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>> i'm alison kosik in for christi paul. including reports that the co-pilot steered this commercial jetliner into the french alps and suffered from a severe psycho somatic illness. >> let's get to pamela brown in germany. good morning, pamela. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. that's right, dramatic new developments here. we are learning from "the new york times" that andreas lubitz may have had vision problem and that may be as a result of a psychosomatic illness. a lot of precipitatiscription de found inside of his apartment. i spoke to a lufthansa spokesperson who finds is hard

to believe he could have had vision problems. we know as recertification process the pilots get their vision tested. i spoke it an aviation source who said that he passed his last exam last summer, but we know since then that he has visited medical clinic here in dusseldorf just a couple times the past few months. also we are learning from german media that there may be another woman involved who lived with him. i was just at his apartment yesterday and there are two names on the door, lubitz and goldbalk. they are saying the other name is his living girlfriend who was a school teacher in dusseldorf and a lot more to learn on that fron. we are learning his father visited the french alps yesterday. he said he is devastated and carrying the burden of this horrific tragedy. authorities are saying it could be weeks until the bodies of

those victims are recovered. we know service road is being built and i want to bring in now erin mclaughlin who is there on-site to tell us more about the efforts of the family members to get closer to the crash site. erin? >> hi, pamela. that's right. >> reporter: right now, the crash site is only accessible by air and authorities here really looking to change that. this morning, they have begun to dig a road to the crash site. they think it will be finished in about eight days. the idea behind this road is really twofold. to help with the recovery effort and give vehicles access and the road is meant for the families to eventually be able to use it to access the crash site. the local mayor saying that many of the families have expressed an interest as being as close to where their loved ones died as possible. they have been peppering him with questions, they said, about what the area is like in the winter, what is it like in the summer? and he told them that it's a little corner of paradise. so every meter, every foot,

every inch of this road, he says really is going to count to these families. one of the families that says they want to visit more often is the family of paul bromly, one of three british victims on board the flight. take a listen to the statement his father phillip read out to the press. >> what happened on the morning of the 24th of march was the acts of a person at the very least who was ill. if there was a motive or a reason, we do not want to hear it. it's not relevant. what is relevat is it should never happen again. i assume that everyone on that plane should not be forgotten ever. i don't want it to be forgotten ever. i will not get back. i will be able to take him home because of the nature of the impact. me and my family will visit here forever. >> reporter: phillip bramley called for greater transparency

from the airlines. he said the airlines needs to look after their pilots. he also said that he does not want the beauty of the splendor of this area to be remembered by the actions of one man, a reference to andreas lubitz, the co-pilot accused of crashing that plane. andreas' family was here on thursday and the local mayor saying it pained him to see the grief of his father coping with the knowledge, not only that his son died, but that he may have also been behind the crash. the mayor saying that his father was shattered. pame pamela? >> reporter: erin mclaughlin, thank you for that. there is an investigation in the french alps and dusseldorf on the background of andreas lubitz. we will keep you updated on any developments. >> that german newspaper is reporting that co-pilot andreas

lubitz ex-girlfriend said he was a nice, sensitive man but he was troubled and had dreams drooems his plane was crashing. a reporter spoke to andreas' ex-girlfriend. john, so we know when these observations were made by this ex-girlfriend, when were they dating and when did that relationship end? >> reporter: hello from berlin. actually, the relationship lasted five months and we were talking about a time one year ago. actually, they worked with flight on attendants and they got to know on a flight. they felt comfortable with each other and it ended up it came to a relationship. but they kept this relationship secret because she was a little bit worried about that this relationship could -- could affect her career, you know?

and actually, she told me that this relationship lasted for five months and, in the end, it was her decision to break up because she felt after those months with him a little bit scared, a little bit frightened because of his spontaneous reaction. she told me about an event that he attempt to be aggressive in terms of -- especially about their job situation. maria told me that he was, during their relationship, quite unhappy with his job situation. >> was he ever -- >> reporter: he -- yeah? >> i apologize for jumping in here. was he ever physically abusive, did she say? >> reporter: no. she never mentioned that. she only mentioned that there were some reactions she never could understand.

for example, like you mentioned before, one night, he suddenly jumped up after something from a nightmare and he screamed the plane goes down, we going down, you know? and there was another moment where he locked himself into the toilet, according to her, and be there for, i don't know, for a couple of -- no, longer. at least one hour, she told me. >> an hour? >> reporter: and she didn't know why he did that. >> john, did he ever, according to his ex-girlfriend, share any diagnoses with her? did she know about any specific illness or these are all just observations that she made? >> reporter: no. she mentioned one time he doesn't -- he doesn't -- there was one talk she mentioned which she can remember where he actually admitted that he had medical treatment because of psychological problems, and -- but he didn't give no details on

it, but it was obvious that it seemed to be kind of depression of something and she told me that she was also kind of -- because, you know, she observed two sides of person in him. when he was among people, he was like nice, really smart, open-minded to other people. but then there were on their own and especially when they were discussing about the job situation and about the dream, you know? he turned to -- he turned to another person, to a different person, being more quiet, being more sensitive, you know, and i'm sure -- and she was the one who gave the support to be on the way, you know? >> we have heard that from some of our medical experts that sometimes we have heard also from his family and friends that he was completely normal person in many ways and they never

expected this from him. we will have this conversation about mental health as we move through the mourning. john, thank you so much for speaking with us this morning. let's learn a little bit more and bring in a clinical and forensic psychologist jeff garr deer. good morning. >> doom. >> we heard that lubitz ex-girlfriend said he seemed happy, but troubled. what does that say about his mental health? >> it seems to me that this is someone who was struggling to maintain his emotional sanity. we are talking about depression and a psychosomatic illness and something called a burned out syndrome which is related to an overabundance of subjective stress. in other words, this is what he is perceiving and reacting in a very inappropriate or poor manner or dysfunctional manner of perhaps being a piloted or

perhaps of interpersonal issues. when we hear the reports about allegedly about the aggression and the anger, i think we also have to look at the probability that this was an individual for perhaps the last ten years of his life who was struggling to maintain his sanity, but was very emotionally unstable, as we see with his actions of crashing that plane. >> also there are reports that he suffered from a severe psychosomatic illness. what exactly does that mean? >> that means because of the stress, he now begins to internalize a lot of his psychological conflicts and it causes all sorts of physical symptoms, but once you're examined by a physician, they don't see what the connection is between the body and those particular symptoms. in other words, it's the mind that actually creates a lot of these physical symptoms which can be headaches, stomach aches, back aches, pain disorders, and

even something that we call conversion disorder which someone, all of a sudden, perhaps may be going blind. so that may be what may have been going on with his vision problems. we really don't know. it's speculation at this point that there was not a clear medical reason as to why he was having vision problems. they could have been as a reaction from his depression, from the anxiety, from this burn-out syndrome. >> what do you think? we are hearing that his employer lufthansa and germanwings, they were unaware of any of these issues. do you think think it's a doctor's job to tell an employer for somebody who is responsible for so many lives, is it that doctor's mission to tell an employer to communicate that, that these kinds of problems are happening? >> well, i believe it is. in the united states, we are mandated reporters. if we feel that someone is a threat to children sexually, if

we feel that perhaps they are homicidal or suicidal, we have to breach our confidentiality and make sure they get help and that the public is protected. my understanding is that in germany, those mandated reporter rules are not the same thing and why perhaps this was not related to the airlines and i think we may start to see some changes in those laws, as well as the changes as to what happens with annual physicals. right now, it's just looking at medically what is wrong with a person but not what is happening psychologically so i think we are going to see the rule book completely rewritten here. >> you also may see things getting more stringent in the u.s., we can only hope. jeff gardere, thanks. >> my pleasure. boots on the ground. we could see saudi-led coalition troops in yemen. as explosions ring out across the country and the crisis there hits a boiling point. we are going to have new details. and tense moments for

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this is a draft summary that is being flushed out by arab leaders here and a port here. which agrees to a military force to counter regional threats in the future. but the wording speaks specifically to what is going on yemen, as well at the moment. within the body of this text that is expected to be officially ratified today that allows president hadi to request deployment of military troops to his country if there is a need by that suffering state. hadi slipped out of yemen last week and turned up here at the arab league summit yesterday to rally for support of this that they are calling it. in an opening speech, he didn't mince his words and announcing

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this is the family of the pilot locked out of the cockpit by andreas lubitz. a memorial erected in honor of those on germanwings flight

9525. they are make working on making an access road to the crash site. the marp of the town closest to the side said every meter is important in trying to get the families close to their loved ones. pamela brown is heading unfortunaup out of live coverage in germany. pamela, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, alison and victor. we are learning more about this co-pilot andreas lubitz. according to a newspaper, he had a live-in girlfriend who worked as a school teacher not far from where he lived in dusseldorf about 30 minutes away from where i am right now. according to media reports here in germany and elsewhere, investigators have found a lot of prescription drugs inside of his apartment. in fact, "the new york times" is reporting that he may have suffered from a psycho somatic illness and he may have had vision problems but a german

aviation source i spoke with said he was tested this past summer and passed his recertification test and that his vision was tested during that exam. louv lufthansa says it's hard to believe he had vision problems but a lot to learn here. one pilot who flew with him once before made an emotional announcement before takeoff and that has taken over social media. diana has more on this story. >> reporter: i'm in the town which is the town in german which lost 16 school children in that air crash and two pilots and there is a palm sunday mass in church behind me. i want to quickly play for you what one woman said which sums up the feelings of the town. let's take a quick listen.

>> translator: awful still and in mourning and the whole town is in shock and we don't know how to process it. >> reporter: about that pilot, he is germanwings pilot and, of course, if you're in germany, you fly germanwings, all the time. i believe you flew it, pam, coming over here. and, therefore, the fact that he made an announcement to people has gone -- he became a sensation on social media and here is the tuesday. >> translator: after tuesday's horrific crash and the devastating revelation that germanwings flight 9525 was brought down with intent it's a nervous time for air travelers which is why the reassuring words of one germanwings pilot was so appreciated by his passengers. one of them wrote about it on her facebook page. it says roughly translate he talked about how much the crash affected him and the crew and that the crew had come

voluntarily the fact he had family. the crewmembers had family and he will do whatever is possible to be with his family during the evening. after a moment of silence the whole plane applauded she said and post went viral. the pilot she is referring to is modest about his facebook stardom. >> translator: what makes me happy is i managed to return a little bit of trust to the passengers. >> reporter: just a few weeks ago, he said he had flown with andreas lubitz, the co-pilot accused of piling his paergssens to their deaths. >> translator: i had one flight with him. he seemed to me quite normal. i think the media had already mentioned that. >> reporter: strangely, both men from from a small german town which this week became a focus for the world media, the home of lubitz parents shudder as they digest the news about their son.

several flights were kaneled th cancelled this week. >> translator: as a pilot, i think it's important, while the dock bit door is closed during the flight to show yourself before or after the flight so the passengers can build up trust. >> reporter: trust in an airline and an industry where it is being profoundly shaken. >> reporter: pam, i'm sure you'll agree with me on a story where, each day, the revelations and the misery seems to get worse. it's quite nice to be able to bring a story like that to the audien audience. pam? >> reporter: absolutely, diana magnay. as diana said, i flew on je germanwings over here. it is clear that the germanwings pilots are taking their own initiative to say something to the passengers to perhaps ease their fears. back to you.

>> absolutely. pamela brown, thanks very much. let's go ahead and bring in former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. with all of these new reports about lubitz apparent psychosomatic illness, what are your thoughts about security? do they change at all? that kind of -- that kind of illness can sometimes be hard to see. >> that's exactly right, alison. you know, you have to worry about the fact that you can't detect it until, oftentimes, it's too late, as in this case and especially if the person is trying to hide it from the public and from the boss. so, you know, it's a very difficult thing and i think the other concern that i think many pilots have at this point and many passengers is that even with stepped-up testing, it may not be completely reliable. you could be taking somebody from their career that really is fine, you know, that has a false positive in their testing and there could be others that you

miss that still get behind, you know, the controls of an aircraft that shouldn't be. i think it's just -- it's not scientific enough to be able to tell with 100% certainty who can fly a plane and who shouldn't be up there. >> how specifically do you think pilots will be more vetted now? not just the pilots that fly internationally but those in the u.s. flying domestically. apparently the u.s. has a bit more stringent guidelines. will those be stepped up as well and how? >> i don't know that we have more stringent guidelines. from all of the pilots i've heard on the air this past week, you know, they talk about every six months or a year, there is just a couple of cursory questions asked of them and not a real detailed psychological examination that is conducted. once they have gotten through flight training and, for many pilots, that could be ten, 20, 30 years ago, you know, they are not retested or re-evaluated in

that close of a manner after flight school. and the problem is that for many people, as you go through life, you have stresses and you have medical conditions that come up well into, you know, as you get older. so that would go undetected. >> what about spreading that extra, i guess, that extra assessment on to other members of the flight crew who have access to the cockpit? i'm talking expressly about the flight attendants. >> is put a flight attendant in the flight deck when one of the pilots leave to go tot the bathroom or get coffee. that's true. report it to management that an individual pilot is distributing strange behavior. i can tell you this from experience that, you know, in the fbi, we had many people call

and say their spouse or girlfriend or boyfriend was involved in terrorism because they were going through a bad relationship time and just wanted to get the other person in trouble and it was unfounded. so we don't know. >> oh, that's really harsh. cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, thanks very much for your analysis. >> you're welcome. the war in isis hinges upon one key city, if you ask several experts. the u.s.-led coalition is carrying out air strikes to make sure that city lands in the hands of iraqi forces. cnn is there live on the front lines. also a rise in hostility towards police officers, even deaths of police officers, has one nationwide group of women doing something about it. you'll meet them. they are the wives behind the badge. that's coming up next.

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the u.s.-led coalition is working to tip the battle for ta treat tikrit for iraqi cities. tikrit is a pivotal battleground city in the war on isis. arwa damon reports from the front line. >> reporter: there is movement in the house he is seeing. this is tikrit's southern border. there are number of federal police positions right along the shore line. they are trying to advance. inside the city, hundreds of isis fighters fortified in buildings underground tunnels,

boobytrapped roads. there is the hospital right there. those are all isis positions. for weeks, iraqi ground units were unable to push into the city. the government requested air strikes from the u.s.-led coalition. by saturday, two days after the coalition started bombing, bullet casings littered the roof. 24 hours ago, we would have seen isis still holding their positions right there on the very outskirts of tikrit but because of the air strikes and heavy artillery bombardment the isis troops have been pushed back further at this stage. america said it had a precondition for coalition bombing, umbrella group made of iranian-backed shia militias and volunteers and not be a part of the final phase to seize the city but nothing is that

straightforward here. the hash has not withdrawn from any of their areas of responsible this general said that the federal police commander on the ground says. the base we are at is a hash base. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: we hope in the coming days all of the units that are holding the ground will enter tikrit one of the hash units second in command. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: these are iraqi rockets he says. everyone quickly turns to see the impact. arwa damon, cnn, tikrit, iraq. coming up -- >> [ bleep ]. >> hey, hey! >> reporter: another violent outburst toward a ferguson police officer. the number of deadly attacks across the country has climbed dramatically. next, an interesting perspective. why wives of law enforcement even say their children are targets.

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in the wake of the justice department's recommendations for putting the police officers in the community another violent episode. >> an african-american officer was called nearby mcdonald's for a disturbance and when he arrived, this happened. >> [ bleep ]. >> hey, hey! >> 60 protesters threw water bottles and several other water bottles thrown and racial slurs yelled at the officer. >> ferguson's acting police officer condemned the attack.

>> it's frustrating for them. you know? and they are, like, i should be your poster child, educated four-year degree and i'm out here and want to be a good policeman and you got these people full of hate is the only way to describe it. hate and anger. >> that attack is another instance of violence toward the law enforcement. nicole kirkman the wife of that officer is understandably horrified. >> i was disgusted. i couldn't believe that was happening. he's not the only black officer. from what i understand, all of the black officers are being targeted. >> regardless of race, being targeted is a reality for police officers across the nation. recently, i sat down and spoke with the wives of law enforcement in one north carolina community. they say that what is happening in communities like ferguson is spreading across the country. they say that their children now, members of their families, have become targets. >> multiple shots.

about a good 15 to 20 were fired and struck my vehicle. >> reporter: an urgent call for help from a durham city, police officer, followed by a warning. >> all officers respond to the area. be careful appear to be an ambush. >> reporter: the officer was not injured but the third attack in recent months and for the wives of law enforcement the strain of the job can sometimes be too much to bear alone. >> it really is very stressful and a lot of things go through your mind. you're like will my husband come home tonight? >> i know personally, i don't think i could have gotten through it without law enforcement support. >> reporter: jennifer and jessica are two of ten women in this group. they and the other women declined to share their last name out of concerns for their husband's safety. a group trying to find strength within one another. >> they know what it's like to have that first christmas when

your husband is not there or to celebrate, you know, a birthday on another day because your husband has gone out and he is doing a job that most people wouldn't do. >> reporter: cnn was granted rare access to a recent meeting of the group in the wake of the rash of attacks on local officers. >> when you hear things like that, you really feel for the other police wives as well because you know how they feel when you first hear that gunshots fired. is it mine? is it one of my friends's spouses? >> reporter: according to a report from the national law enforcement officers memorial fund, 126 officers did not make it home alive in 2014. the group found the number of officers shot to death across the country in 2014 increased by 56% the previous year and the number of ambush tripled the number of ambushes in 2013. has anyone asked their husband to take a different line of

work? >> never. >> reporter: never? >> i never actually asked him because my husband is so passionate about what he does and you don't want to belittle his dreams because he's always wanted to be an officer. >> reporter: you have? >> we talked about it. he's actually, you know, talked about it in conversations that we had. he loves his job. but he knows there's a chance one day he'll never come home. if it continues and things don't change or, you know, things get a lot worse, a lot worse than they are right now, maybe a consideration. like i said he loves his job but he loves his family too. >> reporter: how do you explain this to the kids? >> we are honest with him. he knows what his dad does for a living and he knows it's a scary job and there is a chance that one day he may never come home. >> reporter: the group's blue line kids online forum allows children of law enforcement to get answers to some tough

questions. >> you're going to come under judgment because there are going to be parents out there that tell you maybe you shouldn't tell your children about the realities of the law enforcement lives. but the reality is we have to. they need to know that their lives as children of law enforcement officers are in danger 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> reporter: so the families look out for one another. >> when my husband became a police officer, it's, like, suddenly 90% of your friends are law enforcement kids. >> reporter: on the whole, these ten women say life is a law enforcement wife is tough, for some, more than they expected, but as long as their husbands are willing to do the tough part, these wives say they are willing to stand behind the badge. >> from my husband it's what he has wanted to do since he was a child. i knew that when i married him so for me, it's just supporting him and really just trying to have as much passion for it as he does. >> reporter: my thanks to the

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no hate in our state! >> protesters in indiana over a very controversial law. indiana governor signed a religious freedom law this week. critics say it could allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. >> the governor says -- he wants the law to be clarified. he told "the star" newspaper that a new bill would lime be introduced in coming days but he did not specify what that bill would say or who would introduce it. here is what the white house has to say about that. >> the signing of this bill doesn't seem like it's in the step of a direction of justice and quality and liberty for all americans. it's not the view of the administration. i know it's the view of the republican mayor of indianapolis and a whole host of nonprofit and private sector companies who are have legitimate concerns about the impact of this legislatio