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The terminal. since then, they have been working to see if there are more g gunmen. they have a triage unit set up. a huge scene of law enforcement presence all over the outside of lax. authorities tell us there were no more shooters. they have searched cars in parking lots and they have no reason to believe that everyone else is involved. he has reported for us that this gunman was in some way involved with the tsa itself. that he is a current or former tsa employee at some kind. but i can tell you that adam housely is reporting that he had

That is why we see the helicopter making sure nobody else needed to be evacuated make sure no other victims now. the police department and the fire department set up a triage unit at the national and the washington nationals stadium about a half-mile away and started taking victims there. the most severe victims are over at gw hospital, which makes a lot of sense because they are set up to handle mass casualties. they took other victims over to the hospital center and a couple of victims over to the dimensions hospital in southeast d.c. one other thing very important. the police are saying the...

>> we are the only hospital south of 13th street in new york city. so we serve a very large proportion of the city. for the reason our emergency room is a very high priority of this hospital. the staff have been doing a heroic job in terms of responding to the patients. >> kathleen what about the triage unit that is on the ground there are they nyu -- a team of nyu medical people on the scene as well? >> yes, there are. i cannot respond to that question because i am not on the scene and i don't have that information. >> but you do have medical people your personnel, there at the scene? >> that...

>> you know, this can be dangerous, what you do. how do you know when to leave and take cover? >> well, we position ourselves in an area where we know the tornado is not directly heading for. we got ourselves in a position where we could be less than a mile away. we were flagging people that were driving out near the funnel. we were trying to get them out of harm's way. but we have the equipment to do so and do so safely. >> after the storm, you helped with the search and recovery. tell us what you saw. >> well, we were chasing in a 15-passenger van. we had a large vehicle. we put out on socia...

Like that. we would certainly view it from a far distance. then do what we could to help, you know, in the aftermath. when you deal with tornadoes this large, it's -- like i said, it's just incredible devastation. >> what were you able to do to help people yesterday? >> well, we were in a 15-passenger van and came down here to the movie theater which is just down here. and they had a triage unit set up. we asked if we could help with anything. we actually transported some people out of there that needed to get out of town that had lost their cars in the tornado. we were able to help some peopl...