business near that area, according to kxas, were evacuated, including a nearby wall mat.e pictures you can see at the moment, one, two, three ambulances at the bottom of your screen. it appears they have a hook and ladder above the street, and a little bit higher on your screen here on the left side some more fire vehicles as well as police vehicles there in garland, texas. again, at this art exhibit that featured illustrations of the prophet mu homeland that some islams may find offensive. at the moment, as we look at these chopper cam pictures live from -- i believe it's our affiliate who are giving us these pictures at the moment. as they are scanning the area, the businesses were shut down in the area. we continue to gather more information from our affiliate in the area. local time at this moment as we look at garland, texas, 8:25 p.m. the information that we're getting is that this did happen earlier this afternoon. so, again, as we get the information from our affiliate at this hour, one police officer shot. the hue hamd art exhibit and contest, which is the event

from the hospital according to kxas. with us at this hour, we have clint van zandt, former fbi profiler and msnbc profiler and jay gray, nbc news and jim cavanau cavanaugh, who also worked out of that office of garland. we'll start with jay gray first. what do you know about what's happening there? >> richard, on the ground here at the location right now. they have us all pulled significantly back as you would imagine at this point. everything is locked down. police, state police as well as garland police, on the scene right now. many of them intact call gear. some with weapons drawn and tense situation. there's concern about the vehicle of those two suspects and the possibility there's explosives inside so they're working to try to determine if that is the case. there are also a lot of people that gathered in the area as you would might imagine with this situation here. a lot of people nervous and want the find out what's going on. i would have to say they probably have a mile cordoned off here around the event center,

kxas has been our affiliate in the air providing us information. let's go to what they're broadcasting now live for a moment. take a moment. >> just released from the hospital. >> police shot and killed the two men who opened fire. we have live team coverage starting with jocelyn lockwood. you were literally next to officers as they secured the scene. tell us about that. >> i was, and to be honest i'm here with officers. this is a very active police scene. it's been all day as extra security was called in just for this event. but right now, i would like to bring in joe harn with the garland police department keeping us abreast of the situation as it develops. thank you for joins us. tell us what happened. >> just before 7:00 we were outside. we heard gunshots at the front of the event center. officers started responding to that area. what we found out, two men pulled up in a car. started shooting at a garland isd security officer. officers garland police officers on the scene, engaged, shot and killed them both at the scene. >> both men had a gun a

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an investigative reporter for kxas has the latest. >> reporter: across the country, thousands of airportying a key to some of the most secure areas of our nation's biggest airports. this morning there's new information that more than 270 badges at san diego's airport were lost or stolen over two years. and raising even more red flags, records uncovered by our nbc station shows in eight cases they were not reported missing for weeks or months remaining active during all that time. the san diego airport authority said they will try to minimize risk. but there have been security lapses elsewhere. earlier this year we revealed 1400 badges lost or stolen at some of the nation's busiest airports. atlanta, most employees need to enter a code or hand to get in along with their badge. and the tsa says employees are instructed that they must have to report to authority their badges lost or stolen. but some worry that's not enough. >> when terrorists have an interest on getting their hands on these badges? >> without question. >> how will you hold airports accountable -- >> reporter: the issue was

scott freeman an investigative reporter for our dallas station k kxas has the latest. >> reporter: acrossges. it's like carrying a key to some of most secure areas of our nation's biggest airports. this morning there's new information that more than 270 badges at san diego's airport were lost or stolen over two years. and raising even more red flags, records uncovered by our nbc station knsd show in eight cases those badges were not reported missing for weeks or months remaining active during all that time. the san diego airport authority issued a statement saying it will work to further minute niziol potential security risks but there have been similar security lapses elsewhere. earlier our investigation revealed more than 1400 badges lost or stolen over two years at the nation's busiest airport, atlanta. the tsa says in a statement employees are instructed they must notify the airport authority if their badge is lost or stolen. some security analysts worry that's not enough. >> would terrorists have an interest on getting their hands on these badges? >> without question. >> how we hold