injured out, restoring order at the airport and then the whole separate chain will start on trying to figure out who the gunman was and what the motive was and whether this was planned and all that sort of detail. pete, joining us now is jane harmon, president of the wilson center who for years in congress, intelligence committee, importantly from l.a. you know terminal 3, jane. you bet. tell us the landscape there and if this man was stopped by a tsa officer at the checkpoint where you show your id, it s right at an inspection point. there are a lot of people there. i don t know if you heard this because of the bad weather another east coast flights were delayed. this is a crowded airport. it s very old. terminal 1, 2, 3 are horrible, very vulnerable. i was proud of the fact terminal 1 is faced by jane harmon flower
him. it s very tight in the airport, people are close to you. there s a remains to be seen rkts we might have a lot of heroes today. indeed. thank you jim cavanaugh and mike. we re experiencing a news conference in about 30 minutes with the mayor and police chief out there. now we go to news nation, tamron takes over for me. we re following this breaking news as parts of los angeles international airport remain locked down, essentially paralyzed after a shooting that left one dead, a tsa employee, another tsa employee injured and potentially others injured as well. mike is in los angeles. this all started around 9:40 local time. we re awaiting as andrea and you both mentioned in 30 minutes an update for the mayor as well as the chief of police. what do we know right now regarding the situation on the
do the normal procedures. you would obviously be checking for any other possible involvement. you would want to get things back to normal as soon as you could. exactly right. safety is the paramont other shooters or conspirators. you re going to see there s searches of property, house, home, apartment if it s in the l.a. area or wherever it may be. they are going to want to glean from that motive, co-conspirators and those kinds of things. we ve seen these shootings like the aurora place where the apartment was rigged with bombs. it s delicate now, fast moving. we re talking about lax, just to point out as you continue to watch these ariels from knbc, watching passengers rushed down from the terminal down to the tarmac and being bused off to other terminals. this the third busiest airport
gunfire was exchanged. we know at least two people were shot. we don t know how many. initial reports back here say multiple victims, but that could be simply more than one equals two. so we don t know what the number is yet. we re waiting to hear that now. the information is flowing somewhat slowly back here to the folks we re talking to, andrea. we know lax is, of course, an enormous airport. knbc, our station, the nbc station in l.a., is reporting that planes are landing. obviously they would not be diverting planes that could potentially be running low on fuel. planes are landing at the airport, but they are dropping off passengers on the other side of the airport. there are so many terminals there. terminal 3 is where this took place, near the checkpoint for the atlantic. pete, in a situation like this, they need to do a big security sweep to make sure there s
there have been unconfirmed reports bouncing back and forth on the scanners and radios there might have been a second suspect spotted, an unconfirmed report. the airport, as you point out, is a vast facility, one of the reasons there is a ground stop. aircraft kept from the terminal and arriving at the gates. if there was a second suspect, someone involved with the alleged suspect, where might he be, et cetera, et cetera. there s an abundance of caution in that regard. even if the incident itself, exchange of gunfire set to be contained and completed, finished sometime 45 minutes after it began. l.a. s mayor and chief charlie beck, who are at another event this morning are on the way to lax right now. certainly with their communications apparatus, we ll learn more from them as soon as they learn. can you see personnel remain at this busy airport. passengers themselves are in a