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>> thank you. throughout the day this notion is puzzling and certainly more than just a little bit chilling. a couple with a 6 month old daughter with plenty to live more and plenty to lose getting themselves on to a path that would lead them to kill and die. safe to say does not fit the traditional pattern and that likely made it easier for them to plan the act of terror under the radar. back with us now here is bob baer and joining us tonight is jim beerman, former police chief of redlands, ca...

>> bob and jim, good to have you again, still ahead, the debate on guns taking center stage and captain mark kelly and his wife gabby giffords met with president obama about the issue. he joins me next. well be right back.

Again, the thing that the fbi is trying to make sure they do is not foreclose any of these possibilities. we know that they found, for instance, some kind of homemade bomb lab. we know they found a backpack at the scene of the first shooting, chris. and apparently this is where he made these bombs. this is something that he had rigged together with a remote control car, and was intended to detonate yesterday and did not happen. we dont know exactly why that did not happen. these are all the piec...

Along with tough new measures imposed by washington. community leaders say its about time. >> over time we can only change culture. by changing culture you change behavior. changing behavior you can change how institutions are perceived and how institutions actually operate. >> reporter: but tonight, a top police union official in cleveland is already chafing. >> no its not all stuff that we can live with. >> reporter: under a new agreement the justice department says cleveland police have to fi...

Pointing it at himself. hed fire it in the air. one law enforcement expert says there was another way to handle this. >> i think setting up a secure perimeter and at least making some attempt to negotiate may have been far more efficient. >> reporter: but jim beerman, a former police chief, says there may not have been time for that. >> if he decided to start shooting at the officers, all the officers there were at risk. that bullet will go through the car door and the windshield. there were peo...