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So none of those people under the charge of secret service were in the white house at the time. not very far from the white house front gates at all. to have someone with a gun and then discharge that weapon is something that immediately springs law enforcement into action. there was all kinds of activity here in this section of washington. the streets were shut down right away. the white house went into lockdown. as it stands right now, the white house remains in lockdown. journalists, people t...

His father had on campus was actually in violation of this universitys policies around guns. police have not said yet whether theyre certain he was on drugs. those results are still pending. >> gosh, how terribly sad. all right. thank you so much, scott mcclane, appreciate it. coming up, a powerful storm slams the east coast and leaving nearly 1 million people in the region without power. helping new customers bundle and save big, but now its time to find my dream abode.

Lets discuss the turbulent week. joining me is cnn political analyst karoon demarjarun amy parn. is there something different about the convergence of gun reform this week, staffing issues and now tariffs that makes this a bit more challenging of a stew? >> yes, weve gotten used to there being multiple things happening in any given week. this week, it really is a very high level crisis happening at once. youve got the palace intrigue about staffing trickling up to trumps son-in-law, potentially ...

Does happen. and i would add if theres an attack on the president, the first family, a member of congress, even the secret service police guarding the perimeter of that building, if theres an attack on them, then the fbi is responsible for investigating that attack. so in this case, if its a lone individual committing suicide, it may or may not, you know, the fbi would assist as far as searching databases and trying to determine who knows this person. i think one of the first things thats going ...

Baggage area like you would have with golf club ors snow skis or long guns, thats fine. the person goes to that area, picks up their gun, goes to the bathroom, comes out shooting. youre not preventing, at some point, a person is dpoipg to get their hands back on that gun, back on their ammunition and be in position before leaving the property of the airport to shoot. additionally, were not b even talking about the people, that gun was checked in on the other end. when he left alaska or went to t...

Economist there in the airport. but for the interim to try to deal with the problems happening again, the fastest way would be to limit ammunition or in the checkout procedure, for example, last airline, you have a long gun, you were supposed to claim it at the bag check office by presenting your claim form and id, so you could put another level in there, when you claim a gun, so its not just rolling around the bag claim, for example, say if it was rolling around the bag claim and somebody stole...

Plane say the walk from here down to the baggage area would be about 50 or 60 yard, if he traveled the same way you would expect somebody to travel on a plane like this. it would be a path something like this through the area down to the escalator down here then down to the baggage area. baggage area is all in here. thats where he would have retrieved his bag with the gun. and then people talk about people going into the restroom. theres also one here, if that were the case, he could have gone i...

Okay. were going to have to try and re-establish our connection. meantime, cnns boris sanchez is with us. hes traveling with the president as we look at live pictures outside of the white house, in addition to some taped images as well. boris, what are you learning about the circumstances of this shooting, how its being responded to, the presidents response has been after being told? >> hey, fred, yes, this all unfolded about an hour ago. the man walked up to the gate of the north lawn of the wh...

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The more we learn about esteban santiago, the shooter, the more red flags emerge about his troubled past and possible mental health issues. santiago will make his first court appearance on monday. lets begin with rachel crane, who is live for us at the ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport. so, rachel, what are we learning about the investigation? >> well, fred, the press conference just concluded and law enforcement officials said that they have turned over the airport to airport offic...