in new york, kwaempt to 3:00 on the east coast, i m sheppard. there s been an astounding series of events, it s ongoing. the sheriff s department reports five people dead, multiple more injured at fort lauderdale-hollywood airport. a man came into the baggage claim as a flight was arriving from atlanta, possibly among others, and began shooting indiscriminately hitting multiple people in the head according to the witness, john schlicher who was speaking to us from the baggage claim. he witnessed the shooting. these are live pictures outside. there was, what appeared to be, at least there was a scare of a second incident. this all happened at about 1:00 this afternoon. so an hour and 45 minutes ago. according to the witness with whom we were speaking, john schlicher, the gunman opened his weapon and began firing, hitting mum tip many people in the head. he reload his weapon and fired
anything like that was columbine high school after dillon clie bold and eric harris won t a shooting spree in the cafeteria. all of the kids, with their hands in the air, just proving that they are not oh my god this is an update from the tsa. they now say there is an active shooter at fort lauderdale, shelter in place. airport closed. now, this would be confirmation to us from the transportation security administration, john schlicher was reporting from the floor of the baggage claim in terminal two was accurate. there was a shooting at 1:00 this afternoon, five people killed, eight injured. and apparently there is another active shooter situation in the same airport. and i ve never seen anything like this, in a domestic airport in the united states. anything like this if it has happened, where there s a shooting incident, followed by a lull and all clear, then another shooting incident. it happened before my 20 years
to a quiet room in terminal four, there was another scare just a few minutes ago. yes. and now police have you still on the ground there in the baggage claim area waiting for further instructions and being told to be still? yeah, they told us not to move. i think that s more, they just want to make sure that none of us were involved. well, the video we were showing a moment ago people running out an entrance, that was from terminal one a moment ago. this shooting in terminal two, bit of a panic in terminal one as people ran out on to the tarmac and out of the building. there s all grounds stop there. the authorities were spooked and so were the people what are they saying, john? nothing. the sheriff is standing right over me holding his gun and they have told us not to move. is he speaking to you, could you ask has there been another incident? i m not going to say anything to him. that s wise. he s pretty intense.
the thought is it was totally random? we don t know. this could well be some one who is mental deranged, or some one with a sinister motive that we have to worry about every day that, is terrorism. but just, we can t conclude that. do we know age or ethnicity? that s being reported over the networks, so get that right now. i will be talking later on today senator nelson speaking a short time ago. sheppard? yes, john. the report that he just said that he sat down is not accurate. he finished shooting and he was walking and the authorities kept shouting at him to sit down, sit down. and he did shut down then. he didn t finish shooting and sit down. i don t know what he was going to do. but it wasn t that he shot and sat down. that s not accurate.
and i just dropped to the ground. my mother-in-law and my wife did. and the firing just went on and on. he emptied his weapon and reloaded? yes. yes. was that a lengthy process, were people saying things to him at the time? i don t it was eerily quiet. i don t know. then you described how at some point he stopped shooting. and what happened then? well, then there was i was down on the floor. everyone was down on the floor. and when we finally looked up, there was a police man standing right over me. and i forget what he said, but it was something like, can you go ahead and get up. and that s when i got up. that s when i assumed it was safe. and now, while waiting to go