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Now, former counterterrorism officer. he helped design the security we use at airports. jeff i believe youve been dealing with l.a.x. and dealt with l.a.x. personally. so let me just ask you this question. because we were talking about this earlier. when you look at where the line is, right, where you go through security, before that point theres no security at all, right? you could have anything you want. anybody could carry anything. then theres this point and theoretically you dont have anyth...

Stories of the people who had to rupp for the ru runs for their lives. >> 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 gerard...

Passengers inside the airport. this is where police confronted the shooter on the ground there in front of that officer you can see his weapon lying on the floor. an assault weapon as people have told us. as this was all unfolding people were hiding everywhere they could, many of them in large groups in places like this. the bathroom. and the security checkpoint was completely abandoned. as you can see people ran and abandoned everything. their luggage and everything in the boxes and on the floo...

How have they press it. more congressional hearings certainly to come. a lot of theory on this straight ahead. >> i was up in pennsylvania yesterday with matt cartwright talking to voters about it. he shared a lot of information and honesty with them. it seemed to work. fewer showed up who said, i learned a few things. i may not like the law but i appreciate that he showed up and explained some is things. maybe it shows public support at least in those areas of the countriment they will spend th...

Taxiing on runways and some are taking off which would be a very good sign if that is the case, right? >> absolutely. yeah, right when something like that happens, all operations, the airport operations go ahead and stop. we heard the faa. there was a ground stop. but it looks like now that maybe theyre taxiing, starting to line the planes up again. but i seriously will doubt any flights that were scheduled to take off you know this afternoon from terminal 3, passengers most likely not be able t...

Krong, you heard a bang is that right? >> there was a gunshot fired at us. people started to run faster. there was a old lady that fell down but when we went down the escalate ter it seemed to be a more security area. my recollection li my recollection is that the food court is in the center. >> exactly. people have to run past the food coast. this is the security checkpoint and this is the food court area and the up and down escalateters that get to those right? >> it was the left, 38 area. and...

Organizations, the first of the shooting happened at the check center. agent was shot at that checkpoint. now the condition of that tsa agent, there are multiple reports. and we will wait for authorities before describing injuries to that agent. there were multiple agents shot and the gunman keep s going. the security checkpoint. it is over here. the gunman comes from the outside, comes into the security checkpoint. it comes in and begins firing at

Shooting here that took place around 9:30. >> as we come up on 10:30 right now, just continuing our live coverage here of this breaking news event, reports of shots fired at lax. this all starting at 9:20 this morning. terminal 3 virgin america. were told a package walked up to the security checkpoint, didnt get through. to somebody checking ids passengers opened fire, multiple shots. witnesses told us somewhere between eight to ten shots at two differ times. federal officials at this point are ...

It was quite chaotic inside with people running out to try to escape what they believe was a gunman, the best of the reporting seems to be now that i have no way to know whether this man was able to breach security. what im hearing now is that he may have been firing in two different locations and this shooter may have been firing before the security checkpoint and stormed through as one witness told us he saw. and continued to fire by the gate. we heard a moment ago say im positive that the sho...

>> shots had taken place. >> before at check in in the gate. >> shepherd you are on speaker. >> i am just wondering to what degree of certainty he breached the security checkpoint. >> we never said he breached security, but there were gunshots on the floor below us before security. we were in the line of security, but everybody that was in the line waiting to go through tsa security, they stormed through the tsa security and we went out on the tarm ac. everyone was gone. it was an empty building...