and also joining me is daniel brunner who is a former fbi and chris, also former fbi, and we have learned in the fbi, we have learned more of what they are going to be searching, but publicly, they are not talking about how there are no known leads, and they do not appear to be, they are not reporting having any sightings at all. do you see that as a problem this far out or should people not read into that? >> no, i think that you can read into that they really don't have a lot of viable leads. there are only three things that could have happened at the car scene. one a switch car and he is long gone. two, he goes into the woods and either by boat or foot, and he has three or four hours of lead time and covers a lot of distance to presumably prepositioned, preselected location, and third they introduced to day which is highly, highly unlikely and he killed himself in the river or at the side of the river, and that is to me, it seem like a very elaborate box checking exercise. so i have to hope and think that they are setting up a perimeter around all of the roads in that vast wooded area,

both of you, daniel brunner, chris wecker, thank you so much. we are learning morere tonight about the victims of this latest mass shooting. coming up i will talk to the family of tricia asselin, who is a bowling last night when she lost her life just trying to save others. and our other breaking news tonight, the united states striking two facilities linked to iranian-backed militias in syria. a report from the pentagon iss nextxt. >> we've got much more to come on our breaking news. the urgent manhunt for a mass shooting suspect continues in maine. but first, one of the more breaking news tonight, the pentagon saying in the u.s. has carried out air strikes in syria, targeting iranian proxy facilities. we're going to right now to cnn's oren liebermann who's at the pentagon for us, along with a cnn military analyst, retired major general spider marks. oren, i want to begin with you here. the united states striking two facilities linked to iranian-backed militias. they say, in retaliation for attacks against u.s. forces in the region. what more d

. >> and daniel brunner, the retired fbi special agent, and what are you hearing in that, because we heard from the governor three towns that are still in a shelter in place, under the shelter in place advisory, but there is no search area. there's no area of focus or concern that is out, that was announced at the press conference, and so what is the tug-and-pull, if you will, of needing to keep your, some of the cards close to the vest, but also, you have a town, this whole state is terrified and paralyzed now, because there is a dangerous man on the loose, and people need information. >> absolutely, and what is striking is the pennsylvania manhunt from a few months ago is that a lot of the law enforcement resources were brought into the area to conduct the manhunt. at this point, we are hours into the investigation, and not only are they investigating the ics is investigating the manhunt and determining the motive and where he could be going, but additionally the problem of where the vehicle was recovered. the vehicle was recovered at a trailhead, a boat launch or a parking lot. >>

. >> for more on this, we want to bring in daniel brunner, who is a retired fbi supervisory special agent. i thank you for being with us. it is more than 24 hours, now and i can't imagine how tense it is for residents in maine at this hour. what does it tell you about how far this suspect could have gotten? and could he possibly have used a boat? is he possibly at the -- >> thank you for having me. i think there is a tremendous amount of possibility, that is what investigators in the command team is working on right now. it is to try and get into his mind, utilizing whether he was on social media, or other methods, getting and preparing his plan. he has a multitude of options that were at his disposal, where he left his vehicle. he could have gotten into a second vehicle, and he could be as far away us florida at this time. he could have gotten into a, boat or he could have gone on foot into the woods. i think the boat option, going out in the atlantic another coast guard is patrolling, i think that is the least likely of the option because of his smaller craft needs fuel, and he would ha