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Year, esteban santiago walked into the fbi headquarters in anchorage, alaska, and told investigators there he was being he believed controlled by the cia, mind controlled by the cia and they were forcing him to watch isis videos. they called the police. the police had him voluntarily committed and he started to receive treatment from what we re told for mental health issues but at some point on thursday he went to the airport in anchorage, took a gun with him, got on that flight to ft. lauderdale and now investigators from all across the country are trying to figure out why he wept to ft. lauderdale. do we know if officials have had a chance to debrief or question his girlfriend about esteban in the last couple of days? we don t. in fact, we were just given ....
People on the aircraft, we ve pushed that perimeter out. now the soft areas are the ticket areas and baggage claim areas and train stations, bus stations have become relatively softer targets. what we need to do is keep security levels up and unpredictable. there s no way we re ever going to make it a hard target that we can t ever have an attack. unfortunately, that s the world we live in. and the reality is there s been a lot of talk over the last day about the fact that this gentleman s gun was in his checked luggage. the reality is he could have gotten out of a taxicab or a car and walked into the bag anl claim area just like we ve seen in attacks in europe over the last couple months. what you need to have is a large amount of law enforcement both in uniform as a deterrent and in plain clothes so they maintained the level of surprise and unpredictability and just keep the areas hardened. ....
Kill and why would it be legal for him to have a gun in his luggage. i don t know why a gun needs to be in your own luggage even. good morning, everyone. i m dara brown. it s 8:00 in the east, 5:00 out west. we begin with the latest on that airport shooting in ft. lauderdale. my colleague ayman mohyeldin is there to handle our coverage. what is the scene there like right now? reporter: good morning, dara. it s a very different scene than what it was just a couple hours ago when you look at where we were when the shooting began. you can see some activity. we ve seen planes take off. i can see off to my left police cars making the rounds around airport security. that s been beefed up. so a very different scene than some of those scenes we were seeing on those images of people running the airport. this morning the local newspaper here, the sun-sentinel, really ....
Mental problems after a military deployment overseas. government records show se signed up for the national guard in 2007 while he was living in puerto rico. that s where the family s from. those records show that he was on duty as a combat engineer for ten months in iraq and returned five years ago. he received a general discharge last august apparently after failing frequently to report for duty. family members say he went to alaska looking for work where he had a son and was receiving psychological counseling. some of those who were with him on the flight from minneapolis to ft. lauderdale say he got into some kind of altercation on board, but whatever it was, it wasn t serious enough for the airline to call the police. this morning they say it s still a mystery why he did this, why he went to ft. lauderdale. he does have three brothers who live in naples, florida, 110 miles away, but why did he go there with a gun they still have no idea. ....
Children. reporter: crowds evacuated to the tarmac. s.w.a.t. teams, deputy, the fbi responding within minutes. it looks like we ve got at least five or six victims so far. reporter: santiago, who threw from anchorage to minneapolis and on to ft. lauderdale, is believed investigators say to have retrieved a gun from his checked luggage in baggage claim, loaded it in a nearby bathroom, exited and began shooting. basically ran out of ammunition, walked out, dropped the gun, laid face down, spread-eagle until the deputy came. we have the shooter in custody. he s unharmed. no law enforcement fired any shots. reporter: when it was over, five dead, eight others shotted. dozens injured in the chaos. then around 2:30, passengers in a different terminal fearing a second gunman. and reports of a suspicious person in a parking garage ....