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It was fascinating the way gordon sondland, you know, sort of gleefully was relating to both sides. he seemed to sort of -- his testimony, the words he chose to use as scott pointed out, it allowed republicans to have a little good news and allowed democrats to have a little good news for them. >> he is a pleaser. i mean thats pretty clear. jims point was reflected in nuness opening statement. because it was a warm statement. welcoming him, congratulating him for coming forward. and so on. and t...

It. >> again, as were having this conversation, we can let our viewers and listeners know, broward county sheriffs department confirming multiple people dead, one suspect in custody. three people dead, were told according to our law enforcement sources, three people dead. nine people shot. at this point, it is unclear whether the three people who have died were among the three shot or thats three people dead and nine people shot in addition to that. again, one subject in custody. at this point w...

The shooter is in custody so this is not an ongoing situation but as you see theyve cleared the airport. the airport went into lockdown, everybody out on the other side of security so this airport has been shut town. >> i have flown into this airport on more than a dozen occasions here. this is a large airport, not as large as miami international, which is the airport that is closest to this one, but this is a very large airport in ft. lauderdale that is frequented by a lot of folks from this pa...

What more do we know at this point? >> one of the things that happened is ari fleischer is at the airport and tweeting and about 15 minutes ago he tweeted -- >> pictures coming in right now, too, cal, these are live pictures from our affiliate there in miami, wtvj, wtvj. this is broward county, by the way, for those of you familiar with the south florida area, broward county, a massive county in the state of florida, one of the largest, if not the largest there but go ahead, cal, pick. >> it was...

The world we live in, this is a real focus for them. >> kenneth, stand by for me if you can as well. we have hit the half hour here. im going to reset the scene for our viewers for our listeners as well. on the left side of your screen you are looking at florida, hollywood international airport, this is in broward county, florida, shortly after 1:00, word that a shooter had opened fire inside that airport. at this point we can tell you that nine people, nine people were shot. three people are de...

Sort of a domestic dispute, but to pick up on jims point, one big concern that you have in a situation like this is that its a diversion or a distraction for another event, either at that airport or somewhere else in the aviation system. so you can imagine that the word is out at the major airports in the country to lean a little forward and be on your game right now until they know exactly what they have at ft. lauderdale. >> cal perry just pointed out that was the case in istanbul as well. >> ...

Someone had opened fire inside the terminal two baggage claim area. at this point we can tell you three people are dead. there are several people who have been injured as well. kerry sanders telling us a short time ago that those folks are in the process of being taken to an area hospital there in broward county. tom costello standing which for us in washington. what more information do you have? >> they have only the south runway operating at ft. lauderdale, south runway only operating at ft. l...

Sean henry is with us as well, sean henry, former executive assistant director of the fbi. sean, at this point, what would the fbis role be on the ground here at ft. lauderdale? >> craig, listening to cal and jim there, just to build upon that, while we certainly dont have a lot of information at this point to know what this is, the fbi has a presence at many international airports, ft. lauderdale large airport, i was just there last week. i think that the terrorism task force will actually star...

325 departures, 325 arrivals. it is one of the 25 busiest airports in the united states of america. again, a popular airport used by folks going to miami typically, and i can give you this from a personal experience, typically its a little cheaper to fly into this airport than it is miami international airport. we can tell you at this point according to our reporting here, we heard from kerry sanders a short time ago, sources telling him nine people have been shot. one of those people dead. we b...

Obviously the priority is putting nearby hospitals on alert, that has been done but clearly were watching some kind of security protocol unfolding at the airport on the left side of the screen there. >> also, the airport itself, fll flyer is the handle on twitter, confirming that there is an ongoing incident. theyre that this ongoing incident is in terminal two baggage claim, terminal two baggage claim, this is coming from the airport itself. also setting up unfortunately what has become all too...