but during this airport evacuation and following the gunshot. nadia roerm association at hartsfield jackson airport. what do we know about the ongoing search and how travelers are feeling today? >> reporter: well, fred, nothing spreads faster than fear and misinformation, especially when misinformation sparks fear, and that's exactly what happened yesterday at about 1:30 in the afternoon when there was a gunshot that went off, so people heard that correctly, but then the assumption was that there was an active shooter in the busiest airport in the nation. people scattered. they fled, fleeing for their lives, they believed, out of the airport on to the tarmac. people fled with their luggage on to the interstate trying to get as far away from the airport as possible, but there were other people inside, on the other side of the security checkpoint who had either just land, got off flights or were about to board their flights when they had to shelter in place and just remain there for about two hours. there was very little information that was coming out from airport employees on the inside of the airport because they didn't want to alarm the thousands of people inside so people took to their phones and social media and that's where they saw this report an active shooter. here's what the airport police are telling us actually happened. take a listen. >> during the screening process, a prohibited item was detected inside of his property which was subsequently flagged for a secondary search. during that secondary search, the passenger lunged into his property grabbing a firearm that was located inside which ultimately discharged. the passenger then fled the security checkpoint through an adjacent exit lane with his firearm. we're fortunate that when the firearm went off nobody was seriously injured. >> so you heard what actually happened. it took a while for the truth to start spreading around to people that there wasn't actually an active shooter. there's still a lot of misinformation on social media, but here's what we mow about 42-year-old kenny wells. there are warrants out right now for his arrest. he's facing charges for bringing a firearm into a commercial airport, for discharging that firearm and also he faced a warrant for akkon verdicted felon with a firearm. that's something he's not allowed to have at all anywhere. today, fredericka you ask how are people feeling. there's still a bit of uneasiness and planes are often running and things are back to normal. >> still a few jittery travelers out there. thanks so much. joining us now is former washington, d.c. police chief charles ramsey. now we know some more information. >> yeah. >> what are some questions about how this happened and how they get to the bottom of something like this not happening again. >> well, you know, again, there's a lot of video there, so they are going to go over all of the procedures, but i've had my bag subjected to secondary search, and they tell you to stand back. in fact, the conveyor belts in most airports where your luggage comes through is like between you and the tsa thagt will do the screening so it's interesting to learn how he got exactly close enough to lunge into the bag and grab his firearm. that's one thing i would want to take a look at because that's one area where you can beef up security. >> there's some 3,000 cameras throughout that airport, so they might even know already, but certainly it would seem those cameras are going to reveal if there was space between he and the bag once the tsa attendant said i need to further check your bag and whether he could have leapt across, you know, any barrier or reached in or. what all of those questions still to be asked. >> yeah, and the other thing, too. >> yeah, go ahead. >> as far as the screener, fred, when they are looking to the x-ray. what do they do to the person who is the secondary screener and if you suspect a gun and you can tell by the outline, do you give a head's up that what you're looking sat potentially a firearm. that would make you a lot more cautious and probably take different measures in doing a secondary search than you would normally. >> good point on that. >> so police have revealed the name of the suspect, a little bit more about his identity so clearly they were able to backtrack whether it was, you know, the moment where you hand over your driver's license and show your plane ticket and we know that they have computers there and they were able to look at that quickly to identify, you know, who this suspect was. >> right. >> but the person did get away. i mean, he got out of that airport, was able to run through a whole lot of people. those cameras will be able to in your view show what exits he came out of, what kind of transportation or if he was on foot in order to flee the area? >> yeah. they will be able to do all of that. he'll be taken into custody i would imagine within a relatively short period of time. i mean, he knew he was wanted. that's why he ran. that's why he was wondering what he wanted when he grabbed the gun and ran when he learned that yesterday, at least part of that yesterday. he knew he was wanted and that explains that. as far as, and i was listening earlier to some comments around, you know, nobody stopped him at the time that he was running, but you have to remember. this stuff happens in realtime and you had a lot of panic. you had hundreds of people running at the same time including this guy. >> blending in. >> it's going to be easy. exactly right, and so i don't think it's reasonable to think that someone would have -- unless they were standing there and actually saw him and knew that he was the person. >> yeah. >> who had the gun. >> but apparently that's not the case here and so they will look at all that and figure out exactly, you know what, took place. >> all good points. >> chief ramsey, always good to see you. thank you sgloech have a great thanksgiving week as well. >> you, too, fred. thank you. >> coming up, the international olympic committee chief says he just held a video call with chinese tennis star peng shuai when has been missing for nearly three weeks now, but questions still remain about the safety of the three-time olympic athlete. we'll tell you why next. and now that the house passed president biden's cornerstone spending bill, the legislation faces an uphill battle in the u.s. senate. the democrats plan to get the build back better bill across the finish line there. straight ahead. ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ why hide your skin if dupixent has your moderate to severe eczema or atopic dermatitis under control? 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correspondent and anchor patrick snell joining us again this hour. what more are we learning about this call and how it came to be? >> yeah. fred, we've been following developments very, very closely indeed. this has massive global attention. this video highly significant snergt on the international olympic committee president thomas bach holding a phone call and the 35-year-old, let's just remind everyone. she's also a two-time grand slam doubles champion. a huge sports star in her homeland, and also important to stress that beijing, look, fred, beijing hosted the 2008 summer games, and it's going to be hosting in just a matter of weeks today. the winter games as well in early february. now in a statement this day sunday from the ioc, let's get to that, because it reads like this h.at the beginning of the 30-minute call peng shuai thanking the ioc for the concern for her well-being. she explained that she is safe and well living at her home in beijing but would like to have her privacy respected at this time. that is why she prefers to spend her time with friends and family right now. nevertheless, she will continue to be involved in tennis, the sport she loves so much. the chair of the athlete's commission adding that. i was relieved to see that peng shuai was doing fine which was our main concern. she appeared to be relaxed. i offered her our support and to stay in time should at any time of her convenience she really appreciated. things off the back of this that's really appreciated. according to the ioc peng has accepted an invitation as well to have dinner with bach once he arrives in beijing in january ahead of the games. this is really important. though a still photo of that video call was provided, cnn has not been given access to the video chat at this time. just to reset for our viewers, you said at the very top. this story coming off peng publicly accusing one of the country's vice premiers coercing her into sex at home according to screen shots of a since deleted social media post from early november, and from the tennis world and beyond really, we've seen peng's case taken up by massive global superstars. i'm thinking japanese superstar naomi osaka and of the usa serena williams as well and a really strong social distance we have in recent days from the wta. that's the women's tennis association, and its head steve simon who has been calling for more robust proof of peng's proof of -- or proof of her liberty saying also he's willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business in china if she's not fully accounted for and her allegations are not properly investigated. that in itself speaks volumes. >> yeah. >> but this is fast moving. we're tracking it every step of the way, fred, and you request can be sure there are more developments ahead. >> very significant. patrick snell, thank you so much for that. let's talk further now with a former senior adviser for the u.s. state department on asian and pacific affairs and is a professor at jetformtown university. always god to see you, professor. so does that image that have video call assure you that peng shuai is okay, that she's interacting with people willingly, isn't suffering any penalties for speaking how the? >> great to see you, too, fred. well, no. it really dos doesn't, and i think it certainly probably raised more questions than it answers, but i think what is so fascinating about this particular story and why it is and has captured essentially the attention of the entire world is because it encapsulates so many of the very, very complex global iruse that so many countries have with china but also many of the global social concerns that have been the focus of attention. >> for example, what do you mean? >> well, folk, the me, too, movement really began here in america a number of years ago but now in asia it's been taken up and frankly has gained a lot of momentum in countries in east aya, in japan and south korea and also now as we see in china. it also shfs sports and the incredible making machine that the sports world is and the political complexities of hosting the olympics >> you said at the very beginning, the olympics as -- you said at the top of our conversation saying that it raises more questions than answers. just the video image itself. what kinds of feelings did that involk? >> we'll essentially never now reach a point where we, meaning those of white house are not in china, are fully going to be satisfied that peng shuai is safe and that she is living according to her own complete freedom and will. frankly if she is maintained under the kind of the net of the chinese authorities and, again, that i think really shows us really what the stage of the world that we're in now in terms of our relationship with china. >> you say that, too, because the government is known to wield power over their people. people there will disappear vore been moved. businessman jack ma disappearing after criticizing the chinese regulators and the head of wei corporation disappeared, some of the more high-profile kinds of examples of penalties, what happens when you spoke out or when you challenge authority that? >> exactly. there are artists and many, many others and the reality is clearly the superstars. the len tis become pawns. they are now -- for china this is as much about prestige as it is about power and money, and i'm not sure that any of us in the outside world and certainly for the tennis association that we are going to let this go necessarily, so this may be actually an unresolved problem now that it's essentially blown up in through social media. >> interesting. the women's tennis association says, you know, they are prepared to pull out of china all together over, you know, what peng has said and, you know, they are estimated that they, you know, have more than $1 billion tied up in a long-term deal with china, and you just mentioned, you know, how important money, i mean, capital is. is that leverage enough, you know, whether it be the wta to be able to place demands on china to change its ways and its method of operating by saying we're going to pull billions of dollars? 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in that case similarly to this one the defense claiming self-defense and similarly provoked by this vigilanteism. >> that's a good question, fred. would i hope not and we have faith in our jury system and as an officer of the court when they come down with a verdict we have to accept it even if we don't necessarily agree with it. i would hope that this jury would take into account the facts and evidence that were presented. in my opinion the prosecution has presented an outstanding case that completely undermines the case of citizen's arrest and self-defense which has been put forth by these three defendants. when travis mcmichael himself took the stand, he blew a big hole in his own case by testifying that he had no knowledge of any activity that ahmaud arbery was involved in prior to him and his father chasing him and trapping him like a rat and shooting and killing him and the fact he was unarmed the entire time that this incident closed out. >> other are the defendants. travis mcmichael, his father greg and william "roddy" bryan and you set it up with the prosecution make its case. perhaps these most notable examinations might be a way to look into what we're expecting to hear from the closing statements tomorrow. listen. >> with him drug his hand and that he was walking around so nonchalant in that house kind of -- it startled me a little bit that having that just happened, just catching him creeping through that front yard and obviously trying to avoid detection and then doing what he did there and then going into the house and then walking around in there like it's no big deal was -- was alarming. >> so that was travis mcmichael and then this was the cross-examination when the prosecutor pressed him on what happened and the decisions that he made. >> didn't brandish any weapons? >> no, man. >> didn't pull out any guns? >> no, man. >> didn't pull out any knife? >> no, ma'am. >> never reached for anything, did he? >> no. >> he just ran? >> yes, he just ran. >> so does this kind of set up what's expected in the closing statements? >> oh, absolutely, friend. i think we're going hear this prosecutor really drive home this point that this case is about assumptions, assumptions that travis mcmichael and his father and the other defendant made because they had no evidence, and the assumption was that something that happened february 11th played into what was happening on february 23rd and when you heard travis mcmichael says given that that just happened, that didn't just happen. the incident that he was talking about happened almost two weeks ago and this citizen's arrest law that he's resting his case on, the three defendants are resting their case on, doesn't allow you to rely on something that happened two monies or two weeks ago as the basis of trying to get your way to a citizen's arrest. and i think the prosecutor will say that he did nothing to do to provoke an attack. he was being chased with three white men, two stopped with gun. stopped and had some sort of engagement with travis mcmichael butty h he was in no way the aggressor in this situation. >> what in your view will be the outcome of this case, either, you know say about the justice system, say about where we are in america on race, culturally? i mean what -- what do you expect? >> yeah, fred. it's going to say a lot. it has already said a lot. we have to keep in mind that there are 11 white jurors on this jury even though this community is 25% african-americans so even if there's guilty vicks on all council for all three men, we need to continue to look at our justice system can be disproportionate when you can have african-americans as americans or the victims, the disproportionate level of justice that we see is galling. we saw it in the jury selection process. the judge himself said he believed there was discrimination in the selection of the jury but allowed the jury to be seated in the racial composition that it is. >> mm-hmm. >> we have a long way to go. we've made some progress, obviously, fred, but there's so much further to go to make sure that our justice system is equal and fair for everyone, not just white or privileged people. >> indeed. areva martin, thank you so much. have a happy thinking week in which is likely to be a very unpredictable week. thank you, and we'll be right back. 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>> well, fred, it really is surreal to go and talk to people in oklahoma because it's still so raw to them even though these murders happened about a century ago. in fact, i spent time with the shaw family, and they lost the patriarch of their family in the 1920s. and upon further investigation over the last ten years, they believe that the patriarch of the family was killed and the recipient of his land and property was also the person, the mastermind behind the murders of the people that we saw in the clip. >> um, how about the osage nation's ability to carry on with its language, traditions, kind of maintain their legacy and expose people, share it? >> well, this is the sad thing that has happened with so many native tribes. in the early 1900s, young kids were made to attend boarding schools where they were forbidden from speaking their language. they had to learn english. they could no longer dress in their native attire. and they were essentially americanized for all practical purposes. and, so, this language has all but died. and when a language dies, it becomes so much easier for a culture to die. and so now a hundred years later there is this incredible effort underway to teach osage children their language. and i have to tell you, fred, when i was there listening to these kids speaking their language, it really took me back, and i felt like i was back a hundred years ago, even hundreds of years ago listening to them. >> it's fascinating. we'll be watching tonight. be sure to tune into an all-new episode of "this is life" tonight at 10:00. happy thanksgiving week. the news continues with jim acosta right now. acosta right now. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com you are live in the "cnn newsroom." right now a convicted felon is still on the run more than 24 hours after a gun he brought into the nation's busiest airport went off and sparked an enormous panic. officials say the bag was -- gun was in a bag belonging to kenny wells. he managed to grab his gun and escape in all of the chaos as travelers ran, hid, dropped to the ground, even spilled onto the tarmac believing they were in a nightmare active shooter situation. >> i was in the security line. we heard gunshots, and got down. and then w