and went off after the passenger quote, lunged for his bag. l lunged for his bag. that s according to tsa officials. i want to go to pete who is joining me on the phone. pete, thank you for bringing this information to us. so quickly. this is startling, that this went down this way. super startling. the fact remains that guns are being caught at check points at an alarming rate. in ten months, the tsa recovered about 4650 guns at airport checkpoints across the country and that number is higher than the all-time record set back in 2019 and what s also interesting is that the tsa has found 450 guns at the atlanta airport tsa checkpoints alone. this one is now just the latest
and the really scary part, what the vast majority of them are loaded. cnn s pete muntean has the story for you. reporter: these are disturbing new numbers, and tsa administrator and i just spoke exclusively about this. he said this is a big problem, especially since we have already reached the record set back in 2019 with 11 weekends still left in this year. the tsa has recovered 4650 guns at airport checkpoints across the country since january 1st. 3900 of them have been loaded. the record in 2019, 4432 guns found at tsa checkpoints. you can face a $10,000 fine for a first offense of bringing a loaded gun to the airport. he said this is a serious issue and passengers need to take this more seriously. it s a huge problem. as a passenger, i don t want to have another passenger flying on a flight with me with a gun in their possession. reporter: why do you think the numbers are up?
this exceeds the record set back in 2019. the tsa administrator says this is a really serious problem, and passengers need to take these rules more seriously, as well. it is a $10,000 fine for a first offense for somebody bringing a loaded gun into an airport. here s what he said. it s a huge problem. i mean, as a passenger, i don t want to have another passenger flying on a flight with me, with a gun if their possession. there are a number of things that we prohibit in the airport and onboard aircraft and guns is one of those things. why do you think the numbers are up? again, i think it does reflect society. i think more people are carrying weapons, just generally, across the country. and we see whatever is happening in the country, we see reflected in our checkpoint. reporter: me underscores this is happening as there are more unruly passenger incidents onboard planes, but shows that the systems works.
difference. athena jones, thank you. louisiana is now breaking its record for the number of people in its hospitals, sick with covid. a short time ago, state s health department announced there are now more than 2,100 patients in covid wards which exceeds a record set back in january. you see every county in louisiana has high transmission of the virus. just 37% of the state is vaccinated. joining us now is rebecca gee, former secretary of the louisiana department of health. thank you very much for being here. how can louisiana be worse today than it was before vaccines were available? unfortunately louisiana is familiar with disaster. recently we fail ed with the covid vaccine. as you just pointed out we have one of the lowest rates of
in an olympic games. the world is waiting to see if the greatest of all time, robyn, will compete in tokyo again. it has been a bombshell of news headlines here out of tokyo. it sure has. let s talk about amazing pieces of athleticism. the aussies are rolling in the pool. they are. tied the record set back in 1952 for the most by any female at a single olympic games. mckeon has a new record olympic time of 23.081. the 400 medley. mckeon is a hero back in australia for young kids. this is special.