we're watching as the los angeles mayor eric garcetti and l.a. police chief charlie beck now preparing to start the news conference. leon, can you tell me what you saw? >> you ready? >> yes. >> are you there? >> yes, i am. >> can you tell me what you saw in the airport? >> well, basically i was at the security checkpoint and just gotten through the security checkpoint and i got my belt and shoes were off -- >> leon, let me interrupt you really quickly. we're going to get an update from the mayor. >> i'm here with representatives of law enforcement and public safety community as well as the administrators of this airport. at about 9:20 this morning, most of us know now that an incident occurred here at the airport with a shooter who was actively involved in terminal three. i'll be having chief gannon from airport police give you a rundown of what occurred. jena marie lindsay will inform the traveling public and loved ones what the situation is on the ground. i want to thank the law enforcement community for their excellent and coordinated response

eric garcetti, los angeles mayor.s conference at los angeles airport. >> here with members of law enforcement as well as administrators of the airport. at 9:20 this morning, most of us know now, an incident occurred here at the airport with a shooter who was actively involved in terminal 3. i'll be having chief gannon from airport police, lala police give you a run down. gina lindsey, director at airport, will be giving run down of the loved ones. first i want to thank the law enforcement community for their excellent and coordinated response to this incident. we believe this to be a static situation now is. a safe one for those that are in the airport and one in which we are all confident we will be able to conduct the investigation necessary to get all the facts out that, no doubt, you and the public want to know. second, we're working very hard in the operations of the airport. if you haven't been able to be in touch with a loved one who was already through security in one of the terminals, other than terminal thre

and if all of that isn't chilling enough, los angeles mayor eric garcetti told reporters just momentsgo this could have been a whole lot worse. >> is there was additional rounds that this gunman had. and the fact that these officers were able to neutralize the threat as they did, there were more than 100 more rounds that could have literally killed everybody in that terminal today. were it not for their actions, there could have been a lot more damage. >> clearly heroism by the authorities in the airport. so who is paul ciancia? well, the authorities aren't saying much. but he apparently texted his brother in new jersey just this morning, mentioning suicide. the family called police, but by then it was too late. nbc news reports police found anti-government literature on him, including the words "kill tsa." as you just heard from the mayor, they also found lots of ammo that is. it could have been much worse. but still one tsa officer dead. >> scott, let me just ask you something, going back to that news conference. one of the officers, one of the police chiefs, or maybe it was the may

that was chief charlie beck, but at the top, it was eric garcetti. he said it is a static situation now inside l.a.x. it is safe for those in the airport. but what we heard, what i heard that is new, at least, is a little more of a tick talk, a chronologist, if you will, as far as this shooter is concerned. so this is from the chief of airport police. this is what he just announced. that this gunman pulled an assault rifle out of his bag and began to open fire. he proceeded then, after opening fire, into the security screening area, got past screeners. got back into the airport itself. we heard that from one of the eye witnesses, because some shoes potentially from the shooter were found near a gate. you heard chief beck saying this guy was able to get deep enough into a burger king, which is presumably pretty deep beyand airport security. l.a. airport police were able to track the shooter through the airport, they shot at him, they took him into custody. he's at a hospital in that shootout, there was an officer-involved shooting, according to the ai

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