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BRADSHAW: Break, break, break.
Station 6 to all units -- please respond.
[ Siren wails ]
A passenger said they had a bomb in their bag.
Got a K-9 hit.
Why are you nervous, man?
Huh?
It's 100% that there are narcotics involved somewhere.
I don't know.
You don't know?
Is that blood?
It looks like blood.
Think they got a human head in there?
-- Captions by VITAC --
Closed Captions provided by Scripps Networks, LLC.
Beautiful M-I to the "A."
STOVER: At an airport, there are things you just don't say.
One of them is a four-letter word
that starts with the letter "B" --
bomb.
You do not want to say that at the airport.
Trust me.
You can't say "hijack."
Things like "explosives," "weapons," "dynamite."
You can't say "terrorist."
"Blow it up," "explode," "bomb."
That's not a good thing to say.
It's not a joke.
ANTHONY: The police will be called,
and you're gonna be answering lots of questions.
Just keep that out of your vocabulary in an airport.
Break, break, break.
Station 6 to all units --
please respond to Hotel-Juliet connector, second level.
Evacuation is in progress.
We have a possible bomb threat.
A passenger said they had a bomb in their bag.
We have somebody up there on the third floor.
Are you still there?
They're calling out the bomb squad.
[ Siren wails ]
That's the bomb squad.
Everybody else involved,
they're going up to the command post right now as we speak.
The command center is a conference room
that converts into a facility
that allows us to bring all the decision-makers in
and manage an event.
STOVER: Hey, guys, I just got the page on this thing.
What do we know about this suspect?
CAMACHO: The individual was sitting at the bar.
He was having drinks.
And as he left,
the person at the bar noticed that he left a briefcase.
The worker told the individual
that you can't leave the briefcase here.
The individual replied to her,
"Take care of the briefcase. I have a bomb in it."
He had a flight from Atlanta to Miami.
He had somehow switched flights.
He arrived here before his luggage
'cause his luggage was on another flight,
but all he had was the briefcase.
This man went through the TSA checkpoint in Atlanta
and even flew with this bag.
Given the fact that the bag was already screened,
we still have no other option but the bomb squad.
Yes.
[ Whistle blows ]
RUTLEDGE: This whole area here
from the beginning of concourse H
all the way down to J, about midway,
is pretty much closed down because of the bomb threat.
PYATT: This bomb scare means
that passengers are at a standstill.
Passengers will have to wait to get to their gates
until we know it's safe.
CAMACHO: The suspect is in custody.
He's being questioned by the Miami-Dade police department.
When questioning the passenger, he insisted that he was joking.
COOPER: It's been two hours.
We're just waiting for the bomb squad to give us the clearance,
and once we get the clearance, it'll be over.
We just have to wait it out.
WOMAN: Copy.
[ Police radio chatter ]
MAN: Stand by for instructions.
We have an update.
Stand by. I'll put you on speaker.
Everything is all clear, and we're back to business.
Good job.
Whoo!
We're getting back to normal momentarily.
STOVER: Good. I'll call Daryl.
That sounds good.
GONZALEZ: Whether joking or not,
the passenger was arrested and transported to jail.
Ticket counters are being opened up now.
STOVER: Making a bomb threat is a federal offense.
It's against the law,
and, quite frankly, it comes with a stiff penalty.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
PYATT: So that remark that that passenger made
disrupted our operation for over two hours.
Right now, we're expecting our first arrival of the 747-800.
PYATT: Miami already has the largest passenger plane
in the world --
the A380 --
and this airplane is even longer than that.
CORDESCHI: International flight
means bigger plane and bigger everything.
You see the marks on the ground.
Z position is for Airbus 380.
747-800 is still like 4 feet ahead of it.
CARRERA: They're called stop bars.
Certain-size airplanes have to stop in different areas
so that the loading bridge will match up to the door.
We are estimating the airplane will stop at this spot
to have the jet bridges go properly on door one and two.
I hope it works out.
It's the first time
we will see this airplane here.
Just tell him the aircraft just landed.
And there it is, coming to Miami.
And now we will have a water-cannon salute
to the aircraft.
PYATT: It takes a lot of adjusting
to make sure that the jet bridge
can be properly aligned to an aircraft of this size.
Good, good, good!
6, 6!
7!
TOKHI: Right now, I'm operating the jet bridge
onto this aircraft.
We're still measuring everything out with the ground team.
I'm gonna start.
Ready?
The height adjustment of this aircraft
is different from the others,
so as we're moving in towards the door,
we have to lift it up or down
and adjust it with the level of the door.
It looks like they got it.
TOKHI: So we got the jet bridge on, and it's a success.
Ready to open the door for the first passengers.
Hi. How are you?
Welcome to Miami.
WOMAN: Thank you very much.
COOPER: Now that the passengers are off the plane,
everyone has to work hard to send this plane back out,
and this is happening for a ton of international flights
all over the airport at the same time.
CORDESCHI: There's a whole bunch of crews
that work on turning around an international flight.
I got custom and border protection
coming to inspect each plane.
There's also cleaning crews and catering.
In international flights, everything's bigger.
You got bigger planes, you got bigger trash,
and longer flights means a lot more food.
To enter our food-production areas,
every person that comes in the facility
has to cover their shoes,
they have to wear a hairnet,
and sanitize their hands and their feet.
This is where we produce for about 38 flights a day.
It's about 8,000 meals, and it's all international.
It takes a lot of planning and a lot of processes,
from receiving product to cooking it
to chilling it and to portioning it
and then loading it into the flights.
Almost there?
Almost there? Okay.
She's doing the appetizers for Alitalia.
The airline tells us what they want the food to look like,
what the weights are,
and that's what we have to do every day
and make it look exactly like what they want.
Hurry up, mamita.
We have a gold standard, which means they do one first
to make sure it matches the photo, matches the weight,
and then the supervisors have to sign off on that
before they get started.
This is for the flight that's due to arrive at 1:20,
and they have to be perfect,
and they have to be ready two hours before we depart.
We have less than an hour,
so keep it going so we can get it done on time.
We have to meet the flight on arrival.
[ Bell ringing ]
Everybody, let's wash your hands!
WILSHER: And every hour on the hour,
we have a bell that goes off
that reminds the employees to go wash their hands
and change their gloves.
Sanitation is very important because it ensures food safety.
There's no room for mess-ups.
If we serve contaminated food, it's a huge issue.
My worst nightmare
would be having everybody on an airplane get sick.
RIOS: Here at international baggage control,
my job, every day, is to find narcotics.
The dog knows when you have a suitcase full of fish
and it stinks real bad,
but that odor of *** or *** is still in there.
The dog can still smell it.
We can't, but he can.
Wait. Hold on.
Yes, I do.
Huh?
I don't know.
You don't know? You tell me.
I'm shaking?
You a little nervous?
Just trying to get home.
Here in Miami.
Okay. How long were you in Spain?
Two weeks.
And what are you bringing back?
Uh, nothing. Just my bag.
Just your bag? Okay.
What you're gonna do next
is just grab your luggage
and you can go out that line over there, okay?
All right, go ahead.
We got one. He's nervous as can be.
The officers in the back
will conduct the necessary searches they need to do.
THOMPSON: Got a K-9 hit.
You the passenger, sir?
Yes, sir.
Your documents.
Are you aware of the reason why you're back here?
No, sir. They haven't told me.
Okay. My K-9 alerted to you.
All right, come on.
We are taking this passenger for secondary examination
due to a K-9 alert.
We're gonna conduct a thorough inspection
of all his belongings,
looking for narcotics.
K-9 told me -- they alerted me.
No, sir.
Nothing.
Nothing at all.
Yes.
Yes.
So, why'd the dog hit on you?
I don't know.
You don't know?
I don't know, sir.
Once the K-9 alerts,
it's 100% that there were narcotics involved somewhere.
Nothing.
Why are you nervous, man?
Huh?
THOMPSON: We are searching this passenger for narcotics
due to a K-9 alert.
So, what you did for leisure while you was out of country?
Eating.
Eating and staying home.
Drinking.
Any smoking?
Yes.
I ain't talking about cigarettes.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
He revealed that while he was out of the country,
he smoked marijuana.
All that really did is make us look more in-depth,
make us look thoroughly through all his stuff.
You ever been in trouble with the law?
I have. I have a PTA.
Okay.
He admit that he smoked it.
A lot of times, passengers bring souvenirs.
You didn't bring nothing back with you?
No little bud to show your friends?
No.
Now's your time to come clean because once we go in there...
...all bets are off.
We gonna take him into a search room
and do the second phase of the examination.
I got it.
We got to make sure there's nothing on his person
since the dog alerted based on a scent.
Put your hands on the wall.
You're gonna look at the X.
We finished the pat-down,
and it turned out negative for contraband.
What's your PTA for?
When you gonna learn?
What you got to keep in mind,
he has a PTA for marijuana possession.
Think about it.
Look what you went through today.
What happened here today
is the result of that smoking that you did over there.
Dog hit on it.
Dude, that's your wake-up call.
Leave it alone. It's illegal.
Lucky for him, we didn't find nothing,
so he gets to go home,
and we get to go continue to protect the border.
In this area, we prepare about 8,000 meals a day,
and it's busier than any restaurant I've ever seen.
There's no room for mess-ups.
We have to deliver on time,
we have to meet the flight on arrival,
so everything has to be done on a timely basis.
When you're on a flight, your taste buds are not as sensitive,
so we use a lot of spices.
Pepper -- we use a lot of pepper.
Italians, of course, like the pasta.
The French are very particular
about their bread and their cheeses.
The Russians like the seafoods.
The temperature in this room has to be below 41 degrees,
and that helps us ensure food safety.
This is an oven that holds 32 meals,
and what we do is we put it on board,
and they stick it into the oven to hit 32 meals at once.
After the meals are packed up, they go into our final hold.
Security, which is hired by the airline,
has to make sure
that there's no weapons or anything in the carts.
Then he seals them to make sure they stay intact
until they arrive to the aircraft.
This is one flight.
There's seven trucks pulled up to our facility
getting loaded in.
We got to get it loaded in the truck,
and we have a small window, 15 minutes, to get to the airport.
This is the busiest time.
We have to move real quick.
Security takes about 10 to 15 minutes to load a truck.
And right now, we're running a bit late.
LARGAESPADA: We have to be there before the flight lands.
Right now, the aircraft's gonna land at 2:00 instead of 2:15.
We have 15 minutes less.
We need to hurry up. Let's go!
Okay, copy that.
I just was advised that there's a bag --
It looks like the origin is Cuba --
that may be leaking blood.
And so this could be a possibility
where I'll have to get also Fish and Wildlife or AQI involved
to make sure that there's nothing hazmat
or biohazard involved in here.
I think it's over here.
Excuse me?
It looks like blood.
That doesn't look good. Looks like blood.
No, that's blood.
Oh, yeah.
GONZALEZ: Think they got a human head in there?
We have to find out what it is right away.
We got a flight departing in the next 30 minutes.
We have enough food to feed 300 passengers.
The pressure's on, so let's get moving.
Rene, what's going on with the flights?
They just called us.
They said that instead of 2:15, it's gonna arrive at 2:00.
We have 15 minutes less.
We need to hurry up. Okay, vámonos!
Got 10 more minutes, 10 more minutes to go.
Let's go!
[ Speaking Spanish ]
He's almost done. He's ready to go.
Security seals the truck.
We have two trucks leaving our catering facility right now.
All right, Alitalia, flight 631 is approaching at the gate.
Good, yo!
We have to go through security every step that we take.
The seal on the truck is to be removed only by security.
He must close the door. Now he can go up.
When that door opens, we have 35 minutes.
That's it.
If not, we'll be taking a delay.
We take out the inbound, the dirty food of the aircraft.
We'll remove about 400 pounds of garbage, international,
out of this aircraft.
CORDESCHI: We're not allowed to throw any trash, let's say,
in a regular bin.
The one at your house or the one at anybody's house,
we're not allowed to do that.
That red container
is where all the international trash needs to go.
I call it the Red Container of Death,
because whatever goes in there, you can't touch it.
It gets picked up by Dade County,
and then it gets disposed and burned.
SKAFIDAS: A passenger might have brought in a fruit
and they abandoned it --
started eating it on the aircraft and it's left here --
and it has an infestation of larvae,
we want to make sure it's destroyed.
We have to keep going, guys.
GONZALEZ: It looks what appears to be blood coming from the bag.
Think they got a human head in there?
It could be human remains. It could be animal products.
Could be human blood.
Then it can become a criminal investigation
because now you're dealing with a person that is deceased.
Okay, there's a bag and it looks like it's leaking blood.
I don't know if it's blood. It looks like blood.
We want to go down and have her claim it, see what's in it.
There she is. Is that her?
This might be her.
No.
I'll translate if you want.
Go ahead, Jones.
We need to find out if she has any luggage.
[ Speaking Spanish ]
Sí.
Does she have any food products, any liquids?
[ Conversing in Spanish ]
She's denying it.
She doesn't have anything like that.
Is she traveling by herself today?
[ Conversing in Spanish ]
Okay, all right.
We need to get him out of the line, also.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
We're coming downstairs.
Now, who has responsibility over that?
All right. Let's go around this way.
When I see blood coming from a bag,
we don't know what the intent is.
Some of the things
that I've seen in these bags coming from Cuba --
a human head, statues that they're hollowed out
and inside the statue they'll have human remains,
they'll have animal products.
Well, we're gonna bring it into secondary,
and we're gonna examine the bag.
Yeah, there's a bag, and it looks like it's leaking blood.
GONZALEZ: We have found the passengers
that are connected to this bag,
but now we want to find out what's really in the bag.
We're bringing somebody in from agriculture
to identify what this is.
It looks like it may be horse blood.
There's some known medicine from Cuba that contains animal blood.
It is prohibited
'cause blood can't come into the United States.
We need to turn this over to the Food and Drug Administration,
and it's gonna have to be confiscated.
Okay, the aircraft is ready to be checked
by the flight attendants.
All right, Alitalia. Alitalia finished.
55. 50-55 is done.
We're going down. We're going down.
Okay, man.
Our passengers going inside the aircraft.
The plane's ready to go.
PYATT: I tell you, I always marvel
at how busy this airport is.
It's literally one plane taking off after another,
all day, forever.