Mental health problems. More on the shooter and that background and a possible motive later. Lets get to ft. Hood, texas. George howell standing by. Reporter this was a shooting spree that took place in multiple locations on base. People were told to shelter in place. This size of a city was put on lockdown as folks were forced to undergo yet another traumatic mass shooting. We have multiple gunshot victims. Reporter Tragedy Strikes again. The armys largest u. S. Base put on lockdown for hours as shots rang out wednesday. The second deadliest shooting on the ft. Hood military base in texas in nearly five years. Its unreal. Really unreal. Because in 2009 i was here. And this thing happen again. Reporter authorities scramble to the scene shutting the front gates, backing up traffic, urging everyone to stay put. The lone shooter identified as specialist ivan lopez, an american soldier toting a. 45 caliber smith and wes son handgun purchased recently. He was undergoing treatment for psychological and psychiatric issues. Reporter he opened fire, killing three people and injuring more than a dozen before taking his own life. It was he row wick what she did at that moment in time. She did her job. She did exactly what we would expect. Reporter victims were airlifted to nearby hospitals. Any shooting is troubling. Obviously this reopening the pain of what happened at ft. Hood five years ago. Reporter ft. Hood, the sight of so much pain in 2009. He killed 13 people and injurying 32. President obamas touching words on that tragic day almost five years ago sadly relevant again. May god bless the memory of those that we have lost. Reporter so this happened between two buildings here on base, the medical building and the transportation building. He went into one building, opened fire. Then got into his vehicle, fired shots from the vehicle. Until he was confronted by a military officer using his own weapon to turn it on himself and killing himself. Thank you so much for that. We are now learning more details about that shooter this morning. We know he served in iraq three years ago and was being evaluated for possible post Traumatic Stress disorder. We do know that ivan lopez was married, that he had a 3yearold child. As you say, he served for four months in iraq in 2011. That was as the war, of course, was winding down in iraq. A rather short tour of duty. No indication he was wounded. He was being evaluated for post Traumatic Stress, treated for depression and anxiety. He had recently purchased a. 45 caliber semi automatic handgun. Theres going to be two tracks of the investigation now. Were security procedures sufficient on the base. How does someone get in with an unregistered for the military weapon on base. Were the procedures sufficient. And, of course, this persons Mental Health, what exactly was going on with him. That will be very much a focus. We know certain measures were taken back in 2009. Lets talk about this shooter. Was there any indication, barbara, that his war service is what caused this potential Mental Illness being reported . I think thats the question so many in the military are going to be asking. Being treated for possible post Traumatic Stress. The army says he also self reported a possible traumatic brain injury. But no record that he had been wounded in iraq. Lets be clear. This is a very sensitive issue for members of the u. S. Military. PostTraumatic Stress does not have a direct link to violence. This has been a stigma that so many in the military have death with. The Mental Health stigma for so many years as they come back from war. Tens of thousands are treated for it and go on very successfully. So i think for u. S. Army soldiers, for members of the military, as they look at this incident, they are going to be concerned that this is yet another sigma issue. Someone becoming a murder, there is no causal link between the two. Its going to be a big issue inside the military. Its important to point out that sensitivity there. Certainly we know within the society as a whole theres that stigma attached to Mental Health. All right. Another part of that is that it doesnt get treated the same way that physical health does and often goes untreated. That becomes part of the story as well. Lets bring in our military analyst Major General james spider marks. Great to have you here. Look, this happened on base. I believe that the issues that are going to wind up being relevant to why this happened are going to be nonmilitary in nature. Does it seem fair to say that at this point . Youd hope that that would be the circumstance. Clearly, theres probably a causal link between who he was, what he did and the circumstances that he was in. We will determine all of that. I think youre absolutely spot on. This is not inherently a military story. We wind up developing Mental Health was there and ignored. We dont see ignored in this. We see documentation. Theres a process to discover here. Also a little confusing. Not diagnosed with ptsd but under a process for diagnosis. Its not unique to the military in terms of how you do that. Medical care in the military is not dissimilar from what you or anybody else would receive. He acknowledged that he had a traumatic brain injury. He said that himself. That needs to be identified. Let me take a step back. Before you deploy, you go through a medical e value wagts. Medicals part of mental . Absolutely. Absolutely. Its all up loaded and part of the record. When you come back, you go through a very similar post deployment evaluation. Want to see where the gaps are. When he had come back in 2011, he came back, obviously the system was working. It picked up that this soldier had a problem. What i dont understand is if he had a problem and under diagnosis why did he in the midst of that move to a new location. You want to have a continuity of care. He moved to ft. Hood and just got there two months ago. He was immediately placed back into the evaluation status. Important to note, this man was supposedly suffering from depression, anxiety and other psychiatric complaints that were being treated. So it was definitely an ongoing thing. Again, this is a developing story. The firearm that we he used we believe was his own. That he had a permit. The question becomes, if youre being treated for depression and under the process of evaluation or ptsd, why do you get to keep your concealed permit . As i understand, he had a concealed carry permit. That dies when it comes to the post. The post has its own rules. You cannot have that concealed carry permit while youre on post. The fact that he got it on post sadly we can probably get to the bottom of it. But its not hard to bring a weapon on post. If he had challenges, it wouldnt be hard for him to bring a weapon on post. Unless theres was an indicator. This is a big part of the debate when it comes to Mental Health. Its so confused. Its given the wrong kind of attention. Here you have someone mentally ill. Should that have been a flag . Is that something that should flag you in terms of whether or not they have a weapon . Not for a military, but in general. How does someone being treated for Mental Illness wind up getting a gun. Well, Mental Illness doesnt mean violent. This story is going to reveal a lot of those same questions. 2009, you lived on base, you know it very well. I covered that story for a very long time what happened in 2009. There were a lot of changes afterwards. Right. The base was supposed to be tightened. It is basically a city. It is. 90,000 folks live on that post. Fair to say there are lapses in security there, have to be tighter. Fair criticism . Of course its a fair criticism. You can never have a hundred percent solution. This is an individual that was able and he probably didnt take a lot of effort, but he was able to work his way through that system and do what he just did. Its horrible. Getting the handgun through, yes, now ft. Hood is a no gun zone, right, for people on base. Sure. But that doesnt mean youre going to check every Single Person or that would be all youd be doing at the gate. You would shut down effective operations. So you dont have any real questions about the integrity of security . Not at all. Things are going to have to be reviewed. We cant immediately throw the baby out with the bath water. Clearly this is horrible. But we need to be able to evaluate very precisely how did this individual get his hands on a weapon. How did he go downtown and buy a weapon. How did that happen . Thats a huge part of the story. It gets complicated because you dont want to color all mentally ill people with the same brush. A lot of questions are going to come up here. Next up on new day, yet another shift in the search for flight 370 in the indian ocean. The arrival of a hightech pinger locater has been delayed. The latest coming up next. Return on investment wall isnt a street. Isnt the only return im looking forward to. For some, every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. Which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. Our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. mom when our little girl was we got a subaru. Its where she said her first word. little girl no saw her first day of school. little girl bye bye made a best friend forever. The back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. 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Reporter calling this the biggest mystery in aviation history. Malaysian Prime Minister najib razak toured pierce air force base thursday. This as the search zone moved again, this time slightly north. The new refined area of search has given us new hope. And i believe the colonurage ofe crews is more than equal to the task. Reporter today both leaders say they have no guarantees theyll ever find the missing plane. It is a a very difficult search. The most difficult in human history. Reporter in the search zone thursday, at least ten aircraft and nine ships scouring an area about the size of minnesota. They tell cnn some search areas have been abandoned with the lack of no sightings. No news or credible leads on where flight 370 might be. We want to provide comfort to the families and we will not rest until answers are indeed found. Reporter i can tell you that does bring some comfort to the families to know that theyre trying so hard. But really, the fact they havent found anything and the ocean shield, that australian ship, wont be on site until tomorrow. Having said that, they dont even know where to begin to look for those black boxes. Thank you so much for that. The most difficult search in human history. Let that sink in as we take a closer look at the search and the investigation. Mary schiavo is here with us. Shes a former Inspector General for the department of transportation. Now an attorney that represents victims and their families. It goes over in my mind, it really is the most difficult search in human history. Oh, absolutely. And made even worse by the fact that we dont have any includes from the plane itself. So to search the vast ocean without any hints from the plane as we had in air france 447 makes it exceedingly difficult and sheds more criticism and the examination upon the black Box Technology and how we need to change that. And because we dont have the debris from the plane and the humans trying to assess where the debris could be, some of that intel jeligence and data ks getting shifted. Its changed yet again. Yes. Good news bad news. The bad news is theyre using data that its difficult to do it. This data and satellites were never intended to do this. Sure. If we would focus to more of a glass box where we would continuously download the data, i think that has to be the clarion call of this accident. The change of the location might be good news. The glass box, i like the way you put that. A continuous stream. We know thats obviously going to be expensive. We know theres going to be reluctance on the part of the airlines and manufacturers. Do you think its likely in the next few years well see it . The only way we will see it, and ive seen this time and time again with changes after accidents, is it must be made and i think the United States should lead the way. Australia is very progressive on this today. Maybe they can now push for the glass box, but its going to require government regulation. The airline will not put in place any new things, any new technology unless it is federal regulation. Right. And i think thats the way to go. The government has to say, look, enough of this, lets move into the 21st century. Parts of the investigation is learning what to fix for next time or so there wont be a next time. Lets go back to the calculations and the data. Do you trust the math that these estimates of the search area are being based on or the people doing the math . Well, i certainly trust the people doing the math because the joint task force in australia has managed to amass the greatest minds in terms of this technology in the world. Were taking different data and trying to mesh them together into one coherent set of points. Its like trying to combine the old saying of apples and oranges. I think theyre doing an a admirable job. So thats part of the problem of solving this mystery and while its great that they can continue to refine the data, theres no assurance that all of the data really lines up in these points. So it is the best. I think the australian Prime Minister said it best. Its the best of what they have. And theyre clearly doing their very best as well. But its just not the kind of data that you usually use to find an aircraft. Sure. Its remarkable that they have been able to use it to come up with the points they have. Put both your inspector had on and your attorney hat on. Youve been calling for that raw inmarsat data to be released so that the Scientific Community at large can aid in the calculation of it. Thats the investigator aspect. Now lets talk about the attorney part. Will that compromise the investigation Going Forward and is it worth it to do that . Oh, i dont think so. Oh, it is worth it to do it. Many things at least a couple things that the malaysian officials had said would never be released, for example the transcript of the air Traffic Control tapes. Just last week they told the families it was sealed, and then it was released. Same thing now on the radar and satellite data. I think even crowd sources might help. At this point, they need every one to help find this plane. The krig criminals certainly didnt have access if there are criminals. We dont know if its criminal or a terrible mechanical disaster. The alleged criminals, if any, didnt have access to the satellites or the satellite data. So that cant compromise the investigation. The final thing, last week they told the families there was some sort of surveillance tape or information from the airport security. And that hasnt been released yet. So maybe theres some information there that we just dont know about, that the malaysian authorities do have to help them further investigate this awful mystery. But thats where we are. They say theyve cleared the passengers. Its rather quick that they did that. Presumably they had a lot of resources. Other than that, theres just not a sled of evidence. Thats the problem. Were in 27, 28 days. Thanks so much for joining us as always, mary. Got to division protecting the integrity of the investigation versus protecting themselves from criticism. You cant get other necessarily the financial burden of a lawsuit. So we have the se severe situation at ft. Hood again and severe situation with the weather. So says meteorologist indra petersons. What are we seeing out there . This is the time of year we want to tell everyone to be aware. Were transitioning to from a very long winter. 50 million of you do have that risk for severe weather. In fact, today even a height nd risk is out there. If youre out towards st. Louis, memph memphis, even little rock, that threat will be out there toward the afternoon and evening hours. Its been a slow season of course because we had such a long winter. The average tornados about 244. Very Cool Temperatures in the north, that warm moist air down in the south. Already seeing showers this morning, but here comes the heavy storms in the afternoon. Keep in mind in