that's it for this edition of "360." later from washington, thanks for watching, "early start" begins now. it's like dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. but who was this guy? >> new information about the gunman who murdered 12 people at the washington navy yard. his troubling past and what may have triggered his shooting rampage. we are live with more. >> it's worse than i thought it would be. we lost absolutely everything we own. >> oh. devastation in colorado. residents returning to homes destroyed by the worst flooding that state has ever seen. we will show you the towns and areas hit hardest. >> so sad, i was reading a

report this morning about a woman who was talking about her experience. she was telling us, the readers, you have no idea how bad it is. >> it's days and days. unbelievable. good morning, everyone. welcome to "early start." >> i'm zoraida sambolin. it's nice to have you with us. it's wednesday, september 18th. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. we're going to begin with new potential clues in the washington navy yard shooting. we're learning that suspect aaron alexis who killed 12 people before he was shot dead, he displayed erratic behavior for years and for the last month, that behavior only seemed to grow more strange and more troubling. he recently told police he believed he was being followed and was hearing voices in his head. more on that in a moment. but first, we're hearing this morning, for the first time, the emergency dispatch calls that went out just after the shooting began. let's listen. >> we got a report on the fourth floor. a male with a shotgun.

multiple shots fired. multiple people down. >> we have conflicting reports about the security. fourth floor now. >> right now, police confirm five people shot, could be others. >> you can give me a briefing of how many we've taken, from which facility so far? >> all units in the main tree amp group need to move left. the ambulances in line, you can move left, way out of the line of fire. >> we have an officer down. building 197 on the third floor. a female shot on the roof of building 1333, as they call it. female on the roof. >> we're doing a sweep, security, we still have a second suspect possibly in. so scene is not secure. >> you hear the urgency in their voices so, so telling. our pamela brown has been following this investigation from the beginning.

she is live at the washington navy yard this morning. good morning, pamela, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, good morning to you, john, it's been nearly two days since the shooting at the navy yard, and we still don't know what a motive was. but we are learning more about aaron alexis how he was able to bring that shotgun into building 197. we're learning more about his past run-ins with the law, about his time of military service and also a time line of aaron alexis' movements leading up toe that shooting suggest this is mental health was unstable. this morning, we're learning now details about how aaron alexis brought a gun on to the washington navy yard. a federal law enforcement official tells cnn that the gunman entered building 197 by a small bag. it's believed to have carried a disassembled remington 870 shotgun. he's been seen on surveillance video ducking into a bathroom with the bag and emerging seconds later with the gun.

moments later, he opens fire. >> we got a report on the fourth floor, a male with a shotgun. multiple shots fired. multiple people down. >> reporter: as investigators continue poring over alex' life, the trail of red flags leading to monday's massacre is troubling. august 7th, he calls rhode island police complains of hearing voices coming through the walls of the hotel room. according to the police report, alexis said those voices were sending vibrations into his body using some sort of microwave machine. august 25th, alexis contacts a v.a. hospital for a second time for sleep problems. september 14th, two days before the shooting, alexis stops at this small arms range in lorton, virginia. an attorney for the range said alexis practiced shooting then paid $497 for a gun and two

boxes of ammunition. then on monday, he accessed a navy yard with legitimate i.d. and proper security clearance. >> in a case like this where you've got so many red flags over a protracted period of time, it almost seems this is the thing that is bound to happen. >> reporter: even more troubling, alexi' record searching as a navy reservest, eight incidents, insubordination, disorderly conduct and absence from work. >> it's tease piece it it together and say somebody should have known. it's a little more challenging. >> reporter: he was honorably discharged in 2011 and remained his navy issued security clearance which is good for ten years. a defense contractor he is working for is now pointing the finger at the military for overlooking his misconduct and civilian service. >> looking at the fences while he was in uniform, none of those give you the indication that he

was capable of this sort of brutal, vicious, violence. >> reporter: investigators are collecting evidence from multiple crime scenes. towing away his rental car. interviewing family members in brooklyn, all in hope of understanding why he did this. and in the wake of this shooting, we know that the administration has launched three investigations. navy secretary ray mavis announced a review of all navy and marine corps security. also we're learning that the white house office of budget and management will reassess. and chuck hagel will order a review of all military installations across the world. details on the investigation of that expected to be released later today. zoraida and john. >> so many incidents, pamela, over the last several years, not one of them raised a level of red alert or set off alarm bells but maybe the totality of them

all should. that's what the investigations will be looking into it. pamela brown, washington, d.c., thanks so much. 6 minutes past the hour. we're hearing from friends of aaron alexis who insist they had no idea this man was capable of this. >> it's like dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. who was this guy? >> if there was something i could have stopped? is there some type of behavior that i ignored or didn't see that i could have prevented this? but there is no answers. he was very intellectual. his mind was sound. he can hold a conversation with the best of us. and he didn't -- he was not hearing voices. and if he did, he hid it very well. >> isn't that something. but a former roommate tells cnn alexis was paranoid and did carry a handgun because he was

worried that someone was trying to get him. and coming up in our next half hour, the stories of the victims who were at work that day and never made it home. >> their stories will break your heart. >> no doubt. >> with the victims, where our hearts and mind, every day right now. there's other news we're covering this morning. newly uncovered documents shows the agency flagged for anti-obama rhetoric and emotional statements. "usa today" got its handed on internal 2011 documents that described scrutiny. usaid said 162 groups were listed by name and 120 of them were character iced add propaganda. 80% are deemed conservative. letters have been exchanged between president obama and iran's new president hassan rouhani. officials say obama sent rouhani

a message congratulating him and he replied. the u.s. and iran haven't had formal relationship since 1980, after americans were taken hostage there. a newly declassed secret court opinion shedding more light on the nsa's phone surveillance program. an opinion with the fisa court said that it was approvaling the program. the judge's order also reveals that no phone company has yet challenged the order to turn over their records. you know, i notice quite a chill coming in this morning? >> no kidding, it feels like fall. >> it's fall. >> indira is here. >> we're definitely feeling that chill out there. we're talking frost advisories and cold air from canada is in place in temperatures. take a look, some places in the

30s. saranac lake, 34 degrees. boston a hint warmer than yesterday in danbury right now, 38 degrees, i agree, that is cold. but we are going to be warming up, that's the good news. the next several days we'll start see temperatures rebound and above normal right before the weekend, so we love that. we are watching the pacific northwest today will be a front sliding through denver. not expected to bring much but an isolated shower is possible. and we'll be watching for that rain to spread into the ohio valley, eventually into the northeast by the weekend. i don't know how that happens. just the middle of the week, beautiful out there today. i notice the temperatures pretty mild. a lot of 80s and 90s across the area. >> i'd like some 90s if you can work on that. >> by the next block, indira, we want the 90s. appreciate that. coming up -- >> this is actually not the river either, this is the street. >> -- the rain has stopped the

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some of the areas hardest hit by the flooding. >> reporter: just days ago, this was a desirable place to live. a small creek lined with homes and walkways, now a raging waterway. >> just listen for whistle signals. i'll tell you. i'll kind of watch the river and make sure nothing comes down at us. is this actually not the river either. this is the street. >> reporter: door by door, fema task force teams look for folks who rode out the flood in this canyon neighborhood and warn it's not safe to be here. >> house is complete. vacant. next building recon. >> reporter: it's been days since dramatic rescues through the stretchers us mountain canyons. hundreds plucked out of destinations here's by the national guard. these are the people signaling to rescuers who have run out of food, water, praying for dry

land. residents may still remain in flooded areas and not all of them want to go. in this neighborhood, the team comes across this resident who refuses to leave. >> when we leave, we really can't -- you know, there's no way to police the whole area. if they're here, we definitely -- if they fall in, it's going to become a rescue scenario for us, and we're going to have to be going in after them. >> reporter: the terrain has been completely redrawn through much of boulder and larimer counties. where i'm standing this used to be the road. right in front of me, this is a new waterway. the stream used to be all the way over there. it used to be a small stream, you can see it's now a raging river. the road in front of david mamlan's house was ironically called stream crest road. the new stream now surrounds his home. why stay? if this is what it's looking like, why stay? >> well, it's our home. 27 years.

been here. my son grew up here. i mean -- and it's so beautiful. >> reporter: a different sort of beauty today altered by the deadly force of mother nature. kyung lah, cnn, boulder county, colorado. it is 17 minutes past the hour. we now know the cause for that massive fire that destroyed the jersey shore icon. investigators believe wires now damaged by superstorm sandy for starting the fire that burned through a big chunk of the boardwalk and dozens of businesses in seaside heights and seaside park, new jersey. the decades' only lines were likely damaged from seawater and sand from the storm. superstorm sandy still wreaking havoc. in oklahoma, a discovery that could have helped to solve decades-old cold cases. authorities pull two cars from the bottom of foss lake in

oklahoma city. inside those cars two sets of excel tell remains believed to be connected to the missing persons cases from the 1960s and '70s. she said her parents spent years looking for them. >> it's been very traumatic. i can -- i can remember my dad having dreams at night. and getting in the car, as soon as he got off from his day job, taking my mom and they would look and look and look. any trace. >> imagine that, decades of uncertainty there. >> wow. >> amazingly, these cars were only found because the highway patrol was testing a new sonar device in the lake. so far, one of the skeletons has been identified, but police are not making that information public yet. >> wow, that is incredible after so many years. 18 minutes past the hour here. on today's world warriors there

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and an incredible, credible year, that september surge, we've got futures higher. let me tell you something else here, the fed meeting it's also contending with this grim reality, household incomes are falling. the poverty rate isn't budging. in the recovery, they're worried about numbers like this. brand-new sentence ses data shows 15% of all americans, 46.5 million people live in poverty. the number of uninsured americans dip slightly. 48 million, as more children and elderly gain coverage. an many of those children gaining coverage because of health care reform. speaking of health care reform, walgreens about to become one of the largest lowers yet to make radical changing to its company-backed programs. it will provide payments for the subsa diezed. -h ibm said it would recently

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over a protracted period of time, it almost seems like this is the type of thing that's bound to happen. >> history of violence. serious mental illness. new information about the navy yard shooter. this morning, the warning signs that everyone might have ignored. marty, just a great guy. >> that you capital hearing over and over again. 12 men and women murdered just going to work. new information about the latest victims of the massacre. we'll be live with the latest. they can look, they support me. they help me through these tough times. >> and you are going to love this. a touching tribute on the field for a young boy who has been fighting a very big battle of his own. >> oh, my goodness. all right, welcome back to "early start." thanks for being with us this morning. i'm zoraida sambolin. that's tough to get through. >> it is tough, but it's a lovely story.

it's 31 minutes after the hour. i'm john berman. great to see you this morning. >> this morning, there are still so many questions that are still unanswered, right? about what drove a former navy reservist to bring a gun to the navy yard and open fire killing 12 innocent people before police could kill him. what we do know now how aaron alexis got that gun into that secure facility. and there are new clues into the state of his mental health as well. pamela brown is live at the navy yard with more details. good morning to you, pamela. >> reporter: good morning to you, zoraida. the investigation under way. an as you mentioned we are learning new details about how aaron alexis was able to bring the shot gunn into the navy yard. officials telling cnn that the gunman entered building 197 with a small bag that is believed to have carried a remington 838 shot gunn.

he ducks into a bathroom with the gun and moments later opens with gunfire. a trail of red flags leading to monday's massacre is troubling. august 7th he calls police hearing voices in the hotel room. a police sergeant said he alerted authorities at naval station about that incident. authorities there at the fbi declined to comment. august 25th, alexis arrives in the washington area where he contacts a v.a. hospital for a second time for sleep problems. september 14th, two days before the shooting, an attorney for a small arms range in lorton, virginia, says alexis bought a gun there. and on monday, he accessed a navy yard with legitimate i.d. even more troubling, alexis' record searching agency a navy reservist, as we're learning eight incidents of disordering conduct. he retained his security navy clearance which is good for ten years. >> you got to secured clearance. he enlisted in the navy shortly

after that in 2007 it was good for ten years at the secret level. the security clearance was valid when he left the navy in 207, because he wasn't out of work very long, the security clearance went with him. again, we're taking a look at all of those reports of run-ins with the law to see if anything should have been done differently right now. >> reporter: and in the wake of the shooting, the administration announced it's launching three investigations to vie the incident to look at security at military installations around the world. and also to examine standards for federal contractors and employees. zoraida and john. >> thank you very much, pamela. we want to keep as much of the focus as we can on the victims this morning. and this morning, we are learning so much more of their stories. these were the people who were killed on what was supposed to be a normal day at work. among those dead, financial analyst kathy gaarde. she was 62. he was a die-hard fan of the g

washington capitals. her daughter said she would do. martin bodrog, he worked for the daughter. he leaves behind a wife and three daughters. mary francis knight was a contractor who taught at a local college. the 51's eldest daughter was married two weeks. michael ridgell serve three years as a contract security working in iraq. >> i don't want people to remember him as a victim because he never was in his life, and he never will be. he's strong. i want him to be known as a dad, above the victim of a shooting because he was a great dad. >> these stories will break your heart. there's so many of them. we encourage you to read all of them because it's important to learn about these people. you can do that on our website

cnn.com/earlystart. >> rich and amazing live when you say get to know them. 35 minutes past the hour. in other news, a pennsylvania appeals court hearing arguments in former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky's bid for a new trial. but the judges seem skeptical in arguments that sandusky's lawyers say it was rushed to trial. and sandusky is currently serving a 30 to 60-year sentence for molesting ten young boys. a florida woman who made national news as a teenager because of her uncontrollable hiccupping is now on trial charged with first degree murder. prosecutors say in october of 2010 jennifer mee lured shannon griffin where he was robbed by two of her friends. they say griffin was shot to death as he struggled with those suspects. a guilty plea for an ohio man who confessed to driving

drunk with fatal consequences. matthew cordle is expected back in court after entering a not guilty plea last week. but he said he will take full responsibility for getting behind the while while intoxicated and killing vincent canzani earlier this year. he faces 8 1/2 years in prison. the skyscraper government largest terrorism-related forfeiture. the government authorized the seizure and sale of the building. the foundation originally a nonprofit organization operated by the shaw of iran. and it says it plans to appeal the ruling. 37 minutes past the hour, a top state department official will be on the congressional hot seat today facing questions on the deadly attack on a u.s. diplomatic post in benghazi,

libya. under secretary patrick kennedy, the house affairs will ask who is in charge of day-to-day operations? four americans died in that attack, of course, as you remember, including ambassador christopher stevens. president obama begins talking recovery today as he marks five years since the crash that nearly took down the u.s. economy. the president will address the business roundtable to try to win support for his economic policies. this is a group that has helped the president in the past in the last found of fiscal cliff negotiations. and we are just a few weeks away from a possible government shutdown and both sides show little signs of budging. secretary lu said they will vote on a short-term bill. a key provision would defund obama case, a nonstarter for democrats. >> walking into yet another cries, eyes wide open. meanwhile an effort to force

walmart and other large retailers to pay heir employees at least $12 an in the destruct of columbia that effort has failed. vincent gray sis the bill which was passed originally in july, he says it was a job-killer that would have drawn little retailers out of the city. 39 minutes past the hour. if you're waking up in the northeast -- >> -- you're cold! >> you're very cold. >> i'm just nervous knowing it's not even fall yet. i've never lived through a winter. should i even admit that? >> oh. >> i'm in trouble. we have frost advisories even warnings out there. cold air down from canada this morning. places are seeing temperatures in the 30s. upstate new york, 46. boston not as cool yesterday. currently 51 degrees. danbury, 38 degrees. that's a chilly start. here's the good news, we are warming up as we go closer to the weekend, the most important thing, right?

78 degrees in new york city by friday. we love the above-normal temperatures as we start the weekend. what we're watching the pacific northwest, another cold front starting to slide through colorado. not a huge chance for rain, but any rain is not a good thing with the flood concerns. 30% late afternoon into tomorrow morning. behind that, we'll see that front across the country. ohio valley will start to get rain. yes, the northeast by saturday, we'll start to look at rain here. but warm and rainy. i tried to switch it, right? >> sorry, sorry. >> glass half full maybe. >> sort of. it is 40 minutes past the hour. football is a really big deal in texas. a very big deal. even middle school football. so it's not surprising so many kids have dreams of gridiron gloriesing right? so it is including this little 12-year-old. trey sampson. all he wanted was to score a touchdown for his boxsprings

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all right. 44 minutes after the hour right now. pay attention those one, folks, if you're afraid of clowns this story is something. an anonymous man, there he is, has been standing around the streets of northampton, england, dressed as a clown. nut the pleasant happy clowns. this is like the nightmarish clown. kind of like a cross between the poultergeist clown. his most famous one is posting a big surprise. as you might imagine, residents there are taking notice. >> it's strange. >> maybe it's just fun, but, you know, i wouldn't think it would cause any harm to anyone or do

anything. -- yeah, he's got that face and a nasty smile on him. looks evil. >> a nasty face and he smells, apparently. british folks are strange, strange senses of humor there. there is speculation that this whole thing is an ad campaign or a mockumentary. everybody is following his every move. his facebook page has more than 85,000 likes. >> that's all you have to do, dress up like some creepy looking guy and you'll get a lot of likes here. that's my story here. >> something to aspire to. let's take a look at what's coming up on "new day." chris cuomo and kate bolduan joining us. >> good morning, clowns are scary. >> that one is creepy looking. >> a little bit. now -- >> men in makeup cannot be trusted. except this one. all right. so, obviously, we're going to be talking about the shooting down in washington. why? well, there are two big questions, why -- what was the

motivation for this man to kill and how did he get security clearance. there's new information on both fronts that we're going tell you this morning. a lot of it is very disturbing because it comes from the mouth of the shooter himself. calls for help that he was making that wounds up not resulting in any action by the government. we're going to have lawmakers on the show today to talk about who is clearing people. how are we keeping these bases safe. we'll take you through it. we'll also have one of the woman who survived the shooting just feet away from this man as he was pointing a gun in her direction. you'll hear the story, moving. >> everyone is asking what can be changed to make sure this can't happen again. we also have this scary story out of the georgia that we're following a frantic nationwide search is under way for a 14-year-old girl who was abducted in a violent home invasion. we're going to hear from the girl's terrified neighbors as authorities desperately try to find her. >> guys, see you in a bit.

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♪ i came in like a wrecking ball ♪ >> i thought we were going to see video. the miley cyrus song "wrecking ball" must be a hit. there she is. now, officials at grandbury state, university of michigan, have had to pull a piece of art, public art, off their campus.

why? because the students are using to do their own miley cyrus tributes. >> i saw you doing this in your office. i was wondering what you were doing. >> it's skyrocketed. this sculpture has been there for 40 years because it's now in storage. that is crazy because school officials worry it has become a safety hazards. >> that's too bad. i would actually go and ride that thing. >> there are a lot of people who would like to see you go and ride that thing. >> it's just for fun. >> too bad it's gone. >> why would they do that? that's fun. >> zoraida sambolin riding a wrecking ball -- action news. >> anybody care to join me. >> that's all for "early start," everyone. it is time for "new day." thankfully. >> except for audio issues -- no, just kidding. thanks, guys. we'll see you later in the show. just a transition, right? >> let's go. it's almost top of the hour that

means here on "new day" it's time for your top news. washington is recovering, but washington needs a lot more answers. >> lapse in security. new details on the navy yard shooter. what happened in his last days. a police warning to the military about him. but his clearance not taken away. extreme danger. a violent break-in turns into a kidnapping. a 14-year-old girl taken. her captures armed and dangerous. the nationwide manhunt happening now. higher and higher. gas now hitting a painful record. 1,000 days above $3 a gallon. will prices ever come back to earth? >> your "new day" starts right now. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate and michaela pereira. >> good morning, everybody.

welcome to "new day." it is wednesday, september 18th, 6:00 in the east. we have new information on the navy yard shooter and we have newly released sound from emergency responders in those frantic first moments. take a listen. >> we have an officer down. building 197 on the third floor. also, female shot on the roof of building 1333, female on the roof. >> we'll play more of that for you. really dramatic calls coming up. >> guess so. we're also following up on that "new day" exclusive that we first brought you, the interview with the family of jonathan ferrell, the unarmed man shot and killed by police. we now know he was shot ten times. on a very different note, let me pause at this. imagine you're getting married, arguably the biggest day of yo