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Individual who nobody accounted for what he did. >> the fact that he illegally carried his legally performed firearm here on post. if you live on post with the commander, you can bring a firearm on post, correct? they will not check every car. this is huge. >> its impossible to check. it cant be done. the same problem happens with a lot of other installations. if he is registered with his command, and you can shoot it, typically soldiers dont have to do that. he wont. they rather that the army n...

Sources said it appears that there was some purpose to the locations where the shootings happened here. two different buildings on post here at ft. hood. and cnn learned from officials briefed on the investigation that lopez, the father of a 3-year-old girl performed this gun, this 45 semi automatic pistol on march 1st. they say it doesnt appear it was with the specific intend of using it in the shooting as they witnessed on post. he has his wife who is cooperating with investigators and questio...

Us. >> let me ask you this as we are trying to understand you and why this man took these lives and the fact that he had this gun that he legally bought and came on post which he should not have done with the gun, it wasnt register and began shooting. clearly that seems to me that there gaps. there holes here and the security. its impossible to check everyones cars. this is a massive place. >> tens of thousands of cars going through the gate. roughly 100,000 people who work here. >> what do do y...

Disasters, major hasan was workplace violence. have we gotten too far away from 9/11 that we dont remember the impact of that? >> i wrebelieve thats part of and we have a civilian leadership that doesnt want to believe that it exists. if you dont want to admit that theres evil. if you dont want to admit that theres an enemy, you dont have the right type of security protocol in place. >> its great to see you, colonel. tell us about the name of your book. >> "garnia of the republic." it came out y...

. >> welcome back to cnns special coverage. live in texas outside one of the main gates on to ft. hood post, an investigation clearly under way as i speak. the big question at this moment, who is this u.s. army specialist, the soldier who is 34 years of age and father accused of committing such a horrendous act. he served in iraq and deployed for four months. he never actually saw combat and did serve two deployments and the first as he was a member of the puerto rican national guard. he served ...

People. nobody really know what is that does for the soldiers. >> mental. >> its possible. >> most do just fine. they have plenty out there who do not. you cant blame the post i dont think thats the problem. >> the soldiers are labeled as crazy if they go in. its just something you are really not supposed to do. is that fair? >> some may feel that way, but the army has come a long, long way in the last few years on that issue. i hope they have. the real issue is that once you have them in your c...

I have seen soldiers who are doing well and have done well in their treatment programs. its all across the board. they go back and they have soldier who is hate them and some are happy with the post. i dont know that ft. hood is the issue. >> we dont know why. >> we dont know where the post was. all of us are hoping to get answers from the people. there too many questions out there. those are the pieces of the puzzle that we want answers to. i appreciate it with the san antonio express news. tha...

Post. im a military brat and i loved the places i have gone to. it doesnt make any sense how they are treated. >> just one soldiers perspective. i cant stress that enough. one young womans perspective being on post for a number of months. a perspective we wanted to share and she had mentioned the specialist, the shooter here from yesterdays tragedy rushing for treatment. we dont finish he rushed to receive treatment or not. we know he was receiving treatment for depression and anxiety and had be...

Disasters, major hasan was workplace violence. have we gotten too far away from 9/11 that we dont remember the impact of that? >> i wrebelieve thats part of and we have a civilian leadership that doesnt want to believe that it exists. if you dont want to admit that theres evil. if you dont want to admit that theres an enemy, you dont have the right type of security protocol in place. >> its great to see you, colonel. tell us about the name of your book. >> "garnia of the republic." it came out y...

That weapon? these are all the questions we have no answers to yet, brooke. >> let me follow-up with this. we were both listening to the general testifying this morning to an army major who corroborated and said it was cutos to ft. hood for acting as quickly as they did. what changed on post and the protocol. they handle this so well yesterday. the washington navy yard here in washington, d.c. the major installations, there is much improved training, coordination, practicing and sadly practicing...