themselves into some real trouble here. literally if you were trying to get something out in public, you would do it at that place. it s the worst place possible. and then to be recognized, if he didn t have that handle bar mustache, they probably wouldn t have noticed it was him. it s pretty amazing. i would say, in defense on the lawyers, though, if you ever worked on a campaign or even covered a campaign, you have nothing else to talk about. you want to go out to lunch and you want to get out, and you have nothing else to say, man, they could have picked they could not have picked a worse place. that s usually why the lawyers don t go out with the field staff. they have to go home because or a more remote table or a back room or something. they are at a sidewalk cafe, sidewalk cafe, they were on the street next to the new york times. it s like standing on 8th avenue and 40th street and screaming things at the new york times. it s insane. the thing that s so shock
trouble here. literally if you were trying to get something out in public, you would do it at that place. it s the worst place possible. and then to be recognized, if he didn t have that handle bar mustache, they probably wouldn t have noticed it was him. it s pretty amazing. in defense of the lawyers, if you ever worked on a campaign or even covered a campaign, you have nothing else to talk about. you want to go out to lunch and you have nothing else to say, they could not have picked a worse place. that s why the lawyers don t go out with the field staff. they have to go home because more remote table or o back room for something. sidewalk cafe, they were on the street next to the new york times. it s like standing on 8th avenue and 40th street and screaming things at the new york times. it s insane. the thing that s so shocking
seconds later, two additional police officers responded through radio transmissions that they were on their way, as well. at that point, a total of eight officers including this defendant and his parter in had arrived on the scene in four vehicles to assist the officers who had the initial contact with laquan. none of these officers were equipped with tasers. the dash camera of one of the responding beat cars captured the shooting but no audio was recovered. although some of the other responding units had operating dash cams, due to their positioning, they did not capture the actual shooting. nor do they contain audio recordings. investigators recovered video from a local business that showed laquan walking away from the initial officers at 40th street. attempts to download video from another local business were unsuccessful but it was determined that the cameras at
of frantic searching there are five still missing and it is highly unlikely that they will be taken out of that pile alive, gretchen. but as you say, this is a neighborhood near and dear to me. my first law office was right almost adjacent to where that explosion is so long ago. this was la marquette here under the elevated train tracks. so it s a neighborhood really that has a lot of resonance in my family when i first heard of the blast. i was at work. the blast was heard all the way up to 140th street. that s a mile north of here down downtown, east side, west side. it was a mighty, mighty explosion from that leaking gas. and the carnage has been awful. the neighborhood traumatized. earlier today i spoke with the speaker of the new york city council, melissa mark berverida. what was your reaction when you first heard that this had happened? i mean, it touches close to home. literally.
has been cut in after around 40th street. reporter: but most got in their cars and didn t get anywhere fast. we re at 67th and 2nd avenue. our goal is to go 31 blocks south on second avenue. let s see how long it takes. the first block took seven minutes. it s going to be a long ride. to ease the brid lock, michael bloo bloomberg announced new rules. from 6:00 to midnight if, you re coming into man hat an on one of the bridges, you have to have three people in the car. reporter: in other parts of the city, the situation remains dire. after roof top evacuations in staten island, rescuers in boats went house-to-house in this still submerged neighborhood. all these homes underwater. again, we re talking about a good six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 12 blocks inland, a good mile or so inland before the water finally recedes over here. reporter: here, normalcy very far away. but it is slowly returning to