independently verify if this person was an actual eyewitness to this event but local radio here did present him as one. we do know that terminal 3 is the place where the shooting actually happened according to local officials here. we also know that the area around the airport is just jam packed with cars, police obviously shutting down access to the airport to try to get control of this situation. also want to talk about just over the last couple of weeks, wolf, it s been a very, very difficult time for l.a.x. in terms of potential security problems. you probably recall just within the last several weeks, there was a tsa agent who was arrested for making threats against l.a.x. claiming he would plant explosivesen an blow up the airport. also not long ago, there were a couple of contractor employees arrested at l.a.x. for planting dry ice bombs, which is a very bizarre incident. apparently some sort of a prank
looking at live pictures of people who are it looks quite calm as they are evacuating the airport. i believe this is outside of terminal 2. and a lot of people in wheelchairs, but it looks like it is a very orderly procession out of the airport as they evacuate those who were apparently close to this incident. of course, it was only a couple of weeks ago, l.a.x. was in the news with those dry ice bombs. that incident was of course, sorted out. and a person arrested over that. again, if you re just joining us here, this is breaking news on cnn. this is out of los angeles. this is l.a. x., a very large airport. used throughout, of course, for international as well as domestic travel. there s a report of an incident, a potential shooting that took
the news for other sorts of situations relating to dry ice bombs. we are going to go to our local affiliate and nbc on the west coast. lets take a listen. reports somebody was able to get through security somehow with a rifle or some kind of weapon and began opening fire. began, this happening at lax terminal 3. people are being evacuated. you can imagine the scene happening there. tens of thousands of people fly through this airport every day. we re getting new information. as we speak, bear with us as this is happening. lets get up to news chopper 4. i think we got him back in our picture. any idea? look like all flights in and out of the airport are on hold right now? not seeing any flights actually seeing flights land on the far south runway i see a flight landing over there. certainly this side where terminal 3 is nothing is moving. this is terminal 3.
as they ought to be sometimes there are major differences between the folks already there and the newcomers coming in. some place in there we will have a stronger party. the former vice president went on to say the tea party movement needs to happen inside the republican party not outside of it . the police detective in melee no longer needs to testify before a grand jury. attorney john arlea advised him not to testify. he says he s confident the evidence will show the detective never came close to assaulting the driver. prosecutors say he still actively participated by shattering the suv s back window. a second man is charged with setting off dry ice bombs at lax earlier this month. los angeles prosecutors say
wofl in orlando updates the search for two convicted killers mistakenly released from the same florida prison. kdvr in bench fighting evidence on insanity of james holmes. live look at los angeles from our affiliate there, kttv, big story there tonight the suspect in the lax dry ice bombs set to be arraigned later this afternoon. 28-year-old baggage lander decarlo bennett is accused of planting those devices. that s tonight s live look outside of the beltway from special report. we ll be right back.