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