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With law enforcement, whether it be read cell exercises, tabletop exercises to adjust situations like this. it's a terrible tragedy into say something is going to happen again, it's extremely tragic to have to admit something like that. we need to do something about it and we'll talk about it but we don't actualize our concerns. >> harris: bill gavin, thank you so much. you probably could see while we were talking moments ago that there was video on the screen showing the people were outside. here is the live picture from parkland, florida. i can tell you from reading a few of these signs that...

Washington >> we're outside fema headquarters, a half mile from the capitol come flex as -- complex and home to the nrcc, the national response coordination center leading the effort by fema and homeland security. one of the things they do throughout the year is they do tabletop exercises, kind of like drills to prepare for a wide case of scenarios. this morning the fema administrator told reporters nothing could have prepared them for harvey. >> you can say that it's going the rain over five days over a 30-county jurisdiction but pinpointing what watershed the rain will go into is dang near i...

That they are also prepared for. the thing that so unique about this event is they really have to be ready from every contingency. from if melania trump sprained her ankle, they know how to do with that. they also have to deal with someone who was a lone wolf or the use of a chemical agent.al >> tucker: so it's possible to prepare for a uav gas attack? >> yes, based on their training. they also do the exercises you were seeing in the video. but they also do what is called tabletop exercises, what it is we are doing right here you talk through different scenarios and it's to make sure everyone ...

Determine how the shooter got there, if they trove a car, where that car is parked. is that car booby trapped, and are there other people involved. when these things happen, and we practice, we do role plays, tabletop exercises, but the wildcard is you never know what the sus smekt is going to do and how they to it, and that's what creates the sense of urgency and chaos. >> one thing we have been seeing a lot of, when it comes to the topic of soft targets. we're talking about baggage claim. anyone could go and pick up their bags, what can be done to protect these areas that seem to be in more ...

Sir, if you can there for us in washington. i'm joined by kenneth hoenig, former commanding? er for the port authority at jfk and laguardia airports. ken i'll come to you and start with the same question i just asked tom costello. in terms of preparation, as you watch what's unfolding here at the ft. lauderdale airport, do we know whether this airport, i mean, we probably won't know for some time whether this airport was adequately prepared but on a macrolevel the airports in this country, are they adequately prepared for something like this? >> well the airport police department's, be they an...