have to admit that they have happened. we can t sweep it under the rug and say it never happened. we have to make everybody honest and both sides have to say listen, i don t have my husband and you don t have your son. we have a connection here. let s try to make it something that will work. i think honesty in both supports and in the police department were clearer. empathy, i guess. it would be much easier for people to say you are not just shooting because you don t like me. you were scared. i think people would understand that. if you are in the dark and somebody comes through a door, i don t know how i would respond. you don t want to give me a hand gun. you don t want that. first of all, let s give her a round of applause. nobody wants to go through that. thank you so much.
9-millimeter hand gun had been confiscated from the shooter in november after he walked into an fbi office in alaska to tell them he was hearings voices and was being influenced by isis. but after a mental health evaluation, he was not deemed mentally defective. the gun was returned. how is that possible? well, under existing law, mental illness can only be grounds to take away somebody s weapons if a court has ordered you involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. if you are merely surrendering voluntarily, that does not deprive you of the right to have weapons. reporter: it s a loophole that baffles his own family. translator: how are you going to let someone leave a psychological center after four days when he is saying he is hearing voices. reporter: court documents say he has confessed to planning the attack. friends noticed more erratic behavior, investigators say, leading up to friday when he fired approximately 10 to 15 rounds, aiming at his victims
thank you. press conference is wrapping up as you see there at airport at ft. lauder dale-hollywood. after the horrific shooting tonight. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. going to get to our panel. live for us at ft. lauderdale-hollywood airport, official there s from the fbi, director in charge of that particular area. also the airport director, broward county sheriff speaking out about esteban santiago saying a member of the military, going over his records. trying to figure out his flight from alaska to minneapolis to ft. lauderdale end then in the baggage area taking out a semi automatic hand gun, shooting at
interview. yet, yesterday, he was able to board that flight in anchorage carrying only one piece of checked luggage, a hand gun, along with ammunition. he went to saint paul, minneapolis, where he boarded the delta flight here to fort lauderdale at which point he got out, he retrieved the baggage, went into the bathroom, loaded the gun and commits his carnage. aside from the pain and suffering of the direct victims here, the disruptions to fort lauderdale have been absolutely immense. there were hundreds if not thousands of people stranded here until the we hours of the night last night. you could see people milling about on the streets of fort lauderdale, far from the airport, pulling their luggage behind them apparently looking for places to stay, for things to eat, places to go to the bathroom. for some this tragedy has exposed failures at several levels. the failure of the family to inform family of his problems. failure of the fbi to recognize it failure of the local police depart
following breaking news for you, law enforcement officials in anchorage held a news conference on the ft. lauderdale suspect. they said that when santiago underwent a mental evaluation, a hand gun was taken away from him but returned after because he had not committed a crime. the police chief saying it is not immediately clear if that was the same gun used friday in florida that left five dead and six wounded. now back to dateli dateline ex. welcome back. it should have been her proudest moment. maribel ramos had joined the army to put herself through college, but just days away from her graduation ceremony, she vanished.