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Shooter is the critical condition patient at ucla ronald reagan. its also possible that its not him and its someone else. but yes, someone who was shot multiple times in the chest would very likely be in critical condition. >> all right. elizabeth, well come back to you when you have more information. thank you so much. we appreciate it. we will go to deb feyerick in new york. she has been calling all her sources getting information about the shooting. deb, what is the latest? >> well, we can te...

Individual, the suspect, pulled an assault rifle out of his bag, thats the words of the police, assault rifle, and opened fire. he charged back into the screening area and walked well inside the airport terminal before security ultimately caught up with him. an intelligence officer briefed by the lapd says the gunman was shot in the chest multiple times. now that shooter is said to be in custody. two sources tell cnn the shooter is not, repeat, not a current or former tsa officer, despite report...

Some new information. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we want to paint a picture of exactly what happened for you. apparently this gunman approached the screeners, pulled out what police say was an assault rifle from a bag. the weapon had been concealed. he walked over to the screeners and thats when he opened fire. now, we are told that he shot one fatally and then another was injured in the leg. tsa has now confirmed that others were injured but its not clear whether in fact they were injur...

That most likely, he was aiming at some of the tsa employees. remember that our tsa employees, theyre our officers, they are not armed. you can imagine if they were armed as angry as people sometimes get at these entry points, these security points, so we dont arm them. usually behind them, especially at l.a.x. which is the airport i use every week to fly back and forth to washington, d.c., we generally have an officer back there. it is usually of the particular airport, we have various law enfo...

Something, blend in. >> one of many stories beginning to come in after this harrowing ordeal this morning at l.a.x. obviously our hearts, prayers going out to people in los angeles right now. we will continue covering this breaking news of course with my colleague, jake tapper. thank you so much for being with me on this friday. "the lead" starts right now. im jake tapper. this is "the lead." were continuing cnns breaking news coverage of the shooting at los angeles international airport at ro...