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>> reporter: piro says at this point, the evidence indicates ndntiago acted alone and flew to fort lauderdale from alaska with the sole purpose of committing a mass shooting at the airport. authorities say santiago, who had just gotten off of a delta flight, grabbed his only checked bag at the baggage claim friday afternoon. inside, he had a .9-millimeter semi-automatic handgun and ammunition. ,e allegedly went into the bathroom, loaded the gun, then walked out and started shooting. yerk lea was...

Weapons are a constant threat. in 2015 alone, more than 2600 firearms were confiscated at checkpoints. the tsa allows passengers to check unloaded firearms, in a locked, hard-sided container. even offering an online video on how to do it. >> notify the airline during the ticket counter check-in process that your luggage contains a properly secured firearm. >> the airlines dont keep track of how many weapons they carry each year, but plenty of hunters, law enforcement and gun owners check their g...

The cell phone video shows people lying on the floor in the baggage claim area. the panic inside the terminal then spills outside, as hundreds run from the fun shots, flooding onto the tarmac and out onto the runways. the injured quickly evacuated to a nearby hospital. >> everybody started running out of terminal one, out of the rental car place, some lady was yelling for help in the garage, so i just ran. >> reporter: cnn has learned the suspected shooter left alaska earlier today, bound for ft...

The injured quickly evacuated to a nearby hospital. >> everybody started running out of terminal one, out of the rental car place. some lady was yelling for help down in the garage so i just ran. >> reporter: cnn has learned the suspected shooter left alaska earlier today bound for fort lauderdale. he declared a firearm when boarding, that weapon packed inside his luggage and on an rival after retrieving his bag one source tells c nnn he went into bathroom and came out firing. some people driven...

>> reporter: it was a mid-air meltdown. a man lunging at another passenger. a woman cursing as police yanked both of them from a delta flight. >> why! for what! >> in my million miles of flying, ive never seen anything like it. it was horrible. >> reporter: patrick whalen, who took this video, said it all started when the woman tried to use the rest room during takeoff. he says, when a flight attendant told her to sit down, she and her partner started shouting. >> the captain came on and told th...

Hasnt always been true. this is a situation it should have been true. >> salve salute absolutely. dana? >> bill clinton for me, boarding loretta lynchs plane. >> absolutely. >> because it just -- a symbol of so much. number one, of bill clinton either not getting it or maybe more accurately getting it, but thinking that because hes bill clinton he can put his charm on and get on her plane and have a conversation, maybe about nothing pertaining to the investigation, but still -- you know. >> what...

Supporters of late libyan leader moammar gadhafi forced the flight to divert and the lapped land in malta. they asked for political asylum and threatened to blow up the plane, but after a stand-off, they released all the hostages and surrendered. switching gears on this eve of christmas eve, a very busy day on the roads and in the skies as millions race to get home for the holidays. the good news tonight as we take a look at what they call the misery map. not a whole lot of misery there. a lot...

L.a.x. this holiday season, nearly 239,000 just today, but unexpected rain on the west esast has kept thousands of them grounded. delaelays keeping piling up, lime unlucky travelers, like shana galinsky, arent sure if theyll be home for christmas. >> im delayed, like, about an hour, so ill miss my connecting flight, so well see when i get nnme. fl reporter: in chicago, thousands of travelers are trying to get ahead of a winter weather system that could blanket the region. more than 100 flights h...

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