it was just a lot of panic, a lot of chaos, people ducking for cover, scrambling. there were long lines outside the airport. and it seems like the airport is still feeling the impacts of this incident. right now, authorities are saying that there are no injuries, but obviously, this is still an ongoing investigation. and as you mentioned earlier, yasmin, this is one of the busiest travel times of the year, more than 53 million people will be traveling during the thanksgiving holiday. that s a 13% increase from last year. but we re here at laguardia right now, and obviously, a much different scene. things have definitely started picking up ever since yesterday when people started to get a jump start on the thanksgiving holiday. but once again, this situation in atlanta, we have been notified that we the airport has been given the all clear, but still, they are feeling the impacts of this incident, and they are still seeing delays as a result.
yasmin? what type of delays are you seeing, if any, at this point, kathy, up here at laguardia as we talk about this kind of trickle effect? anything yet? reporter: well, the you know what? i honestly haven t had the chance to see the impact it s having here at laguardia but at last check, it looks like there are about a dozen or so at least a dozen or so delays at atlanta itself. got it. all right, want to bring back jay blackman. that you know, kathy, by the way. want to bring back jay blackman to talk more about this. and you were just walking us through the details of what we re learning at this hour, and we now know atl airport has given the all clear. flights can get up and going. passengers can return to what they were doing earlier. of course, i m sure there s a sense of still a little bit of kind of nervousness for passengers to return to the airport, despite the fact that they know this was an accidental discharge. that being said, anything more
welcome back, everybody. we re still following the breaking news story out of the atlanta area airport. atlanta hartsfield international airport where a gunshot went off about an hour ago at this point. of course, chaos ensuing, passengers running for safety, seeking shelter, not knowing where that gunshot came from. subsequently, atlanta airport tweeting out just 30 minutes or so after that, that it was an accidental discharge, we were learning from our producer earlier what happened, walking us through some of what happened at the tsa checkpoint. the airport is now been given the all clear. just about two minutes or so ago, so over the last hour, that airport s been on lockdown on one of the biggest travel weekends of the year. kathy park is following the story from laguardia up in new york city. i know you ve been following what s taking place in atlanta. we know millions of folks
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