>> searching for the shooter. >> and the other shooters? >> what we're doing is we're making sure that there are no other people that are tied to this inside the mall. the shooter, we believe, has been -- has left the mall. we have found shell casings and that's what we're looking for, to try to understand and identify where the shooter actually went throughout the mall. >> that is correct. >> he has not been found here in the mall. >> are you saying -- >> single shell cagings -- >> a single shell casing right now. >> is it true the shooter's family member might be here? >> can't tell you. >> do you know that he was aiming at? >> no. >> the shooter is not apprehended at this time? >> correct. >> and no longer is it an active shooting scene. >> several people said they heard three or four pops. >> we have reports. there are thousands of people in this mall. and so, as this started to develop there are many people who said they heard a lot of things. we have detectives interviewing multiple people right now trying to determine exactly what th

now that shooter is said to be in custody. two sources tell cnn the shooter is not, repeat, not a current or former tsa officer, despite reports from other media. airport officials say l.a.x. is technically still open but it's only accepting flights at less than half the normal rate. any flight coming out of l.a.x. or through l.a.x. will be significantly late. officials are hoping passengers just stay away from the airport at this point at least for the rest of the afternoon. as for the passengers already inside terminal three, many are trapped for now in other terminals. they will all have to be rescreened before being allowed to leave. we want to bring you the very latest live from the scene. let's go right to stephanie elam who is standing by outside l.a.x. what's the latest there? >> reporter: jake, it is still a place of a little bit of chaos, little bit of fear as patients -- not patients, but as travelers are starting to feel better about things. we are seeing people in their uniform, men in uniform, women in uniform, w

we believe it is one shooter. i know there is an active shooter near the nordstrom area.is being evacuated. that is as much as we no. there are no reported injuries at this time at the mall. we now have reports from several witnesses who were working in the mall. it was very close to sloezing time of the mall. perhaps there were not as many shoppers as there otherwise would have been. more thab one has said they saw the shooter dressed all in black including a black helmet and shooting, firing straight up into the ceiling. we don't have any reports yet of the shooter firing at anyone and most importantly, we do not yet have any reports of injuries, but this is reported by police as an active shooter situation inside the mall. i'm rejoined by james cavanaugh, former atf officer. jim, as time goes by and we continue to not pick up any reports of injuries, is that -- does our hope for no injury increase as time goes by or might there be some reason for a delay in that information? >> i think it's a reason for delay. i would say it's static at the moment. the commanders are t

, there's a shooter. never actually saw him but i heard the shots and kept my eye on the corridor people were running down to make sure he wasn't coming down towards us. i was upstairs in the virgin lounge and a bunch of people started bashing at the window and i got up to look and i saw people streaming out of the jet bridge out onto the tarmac, as well as uniformed tsa agents and lapd running out there. >> yeah, what happened for us is we basically got bottlenecked in gate 23 because everyone was running away from gate 36 and when we got to the door they were locked. people were jumping over chairs, jumping over each other, everybody trying to stay low and somebody came and unlocked one of the doors to the tarmac and we all just poured out and then got to cover underneath the airplane. >> did you guy at any point see the shooter? >> i -- >> no. i did not see the shooter. i was talking to an eyewitness who was right next to me. he said he saw a guy coming up with a white shirt and what looked like an ass

latest on the shootering at lax. latest on the shootering at lax. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> this is "piers morgan live." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. tonight, breaking news on the deadly shooting at lax. k chaos at airport when a gunman opens fire, the suspect paul anthony ciancia. he shot one tsa officer and wounded several others. the airport is open again and details tonight emerging. we have more from the airport and chris lawrence outside the suspect's home in new

did you see the shooter? >> i never saw the shooter. we heard the shots, and you know, like i said, i kind of was sitting, waiting at my gate. heard the shots, and then looked up and then everybody was flying down the hallway, just trying to get out. >> so did they evacuate you to another terminal? is that where you are right now sdm. >> then what we did is we're standing on the tarmac for a bit, and then about, i don't know, maybe about ten minutes passed and everybody -- the security brought around shuttle buses, and now they have been shuttling everybody out of the terminal into a secure location. it's just, you know, everybody is here right now. it's getting packed. >> tory, do you get the impression that this incident is over? because we are being told that the shooter has been shot himself. and is in police custody. >> yeah. i have heard news that they did apprehend him, but i think we just got an update, somebody came in from security and said right as of now, they're just going to hold us here until they make sure that the entir

i just hear people running in one direction saying there is a shooter, there's a shooter. my first instinct was to run back to my store and tell the staff what i just heard. >> and that's what you did? >> yes, exactly. >> what happened then? >> what did you do then? >> the best option was to have everybody lock down. there were only about six of us in the store. we went to the back room and locked everything and vibrated our phones and hoped for the news to come. >> is there a gate on the store? glass doors on the store? >> it's a bit of both. it's a glass door and caged up entranceway. >> how did the police find you to bring you out? >> i'm not sure. i know they peeked through the door and had rifles and just yelling, come out with your hands on your head. we came out with our hands on our head and they searched us and escorted us to the entrance and they told us to run and go home. >> did the police say anything about what was going on and whether the shooter was still there? >> only thing they asked us was did you see him? i had no idea what to say. >> did anyone you we

authorities tell us there were no more shooters. they have searched cars in parking lots and they have no reason to believe that everyone else is involved. he has reported for us that this gunman was in some way involved with the tsa itself. that he is a current or former tsa employee at some kind. but i can tell you that adam housely is reporting that he had some sort of connection to the tsa prior to today. the american federation of government employees said the following statement. we are sickened by reports of today's shooting. our thoughts and prayers go out to the passengers and officers killed or injured in this heinous act. thank you to our tso's who put their lives on the line every day to keep the public safe. afge is the representative for more than 45,000 officers who screen all airline passengers and argo. you heard him say for all of those killed and injured. there are reports that someone has lost his life. a news conference was to have begun at 11:30. but at this moment that has not yet started. they are just now st

it's not likely that was the shooter if that man actually was carrying a gun, because the shooter was stopped at the checkpoint before he got through before all other reports. >> right. of course mike taibbi was reporting, here is going to be the question they are going to put together as they do the interviews and video. when the shooter came in, did he have the gun concealed in a bag, backpack, carry on luggage. at some point he took it out. the witness could see him walking forward with it and that report of that. he could have seen an undercover officer as well. >> jim, i'm going to interrupt you. we're going to the white house for jay carney. >> the president will discuss the importance of taking measures to grow the economy and jobs and increasing exports. more details on the president's travel will be released -- >> jim cavanaugh, lets resume our conversation. right now jay carney seems to be doing the normal announcements at the white house. we will go back to him if he has any information at all on lax. you were saying these kinds of situations are very hard to figure out in

there's been a shooter inside that mall. whether or not he shot any people, that is still a question. >> also, we don't know if he is in the mall. ken molestina joins us with the -- update. >> they are suggesting that everyone is safe, according to the mayor of the town, who is talking to reporters. this is not considered an active situation for them. we saw images of them going inside that mall and going store by store trying to find that shooter. they believe that shooter is no longer in the mall. the shooter was taking shots at the surveillance cameras inside that mall. take a listen to yet more interviews that we just got into the satellite center, take a listen to this. >> i saw him walk past our door. he was all dressed in black from head to toe. >> again, being dressed all in black confirming some of the earlier reports that he was dressed in what looked to be tactical gear inside that mall. sort of pacing around, taking those shots. again the latest information coming out from the scene that you're looking at right n

. >> searching for a shooter? >> we are searching for a shooter. >> they are searching, that is evidence what we see here. police are walking up and down the parking lot, obviously inside the mall too. it is a mostly calm scene, seem a little tired and cold as the police continue to investigate. john. >> want to bring in former sheriff from bergen county, what do you take from the mayor's comments? >> he wants to calm people down, recognizing that the mall isn't a place where criminal activity is occurring however, the shooter is still at large. we had a heavily armed perpetrate now out in paramus, could be in new york now, could be anywhere from 30, 40 miles because this is an hour too. >> could be in the mall too. >> plas report i very was on the fourth floor parking deck and by all assumptions he has left the area. >> do you know anything else you can tell us tonight? >> i'm getting some reports not verified that the shooter's brother is on the phone with authorities now. so this could be something similar to m

and he saw the shooter, is that right, shooter? >> i got a glimpse of a man walking around with a long appeared to be a shotgun. >> what was he wearing? >> he was wearing a flannel like a darker flannel baggy clothes. younger person. >> he was wearing cammo? >> yeah, it could have been really been. you know, it was one of those you know, soon as everybody stampeded out on the tarmac. no one knew what was going on. >> was this person inside of the secower area? >> oh, yeah. >> he would have had to pass security. >> he was well deep in the terminal. >> what terminal were you in >> terminal two. >> terminal two? >> they say virgin america terminal and we were waiting for my flight. >> terminal 2 and 3 connect. how long had you been there, tommy? >> we got here early this morning, because our flight was delayed to newark. >> and tommy, how would you describe the way people reacted to this? >> very scared stampede and everyone was in a rush and all at ounce and heading to the terminal. and everybody reaction was to hit the ground and ag

or shooters. we don't know whether there is within shooter or more shooters, none of this has been confirmed, but how far is that subway system from the area where they believe the incident right have taken place? >> there isn't actually a subway system at lax. the terminals are all connected by walkways that you can sort of see through this map. you can very easily and rather quickly walk to terminal two, and again, there are no subway systems that take passengers -- if you go outside to the airport, you pick up and drop off passengers, and you can take shuttles to the various terminals, but when you are inside, you are walk to a long corridor between the two terminals. so if you land in terminal three and you have a connecting flight from aware canada, you can simply walk very easily between the two terminals inside and also outside of the airport, dell. >> so for those of us that are familiar with airports on the east coast, those m don't stand for metro, those are walk waist or pathways, and i

about the shooter's path when this began about 9:20 in the morning pacific time. according to the police chief, the shooter came in through the main entrance of terminal 3. this is a diagram of terminal 3 only at l.a.x. comes in through the main entrance. could have come through this part, the drop off area here. also could have come in through one of the exits. not clear which part he came in in any event, he comes in here, opens up a bag, takes out an assault rifle, starts shooting in this area. then he shoots his way past tsa passenger screening presumably this is where the t sa officers were shot. not clear but presumably since so many of them are around here. and fewer of them are down in this area. but what's incredible here is that he shoots his way through here. then goes all the way down the terminal to this area here. hundreds of feet to a food court where he is finally disabled, shot, wounded, taken into custody. there's a burger king right about here where according to police chief patrick gannon he was finally shot and disabled. we went through all of

eyewitness said the shooter had an assault rifle. and he posted this one an hour ago. he said holy -- how the hell did guns get inside security. we're outside now. john has also been putting pictures up. we just tweeted still bringing more passengers into bradley terminal where we are sitting now. and he has some other pictures here. >> while we're seeing those pictures, and i'm going to come back to you, we actually have -- because you were talking about those passengers, we have a person who was on board a flight cj zoder, are you there? >> yes, i'm here. >> tell us what you saw. >> basically i'm a flight going to oakland, 27 -- it's a southwest flight. i don't know the number. there is a lot going on right now. they are going to be shuttling everybody out of here. and take us off of the plane, i'm hearing. >> have they indicated to you whether or not you would be held for questioning or taken to another location so you can catch your flight. >> just another location, apparently, they have told us. so yeah, it's kind of unnerving now, because i can see all of the ter

>>ing you don't know who the shooter is? >> chief, how far -- >> the suspect got back very far into a terminal. there's a burger king that is quite a ways away from the screening station and he was able to get back there. i appreciate all the questions. we'll have more information shortly. >> i know a lot of people want to have other questions, let me say something briefly in spanish. folks can go offline. i promise you, give you as much information at least as soon as we have that. >> translato trt. >> it is seven minutes past noon on the west coast and this news conference has happened. i'll give you a tick-tock of what we heard. highlights, seven people treated, transported to hospitals. the shooting happens we believe at 9:20 and by 9:28, lapd was on scene. 100 l.a. fire department officers on scene and they still have this set up here. some pictures of, i want to go through the rest of it and explain why they were asking those questions. "the los angeles times" newspaper on its online version and twitter and other repre

ashley: have you heard anything about the shooter?ld he is in custody, was wearing dark baggy clothing. have you heard anything about the person responsible? >> no. law-enforcement confirmed three down and we are not sure that includes the shooter or not. they are going through a lot of locations in terminal 3, brought the bomb squad in and a lot of abandoned bags now, people who left them and took cover so had to clear each of those back so it will be quite a tedious process and i can tell you the area all around the airport michael horse shoe by shape and also researching the parking garage in the middle of that was shoe will be a very long and tedious process as they go through the aftermath of the shooting. lori: reporting from terminal 2, it happened at terminal 3 at lax this morning. we want to go to washington and check in with our correspondent rich edson. what is the white house saying? >> the president has been briefed on this situation. that happens whenever there is something like this, jay carney starting his white house

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pete, what do we know right now about the shooter? >> not very much. they are trying to verify his identity. we've been told that he's an american citizen in his 20s. we don't know where he's come or where the gun came from. police have said it was an assault-type rifle. that's the term they used. we're told it's an ar-15 type semiautomatic rifle that he carried it in, took it out of the bag and open fire. now, we believe that the shooting victims were also employees of the transportation security administration, all tsa employees at this i.d. checkpoint where you go to show your driver's license and your boarding pass or ticket. we're told he did not have a ticket. and he just pulled the rifle out and began firing. we know that one tsa employee was killed. we believe that tlehree others were wounded. the gunman was shot. we believe the gunman is in critical condition at a medical center near the airport. the authorities did say at this news conference, just ended that seven patient in all were transported, that six are still in the hospital. so we don

shot spotter locates shooters, an exact spot a shot was fired.his could help authorities respond to a school shooter situation before they hurt more people. >> like an outdoor system, this indoor does the same thing. if an active shooter enters the school, it will activate law enforcement and how many shots fired and where instainiously. we know that 4-5 shots can be fired before 9-1-1 is called. it be help in malls, courthouses, there will be some school and universities throughout the united states. tell be employed over the next 30 days. we will shake the system out and show the efficacy and evolve and improve it so that we can have it during q1 or q2 at the latest. >>> crews will start dismantling the old bay bridge. 1400 feet will be removed during the first phase. this is done on the catalina side of the bridge. it will take 6 weeks to complete. >>> there is concern that california could be facing a dry winter. they want to use cloud seeding as a possibility to add moisture. >> 2013 has been the driest year of record keeping. the reservoirs

stick the alleged shooter.ates who said he was a normal guy, maybe a bit of a loner. what have we heard from his family some. >> well, reportedly his younger brother in new jersey reportedly received a text message from him that indicated he might do harm to himself and that caused the lapd to construct a welfare check to his apartment prior to the shooting. he went to his apartment and talked to the roommates and they reported back that everything seemed to be okay. >> now we know it was not. thank you, live from lax thisçó morning. >>> a big gun show at the cal palace is the first. the show becomes more controversial with yesterday's shooting at lax. we have the story. >> reporter: during the last year crossroads of the west gun shows attracted over 400,000 customers. crossroads of the west is billed as the biggest gun show in the country. this is state property and the state has no problem with the shows. let the decision making -- this spring, a state senator mark leno proposed a bill that would have requir

in fact just three weeks ago they trained for an active shooter incident.ponded today. in fact the police chief said earlier that kind of was critical. >> you can see people just running, some people falling as thee running, trying to bring that you are luggage around. probably they should have forgotten about the luggage and just gotten out of there, with a lone gunman actively shooting, even as these folks were running. >> the first parts, you can't see some disbelief. then all of a sudden you see the crowd coming. as we mentioned earlier, this is the first tsa officer to have killed in the line of duty before. you saw some of the officers there. there were 2,000 tsa agents alone in l.a.x., that doesn't even count the armed agents. the dhs, department of homeland security has its own armed officers, so really it's a measure of where we are today in terms of these threats. you have that sort of literal le thousands of officers in the airport to protect and respond. >> even now we just heard one passenger cease they're not letting the passengers who got to

was a lone-shooter situation.l confident that was isolated to that particular terminal in the airport. but as we continue to hear from people who happened to be inside, happened to hear some of the gunshots, absolutely ori horrifying ordeal. i want to go to chuck who joins me on the phone. can you hear me? >> yes, i can. can you hear me? >> i can, yes, sir. let's just begin with, how are you sdm are you okay? >> i'm fine. pretty calm at this point. sort of overcoming the initial adrenaline rush of having sort of felt such personal danger. but yeah, at this point, things are much less dramatic. much less of a visible police presence outside, and they keep telling us we just have to wait now until things are clear. >> take me back to this morning. did you hear the shots? where were you? >> i was standing around gate 30, sort of walking from gate 30 to the food court. gate 30, i think, is the gate that's closest to where the security barriers are. and i just heard two loud pops behind me. and i don't know. it didn't

. >> lee leon, the shooter walked up to you. take us what happened. >> i had just gotten through the security gates with the x-ray machines. i had my shoes and belt off. as i was walking through there i heard shots. ways just getting ready to pick up my shoes and belt and go on my way, pick up my other stuff. at that point we heard some shots, some more shots. so everybody kind of hit the ground then people started to run. >> did you know instantly it was shots? >> i didn't know what was happening and i didn't turn around to look. the shots were coming from behind me. and the tsa agent that was near me urged me to grab my stuff and go. he saw that i didn't have my shoes on. so he grabbed the shoes, and the two of us started running down the corridor towards the gate. meanwhile, more shots rang out. and this agent got hit. i think it was a grazing wound. because he seemed to be okay. he had my shoes. i went and kind of cowered in a corner. and the shooter was just calmly walking down the corridor. he saw me cowering there. he had

>> i did not see the shooter but i was very close to where he was shooting. i happened to be on a different level above where he was standing. >> thank you very much. i'll let you get yourself together and figure out the next move. what we just heard from this eyewitness, at least as you pointed out the ear witness, he did not see the gunman but heard shots is really what we've been hearing throughout this morning. this all starting around -- the first gunshots 9:20 local time. it is now 11:12 local time, we're awaiting an update from the mayor as well as the police commissioner. >> that's correct. a couple of things to tell you right now. anyone following this story wants to know if this is the only suspect. we got information from the lapd spokesman telling us that the suspect is now in custody, and that, i'll quote this directly, he is the only suspect in the incident according to the lapd spokes person. they said while he may be the only suspect in this incident, the bomb squad is now continuing its search and its canvas not just of the terminal but con t

it says blood and clothes of the shooter at lax, hashtag lax shooting.nd you could see the security all around there, and this seems to be -- she has taken the picture of the same place, what appears to be what josh earlier took -- >> if i can ask the director, can we lock in a freeze frame of that -- there we go. can we blow that up to see what type of rifle that is to the left of that officer? is that possible? or will the image be far too grainy? the officer dead in the middle to the right side, there is a gun at his foot ines continue. >> yes, and we also want to show you we have been taking a look at these images -- he is a journalist on foreign affairs that's what his twitter account says, and he just tweeted nine minutes ago, los angeles airport shooting photos, and he is tweeting it via vj319083. this appears to be the same scene that we just saw that jasmine had tweeted earlier, and also josh the one we had seen earlier as well. del? >> 2:14 eastern time, we are now seeing images inside the airport. a rifle to the side of a police officer. offic

police say the gunman did not raise suspicions when he entered the shooter. alleged shooter, paul chiantia looked like a normal person. >> tony grigsby can barely walk after surviving friday's shootings at the airport. police say 23-year-old paul ciancia shot him. investigators visited his apartment just outside los angeles and left with his roommate who drove ciancia to the airport but had no idea what was going to happen next. authorities say ciancia walked into l.a.x., pulled an assault rifle he hit in two separate pieces of luggage and opened fire. gerardo hernandez was killed, a tsa agent. grigsby worked with him and considered him a dear friend. >> only now it has hit me i will never see him again. >> reporter: police shot ciancia four times an took him to a nearby hospital. they released a statement through the lawyer. >> paul is our son and brother. we will continue to love and care for him. >> reporter: ciancia left a hand-written note inside his bag. he said he made a conscious decision to try to kill multiple tsa employees. people who knew him he s

everybody was like, it's the shooter, it's the shooter. it was the worst -- like your worst nightmare being there. it felt like an eternity. it probably only lasted a few minutes but felt like an eternity until we could get out of the terminal and get to safety. >> jeff, we want to turn the conversation to you and to security because at this point we don't know if the shooter bypassed security, went through the security f there was just a lapse in some of the security there. we just don't know. how can an airport guard against these issues in the future? do you believe security could be such lapsed to get a rifle that far down? >> you still have the entry point situation. someone coming into the industry poi entry point with a weapon can use any resources that are there, human beings. any business has this problem. workplace violent we've seen happen so many times this year. people come right to the perimeter, right to the entry point, that's where they inflict their damage. you can't do much about protecting that in an open public space.

witnesses say the shooter was dressedn black, wearing a motorcycle helmet.ice say 20- year-old ric shoop killed himself. no one else was hurt. one of the injured t-s-a officers from friday's shoog at l-a-x is speaking. tom grigsby was trying to prote passengers when police say - year-old paul ciancia shot authorities say ciancia's roommate dropped m off at the airport. a criminal complaint says cia arrived with the intent to t and kill t-s-a agents. one t-s-a officer, gerardo hernz was killed and two others we injured. the n-f-l is investigating claims of bullying from a mr of the miami dolphins. offensive lineman richie incognito is accused of sen threatening text messages a voice mails to his teammate, jonathan martin. martin played at stanford for 4 years.... and left the team week ago following a report confrontation at lunch. the dolphins have suspended incognito.. healthcare- dot-gov remains under repair. a warning on the website now says betwee1 and five am every day, onli applications will be off lis a tech team makes fixes. and as millions struggle

they want the display of heavy weapons to deter copycat shooters. we will have continuing coverage of shooting at lax with updates later in the newscast. you can follow us on twitter, as well, for breaking news alerts. >> we have news that is breaking over oakland right now where you can see traffic is backed up in the eastbound lanes of the tunnel closed after a car fire filled the tunnel with smoke. moments ago, the c.h.p. re-opened one area of the tunnel. we understand eight people are being transported to the hospital after this tunnel fire and the traffic is backed up eastbound. we will have more as we follow the story. >> bart union workers are voting on the tennive deal that -- the tentative contract deal that caused a strike for bart. amy? >> kristen, more than 1,400 union members are due here to vote. the polls are open now. you can see they are casting their ballots. they need a simple majority, 50 percent plus one to pass the contract. >> as bart employees head to the polls to vote on the contract, some riders have a few last thoughts to

now you're training for active shooters.ave to train the actual children, teachers, the employees of the stores. they have to know what to do if this happens. i saw in the mall shooting that was kind of interesting. you know how the cages close down and close the stores? i think that's really great, once there's an announcement that there's a shooter in there, they can cage off each individual store. i think that was a great thing. obviously, you have to get the people out of the mall as soon as possible. >> something seemed to work in that situation. >> yes. >> thank you for what you did, what you do every day and thank you for what you did here, trying to stop a shooter before he could start that rampage. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you very much, chief. chris, over to you. >>> coming up on "new day" more problems with obama care. for weeks the story has been about the website. now, an internal memo obtained by cnn that could be even worse. >>> and an emotional reunion between a mother and her baby days after she

everybody dropped to the ground. >> the shooter seemed to be aiming at tsa officers. he was wearing a blue uniform and helped from the scene holding up his bloody arm. this man barely escaped. >> he was carrying a rifle and he looked at me and said tsa with a question mark and i just shook my head and he kept going. >> reporter: passengers huddled for cover in bathrooms and others dashed for the exits. >> the kids, the seniors are like oh my goodness. i want to help them, but i want to cover myself. >> reporter: finally -- >> i caught up with him near the rear of the terminal and that is where an officer involved shooting occurred. >> reporter: the shooter went down wounded. his rifle fell where he did and not a moment too soon. diswhrie were a hundred more -- >> there were a hundred more rounds that could have literally killed everybody in that terminal. >> reporter: terminal 3 was taken over by investigators. travelers coped as best they could. many walked for miles as the airport was closed to cars for most of the day. >> drivers trying to get here and then you cou

everybody dropped to the ground. >> the shooter seemed to be aiming at tsa officers. he was wearing a blue uniform and helped from the scene holding up his bloody arm. this man barely escaped. >> he was carrying a rifle and he looked at me and said tsa with a question mark and i just shook my head and he kept going. >> reporter: passengers huddled for cover in bathrooms and others dashed for the exits. >> the kids, the seniors are like oh my goodness. i want to help them, but i want to cover myself. >> reporter: finally -- >> i caught up with him near the rear of the terminal and that is where an officer involved shooting occurred. >> reporter: the shooter went down wounded. his rifle fell where he did and not moment too soon. diswhrie were a hundred more -- >> there were a hundred more rounds that could have literally killed everybody in that terminal. >> reporter: terminal 3 was taken over by investigators. travelers coped as best they could. many walked for miles as the airport was closed to cars for most of the day. >> drivers trying to get here and then you could

everybody dropped to the ground. >> the shooter seemed to be aiming at tsa officers. he was wearing a blue uniform and helped from the scene holding up his bloody arm. this man barely escaped. >> he was carrying a rifle and he looked at me and said tsa with a question mark and i just shook my head and he kept going. >> reporter: passengers huddled for cover in bathrooms and others dashed for the exits. >> the kids, the seniors are like oh my goodness. i want to help them, but i want to cover myself. >> reporter: finally -- >> i caught up with him near the rear of the terminal and that is where an officer involved shooting occurred. >> reporter: the shooter went down wounded. his rifle fell where he did and not a moment too soon. diswhrie were a hundred more -- >> there were a hundred more rounds that could have literally killed everybody in that terminal. >> reporter: terminal 3 was taken over by investigators. travelers coped as best they could. many walked for miles as the airport was closed to cars for most of the day. >> drivers trying to get here and then you cou

call now to learn more. >>> new details on the shooter who attacked l.a.x. airport today. why did he do this? deb has been working her sources and what do you know so far about the suspect? we know a name. we know an age but you know a lot more. >> what we know is that law enforcement looking at his facebook page to see if there is any indication as to motive. law enforcement officials take very seriously comments that he apparently made to several people. several passengers who were on their way to their planes. as he was walking down the in terms natural, he allegedly asked them, hey returning tsa? when they responded to he kept on walking. also, we are learning through cnn's evan perez, that he had some sort of material or information on him that suggests he was specifically targeting both tsa but possibly also police officers. right now they're looking at the note that he was carrying. it is that bag that he had his concealed assault rifle in when he walked into the airport, went straight to the tsa security check point and then opened fire, killing one of the agents.

walk us through when a shooter steps in.sible he gets that far into the terminal without being stopped? we heard he went past security and got to the burger king, for example. >> exactly. when you're coming into the airport, you're still coming into a public area. it's like walking into a shopping mall, like walking down the street. there's not any screening up until that screening check point. so, you're relying on active law enforcement, observant personnel, tsa personnel, airport personnel, to spot any suspicious activity up to that point. once the incident starts happening, that's when everybody started responding. in this case it sounds like a mobile incident rather quickly. >> we're looking at the map of terminal 3 right now. the passenger screening -- oh, my goodness. that's far away. where the word gates is in the upper right hand corner, i'm told that's where the burger king is. the passenger screening is to the far left up there. then they walk through the corridor to get to the gates in the terminal. how would he

you can see the shooter weapon lying on the ground. he was that close. now if you want to keep up with the new development of the lax shooting over the weekend did you know load our free news app. check it out on abc 7 news.com slash apps. >> well, trouble on the ground here in the bay year. traffic is back to normal tonight after frightening scene unthe tunnel through the oakland hill. car caught fire in the east bound the area filling the opportunity well smoke. confusing and scary. but we are glad to tell now serious injuries. l laura was on that story. >>reporter: i think people were pretty much calm. if kevin the 2 third of the way through the tunnel when it filled with smoke and people stopped instead of jumping out of the car. >> it was hard to breathe. i did not have a scarf or anything put my shirt up over my face and people had scarf around the mouths and breathing mask lick a dust protector mask. >> officers fire department responded to the scene with vehicle fully engulfed and tunnel guild smoke. we calmly cleared everybody out of the vehicle

to see if i could see the shooter.m or hear him yelling while he was shooting. >> what was he yelling? >> i couldn't make it out. it was real angry. i couldn't make out what he was saying. but it was english, real angry voice. >> now, this is amazing, there's another with tness who came actually face to pace. leon saryan he told cnn how he was approached with a life or death question, listen. >> shots were coming from behind me. the tsa agent that was near me, urged me to grab my stuff and go. and saw that i didn't have my shoes on. you know, he grabbed the shoes and the two of us started running down the corridor towards the gate. meanwhile, more shots rang out. and this agent got hit. i think it was a grazing wound. because he seemed to be okay. he had my shoes. i went and kind of cowered in a corner. and the shooter just calmly walking down the corridor, he saw me cowering there. he had his gun and he looked at me and he said tsa? i just shook my head. he kept going. >> we'll talk more about ciancia throughout the m

and i was looking at at the shooter and he was holding the gun. tilted up and he started firing really rhythmically shots bang bang bang bang probably six or seven he crawled along the floor i got up and i kept my head down and i looked to my left. and i saw down the aisle that the shooter was shooting up into the. section section. so i just ran straight out and i remember thinking i really hope there aren't any more shooters because i don't know what i'll do i don't know i don't know if this is really happening this has to be a joke this is a joke this is a joke. once again the shooting brought up the debate surrounding bearing arms in the us. in particular in public areas like cinemas or moles where weapons are prohibited. at the aurora movie theaters the police station was only a mile away and amazingly they actually got there very quickly compared to other response times and yet still twelve people died because there was no one there i mean there was even a retired military and police officers there in the auditorium who had been disarmed beca

and i saw down the aisle that the shooter was shooting up into the. section. so i just ran straight out and i remember thinking i really hope there aren't any more shooters because i don't know what i'll do i don't know i don't know if this is really happening this has to be a. shooting. in the u.s. . in particular in public areas like. or moles where weapons are prohibited. at the aurora movie theaters the police station was only a mile away and amazingly they actually got there very quickly compared to other response times and yet still twelve people died because there was no one there i mean there was even retired military and police officers there in the auditorium who had been disarmed because of the regulations and they could not protect themselves or anybody else that's wrong as explained by eric perhaps if the victims all roared like am i have the right to bear arms in the cinema there might have been fewer victims mass shootings such as a columbine have traumatized america a worrying trend can be seen after each episode a sharp rise in gun sales some

more on the shooter. who is he? why did he snap? why was he targeting the tsa? we look into the gun man's background. >> reporter: in the small town of pennsville, new jersey, paul anthony ciancia's family got a disturbs text. it was troubling that allen cumming was called to the house. he said the text they received suggested the 23-year-old might kill himself. >> our procedure is someone is concerned about a family member, we call that local police department and do a well-being check and that's basically what we did. it came back he wasn't home. >> l. a. p. d. officers won't his home and talked to his roommates. they said the 23-year-old just left but seemed to be fine. >> he was a nice guy, a little loner, introverted, but nothing that i would ever, of expect him to do something like this. >> about the same time chaos was erupting at lax. at the had no idea that a gunman, later identified as ciancia, was shooting up terminal 3 at lax. the fbi has since joined pennsville police at the ciancia home in new jersey. >> chief, new this family well. what kind of pe