gun. and so they know that the gun is in there when it s searched by tsa and you go forward. when you arrive at your destination, you pick up your bag and of course you have the key to your locked container and you can retrieve your gun. so it s legal. of course it s not legal if you intend to commit a felony with the gun. that is a federal statute to travel interstate with a gun to commit a felony. but if you re not intending to commit a felony, it would be a legal movement of a gun in interstate commerce. is there any situation at all where the airline may refuse a passenger travel if in fact he declares that he has a gun but at the same time for any reason they feel that they re not comfortable with this individual on board with a gun is this obviously the xwgun is not with him in the cabin, but could they refuse him the slight based on that alone? well, not just based on that he has a gun, but the ticket agent has a lot of power if a person is argumentative, if they re acting a
for example by the way, the only people that can carry armed are federal agents. when i was with the dea, you travel armed. he had active military i.d. would that have not enough. for example, if you say you go from new york city or a local airport here or elsewhere. when you check your weapon in, you have two layers of screening. you have the port authority police department. they look at the weapon, see whether you re licensed to have the weapon and then you go through the usual tsa screening. in other airports, there s no police involvement. tsa does it. they don t verify whether you have a legal firearm. so for example, if you re traveling in a different airport without that police involvement, all you do is say to the ticket agent, you re carrying a weapon armed. they examine it. make sure it s unloaded. sign off on it, put it in your suitcase and bring it to tsa. tsa s sole focus is to make sure it s not loaded. the weapon and ammunition, you can carry them in the same
this morning about 100 southwest flights have been delayed and the airline has 3600 flights scheduled for today. our sara gannon is in new york and following this story. this is not a day you want to be a ticket agent for, i imagine, southwest airlines. reporter: not a day you want to be a ticket agent, not a day you want to be a traveler on southwest airlines either, martin. take a look at these long lines. this is las vegas airport. a similar sight at baltimore, nashville, los angeles airports. that s because of these technology issues. southwest is having to manually issue tickets today. that means long lines. they re warning their customers please arrive to the airport early. i want to read you the statement from southwest. it came out this morning. they said, we re experiencing technology issues today which are requiring us to process customers manually as they arrive at the airports for travel. we re asking customers to arrive at least two hours prior to their scheduled departu
breaking news to tell you about right now. the faa just confirming for us all united airlines flights have now been grounded because of computer problems. i want to get out to kyung law who is at the burbank airport. this morning i m actually just a regular passenger. none of us are moving. there has been a ticket agent, a trainee i m told at least that s how she described herself. she came out and said they re having computer issues. if this is a national computer issue, which i haven t been told as a passenger here that s certainly going to be a more persistent problem. when you re standing in line you re talking to other passengers. another passenger says that lax is just a nightmare as well. if you re trying to get on a
they have got to make sure this is the sole shooter and the incident is over as they believe it to be. right, andrea. that s the most important thing. the weak point at an airport is egress, where you come in before you reach the security checkpoint. you do go to the ticket counter as most of us know, travelers and frequent flyers. if you have carry on luggage, you may be able to not have it totally completely scanned until you give it to the ticket agent. pedestrians can go into the airport terminals without tickets and walk right up to the security line where tsa agent would ask for the id. that s apparently where it occurred. that s a weak point at airports. jim, pete williams is joining us now. pete, what have you learned? we re trying to get a good picture if we can, andrea, of exactly how many people are hurt in this incident and it s still not clear. the best information we have at this point is that it appears a