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With us. we've got much more ahead on "new day saturday" which continues right now. we heard shots. there were shots, everybody hit the ground and people started to run. a shooting rampage at los angeles international airport kills one tsa officer. injuries two others. we now have new details on who the shooter is and what his real mission may have been. >> he proceeded up into the screening area where tsa screeners are. and continued shooting and went past the screeners back into the airport itself. plus, ripple effect, how other airports and your flights are being affected by friday'...

>> reporter: los angeles international airport, 9:20 a.m. local time. the fbi says 23-year-old paul anthony ciancia enters terminal 3, pulls a rifle from a bag and opens fire. >> he proceeded up into the screening area where tsa screeners are, and continues shooting and went past the screeners back into the airport itself. >> reporter: at the security checkpoint, tsa officers who are not armed are shot. one, 39-year-old giardo hernandez is killed. he is the first tsa officer to die in the line of duty since the agency was established in 2001. authorities say after shooting his way through this...

>> i would say 15 feet, 20 feet. >> wow, that close. was it very loud? >> oh, yeah, it was really loud. you hear a sound like that in an airport environment and it's definitely not right. >> did you know right away it was shots? >> yeah, i think within a couple seconds or almost a split second everybody, you know, i was standing at the very back of the line and everybody dropped to the floor, and i mean, i think everybody knew right away it was shots. it's much louder and more abrupt than anything you hear there, so yes. >> what did you do then? >> i was at the very back of the line in the sec...

Stories of the people who had to rupp for the ru runs for their lives. >> reporter: los angeles international airport. 9:20 a.m. local time. the fbi says 23-year-old paul anthony ciancia enters terminal 3, pulls a rifle from a bag, and opens fire. >> he proceeded up into the screening area where tsa screeners are and continues shooting and went past the screeners back into the airport itself. >> reporter: at the security checkpoint, tsa officers who are not armed are shot. one 39-year-old gerardo hernandez is killed. he is the first tsa officer to die in the line of duty. since the agency was ...

Proceeded then into the airport screening area. past the screeners. and then got deep enough into the airport itself, according to different eye witnesses, and l.a.p.d. specifically, they're describing the gunman as wearing grayish camouflage. according to lapd, had this assault rifle which he pulled out of a bag and began shooting. this became an officer-volved shooting. seven people were hurt, six taken to the hospital, including the gunman who was taken down by law enforcement. according to sources, one tsa agent in and around the screening area was shot and killed. another has been wounded...