outside tsa, automatic soft target. and one of the things that we have, because of the german shooting a year ago, we doubled the dog teams, because the dog is one of the best deterrents that we have. but still, you can t cover every airport, every crowd that bunches up. this shooter, his name is esteban santiago. he was carrying a military i.d. we don t know if that s active, if that s another family member s i.d. we will have to determine that. and, of course, we don t know a motive at this point. but you ve heard the reports from the eyewitnesss, when he finished three magazines he just sat down. and then law enforcement apprehended him.
who is going to do this or i know someone who says this is going to happen. interestingly, according to a couple of law enforcement officials, that very pay phone, not just the tip line, but that specific pay phone has been the source of some hoax calls in the past. nonetheless, knowing that, the city decided to do what it did thinking, well, you know, it mentioned a specific place on a specific day, a suicide bomb attack at the universal studios metro stop in los angeles. so they felt they had to take action. you will see today more uniformed police presence, more dog teams, more undercover folks. the city feeling that out of an abundance of caution it has to do this. people are told to go about your business, do what you have to do today. the mayor himself showed up at the subway stop and got on the metro riding it saying, look, if i can do it, you can do
but because of the fact that this call that was received just shortly before the threat was the tip said the threat was going to happen, they decided they had no choice but to ramp up security, as you say. the threat was directed against the subway station there, universal city. and was fairly specific. but the problem is there s no way to know whether this is a hoax or not. and while it s being checked out, the officials decided they would go ahead and ramp up security. and then when people out there begin to talk about it, it began to leak, they decided they might as well go public with what they re doing. people who ride the l.a. metro today will see more uniformed police, more uniformed sheriffs deputies, more dog teams. they say there will be many more undercover officers around as well. at the same time, the fbi will be trying to chase down exactly what was behind this phone call, if they can. the problem is we re told that the phone call was made through a pay phone and maybe
both today and sunday. the tsa has been under pressure to avoid a repeat of the long lines that stretched for hours last spring. since then, adding more dog teams and thousands of new screeners. 23,200 passengers went through our tsa precheck. reporter: and opening this new airport command center that tracks realtime every tsa check point at the 30 busiest airports. down here it shows us how many lanes they opened. reporter: one hot spot, a power outage in louisville that will slowed things down for an hour. sunday is predicted to be the largest day of the weekend. that s when everybody comes home. so just give yourself time. reporter: as always, the biggest variable, weather. snow in minneapolis. while in l.a., comfort dogs to easeth stress. all right. we just have to make sure the weather cooperates. i want to check in with our forecast for the holiday. here s meteorologist bonnie schneider. good morning. happy thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving. most of the weather loo
since then, adding more dog teams and thousands of new screeners. 23,200 passengers went through our tsa precheck. reporter: and opening this new airport command center that tracks realtime every tsa check point at the 30 busiest airports. down here it shows us how many lanes they opened. reporter: one hot spot, a power outage in louisville that will slowed things down for an hour. sunday is predicted to be the largest day of the weekend. that s when everybody comes home. so just give yourself time. reporter: as always, the biggest variable, weather. snow in minneapolis. while in l.a., comfort dogs to easeth stress. all right. we just have to make sure the weather cooperates. i want to check in with our forecast for the holiday. here s meteorologist bonnie schneider. good morning. happy thanksgiving. happy thanksgiving. we have a couple trouble spots if you re driving early this morning or flying out. a little rain into cleveland and buffalo. snow in a few locations. ov