it wasn t until they got to 36th street and the doors opened and they started running out. that s kind of the person we are dealing with. that s why officials this has them worried. there had to be some premeditation. he chose the worst moment do this, when all the people were trapped. a moment where they had nowhere to go. if not for that gun jamming at that moment, this could have been much worse. ten people shot. five in critical but stable condition. that s the latest that we have from law enforcement. shimon, i will let you get back to reporting. thank you for the update there. stand by. i want to bring in andrew mccabe. the former deputy director of the fbi. chris sweker is also former fbi. and darren porcher, a retired nypd lieutenant. darren, you worked in transit, you worked at nypd. you think this shooting has some
i was just going to work. i woke up a half hour early trying to get there earlier. i want to get to work early. it was not that day. bill: how long have you been in the city? my whole life. born and raised. i lived around sunset park for most of my life. my dad had a photo studios in the 90s and i ve lived in the neighborhood the last 10 years on my own. bill: tell us about the neighborhood, sam. i love this neighborhood honestly. it is really nice. it has a wonderful view of the city. the food is great, people are nice. industry city moved over here so we ve been getting a lot of access to cool art son stuff. i do know in the last two years 36th street has been there has been a lot of violence there at that station specifically. dana: when you were listening to people on the train, did any of them describe the perpetrator? i did not hear anyone talk
get into the subway, that could help them. the thing that s worrying to investigators is the planning that they think went into some of this. he had the gas mask. he had all the bullets. he had more canisters and other items inside the bag. there is some premeditation. i think they are going go back and say, did we miss something? the idea that they have some clues that are playing a key part and has given them optimism here. those are good signs. the victims. thankfully, many of them all of them are expected to survive. i want to paint a picture for you briefly here. what happened is as this train was pulling in to the station here at 36th street, it stopped. when you are on the subway and you go between cars and the train stopped. maybe a car ahead or you can t get there yet. that s when he started shooting. these people were trapped. they had nowhere to go.
quite graphic. right in the rush hour, you see right there, blood splashed across a train car floor. another picture shows multiple victims. one person is seen putting pressure on a wound to his leg. the incident happened near, the 36th street subway station in the middle of the morning rush hour. the nypd says to best of its information, there are no active explosive devices at that scene. witnesses describe a loud and chaotic scene. too many shots to count, they say. police say the shooter was wearing a gas mask and an orange construction vest. cnn s shimon prokupecz is right there live on the scene for us as we await to hear from our officials. shimon, what do we know? yeah, terrifying moment here, certainly, john, for folks riding the subway to work, to get home. this is the sunset park area of brooklyn. and what we hear is that this morning, according to officials, there was this smoke bomb. some kind of a smoke device that the suspect set off on the train, and then the gunfire
bill, the 8:30 a.m. time frame. you are at your office in your position in your seat by 9:00 a.m. which is when most places open. bill: we ll get more from our crews working the story in new york. our van is en route. a singular tweet from the nypd, 36th street and brooklyn. we will in all likelihood get a press conference established near the scene to give us more information but just going through our emails and working through our crews in new york this is about what we get, multiple people shot at that subway street station. i think it is important to know whether or not it happened on the train or platform for the train or just in the area of that subway. once we get that, we ll pass it to you. dana: just looking here now. the metro transportation authority is the entity that