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Dozens of flights were delayed. atlantas airport routinely leads the nation in gun confiscations. you record 450 firearms this year alone. all of this playing out with millions on the move ahead of a busy holiday travel week. >> its going to feel like that old thanksgiving. you either stain traffic or your in line in the airport. >> the tlc, screening more than 2.2 million people friday. the biggest volume of passengers since the start of the pandemic. airports in california and florida look mor...

Is growing. the, thes a reports catching more than 4,600 firearms, a majority of them loaded, at security checkpoint in the first ten months of 2021. and that number surpassed the full-year record of more than 4,400 set in 2019. 450 guns were intercepted at atlanta alone in the first ten months of this year. new video from chinese state media claims to show missing tennis star peng shuai alive and well. youll remember, peng hasnt been seen since shes accused one of chinas most powerful leaders...

Either forgetting them or intentionally trying to bring them in. this year so far the first ten months we have now surpassed the full year record before the pandemic in 2019 of more than 4,400 firearms confiscated. its a big problem, and atlanta, unfortunately, is leading the way with more than 450 or so firearms being confiscated so far this year during a pandemic. this is something that people are talking about, this is on the minds of people as they make their way through. but we have the tha...

Atlantas airport routinely leads the nation in gun confiscations. a record 450 firearms this year alone. all of this playing out with millions on the move ahead of a busy holiday travel week >> its going to feel like that old thanksgiving where you either sat in traffic or youre in line at the airport. >> reporter: the tsa screening more than 2 million people friday. the biggest since the start of the pandemic. airports in california and florida look more like 2019 with long lines and wait times...

Running. so that in that two-hour period it could seem like chaos, it is a managed chaos and now get the airlines and people moving again. >> as we await this press conference, as you know, juliette, sometimes initially you dont get all of the right information. but our understanding is that the passenger lunged for the gun and was able to grab the firearm and accidentally discharged it. so -- >> that is right. >> okay. >> so, no, that is -- the weapon is from the tsa statement is seen by the ts...

Complained of shortness of breath. the tsa says its officers have found more than 450 firearms at atlanta checkpoints so far in 2021 and the tsa reports catching 4,650 firearms at checkpoints nationwide in the first ten months of this year. a majority of those weapons were loaded. nadya romero, cnn, atlanta. >> and as we head into the thanksgiving week here, you know theres a lot of travel. tsa announced friday was the highest checkpoint volume for a single day since the pandemic. more than 2 mi...

More passengers. >> a pandemic record so far. kathy parks joining us from laguardia. and joining us right now with reaction is sarah nelson, the president of the association of flight attendants, cwa. great to see you. thank you for joining us. what have you heard about this particular incident in atlanta and how common is it for tsa agents to find guns in carry-on luggage? >> this has been much more common this past year. we have 4,500 incidents across the country and 450 incidents in atlanta. ...

The year waefbl already surpassed the record number of more than 4,400 back in 2019. thats a concern not here just in atlanta but all across the country. but, again, things seem to be getting back to normal as the investigation continues as to how this happened on saturday afternoon. nadia romero, cnn, atlanta. >> as nadiy was just telling us, a record number of guns have been confiscated at airports across the united states this year. >> 450 firearms have been confiscated in the last year at th...

Get at that point. investigators knew who the passenger was and they knew how to track him down and that, though, is still under investigation as they try to talk to him further, but many things happened that were not supposed to happen. one, youre not supposed to reach in your bag if its being checked in a security checkpoint in a tsa agent, regardless of whats in your bag, once they decide to pull you aside and go through it. the second thing, of course, having a gun and that is a big problem ...

And went off after the passenger quote, lunged for his bag. l lunged for his bag. thats according to tsa officials. i want to go to pete who is joining me on the phone. pete, thank you for bringing this information to us. so quickly. this is startling, that this went down this way. >> super startling. the fact remains that guns are being caught at check points at an alarming rate. in ten months, the tsa recovered about 4650 guns at airport checkpoints across the country and that number is higher...