increases. meantime kyle rittenhouse victim anthony huber s father speaks out. we re still in shock. we still can t believe it. we re going to fight until this there is just. and stormy weather threatening to cause chaos for millions of thanksgiving travelers. i m pamela brown in washington, you re in the cnn newsroom on this saturday, nice to hava long with us. and at any moment we re expecting a news conference on this afternoon s terrifying incident at the busiest airport in the u.s. as travelers mined up in atlanta, the sound of a gunshot sparked panic. get over here. chaos as crowds scrambled at the atlanta hartsfield-jackson international airport and sp spilled to the outside of the terminal. people were injured in the evacuation. a weapon went off by accident but there was no way of knowing that at the time. we re at airport and walk yus through what happened, nadia, what do we know. reporter: misinformation spread quickly and turned the scene in the airp
urgency to get a third shot increases. meantime, kyle rittenhouse victim anthony huber s father speaking out. we are still in shock that this is the outcome. we still can t believe it. we re going to fight until there s justice. and stormy weather threatening to cause chaos for millions of thanksgiving travelers. a pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. the sound of a gun shot sparks panic at the busiest airport in the u.s. as americans kick up their thanksgiving travel. get down! this was the chaos as crowds scrambled at atlanta hartsfield jackson international. minutes ago we learned three people were injured. outside as crowds evacuated, more alarm in the rush and wave in the terminal. as it turns out the firearm was fired accidentally and there was no way of knowing that at the time. cnn s nadia romero is at the airport. nadia, walk us through what happened. pamela, we are still learning more details as we talk to more passengers who we
Thousands of passengers inside quick enough before so many of them became frustrated and confused and very fearful for their lives on the safety of everyone around them. we do know it was snn accidental discharge. a spokesperson from the atlanta airport tells us that someone, a passenger was going through the tsa check point area and it was spotted. his bag was flagged for having a firearm inside. and then the tsa agent went to look inside of that bag and the passenger lunged inside, grabbing the firearm and then zeptsly discharging that firearm. and when that happened, everything seemed to happen all at once. people began screaming and running and hiding and the passenger fled and leaving the airport in the middle of the chaos. so the investigation continues into who exactly that man was. what his intentions were with that gun. but the domino effect still continued there after. there was a temporary ground stop, all of the flights coming
During the screening process, a prohibited item was detectived 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. short time later atlanta police had secured the scene and given us an all clear at which point we resumed normal operations at the airport and within a few hours have h cleared out all of the passengers waiting outside of our security checkpoints. thank you. good evening. my name is major reginold
The main security checkpoint where it took place. we ll have more information as it becomes available. if you would like a picture of the suspect, reach out to apd and they ll provide it as well. is he still in possession of the gun. again, the investigation is ongoing. we ll let you know. come on now, guys. thank you. let s bring back in cnn national security analyst and former assistant secretary of homeland security juliette cayenne. we just heard from officials talking about the incident today at the atlanta airport. where earlier in the afternoon we know that a gun was accidentally discharged. they say that the passenger had put the case through the x-ray machine. it picked thaup gun and then once that was detected for secondary screening the passenger lunged and was able to accidentally discharge the gun. an update is that they ve been