we begin with two frightening incidents at los angeles international airport, they happened almost simultaneously, one at terminal 4, the other at terminal 5. at terminal 4, a prank call to police caused this chaotic scene. authorities say it all began when the caller reported a gunman at the airport and that prompted this response from police. everyone on the ground! everybody get down! police evacuated the terminal, didn t find anything suspicious, gave the all clear almost at the same time. at terminal 5, an suv crashed, triggering a panic reaction from passengers inside. paul vercammen has more. reporter: last night, absolute panic at lax. what happened, this driver of a minivan collided with parked cars and hit a parking structure here. someone mistook the sounds of
to both terminal 5 and terminal 4, a decision was made to evacuate each of those terminals. one traveller described how terminal 4, a quote human barricade of officers lined up at the screening area. if you remember, the attacker this month actually targeted tsa agents, there was a sweep of the airport and no hitch. there was a scare for the passengers on a spirit flight that just landed at atlanta. they heard this. there is a bomb on this [ bleep ] plane. i ll blow this plane up! well, the aircraft safely arrived at the gate. but that didn t stop passengers from being scared. this guy, i mean, he upset a lot of people, you could tell he was on something or maybe a
get louder. doesn t necessarily mean the end of the process, of course, but again, it is going to be harder if there s no deal this time. all right. matthew chance, keep us posted from geneva. thank you. here state side, two separate scares at los angeles international airport. again, they took place around the same time last night. one taking place at terminal 4, the other at terminal 5. at terminal 4 this is what happened. an apparent prank called to police caused this chaotic scene there, everyone evacuated. authorities say it began when the caller reported a gunman at the airport and that prompted this response from police. everybody on the ground, everybody get down! so police evacuated the terminal as you saw in earlier images, didn t find anything suspicious, then gave the all clear. earlier just by moments at terminal 5, an suv crashed, triggering a panicked reaction from passengers inside, simply
we begin with two frightening incidents at los angeles international airport. they happened almost simultaneously. one at terminal 4, the other at terminal 5. terminal 4, an apparent crank call to police causing this chaotic scene. it began when the caller reported a gunman at the airport, and this prompted this response to police. on the ground! everybody get down! police evacuated the terminal, but then, they didn t find anything suspicious, and they gave the all-clear. almost at the same time at terminal 5, an suv crashed, triggering a panicked reaction from passengers inside there. paul vercammen is live for us at l.a.x. paul, no connection to the two incidents, but nonetheless, a lot of nerves frayed.
the collision for gunfire. and as you also pointed out, there s what police are determining a prank call to another terminal saying there s a man with a gun inside. police came rushing into both terminals, guns drawn, and basically you can imagine the passengers here absolutely scared out of their minds as this went on. let s take a listen. the first time i knew of it is when i was in the ladies restroom and the security guard told us to come and hide in the babies room because there was lots of yelling and screaming outside. i was in the security line and they all of a sudden the security people were shouting on dell a, on dell a, move, and everybody went running. reporter: this was exactly three weeks after the fatal