concourse and you heard the chaos that erected within the power went out forcing the faa to ground all flights. georgia power said it was caused by a fire at the underground electrical facility. it is affecting several areas in the airport stranding travelers trapping them behind automatic doors and baggage carousels stopping in their tracks. now we have more from the airport hearing power could be back on by midnight? we spent the last 45 minutes talking to people and they are frustrated lisle ball but those that are here were at the airport because they had a layover or had to get on the plane to continue their journey and many say they have nowhere to go. one student from wake forest university said he flew in and
436,000 have requested assistance. let s go to houston where maya rodriguez is outside of a houston food bank right now. how are folks there helping out? reporter: yeah, phillip, we moved inside the food bank. right now we re in the carousel room. these are carousels going around this entire warehouse basically being used for sorting items that have been donated. we re talking about nonperishable food, toiletries, all kinds of items. hundreds of volunteers have been out here today and they ve been sorting these items so far since wednesday alone they ve gotten about 2.4 million pounds of items donated here at the food bank. about 1.2 million have been distributed at this point, but another million is expected to go out every single day. a lot of the people here tell us they did not actually lose their homes in the flooding, however, they felt the need to come out and help out. take a listen to what one of
little girl. i used to ride the carousels. i don t know what happened, i just know it went down in flames. what happened is people stopped shopping in malls that felt outdated. i haven t been in a place like this forever, and you can probably relate. here and malls across america, anchor tenants like jcpenney and smaller stores packed up and left. after 44 years, customers of this shoe repair will have to go elsewhere. across the way, this chinese restaurant is also one of the last holdouts. you re trying to stay open as long as possible. until the mall locks the door. i ran into some of the die hards that kept coming until the end. we re the most regular customers she s got. drawn back by a delicious lunch and craving for something they can t get here anymore, community. i know the two of us come here since we were kids. carousel mall shut down for good this month. 300 more malls are at risk of closing this year. and so many have already closed, there s a website, dead
running frantically to those exits to try and get out you have there. the people by the baggage carousel were more locked down there. there were basically people hiding under the chairs close to the baggage claim area to try to block themselves to get as much protection as he can. he continued to walk up and down the aisle around the carousels doing a point and shoot and randomly shooting people no, rhyme, no reason. was not yelling anything. he was quiet as a mouse. did not say anything. you could actually see the shooter while he was. yeah. firing. > i watched him. yeah, i watched every bit of it. basically he walked up and down there. after the first three rounds went off, i got my wife out and another couple ladies trying to get out of there. i ran back in and helping out the other people trying to get out there. continued watching where he s shooting to try to stay out of the line of fire to try and keep
delta terminal where they ve been sort of herding people around waiting to get them back into the terminal. you can see all these people, most of these people have carry-on sized baggage, not as if they ve given them their laugage back. that will happen through the carousels. long afternoon ahead. people on their phones, letting loved ones know they re okay when you re in a situation where five people were killed. according to the reporting of wsvn in florida, a lot of worried relatives across south florida, up and down the i-95 corridor, and crazy scene for authorities to have to deal w think of the space we re dealing with. the planes on the tarmac have not been allowed to take off. they have limits on how long they can ska there. you saw the four or five jets waiting to take off. presumably filled with people. they re not allowing takeoffs and landing, personnel are working on other matters. just as i say that, there goes a jet.