moving assets into the region. talking about fighter jets to destroyers. walk us through whats happening with those assets. >> what we see right now, jim, thanks. if you could put the f 15s, the air force is moving f 15s into lithuania and some f-16s into poland. we have the positioning of high-speed attack aircraft. we also have the "us...

Patrol the air space to make small baltic nations feel better perhaps about the russian aggression. no direct threat against them from russia. countries are getting nervous. finally there are now discussions with poland about putting more u.s. air force presence into poland. the same thing, the countries on russians flanks u.s. believes are anxious about the aggression. steps are being taken to reassure them. anderson? >> general marks, in regard to hagels comments you said the beefing up of mil...

Use of presence and partnerships like this so its not a direct front to russia. clearly putin doesnt see it this way. he could care less about this. what were interesting in doing now, the right move, to make sure were linking arms with our partners. >> general marks, what do you make of whats happening on the ground now in crimea? the idea of a referendum. it seems to complicate things. if crimea votes to join russia, couldnt the new leadership in crimea argue that ukrainian military bases in c...

How quickly could this lead to miscalculation? a chance for misinterpretation of a move could lead to something bigger? >> jim, this is a difficult, tense and complicated situation. thats the biggest challenge of all. not that there is a war of words, but several countries in the region. the possibility of a miscalculation is very real. the problem is you escalate the tension and theres no real plan to de-escalate. we saw that before, as was pointed out in april of 2001, with the downing of the ...

Light. and how is this for timing? the disclosure follows the firing of major general michael kerry, the number two man in charge of air force nuclear weapons. for undisclosed weapons believed to involve his personal life. so these are some of the folks in charge of our nuclear weapons. and the bad news is theres more. general james marks, u.s. army retired, cnn military analyst and former commanding general of the u.s. army intelligence center. general marks, what is the worst that could have h...

Those forces. degrading can mean destroying. >> general marks, whatever happens, the first step is the u.s. strike assuming it happens. then we have no idea what the response by assad is going to be and whether that is going to necessitate a counterstrike or another kind of operation. so on one hand you could say its understandable where pentagon planners would be planning for a larger operation. >> anderson, they would have to be planning for a larger operation. the key thing is, the construct ...

Described in a way that politically suits the president to gain support. >> christopher, putting aside the abc news reporting, you look at the draft resolution in the senate and see language that has mission creep or seems larger. >> look, you could conduct the entire kosovo air war within the terms of that senate resolution. first of all, look at the time thats allotted. were not talking two, three days or a week. were talking 60 days plus 30 more days. 90 days. if you have a sustained bombing ...