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Police chief, who specifically we heard it was tied to terminal three, right here. this round terminal right here. so let's skip ahead, because according to this police chief, here we go. let me erase that for you and i will show you this gunman walked into the airport, reaches into this bag, grabs, as they're describing, lapd is describing this assault rifle. opens fire, and you see here, this is the tsa passenger screening area. this guy with this assault rifle walks through somewhere around here is when the tsa agent who we now know is dead is shot, and another has been wounded. this gunman...

Everybody is always thinking forward as to whether or not there's additional suspects. as we stand here right now, there is only one individual that is responsible for this, as we know, as the active shooter that was in our terminal. and i want to follow up a little bit on what mayor said regarding the officers that went in after this individual. this individual was shooting as he went into the terminal. the officers didn't -- i repeat, they didn't hesitate. they went after this individual, and they confronted this individual in our airport. and unfortunately, it involved an officer-involved s...

Obviously, there are other law enforcement officers at the airport who are trained to react to a lethal situation, including with lethal force if necessary. and also the fbi should add that they do have jurisdiction over this because endangering flight, crimes against aviation, are federal crimes. when you endanger a flight, it's a federal crime, so you get federal agents. >> what about, mary, the people sitting behind those ticketing count counters? where the kiosks are, where you walk in, there's no security, at least tangible security as you walk in. in a situation like this, are those peop...

We have created a unified command with not only lawapd, the los angeles police department, fbi, laso, and other agencies. we will treat this incident with the unified command. many, many details, as you are interested, will not be given out at this point. we will not speak about the nature of injuries, we will not speak about the identity of the suspect, the investigate is being handled by the fbi. with the cooperation of the los angeles police department. again, tremendous unified response. i know that this region worries about its airport because of the complex issues involving with various ...

They burst in. then we were sort of locked in there for probably almost an hour. then we were brought down, as i said, about 20 or 30 feet away from where the rifle was on the ground. in the middle of the waiting area. and now we remain in this tunnel. >> you are in a tunnel. you don't know what's next. sometimes to use your phrase, the bad guys, sometimes there's more than one. do you get the sense from the orderly lapd police department and the folks inside, airport security, et cetera, that at least it's contained, that the incident appears to be okver? >> absolutely. they seem very calm. i...