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Here from above outside the terminal as an oeg of travelers fleeing the gunman. you can imagine being there a. number of people got hurt in the rush but sticking around was not an option. youll hear stories tonight. a lot of eyewitnesss on the program with everything else were learning about todays murder at lax. >> reporter: los angeles international airport, 9:28 a.m. local time. the fbi says paul anthony ciancia a white male 23 pull as rifle and opens fire. at the security check point tsa off...

This is cnn breaking news. >> welcome back to the "newsroom." new pictures reet now to share with you from terminal three at l.a.x. one day after the deadly shooting. there are tarps up as far as we know right now what appears to be the security checkpoint where the tsa officer was killed. theres also crime scene still across the door, crime scene tape and placards up on the doors. the airport is open but no flights are leaving from terminal three and people have also been picking up their bags ...

Enough ammo to kill everyone in the terminal. >> and were told the gunman was able to shoot his way through the security checkpoint. make it all the way down the hallway before he was stopped right there close to a burger king and the food court. >> as word spread to the gunman on the loose, people ran for their lives. >> everyone on the floor! on the floor! on the floor! go! >> terror, terror, terror. >> go, go, go! on the floor. >> go! >> come on you guys. >> go, go! [ bleep ] this is crazy. >...

Independent. now listed as a democrat. 5, a drone strike has skilled a tall la bandleader in pakistan. police believe hakimullah mehsud played a role in the attack in 2009. three other people were also killed. the pakistani government issued a statement saying it strongly condemns the drone strike. more details on how the attack at l.a.x. unfolded. >> officials say the suspect was armrd with enough ammo to kill everyone in that terminal. >> were told that the gunman was able to shoot his way...

Clemente, a former fbi counterterrorism unit. this unit running the investigation into the shooting at l.a.x. tim picking up on what brian todd just said, you get through the security point and then really you think about horrible things could have happened. so many people walking around. planes and you could hijack a plane. does that concern you sort of that he was able to get as far as he did? >> well, erin, theres the tsa officers, my prayers go out to the family of the individual who died an...

>> reporter: los angeles international airport, 9:20 a.m. local time. the fbi says 23-year-old paul anthony ciancia enters terminal 3, pulls a rifle from a bag and opens fire. >> he proceeded up into the screening area where tsa screeners are, and continues shooting and went past the screeners back into the airport itself. >> reporter: at the security checkpoint, tsa officers who are not armed are shot. one, 39-year-old giardo hernandez is killed. he is the first tsa officer to die in the line o...

Forward to that. once you do that three or four other quick things. you said something earlier about right after the shooting started the security checkpoint got vacated. and al qaeda terrorists, sophisticated terrorists constantly use that tactic where the first person comes in and destroys the wall or the entry point and then other people flow through and exploit the access they now have to the protected space. weve got to do something about that. some of the things you can do is provide hard ...

Whether there be the absence of a police officer there, there have been many analysts who say that security checkpoint leaves people most vulnerable than any other place in the airport, because tsa agents are not armed, and i think a lot of people maybe forget about that, at that security checkpoint, that typically at most airports, there is no one who is armed in terms of security. >> reporter: thats exactly right. but for whatever reason, l.a.x. is one of these airports where you did have arme...

Before and i didnt sound like a pop. it sounded like a boom so at first i couldnt tell if there was an accident or explosion or what it was before we had a chance to turn around we heard someone scream gun and security agents screamed get down, get down, get down. we heard another boom go off. my husband and i got down on the ground and is isnt sure because we were on the other side of the security check point, i wasnt sure if they were going to start letting people through but everybody was cra...

Extreme hatred towards the tsa. and he had writings on them that said, quote/unquote, the new world order. as for terminal 3, it remains closed. >> reporter: this has got to be a major, major incident. >> reporter: los angeles international airport. 9:21 a.m. local time. paul anthony ciancia enters terminal 3, pulls a rifle from a bag and proceeded to fire. >> he proceeded up to where the screeners are and continued shooting and went passed the shooters back into the airport itself. >> reporter:...