floor and checking every room. we have reports still coming in, shep, where there s nurses and doctors that are hunkered down behind rooms. so in this type of sen naish scenario, it s difficult to clean this type of a building, even if they have who they believe the suspect is in custody. you still have to go through the entire checklist to make sure there s nobody else that can cause harm. then you throw in one more mix in the recipe, which is the patience safety. you have to make sure the patients are all in their rooms, they are all safe. that s another layer of intricacies when you talk about doing these types of searches for potential harmful people. shep? on matters like this, the numbers change a lot. we just got word on what we believe to be a fourth casualty. new york city police and fire say casualty, they mean someone
neutralize the situation in terms of fires. there was a reported fire on the eighth floor of the hospital. smoke being seen from the 16th floor. darren, commissioner bratton was discussing something interesting and that is that the fire department in new york has been trained to be able to insert themselves into an active situation. to be able to do this. this is a video by the way from a few moments ago where you re seeing police heavily armed as darren porcher said. not just with guns but with extra armor. and long guns. now going over a barrier in t the on the grand concourse in the bronx and making their way inside the hospital. you see those gurneys standing by. this is a few moments ago so you ve got the firefighters on the left, but if there is still any active fire or smoke in the hospital those firefighters would have made their way in. but darren, it sounds to me like the firefighters were already able to get into the building following that grid pattern that
imagine just how difficult it would have been once this shooting was an active shooting situation for law enforcement to get out there and get this facility on lockdown and do that floor-by-floor search when everything was going on. again, the situation, that shooter, that suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound there on the 16th floor. i should also add one witness describing the scene there saying blood was on the walls and the stairwell of the facility there as well. jake? if you re just joining us, there was a shooting at the bronk l bronx lebanon hospital center in the bronx, new york, and we ll bring you more information when we get more information. for now let s turn to our politics lead. when it comes to policy, it has seemed to be the only consistent
so this personal apparently used to be an employee. you look like a lab coat and look like everybody else, i suppose. whether this person still had credentials from previous employment there, i don t know. i also don t know how long ago it was that this person worked there. i won t speculate. you can come up with your own thoughts. was the person just fired and came back in with a grudge after that? was this person targeting someone? we don t have a way to know yet. way too early. this began what s that again? it began exactly an hour ago. our local station wnyw, fox5. and he was let go from the hospital a short time ago. male, black, in his 30s. he went to the 16th floor, opened fire and started
new york is reporting that it s believed to be a former employee there. so nothing more an a former employee who had gone in. it s not as if there s something on a terror level happening. nothing like that. not according to the police. they had to get up to the 16th floor. during the course of taking this suspect down, first finding the suspect while treating the doctors who we re told they were shot and then there was a small fire on the 16th floor. that s the area where police were working. so on a very hot day by new york city standards, pushing 90 degrees up in the bronx, really a chaotic situation as we have come to expect and appreciate in new york city was quickly neutralized. they got the very first call of a shooter situation 50 minutes ago on the 16th floor of a high