then which flights are still at the gate? where are they going to go? have they been canceled? where do they need the airplanes the most? that s what s going to determine what flights are flown, and obviously, they re going to do everything they can to move people out and be able to get things back to normal, but we re looking at probably through the weekend at an absolute minimum before atlanta s functioning at 100%. okay. john cox and jay blackman, guys, i m handing things off right now. our coverage to yasmin vossoughian. she s in the chair so she s going to take it from here. thank you, everyone. alex, appreciate it. obviously we re covering a developing situation at atlanta hartsfield airport in atlanta, georgia, there as a gun discharge went off in atlanta. let s reset things for folks as you re just joining me at the top of the hour. welcome, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. we are following breaking news out of atlanta. a frightening few moments for passengers t
i m traveling back tomorrow, so we flew in here today for a performance. so, yeah. now we re at the venue, thankfully. got it. unbelievable. unbelievable. all right, damian, i hope you have a good performance tonight. try and shake it off. i know it was a tough hour or so. we appreciate you jumping on the phone with us, as always. thank you. great to meet you over the phone. and good luck today in our travels back home tomorrow. and happy thanksgiving to you and yours. thank you, damian. same to you, yasmin. thanks a bunch. i want to reset for everybody. it s the top of the hour. welcome. you re watching msnbc. i m yasmin vossoughian. we ve been following this breaking news throughout the hour that kind of broke for us around 1:30 this afternoon with shots ringing out in atlanta area airport, atlanta hartsfield international airport at a tsa checkpoint. an individual going through that checkpoint, something was discovered in their bag. they subsequently were taken a
What is going on and what the conduit of information that s being released is. and so, i think it s a little bit incumbent on all of us as individuals to take the initiative to try to find out what s happening. and then, for that to be backed up, certainly, by official sources. sure, john, but as you just said, that last point was one of the most important points you made, which is the fact that there can be a lot of false alarms. you re looking an twitter and i looked on twitter plenty of times, we re in the middle of a show, and things will pop up and we think, my god, there s a shooting, and then we find out it was just a false alarm. and so right. so i m curious and concerned about our guest, damian escobar, saying he had no communication from inside the airport in that hour that he was pretty confused as to what was going on. he was rushed into a hallway, a child was trampled who was subsequently fine, but nonetheless, that s a scary 30, 45, 60 minutes with no
So nervous without a doubt. who were you traveling with, damian? my band. we came in town for a concert this evening and you just come to a city to play some music. and you never expect something like this happening. what do you make of the fact that this guy had a gun, this individual had a gun in their carry-on that was loaded? that s the thing. and i don t i mean, unbelievable. unbelievable. unbelievable. that s why how can that be an accidental discharge? absolutely unbelievable. beyond negligent. and it just kind of lends itself to just the disparities when it comes to weapons in this country as a whole, you know? it s something that shouldn t happen, and it happens far too often here in america. you know? like, things like this should not happen, and personally, i m just tired of it happening, especially being in the middle of it now, it really impacts me