i am sure tsa sends its sympathy to anybody that has been injured. shouldn't say this is an integrated response. it may look chaotic, but the fact is that every commercial airport operates under an airport security program that is integrated with tsa and its law enforcement assets with local first responders, and airport police. an active shooter situation will have been gamed outcome of responsibilities determined and divided, in the response will be initially a couple things. one, the perimeter of the airport will be where no one can get an end no one can leave. second, they will attempt to isolate sections of the airport where the incident is occurring so that it may not spread and will allow them to assess the risk that other sections of the airport to see whether this was an integrated or coordinated. and the area that has been affected, where the act has taken place, the coordinated law enforcement response will go in there and attempt to isolate and capture and deal with the individual that has caused the security breach and shock people. >> j

tsa administrator referred to as the founding father of the tsa. juan, we want to discuss this a little bit further. >> i am so interested. i don't know that this happens very often in our country, thank god. i read that the last time we had such an incident was 2013 in los angeles, and they are, a tsa officer was killed. but in general, this is an exceptional event given all of our hardening of our targets and of course, the airports. maybe we should stop for a second and say this might be just an outlier. >> we got lucky this time, believe it or not. fort lauderdale airport, it looks crowded, but not a big, major hope. if this guy wanted to -- i don't know if you just lost his mind. if you wanted to create a lot more mortality, wanted to kill more people, you could go to any one of the airports. >> still the 22nd busiest. >> every baggage claim -- next time you fly, pick up your bag, look at the people who are walking in and out. you don't know if they are crazy, packing heat. listen, i am saying -- when you're in the airport, wants to talk about

>> guest: they're a lot of challenges tsa. there is a -- there's a clear way in which tsa has changed or lowered the vulnerabilities of our airports airport air planesn proof no 9/11 9/11s. we have to think of security as laird. when i'm on a flying, when i sign the, there's security levels going on. who i am, where i've traveled, am i certain type of flier, did i pay in cash, was i just in afghanistan, all sorts of things so that tsa line is one of basically 20 things going on. it could be better? yes. i think technology is going to change the way we encounter that. it's going to be faster to go through, plus right now traveling there's a burden andnd an unburdened class the burdened class is one who don't hey t's tsa precheck and the unburdened ones are the wounds that go through. it's not perfect. they're trying to fix it. but die think technology and people sort of giving tsa some information so they can be in the unburdened class is going to change airline travel. >> host: the book okayed security mom. unclassified guide

by and large, tsa officers are not armed.esponse is to this incident, as it would be in any airport, that would be very much up to the local police on the armed officers on the scene. what i also would take note of, i just now checked to see if we've got a ground stop on the ground at that airport at ft. lauderdale. so far nothing official on the faa's website. we checked with them. they don't have anything either. it clearly is an immediately unfolding situation where you've got paramedic units out on the ramp and we don't know if this is on going in terms of treating people or whether they might be looking for any other suspects, but we know that one suspect is in custody, lester. >> let's go back to kerry sanders. kerry, do we know if this occurred in baggage claim? >> reporter: i wish i could pen point it for you, and i'm going to try to do that. i think i'll get a better handle once i can get myself into the location, i'll get a better handle. if folks have friends or relatives that were flying, terminal 2 is mostly delt

it's not beyond the tsa security checkpoints. anyone can just walk into an airport and go to baggage claim here in the united states. obviously suggest that something happened in baggage claim, but people must have heard shots, and as a result think ran out to the tarmac. the right part of your screen, you see a lot of people on the tarmac right there. >> right. i mean, we have seen this before where individuals pick soft targets. one of those being, you know, we've seen this internationally too. they pick the soft targets either right outside the entrance to the airport or right inside where there's no security. you're right, this is an area that is a soft target. it is a good location for a bad guy to go in and start shooting. of course, you have a lot of people milling around picking their bags up and, you know, obviously it creates a lot of targets for an individual going in there with a rifle or handgun. >> another one of our cnn law enforcement analysts. what's your read on this situation because the reporting is just comin

tsa officers pursue. >> they're not stopping him.lowing him. >> reporter: it was just before 5:00 sunday morning as malik neal made his way from that tsa checkpoint into the gate area. now with airport security joining, the nine-minute incident. tsa officers and airport security don't have arrest authority. >> we need a taser squad! >> reporter: and the suspect put up a fight. two tsa officers, and two chicago police officers, who arrived at the gate, were injured. >> our subject's in cuffs. >> reporter: an incident after ft. lauderdale, and others, raising concerns. >> we have had three serious catastrophic incidents and now a security breach at the front side. which isn't catastrophic, but it points to a vulnerability. >> reporter: fixing those will be up to local governments which are responsible for airport security, david. >> david kerley with us. thanks, david. >>> when we come back here, the important headline for women tonight. the new health alert involving mammograms. >>> and the gunman allegedly opening fire on a diplomat.

tsa telling folks to shelter in place. tom, what does that mean? >> i think it's -- you know, they're just out of an abundance of caution, they don't know whether they've got another active shooter situation or whether people are so hypersensitive following the first incident that when you start to hear a car backfire or a door slam or whatever, and then suddenly panic spreads. we've seen that many times in the past, as you know. so the police have to take all of that very seriously. let's remind everybody the tsa is not in charge of this operation. the local police are in charge. the tsa mans those checkpoints and they may or may not have air marshals on board planes. that's the extend of it. when you come to an actual police operation at an airport, that is the local police jurisdiction. in this case, broward county sheriff's department, which i think was recognized as one of the top sheriff's departments in the country. we would make the point other airports around the country are also stepping up their security and police presence, including l.

john: think about the tsa. americans assume airport security is something that must be run by government. tsa screeners are slow, sometimes rude, and random tests show most of the type they fail to find forbidden items. i think tsa stand for thousands standing around. now airlines warn security lines will get even worse this summer. so many airports want to switch from the tsa to private airport screeners. >> the tsa chief is in washington to meet with airport officials after wait lines got so bad they may replace the tsa with private screeners. viewn * a few big cities did get permission to try something different. the lines are short at france airport. they move quickly and passengers say the screeners are nice. >> people here are friendly and willing to help. >> they are a little more understanding. >> ebb is a lot more friendly than dallas. reporter: dallas and the other big airports employ government screeners. san francisco was allowed to hire screeners from a private company. they were twice as good at f

killing a tsa officer. the suspect wounded and arrested by police. march, 2015, a suspect with molotov cocktails attacked a tsa officer with a machete in new orleans. he was killed by police. and november 2016, a suspect killed a southwest airlines employee in oklahoma city. the tsa chief says securing public areas of the airports has become a new security priority. >> what we learned from places things like brussels and istanbul, paris attacks, nice, even the orlando shooting is that public areas by definition can be targets. >> the challenge for police, creating the deterrent layers of security before passengers ever approach the tsa checkpoint. and once they get off a plane. before lawyer makers in florida right now, a bill that would allow people in florida to carry weapons on college campuses and inside airport terminals. it's up for a vote next week. lester? >> tom costello, thank you. >>> the shooting in florida has led to heightened security at airports all across the nation as flight cancellations and delays also mount. for more, let's go to

the report says tsa officers recovered nearly 3400 guns in carrie on bags in 2016.t adds up to be about 9 guns per day at checkpoints nationwide. more than 80s p of those guns were loaded. the most guns were found in carry-on bags at heart field the number of guns confiscated is up nearly 30 percent over ove all. >> the tsa also named off the craze yes items agents saw lastm year. we've got some of them right here. take a look. this iss ast at soight hello kit i gun that turned up in connecticut. i connect expect it's not official. someone did t hat to their gun. a baseball bat wrapped in bashed wire. ifsyou watch the walking dead -- i'm going to guess that is what someone was trying to do. they found this golden hand grenade in newark. they didn't say whether it was a live grenade, but it doesn't matter. anything that resembles a bomb is prohibited on a plane. this is a weird one from detroit. agents found a bottle of liquor with five dead see horses inside. not only of those bottles ofof liquor prohibited so are endangered sci the see horses. someone took a movie

we have tom blank, former tsa deputy director. good to have you on the show today. >> uma, nice to be with you. uma: there are questions how the suspect managed to travel and get his gun in baggage claim. he followed correct procedures, carry a gun and store it in his case in baggage. he declared the to authorities with firearm in his baggage, shouldn't a red flag, according to the reports, gun was only item allegedly packed in his bag. shouldn't authorities have talked to him about this. >> this is something that will have to be evaluated as the investigation unfolds. we'll see whether or not he was traveling, the normal kind of things, which would be a change of clothes, toiletries and some other personal items and the gun was also in there, or whether it was a gun and simply, simply a gun. what we do know is that tsa would have been aware of that gun, and think would have seen it in the baggage check x-ray, and it would have raised any unusual flags for them. they do have the capability to identify the owner of that bag, find t

is it at the tsa line? is it in the parking lot. and this is an ongoing discussion and really has security people. and the latest technology with the facial recognition cameras with bomb-sniffing dogs and bomb-sniffing robots if you will and sensors. but hardly anybody would have anticipated this kind of a scenario where you legally check a gun and start killing people. >> one passenger we spoke with earlier, mark lee who gave us a lot of information. and just a feet away when he started shooting. he came in on a delta flight from minneapolis. could be a coincidence or it could be that the person that esteban santiago was on that very same flight. >> this was a delta flight through minneapolis which would make sense. that's a major delta hub of course. >> we know that mark lee was on that flight. we don't know whether the alleged shooter was on that flight. >> we do know that the shooter did come from anchorage through minneapolis and down into ft. lauderdale. so, as you would expect. this opens up a whole host of questions. listen,

it's part of the tsa's new push that started in may to cut down on time you have to wait. shows us how it's working. >> reporter: if there's anything that could take the fun out of a holiday trip, it's those pesky long lines. >> i notice if i have to go to the regular line, it takes a long, long time. for everybody to take off their shoes and take their computers out of their bags. >> i don't enjoy it. i would like to get through the lines very fast and get to my flight. >> here at reagan national airport today, passengers are sailing through in a matter of minutes because of a tsa team and a special room. >> my x-ray went down. it's a priority, i have to get this thing fixed now. >> welcome to the tsa operations center. >> that could cause a longer wait. they would have to cancel a flight. >> reporter: eac busiest airports in the country. >> washington reagan, national security director. >> that standard wait yesterday was 23 minutes. >> goal is keeping it under 30 minutes for regular checkpoints and 15 for pre-checks. screens, tracking, and checking the lines. green mean

right here on fox news he channel what can you say about the actions of the tsa as wells people so that more lives have been saved? >> yeah i mean i think what you see here is that the system there is external a vulnerability in the system we as you can about soft side of airport talking about baggage claim area ticket counter, the arrivals the kadepartures in parking facilities there so what you historically see you see tsa checkpoint clustered around checkpoint the sterile area of the airport where majority of their resources go, trying to keep bad people and bad things off airplanes what we have seen in the past domesticly international in turkey you see softer side of the airport the target vulnerability as tsa, dhs move forward they think about manners to secure soft side of the airport like baggage claim. >> that is one of the most difficult things, because perplexing you can look at an entire airport facility and realize that you have to put security in certain places, where you will strengthen that but this is someone who got off plane from canada, a former military member, had

that tsa check point into the gate area. with airport securitying the nine minute incident. >> he's boarding a plane. >> reporter: the tsa officers and airport security don't have arrest authority. >> we need a taser squad. >> reporter: and the suspect put up a fight. two tsa officers and two chicago police officers who arrived at the gate were injured. >> the subject is in cuffs. >> reporter: an incident after fort lauderdale and others ra e raising concerns. >> three incidents at the front part of airports and now a security breach at the front part. it's not catastrophic, but it points to a vulnerability. >> reporter: fixing those are up to governments which are responsible for airport security. abc news, reagan national airport. >>> parking must be really tight in parts of raleigh, durham, north carolina. look where this suv is parked. >> this is after an ice storm. the vehicle slid down the driveway through the garage down the deck and into the pool. good thing it hp drained. to get the suv out, that is another problem.

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welcome to our multiagency communications center, which is part of tsa, which is part of the department of homeland security here in northern virginia, where i have just received a briefing, one of several, on the security around next week's inauguration and series of inaugural events. here at our multiagency communications center we're represented by tsa, the united states secret service, metro police, park police, capitol police, homeland security investigations, the fbi, vcp, the department of defense, including our national guard, fema, and the washington metro area transit authority. a number of those agencies are represented with me here in this room. following my opening remarks, we'll hear from the deputy director of the secret service, william callaghan, chief robert mcchain of the park police, chief john pavlia from the was transit authority and others. following our remarks we'll take questions on topic. we'll take questions on topic. like past inaugurals this inauguration has been designates it in secretary of homeland security as a national special security event. i made th

i'll ask a former administrator of the tsa. >>> welcome back, everyone.'m alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york at 33 past the hour. we're following breaking news from overseas. four people are dead, 13 wounded in jerusalem after a truck barreled into a crowd of israeli soldiers all gathering next to a bus. the driver was shot and killed at the scene. israel's prime minister says the attacker was a supporter of isis. >>> and happening right now, water rescues are under way in sonoma county, california. this is a major storm that has slammed into the west coast with torrential rains. officials are closing roads as water overtakes flooding levels in some areas. let's go out to nbc's steve patterson. he is in reno, nevada. welcome to you. what's the situation out there? >> reporter: alex, last we spoke i think it was about 9:30 eastern. it is now 12:30. the difference between now and then is i'd say we were on the very edge of it then. i'd say now we are really in it. the wind is just starting to pick up and the rain has been constant since

>> i just got off the phone with the head of tsa. five deaths that we know of. the shooter is estabon santiago. he had a military i.d., we don't know if it is current, but every time you get a bunch of people like at baggage claim or like outside of tsa where you're going to security or lines at the ticket counter, it's a soft target and the best deterrence is the dog, those dog teams after the german shooting a year ago, we doubled those dog teams. but they take a long time to train, they're expensive. the problem is you can't have enough dog teams for all the airports and all the crowds that we have. >> senator, hang on let me go back two thoughts. this is the first time we have heard a name of a shooter. you got the name from the head of the tsa. >> correct. >> it's the name of estabon santiago. >> correct, but we don't know about the accuracy of the i.d. they were pretty sure of his name, but as to the authenticity of the military i.d., we don't know that. >> i understand, and senator do you have a better understanding of how this unfolded, where this estabo

so we were well through the tsa checkpoint. as far as the baggage -- if it happened in the baggage pickup area, i think that's on another floor. i would assume that if that happened down in that area, we were one level above and totally out of that way. let me just let you know, they're letting us enter the terminal once again. they're insisting my wife and i get back into the terminal area and hopefully board our plane very soon. i hope i've been helpful. just one of those experiences you'll never -- you hopefully never experience. >> bob foster on the ground with helpful reporting. we do appreciate your time. good luck to you and -- >> they're making me leave now. thanks very much. >> thank you, bob. during that conversation i was handed a note fr -- it appears, again, this is from the florida hollywood international twitter account. they just tweeted that all services are temporarily suspended at that airport. they're asking folks to contact their air carrier about flight information. again, you just saw there from our vanta

tsa is always changing their poly s. they go from four ounces to five ounces to 3.5 so even for me ass a pilot there are times i travel and from airport to another they change their story. besides that of course it also keeps the lines running smoothly. of course late at night we don't have a security check point. it keeps people moving throughon if they've got something thatt shouldn't be going through thehu security check point.poin they do have people manning it 365 days a year.year they do have sometimes limited. 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. that they'r if you have a question, iftion you've got an upcoming flightomn send them a picture and theynd should get back to you within the hour. that's the latest at reagan national, sarah simmons. fox5 a local news. > new at 10, d.c. mayor bowser and eleanor homes norton welcomed new members to the congress. they hosted a reception on capital hill and of course the mayor made sure to bring up d.c. statehood. we pay more teaks than 22 states and more capita than all 50. despite thes

the tsa to do it? manpower going to comef the kim going to come from? if you have local police do it same can he. there are a lot of challenges how do you secure public spaces? 'can have this conversation 'pout people going into a stayed crumb. you might go through security, i was at the rose pole i went through metal detech for to get in, before i went through that i was in long line of people eghting to debt screened. that's a soft target. whether at airport or any public gathering point. not a perfect solution. you can't pulled a bubble that creates, okay, everyone is safe now sort of situation. it is the inherent danger in the open society we live in. >> again, the security forces at the major airportsxd across this country do differ from city to city. what do we know as we heard from senator bill nelson, briefed by the head of the tsa who said that, again,Ñi esteban santiago, suspect identified by authorities later taken into custody in the baggage claim area of terminal 2. said to have unloaded t

. >> reporter: nigel wilson was going through tsa when he heard gunfire. >> just about to step through when we heard the shots fire and actually heard people screaming and running towards me. they opened all the gates and told us to run through. they were screaming run, run, run, the security people. they're shooting, run, leave everything, go. >> reporter: some passengers in a state of panic running across the tarmac to safety. others sheltering in place. >> everybody ducked down and was on the ground. people, we made shields with the tables that we had. a group led us to hide in the kitchen of that airport restaurant, deli. >> reporter: local authorities responding to the scene within minutes as witnesses say the suspect continued his rampage. till he put the gun down, laid down spread eagle, to surrender. >> one shooter possibly detained at this time, multiple victims. >> reporter: the suspect who was carrying a military i.d. is now known as 26-year-old esteban santiago. this photo taken by eyewitness mark lee shows him being led away by law enforcement. >> i just remember seeing hi

federal officials say more and more guns are being confiscated by tsa agents at american airports. fox's dan bowen says the increase just may surprise you. >>> it makes me nervous. >> casey owe harran her friends are heading from newark to ireland. one thing she can't pack away lingering concerns about the possibility of violence in big public spaces. >> i'm not scared, you know, you have to think about it. you have to be aware. >> reporter: adding to the concerns a new tsa report showing more guns than ever were found at checkpoints by transportation security administration officers. >> definitely frightening at first. but i mean, can't let it stop from you living your life, like, you know, i'm not going to miss a chance like this just because i'm scared it might happen. but, you know, always in the back of your mind you have to think. >> reporter: numbers staggering tsa confiscated 3,391 guns this year at airports nationwide. that averages out to you about nine every single day and perhaps most frightening more than 80% of those weapons were loaded. it is about a 30% increase fro

not with a tsa lock, but with a lock the tsa can open until they get the key from you. it goes back in your luggage and the luggage, you either carry to tsa where they run it through the scanner or it go s into the anonymous hole in the ground where tsa should run it through a scanner to see if it pops up on the baggage check. i don't know if this individual did that. if, in fact he threw the gun in a bag and shipped that baggage and nobody caught it at the airport, there's a lot of explaining to do there. >> and i want to ask you about a question that has kind of come up with the fbi. two parts of this process. one, in both the florida orlando night club shooter with the case of omar mateen and now with esteban santiago. the early warning signs were detected. the fbi had interviewed the individuals, had done background work on them. ultimately concluded they were not a threat or risk to society and in both cases no other measures were taken. they were not on no fly lists or those rardars there. these individuals are slipping through the cracks later on. >> there is no

. >> tsa confiscated a record number of gunsz in carry-on bags in 2016. but over the past year they've also had to take away really unusual items. >> pretty amazing people keep trying it. tsa put together a list of the weird estebaned items ats saw in 2016. like this. it's a jar of deaden dangered sea horses that a passenger tried to board with in detroit. or how about this? a replica of a bobbed wire wrapped used in the show "the walking dead." this was found in the atlanta airport. >> strangest of all and beyond a sea horse, the tsa had to take away a mannequin corpse. it was a prop for a movie. you're not allowed to take pretend dead things or apparently sea horses. >> yeah. that sitting next to you? yeah. i think i would pick a different seat. >>> 4:41. coming up, a new year, new law. the new things you can do and can't do across california. what we need to get used to. >>> take you out live to san francisco this morning as we continue to watch the weather. drizzly. we'll check in with kari in a minute. >>> weather and traffic, i feel like there's so

the tsa guidelines are extremely strict. the firearm must be unloaded.scored in a hard side case. that case has to be locked and only the passenger should have the key or the combination to that case, and again, you have to declare that gun at the ticket counter. he followed all of those rules, but he took advantage of the fact that every airport in america has a soft target. parts of the airport before you get to the security check point, they're vulnerable. it's a known vulnerability and law enforcement officials say it's virtually impossible to get that vulnerability to zero. cnn, washington. >>> still to come this hour, michelle obama's emotional farewell speech after eight years in the white house. her wish for the future next. and our weather forecast including a look at a winter storm targeting parts of the southeast u.s. do stay with us. you don't let anything keep you sidelined. that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always b

so what type of gun did he use and did he follow tsa procedures? as i briefed last night, he used a semi auto handgun. it was a 9-millimeter. we're not ready to release the make of the handgun. and every indication is that he did follow tsa procedures in checking in the weapon. >> is the suspect cooperating? >> the suspect did cooperate with the interview team, which was a joint combined fbi broward sheriff's office. the interview went over several hours and concluded some time this morning, at which point he was then transported to the broward county jail and booked on federal charges. we're looking at not only all the places that he has resided but all the places he has recently traveled. we have other locations, but we're not really ready to release those because, again, as i mentioned earlier, they provide very valuable investigative leads, and we don't want to compromise those. >> are we prepared to say that he came here specifically to carry out the attack? indications are that he came here to carry out this horrific attack. we have not ident

yet, the tsa find thousand every year. in 2016, the agency says agents found more than 3,300 guns in carry-ons. some were loaded. that number is up from 2700 in 2015. and 2200 in 2014. with firearms and shootings at air ports a reality, security ex-experts say removing guns at check points and securing public areas are a priority. san francisco police officers are making themselves visible at sfo tonight. payne says the presence may save lives. >> if some one is having of a mental episode is going to think twice. knowing some one is armed next to him that has possibility of stopping what he is trying to do. >>> i'm meteorologist, jeff ranieri. onslaught of moisture heading into california. light rain beginning now. that puts the storm here this weekend. 2-5 inches possible. at the lower elevations. we are tracking the flood threat and where the rivers may rise the most. my forecast in about seven minutes. >>> also ahead, a late night bart ride takings a dangerous turn. >> showdown at trump tower. president elect briefed on

killing a tsa officer. the suspect wounded and rairsed by police. march 2015 a suspect with molotov cocktails attacked an officer in new orleans. he was killed by police. and november 2016, a suspect killed a southwest airlines employee in oklahoma city. the tsa chief says securing public areas of the airports has become a new security priority. >> what we learned from things like brussels andi istanbul, nice, public can be a target. >> reporter: creating the deterrent layers of security before passengers ever approach the tsa check point. and once they get off a plane. >> tom costello reporting there. at local airports here in the d.c. region, officials are warning passengers to be alert. spokesperson for reagan national and dulles international airport telling news4 that they want travelers to notify them of anything suspicious. thurgood marshall airport says travelers there will notice some stepped up security inside the terminals. >>> a pair of sisters were traveling to see their father for the final time and they were booted from their flight.

tsa precheck is now offered by 30 different carriers. it cost you on you owe. >> it variation in price.atio > so it's not 17-dollars a year >> someone is trying to land a plain back in the studio.udio we did. that's not bad, 17 bucks a year. it varies. it is $17. it kind of varied depend ought program you're involved with.h. there's different ones outut there. anything to cut down there are probably not too many lines to get outside tonightde because we've had a big changee in the weather pattern. hard to believe that earlierier today we hit 61 today. this is crazy.. that was right around the noon o hour. most the high temperatures occurred around noon and they've been dropping ever since.ping while it looks like good on the thermometer that says 46-degrees it doesn't feel like it. the chill is back in the air.ba it started with cka loot at high temperatures today.mp 61er at reagan national, more typical of early april. dulles 57 and bwi also coming in at 57. this patter change brings us back into typical winter cold with temperatures ne

tsa's sole focus is to make sure it's not loaded. the weapon and ammunition, you can carry them in the same container or same bag as long as they're not in the same physical container. maybe -- >> they can be in the same suitcase? >> yeah. even if you weren't, you travel with two suitcases. this happens thoughts and thousands and times of aday. but there's some method in place where someone like this should have been a hard look. when we unravel this, he probably had that weapon illegally. that's probably where we could have stopped this before it happened. >> we don't know. thanks, david. global security group. again, the latest is 13 people were shot today in this mayhem. five have been killed. another eight injured. i don't know the status of their injuries or conditions. on the phone is john. he was there in the tarmac. how are you doing now, john? >> i'm doing occasion now. a little shaken still. trying to recover. >> i'm sure. if you don't mind, or are able to, tell us what you saw, what went down. >> sure. i was sitting in the

which esteban santiago apparently did. >> the r your firearm and you pack it at home. >> reporter: tsa requires that the weapon is unloaded. it has to be packed in a hard case, plastic, wood or met that must be looked. >> and then when you go to check in for your flight, you got to check in at the counter and declare that you have a firearm. >> reporter: but it's not just the unloaded weapon that's allowed in that case. ammunition magazines and a small ammount of small arms ammunition which is boxed can also be carried. checking a weapon in luggage compartment is a common practice. but neither the tsa nor the airline association could tell us, david, how many weapons travel each year. >> david kerley on this, our thanks to you and the entire team tonight. >>> in the meantime, we turn to other news, breaking at this hour. and after weeks of taking aim at the u.s. intelligence community, president-elect donald trump in the same room with intelligence officials, being briefed into their investigation into russia's hacking of the u.s. election. just hours before that briefing today, mr. tr

we are getting a tweet from the tsa. there is an active shooter this is brenna at fort lauderdale international airport. what does this mean. they have a shooter in custody. there is an active shooting situation on right now. >> is this related to the second shooting? >> there was a man on the ground they had shots coming from the garage. they are confirming that be at twitter. they closed the airport and it's is an active shooter there. that is what the tsa just tweeted out. estaban santiago carrying a military idaho he is in custody. he's the one that was shooting people in the baggage claim in the star wars t-shirt. he is in his mid- 30s from we can see here. confusion goes on. they have not been given the all clear. reports of a second shooting. shelter in place. continuing to follow that. let me get to the issue that were talking about. what they blow up the deficit. you know what you're right. let's just flood the economy with all of this stimulus money. i don't see that in the playbook of the gop. >> i think it wo

the tsa is just looking for pointy objects, not for security.use there were false reports of a second shooter and no tsa mechanism to sweep the airport. is that right? >> right. there needs to be a plan. when something happens at terminal a, there needs to be a plan that goes into immediate effect. who is in control, where people go and who's going to sweep the parking area? who's going to sweep the rest of the airport? they don't do any of that. all they do is send people in all directions. liz: michael boyd, the airport is going to open at 7:00. is that too quick? >> no. i guarantee that airport will not open until they're 100% everything's fine. so if they say it's going to open at 7:00, get in your car and take a flight. liz: all right. appreciate it. come back on the show. we love having you go. >> thank you. liz: we're going to have the latest on the ft. lauderdale shooting after this. don't go away and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas® for pulmonary hypertensio