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Has called in to us now. damian, great to talk to you. thanks for taking a moment to speak with us. what happened? >> absolutely. i mean, first off, i want to say, you know, thank god that everyone's okay. my team is okay. it was absolutely terrifying. we got into the airport. we -- business as usual, grabbing our bags. we hear a tsa official scream, you know, he has a gun. and then everyone just starts running. everywhere. we just start running and we saw a little kid get trampled. tsa takes the little kid and put him on his shoulder and started running. we heard a shot ripping out. the tsa o...

All in their house, they're in their lives, they're around everywhere and they rush in their business and their busy lives and they forget. and that sometimes happens. let's hope that this -- that is what this is and that the discharged round, no one was struck and that the citizen, it was simply an accident, and you know, then we learn the lessons from here. tsa can tighten up their procedure if the person was not kept at the checkpoint, and you know, the process of the citizens running or getting away can be re-evaluated. citizens need to be always reminded of security issues. airports do a ...

Special circumstance we have where your identity is screened and you go back with tsa and that's a very formalized process. so citizens cannot carry loaded guns on to the cabin of an aircraft. it sounds like the citizen, when they opened the bag, there was the gun. you know, we don't know, though, the motive of what happened then. >> no. >> was it an accident -- was it an accident, he forgot, he left the gun in there and spontaneously reached for it? i can tell you that the gun discharged because the trigger was pulled because that's what happens with guns. when the trigger is pulled, they dis...

Place. with that, i want to bring in, once again, jay blackman, nbc news producer who's been following this for us and hopefully we have better audio with you, jay, this time around but as i'm resetting this situation for passengers -- not for passengers, for viewers, talk us through what we know right now. >> we know that a passenger -- that a gun was found in a passenger's bag at a checkpoint while they were trying to resolve that, the passenger allegedly grabbed the weapon. it accidentally, i believe, went off. the passenger then left, from what i'm being told now, left the airport. the tsa...

In this situation, the system worked. the screeners saw the gun on x-ray. it was sent to a secondary check. and they found it. >> do they check for licensing when they find a firearm in a gun? they check to see -- >> again, it's not the tsa. that becomes the purview of the airport police authority, whether it's the airport police or it's the local police. once the gun is found, that case and the weapon are then turned over to law enforcement. again, as i said -- >> so, literally -- >> go ahead. >> so, literally, the tsa's job then, from what i'm understanding from you, and i just want to be cl...