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Cte is unbelievable. first begins to impair part of the brain that controls the emotion and memory. it eventually spreads to overwhelm the brain. the brain shrinks to half its size in chronic cte. >> it starts to affect every single part of who you are. you become a shell of the man or person you were initially. already -- you know, you talk about this being linked to the concussions in the nfl, which is what everybody is saying. already 62 concussions have been reported in this season alone for...

To be. he says this much. cte is unbelievable. first begins to impair part of the brain that controls the emotion and memory. it eventually spreads to overwhelm the brain. the brain shrinks to half its size in chronic cte. >> it starts to affect every single part of who you are. you become a shell of the man or person you were initially. already -- you know, you talk about this being linked to the concussions in the nfl, which is what everybody is saying. already 62 concussions have been reporte...

Wreaked so much havoc there. police officers, barbara, were at security checkpoints at l.a.x. why is that no longer the case? and is that being revisited? >> well, it may well be revisited. it turns out our dan simon in los angeles has learned that armed police officers were -- used to be right at the tsa checkpoint. now after some back-and-forth between the police officers groups and the tsa, they were allowed to go a little bit further, to patrol a little bit, to move around inside the termina...

Los angeles is really tough. as a former los angeles resident myself, you know, i know each of those terminals well, but there are so many. so, los angeles a very tough place because they have so many portals into the airport. but, yes, i do think you need an armed guard, an armed personnel, law enforcement at the gates and i do think it has to be law enforcement for many reasons. but you cannot arm all the tsa. because when you arm a federal officer, it puts them in a different rank. you have t...

>> sure. >> i want to put up this picture, this is a picture -- can we put this up. this is new that we just got in here to cnn. this is the young man who died yesterday in that shooting. his name is gerardo hernandez. gerardo hernandez. and this is a picture of him. this is from his family. our chris lawrence is out there in new jersey, with the family. the family, obviously shocked the community shocked -- im sorry, hes out there with the family of the suspect, im sorry. but obviously the fami...

Fundamental change in the security posture, still, i think, is something that remains to be determined. investigators really, don, trying to figure out what really happened here. >> yeah. and barbara starr will be on top of every angle. barbara, we appreciate that. lets get more answers, see if we can, from mary sciavo, do you think that this incident will trigger some changes how the tsa is setting up at airports, going off what barbara has just reported? >> well, it will. but as a country we...

Are these 100-foot pylons at the entrance of l.a.x. they are going to be lit blue, and thats going to be for the tsa. the tsa color up until thursday. and then once you get past the entrance and you start to check in, youll see that the tsa officers here have on their badges a black band, and that is for their fallen officer, their fellow co-worker, mr. hernandez. what were seeing here not just visible signs of security but also visible signs of grief, don. >> and what are investigators looking ...

Thinking process takes a long time to develop. it doesnt just happen two weeks before the incident. >> so, clearly this was someone that had some very anti-government feelings, anti-tsa feelings. he went after the tsa personnel. then he moved further into the terminal asking people if they were tsa, but he goes on into the terminal. so, theyre going to want to look at that whole -- the whole timeline, the whole incident, trying to figure out what was going on in his mind, what he thought he was ...

>> thank you, mary. always great information. if we can just put that picture up as we go to break because we want to hoenn honor those who k safe at the airport. theres gerardo hernandez, the tsa officer that died in the incident at l.a.x. yesterday. well be right back. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] im still working. hes retired. i hope hes saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual were owned by our policy...

On the floor now! on the floor! >> chill, chill, chill, chill. >> go, go, go. >> can you imagine being caught up in that? now stranded passengers are reclaiming bags abandoned in the panic. were covering every angle of the story for you. kyung lah is live at l.a.x. barbara starr is in washington. so, were going to get to both of them, but im going to start with my colleague kyung lah at l.a.x. right now tsa chief john pistol is headed to los angeles to meet with the fbi and the grieving family o...