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Weapon. patrick oppmann has been following the story from havana where the attacks first started. what is the evidence here, what happened at the embassy that led authorities to suspect it was this kind of attack? >> you had very precise attacks, u.s. officials say always in diplomats' homes or hotel rooms and calls them to have brain damage, things that -- injuries that resemble concussions but no outward signs of any physical injuries. so how do you explain a concussion when no one can -- actually point to injuries they sustained. and they thought it could be a sonic weapon, they backed off ...

Experts consulted by cnn at the time said that sonic weapons really don't work like that. they don't usually cause somebody to hear a noise, and they're much too large to be used in this capacity. now we have scientists that have met and helped treat some of those diplomats coming out and saying perhaps it's a microwave weapon. this is also a weapon that's much more portable that shoots a beam of energy and can be pinpointed in the way these diplomats describe both here in cuba and in china, and that it can actually cause people to think they're hearing sounds. this is just a symptom of this b...

A or higher. china tested a couple and the general is testifying in favor of increased budge for u.s. sonic weapons. >> if this is -- how come more people haven't heard about this? >> the technology's new. it's untested, unproven. none of these weapons are deployed yet. when you fly five times the speed of sound you're conquering some tremendous air testing. it's not clear these weapons are going to work, most of them are still in the working stage. the general was right, china is ahead of us. >> china, russia, i have beanyb that we should be concerned having this? >> there is nobody else in t...

Vomiting, even brain injury. >> translator: cuba has never had sonic weapons. >> reporter: this is the sound they say they heard. but a document provided to them said that is not at levels to damage the health. and there is no known idealogy to support these symptoms. >> there is nothing that supports the symptoms reported that has ever been caught by any sound waves of any type. >> reporter: we went inside the hotel room where incidents were reported. he said there were vibrations through this window. another diplomat lived here and others nearby. they said they interviewed dozens of neighbor...

Mysterious symptoms involving hearing loss to begin with. there are other symptoms, too, that we have learned about, they were pinpointing this as happening late last year in their residences outside the embassy in havana. this supposedly affected six people, that's what they said last week but we have learned that actually it was more like 12-18 people, definitely in the double digits, our sources say, and also, that this occurred much earlier than we previously thought, months earlier, actually, and that timing is critical when you think about the normalization process and president obama le...