Good morning to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im kasie hunt. It is friday, october 27th. It is 5 00 a. M. In lewiston, maine, where more than 350 Law Enforcement personnel are engaged in an urgent manhunt for the suspect in a Mass Shooting at a Bowling Alley and restaurant that left 18 people dead. Police say 40yearold robert card should be considered Armed And Dangerous. Parts of two counties in central maine are under shelter in place orders again today. Schools and offices also closed. We had everything from people calling about, you know, noises in the basement, noises in the woods, suspicious people, gunshots, All Night Long since the incident in lewiston. We have our whole department working. I encourage everybody to call if they seeing something suspiciou the suspects family is urging him to surrender. His brother tells cnn his family is cooperating with Law Enforcement in any way possible. Officers found the suspects vehicle abandoned in a boat launch in lisbon, maine. Public records show he owns a small power boat. An acquaintance calls him a skilled marksman, one of the best shooters in the unit. Law enforcement sources tell cnn card spoke about Hearing Voices and threatened to shoot up a National Guard facility. Mark morales is on the ground in lewiston, maine. What is the latest on the manhunt . Reporter good morning, kasie. Here we are on friday, and heres where we are right now. So, after seeing Armored Vehicles drive through town, after seeing clusters of Police Officers, in some cases going door to door checking on leads, we still dont have a suspect in custody. Two things are happening at once. On one side you have a community that is completely torn apart by this. Theyre really feeling this heart break. On the other, you have fear, this palpable fear that is affecting everybody. And the more and the longer that this man is not brought into custody, the more that that fear grows. Now, that brings us to the latest strategy done by Law Enforcement. Dave decide they decided to zer his previous home addresses, where he was living previously. They have been going to these places, executing Search Warrants. Theyre calling it Due Diligence. A few short hours ago, they descended upon his last known address in bowdoin, you saw heavily armed Police Officers, they had bullhorns, they had drones. After a few hours it was given the all clear, but you saw this Large Police Presence going in, doing what they called their Due Diligence to look for any evidence, anything that could have given them any clues as to what was going on. That search those types of searches are expected to continue. There is one more location that theyre going to hit, thats going to happen at some point later today. And that brings us to their search and the way they have been searching. It has been more like a localized search. So they have been Following Tips and following leads, and going to the particular streets and closing off all the surrounding streets, doing their searches, checking out what they needed to check out, and then they open up those streets. Thats a little different from something that we have seen in, say, watertown during the Boston Marathon bombing where they would close down certain streets and as time started to tick by, you started seeing more and more street closures. Theyre doing this more of this localized searches with police going down and going and checking on these leads. And all this comes after we got a briefing yesterday from local leaders where they were telling us and gave us the numbers of 18 dead and 13 wounded. And although they did not give us a motive, the Working Theory that Law Enforcement is working through right now is that the gunman broke up with his girlfriend, that he targeted these locations because he used to go to these bars and used to go to this Bowling Alley. Kasie . Mark morales in lewiston, maine, thank you for that report. Coming up here, the suspected gunman reported Hearing Voices and threatened to shoot up a National Guard base, according to maine Law Enforcement officials. So why wasnt he disarmed . Well walk you through the laws. Plus, a congressman and marine corps veteran who lives in lewiston is changing his stance on Assault Weapons. And the u. S. Carried out air strikes in syria as tensions continue to rise in the region. Okay, were having some issues with kasies technical lines there. Ill pick up from here. Were talking about this top story, the manhunt in maine, of course. Well get the very latest for you now. We got jennifer with us. You can see were having some technical problems, jennifer. So thank you for being helping us with that. In terms of the manhunt, i mean, the amount of concern that must be in this area is unimaginable. Just, you know, maine, you know, isnt immune to shootings, of course. But it does have slightly lax gun laws as i understand it and t this is absolutely not expected there and now they have literally the worst situation of Gun Violence In America this year so far. Maine has been very lucky. It is a state that has not seen these catastrophic public Mass Shootings. And it also has a rich gun culture, hunting, and also very permissive gun laws. When you look at the rest of the northeast, most of the states have licensing. Maine and a couple of other states are the exceptions. And they have had very low gun homicide rates. Theyre usually only a couple of dozen murders in the state, in an entire year, and this shooting sadly is almost that entire toll. But luck is seems to be running out in maine. I spoke with someone in lewiston yesterday who said it is amazing it hasnt happened before now. We have been living under a false sense of security. After all, we are part of america. And america has a gun violence problem. Jennifer, this is kasie hunt, apologies there. I think we resolved the Tech Problems that we were challenged with there. And can you help us explain a little bit of the difference between a yellow flag law and a red flag law and why that matters here . Absolutely. 21 states have Red Flag Laws and theyre emergency orders. Theyre designed to intervene before somebody can harm themselves or somebody else. Speed is of the essence with these mechanisms. The yellow flag law, no other state has a law like this. It was a bipartisan compromise. And it very much acts like that. It is not really an emergency order. Only a Police Officer can invoke this. Many other red flag states, a Family Member can go to a Police Officer with their concerns and then they go to a judge. Here, a Police Officer will take the patient into custody, a doctor has to sign off, then they go to a judge, and this process takes a lot longer than a red flag law. And there is a lot of room in there for somebody to lash out violently. And i think lawmakers and residents in maine today are wondering if these yell yes flag laws are enough, that they shouldnt just have a full on red flag emergency Risk Protection order law. Jennifer, i want to show you what maines congressman who represents lewiston, he actually is from lewiston himself. He has in the past opposed proposals to ban Assault Weapons after the shooting. Here is what he had to say about his position on that. I have opposed efforts to ban Deadly Weapons of war like the Assault Rifle he used to carry out this crime. The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure, which is why i now call on the United States congress to ban Assault Rifles, like the one used by the sick perpetrator of this mass killing. Even the states republican senator Susan Collins suggesting that the large magazines were a significant problem. Congress has been unable to ban those in recent years as well. This is a remarkable shift for him. The reality in the past in maine is they had fewer Mass Shootings than other neighboring states. This obviously changed the congressmans mind. It did. I mean, these weapons do incredible damage and especially because they can fire off so many lethal rounds so quickly. It can kills done of dozens of a matter of minutes. But an Assault Weapons ban may not have helped in this case. There is an argument out there that what is needed really are laws that allow police to intervene when somebody shouldnt be armed. The bar needs to be lower than an Involuntary Mental Health commitment, focusing on certain categories of weapons, doesnt focus on the vetting of the buyer. It is not the weapon. It is who were giving the weapons to. All right. Jennifer mascia, thank you for being with us this morning. I appreciate your time today. You bet. Up next here, aid continuing to arrive in gaza, but none of it is the fuel they say they so desperately need. How that is worsening the unprecedented humanitarian crisis there next. And what President Biden said that prompted the hamascontrolled Ministry Of Health to publish the names of thousands of People Killed in gaza. Nice footwork. Man, youre lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. Now you can stream all your games like its nothing. Yes [ cheers ] yeah woho running up and down that field looks tough. Its a pitch. Get way more into what youre into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. Welcome back. The u. N. Says the humanitarian crisis in gaza has reached an unprecedented point as more aid trucks enter carrying water, food, medicine and medical supplies, but no fuel. Now, hospitals are shutting down with fuel severely rationed to run select critical facilities. Israel is blocking deliveries of fuel altogether, arguing that hamas would just divert it for military use. Cnns nada bashir is live in amman, jordan. Is there anything that could break this stalemate over the fuel . Reporter well, look, kasie, israel has been very clear its position on this. They say they will not allow fuel to get into gaza because they say it is going it is being used by hamas. We heard earlier in the week from an israeli adviser to Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu who says israel does not intend to fuel in his words the hamas military machine. We have heard some mixed messages earlier in the week, also from spokespeople who said we could begin to see fuel coming in, this would be guaranteed to be heading towards humanitarian efforts and operations there. But clearly this is not what we are seeing. We heard the repeated warnings from the u. N. , other aid agencies as well as from hospitals and doctors on the ground who are telling us this shortage in fuel is crippling the humanitarian situation inside the gaza strip. Hospitals are being forced to shut down in some areas. There are warnings we could begin to see hospitals running out of electricity, babies on incubators facing a dire situation. Many people in desperate need of that fuel. But, of course, it is not just fuel. We are beginning to see aid coming in, but it is a drop in the ocean compared to what is actually needed. Were hearing from people on the ground in gaza who are telling us they are rationing their food supplies, they dont have any food in some cases, there is no electricity, no water, and fuel is crucial there for the Pr Processing of safe drinking water. Thats a huge concern. We heard from eu officials calling for a pause in the fighting in the air strikes to allow for humanitarian aid to come in, not a full ceasefire in the words of the eu, but humanitarian pause. There is repeated warnings from here in the region calling for an end to the air strikes and israels war on the gaza strip. We have seen that mounting death toll, now topping 7,000 according to the Health Ministry inside gaza. They published a list yesterday, thousands and thousands of names, thousands and thousands of children killed in the air strikes. Were here today, you see hundreds of people lining the streets to pray here, many wearing the palestinian scarf in solidarity with Palestinian People and were expecting further rallies later today. All right, nada bashir for us in amman, jordan. Thank you very much. As she mentioned, there is that new report from the hamascontrolled Health Ministry. It lists the names of more than 7,000 people they say are documented deaths since october 7th. Which it blames on Israeli Military aggression. The list is a response to President Biden saying he has no confidence in the Casualty Numbers being reported by the gazan Health Ministry. Lets bring back cnns max foster. Max, thank you very much for jumping in there. We apologize for springing that on you. Im grateful to have you with us. Look, lets talk about this Death Toll Controversy basically because at a Press ConferencePresident Biden was asked about this, on wednesday. And he essentially said to the reporter, who listed the death toll that he didnt believe what the death toll was. Now, the Health Ministry in gaza has previously been a very reliable reporter of information like this, according to our teams who have spent, you know, many years kind of lining up what they have said with what played out. Obviously the situation on the ground much more chaotic, different here. But it is very dramatic to see that list that they published with the names, you know, sometimes dozens from a single family. Yeah. It is very, very detailed. Theyre making the point that the figures are reliable. Theyre actually saying that this is an underestimate because there are, you know, doesnt include bodies, for example, that havent gone into the hospital yet, for example. Theyre saying it is an underestimate. I dont think joe biden is questioning the people have died in gaza, it is just the number of people who have died and whether or not you can rely on the figures. The u. S. Cant verify. We cant verify them. Theyre coming from this hamascontrolled body. So, but they are figures that we relied on in the past, and the State Department has also relied on them in the past and quoted them as well. And it is this lack of information that were getting, were not being able to verify all the information, the u. S. Cant verify the information like many other nations. This big debate about the figures coming out from this Palestinian Health authority, which is run by hamas right now, which is obviously regarded as a terror organization. It is a very difficult situation. But it is the one source that figures that people have been quoting and President Biden i think is speaking for quite a lot of people that in saying that how much questioning how much we can rely on the exact figures at least. The United Nations is using these figures as well and they periodically put out, you know, statements or they have talked about the urgent need for humanitarian aid. The challenge there that the United Nations, you know, the israelis called their credibility into question. They dont trust the way that the United Nations operates in this plane. Indeed. We got this meeting with the United Nations and they are discussing a ceasefire, which is a Motion Forward by the arab states. You know, this is a huge, huge debate around the world. I was just talking to Jim Bittermann in paris about this today. All of the israeli allies have effectively obviously backed up israels right to defend itself against hamas. They cant then be seen to call for a ceasefire because that would undermine that message so theyre trying to find a way around the language. So france, the uk, for example, the u. S. Now calling for a pause in the violence, but getting a ceasefire through the u. N. Will be really difficult indeed. For sure. All right, max foster, thank you very much for being with us this morning. I really appreciate it. Dont go far, just in case. Thank you. All right, coming up here, a former colleague says the suspect in the maine Mass Shooting is a skilled marksman and outdoorsman among the best shooters in his army reserve unit. How that impacts the ongoing manhunt. Good morning. Thank you for being u