ciancia could have been identified and acted upon before he had the opportunity to shoot. i do not think in this case -- we have put together an approach assigning officers -- officers to build relationships with people so we get better information out of our employees. >> i guess my point i'm trying to get at is, you have identified coordination as something that will be different now than before. based on what we have been told our visit, it is still different -- difficult for the police to talk to the sheriffs department to talk to .he lapd , what are youoing doing to effect that interoperability? >> it still exists here and throughout the los angeles area. the county is responsible for putting together an interoperability plan they have a plan in development. we have developed our communication system to be compatible, but that is still some time off. in the meantime, what we have done on the short term, with fire and lapd, the units that worked the fire stations associated with this airport or lapd officers on cap this, we provide them with a radio which they can moni

to respond to neutralize ciancia within four minutes and eight seconds from the first call to mom hadthe shooter in custody in my estimation is remarkable. even so we continually look for ways to improve our response time even though we can work, even though we were each day to fit to deter violent acts at lax we can never guarantee this will always happen but what we've learned is from this incident is one of violent act occurs speed and quickness coupled with superior tactics will be the key to saving lives. thank you very much. >> the chair recognizes ms. lindsey to testify. >> chairman hudson, chairman mccaul, members of the committee thank you very much for coming to us as international airport and being willing to discuss the events of november 1. alex is the largest airport in the united states serving 66.7 million passengers through nine different terminals. we host 95 passengers and care go airlines second to 615,000 operations in 2013. november 1 was like any other busy friday morning at terminal three until an act of violence by lone gunmen set off a sequence of events of w