I headed out to China today for the last part of my EMBA program at UCLA. What should have been a simple trip to the airport resulted in nearly missing my flight. There was a bomb scare at the International terminal (terminal 5?) at LAX and they shut down all entry to the airport just as we were arriving there around 11:00 am. Traffic was a mess and we drove around for a while hoping that entry would be opened soon. It wasn't. We ended up going to the In and Out Burger on Sepulveda and grabbing some lunch. There were fire trucks and police all over the place. Finally it appeared that they were letting people back in and we started to fight the traffic towards the terminals. I had a 1:20 pm flight and
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