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Confusion on the tarmac. then buses to the terminal. >> thank you very much. a passenger at lax. joining me jim cavanaugh, retired special agent in charge. excuse me, jim, i'm going to interrupt and go to details from burbank. >> we're. >> reporter: we're hearing on the fire department scanner, we don't know how serious but we've seen a tsa person with a bloody hand and blood on his clothing. could be some injuries are relatively minor. they counted four at this point. that's not confirmed at this point. what is confirmed is traffic, ground traffic into lax by roadway is restricted, cut off, a...

Ground stop on the tarmac, prevented from going to gates because of a situation described as still fluid. as we said before, this happened about 9:40. about 30 minutes later there were indications from federal officials that the shooting incident itself was described as over at this point. right now terminals remained pack. complicated by weather situation in the east, which caused all kinds of flight delays. this was a busy terminal. it happened at a crowded checkpoint area. pete williams, our colleague, said it happened in the area where they checked the id. not through the conveyor belt or ...

I bet we will learn the response to this was extremely effective and quick. i'm quite sure that's true. there are also multiple players of protection when you go in the different air terminals, especially international terminal. i flew in and out of there very recently from china. these things are not disclosed publicly. i can assure you from the minute you get out of your car until you go through a checkpoint, you're checked in various ways. plus the manifest is checked. that's not this case. this was a domestic flight in a very dilapidated air terminal. unfortunately this guy obviously cause...

Of gunfire about an hour ago. andrea. >> thank you. mike taibbi. jim cavanaugh, as we say, retired special agent with 32 years experience. what do law enforcement do when a situation like this develops? >> we talked about -- of course. there's a report, andrea, from knbc there that he might even be shot or wounded or killed. that's the first thing. the second thing we talked about police commanders over the years is try to exploit as quick as we can the information that may be on the shooter. that would be to defeat other acts, other players. one of the first things you want to do is get to hi...

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