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The actual gates are. is that your understanding, and that place has always struck me as kind of an open hole. >> yeah, its confusing in the accounts that ive read but he shot the tsa officer who was checking documents, went up an escalator, came back down, shot him again and went through the security point. i think its important we have the local law enforcement really at different points at the airport to protect not only the perimeter but also things that could happen through security check p...

Are. is that your understanding? and that place has always struck me as kind of an open hole. >> yeah. its confusing in the accounts i read. he shot the tsa officer who was checking documents, went up an escalator, came back down, shot him again. went through the security point. at that standpoint. i think its important that we have the local law enforcement really at different points at the airport to protect not only the perimeter but also things that could happen through the security checkpoi...

Describe in his e-mails to his family members, then i think its incumbent upon the family members and friends to call this to local authorities. they actually did that in this case. and unfortunately, really missed the suspect by a matter of minutes. >> right. when you look at what happened, at least insofar as we know the logistics of it, we know that this suspect was able to take a lot of ammunition and his weapon down a corridor where there were no armed police officers at that point. the tsa...

They dont know every step of paul ciancias path but here is what they know. a roommate dropped him off here. he entered about 9:20 in the morning an entrance at terminal three. according to pictures like this one and surveillance video the gun was a two .23 caliber which ciancia concealed in a bag and approached hernandez standing there where those flowers are. this is a prescreening area and shot him point blank multiple times in the chest and got on this escalator. >> the defendant is allegeed...

>> the defendant is then alleged to have began walking away from the wounded tsa officer going up an es can ycalator to return ant the wounded officer again. >> at the top of the escalators is the security check point. at some point he wounded two additional tsa officers and one passenger. this is the other side of the security check point from here the gunman made his way deep into terminal 3, and cell phone video captured the chaos as he neared the passenger gates. >> people were running and g...

He joins us now by phone. mr. parks, thank you for joining us. you doing okay? >> caller: fine, don. how are you doing? >> im doing great. good to talk to you again. . i wish it was about a better story. this one is horrific. >> caller: youre right. >> you heard what gannon said. the danger was in front of the security checkpoint. do you agree with that? >> caller: i think what you have to look at is theres not ever going to be a perfect security plan. there is literally tens of millions of peop...

Started to walk away and going up an escalate ter and then coming back down to return and shoot the wounded officer again. >> at the top is a security checkpoint. at some point he wounded two additional officers and a passenger. this is the other side of the checkpoint. from here the bun gunman made his way deep into the terminal. he neared the gates. people were running and getting knocked down and there was luggage everywhere and mayhem is the best way to describe it. we are speeding up the vi...

Suicidal tendencies, which he did describe in his e-mails to his family members, then i think its incumbent to call this to local authorities. they actually did that in this case and unfortunately, missed the suspect by a matter of minutes. >> right. when you look add what hattened in so far as logistics of it, we know that this suspect was able to take a lot of ammunition and his weapon down the corridor where there were no armed police officers at that point. the tsa is obviously unarmed. we a...

Officers were rerepositioned the last year. gannon moved officers from behind the security checkpoint to in front of it where they monitor arrival and departure floors of the terminal. gannon says, in fridays attack, the nearest police officer to the initial shooting quote, was just moved to the front part of the airport. >> i made a decision over this last year to make a move of those individuals. and instead of being behind security, where people have been screened and we assume they have been...

Officer again. >> reporter: at the top of the escalators is a security check point and then he wounded two additional officers and one passenger. this is the other side of the security check point. from here the gunman made his way deep into terminal 3. cell phone video captured the chaos as he neared the passenger gates. >> people were running and getting knocked down. there was luggage everywhere, and mayhem. >> we are speeding up the video as you can see the path and he wound up the terminal....