Page 2 - Security Screening Area News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Tonight. coming up, the house finally passed biden's social spending bill but not before kevin mccarthy tried to have the last word. plus i'll be joined by actor and comedian, john leguizamo. we'll discuss his comic book and presentation on the screen. but first, richard lui is here with the headlines. >> operations are returning to normal at the hartsfield international airport. a gun accidentally going off in a security screening area earlier this afternoon. and that was the security line at the country's busiest airport after a prohibited item was found going through a tsa checkpoint x-...

Than it was obviously last year, because of the pandemic. >> everybody wants to get out and see their families. we're going to be tracking everything. we have a team of reporters and analysts following the latest right now, and we are going to go ahead and begin with the chaos out of atlanta, where a passenger's gun discharged at one of the busiest airports. >> the firearm accidentally went off in a security screening area at hartsfield-jackson international airport, creating mas panic, as you can see there, from some of these videos. and delayed dozens of flights. now police are searching for...

P.m. today, a weapon accidently discharged atlanta's security screening area. there is not an active shooter at the airport. apd, atlanta police department, is on the scene. more information about the situation will be made available on our social media channels. the faa did order a ground stop that has since been lifted. meantime, you still have thousands of travelers that are inside the airport. we spoke with one traveller who also happens to be the father-in-law of one of our correspondents, nadia romero, who said he has not been allowed to leave the airport. the investigation is ongoing. i...

Sti still has to be done in an orderly fashion. they cannot shortcut security screening. so things are going to be backed up for a while there, i would imagine, at the airport. >> my gosh, and mary, before they could resume screening, of course even though atlanta pd says this was an accidental shooting, they're essentially getting it under control. you look at the video on the left where you see people who panicking, others just simply ran. it's going to take a long time to get some sort of semblance right there in that security screening area before they can start to welcome people back in w...

A and look at the video an when the investigation is ongoing, i want to make sure everything i say here is correct and appropriate. so what happened from when this passenger entered the cue to going to the security screening area, that is still to be determined and investigated. >> and you said passengers who self-evacuated are being re-screened. i guess how do you know people who hadn't been screened yet didn't slip through security during that chaos? was everything emptied out so you could do all of that screening all over again? >> no, we didn't empty it out. i'm here in our emergency opera...