anniversary of president bush signing the tsa which was not on 9/11 and the tragic shooting eight years ago, november in twbt 13 at lax when a gunman walked in and senselessly and tragically shot and killed a tsa officer gerardo hernandez and went on and wounded two other tsa officers, shooting them and they recovered and then wounded another tsa officer and was wounded. just total chaos. the problem is when there s a gun shot in an airport which should never happen then people are going to panic and i commend the professionalism of the men and women of tsa for handling the situation professionally and reacting in a way that over
those are non-life-threatening injuries and nadia romero, thanks for that report. i want to bring in someone that was in the midst of the terrifying information as an active shooter 20 through the airport. kevin helgren joins us live from atlanta, walk us through your experience. sure. thanks for having me, pamela. i was in atlanta for a wedding this weekend and it had just wrapped up so i was taking the train from downtown atlanta south into the airport. i had just gotten off the train and was walking through one of the main entrances in the domestic terminal alongside baggage claim making my way toward security and i d gotten all of 20 steps down the hallway before a combination of other passengers and airport security folks told me that i needed to stop walking. so i stopped, i turned around and i retraced those 20 or so steps that i had taken and then
airport it s because if you do it you get a slap on the wrist and there s no real fear of being prosecuted for it. this airport leads the country far and away with the firearms seized at security check points. that just raises all kinds of questions and of course, today was a rare, happy ending when it comes to panicked reports of an active shooter and are the existing gun laws for airports adequate? do you think that this will prompt a review? i think it should, because again, when you re thinking about federal law, most people assume it s against federal law to bring a gun through tsa security, and it is, but it s just regulation and you get a civil penalty and you re want prosecuting and so it depends on the state and in georgia, there s a specific law that allows people to take their guns to the airport. they just can t take them in through security and if they get caught, then it s either a misdemeanor or basically they say go home, take it back to the
all clear right now. the nation s busiest airport after a gun shot sent travelers diving to the floor, moments of panic and terror and even an evacuation at atlanta hartsfield jackson international. the gun shot the gun accidentally discharged as it turns out. a short time ago we learned that three people were injured. the tsa says an x-ray screening flagged the gun in a bag at the main security checkpoint and that the owner was told not to touch the bag, but lunged toward it. that s when the gun went off. that person then ran out of the air port according to officials. the drama each reached the tarmac as the captain explains the unfolding information. i am not pooshgarking the ai.
we have an active shooter situation in the airport. we are not parking at the terminal out of an abundance of safety for yourselves. wow. that claim of an active shooter clearly proved to be inaccurate and an example of the panicked assumptions of the moment. that audio was recorded by cnn s own isabel rosales as she sat aboard a flight that landed on the tarmac. wow, isabel, your recording nothing short of bone chilling. the last thing you re going to hear, right? when you re on an airplane. how did you and your fellow passengers react? pam, good evening to you, first of all. it was an instant moment of did he actually just say that, an active shooter? throughout the airplane just a stunned silence as people soaked that in, as people soaked in the potential gravity of the situation as americans just by