the latest developments across the nation. and the phrase taco tuesday is now free to use after a taco bell came out on top in a long-running trademark battle. the chain taco johns dropping its decades long trademark claim saying, quote: we have always prided ourself of being the home of taco tuesday playing millions of dollars to lawyers doesn t feel like the right thing to do. who knew taco tuesday was so controversial. thankfully come to an end. steve: thank you, taco bell we can use it with impunity. ainsley: that restaurant didn t want to spend the money on the lawyer fees so they gave up taco tuesday. carley: they can still use it. steve: 49 states except carley our new jersey. carley: yes. brian: coming up straight ahead all eyes on capitol hill today. irs whistleblower set to testify in the hunter biden case. and one of them could link joe biden to hunter s business
chaosen folded at the atlanta airport ar gunfire rang out. impression of an active shooter. the woman who took the pictures, join meese on the phone. thanks so much for being with us. you were in the terminal. i m told you hid inside a tgifriday s or something like that? what did you see? just sitting at restaurant and all of a sudden saw a bunch of people start running down the main hallway of the t terminal and thought they were late for a flight. then more and more running, screaming, somebody stopped said there s a shooter, you need to go. we were in the restaurant didn t have easy access, went with the staff into the back of the restaurant where we hunkered down with their staff and a
someone s been shot. where? over there by the got everybody on the ground. we re hearing this whole thing started in this restaurant twin peaks, in the bathroom. one witness hid out in the restaurant s freezer. it was really really scary. we didn t know if somebody was going to come back. they said people outside the doors had guns. it was scary. i m still scared. i ve never been around anything like this. it s crazy. waco police say the local twin peaks restaurant could have done more to prevent the violence saying the restaurant didn t cooperate in the days leading up to this biker event sunday. we attempted to talk with the local staff here made them aware of issues we were aware of. we didn t get any assistance from them.
she had had confrontation with two young males who came through the drive-through. we re thinking they could be two potential suspect. normally there would be video to identify these men, but not this time. big disappointment. the restaurant didn t have any kind of surveillance video. this also meant there was no surveillance video of the parking lot and none of the customers or are tara s co-workers saw anything suspicious. they didn t really pay attention to anything, or what transpired outside in the parking lot. this left tara s family and police without answers. we knew absolutely nothing. we had nothing. the case was completely clueless from the start. wow, this hotel is amazing. oh no.
and we went back to her. did mr. hakes ever ask you to make up an alibi for him or to lie to the police? she said no, that he came here after work that night, he stayed all night. hakes girlfriend told police he arrived there around 9:45 p.m., but if he left the restaurant at 9:00 p.m. and his girlfriend lived only 15 minutes away, there was a 30-minute period he couldn t account for. then a background check revealed a startling piece of information. michael hakes had been convicted of rape and attempted murder in arizona and served ten years in the arizona state prison for that. and he had been out of prison for about one year as of that time. hakes employers at the restaurant didn t know he was a registered sex offender, and apparently neither did michele harris. we were convinced right away that something untoward had happened.