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Breaking News

Atlanta Airport Shut Down After Security Breach

Aired November 16, 2001 - 13:25   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: All right, just to clarify a few things here in Atlanta. WSB Radio, a well respected radio station in Atlanta, saying that a man ran from his security checkpoint after being spotted with a gun. And apparently he was tackled as well.

The flights have been delayed right now, folks still milling around outside the -- looks like the north terminal, if my memory serves me correctly there, at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport -- don't know the extent of that breach of security, but we will track it.

Let you know, anytime travel stops in Atlanta for an airport, it tends to delay things down the road throughout the rest of the country as that domino effect takes place. That's the word from Atlanta, anyway.

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