here's the first lady. >> just four months after that explosion, he finished the half marathon in a wheelchair. four months of the explosion. on the one-year anniversary of his injury, he ran a mile on his prosthetic. over the next few years dan stayed on active duty while in the mayy, earning medals in swimming and running events at the warrior game and completing the new york city marathon. and today, four and a half years after his injuries, dan is proud to wear another one of our nation's uniforms and that is of team u.s.a. [applause] >> there's dan. dan i in the back. >> wave again, dan.

they're dan. [applause] >> and i also got to meet dan's sister, who stayed by his side every single minute of his recovery. and she was an important part of that recovery, and she is a terrific woman, a under herself, and i'm glad to hear she is doing well. in sochi, dan inspired all again by come peteing in the 15k biathlon and the one kilometer sitting cross-country sprint. dan has come a long way in the four years we met, and i know his story and the stories of all of olympians and pair olympians -- parra olympians are nowherer in fine issuedded. so keep it up. this is only the beginning. many of you were here four years ago and you told us you'd be back, and you're back. soil know you're already getting ready for the next four year, but in the meantime, we look forward to all that you're going to do in this country and around

the world to keep inspiring, particularly young people, to just live a little more like you all live and to show them that spirit of persistence. thank you all again for everything that you do. and i can't wait to hear about everything that you will do in the years to come. and with that, i'm going to turn it over to this guy next to me. who happens to be my husband, but more importantly, the president of the ute. barack obama. >> the first lady some now the president speaking to himmans and parra paraolympians at the white house. >> it is more important that i'm michelle's husband than president of the united states. i uwant you to -- don't want anybody to be con fewed. many of you young people out the aren't married yet. i just want you to know, giving

you some thousands to prioritize. -- some tips how to pry ore tied. >> obviously, as michelle mentioned, our thoughts right now are with the families at fort hood. these are folks who nick such extraordinary sacrifices for us each and every day. during the course of a decade of war many of them have been on multiple tours of duty. to see unspeakable senseless violence happen in a place where they're supposed to feel safe, home base, is tragic and this is the second time the fort hood community has been affected this way. so we join that entire community in honoring those who lost their lives every single one of them was an american patriot. we stand with their families and loved ones as theygraph. we're -- they grieve. we're thinking about the wounds.

we're there to support them, and as we learn more about what happened and why, we're going to make sure we're doing everything in our power to keep our troops safe and keep our troops strong, not just on the battlefield but also when they come home. they've done their duty and they're an inspiration. they've made us proud they put on their uniform and take care of us, and we have to make sure when they come home, we take care of them. in that spirit of unity, i what brings us here today -- >> the president speaking briefly about the tragedy at fort hood. who is responsible for what the president just described? a married father, an iraq war veteran who had been stationed at fort hood for a few weeks before he started shooting his fellow soldiers. that the word investigators who frying to find out what led to another shooting spree. officials confirm the gunman was this man, army specialist, eye

ivan lopez. he shot innocent people, moving from one building to the next. witnesses described warning sirens, wail, and panicked people climbing out windows to get away. raidey reportings: >> two victims with gunshot wounds. there's one walking around conscious and breathing. upper rib cage. >> just one of the victims. officials say the rampage finally ended win a military policewoman stood up to the gunman. >> he was approaching her 0 feet. put hi hands up, then reached under his jacket, pulled out the nine mil, and she pulled out her weapon, and then she engaged, and then he put the weapon to his head and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

>> official says lopez killed three people and wounded 16 before he killed himself. now investigators are looking into the soldier's pennsylvania. they say he was -- past. in m-year-old father from putter reek to. served four months in iraq. he self-reported a traumatic brain injury after he got become. but military officials say he was not wounded in combat. they say he was taking medication for mental health issues, including depressing and anxiety. investigators are also looking into whether the deadly rampage started with something as simple as an argument. we start our team fox coverage with rick leventhal live at fort hood. anything, rick, on a possible motive? >> well, not from the army. we're expecting to hear from the base commanding officer in just under an hour. we have heard from friends in pork rico, the home of ivan

lopez who said he was deeply affected by the death of his mother in november and had lost his grandfather a few weeks before that. hough that might explain shooting fellow soldiers here at the base, it just seems beyond belief. again, we could learn more from the army, but they're no question that they're looking very close live at this man's mental history. being treated for mental disorders, including depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders, was apparently on met craig, and -- medication and was not authorized to bring a gun on to the base. he had purchased the weapon off the base, within the last few days, according to some sours, and -- according to sources and had not registered the weapon with fort hood. so he was not supposed to bring it here but we did, opening fire. >> that community has been through so much. have you talked to some folks? looks like we lost our connection with rick leventhal, who is live at fort hood. the service has been

disconnected. he mentioned we're waiting to hear from the official thursday at fort hood, and when that happens we'll take you there. doctors expect all of the injured victims in the hospital to pull through. but some well fay some very touch -- face some very tough recovery from serious bullet wounds. we're starting to learn who the victims were. >> as you know three of them died from the indent. i spoke with one of their moms on the phone a few minuteses ago and she is heartbroken. her son is 37-year-old sergeant timothy owens, counselor for the army and had just been married last august. his mom told me she was terrified when she saw on tv that there had been a shooting at her son's base so she tried to call him. when she cooperate reach him, she reached out to his wife instead. here's what happened. >> she said, oh, he just in the hospital and we don't have any reports or anything to tell you.

but when we find out we'll let you know. well, an hour or so later she called me become and says, mom, i'm sorry, i told you a lie. he's gone. so, i said, oh no; don't tell me that. >> well, mary tells me her son, sergeant owens, served 11 years in the army and planned to stay in for a career. he had just signed up for six more years. the names of other victims have that been released. >> machine served throughout america's long longest war, came back to friendly soil and is killed. what are doctors saying about those in hospital. >> the 16 injured, several of them were taken to the military hospital that i right the on the pace, and others were moved to another hospital. now, scott and white memorial in temple, texas, took nine of the injured. this is video from yesterday.

the of them are in critical condition with gunshot injuries cluing wounds to the spine, neck, and abdomen. two will require further surgery but they expect them to survive. >> seems surreal when they arrive here. they relayed some details, but i know this is an ongoings investigate and i would hate to say something that might be a problem for the investigation, so i won't make any specific comments, but it was just a feeling of shock and just being in a surreal moment. >> now, just in the past couple hours some of the other names are starting to come in. we confirmed major patrick miller was one of the injured. he, according to local albany paper was shot in the the abdomen and is expected to survive. >> all of those most critically

injured at the level one trauma center. if you complete alive you normally stay that way. those doctors perform modern miracles and thank god. some of the 'same journalist were back on the scene today. one of the reporters to get there, we'll talk to him about what he saw yesterday and all that has happened, at fort hood. i'm shepard smith in new york.

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live to washington now and the house floor. the congressman who represents the district where fort hood is housed is a republican congressman, roger william. he is speaking now before a moment of silent on the house floor for the lost and injured. >> we'll continue praying for the excellent medical team that assists the injured. and perhaps most importantly we will not forget the troops whose lives were lost yesterday. the best and the bright e i what we offer at fort hood. their service and sacrifice are an inspraying. reminding us that -- inspiration, reminding us america don't give because it's rich, iting i rich because it gives. god bless the fort hood

community and god bless america. >> i'd ask for all to pray for the families or the injured and dead at fort hood today. >> all present, rise for a moment of silent. >> thank you. >> representative in washington, remember the who served with honor, and congressman williams of texas reminds us, america does not give because at it rich. america is rich because it gives. a fort hood official says doctors had been assessing the gunman in this case to determine whether he had post traumatic

stress disorder. he says the doctors never officially diagnosed if with ptsd. chris mcguinness i a reporter. first i want -- let good there now. he said he went to fort hood as soon as word protect out yesterday. hi said in the production he had been there in 2009. i was misinformed. he was not. put he was the yesterday. what was happening when you got there? >> when we first got to the scene it was eerily quiet on post. the local media kind of rushed to the parkinglet area outside the visitor center, which is where every i corralled now. and at the time there were very few of us. we did not see many personnel outside, gradually we did begin to see some military police come out. eventually we started to see more military mission personnel come out to the front gate and the visitor center where they began stopping cars and searching them --

>> you were there for the news conference last night, a little after 4:30. do you have a sense from your reporting yet how long this shooting continued? >> we were told by the commanding general lanight that the incident was only about 15 minutes. >> this soldier, as i understand it -- he went from building to building. where did he start? >> i believe he started in the medical battalion building, the hawker building. he then went to a building next to it, a transportation building. at some point outside -- i'm sorry -- >> go ahead. >> okay. at some point the officials said he went out to his car, where he was firing shots, and then got back out of the car. he was eventually confronted by a female military police officer

and then turned the gun on himself. >> from your reporting, the began with some sort of dispute. is that what they believe? between this man who was a truck driver, and then someone necessary -- someone else in transportation? >> they did not say exactly the nature of the argument. they said there was a possibility there was an argument before the shooting. they did not say when that occurred or what the nature of it was. >> chris, fort hood, you have been covering it a while and they just seem to have just horrible stuff happening to great people. i wonder how they're holding up as a group? >> well, you know, this community has definitely suffered loss. not just from these two incidents but a number of soldiers who died in combat in the wars in iraq and afghanistan, were al from fort hood. and even though the trial for the 2009 shooter is over and he has now been sentenced to death,

the community is still feeling the reverberations from that, even today, and to have this happen yet again, there is a sense of people are asking, how could this happen again? and want more answers as to why, and what this man's motives were. >> i'm sure they do. chris mcguinness, a reporter for a local newspaper. thank you so much. it's easy to say that to conflate these two, to make comparisons between what happened in 2009 and i think at it important to remember that they're not similar. in 2009, major nidal hasan went on aing my that was against our nation and the people who fight for it. in this case, it sounds as if there was a dispute between a man and another who happened to work at a military facility. they're different things, neither is less tragic than the other but they're different. there's new information about the weapon the soldier used and

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an update now on the fort hood shooter. we lost our connection with rick from scene and now i'm informed he has new information about the reporting on where the shooter may or may not have bought the guck. -- the gun. >> reporter: in 2009 it was conformed that major nidal hassan bought a store he used at a store called guns galore in a

store a couple miles from the army base. we have a crew at the store. the owner is not but we spoke with an employee speaking on behalf of the owner who confirms that were in contact with the fbi last night about this possible sale of the weapon. they wouldn't confirm the store sole the weapon but they did confirm they spoke to the fbi and the atf was there they don't want to confirm the weapon was sold at the store because they don't want to get in the middle of the investigation. but guns galore sold the win to nadal hasan and hey have sold the weapon to ivan lopez. an update on the search for the missing malaysian airlines jet. australiays prime minister says the investigation has become the most difficult in human history. search teams again scoured the southern indian ocean for any

signs of flight 370. aircraft and ships folk can youd on a search area roughly the size of this -- think of this -- a search area of the size of the state of utah and off the coast of western australia. crews say the weather was descent with a few miles of visibility but they have not pulled up one single thing from that 777. as we have reported, time is certainly running out before the plane's black book stops sending signals and that could make it nearly impossible to locate because it's so deep. the malaysian prime minister today vowed he will not rest until answers are found. trace gallagher i live. this search is an enormous challenge. >> reporter: the reason they keep moving the search they keep continuing to analyze the satellite data as well as the capables of the airplane itself, but a big part of the change is because they're using these mathematical models to calculate

the wind speed as well as the ocean currents. so, in other words, it's mostly an educated guess, and even though the malaysian prime minister vows never end the search, those who are actually conducting the search say at some point in time, they need to go back to the drawing board. that was kind of the line of questioning today to the malaysian civil aviation chief. listen to this. >> think it would be bad for the families to be more honest and say we're not going to finds the black box? >> no. no. we'll find it. >> what will you be saying to the families tonight? >> don't give up hope. >> but at it awfully hard to offer hope when you have almost zero evidence. in fact, zero evidence. after nearly four weeks. >> in fact, they don't know where to look. that's a fact. some of the families of chinese passengers are getting pushback from their own government. started yesterday and now there's more. >> there is more because the chinese families, like all the families of the passengers on the flight, have been very

critical of the malaysian authorities and for the chinese government, calling on the malaysian authorities to speed up the search as well as to give out more information. well, that angered malaysia so now the chinese government is backing off, trying to sport the families as well as not damage what has been a very good reelingship with malaysia. but now a china ambassador has called some of the family members viewpoints radical, extensive, and irresponsible, and the girlfriend of missing u.s. passenger phillip wood goes even further saying, giving the families of the chinese passengers malaysian monitors is, quoting here, like having baby-sitters for a bunch of spoiled brats throwing a tantrum. all the chinese are doing is hurting themselves. they're interfering with the investigation. of course in def of the chinese families and all the other families they have gotten some very bad information.

>> good to see you, trace. thank you. >> investigators are fork cuss -- focusing on the night crew members, looking for psychological problems sabotage. >> i don't even know if they know where to begin, matthew. it's almost as if they're just putting on a show for everybody, isn't it? >> well, you have to keep in mind, shep, there's a lot going on behind closed doors here. they're not going to want to give out a whole lot of informing until it is confirmed and then double-confirmed and verified. >> that heat been the their hoyt. their hoyt has been they give out informing that is unverified and absolutely wrong. >> that correct. the worst thing you can do as an investigative body is provide misinformation. that's going to detract from the process. >> how do you feel about the

prime minister saying, we'll find this. we will not rest, this will come, and offering what so many an li suggest might even be false hope? >> we need to prepare ourselves for this being definite hi one of the greatest mysteries in aviation. i'm optimistic that some evidence, some wreckage, will come to fruition but at it going to take a while. we're in this for the long haul. there's a lot of real estate to cover. so going to take a lot of time. this i unprecedented. >> something is good going to watch ashore, wouldn't it? >> it would. in the navy we had a deplorable night data recorder off an aircraft when it hits the water it deploys and floats. that washed up on shore two years after the crash. so there's still hope. just going to be a while. >> based on your previous encounters with this sort of thing, certainly not anything is mysterious as this, but is it

your seniors they're missing something? that we're not -- they're not telling us everything? does it seem possible to you that they don't have any clue? or is that misleading? >> it is a bit misleading. i have colleagues over the that are competent, they're trained must the same way i am. they know to look at the evidence. i'm not going to be critical of those investigators in the trenches. >> sure. >> the body that releases this informing possibly in confirming that -- >> that another matter. here's what i'm sure of. they dent know how high it was flying. they don't know at what speed it was flying. and they can't be sure in what direction it was flying. all of those things are facts. right? >> at this point they are, and those are essential facts needed just to get the bayic area of where this may have come to re. >> the last time they knew an altitude and a speed and direction of travel was what we

now are led to believe was six hours before this thing stopped traveling. so, anything that first hour, they're just getting -- guessing. all of their calculations may be wrong. >> this is the best information they have to go off right now. that way it goes. >> i heard it described like this. think of the police get you on radar going down the street you're going 45 in a 35. they get you. then you disappear and they have to look for you. they know how much gas you had. now they have guess how much gas you had and which streets you took. we'll have more informing on the deadly shooting at fort hood, including what top army officials eave to say about the

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any violent tendencies. jennifer griffin is here. what else are military officials saying about the suspect? >> what is interesting, if you look at his facebook page, he was clearly a huge fan of the heavy metal band, slip knot. that was part of his facebook name. ivan slip knot. we have learned from officials sources he transferred from fort bliss, texas in february. i'm told he has at least three dependent children. he wife was questioned by authorities last night. questions are raised by officials why he remained an e-4 specialist. that raises some red flags. >> a very experienced soldier, had a one year deployment to the sinai. with the national guard, and then had a four-month deployment in iraq. the last four months at the end of 2011.

>> nine years in the putter reek to national guard, deployed twice overseas in 2007 to the sinai, and in 2011 in iraq. he was never involved in a firefight. he drove trucks during perhaps the safest time in iraq. >> there's been lat of talk about security procedures. at first glances, this doesn't sound like a security matter at all. this guy could legally be there. i guess you could put everybody through metal detectors. we could do that here. >> of course, the pentagon says they couldn't put everyone through metal detectars there. there are other thousand people coming on and off the base. secretary hagel has been on the phone with president obama since the shooting. there were a lot of purported lessons lashed after the navy yard shooting shooting shootingd

before that. in the fiscal year 2013 defense authorization act, mental health workers since that time have been required to report to commanders if a service member in their care appears to be at risk for suicide or a tendency to cause harm there is a duty to warn and protect. we're told the were no red flags in this case. >> jennifer. thank you. rick mentioned we're waiting to hear from officials at fort hood this afternoon. 0 to 3:00 now in texas. when that comes we'll tack you there live and have continuing coverage thought the day. now could you take down an spire government in one -- in secret, one tweet at a time? there's word the united states government, thank you their much, tried something very much like that in cuba. but the white house says that's not entirely true.

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britain's queen elizabeth ii visited the vatican to meet for the first time with pope francis, and they had also gift exchange. ey put them up on the monster wall. got her easter bonnet on. the queen's husband husband, prince phillips, joined the might, and in true kim jong-un style, looking at something, the queen and prince phillip and the pope, all the monarchs gave the

pope a basket of stuff. this is whiskey, as you can see -- and that's some honey. i don't know what this is. we have a picture as well of the duke presenting the liquor. the pope gave the royal couple a stone orb topped with a cross, telling them it was for their great-grandson, the future queen george, and the queen and prince phillip were minutes late. they were having a lunch with the italian president. the queen did indeed apologize. clearly the pope accepted. pope francis is the fifth pope queen elizabeth has met. >> the u.s. government at one point set up a secret and elaborate twitter type web site in cuba. but the white house claims the government was not trying to start any trouble. says we dent -- sent to start trouble in cuba. according to the "associated press" the white house created a

covert network meant to stir up trouble in the nation. the ap reports the site tracted thousands of users who had no idea the united states was backing it, and they set up companies in spain and the cayman islands to cover their tracks. this is the logo -- supposed to be the noise that a hummingbird makes but said? spanish. hummingbirds over there speak differently. this was a development program, not a covert ploy, and the government sometimes takes sevens to be discreet when working in, quote, nonpermissive environments like cube bathroom let's bring in jim lewis, a former foreign service officer in the state department. and now part of a bipartisan think tank in d.c. nice to see you. >> how are you. >> we can fix the cuba problem with a fake twitter.

>> sounds like a great idea. >> really does. we do this sort of thing from time to time with cuba, don't we? >> at this point if there's two people left in cuba who don't understand that the regime is a bust it would surprise me. so why they thought they had to do this is a little strange. >> you say the regime is a bust or crumbling. 20 years ago i worked at a television station south florida, wsbn7. we ran this promo every day, every hour, and the voice came on and said, when it all comes crashing down in cube pa, the pig news will be on 7 news. everybody was convinced we were hours or days or weeks away from the fall of the government. the only thing that hasn't fallen in the past 50 years is the government. who thinks it's crumbling? >> it's minutes away. come on. the idea you're going to create flash mobs in cuba who will

depose the president. come on. >> anybody considered letting them have experience with american democracy, like maybe letting our people good on vacation and start businesses, and maybe they way they would figure out, me a we can do something about this ourselves. >> there's a lot of flow back and forth between cuban americans and people in cuba. have a pretty good idea what is going on. i'm sure they'd like more access to sports news and other stuff, but it's not a surprise to them that their country is a little behind, and that is what is going to change. i like all those 19 others 1950s cars but don't know with needed to set up twitter. >> who comes with these ideas. >> people were infat waited with social media and looked at arab spring and thought, this is such a powerful tool. maybe we can do that in cuba. doesn't sound like there war a lot of adults involved in the

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investigators today searched his home and questioned wife. he is married with children. france federal to fort hood a few weeks ago. a top army official says the soldiers had seen a psychiatrist last month and did not show any signs of being a threat to himself or anyone else. he also had no apparent tie to any extremist groups. scheduled for the top of the hour, an update live from fort hood. fort hood and the surrounding area now under a tornado watch. you can see this on the wall. this is central texas. this is texas, oklahoma, arkansas, chicago. it's in two states. appears michigan and illinois now share chicago. it's a very, very big city. the storm is sweeping up that part of the country, and over here in the extreme weather center. i fess on your map -- even on his map. chicago actually is part of one of the great lakes as well. it's a pig -- a big one.

>> cincinnati is shared between kentucky and ohio as well. >> if you don't like the been map, rewrite it. pull a putin. >> the center of the city is in the center of the name. >> there you go. >> big storms today. the worst threat for severe weather this season. hasn't been a lot of severe weather because it's been so cold. and today we have four tornado watches in effect, and i want to pointout this one here across parts of arkansas. says it expires 59:00 p.m. don't think you throat is over at 5:00 p.m. so mid-and lower mississippi refer valley we'll see the action overnight. heavy rain around the st. louis area, causing flooding. some storms at the severe limits. no active tornado warnings but

some severe storms spiraling north of the dallas metroplex. get ready for tornado warnings. we have threats from around st. louis to the northeastern part of mississippi, parts of alabama, and the memphis area. so we'll certainly watch that. tomorrow also, the shep guess to -- goes to these. >> good to see you, thank you, sir. >> you bet. >> we'll wrap things up, a final check of the dow, and send you off to a new conference in forth hood.

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he guy said the girl seemed more concerned about her phone than herself being stuck. they got the phone. it was broken, because it fell into a storm drain. >> in 1860, horse and rider relay teams set out own the pony express. the trail ran from western missouri to northern california. the idea, quickly mail. in the maiden run, riders startedded a each owned to see who could plead the 1800-mile journey. that was 154 years ago today. in and the u.s. mail from that event should arrive next week.

we are really close to a record close on the dow. ring, bell. thank you. 16576 or 7 or something like that. cavuto will let you know. see you later. >> you are looking live at fort hood, texas, a news conference set to start. officials trying to figure out what caused ivan lopez to go on a shooting rampage before taking his own life. when the news conference begins we'll bring it live. welcome. officials are scramblele for answers at this hour as fort hood is hit by gunfire let again. why does this keep happening? last week, a man fatally shot after trying to board a ship after a naval station after a civilian with a criminal record makes on a base in