video call? yeah. hi, fred. this video indeed highly significant because it centers on the international olympic committee president thomas bach holding a phone call with the three-time olympian. let s just remind everybody, she s also a two-time grand slam doubles champ. a huge sports start in her homestand. i can t stress that new. also important to stress here that beijing, which hosted the 2008 summer games will what, in just a matter of weeks now, fred, be hosting the winter games in early february of next year. i want to get to a statement this day, sunday, from the ioc which reads, quote, at the beginning of the 30-minute call peng shuai thanking the ioc for its concern about her well-being. she explained that she is safe and well living at a 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 love
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
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