jehovah witness and refused any kind of treatment so they are not surprised and i think why they are cooperative with that. as far as how it was handled at the airport, you know, tsa has determined for their tens of thousands of magnetometers in the airport not feasible for them to train and arm all of them with firearms. so, therefore, they rely on the local police department, in this case, the deputy sheriff that was on duty nearby, and she, of course, does save the day and is able to stop him, you know, by shooting him. so i think that, you know, really what more can you do? you ve got the tsa guards, they were manning the magnetometer. at some point, wherever the first checkpoint is, that is where you re going to have the problem and where they did encounter hem and they did prevent him from getting any further into the. kudos to all of them certainly. tom fuentes, always good to have
smoke bombs in his car. they say he suffered from some type of mental illness. he died of wounds yesterday he suffered in that onslaught. tom fuentes is joining us now. you look at the story and you know anyone with a right mind wouldn t go into an airport with a machete and think he is going to come out and get more ammunition that he had left in his car. what is the takeaway from this whole thing for you? i think the takeaway is just how severe his mental illness was, and, you know, we have these checkpoints in airports for a reason and in a way, they worked. even though the tsa guards are not armed, there are armed police officers right at the end of all of these checkpoints who can respond. we had this in the los angeles airport a couple of years ago where a l.a. police officer shot the person trying to that had already shot tsa guards and run through the checkpoint. now have this guy run through the checkpoint with a machete.
and especially when we have wind chills below zero. you can not have people lined up with the infants or elderly. you re going have to let people indoors and decide where you re going to set the checkpoint up. tsa guards and manning the checkpoints are not armed, so there are police officers that are supposed to be close by, and that s what you have in this case. you have a police officer who when alerted to the whole problem of this person attacking the the officers, that officer came and opened fire on the individual. yeah, you make a good point. wherefore you approximate put that check someone that has the motive will do everything that they plan right before that. tom, stay with us because we want you to weigh in on this story as well. second unsettling story at an airport. appears that the security administration has explain to do. yeah, the tsa athlete a
we re live at l.a.x. dominic? gregg, while paul ciancia is lying unconscious, heavily sedated and under armed guard at the ronald reagan ucla medical center in los angeles, the feds are unable to talk to him. for the time being they re looking into this background, but also looking very closely at the video that was picked up by surveillance cameras as he proceeded through terminal three here at l.a.x. and apparently that video showed his actions along the way, including the second two attempts he had firing on that tsa guard and apparently shooting two other tsa guards. we know this happened around 9:30, terminal 3. we also believe we ve got the photo there of the 0.223 million&t 15 semiautomatic that he pulled out from a duffel bag we understand and then started to open fire. of course, you know, he had that
and i m john berman. huge crowds at chick fill a s all across the country. they weigh in about the national debate about gay marriage and free speech. some people wanted a sandwich. another thrilling finish leads to gold for team u.s.a. this is cnn breaking news. breaking overnight a frighteningly close call in the skies. three commuter jets came within seconds of a mid-air collision. we re talk 12g seconds after confused air traffic controllers dealing with bad weather launched two flights at another plane that was coming in for another landing. the two closest plains were less than 1.5 miles apart and they were closing in at 400 miles an hour. they were operated by u.s. airways. they had a combined 192 people on board. listen to how it unfolded on the radio. 3329 stand by. hold on. we re trying to get a copy. stand by. okay, we really we ll get back to you as soon as i can. we ve got to get off the ground here pretty quick. everybody stand by, we ve got