your tv screen. i want to get right to mayor barbara, broward county sheriff. can you hear me? yes, i m hear. can you help us and our viewers understand what the situation is right now, as far as you know? okay. i want to clarify. i m the mayor of broward kshgts i county, i m not the sheriff. what s happening right now is someone that was leaving the airport in the parking garage thought they heard something that sounded like gunshots, because all law enforcement officers are on scene right now. they thought out of an abundance of caution we should evacuate the parking lot area, clear that area out, give it a sweep and make sure nothing is going on. at this time there is no confirmation at all that there is another active shooting at the airport. just to reiterate. someone in the parking garage area heard something? and that s yes. that s causing the response we re seeing right now? yes, that s correct. is there any indication that
airport at the time of the shooting? i m not sure. thank you very much. please follow us @browardsheriff on twitter. what caused the evacuation? i m not sure. well, the headline out of sheriff of broward county, florida, he does not believe there was any shooting anyplace else at that airport other than the one we know about, which occurred around 1:00 p.m. eastern time. just about 2 1/2 hours ago. that shooting caused the deaths of five people. eight more people still being treated at local hospitals. no confirmation, he said, of any other shots fired. when he was asked about this picture that you re looking at on screen here about the parking garage where we re watching s.w.a.t. teams surround the parking garage, he said only that they re clearing the parking lots to make sure it s safe. cal perry is with me and has been listening in as well.
if we put that graphic back up of the airport i ll go over what kerry sanders was talking about. in the yellow you have terminal one. in the red is terminal two. shortly after 1:00 p.m. in terminal two, in that lower level of the baggage claim where the first shooting took place. the only shooting we know of for sure that took place. we have some video of the aftermath. i want to warn our viewers. it s a bit graphic. this is what it looked like moments after the shooting took place. flying all around us an hour and 25 minutes after that video was taken, reports started emerging there had been shots fired in, quoeshgts terminterquote, terminal one parking garage.
there is no terminal one parking garage. we heard from kerry sanders he saw people running into that palm garage. that seems to be that s where that sound was coming from. again, it underscores this idea that panic can so easily spread in these situations. we saw here in new york city at jfk airport a suspicious bag that cleared an entire terminal and word spread one person says something, and everyone starts running. oftentimes what happens during a shooting, law enforcement will arrive on the scene and some will be undercover. people will be calling 911 saying, i see a man running with a gun. i m not saying that s what happened in this case. but that s often what happens in these cases. either way, law enforcement out of an abundance of caution, and you see the traffic starting to back up on the freeways surrounding the airport, out of an abundance of caution is creating these perimeters. they ll try to find the car maybe the shooter came in. but we re hearing these reports tha
make him 26. lived for a time in alaska. and according to authorities, flew to the airport in ft. lauderdale today. boarded a plane in canada and arrived at the airport. we re not sure. we ve looked at the flights that come into ft. lauderdale from canada around there. trying to square up when those flights arrived versus when the shooting happened. some of them overlap. so, it can t be those flights. we re trying to figure out what the likely flight is he came in on. they say he had checked his firearm. witnesses, and i believe the sheriff may have said it well, some witnesses have said, in any event, it was a handgun. so he checked the weapon. there is a procedure for doing this. if you have a firearm and you want to fly with it, you can do it. hunters do this all the time. you check the firearm, has to be unloaded. it s in a certain kind of case, you declare it and put it in the checked baggage. you can t take it in your carry-on, obviously.