airport is considered a federal crime, so that would be why they were looking for him. got it. it s not clear to me whether the where the passenger exited. what s clear is that once it was discovered that he had that he or she had a gun, that they either exited they likely exited the airport, but again, that s not clear. as jim can tell you, earlier reports are early reports and you have to do an investigation to get more. got it. jay, stand by for me. if you can, control room, let s work on jay s audio because i want to make sure we re hearing him more clearly because at this point we re not. stand by for me, jay. jim, let s bring you back into the conversation. so, what we learned from jay, from this statement that he literally just got in his inbox, and then of course what he said took place, try and add that kind of math equation up that i set up there which is perplexing to me right now in that you have
then which flights are still at the gate? where are they going to go? have they been canceled? where do they need the airplanes the most? that s what s going to determine what flights are flown, and obviously, they re going to do everything they can to move people out and be able to get things back to normal, but we re looking at probably through the weekend at an absolute minimum before atlanta s functioning at 100%. okay. john cox and jay blackman, guys, i m handing things off right now. our coverage to yasmin vossoughian. she s in the chair so she s going to take it from here. thank you, everyone. alex, appreciate it. obviously we re covering a developing situation at atlanta hartsfield airport in atlanta, georgia, there as a gun discharge went off in atlanta. let s reset things for folks as you re just joining me at the top of the hour. welcome, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. we are following breaking news out of atlanta. a frightening few moments for passengers there at th
all in their house, they re in their lives, they re around everywhere and they rush in their business and their busy lives and they forget. and that sometimes happens. let s hope that this that is what this is and that the discharged round, no one was struck and that the citizen, it was simply an accident, and you know, then we learn the lessons from here. tsa can tighten up their procedure if the person was not kept at the checkpoint, and you know, the process of the citizens running or getting away can be re-evaluated. citizens need to be always reminded of security issues. airports do a pretty good job about that but they should always be talking to their passengers about security issues over their intercoms and their public information feeds so people know what to do. and when you re in a big crowd, always know what would happen, what would you do, where would you go?