whether it might have been a weapon or a piece of debris, a fod. something in on an airport. that could be catastrophic. so they ve got to not only make sure that it s sterile from a security perspective, they ve got do make sure it s sterile from a debris and stuff on the runway and ramp perspective before they ever let planes start moving again with passengers on board. not to mention people left things behind, personal items inside the terminal. we have pictures we just got in recently of bags and purses and all kinds of things. and left their things behind. they re going to have to reconcile all those baggage how many people lost a shoe running across, you know, in a panic and through the grass. big clean-up today. tom, you need to go and do more reporting. thank you so much for all that you ve been able to tell us. where are we headed next?
were reports of gunfire in terminal one, the authorities say, that did not happen. there were reports of a threat inside the parking garage here, the authorities responded. the authorities say there was no threat. they just went to check something out. in fact, may have been a 911 call from somebody in the garage who thought they say something. so, at this point, lone gunman and you know the carnage here, the death toll is horrific, and the panic and the pandemonium here will live with the people who are here far very long time. yeah, kerry sanders, live at the airport there, kerry, thank you so much for that. let me turn to tom costello. he s in washington for us. tom, we just saw a tweet here, i don t know if you ve seen this from air canada saying he was not a passenger on one of their planes. so we now believe that this passenger in fact originated in anchora anchorage, alaska, on a domestic u.s. airline. and we re double checking which airline that is.
somebody is trying to either deliberately or unintentionally get a weapon past a tsa check point in 2015, they confiscated 2,600 weapons. and we had even more last year. i don t have the final count for 2016. so that s a constant struggle, but you can legally check a firearm, whether it s a long gun for shooting, for hunting if you re going to colorado or something. foryou re trying to transport a handgun, you can do that all legally as long as you followed the tsa guidelines that are spelled out on their website. you can tom, you can do that from canada on an international flight through customs as well, right? i must say there s some discrepancy at this moment as to where exactly this passenger was originating. you can certainly do that domestically. i need check and see what the laws and regulars are in canada as well. pete williams is reporting from law enforcement that they believe he did enter on a flight from canada. but you re right to use caution, tom, because things h
a shooting, involving a man who we now have identified as esteban assistant ya go, 26-year-old man. witnesses say he walked into the area where people were pulling their bags off the carousel, and just indiscriminantly started shooting. they say he shot many shots and then reloaded his weapon. and then started shooting again. one witness describing him running out of ammunition eventually and laying down on the ground as he called it spread eagle and waiting for law enforcement to arrive. and he was taken without any kind of fight. the local sheriff, broward county sheriff telling us that he was not shot, he was not there was no interaction between him and law enforcement. law enforcement was able to just take him into custody. and he is now being interviewed by the fbi. but the sad news is that he did manage to kill at least five people and injure a number of others. tom cost tell low has been following this all afternoon for us as well. and tom, the airport remains
according to law enforcement sources. it s never black and white. they are never black and white. he still may have been influenced, we don t know. esteban santiago started his day in anchorage and finished his day by killing at least five people in ft. lauderdale. let me go back to clint and bring him in the conversation too, clint. cal just made that point that we were talking about a minute ago about security of airports we haven t had i don t think we ve had an attack on this scale, ever, at a u.s. airport? well, we have had a earlier today, tom costtello looked at the number of incidents, and we have had a number of incidents, you know, i can think of them happening, not the place and the time, but where shooters have gone in, but it s never been in a sterile area. it s never been to my knowledge, where someone has gotten past screening and then produced a