ceremonies. it also gives believers hope that the catholic church could open up a little. many catholics feel the vatican has lost touch with the reality of their daily lives. if it is a question of gay marriage, fast-tracked divorce, or liberal abortion rights, the answer in rome has been no. at the same time, parliament s across europe, for example in spain, are voting in favor of such laws parliaments across europe. among the many faithful attending this catholic procession is jose antonio fernandez. he was a priest, but he sacrificed the status in order to marry. the church allowed him to continue working as a schoolteacher but later refused to renew his contract after a photo of him and his family appeared in the media. they exploited the situation to justify my dismissal. they said parents would be offended if they found out i was a married priest. that was a lie. the parents all knew me, after all. he always talked openly about phis situation to his pupils, bt renouncing his faith was never an issue. he was hoping for a positive move from the church, possibly from pope benedict xvi. he was aware, however, of the vatican s traditional reluctance to change. ideas that challenge the norm are considered an attack on the church and its teachings usually. this is not an attack. it is just about thinking differently. that way of thinking was harshly criticized by the pope during his visits to spain. the spanish government s implementation of sweeping reforms to civil society has been a major source of irritation to the vatican. in 2005, spain became the third country in europe to allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children, a development that jesus is particularly proud of. as a gay man and devout catholic, the words of the pope were deeply hurtful. we are people who have rights, and we have to insist on them. we do not need the pope preaching to us in spain about our decisions. there are two sides to contemporary spain liberal and conservative. the latter includes a special on of the catholic church founded in madrid in the 1920 s special arm of the catholic church. it has substantial influence at the many schools that its members run. the statements of the pope are most welcome here. these reforms are unfortunate, and the church has to make clear its position. thank god we can express our opinions openly and have the opportunity to question if these laws are appropriate. just 12% of spaniards go to mass, but most still want to attend weddings, first communions, and other ceremonies a dilemma for the church. spaniards are catholics but not practicing. all we did was inherit the face faith. still associated is the franco regime, which the church supported. it is a legacy which continues to cause much soul-searching among catholics. this is about a separation of the heart and mind. atop the catholic church is at heart of the catholic church as part of a long family tradition, but our hearts tell us something different. their work focuses on providing help for the homeless, unemployed, or disadvantage. i have to steal because i am hungry. i have to squad in an apartment. i have to break the law. i have to squat in an apartment. and many feel forgotten by the vatican, and the priests themselves want to see reform many feel forgotten by the vatican, and the priests themselves want to see reform. i m increasingly seeing a church of the people for ordinary residents, prison inmates, refugees, and people who have been evicted. then we have a hierarchical church, wielding all the power, and which is currently far more concerned with who will be the next pope than caring for the victims of our capitalist system. the second vatican council in the 1960 s brought a major renewal of the catholic church. for today s community priests, it was a positive step, but one that the church has failed to consolidate. former priest jose antonio does not expect a new pope to repeal the celibacy requirement for the clergy. meanwhile, his personal fight continues. he has taken his dismissal case to the european court of human rights. my problem is not the pope but the papacy. benedict xvi is retiring because he is surrounded by a pack of wolves. it is a battle he cannot win. the next pope will have to face up to a church government that has more power than the pope himself. nevertheless, jose antonio still refuses to give up hope hope that the vatican will eventually respond positively to the secular changes in spain. and who knows? perhaps even with a spanish- speaking pulp at its helm spanish-speaking pope. weather experts say winter is over. the first of march marks the beginning of meter logical spring, but northern europe is still firmly in the grip of dark and cold. in germany, these past few months were the darkest registered in decades. parts of greece were covered with snow for a while. aid organizations were busy around the clock, trying to ease the suffering of the many homeless people. economic crisis in greece s making life extremely difficult also for those who still have a home economic crisis in greece is making life extremely difficult. some are resorting to desperate measures to stay warm. these days, he often comes across tree stumps. today, he finds what is left of a eucalyptus tree. it came from the national road up there, about 30 meters away. they use as a cover up the noise of the national road, the cars going through, so they can easily come on an afternoon or during the night, and they can take as many as they want. defense at the side of the road has been cut the fence. last year, they only managed to catch five illegal lumberjacks red handed. officials do not like to admit how powerless they are. after the havoc wreaked by forest fires, they face another problem caused by the economic crisis. most of our lumber is stolen by people from rural communities living close to the forests. we are trying to counter the problem by offering them half- price lumber, but now, city residents are also helping themselves to our lumber. our annual production, however, was not intended to meet urban demand. the greek population is switching to lumber because they are unable to afford oil or gas these days. the number of lumber tradesmen has doubled, but they are denying reports about selling wood that has been illegally forested or smuggled from abroad. there is illegal would on the market, but the police and public authorities should take care of this. when i buy lumber, i by declared products i buy declared products. customers do not care where their lumber comes from. what counts for them is the price. i only buy a small amount anyway, just as much as i can afford at the end of the month from my meager income. when that is gone, we just have to freeze. at night, this family heats up there with stouffer their wood stove. three months ago, they switched off their oil fired heating because the bill each of too much of their income. the stove now has to heat up all three rooms of their apartment. we save up to 100 euros every month. the house is very warm, and it does not cost, so i do not know what reason would force me to change the way we use now. i do not know. this environmental researcher knows one good reason why would stoves are not such a good idea particulate matter emissions. his measurement data from high above the capital shows a particular matter concentration reminiscent of the smog-stricken times of the 1970 s. the measurements exceed the limits of the european union for their health. from that point of view, some of the northern parts of athens have a problem with the particulates, with the smog. health experts are sounding the alarm for athens and other greek cities. they are particularly concerned by the fact that furniture and garbage are ending up in people s wood stoves. in the meantime, domestic fuel providers are facing bankruptcy. sales of drop by 80% in two years. additional extraordinary taxes have raised prices to almost 1.35 euros per liter, higher than anywhere else in the european union. when they make their deliveries twice a week, they often encounter enraged customers. look, more than 1300 euros for 1,000 liters. is oil as expensive as that in germany as well? but what alternative do i have? would it be better for our country if i also started deforesting our woods like everyone else? this forest ranger has discovered two felled trees on his tour. this came down from the wind. this tree at least was not a victim of illegal felling, but the forestry agency can only afford enough gasoline for two tours a week, so he can do little to stop his woods falling prey to the economic crisis in greece. countries in the e you lose more than 100 billion euros every year because of corruption countries in the eu. the eu has intensified the fight for economic power, but it is not easy, especially not when the country s elite is involved. in times of economic crisis, the overall pie is becoming smaller, and those who earn ordinary wages get smaller pieces, but those who continue grabbing pieces for themselves are more likely to be caught up by their neighbors at table. the crisis is shedding light on the growing divide between the rich and poor. in slovenia, people have been taking to the streets regularly in protest. they are angry because the country s top politicians have been stuffing their pockets. then he curses the day he agreed to work on this bridge he curses the day he agreed to work on this bridge. as a contractor, he was well known and worked for his company on a 20-year contract. to look like a sure-fire thing, and small firms like his cannot afford to be picky it looked like a sure-fire thing. my people worked on this bridge for three and a half months. i invoiced cpl for more than 30,000 euros, but they only paid 2800. when the bridge opened, the mayor said this was the only project for which all the subcontractors were paid. he knew that was not true because my lawyer had already informed him that we had not been paid. legal proceedings ended in his favor. cpl was required to pay, but nothing happened because the company was on the brink of financial ruin at that time. the courts declared cpl bankrupt. the company s yard looks abandoned. but he suspects they are still removing building materials from the site. he has films trucks leaving the company complex at night he has filmed trucks leaving at night. he gave the film to the police, but they were not interested. apparently, it is ok for them to steal, but if you make a video of the ceiling, then you are breaking the law. you cannot film that. i went to the police and said they had been taking away road salt, but they did not investigate the matter until the next day. then the police admitted that salt had been taken. we spoke to an insider who confirmed that materials were repeatedly siphoned off and employees put to work on other unofficial jobs. he said he could not go into more detail because he had been threatened. the irregularities will come out at the trial or in the bankruptcy proceedings. all these crooked dealings will come to light. the sports stadium is reportedly another example of corruption. people say it is another construction project in which the mayor of the city was the major contractor and wanted to build a monument to himself. prosecutors are investigating the matter. it is certainly another case where almost all the other building companies involved have gone bust. some have responded to another apparent case of corruption by taking the law into their own hands. a radar speed camera was vandalized after it emerged that the company contacted to set them up had received the lion s share of the fines. for weeks now, the growing spate of corruption cases has led to demonstrators taking to the streets. at this protest, more than 20,000 people turned out. slovenia has not seen demonstrations this big since it sought independence from yugoslavia. the politicians who came into office then are still in power today, but this journalist from the daily newspaper says they have lost the voter support. people feel that the politicians have lost touch with the people and their needs. 20 years ago, slovenia was born based on a consensus between the people and politicians. today, this consensus no longer exists. the protesters no longer trust the government or the political class as a whole. in their eyes, the state has become a big self-service shop designed to serve politicians. why am i here? because they have stolen my country. that s why. i want it back not for me, but for my children. we want these things to change. there are no values anymore. everything is just a big lie. this man has unleashed political shock waves. he is the head of the country s anti-corruption authority. he publicized the fact that the mayor here cannot explain where some 2 million euros of his assets came from. that is not all slovenia s prime minister has 2 million euros in his private account that cannot be explained either. not looking into mid-level servants, but we started looking into assets of top politicians in slovenia. it was a shock that basically an institution it was a shock. some suspected it was designed to force the prime minister out of office. the timing on this was too good to be true. it could have been published before or later, but instead, it was placed to have the maximum effect. even a change of government in slovenia will not alter things overnight. the battle against corruption is only just beginning. the report from the commission should not be taken as a sign that the rule of law is working in slovenia. it is now the cornerstone of what will be part of the actions to determine if the rule of law really exists. he had to fire 27 people, but he says he is not about to give up. i ve been left with nothing. i have to start again from scratch with people i can trust, friends. slovenian government contracts are not worth the paper they are written on. some say no matter who governs in the future, the fight against corruption is what will make or break the slovenian state. people all over the world know that commuting to work can cost time, money, and nerves. congested roads are also a problem for the environment, which is why many european cities are coming up with creative attempts to encourage commuters to choose alternative means of transport, rather than use their own cars. london has introduced a congestion chart. german cities have built big parking spaces on the city borders. paris offers bicycles for citizens. in estonia, they also have plans. winters in estonia are cold and long. commuters are glad they do not have to wait long for the next bus to come along. the city s public transportation has been free of charge to residents since the new year. all you need is a plastic pass. the system recognizes me as a resident. i do not have to recharge the card. all i do is swiped it against the reader, and i m off. many residents use public transport. 2/3 of the city s population live in these concrete estates. at last, we can travel downtown without buying a ticket. all our family uses the free service. the buses are not even that much fuller, but i am always afraid of losing my card. the cards themselves cost two years 2 euros. the new system means a typical family of four can save almost 10% of its monthly budget. the first few weeks were a massive success. we have issued a total of 200,000 plastic cards over the last couple of months, and we are now having to order more. if we manage to get 10% of drivers to leave their cars at home, we will be very happy. it will also mean far less smog. there are no official statistics available yet, but the authorities insist there is less traffic congestion. they hope to win the european green capital award in 2013. the downtown area will have to become practically car-free to have a chance. that is an ambitious goal, especially considering estonians love of driving. non-residents still have to pay to board buses. meanwhile, at the city parliament, the debate continues. although 200,000 cards have been issued, the opposition continues to voice its criticism of the free fare concept. the truth is there is no such thing as free public transport. all of us have to pay for the costs 55 million euros through our public taxes. it is a political gimmick for our city government ahead of the upcoming regional elections. to cover the 55 million euros cost, authorities have shelled other projects, such as renovating the public sewers authorities have shelved other projects. professor antov is an expert of transportation. he specializes in traffic management. the problem is insufficient investment in local transport. there are no new buses and trams, and the routes have not been developed, allegedly because of a lack of funds. that would have been a big first step towards attracting people, more important than the free buses. the buses are full when people get off work. passengers are easy to get home as quickly as possible and with as little hustle and bustle as possible. to be honest, i am bit skeptical whether it will stay free. there will be a lot of demand, and somebody has to foot the bill. that is precisely what many fear. the high cost could be its own undoing, bringing a swift end to the landmark 0 euro fair fare. that report brings us to the end of this edition of european journal. from all of us here at dw studios in brussels, we thank you for watching. we hope you can join us again next week. until then, auf
how can you get back trust of passengers passengers? translator: i think now is not the right day to talk about future strategies of lufthansa. now we deal with giving support to the relatives, and it is important that we jointly do that that the public is included that we all can cope with what happened and that we then think about the strategic plan at the appropriate time. we are having another technical problem. the image has frozen. we ll try to rejoin that press conference momentarily. i m here with david soucie and richard quest. a number of things coming out of this press conference. essentially the airline saying at this point no need to look back at their procedures about having somebody else go into the cockpit when a pilot is alone. we can rejoin the press conference. translator: reasons given, but unfortunately i cannot give you the reasons. i don t know. translator: we are not aware of the response but you can give us a call after we know about this. translator: the aircraft is on its way to tel aviv and we will inform you about the reason for the delay. translator: since the crash, the relatives are being looked after, they re taken caref. some of them are in marseille. some are in different places in europe together with the authorities we made sure that the relatives were not informed via the media. translator: a quick question first. the crew members, did they notice that something was wrong, and could they have given a distress call? you mentioned speculations. old machine or airliner training. what is your opinion of what you heard? translator: to your first question our cabin members, crew members do know the code if the door is not opened from the inside. that s what i mentioned. crew members can also do that. otherwise, crew members are not being trained about this. they are not trained about procedures within the cockpit. this is not legally required. a distress call must be activated in the cockpit. only licensed pilots can do that. i have never responded to statements you ve just made. i ve always said lufthansa germanwings train their pilots in the same way. so for lufthansa and germanwings. different ages with regard to aircrafts does not play a role here. aircrafts are serviced as the technical service requires to do it. sometimes we have old aircrafts and newer ones within lufthansa as well. one more question. a question from france. reporter: [ inaudible ]. translator: yesterday and the day before we said that we wish to protect personal circumstances, and we work together with france and leave the investigation to their authority. translator: you said the relatives were informed personally. how did they respond to your news? translator: there were personal meetings and also mr. winkleman and i met them directly. after today we have findings we actually want to make sure that we wanted to inform relatives ourselves. so it was about the findings today today. my experience is that human beings respond in different ways. of course everybody is in grief, in mourning. the news were horrible. we have informed the relatives of the passengers and we had special flights to barcelona and another destination and we have then informed them. translator: as a relative as a mother or father it can be difficult to find out about such an accident. what reactions were there? translator: it s a shear horror what happened two days ago, and i think this can t be worse. i do not wish to speculate. you re listening to the ceo of lufthansa, a series of stunning developments this morning. i want to bring in our panel, cnn aviation correspondent richard quest, cnn aviation experts mary schiavo and david soucie. essentially, the key thing is they don t at this point know of any motive for the copilot to have brought down this plane. no doubt, though in their minds that that is what has occurred. they were informed by the french prosecutor just as the world was informed earlier today. the copilot started training in 2008 said he was 100% fit to fly. they had no indication that there was anything wrong with this copilot, and at this point, they say they have firm confidence in all of their pilots. but again, a lot of questions remain about the training of this copilot, about what was going on in his mind and if we will ever be able to fully know. the selection of the pilot, he went try how he was selected where he did his training. the training was interrupted, the ceo said but he didn t explain why. although he said that s quite normal. it s expensive and it frequently happens. he said there was nothing wrong in the captain leaving the cockpit at that point in the flight but what i found particularly important, lufthansa the lufthansa group does not have a two-person cockpit rule. so when one leaves which is the norm in the united states when one leaves a flight attendant doesn t go in. he was specifically asked if he was going to revise that he said he would have to look into it. david soucie apparently there s no regulation in europe mandating a regulatory mandate that somebody else a cabin crew members has to go in so there s not just an individual in the cockpit the regulation addresses the access to the cockpit. you have to have access to the cockpit procedure. there are parameters that go along with that. what concerns me if you remember mh370, when there was suspicion they had access to the cockpit through the e and e cockpit in the floor, immediately airlines changed their procedures for access to the cockpit. all that happened immediately. i ll grant it s only been 48 or 50-some hours at this point. we ll give them that. this is going to change. they re going to change the way they do this. it s not the standard in the united states nor in many other countries. they say at this need they see no need to change that. it s fine to have a copilot alone in the cockpit. mary schiavo, i d like to hear your opinion in that. it does seem that inevitabley will change in europe? it s inevitable it will change. remember it s not just for suicide, murder terrorism that you have a second person in the cockpit. there have been situations in the past where there s been a medical emergency, where there s been a problem with oxygen or other things. that second person there can serve a variety of functions, just not preventing a captain or copilot from bringing down a plane. it s just good policy. it s stunning that an airline like lufthansa which is world renowned for its pilots among other things doesn t have this policy. really inexcusable in the modern world of aviation. mary i m wondering, as you heard this press conference if anything else stands out to you. the one thing that stands out, i guess, is the point in the flight where this was. yes, it was just after they entered the cruise. we still didn t hear anything about was it just coincidence? did the copilot take advantage of the opportunity? this is the one moment when this pilot left to go to the facilities. yes, he was allowed. this was a short flight. granted, it was a clear day. the similarities to september 11 2001 strike me in that on that day it was crucial the weather was clear. the pilot could see the mountains, the alps. we also learned the passengers could see the approaching mountains as well. the timing on this and the opportunity is a little bit ironic to say the least. we don t know how long this person might have been planning this. the timing is indeed strange, unfortunately. john ransome, retired pilot, safety expert. you re listening to this press conference. what jumped out to you? good morning anderson. one of the things i was considering is when crew members fly together for a period of time even a day or two, you start to pick up on their habits and their preferences. it s easy to remember that maybe the person i m flying with likes to go to the lav immediately after leveling off especially if they ve consumed a lot of coffee. there apparently was an air traffic control delay which delayed the engine start procedure. it s easy to come up with a plan based on what you see the other crew members do if in fact your plan was to do something like this. that s interesting. we don t know how much these two had flown together. you re saying essentially, if they were familiar with each other, and it seems like in the conversation that they had prior to the pilot leaving it was a normal conversation laconic responses i believe is one of the terms the prosecutor used it s possible the copilot, if there were patterns the pilot had, it would help the copilot to plan this out. sure. based on what he may have seen in the past. additionally i have to echo what the lufthansa personnel said. i ve worked with the lufthansa engineers and pilots on another fleet. they are very very professional very detail oriented and a very impressive group. john, do you have any doubt, though the policy of not having a second person in the cockpit at all times is going to change? 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this is where they there will be a memorial service, a moment for reflection for the families brought to france by lufthansa. we re at the closest location to the crash site that the families will be brought to. there is a memorial park in the field behind me. there are emergency services there, medical professionals there to help with psychological issues with the families. this will be a place this is the place that the french authorities are preparing to help bring the families closer to the crash site. this is being done in conjunction with lufthansa. what they will see here they will cebu kaysee bouquets of flowers. flags representing different nations on board the flight. the families of the victims on board the plane are aware of all the details that we now know about the intentional nature of the crash and about the screams in the last moments. these families are going to arrive here to the closest place to the crash site but perhaps an immense more amount of sorrow in their hearts than anticipated when this was planned yesterday. perhaps anger as well. it s impossible to know how this changes the grief for the family members, if it does change the grief. do we know how family members were notified? because this story really broke. the new york times broke this story last night. last night lufthansa, their comments said we have no information about the new york times reporting. but do we know at what point family members were actually informed or did they learn as the public learned? reporter: we don t know precisely. we do know late this morning, france time perhaps three hours ago or a little less the prosecutor spoke in marseille, in france and briefed the world on what happened. these families arrived by plane organized by lufthansa into marseille a few hours before that. we don t know how they have this information, but the families arrived into the same place that the prosecutor was speaking the same city. perhaps that provides a little information there. we also know that not only is lufthansa arranging the flights for the families to come from barcelona and dusseldorf but there are some families who traveled here by themselves private transport. three of those families are already here at the memorial site here. there are firefighters here rescue and recovery personnel on site here. what s significant, we ve seen quite a lot of medical personnel arriving as well anderson. nic, how far are you from the crash site and how difficult is it for authorities to get from that staging ground to the crash site? reporter: as far as we understand we are a couple miles from the crash site. the helicopters take off from a staging area perhaps about five miles away from us. they fly up one of the main mountain valleys and turn high into the mountains behind us here. the helicopters we ve seen that are flying into the crash site itself are literally into the mountains right behind me. they go up over the trees and then higher into the mountains. local people here we ve talked to are familiar are the terrain. one of them who heard the crash itself believe the crash site is just in the ridge lines in one of the valleys up behind us here. but access up there from this location would be treacherous, treacherous and torturous by foot is what we understand and helicopter is the only way in. all events today, we understand regarding the families coming here the time frame is slipping. officials are a little concerned that the families will be getting here very much as it gets close to dark. obviously for them to be able to see this in daylight is going to be very important, anderson. i m assuming families will not be flown over by helicopter over the crash site if they request. reporter: it s not clear at the moment precisely what will be made available beyond this beyond this service, beyond the accommodation, beyond the help emotional financial help and support that lufthansa and the provincial authorities are providing. the helicopter transport at the moment does seem to be at a premium because the investigation and the search for the data recorder but also to try to get in to recover the bodies. because it s so time consuming and difficult, the va veen the valley the crash took place in is so steep, we continue to see and be told that the recovery workers have to go in and be winched down by helicopter. the helicopters are a premium at that phase of the process. will the families get the possibility of an overflight? we haven t heard it ruled out. the helicopters are not even able to land near the crash site to deliver recovery workers. you re saying they have to be winched down by cable from a hovering helicopter. that s right. and what people here tell us this mountain area is quite famous for skiing and for hiking. so the air recovery workers are very familiar with this sort of operation here. they re very familiar with winching people in winching them out again. they re very familiar with responding quickly, very familiar with working in the quickly changing mountain weather conditions the wind the rain the snow. what they re not familiar will obviously, is trying to cope with such a large site and so many people on that site. normally it s just the recovery or one or two people that have gotten into distress and trouble in the mountain anderson. nic, it s a difficult question to ask, but have they said anything about the recovery of the passengers? obviously that process has begun begun. but do we know where that stands? what we know from the prosecutor and from his most recent prets conference that the release of bodies won t be for a couple of weeks. we don t have a precise time frame, but a couple of weeks. the reason that was given for that is because they need to do dna analysis. again, the details of what happened on the mountain are very horrific. the dispersion and destruction of the aircraft is likely to be mirrored by the victim of the crash itself. part of the recovery effort is to locate where the victims are. that also slows it down. actually the bodies being able to be released to the relatives is absolutely out of the question. not going to happen today and a matter of weeks away anderson. an incredibly difficult task for rescue and recovery workers. nic robertson, we ll continue to check in with you. we re just learn that the french government formally requested the fbi assist in the investigation into the germanwings air crash and the copilot. back to cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes formally with the fbi. how does that work? they would already have been assisting in this case from day one. this happens in every international air crash, that the host crash asks the fbi to look at the passenger manifests, the crew, anybody that came close to the aircraft when it was on the ground if they think there are sabotage involved. the fact they have finally gotten around to a formal request, to make it politically correct or whatever really doesn t matter. i d also like to correct the notion that this has suddenly become a criminal investigation. every air crash where it s not obvious what happened, like the plane off the runway in laguardia in the ice. every one is a criminal investigation simultaneously conducted with the mechanical and engineering investigation, as to whether the plane had mechanical issues. they don t wait and sit around for somebody to tell them they think this is a crime. often they don t know that for weeks or months. in the case of mh370, they don t know it for sure even now. normal procedure is to immediately start zeroing in on the human factor and whether it s a crime, whether it s terrorism, any of those issues and the focal point immediately is always going to be the pilot and copilot. that s going to be the very first priority because they re the ones that have their hands on the control stick and can do bad things as we see in this particular case. now that there s the voice data evidence that authorities already have and are still looking for the flight data recorder in terms of the investigation of the copilot, how does that work? and also how many personnel does the fbi actually use in a situation like this? i assume they re using just fbi personnel who are based overseas or are they also using assets in the united states? assets all over including the united states. the analysts in the u.s. conducting searches in the databases along with personnel. the fbi has a large office in paris, berlin madrid. so they would have been involved and most of the countries where passengers came from so they would immediately be involved in this. france germany and spain would immediately be using interpol channels as well to send communications to other police agencies around the world. that would be something that was already going on. in terms of the pilot or copilot in this particular case they would have already been scouring personal social media, if he has facebook or twitter, e-mails, phone calls, friends, neighbors, relatives for some sign of whether the individual had mental problems whether the individual had financial or marital troubles or girlfriend problems something along those lines or joined a group. that extremist group can be among many different groups that operate all over the world and particularly in europe. so that they don t know but that s what they ve been looking at and will continue to look at very closely. under the european system the magistrate the prosecutor runs the investigation, unlike in the u.s. where the sfib would be running the investigation. and it bears repeating from both press conferences we ve had today from the french prosecutor in marseille as well as from the ceo of the airline itself, they have no idea as to motive of the copilot, what would have led the copilot to bring down this aircraft, what would have willed him to lock the door of the cockpit, not allow the pilot back in and begun the descent of this aircraft bringing it into the side of the mountain. tom, we ll continue to check in with you. we ll take a short break. more coverage ahead. well, a mortgage shouldn t be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. pretty good? 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was there a political motivation emotional disturbance, something going on in his life? why would this man smiling in this photo, posing in front of the golden gate bridge in sflan, why would he kill 149 people on this flight? we saw the german minister who looked shocked. carsten spohr says he s speechless. the prosecutor says he can t understand it. you always have to remember we re talking about all the different procedures two people in the cockpit, this that and the other. somebody has to fly the plane. there s always going to be a human being, at least at the moment whose hands are on the controls and no mat of psychological testing and no mat of whatever procedures you put in place ever ignores that inescapable fact a human flies the plane. you can try to mitigate it the risk but you ll never eliminate it. while we continue to look at this picture, i want to bring in paul ginsburg with professional audio laboratories a specialist on recorded evidence. paul it s extraordinary to me that the microphones in the cockpit are so close to the copilot in this case that you could hear the breathing of the copilot. they said it was continued breathing. they knew the copilot was alive, that this hadn t been a medical emergency that, the pilot was not incapacitated, that he was alive and had control of this aircraft. it was very surprising. i ve worked cases with black box recording downloads where, when there was an impending, just run off the runway you could hear the increased breathing in both pilot and copilot. clearly each one has a separate channel, so we know for sure it was the copilot at this point. also we learned today from the prosecutor the chilling fact that in the final minutes or so you can actually hear passengers screaming in the plane itself. the cockpit is a very very noisy place. so that sound of the people screaming and the banging on the door had to be really high decibel level to overcome that. we generally have to use enhancement techniques just to get through that noise to hear anything anything. they were at a very high level. also audio investigators will listen to the alarms going off, the warnings going off. that also paints part of the picture of what is happening in the cockpit. yes, it does. in fact the cockpit area microphone and channel are designed to pass more frequencies than just human frequencies because they need to be able to detect after the fact whether or not there were any alerts warnings hail hitting the windshield any number of mechanical noises. are you saying there are just two microphones in the cockpit on the pilot and the copilot, or are there other microphones as well? there s another. the pilot and copilot have special noise canceling microphones to cancel out some of that noise and give you a much clearer rendition of their voices. in addition there s a cockpit area microphone that records the entire environment in the cockpit. obviously the flight data recorder still being looked for. we heard from nic robertson the difficulty recovery has been. helicopters aren t able to land. they have to be lowered from a cable. not only are they looking for the flight data recorder also obviously looking for the remains of the passengers. three americans among the 150 people killed in the crash of flight 9525. we know the identity of some of them yvonne selke and her daughter emily. they were on vacation together. shawn wilson worked with emily for more than a year at car workplaces in arlington, virginia. she joins me now. thank you for being with us. i m so sorry for your loss. i spoke to two friends of emily s last night. they say they find it hard to believe that this has all taken place that emily is in fact gone. it must not seem real to you either. it does not. it is completely surreal. you hear about these things on the news but once it actually affects somebody that you know it just is something that you can t completely fathom. i think we re all still trying to come to grips with what went on. tell us about emily, what was she like? she was the light at every tunnel. truly able to brighten up a room when she walked into it. we laughed and smiled every single day that we were at work together. so she is definitely one that is able to make relationships with other people. so she was definitely loved within our family of carworkplaces and with our clients as well. did you know she was taking this vacation with her mom? yes, he did know she was on vacation yes. at this point, i m wondering, when you heard the news how did you hear it and what was the reaction of those in the workplace? i found out from one of our her name was mary leslie. she was on facebook that morning. so she reached out to her direct manager and then to me. so we found out about it through the power of social media, which is a really difficult way to find out about it but it was also where we were seeing the immense outpouring of love from her friends and family that were talking about the loss of emily and her mom. emily had been a music industry major in college, and her friends say she loved music that was a big passion of hers. how long she had worked at the company you worked with? she started with us in january of 2014. she just passed her one-year anniversary with us and has been an amazing asset to our organization. i m so thankful that you were able to come in and tell us a little bit about emily. shawn, thank you so much. again, i m so sorry for your loss and the loss of all your colleagues. again, it is something that the family members, that friends are still trying to wrap their minds around trying to come to the reality that their loved ones are gone and now to learn that the copilot of the flight was responsible for the deaths of the 149 passengers and crew members on board that flight as well as his own death. we ll take a short break. we ll be right back. mouths are watering, and stomachs are growling. or is that just me? it s lobsterfest red lobster s largest variety of lobster dishes all year. double up with dueling lobster tails. or make lobster lover s dream a reality. but here s a reality check: it ends soon. hmm. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that parker. well. did you know auctioneers make bad grocery store clerks? 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pamela also obviously they ll be looking at any political motivation any other kind of motivation. absolutely. right now terrorism hasn t been ruled out. as we heard officials say, there s no evidence of it yet. they ll want to look at if a certain ideology perhaps prompted the copilot to deliberately crash the plane into the alps. if they do find any political motivations, anything else that may have motivated him, any sort of ideology of course that may change the calculus a bit toward something else. everything is still on the table, anderson. what s not known is how long the copilot had this idea in mind. whether there had been other times when he was in an aircraft where he had thought about doing this or whether this was the first time. again, that is not known at this point. pamela i appreciate the reporting, pamela brown. i want to bring in our aviation analyst, mary schiavo, scott miller from northwest airlines flight instructor and professor of aireronauticsaeronautics. scott, what do you make of this? i think a lot of people didn t realize, the door that closes and locks, it can be overridden by somebody locked out of the cockpit and get back in. in this case it seems the copilot would have been the mechanism on to lock which is not something that can be overridden from the outside. that s true. i ve heard the word speechless a lot this morning. i have to say that word about covers it pretty well for me too. it s so difficult to try to get my head wrapped around this that we have the procedures in place. with the events of september 11th, we need to ensure the cockpit is secure at all times during flight. we are humans and we have physiological needs. in the industry we like to think we have procedures in place that can accommodate that instill and ensure the security of the aircraft ensuring that the pilots are the only ones that have access to the cockpit and have the ability to secure that cockpit is a requirement for security. this definitely changes the calculus and some really big thought is going to need to be put in this situation in the future. scott, it s up to individual airlines in europe as to whether or not they have a rule in place about a single individual being able to be inside the cockpit. is it a rule in the united states that any time there s only one person in the cockpit, that a flight crew member has to come in as well? or is that something just left up airline to airline? that is a regulatory requirement here in the united states. overseas each government has their regulatory body making those decisions. i firmly believe the system we have in the united states is the way to go, if for no other reason thanks if you have a single pilot in the cockpit, i believe that pilot should be focused simply on flying the aircraft ensuring that the aircraft flight path is where it needs to be and that everything is being taken care of and having a second individual responsible for the cockpit security while the flight crew member is in the back of the airplane is the way to go. mary schiavo, you work a lot with passengers. in terms of what this means for the loved ones of those who died on board this aircraft does it change the responsibility of the airline? does it change the litigation which is no doubt going to take place down the road? well it will change the litigation somewhat. the airline is responsible for its passengers even in the event of a deliberate act. the montreal treaty says that the airline must be responsible. it sounds like they ll step up and do there. there s precedent for that. for example, egypt air, the airline s insurer was responsible. silk air, same thing there. we ve got another huge clue here and that is when the french ask the fbi to come in the fbi is a huge resource because we can t overlook that mohammad add da the ringleader of the september 11 downings of the four planes went to school in germany and some of the trainers trained in phoenix. i think the french are asking the fbi to come in not just because there were americans on board, but because this copilot did training in phoenix as did some of the 9/11 hijack kearse. i think the french with looking the rule out any terrorist connections and to learn what he did in the united states. i think the fbi is a huge resource because they learned so so much after september 11 20001. another important lead we ve got. to remind our viewers, the pictures you ve been seeing there, the man posing in front of the golden gate bridge that s andreas lube bitsz, the copilot, the man responsible for the mass murder of 149 people on board the flight. i want to go to our national correspondent summer lynn saf fad difficult, is there any official reaction about the revelations that the copilot brought down this plane? reporter: after hearing this information, the white house holds that they don t believe there s any connection to terrorism. we pose this after the new development came out. the national security council tells us in a security statement, quote, we refer you to the french authorities for an update on the investigation. there is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time. we should note that this is the very same statement that the national security council also issued in hours after the plane crash happened on tuesday. we do know there has been coordination between the united states government and the french government, and authorities investigating these communications but we re not sure what conversations are being had at this time after these new revelations. white house press secretary josh hearnest says it s his hope and the white house s hope that this investigation is conducted as quickly and efficiently as possible. sunlen serfaty at the white house, thank you very much. speechless was the word used by lufthansa ceo. french prosecutors giving a press conference earlier this morning as well. the information, andreas lubitz 28 years old, a copilot who is believed solely responsible for bringing down flight 9525. our coverage will continue throughout the day obviously. i ll be back on 360 tonight at 8:00 p.m. thank you very much for joining us. @this hour with berman and baldwin starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. i m john berman. i m kate bolduan. we are continuing this breaking news at this hour. one extraordinary detail after another this morning in what has been the great mystery surrounding the germanwings crash in the french alps. here are the most important developments at this hour. there is a lot of moving parts. the french prosecutor in charge of the investigation, he says the crash was not an accident that the captain was locked out of the cockpit, the copilot activated the plane s descent when he was alone in the cockpit at the controls. the prosecutor called what happened a deliberate act to destroy the aircraft with 149 other people on
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the founding father. he died monday at age 91. president obama said he valued li s wisdom. li served as singapore s prime minister for more than 30 years ushering the city/state from colonial hub to vibrant economic power. he later worked as an elder statesman throughout asia. jonathan mann on his life and legacy. reporter: a gleaming modern city/state a city with a reputation for a clean environment with a wealthy population. this is the legacy ofly ku of lee kuan you yew. it is his son who rules today. what is it i m trying to do? i m trying to create in a third world situation a first world oasis. reporter: born in singapore in 1923 lee of fourth generation ethnic chinese. after studying law at cambridge university in england, he rushed returned home and entered politics. in the 1960s he led his small island from its status as a british colony to brief uni-op and qck independence. overcoming pressures at home and communist instability among neighbors, the city/state underwent a remarkable transformation from an economic backwater to one of the most developed cities in asia. some praised him as a visionary. others called him authoritarian. he tolerated little disent. human rights activists criticized caning as a form of punishment and the death penalty. lee was of unapologetic about his approach. i m not following any prescription given me by any politician on democracy or whatever. i work from first principles what will get me there. social peace and stability within the country. no fight between the races, between religions, whatever. fair shares for all. reporter: in 1990 lee stepped down as prime minister but didn t bow out of politics completely. he took the post of senior minister in the cabinet and was given the specially created title of minister mentor in the government of the current prime minister his son. he will be remembered as the father of moder singapore. a titan of moder asia. a man who made his island a thriving modern state. jonathan mann, cnn. as you heard there, singapore s current prime minister who is also lee kuan yew s son declared a week of mourning. we have the latest from hong kong. anna he s been ailing for some time of course. we ve been reporting on this. so how are the people of singapore reacting to his passing, and how do they plan to farewell their first and long ever serving prime minister? reporter: as you say, he s been sick for some time. he was admitted to hospital in february suffering pneumonia. he just has not gotten any better. late last week we were getting report that his health of deteriorating. i think it s fair to say people in singapore were expecting this. he was 91 years old had lived an incredible life full life and praised by world leaders such as margaret thatcher the former prime minister in the united kingdom. i want to read something she said about lee. she said mr. lee almost single-handedly built up singapore into one of the most astonishing economic success stories in our times and did so under constant threats to his tiny threat of security and existence. in john mann s piece, he took singapore from this third wor country to this first world major economic hub. it is a success story in asia if not in the world. he is praised as being a visionary and somebody who really knew what was best for his country. let s take a license to what his son said the current prime minister of singapore. singapore of his abiding passion. he gave of him in full measure to singapore. as he himself put it toward the end of his life and i quote i have spent my life so much of it building up this country. there s nothing more that i need to do. at the end of the day, what have i got? a successful singapore. what have i given up? my life. prime minister speaking there about his father. as to the way people are responding there s an outpouring of grief and love and respect, laying flowers and obviously as we know there will be a state funeral held for the foundation of singapore considering founding father of singapore considering he was prime minister for 31 years. his body will lie in state at the parliament house before that funeral, state funeral to be held on sunday. rosemary? he was a controversial figure and ruled with an iron fist, didn t me? he was also a man of vision as we ve covered. we ve talked about his legacy. now going forward, now that he has gone what does the future hold for this city/state and what shape tell likely take? reporter: look i think it s fair to say that he encountered many critics along the way. although dissent was certainly not something welcomed within singapore. he did rule with an authoritarian fist, no doubt about it. some sort of say the democracy in singapore wasn t really a democracy at all. but what he did and how he governed made singapore what it is today which is an economic powerhouse. it has one of the largest pours in the world. it s a financial hub. it is considered to be a country that is not corrupt, that is extremely efficient. you get fined if you spit or chew gum. that is how extreme singapore is. it is clean, it is efficient felt as a result people do business. there s a great deal of foreign investment. so lee kuan yew very much considered the man who made this happen. certainly. reporting on the story from hong kong. many thanks to you. a rather big story we re following. u.s. officials investigating an online threat calling for attacks again u.s. troops on american soil. a group calling itself the islamic state hacking organization posted the names photos and addresses of about 100 u.s. service members on line. u.s. military officials are encouraged to be careful sharing personal information on line. the military has to start rethinking. you can t have facebook and stuff with your military information and stuff about yourself. if you are known to be a service member on facebook and check in somewhere, now operatives these home-grown operatives may know where you are if they re able to get into your facebook page. because of that the obama administration says it does take these threats serious lyly along with the defense department and fbi working to determine the validity of the posts. there are growing fears isis or other extremists will exploit the power vacuum in yemen. and underscoring that fear are new images of the moment a suicide bomber struck a mosque in sanaa on friday. take a look at this. [ chanting ] [ explosion ] [ screams] difficult to watch, certainly difficult to listen to as people screamed there. just a horrifying scene at one of the two mosques targeted. both were frequented by shia rebels. nearly 140 people were killed in the attacks. isis has claimed responsibility. meantime houthi rebels took over a key international airport in yemen s cultural capital sunday. official say one person was killed and 82 others wounded when the rebels fired at protesting residents. richard roth report the u.n. security council met in an emergency session. it s calling for all sides to halt hostilities. reporter: the meeting was highlighted by a briefing by the u.n. special adviser on yemen, rather dire forecast. he said the houthis continued to move toward aidan on the south of yemen, moving toward civil war in the country. he raised this specter in these comments. take a listen if i wanted push the country in either direction would be inviting a protracted conflict in the vein of an iraq/libya/syria combined scenario. the special adviser referring to the houthis backed by iran according to many. and the president backed by saudi arabia who s holding out. there s a lot of other actors as you know inside this yemen drama. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha you power, in a statement said the council spoke with one voice in denouncing the houthi march and refusing to bend to u.n. wishes for negotiations. she also said the houthis are getting help from former yemeni president salah. richard roth there. the u.s. military pulled the last of its personnel out of yemen saturday night. as andy rose reports, there are concerns in washington about the effects of that withdrawal. reporter: these developments in yemen greatly disturb me because of the their form attack the united states. reporter: the state department says the deteriorating security situation has forced the u.s. to pull about 100 navy s.e.a.l.s and army delta force members from the country. officials called the move a temporary relocation. house homeland security chairman michael mccall told abc this week he s worried about the consequences of a u.s. withdrawal. we ll have no intelligence footprint or capabilities to monitor what aqap and isis and the shia militants are doing in the region. without good intelligence plots again the homeland without intelligence we cannot effectively stop it. reporter: morningly the united states has worked with yemen s government to combat al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. the terrorist group is made there. recent internal strife has rocked the relationship. the u.s. closed its embassy in sanaa in february. friday, yemen s state-rupp news agency reported at least 137 people were killed in two separate explosion at mosques in the capital will hundreds more were injured. isis claimed responsibility though cnn happy confirmed that. the incident prompted this response from the white house. we re seeing extremists try capitalize on the chaos and instability inside of yemen to carry out these acts of violence. reporter: the u.n. security council met to discuss the situation. the adviser on yemen urged all sides to find ways to avert a civil war. isis has forced thousands from their homes. the people of an iraqi christian village who left once are back and prepared to fight for what s theirs. plus, it s the combination of a mystery that endured for half a millennium. the remains of england s king richard iii begin the journey to their final resting place. pope francis travels to the home of pizza and receives a special gift. meet the world s newest energy superpower. surprised? 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[ applause ] reporter: every day 20 or 30 men ask to join, he says but we don t have enough weapons. hundred of christians from the area around mosul found refuge in one of the schools. they have shelter and food but little else. we left with only the clothing we had on, she recalls. says xena we need everything. i have three small children. we have no money. for many leaving iraq for good is their only hope. if someone abroad would take us in yes we d go now, she says. this official warns more christians are likely to leave. every day the liberation of areas taken by isis is delayed, he says. the worse it is for people here they ll emigrate, it s their only option. many have already left the area. this 90-year-old still has some of his family here including his 2-year-old great granddaughter. one daughter is in australia, he says and two sons are in the united states. reporter: sunday evening in the church is full. the service and dialect of airmayic the language spoken by jesus. prayers heavy with the simple appeal deliver us from evil. reporter: cnn, northern iraq. he spent centuries laid to rest under what became a parking lot. now the remain of king richard iii are being given the royal burial they deserve. plus pop superstar taylor swift reportedly buys up some websites that end in dot-porn and dot-adult. crowds gathered in brooklyn new york on sunday for the funeral of seven children who died in a house fire a day earlier. fire official say the four boys and three girl were in their bedrooms when an unattended hot plate in the kitchen started the fire. the siblings were between 5 and 16 years old. an eighth child and the mother escaped the blaze but are in critical condition. the grieving father told mourners that only his faith can help him survive this tragedy. now this next story truly is a fascinating one after centuries of resting under what became an english parking lot. king richard iii is getting a royal farewell. his company of taken on a procession around lester where his remains were found a few years ago. planning had been underway for a rebuilding fit for a king. rosie tompkins with the story. hip, hip hooray. reporter: long live king richard. part funeral, part shakespeare, part murder mystery. this is a conversation of a half millennia-long story and 2.5 years planning to reintern the remains of richard iii a king who died more than 500 years ago. it really is astonishing to see the crowds gathered here today. all to pay their respect to a man they never even knew. the last king of england to die in battle now given the royal burial denied him the first time around. and there s an atmosphere of solemnity today fitting the occasion. i came from germany. i came from new zealand for this event. one of those inexplicable things that happens. we ve waited so long and now this day is here. pinch me. reporter: today marks the beginning of an unprecedented multimillion dollar five-day spectacle. proceedings began sunday morning with the coffin making its first public appearance. before embarking on a seven-hour journey to its final destination at lester cathedral. among those in attendance michael ipson, distant relative and carpenter charged with the task of building the coffin. when the coffins came out, loking at it, the flowers on the coffin and the people extraordinary number of people. how did i come to be here sitting on a platform a few meters from a coffin i made for richard iii king of england. reporter: it was with the help of ipson s dna that the immortal s remains were found in a car park in 2012 were confirmed as those of the missing king. until today, rich s memory of that cast by shakespeare, the hurch backed villain king who murdered his nephews. this week s events are for some a chance to revisit that reputation. archaeology doesn t answer those sores of questions. doesn t answer if the person s good or bad or whether he killed his nephews or so on. it has allowed people to reimmerse themselves in the story and reinvigorate the date. reporter: gyp freezing and intrigue. no question it s captured the imagination. solemnnist mixed with utter frustration. there it is, the king s coffin preparing to make its final approach to the ka need trool lay in state for three cathedral to lay in state for three days. there s no question we ve been witnessing history in what is surely one of the most extraordinary ceremonies to unfold before us in living memory. cnn, england. been a long time coming. there it is. a short break. ahead, many children across central america are taking great risks to reach the united states. for some who don t make it, what they ve lost can never be regained. one boy s story coming up. plus, stunning video of the fatal confrontation between police and a schizophrenic man and why the family says deadly force wasn t necessary. so,as my personal financial psychic, i m sure you know what this meeting is about. yes, a raise. i m letting you go. i knew 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killed and 82 wounded when rebels fired at protesters. u.s. senate republican ted cruz announced he s running for president in 2016. cruz tweeted the news early monday morning and will make his in-person declaration in virginia later in the day. the 44-year-old is the first candidate to formally announce his bid. u.s. president barack obama says he doesn t buy israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s claim that he now wants a two-state solution with the palestinians. mr. netanyahu said he was against palestinian statehood just before last week s election. on supposed u.s. senator john mccain said president obama is letting his personal problems with mr. netanyahu get in the way of real progress. take a listen. there was a free and fair democratic election. the only nation in the region that will have such a thing. the president should get over it. get over your temper tantrum, mr. president. it s time that we work together with our israeli friends and try to stem this tide of isis and iranian movement throughout the region which is threat tending the threatening the fabric of the region. the least of your problems is what he said during an election campaign. he went on to say mr. obama needs to get his priorities straight and focus on iran instead of mr. netanyahu. a rare sight in kabul, afghanistan, at the funeral of a 27-year-old woman. take a look at these incredible and shocking images. those are afghan women carrying the casket of another woman who was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob last week. hundreds of people attended the burial of the metropolitanly ill woman mentally ill woman. the beating was captured on video. we want to warn you it is graphic. witnesses say the attackers believed the woman had burned a koran. so far, there s no evidence confirming that. at least 11 people have been arrested and an investigation is ongoing. now it s a story that s painfully familiar for thousands of migrant children trying to find a better life in the u.s. in an attempt to chase the american dream across the border many of them end up getting hurt kidnapped, or perhaps worse. rafael romo with one story from honduras. reporter: alexis gonzalez walks slowly and with hesitation using the wall for balance. i m getting used to the prosthesis, the heesses. last january gonzalez decided to leave an impoverished village in honduras, and migrate to the united states. sometimes we don t even have food to eat, he says. and i wanted to get an education. he traveled by land through honduras and guatemala with a teenage cousin. in mexico they got on the cargo train my grants called the beast. he says that after traveling for days on the train, sleeping little he got tired, fell asleep and fell off. the train severed my right leg and part of my left heel, he says. it s not difficult to fine stories of minors in central america who have lost limbs, been kidnapped, or died while trying to migrate to the united states by land. this man says he almost lost his life when he jumped off the train fleeing from gangs. they got on the train to steal people. when i heard they were coming, i jumped off the train traveling at more than 30 miles per hour, he says. children are fleeing poverty and drug violence. the area has the highest reported murder race in the world. a harsh reality the government is trying to change by deploying security forces to hot spots. this is the city of san pedro. many people had chosen to leave you because they were fleeing the violence. operations like this one by the military police are seeking to restore confidence in authorities so people can return to their neighborhood. reporter: the mother of alexis gonzalez says she s worried about her son. translator: he told me he s depressed. he s recently been better but used to say he wanted to die. i was getting very worried because he said that he wanted to kill himself. reporter: the teenager says he now draws and writes to forget. everything i did was meant to improve my life, he says to give myself and my brothers and sisters the hope we can t find here at home. cnn, honduras. to another story we re following for you. a bar owner says the university of virginia student appeared sober and was respectful. this was moments before police arrested him for public intoxication. now the owner of the trendy irish pub says he turned away 20-year-old martise johnson because he was trying to get in to the bar using a fake i.d. turned out not to be a fake i.d. he says seconds later he saw police take down the african-american student. and you see johnson pinned to the ground there. his lawyer says johnson needed ten stitches to close a gash on his head. the arrest has caused an uproar with many calling it the latest incident of police brutality against a black man. new video is shedding light on the final moments of a menially ill man shot and killed by police. this in the u.s. state of texas. the family says the use of deadly force was not necessary. when they called for help they requested officers trained to deal with mentally ill people. we have the story. we need to warn you, some viewers may find the video we re about to show you disturbing. reporter: two dollars police officers arriving for what they expect will be a routine disturbance call. other officers had been to the home dozens of times before. this time would be different. and it s all about to be captured on the officer s body camera. [ knocking ] police. hello? what s going on? reporter: shirley harrison answers the door. she ll called police about her son jason. he s bipolar, schizophrenic and off his medication. she s trying to get him to the hospital. mr. harrison oh he s off the chain. reporter: as shirley walk out, police notice a screwdriver in her son s hand. what happens next is hard to watch. drop that for me. drop that for me guy. james! james! [ gunshots ] [ screaming ] reporter: within ten seconds of the front door being opened jason harrison lay dying in his own driveway. shot at least five time twice in the back by the officers wearing the body camera. his family says jason hadn t committed any crime, nor did he likely understand why officers were even there. what you do you think police could have done differently? they should not have been yelling orders off the top. you ve got someone who s already confused. now you stick a gun in their face and yell at them. reporter: when shirley harrison called 911 for help she told them her son of mentally ill and needed to get to a hospital. they didn t take him to parkland. they took him to the morgue. reporter: why did the officers open fire? dallas police wouldn t talk to us you but the attorney for the officers did. was there any other option other than deadly force in this case? no. there s not because this is a deadly force encounter, and what they when you respond to lethal force, you respond to that with lethal force. a taser is a less lethal item. reporter: soon after the shooting the officers signed affidavits about what happened. both say jason harrison lunged at them. here s the thing officer hutchins says he lurchlged at officer rogers first and raised the screwdriver in the air. officer rogers says he lunged at the other first. both agree the screwdriver could have been used as a deadly puncture weapon. with jason bleeding out, backup arrives. listen as officer hutchins tries to explain to the others why they fired. he was in the doorway. he had the skrie screwdriver. he this this he came at us. reporter: did he? watch again. drop it guy! drop it! jay, jay, jay! [ gunfire ] reporter: the family attorney says if jason had lunge ted officer you would have lunged at the officer you would have seen his body fill the camera. there was no lunge or thrust or grab or zorro move. reporter: after the shooting officers continued yelling for him to drop the weapon as he lay motionless. drop it guy! put the damn thing done! put the screwdriver down! man. reporter: after several minutes, officer roger gets close enough to remove the screwdriver from the victim s hand and puts his hands behind his back. jason harrison s mother had specifically requested officers who were trained to deal with the mentally ill answer this call. the attorney for these officers tell us they do have that training. about 5.5 manipulates after the shooting the ambulance arrives. it was too late just 38 jason harrison was already dead. cnn, dallas. ove all.is health. so we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. expanded minuteclinic for walk-in medical care. and created programs that encourage people to take their medications regularly. introducing cvs health. a new purpose. a new promise. to help all those wishes come true. cvs health. because health is everything. kellogg s® frosted mini-wheats®. have 8 layers of nutritious wheat. and one of delicious sweet. to satisfy the adult.. and kid - in all of us. 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[ speaking italian ] translator: in 1994 my dad did a little pizza for american president bill clinton. yesterday when i got to know the pope was in town i decided to make a pizza and give it as a gift. reporter: enzo is still waiting to hear whether pope francis enjoyed his experience. but the pizza chef certainly has a belly full of pride. it s hard for me to understand what i managed to do giving a pizza you made with yur own hands to the pope is very emotional. it s hard for me to express the value of this gesture for a man we really love and value, for a beautiful person full of humanity. reporter: with clear intel like this, perhaps enzo can expect a heaven-sent boost to his business. cnn. how about that? nice stuff there. papal smile is huge. francis like i ll take this. the hash tag #-poperoni was trending. popular for a bit. you re here to tell us about storms in the area? not enjoying pizza not this time. we ll get to it. we ve got a big storm system across the mediterranean out there. areas will see some of the wettest weather in spain all soap. in valencia we ve had rainfall eight of the last nine days. [ poor audio ] the storm system tracking across portions of the mediterranean over the next couple of days. this was quite odd. we ve had about a 20% [ technical difficulties ] we re going to quickly move on to fix this audio issue. this is live television folks. you re watching cnn we have work to do. this is happening here, right now. we want to get you a good weather hit, and there s an audio issue. we ll fix that sort everything out and be back in moments. stay with us. ride away (by roy orbison begins to play) i ride the highway. i m going my way. i leave a story untold. he just keeps sending more pictures. if you re a free-range chicken you roam free. it s what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it s what you do. two wheels a turnin . no matter who you are, if you have type 2 diabetes, you know it can be a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine . what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? 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what s she planning to do? yeah. dip buy it for the reason you might be thinking although you might be thinking she s a savvy businesswoman, and does he this to protect herself. that is the case. according to reports, she bought these websites you know, obviously you have dot-com and dot-org. now there are new dough myspace becoming available like dot-adults dot-porn. she bought up taylorswift.porn and dot-will do before anyone else could. she s a savvy business person. she trademarked lyric from her song. she reapply even put though pictures of her in a bikeno instagram before bikini on instagram before anyone else. she transformed from country star to pop star. makes sense why she did this. taking ownership of her image. very on top of thing. let s go to justin bieber. he was just good health himself on track, reimaging himself if you like. and now he s been hit again being sued by his neighbors with that egg incident. yes, exactly. so justin obviously is trying to turn everything around in terms of his image. he had that big roast last week. he kind of made fun of himself, poke fun of himself, made the apology saying he wanted to change things and turn thing around. now the neighbor who was involved in that egging incident is now suing justin. justin had already pled gill and paid $80,000 for the damages. now the neighbor is suing justin saying he and his bodyguards caused emotional distress. that speeding throughout the neighborhood in his ferrari, egging his house, other claims saying that he wasser to. ing them with language that he that just zip spat in his face he s alleged in this lawsuit. to him, his wife and family. so this is another thing justin will have to deal with. obviously there are a lot of incidents throughout justin s bad behavior stage. he will have to deal with them. obviously if he s really wanting to turn things around he s going to have to address these. a lot of work ahead for him. and celine dion is heading back to las vegas. what s behind that? 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offices after two people crashed through an outer gate. they moved closer to an inner gate that s guarded by nsa police. joining me now is cnn justice reporter evan perez. we also have tom fuentes, law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director. so what really is the latest here evan? well brianna, it s still a very strange case. we have two men, both wearing wigs apparently in this vehicle that tried to breach wigs meaning dressed as women? yes, dressed as women, correct. okay. women s wigs. and they tried to crash through one of the outer perimeter gates to the complex that houses the nsa headquarters at fort meade. it s clear exactly what their intention was. no motivation is known. the fbi right now says that they have no indications that this is terrorism related. we have pictures of one of the wigs down there found at the scene. one of the men was shot dead by an nsa police officer who responded to the incident. the second has been taken to the hospital and is being treated. now, when they re able to try to interview this person they try to figure out what exactly was happening. they found uggdrugs inside the car. that we see right there at the scene as well. it s again, not clear whether this was something that was mistaken that they accidentally tried to get into the complex and perhaps when they were confronted this led to some very bad mistakes additional mistakes being made. but we do know that the fbi doesn t think it s a terrorism incident and they just think it s a head-scratching one right now. they don t even know. it s very confusing, tom. but when you have something like this happen and we can t quite make heads or tails of what it is at this point, what s the training level for those guards who are at this inner gate? well they re not at the inner gate yet brianna, they re at the outer gate. regardless any of the gates, if you re trying to take a vehicle through a barricade at the gate and it s not authorized you will be shot dead, very simple training. that s it. that s it. and so where do they go from here in terms of the investigation? well at this time brianna, the fbi says that they re, going to try to see whether or not there s any charges to be brought against the remaining individual if he is able to recover. again, this is something that was, you know just so strange. the facts are just so strange. so odd. so odd. they react very strongly obviously, because you can t have any kind of security incident. this is one of the best-guarded federal facilities in this region. is this just we had a similar incident about 10 or 15 years ago at andrews air force base in maryland where somebody tried to drive through the barricades crashed their way through, and was shot dead. turns out to be a teenager that had some kind of mental problem. but it doesn t matter. they re not in a position to let somebody get through to a secure area that s that well protected. and that does make sense. tom fuentes, thank you. evan perez, thanks to you as well. let s turn to today s other big story. we are learning new details about the mental state of the co-pilot in the germanwings plane crash. he showed no signs of suicidal tendencies before he crashed the plane into the french alps. but he was suicidal several years ago. before he became a pilot. and that s what a spokesman for the german prosecutor told reporters this morning. yet he had at that time been in treatment of a psychotherapist because of what is documented as being suicidal at that time. at that time. prosecutors also say they found no signs that andreas lubitz suffered from a physical medical illness. reports say that he was having problems with his eyesight but a government official familiar with the investigation says that an eye doctor told lubitz the problem was actually psychosomatic, that it wasn t physical. this video obtained by cnn shows lubitz flying a glider near his family home. he s joking with his instructor. this was shot about a decade ago. and the german newspaper bild has published chilling details of flight 9525 s final moments. the pilot trying desperately to get back into the cockpit, alarms warning the plane to pull up as it descended into the mountains. the paper says that its report is based on audio from the cockpit voice recorder. prosecutors say that nothing they found so far in the crash investigation answers this lingering question of why. what was the motive of lubitz s? senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joining us from germany. the german prosecutor s office confirmed that doctors declared lubitz unfit to work or to fly. what more have we learned from the investigation into his physical and his mental state? reporter: well it s really interesting, isn t it. and one of the big questions is that why they declared him unfit to fly. what exactly the reason was. and it seems as though we can shed a little bit of light on that. our own pam brown has also found out from an official that s very close to the investigation that apparently at least one of the reasons why he was declared unfit to fly, at least part of the reason was the fact that his eye problems were psychosomatic. that of course is very significant because as we ve been noting there s been a lot of speculation here in germany about whether or not he might have had some sort of physical condition. again, the prosecutors came out earlier today and said that he did not have any sort of physical condition. the other very interesting part about this as well is that he also went to the university clinic in dusseldorf to get checked as well. we do know he was unfit to fly, that he did hide from from his employer. this is something that germanwings told us. they also said that he had passed a physical. he passed the medical examination in the summer of 2014. and they said listen. if there would have been something wrong with his eyes something physical wrong with his eyes our doctors would have found out. so very significant finding that our pam brown made there. that at least part of the reason why he was declared unfit to fly was the fact that his eye condition appeared to be something that was psychosomatic. yeah was he hallucinating. that may be one of the questions. you have this newspaper bild that is publishing what s really pretty horrifying details from the plane s final moments. it certainly reveals a lot, though. walk us through this time line. reporter: it certainly does. and you know one of the things that it seems to reveal is that this flight seemed to start off pretty normal except for the fact that it was about 20 minutes late. but it also reveals that apparently possibly, andreas lubitz the co-pilot from the very beginning, tried to do everything he could to get his captain out of the cockpit. the captain said that because of the delay, he hadn t managed to go to the bathroom before taking off in barcelona. lubitz says don t worry, you can go at any time. now, that happens at around 38,000 feet when the plane reaches cruising altitude. at that point, again, lubitz tells the captain, you can go now. and the captain at that point does exit the cockpit. now, shortly after that the plane starts descending. this is something that s picked up by air traffic radar. and shortly after that at around 10:32 local time air traffic control tries to get in touch with the plane but receives no answer. again, a couple of minutes later, the pilot, the captain, can be heard banging on the outside of the door saying for god s sake open the door. however, of course andreas lubitz does not do that. then at around 5,000 meters in altitude a warning goes off in the cockpit saying pull up terrain. that of course because the plane is descending towards the mountains that are pretty high and realizes that it s not in a landing configuration. so not ready to land at all. shortly after that again, a metallic banging sound is heard on the door as though possibly the captain is trying to knock the door down. at that point he says open the goddamn door! then at 10:40 local time what happens is the investigators say they believe they hear the sound of most probably the right wing scraping over a mountaintop, shortly after that the passengers in the cabin can be heard screaming, and that is when this recording ends. it s very chilling details. of course, we cannot independent independently verify the authenticity of what we hear there. the french investigators in charge of all this the bae says it s dismayed that anything like this could be leaked. brianna? certainly very unusual. all right, fred pleitgen thank you so much. coming up a lot of clues there, right? what do they tell us about the co-pilot? no doubt that he was troubled but how debilitating was his mental illness? we ll be discussing that. and then later, another stumbling block in the iran nuclear talks. is it enough to sink any deal? that s ahead. man (sternly): where do you think you re going? mr. mucus: to work, with you. it s taco tuesday. man: you re not coming. i took mucinex to help get rid of my mucusy congestion. i m go od all day. [announcer:] mucinex keeps working. not 4, not 6 but 12 hours. let s end this let s dig deeper now on the latest developments on the crash in the alps. german prosecutors say that andreas lubitz was suicidal several years ago before he became a pilot, but he hadn t been since then. and a french newspaper has detailed issues with mental health over the last few years. this includes an incident in 2010 when he was given an injection of an antipsychotic drug. here with me now in washington to talk about this we have clinical psychologist ruth witterscreen who has also served in the usair.s. air force, and we have cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. in new york les abend joining me. so i want to talk now about some of what we ve learned about lubitz s mental health past. some of this we re getting from reports. some is from prosecutors. but it s clear that he had these mental health issues some of them potentially very significant. and that s really the question i think. first to you, les, how was lubitz allowed to fly this plane if he had once been deemed suicidal? it s a great question. and first let me go on record brianna, with reference to the cockpit voice recorder transcripts. never should have been released. yeah. this is sack rowrosanct. yes, that really would have sent up a red flag. this man did different than the united states. he was funneled through a program that required a pretty rigorous screening process from what i could tell. and during this rigorous screening process, it sounds like he was excused. that s a big red flag. if i was the airline, i d want to know a lot more details on why this man wasn t able to handle the stress of training, if indeed that was. the details are sketchy, of course. so your point there is that they should have known there was something because he was actually going through the program at the time when he was excused, and so they had it would have been harder for him to hide, you think, right? absolutely. okay. you know this is part of the initial process, with it sounds to me with lufthansa. so ruth if there maybe is some kind of tipoff here, are you surprised that with these myriad issues some of which the airline or the program could have been aware that he was allowed to be flying or would you also say, you know what? someone like that might actually be a safe pilot? i don t think with what s coming out that he was a safe pilot. yeah. and that if an appropriate assessment before. had been done. with the information that you knew. with the information we know now, if i were say, employed by an airline to do evaluations i would not see being able to indicate that he was. however, someone who is possibly antisocial kind of psychopath can hide from sometimes even the very best. but there are procedures and i would recommend a procedure called a swath, shedler westin procedure which has been employed by the military recently. and what is that? it s developed by my colleague, jonathan shedler. so what does it do, basically? it s a psychologist s-administered interview versus what is used a lot are these standardized tests. and this is has to be administered by highly trained psychologists. okay. and then which makes sense, speak to the other issue here of these psychosomatic eyesight issue. this has been a specialty of mine since my early training and it can mean a lot of different things. so i would rather get more specific to what it means for this individual. and for lubitz it appears that i would say most likely he had psychosis. which means his brain got scrambled in a way that his thoughts were scrambled. he couldn t think through things. he s out of touch with reality. he s out of touch with reality, absolutely. thank you. yeah. and he this is an exceedingly rare type of event. yeah. for someone to be this psychotic and for it to not be you know, managed and treated well. so that i want to reassure the public. it s a very rare thing. it shouldn t be associated with mental illness as the standard. you know it s on a continuum. and most people who have some kind of mental health issue are so far from this. this is so extreme on there. so one of the issues here and i wonder tom, some of it we knew a lot of things or officials knew a lot of the prior issues whether or not they knew about the psychosomatic eye issues that he was being checked out for, but they knew perhaps that there were these red flags. and some they knew some they didn t. how much medical privacy this is my point that i m trying to get at how much medical privacy do you think these pilots should have? should the law change? brianna, we don t know what the laws are. we haven t heard specifics on german law. so the first question is what did the doctors know, and when did they know it? and under german law, if they see someone is unfit to fly an airplane are they under an obligation to report that? if the u.s. if we have a doctor examine somebody and determine that they re a threat to themselves or to other people they re supposed to report that either to the police or the employers or both. so the question is that in europe their privacy laws are much more stringent than the u.s. where the doctor following strict german law or not? we don t know. les, that s what surprises me that if you find out that andreas lubitz was deemed unfit to work or fly, that knowing what his profession was, that maybe the doctor didn t but the doctor perhaps, shouldn t they be required to report that? well you know i can only speak for the u.s. brianna. in the u.s. we go every six months to an aviation medical examiner. and primarily it s a physical exam. we do have to disclose various things like medical treatments that we received over the last past six months. we have to disclose things like if we attempted suicide. all this, once again, is self-disclosure. and the doctor is supposed to observe us in kind of a cursory manner. but these folks are not necessarily trained like the doctor you have on as a guest. it involves just observing that particular individual. my particular ame is an e.r. doc. and there are other doctors that are dentists or dermatologists. so how do you go about training these folks to observe this type of psychosis? yes, dentists. i don t know about that. all right. les abend, thank you so much. appreciate you being with us. ruth thank you, tom, thanks as well. we have much more on the germanwings tragedy ahead. time running out for a deal on iran s nuclear program. negotiators are staring each other down seeing who will blink first on the latest sticking point. we ll talk about it ahead. we ll get back to coverage of the plane crash in the alps in a few moments. but right now let s talk about the looming deadline in the iranian nuclear talks. major sticking points revolving around the lifting of sanctions. when how many can they be resumed? but that s not all that is holding up the deal. our global affairs correspondent elise lavitt is in switzerland where the talks are going on. tell us where we stand right now. reporter: well brianna, all the ministers met with the iranian foreign minister today. unclear whether a deal is at hand. clearly they re in the end game and they re racing towards that finish line. but there are still some very key sticking points. senior diplomats here at the top telling me that first of all, iran wants to be able to continue to have advanced nuclear research and technology in the end years of this deal and continue to enrich uranium. we re told that the international community wants to keep those restrictions on throughout this what we re talking about as a 15-year deal. they re also talking about the pace of lifting u.n. security council sanctions, another key sticking point. iran wants those sanctions lifted on day one. international community is afraid that iran will use those lifted sanctions to buy spare parts for nuclear technology. and so they want to phase those sanctions out as iran shows its compliance with the deal. now, negotiators say it s yes or no time for iran. british foreign minister arriving last night said if iran wants this deal, it needs to take a deep breath and make some tough decisions, brianna. yeah very tough decisions. and you can see that they re really far apart on some of these key issues. you have the deadline tomorrow the self-imposed deadline for what s the framework of the deal. so a lot to get past by that time with the final details due by the end of june. are any other issues coming up in these negotiations? are we hearing about iraq or yemen and iranian involvement there? reporter: these negotiators have been really trying very hard to keep those issues separately. you know also yemen has not come out in these talks, although secretary kerry and minister zarif spoke about it briefly before one of their meetings. but if you look at what s going on in the region right now, the civil war in syria, what s going on in iraq these negotiations have been going on for about two years all throughout this. these negotiators really trying not to link that because they re afraid that if they do then iran will try to drive an even harder bargain because they have so much influence in the region. and these iranian negotiators, brianna, are very tough negotiators. so the world powers here trying to make sure that they don t have any more leverage than they already do brianna. yeah that certainly makes sense as you explained it. elise labott in switzerland, thanks so much. still ahead, we are going to talk more about the iran deal. we ll talk about the wider effect of it on the middle east. but next it s a grim task for investigators in the alps combing the slopes looking for victims remains while families mourn their lost loved ones. ugh. .heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer. somber scenes playing out in a serene setting. families of the victims of those aboard flight 9525 are making a grim pilgrimage to the crash site in the french alps. on a beautiful note many local residents there have opened up their homes to the families. karl penhaul joining us now live from near the crash site. and karl we re hearing that authorities are working to build a road so that relatives can actually get as close as possible to the site, right? reporter: good evening to you, brianna. yeah that s absolutely the case. because up until now, recovery teams have had to fly into the crash site by helicopter because the terrain is just too rugged to get in there on foot. and so the village mayor here yesterday morning september ant a digger a grader a backhoe into that action. the job is to carve into the mountainside and make a track there so that rescue teams can get there on foot or on atvs. and progress in fact has been surprisingly quick. they ve already got about 400 yards of that tract done. they ve reckoned they ve got about twice the length to go still. but by the end of the week recovery teams could be going in on the ground. that should make it a lot quicker to get human remains and parts of the wreckage out. there s also a little consolation on that front as well because the forensic teams say that so far they ve identified 78 people but also on a sad note they say that because of the speed of the impact because of the speed of the crash, some of the human remains may never be identified because some of those bodies were just pulverized on impact, brianna. karl with some of the families there, they re really just starting the grieving process. what are they telling you? reporter: well that is the issue. a lot of the families come right here to memorial plaque a small marble plaque set up over there. but this is still 2 1/2 miles as the crow flies from where the crash actually happened. but families are coming here looking for some peace. i had the chance to talk to the sister of one of the crash victims. let s take a look. a father grieves. a mother and a sister wonder why. milad, was a sports journalist from iran. tamashid he was big brother. he said to one of his friends that if someone killed in the flight crash would be okay because it syou are in the sky, your soul will go. it has been eight minutes. reporter: eight minutes for the co-pilot to crash an airliner into the french alps. but milad s uncle prefers to focus on his life, not death. he was a fantastic journalist. and he s still one of the best we have in iran. and because he worked not only as a journalist, he worked with his heart. reporter: milad had been in spain with friend and a fellow journalist. they had taken these photos together. they had been covering the soccer game barcelona versus real madrid. milad was a lifelong barcelona fan. his hero absolutely. reporter: local village mayor francois is here at a memorial site to help console all the grieving families. and on sunday he sent this digger to carve a tract of the crash site. that s around four kilometers or 2 1/2 miles away as the crow flies, but till now accessible only by helicopter. i felt the families wanted this and they asked me to get them as close as possible as if every meter mattered to them, he says. relatives asked him to describe the area closest to the crash. this was a corner of paradise, but now there is the before and after the accident, he says. i tell them about the alpine scenery up there where wildflowers grow and melted snow runs in crystal streams. everything is good for him. but for us we just we just can t calm ourselves down with this picture that he is now the king of the alps. reporter: milad and all those who flew with him, the kings of the alps. the passengers were from at least 18 different nations. their ages span the generations, but now as the sun goes down on another day, that is where they are, the kings of the alps brianna. well put. karl thank you so much for your report there from france. and this tragedy, it is simply shattering for the families involved. you heard from one there. they are grieving and they re coming to terms with the details of this disaster. discussing how they can cope with such horror after the break. nternational is one of the busiest airports in the country. we operate just like a city and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal generating electricity on-site and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we re very focused on reducing our environmental impact. and natural gas is a big part of that commitment. you total your brand new car. nobody s hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they ll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do, drive three-quarters of a car? 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of course it s horrific to imagine what your loved one was going through. my experience is that often the unknown is worse than the known. that what we imagine we can fill in with our worst nightmares. this is the worst nightmare. yeah. but it really can be helpful. there s no right answer to this question. but so over time for that loved one to know even if it s this horrific thing, this is what happened do they sort of have more of a closeness to the person that they lost because at least they know more what they went through? what i would encourage family members to think of is that in that space of realizing, there is terror but there are a lot of protective things that happen in our brains when there is a trauma going on. and we don t think and process things in the same way that we do when our life is not in danger. so the brain has its own protective mechanisms. like what? shock, basically. so you shut down. so that is one comfort, i hope for the families who are grieving. another is that some people who have experienced i see a lot of people who have been through almost fatal near-death experiences where they ve almost died. right, in a car or plane crash or something. and they can talk about it being a space where time slowed down and they had some time to think about, it seemed that their life was coming to an end. and yes, that s very painful, but i ve also had people say i would want to know if i were about to die. i would want to have a moment. i would want to process something. i would want to have a moment to pray to think of my loved ones. yeah. so maybe there s some comfort. maybe there is some comfort in that because they would have been thinking about their loved ones. absolutely. can you give us a sense of you know we know now that lubitz reportedly had antipsychotic injections in 2010. what does that tell us? i think that it s becoming more and more clear. as i said when i first was with wolf blitzer here a few days ago, lubitz almost definitely had a psychosis, a psychotic disorder. yeah. something was very wrong with his brain. yeah. and i think that that s what this points to. yeah. and that would cause potentially delusions that he couldn t see. he could have been in the cockpit hearing god tell him to crash the plane. it s extremely hard to have sympathy for someone who murdered 150 people. but most individuals with psychosis or mental illness would never do something to harm others. they don t understand and there s there are times when they re risky, and they re high profile. and so we note that is a. but the vast majority of people who have schizophrenia or a psychotic delusional type of illness aren t harmful. and as a therapist or a physician, if i perceive that someone is a potential harm to themselves or another, i would have and any of my colleagues would have to act to keep the person and others safe and have the person hospitalized. yeah. ruth thank you so much for your insight. appreciate it. we ll be right back. eh, you don t want that one. yea, actually i do. it s mucinex fast-max night time and it s got a nasal decongestant. is that really a thing? 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(laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern. two weeks later. look, credit karma are you talking to websites again? this website says free credit scores. oh, credit karma! yeah it s actually free. look, you don t have to put in your credit card information. whew! credit karma. really. free. just in to cnn, we re learning more about that shooting incident at the nsa head quartquarters in maryland. i m joined by cnn s jim sciutto. you have more details. that s right, this coming from the nsa. it s the first on cnn. it s a tick tock of events that morning. we re told shortly before 9:00 this morning today, a vehicle containing two individuals, that s the car we saw at the top of the screen there, attempted what the nsa is calling an unauthorized entry at this nsa gate here seen. they say the driver failed to obey the nsa police officers instructions to leave the scene. it stopped, barriers were deployed. apparently the vehicle accelerated then at an nsa police vehicle that was blocking the road. i think you can see that there, the white i believe that s the white suv with the hood up. the vehicle crashed into that and then they say that one of those inside the vehicle was killed. they have not determined how he was killed. earlier there was talk that he had been shot. they say that another was injured. also new in this statement is that an nsa police officer was injured in this and taken to a hospital as well. they say that this was entirely contained in that area that we re seeing here now in those aerials and that of course the fbi is leading the investigation. so what do we learn here? you learn that there s still questions about the motive. the fbi has said there is no indication of a terrorist connection here. so the question is why did this car with these two people inside wearing wigs. well apparently possibly dressed as women attempt to go towards this gate and refuse those instructions? now, to be fair we should keep in mind that it s possible they were confused. it s possible they were not attempting to ram the gate or try to get inside et cetera. maybe they thought they were being chased. there are a whole host of circumstances. and we ve seen this before. you remember this shooting case more than a year and a half ago with a woman who had rammed the gate at the white house, you know was later shot up on the hill. and it seemed that she had some mental issues. very clear that she had a mental break. exactly. there s no substance to connect those two, but what is similar here is we don t know what their motive is. and the other piece of news in this statement that there was an nsa officer injured in this and the collision that you can see i believe you can identify that white there it is. that s the police car with the hood up that was rammed by the civilian car that had advanced against the barriers. but the protocol here . but the protocol here for an officer or a guard is to take divisive action. it is. and in an escalation of circumstances. to point, to stop to raise the barriers as they did. stop the car from going any further and then in this case an attempt to block the path. clearly the car ran into it and one of those inside was killed. but it s not clear how that occupant was killed. another person was taken to the local hospital along with the police officer who was injured. okay. we ll wait for more information. jim sciutto, thank you so much. does the gop have an indiana problem? they have been slammed from everyone from local gay rights activists to the ceo of apple. could this impact the 2016 race? could it make it tougher for republicans to i cantake the white house? we have that after the break. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what s up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. 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george this is where this debate has gone with misinformation and it s just a question sir. yes or no. well there s been shameless rhetoric about my state and about this law and its intention all over the internet. people are trying to make it about one particular issue and now you re doing that as well. let s bring in jeff zeleny and peter hamby, our national political reporter. so now you have indiana republicans who are saying we re going to clarify this law and make sure it s clear that this is not about discriminating against gay americans. mike pence right there, very clearly, is not doing a good job of drawing a line and saying this is exactly what it is. will this continue? what do you think? i think it s clear that it s not enough. what s also clear is this is really the big post gay marriage debate fight. marriage is moving closer and closer to reality. this is sort of the next terrain we re going to see this fight over religious liberty and we saw how difficult it is for governor pens topence, a very tough road for republicans who don t want to talk about it at all. jeff is right. in a cascade of gay marriage being legalized in a lot of states states like indiana pushes this as the next stage battle while they wait for the outcome of the supreme court matter on this ruling in june which could make same-sex marriage a law of the land which would make it a convenient answer for the republicans. sometimes they don t always stay with other laws. i think what it is you have americans, you look at the polls, even just in the last few years, they have crossed the rubic on this each. when you look at how this is playing out and even the fact that there are other laws like this, this is the one that has suddenly caught fire what does that tell you about 2016 and how this issue is going to play for republicans? you are so right. the public opinion on this has moved so fast in just a matter of years. 60% of americans now support same-sex marriage. that number is even higher among so-called millennials, people under the age of 34 it s about 70%, which puts the gop in a box. again, they don t want to be talking about this and jeff and i were just talking about this. you don t see a lot of republicans rallying to mike pence s defense right now. this is a doengangerous political it s very unusual for hopefuls to not want to talk at all which they don t, which is so different from the 04 campaign. when they jumped in and talked about it. right. they have to stand up for their social conservative base. the millennials are one thing but those that vote in the iowa caucuses so much different. you can t understate how brutal is this for mike pence. for republicans, it s jobs or economic development. put the politics aside. there are businesses like apple, salesforce this is so much bigger than an indiana law. you re seeing republicans being pulled on either direction on this but my question would be, so they are not saying okay we support this law but if some republicans don t come out in opposition to it, does that hurt them in this election cycle? not in the short term. not in the primary phase as they are trying to reach out to their base voters and there s so many of them they are trying to split that difference but in a general election, no question. you cannot be for a candidate linked to something discriminatory. it doesn t work to broaden your base. certainly not with the down youngsters out there. that s it for me. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me on this monday. we have more of the special live coverage of the downing of flight 9525. and now we have it. confirmation today that germanwings co-pilot andreas lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies. it was long before he crashed an airbus a320 into the french alps killing himself and all 149 people on board. and while a french newspaper is reporting that he once got injections of anti-psychotic medicine let me be clear, this is a claim that cnn cannot con firm. the prosecutor says there was no recent evidence of physical illness. we don t have any documentation that says regarding his sight, any problems that he might have had or might have assumed to have there isn t any documentation that says this is caused by an