During pre game introductions. An update on the mascot today, saturday, november 2nd, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Alongside Maria Schiavocampo who is in for jen a and dylan dreyer. Jen a, of course on maternity leave. The top story. The deadly shooting of the tsa agent in los angeles airport. The 39yearold victim the first officer to be killed in the line of duty in the agencys 12year history. The suspected gunman and several others remain hospitalized this morning and investigators trying to answer the question who set the shooter off as they continue to look for clues. Miguel almaguer is in los angeles this morning and has the latest for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning, lester. The suspect is 23yearold paul ciancia. Police say he entered terminal 3 here at lax, opened fire, killing a tsa age
Tunnel when it happened. Recorded it all on his cell phone. He shares how he escaped a dimlylit, smokefilled caldecott tunnel. This is whats left of the car that caught fire. You could see the smoke and definitely smell something burning. Some people had breathing mask like a face protector mask that they placed on their face or children that were with them also. Catherine the driver was george orban. When his car went up in flames. Someone came to the rescue. George says hes grateful that he had some help. And wasnt hurt. It was scary he let me use his cell phone. He tried to help with his extinguisher but there was only one squirt left within the extinguisher. Catherine this wasnt the first car fire inside one of the tunnels. Accident started a fire that killed 7 people and forced the 3rd bore to close for several months. Kron 4s Charles Clifford talked to caltrans about what theyre doing to keep the tunnels safe. Reporter the first and second bores of the caldecott tunnel were built
Police say 33yearold kendra smith showed up 15 minutes later. By the time the officer was there waiting. Found some drugs and Drug Paraphernalia in the room, as well as pocket knives and where the kids toys were and things of that nature, things that children could possibly harm themselves with. Concerned for the childrens safety and addition to what the police found in the room. Determined to release the children to the father, is up to the child and Welfare Department at this point, to oversee what happens with the children. And make sure they are going to be in a safe environment. The father was arrested late last week for an unrelated incident. It was during that time he told the arresting officer about his familys hardship. In trying to do good deed, officer ended up arresting the childs mother as well. Cashier in walnut creek was robbed at gun point. The suspect got away with a small amount of crash. As they report, not before the investigators got a hold of the picture. Day afte
Happening now firefighers battle a two alarm fire at a onestory building in dowtown oakland. The building is located inth street at around 6 30 this morning. No injuries have been reported. Our top story this morning. New details are emerging about the shooting at Los Angeles International airport. Officials say the suspected gunman, 23yearold paul ciancia , shot a tsa officer at point blank range. He then walked away, but returned moments later to shoot him again. Kyung lah explains how the reporter investigators are still piecing together their timeline of what happened inside terminal 3 they dont know every step of paul ciancias path thru the terminal but heres what they do know. A roommate dropped him off at the airport. He entered at about 9 20 in the morning one of these entrances at terminal 3. According to pictures like this one as well as surveillance video, the gun was a 223 caliber Assault Rifle, which ciancia concealed in a bag. He then approached tsa officer Gerardo Hernan
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