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Explosion that his heavily armored suburban is launched into the air. >> and it landed back on the four wheels. the thing about it is, you automatically knew it was a car bomb. and i said, i cant believe it. this is a car bomb. this is crazy. >> its about to get even crazier. >> i thought the coast was clear, we were safe. wed gotten away from this car bomb. i said, my gosh, somehow we escaped miraculously. >> but the huge explosion is just the beginning of a carefully coordinated attack on the ...

>> well erin tonight dhs will not say what action were taken, only saying that several actions were implement, and many of them are now in place. they also point out that what happens at the security checkpoint is just one part of their layered approach to security. also you know many of these tests are intentionally made difficult so that they can find the vulnerabilities. however, one former tsa official says that a 95% failure rate is just way too high. as you know tsa has received millions a...

Gyrocopter on the capitol lawn is due in court today. the grand jury indicted douglas hughes on six charges which could land him in jail for ten years. he could be forced to give up that gyrocopter. hughes said the stunt was to draw attention to the role of big money in politics. it ended up drawing attention to security lapses in washington, d.c. trespassing and other charges are being filed against a man responsible for a scare at los angeles international airport. a man, you see him there, is...

Northern rockies. >> temperatures significantly cooler for much of the nation. most areas barely getting out of the 50s and 60s. 80s across the deep south. 91 for you folks in phoenix. some wild scenes at airports to show you. starting with a scary security scene in los angeles international airport. a man was tasered while laying on the ground near a gate with plenty of passengers in the area just before that, he had refused to stop at a security checkpoint. he had a ticket on a flight which ...

Big bang or roar. >> hes so close to the explosion that his heavily armored suburban is launched into the air. >> and it landed back on the four wheels. the thing about it is, you automatically knew it was a car bomb. i thought, i cant believe it. this is a car bomb. this is crazy. >> its about to get even crazier. >> i thought the coast was clear, we were safe. wed gotten away from this car bomb. i said, my gosh, somehow we escaped miraculously. >> but the huge explosion is just the beginning o...

Enforcement officer opened fire. white was struck three times and later died. his family says he suffered mental illness. the union representing tsa officers says the attack exposes vulnerabilities in airport security and wants some tsa officers to be armed with guns. >> the employees that do the screening at airports now twice have become the victims and become the target of people that want to do harm. >> reporter: this man was charged in the deadly november 2013 shooting at los angeless lax...

Welcome back to "the lead." im john berman in for jake tapper. in national news a machete-wielding attacker at a u.s. airport is now reigniting the debate over whether tsa officers should have guns. this attack happened friday night in new orleans. police say 63-year-old richard white charged at agents at security checkpoint. first he sprayed wasp spray at workers, then pulled out a machete and started swinging. the sheriffs deputy happened to be there and stopped white, shooting him three times...

We suspect not. he has been a taxi driver. hes recently received a chauffers license. has little or no criminal history. >> lets talk more about this. joining me jonathan gilleyham a former air marshal and fbi agent. in your view how do you suppose the suspect got so far with this kind of weaponry? >> its not hard to get to the point where he got. you know, the fact is in the airline industry weve taken the bureaucracy of government and a private company and put them together and when they make ...

Its not safe. state control and the middle east is deteriorating by the day and its wise to stay away and certainly dont go to public place like the bardo pew seem in tunisia. >> appreciate it. this story out of new orleans, louisiana, this morning. police shoot a man threatening tsa agents with a machete and bug spray. travelers were sent scrambling as 62-year-old richard white stormed a security checkpoint. an agent fought white and used a piece of luggage to block the machete when a police ...

Have to address. >> if we had school choice it would help all those kids. >> way to go to drop that grenade at the end of that conversation. thank you for coming in. still ahead, the unexpected doctor of choice for a woman who has lived to 104. next the latest on the chaotic scene at the new orleans airport. a man shot after allegedly pulling out a machete at a security checkpoint.