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>> no, whether they're high schools or elementary schools, they are a target. and there's a good reason. you have a lot of sheep. you have limited protection. they're going to be immediately overwhelmed by something like this. that's why these ticking time bombs and we will find that this person is a ticking time bomb, that's why when he had a precipitating moment, that's why we have to find out what was the straw that broke the camel's back here. he had a plan to hurt as many people as possible and it's easy shooting.

Seen an ark in him pr he talked about a civil rights movement. that's not the man we heard last august. he's learned he has to know the community to police it. i think the way he spoke about the shooting reflects real growth. he assumed if they were pulling guns on his officers, as this it person allegedly did, that they weren't protesters because he see what is protesters do, they protest. >> do people accept the police version of what happened there of why this happened and why the guy had the gun, which was supposedly a stolen weapon? >> i would say probably not. the people that trust law e...

They will get or keep on these? >> well, this is an interesting question, because if his role is as significant as the government is said then quite a lot will have been confiscated, and i'm hearing in the last few hours, his role of the coordinator or the wrangler of the hostages may have been the more precipitating factor in this. >> and that is how his wife, umm sayyaf, was captured, and sources are telling our evan perez that he and his wife have deep knowledge of the hostage holdings. >> yes, and it is the case that the government is not telling us that there are more american hostages be...

Monitoring. they just don't want to do it. >> mary, you heard in andrew's piece, you said it's generally not just one thing that causes a crash here. let's talk about the weather, though. obviously this was some pretty severe weather. the pilot had asked for permission to climb to 38,000 feet because it was so bad. but what else could have contributed to this? >> well the weather might have been a precipitating or caused a cascading effect. in other crashes that i've worked here's how the sequence went. you had particularly bad weather that stressed the plane and the pilot. the pilot made deci...

Down to these prices that comes to a dead halt. >> some of the big boys, arco and chevron, can absorb this. i'm more worried in the macro, without getting too arcane and wonky, this presages something else. maybe a global slowdown, china is coughing, india is hiccupping. >> this happened before when we had low oil prices. this could be precipitating something even bigger. short term, everybody is very happy about this but we have to focus on the long term, energy independence, getting the economy back, running -- and energy prices will bring it to a grinding halt. >> the offset has been though...