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game. how is he doing? i'm christine romans. zoraida sambolin has the day off. >> i'm john berman. it is monday, november 4th and 5:00 a.m. in the east. up first a cnn exclusive. a shooting that paralyzed one of the major airports and terrorized travelers and shined a new light on the issue of airport security. now a woman who knows the alleged l.a.x. shooting is giving us a look inside his mind in the hours leading up to friday's deadly rampage. she says the suspected gunman paul ciancia had a roommate carry out his murderous plot. here is more from miguel marques. >> reporter: days before ciancia's crime. >> he asked one of the roommates if he could have a ride to the airport. >> reporter: why did he need a ride? >> his dad was sick and he
find your perfect match at kp.org and thrive. at central connecticut state university, one person is now in custody following reports of this gunman on campus. that is according to the school's twitter account. no shots were fire said that we know of. classes have been canceled for the rest of the day, and the shelter in place order remains in effect. the school has scheduled a news conference at the top of the hour. >> investigators are trying to piece together friday thfs shooting at los angeles international airport as we're learning new details about the suspect and a possible motive. moments ago, the attorney for alleged gunman paul ciancia and his family commented on the case from pennsville, new jersey. >> we, like most americans, are shocked and numbed by the tragic
how two bystanders were able to save him with only seconds to spare. >> thank goodness they did. welcome back. i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans in for zoraida sambolin. 29 minutes past the hour. a suspected gunman who killed a tsa agent in l.a.x. last year plotted this rampage allegedly for days. a woman who knows paul ciancia saying he told his roommate he would need a ride to the airport because his father was sick. she describes ciancia as a recluse. edward snowden i should a manifesto of truth on sunday. he says he has performed an important public service igniting an international debate about governmental snooping. he says the u.s. should drop the
>> well, jake, i got back to my department after speaking to the lapd and obviously, the last conversation i had with the lieutenant there was -- she would contact me as soon as they made some contact with somebody at the residence. she did call me back and told me that they met with two roommates there and both roommates stated that he wasn't there today, he was there yesterday, at which point i contacted mr. ciancia back and told him that the lapd did make a wellbeing check and he's not home. i hung up the phone. probably about 20 minutes later, so we're talking maybe 1:30, i get a phone call from a reporter from the associated press and he wants to interview me in reference to the l.a.x. shooting involving a pennsville resident by the name of paul ciancia. so that was the first time i received the information. and i would say about -- i hung up from him because i needed to get our officers in position to
according to this woman who knows ciancia, he said he was going to kill himself. that sent them to call the authorities in their town. they then reached out to the los angeles police department who then went to do a welfare check, but seauns yauz was already gone. he asked another roommate to give him a ride to the airport. this is what the woman said happened after that. >> at that moment that they're seeing this on the tv, their third roommate comes back and said, i just dropped off paul at l.a.x. he had to go home. they just knew. i think you just padropped off paul to a shooting. >> and they said that according to this woman, that these two -- i should say the other room mates, were actually handcuffed. they were questioned. at this point, police do believe that ciancia acted alone, brooke. >> stephanie elam for us in los angeles. thank you. coming up, new secrets revealed from the 2012 campaign trail, including chris christie
allegedly so angry with the tsa. >> we were up in security at the time of the shooting, and we heard the initial gun shots. >> reporter: police say alleged gunman paul ciancia entered los angeles international airport's terminal three friday morning armed with an assault rifle and five magazines of ammunition. the fbi says it recovered a handwritten note on ciancia that made it clear he was out to kill multiple tsa officers. authorities say he shot tsa officer gerardo hernandez at point-blank range, sending passengers in the security screening area running for cover. investigators say then ciancia went up an escalator but after apparently spotting hernandez still moving on the floor, he doubled back to shoot him again, killing hernandez. >> there was a pause, and so i looked down the escalator and i saw the gunman, he had his gun trained on the guy on the wall there and he shot him twice. >> reporter: in the end, two more tsa officers and a traveler
california was thinking about harming himself, so obviously i knew i needed to make a phone call to the lapd and have a wellbeing check done there. >> obviously you don't want to tell us the content but it seemed suicidal in nature, the text message? >> well, obviously it's an fbi investigation, but the text message itself i believed was -- the context was that he was thinking about harming himself, yes. >> so you've known paul ciancia's father for some time now, i believe? >> yeah, about 20 years. >> okay. when did ciancia's father call? you said around 12:30 on friday? how much time between you coming by his house and reading the text message, how much time elapsed before you called lapd? >> i got to his house about 12:45. looked at the text message, made a decision and we contacted lapd, at which time i spoke to a lieutenant there who was very
helpful, of course. she explained to me that they were in the middle of a shooting at l.a.x. i told her i was aware of that. at this point, we weren't connecting the dots, of course. i asked her if she could conduct a wellbeing check at a residence for me. i received a message from a father in new jersey that is concerned about his son's health or wellbeing, i should say, and she said that they would make an attempt to go by and check the residence. >> i just want to make sure i understood, the text message from the suspect, it talked about harming himself, it did not say anything about harming anyone else, is that right? >> that's correct. yes. >> so you called them at around 12:45 or so and by then, the shooting was around 12:30 east coast time. at what point did you realize that the man you were trying to help find was the man who had been involved allegedly in the shooting 25 minutes or so before you made that phone call?
needed to deal with family issues. >> reporter: did anyone see a ticket? >> no. >> reporter: he says ciancia rarely moved his apartment since moving here in january describing him as awkward and heavily smoker the day he put his alleged plan into action, she says, it took his roommate by surprise. >> that morning, he doesn't knock. just opens the door and says, i need to leave. can you take me now? >> reporter: his roommate believes this is when he texted family members in new jersey telling them he was going to commit suicide and that prompted frantic calls between police in new jersey and l.a. police came to ciancia's home. he has a bag, gets in the car and off they go and a short time later, a knock at the door? >> yes. >> reporter: police? >> police. >> reporter: why the police there? >> they heard that paul was suicidal and needed to go a welfare check on him. >> reporter: she said the other two roommates were woken.
fair to good today. so a slight bit of good news there. >> stephanie elam, thank you so much. as we just heard, ciancia's father called the local police chief, alan cummings, after getting troubling text messages from his son. cummings then called the lapd and asked them to check on ciancia. officers arrived but reportedly missed ciancia by less than an hour. joining us now, pennsville, new jersey police chief, alan cummings, the man who tipped off the lapd. chief, thanks so much for being here. what did paul ciancia's father say to you when he called you on friday? >> well, jake, i received the call about 12:30 on my cell phone, and he wanted to show me a text message that his younger son received from paul ciancia in california. so i responded to his residence and i was able to take a look at the text message, at what point i felt that it was pretty serious. it sounded as if paul ciancia in