Identified as Esteban Santiago. According to the latest information in the news room he flew in Fort Lauderdale today. The gun he used was in his checked bag. Chaos on the tarmac as passengers are forced to evacuate Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International airport. Inside a gunman. According to law enforcement, he opened fire on innocent people in terminal two. The deadly attack happening in the baggage claim area. Typically in the baggage claim there could be hundreds of people at any one time. I dont know what the number was at that particular time. No. Q witnesses say the only reason he stopped firing is because he ran out of amma. Law enforcement swarming the area. When we apprehended him, the suspect was arrested without incident. Q it happened at 1 00 at one of the 25 busiest airports in the nation. We understand that all the flights into Fort Lauderdale right now are being diverted to miami or west palm beach. Flights scheduled to leave fort la the suspects name is Esteban Santia
Erroneous. Somebody was going down the stairs and either tripped or fell. This is according to the Broward County sheriff. As a result they panicked. Somebody got the word out there was another shooter. It was just a matter of peoples nerves frayed and everybody being afraid. That is what resulted there. It was just one shooter who got off the plane, picked up a checked bag and loaded a gun and started to shooting. The motive, we have no idea. F. B. I. Is on this and whether there are ties to terrorist activity we dont know. We have Team Coverage this afternoon and we following every angle. Q mccray is monitoring the feeds from florida as the witnesses are describing what happened. Q . Q well, jonathan, sources say the suspected shooter is named Esteban Santiago. At the time he was arrested he was carrying a military i. D. With that name on it. We have also learned the suspect is now talking talking h the detectives and the witnesses are also talking, reliving moments they will panic a
The dark blue shirt said she had just gotten on the plane in Fort Lauderdale when the shootings happened. She says she didnt see anything, but people on her flight were made aware of what was going on before they took off. She says she was able to text her partner and family here in virginia. Let them know he was ok. Still, some big hugs and big sighs of relief here at reagan. The only thing we did know is we were the last flight that let us out. Reporter during the course of the flight, what has been on your mind. Like its just been crazy. I just felt lucky because no words. I cant explain it. I was just worried and sitting and hearing stories about for the wife. Thats terrifying and thinking that could have been my girls. Reporter take you to video of the shooting aftermath now. I talked to a man who flew in here to reagan who said he walked through this very terminal about 20 minutes prior to the violence. Also, as you heard in the interview, there was a man waiting here at reagan f
Area. Rainfall, nothing too extreme just yet, but it is what is developing offshore that we are concerned with. Santa rosa, nearly an inch and a half of rainfall. San raphael, over an inch. If you cant see San Francisco and napa nearly half of an inch. A completely different story setting up for tomorrow. Santa cruz mountains picking up the most rain so far. You can see boulder creek, 2. 23 inches. Theyre going to pick up quite a bit more rainfall as we head into your sunday, convenient later on tonight. So here is the radar over the past 1 huers as you come in closer. A lot of clouds in place. Not much in the way of argued rainfall, but there is some rain just to the south of gill roy and also to the Santa Cruz Mountains as well. Heavy rain in the forecast and as a result, a Flash Flood Watch issued already. This could be converted to a Flash Flood Warning if the rainfall rates do verify it. As high confidence, were expecting extreme rainfall rates tomorrow morning, Flash Flood Watch
First alert radar. What weve got is light snow reporting through now even parts of berks county, the Lehigh Valley, chester county, and the suburbs. Also, a light snow through philadelphia but a steady snow in parts of delaware and new jersey. And the heaviest snow as expected. The delaware beaches and jersey shore. This is not going to be stopping. Were in the of it from now through about 2 00 p. M. It will be our steadiest time slot for the snowy conditions. Here is the time line in philadelphia over the next several hours. Snow reporting now. Were at 22 degrees. Notice the temperature maybe up a degree or so, but really we stay constant. 11 00 a. M. Still a good steady snow. Now were starting to see the snow break a bit by 2 00 in the afternoon. As things start to drop farther to the south and east. But well still have some snow in the forecast. Notice the wind speeds. Also on the breezy side. Were talking blowing winds and the conditions factoring in. Well go neighborhood by neighb