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Steps to get away from everything, and oh my goodness. literally one of the most -- im still shaking now. one of the most frightening experiences ive ever been through in my life. >> i was going to say, i feel like youre still reeling from all it, the adrenaline pumping, dealing with something like that, going through something like that. >> absolute disbelief. absolutely. you hear about it. and you read about it. but just being in the middle of it, its something that i thought i would never exp...

The airport. once a passenger runs away with a gun, that becomes a law enforcement issue, not a tsa issue. they are not law enforcement officers. >> got it. >> one other thing to consider, yasmin, is that you may know this from living in atlanta, georgia is an open carry state, which means people are allowed to walk around with -- if they have permits, with weapons. and this is something that jim cavanaugh can probably weigh in on better than i can, but there are a number of states around the co...

Wed come from out the staircase, if we were going to get shot. this was literally nervewracking, as you can imagine, and finally, another tsa agent came and escorted us outside but then we got outside and then folks were saying, the shooters outside, so they told us to rush back inside. and it was just absolute chaos. you see things like this happen on tv and you hear things like this happening, but being right in the middle of it and involved in it is one of the most terrifying experiences of m...

A passenger with an accidental discharge whose bag was being searched as he sat there and then the passenger subsequently fled. and yet, the airport is assured, putting out a tweet that this is an accidental discharge and this passenger is not in their custody at the very moment. >> yes, thats right, yasmin, and my question also would be, wheres the gun? is the passenger gone and the gun was left at the checkpoint? it sounds like that must be the case. because otherwise, i think there would be m...

Welcome back, everybody. so, we are following the breaking news from atlanta hartsfield international airport, shots ringing out or a shot ringing out around 1:30 this afternoon. we were being told around 2:00 by atlanta airport that it was an accident accidental discharge. an individual brought a loaded firearm in their carry-on to the airport. that carry-on subsequently was being searched by tsa where they discovered the firearm. the individual reached for the firearm and thats when the shot r...

Has called in to us now. damian, great to talk to you. thanks for taking a moment to speak with us. what happened? >> absolutely. i mean, first off, i want to say, you know, thank god that everyones okay. my team is okay. it was absolutely terrifying. we got into the airport. we -- business as usual, grabbing our bags. we hear a tsa official scream, you know, he has a gun. and then everyone just starts running. everywhere. we just start running and we saw a little kid get trampled. tsa takes the...

All in their house, theyre in their lives, theyre around everywhere and they rush in their business and their busy lives and they forget. and that sometimes happens. lets hope that this -- that is what this is and that the discharged round, no one was struck and that the citizen, it was simply an accident, and you know, then we learn the lessons from here. tsa can tighten up their procedure if the person was not kept at the checkpoint, and you know, the process of the citizens running or getting...

Special circumstance we have where your identity is screened and you go back with tsa and thats a very formalized process. so citizens cannot carry loaded guns on to the cabin of an aircraft. it sounds like the citizen, when they opened the bag, there was the gun. you know, we dont know, though, the motive of what happened then. >> no. >> was it an accident -- was it an accident, he forgot, he left the gun in there and spontaneously reached for it? i can tell you that the gun discharged because ...

Place. with that, i want to bring in, once again, jay blackman, nbc news producer whos been following this for us and hopefully we have better audio with you, jay, this time around but as im resetting this situation for passengers -- not for passengers, for viewers, talk us through what we know right now. >> we know that a passenger -- that a gun was found in a passengers bag at a checkpoint while they were trying to resolve that, the passenger allegedly grabbed the weapon. it accidentally, i be...

In this situation, the system worked. the screeners saw the gun on x-ray. it was sent to a secondary check. and they found it. >> do they check for licensing when they find a firearm in a gun? they check to see -- >> again, its not the tsa. that becomes the purview of the airport police authority, whether its the airport police or its the local police. once the gun is found, that case and the weapon are then turned over to law enforcement. again, as i said -- >> so, literally -- >> go ahead. >> ...