our aviation correspondent renee marsh is with us right now. renee, for our viewers here in the united states and around the world, update us on what we know at this point. a very disturbing incident, a shooting incident at fort lauderdale hollywood international airport. >> that's right, wolf. you can see lots of activity there. all of those folks that you see had to be evacuated as a result of this shooting at the fort lauderdale international airport. >> hard reporting right now as far as deaths. what we can tell you is that there are at least nine injuries. >> we do know this happened in terminal two. delta -- this did happen by the baggage claim area. we do know what section of the airport. of course, anyone who flies, you know there is not as much of a security presence at the baggage claim area as there would be, let's say, at a tsa checkpoint. we don't know motive. that is the big question at this hour. why did this person open fire? is we don't have any details about who this shooter is. lots of outstanding questions, wolf, but you can

today, joining me now, cnn's boris sanchez, rene marsh, our aviation correspondent, and deborah feyerick, in union city, new jersey, at the home of the suspect's aunt, she has some news on that. boris, let's get to you, where it happened. the fbi holding a news conference tonight. what did they say? >> reporter: don, they said that this would be a difficult and extensive investigation, an expansive one, at that. you can imagine how many people were here at ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport, when all of this unfolded. another thing that they said at the press briefing is that they would explore all avenues to figure out a motive behind this attack. they said they were investigating in several states, including, as you mentioned, new jersey and alaska. one of the things we heard from the fbi during this press briefing, we were able to confirm that the shooter at one point had visited an office of the fbi in anchorage back in november and revealed to them that he was hearing voices that he believed came from national intelligence agencies here in the united states that were tel

renee marsh, cnn, washington. >> i want to talk more about the vulnerability of soft targets with ourecurity panel, matthew is a former executive with the atf and cnn law enforcement analyst. mary is back with us. a former inspector general department of transportation. so, matthew just heard renee marsh saying law enforcement officials she's talks to say it's really possible to reduce that kind of vulnerability. he lawfully checked that firearm, but what the person does on the other end well, that's anyone's guess, so, in your view, does this kind of underscore a vulnerable thety across airports, across the country? >> it does. the fact of the matter is there are hundreds if not thousands of people that travel with their firearm, follow the law and successfully pick up their gun and go about their merry way. in this case, he exploited this vulnerability and try to avoid this in the future. >> when we talk about soft target, i don't know if a lot of people would automatically think that an airport is a soft target because there are security measures in place. people have to go through

. >> i want to go to cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh. rene marsh, can you tell us what you're learning most recently about the shooter and the investigation so far? >> well, just to reset, jim. we know the name of the shooter is esteban santiago as you've been mentioning there. he flew from alaska to florida. we do know, again, that gun was checked in his checked luggage. he had declared that weapon. and then he retrieved that weapon and that's when he opened fire after getting off of his flight. now, you know, many people may not realize, but he went about this all very legally. tsa rules are very clear, they state what the rules are for carrying a gun on board. you can legally carry a weapon as well as ammunition only in your checked luggage. you cannot carry that in your carry-on luggage. that's exactly what this individual did. however, when you do carry it in your checked luggage, it has to be unloaded. it has to be in a hard, locked case. and again, you have to declare it to the airline at that ticket counter. so to our knowledge,

rene marsh has been investigating this for us. you have a reality check. >> that's right. a campaign promise the president is working to make good on despite the rhetoric, though, it's not going to move the needle all that much. the economic impact of these pipeline projects will be short term. >> reporter: pipeline projects have drawn massive protests, fueled by fears of an environmental destruction in the vent of a leak that could endanger health and safe drinking water. >> we'll renegotiate some of the term. >> reporter: but with the stroke of a pen tuesday president trump put the controversial projects, including the stalled keystone xl pipeline back in play. the $8 billion project would stretch nearly 1,200 miles across montana, south dakota, nebraska, kansas, oklahoma, and texas, carrying more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day from canada to the united states. >> a lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs. >> reporter: but a 2014 state department report found only 3,900 workers will be required to build the pipeline and those jobs will only last a year. just 35 positions wou

is shut down for the unforseeable future so as we walk through this, let's begin the hour with rene marsh. our cnn aviation correspondence. rene what's going on? >> as you know, there are multiple people dead at the fort lauderdale airport. operations are shut down there. the faa has just put out information that there are significant delays. services are suspended as multiple law enforcement agencies descend on this airport for investigation which is now obviously a criminal investigation. we know that the fbi is in contact with local authorities there. we also know a.t.f. is on its way to this sight as well, but the lead here is going to be the local authorities, broward county authorities and they are releasing information again that multiple people are dead. there are also several injuries. we know this happened in the baggage claim area of the airport, so in a nonsecure area not near the tsa checkpoint. i want happened in the baggage claim area. terminal 2 and this is usually where delta airlines operates out of. what we still don't know at this hour, brooke is why? why did this indi

. >> rene marsh joins was the latest.and this is over the latest kind of kerfuffle over tweets from badlands national park m. >> that's right. tt the latest news surround that national park in south dakota and its official twitter account. it sent out a series of tweets about climate change today that could be seen as defying president trump, one of the tweets reading, "today the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any other time in the last 650,000 years. #climate." not necessarily the kind of tweet that the new president might endorse. tru trump once called climate change a hoax invented by the chinese. we shall say that tweet was up for just a few hours before they were deleted. democrats quickly came out to criticize the move. dnc press secretary saying in a statement that vladimir putin would be proud. of course as you mentioned this all comes after the trump administration asked the department of interior to temporarily stop tweeting. that was after they retweeted those images that compared

cnn's rene marsh joins me from capitol hill. rene, mr.rut was asked about his perspective on climate change whether he views it as a hoax as donald trump has suggested and tweeted in the past. >> that's right. this is a sticking point. >> science tells us the climate is changing. and human activity in some manner impacts that change. the ability to measure with precision the degree and extent of that impact and what to do about it are subject to continuing debate and dialogue. >> do you agree that global warming is a hoax? >> i do not, senator. >> so, donald trump is wrong? >> i do not believe that climate kma is change is a hoax. >> you just heard from scott prut. this is a hearing that's been going on for more than six hours now. he did say that he believes that the climate is changing. however, jake, when pressed on what is causing that change, he was not prepared to say humans. he was not prepared to say oil or gas emissions is causing that climate change. he did not go that far. i will say it has been quite a contentious hearing. we

. >> reporter: yes, we have pockets of protests, we have rene marsh on the scene. rene, can you hear us? >> reporter: yes, i can tell you it is very, very kchaotic, we have people throwing rocks at police and pepper spray to try to get people to stop throwing rocks, riot police are essentially trying to get this in order. this started out as -- >> this is happening at the corner of 12th and kay street. rene is coming in and out. let's try to keep her going. rene, let's hear from you again. >> reporter: if you can hear me. all right guys, iep 'm at the corner of 12 and kay because people are running in mull tipl directions. >> we don't know the full details but riot police are equipped with what's called flash bangs, to deal with people who riot. rene reported there's some throwing of rocks and dispensing of pepper spray. we have brian todd nearby, brian can you hear us? let's see if you can hear us. >> reporter: i can. this is a very large crowd marching toward mcfiercen square. aside from what rene said there were severe damage to windows, buildings, the window of

cnn's rene marsh has been working on that for us. rene, some major, major changes in store. >> yeah, absolutely. all eyes are on the trump administration as well as the agency in charge of protecting our air and water. president trump has political teams in place at the epa and within his first week of his presidency, we are beginning to see the agency start to shift. since trump has taken office, he's frozen regulations as he has promised and cnn has also learned he ordered epa grants to be frozen as well. days into his presidency, donald trump is sending chills down the spines of environmentalists and some e he pa employees. he's put a freeze on regulations and cnn has learned trump also ordered a freeze on some e he pa grants and contracts to states. >> this is exactly what we were concerned about in the beginning. it's a war on the epa. >> but a trump transition source tells cnn the freeze will not impact all epa grants. we're told the 4.$1 billion the agency gives to states to implement clean water and clean air regulations will

. >> rene marsh at union station. thank you. >>> one change because of the weather.thorities will allow mini umbrellas on the national mall because rain is in the forecast. the big question is when will it start and how much will fall? chad myers has details for us. >> i think it starts soon. i think it gets heavy at 10:00 and noon with heavy showers. how much? .10 of an inch. not heavy stuff. the rain is to the west. in west virginia all the way to roanoke right now. there are showers not far from damascus. we will see showers come in. 40 degrees for the temperature now. it will not change by 6:00. the clouds will be all day. we will not see sunshine. it is not going to warm up. by 10:00, you see the mass of rain showers if washington, dn . and by noon it is here and by 3:00, it is gone. i logged on the secret service web site. it says if you have a ticket and sitting and have a public ticket, you still can't bring umbrellas. if you are on the parade route, you can bring the umbrella. we will update you on that. still so far, don't take your favorite umbrella that y

bring in rene marsh, sources say the suspect had a gun in checked bag which we're told he declared. what are the guidelines for traveling with a firearm? >> by all accounts followed the procedures for carrying a gun in checked baggage which is legal. said the suspect declared the gun before the flight and had in the proper casing, properly stored in checked luggage. point out tsa has strict guidelines for this. firearm must be unloaded, has to be stored in a hard side case, and case has to be locked. only the passenger is allowed to have a key or combination to that case. and again it must be declared at ticket counter. all the information that we have received is that this shooter did all of that, followed all the rules but don it appears he took advantage of the vulnerability we have at all the airports, the soft targets, the areas before the security checkpoint. >> i've had to follow this procedure while working on a story with a gun but had to take it to special area and pick it up. did this not happen in this case? >> that part is unclear. haven't heard if he had to show i.d. b

. >> rene marsh, appreciate it. jeffrey lord and robert reich joining us.eich, how realistic is it for the president-elect to say mexico will reimburse for the wall? >> it's completely ridiculous. the president of mexico two days ago assured mexicans there was no way mexico is going to pay for this wall. this is a folly. the wall itself is a folly. it's based on a very big lie that donald trump told over and over during the election, that we have a gigantic problem of undocumented workers coming in from mexico. in fact the reality is that there is a dramatic decline in the number of undocumented workers coming into this country even though the department of homeland security is saying that. this wall will be expensive, costing -- the best estimate, most accurate and detailed estimate is $25 billion. think of all of the education, all of the kids, all of the health care that we could be providing for $25 billion and american taxpayers are going to be stuck paying this. >> jeff, what about that? the mexican president said mexico isn't paying for the wall. >>

rene marsh is "out front." >> reporter: cnn has confirmed employees at the epa and the department ofa communication lockdown. an epa memo obtained by cnn says no press releases will go out to external audiences. no social media or blog posts either. digital strategists will oversee social media and employees list serves and scheduled speaking engagements will be subject to review. >> every president puts their own regulations in place and doesn't want to be doing the business of the previous president on big-ticket items. but we're seeing president trump going way beyond that with this political interference because we're talking about basic intimidation and censorship. >> reporter: this comes after the department of interior put a freeze on tweeting after the national park service retweeted messages that compared the crowd sizes at president obama's inauguration to donald trump's inauguration. on tuesday, south dakota's badlands national park official twitter account sent out a series of tweets about climate change that could be seen as defying president trump. the tweets were later

aviation correspondent, renee marsh, is working the story for us. what did you find out specifically if this could happen at baggage claim at other airports around the country. it's outside the security perimeter? >> that's right. we talk about this all the time when we see incidents happen not just here but overseas. this is the so-called soft target area of the airport f you talk to any law enforcement official they will tell you it's almost impossible to eliminate vulnerabilities or a threat and get that down to zero. he took advantage of that vulnerability within the airport, the baggage claim. as we've been reporting, legally, as it appears now, based on the information that we have, have that weapon inside his checked luggage. he also had the ammunition. that is perfectly fine if you follow very specific procedures. at this point it appears as if he did. you have to have it in a special case, a hard-side case. you cannot have the ammunition actually in the firearm. that needs to be separated. and you also need to check in with the ticket count

. >> cnn's rene marsh has more on u.s.ecurity rules involving guns on planes and in airports. >> christi and victor, he retrieved his checked luggage in baggage claim. and sources say esteban santiago went into the bathroom and emerged firing the gun. now, it is legal in some states to carry a gun and sam in addition in your checked luggage only. tsa has very strict guidelines on this. and by all accounts, the shooter followed all of the procedures. airport police in anchorage, alaska, where he originated, said that the suspect declared the gun before the flight, and had it in a proper casing and stored it properly in his checked luggage. again, those guidelines are very strict. the firearm has to be unloaded. it has to be stored in a hard-sided case. that case has to be locked. and only the passenger can have the key or the combination to that case. and it has to be declared at the ticket counter. he followed all of those rules but, again, it appears as if he took advantage of the fact that every airport across the countr

>> good reporting, rene marsh, thank you very much. that's it for me. thanks for watching. "erin burnett out front" starts right now. >>> "out front" next, the breaking news, president trump signing a new executive order tonight. he says he's keeping out terrorists but is it a muslim ban? and our special series live from the border tonight. inside the tunnels where people and drugs are smuggled into the u.s. will trump's wall stop it? and who is greg phillips and why is the president relying on him? let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the breaking news, extreme vetting. president donald trump moments ago signing an executive order that would temporarily ban refugees from seven muslim majority countries. this is according to drafts cnn has obtained. >> i'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the united states of america. we don't want them here. >> let's be clear, this order appears to be directed at muslims. trump himself said he would prioritize christian refugees gaining entry in an interview t

rene marsh, what are you learned? >> reporter: what we have is the basics now, you had senator nelson on the air, the name of the shooter, cnn and our staff of reporters are here, multiple reporters have received the name name, again, estabon santiago. we are trying to figure out did this individual come in on a flight, what cities was he traveling between? these are all questions we don't have at this point but know that the investigation is very much active an going on and zeroing on on this man, an we still don't have a lot of background information on him at this hour either, but as investigators are digging on his background they are essentially trying to figurs is so fresh i think we have information that we're going to have right now which is that latest number which is eight people in the hospital. we have as many as five people shot dead and we know that passengers were going through this process as being re-screened. we heard multiple reports of potentially other shots fired in other sections of the airport.

rene marsh is out front. we saw a horrific attack that was terrorism in turkey.re now seeing this here at ft. lauderdale with this shooter. how concerned are authorities now? he was able to get a gun off the baggage claim and just shoot people. >> they're very concerned. i spoke with two police chiefs, airport police chiefs today and they say although they draped for this sort of active shooter scenario, their hearts simply dropped when they saw the event unfo unfolding in ft. lauderdale because the bottom line is this is happen at any airport across the country. all airports across the nation have this so-called soft target area, the area of the airport before you get to the tsa security check point that is vulnerable. any law enforcement official or expert will tell you it is virtually impossible to get the vulnerability down to zero. when you see the situation like we saw in ft. lauderdale, it really does send chills up and down the spine of law enforcement charged with protecting airports across the country. in that spirit, we have heard from several major ai