Page 2 - Lee Leon News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

One of the nation's busiest airports. this morning terminal 3 was packed with passengers. tom lagos and his wife waiting at the airplane. both saw the gunman and described the mayhem and pandemonium. i spoke with both of them. tom was on the phone. >> vernon, i understand you were sitting at your gate when everything became chaotic. tell me what happened. >> we were all sitting there. our flight was delayed. and out of the blue you hear all this motion going on. and before y can you hear the commotion, you see people running, mad dashing towards us. and we happened to be at the end of the term...

Because he seemed to be okay. he had my shoes. i went and kind of cowered in a corner. and the shooter was just calmly walking down the corridor. he saw me cowering there. he had his gun and he looked at me and he said, tsa? and i just shook my head. he kept going. >> how did he seem to you? what did he look like? what was his expression? >> he didn't act like -- you know it was kind of hard to seat expression. i was more focused on his weapon. it was a rifle, looked like an assault rifle. not sure what kind it would have been. but he was dressed normally. he had short hair, a light complexion...

The exit so we were just waiting to run out. but he looked toward our way, he didn't raise a gun or anything. but it scared us enough that we just ran out. >> and tom, i understand you saw the shooter as well. you went back for your wife's purse. is that when you saw him walking around? >> yeah, yeah. he may be describing me for all i know. i just heard his story. if you can imagine right before this happened i'm walking back from starbucks to bring her a cup of coffee. you see this wave of 1500 people or so running towards you. and there was a lot of confusion as to what we were running for. ...

Before he went behind like an advertising board. and then once he came out from behind the board, then i recognized it was a rifle. >> and was he saying anything? you said he seemed confused. was that the expressing he had on his face? >> yeah, well, he was just like roaming around like with no place to go. i mean, he literally did a couple of circles and then walked off. and then once he turned around and sort of looked in our direction, me and this other gentleman, we were already by the exit so we were just waiting to run out. but he looked toward our way, he didn't raise a gun or anything....

Complexion. just maybe blue jeans or gray jacket or something like that. >> and when he asked you when he said tsa, did you realize what he meant? did you realize that -- >> absolutely. if i had a tsa uniform i wouldn't be here talking to you. >> you have no doubt about that. >> i'm convinced. >> well, it's so hard to believe. leon, i'm so glad things are okay for you. and i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us, thank you. >> thank you very much for calling. >> imagine that feeling coming face-to-face with a gunman. you can follow me on twitter tonight @andersoncooper, use #ac 360later...