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Police chief, who specifically we heard it was tied to terminal three, right here. this round terminal right here. so lets skip ahead, because according to this police chief, here we go. let me erase that for you and i will show you this gunman walked into the airport, reaches into this bag, grabs, as theyre describing, lapd is describing this assault rifle. opens fire, and you see here, this is the tsa passenger screening area. this guy with this assault rifle walks through somewhere around her...

Everybody is always thinking forward as to whether or not theres additional suspects. as we stand here right now, there is only one individual that is responsible for this, as we know, as the active shooter that was in our terminal. and i want to follow up a little bit on what mayor said regarding the officers that went in after this individual. this individual was shooting as he went into the terminal. the officers didnt -- i repeat, they didnt hesitate. they went after this individual, and the...

Obviously, there are other law enforcement officers at the airport who are trained to react to a lethal situation, including with lethal force if necessary. and also the fbi should add that they do have jurisdiction over this because endangering flight, crimes against aviation, are federal crimes. when you endanger a flight, its a federal crime, so you get federal agents. >> what about, mary, the people sitting behind those ticketing count counters? where the kiosks are, where you walk in, there...

We have created a unified command with not only lawapd, the los angeles police department, fbi, laso, and other agencies. we will treat this incident with the unified command. many, many details, as you are interested, will not be given out at this point. we will not speak about the nature of injuries, we will not speak about the identity of the suspect, the investigate is being handled by the fbi. with the cooperation of the los angeles police department. again, tremendous unified response. i k...

They burst in. then we were sort of locked in there for probably almost an hour. then we were brought down, as i said, about 20 or 30 feet away from where the rifle was on the ground. in the middle of the waiting area. and now we remain in this tunnel. >> you are in a tunnel. you dont know whats next. sometimes to use your phrase, the bad guys, sometimes theres more than one. do you get the sense from the orderly lapd police department and the folks inside, airport security, et cetera, that at l...

Weapons, or explosive devices in the vehicle. also, brooke, one of the reasons that people are sort of she sheltering in place and why everybody is being kept where they are, and that is because thats because they are actually -- when they began to run in the panic, during the pandemonium, areas that are normally secure essentially became insecure. so now everybody is teg to have to be screened again, everybody is going to have to be checked. that not only includes the people in the terminal, bu...

>> good morning. jim featherstone. at this time, the lafd has treated seven patients, trance porms six to area hospitals. we have approximately 100 firefighters committed to this incident. as chief gannon said, the incident initially started somewhere around 9:20, 9:28, the first lafd resources were on scene. in terms of a more heightened awareness and coordinated effort city wide, the citys emergency operations center has been act vatded at level one. it has been for well over two hour said now...

Hospital where he was taken into custody and brought to a hospital. where he is being treated. again, he was shot multiple times in the chest. center mass, and he was stopped essentially by an lapd officer who was responding to the shooting. about a dozen shots were fired between the gunman and also those officers who were on scene handling this incident, brooke. >> deborah feyerick for us. thank you so much. as we continue to hear the stories coming in from eyewitnesses, i am about to talk to...

We played out today, and i was talking to the officers involved in this particular incident a few minutes ago. and they said that that training was critical to how they responded to this. so theyre well-trained officers. and all of the agencies that came in, whether its from los angeles county sheriffs department, lapd is here on campus with us every day and works hand in hand. hawthorne, the sheriffs. everybody in inglewood, everybody came in to help us get through this particular incident and ...

Has not independently confirmed any deaths at l.a.x. casey wian, let me go straight to you. you are standing outside of l.a.x. you have been reporting, as were looking at aerial pictures from just outside the airport, i know traffic has been horrendous, which is an incredible challenge for law enforcement to try to get there. tell me what youre seeing. >> well, you can see it right behind me, brooke. some of the traffic that is backed up for miles at one of the roads approaching l.a.x. you can s...