the telephone line established here. who do you have there? okay. a former nypd detective here. thank you for jumping on the phone with us. we re working through the story, early minutes, and just in terms of training for the nypd and the fire department of new york, what would they be doing in the early stages now, sir? there are a couple of things happening. it is very early. good morning. it is very early in the investigation. i see here now the fire department has recovered several undetonated devices at the scene. this ratchets up what is a mass shooting, multiple victims case into something entirely different. lots of things will be happening simultaneously both with the fire department, the
well wired whether it s wifi or another connection for your phone and everyone is reading and scrolling the entire commute. what that means is that everybody has a phone and there will be a lot of images from this incident whatever it turns out to be. dana: we have someone here to help talk this through. a retired new york police department lieutenant, he joins us by phone. what are your thoughts as we are just getting this breaking news, sir? actually it is still an unraveling story now. the main concern is the multiple devices they are talking about. they have to secure the area and they get the wounded out of there but it is an active and extensive crime scene. they have to track who, what and where with this? they don t know where they came from at this point. the main thing is secure the area. main thing is to make sure there are no other devices that
and nypd and first responders are coming into a very bloody scene, a very tough scene. we know 13 injured at the hospital. you know, dana, unfortunately law enforcement has to train for these kinds of events. we don t want them to take place in our country but they do. and we have a lot of people out here who want to kill americans. they want to wreak havoc. what we re seeing here right now is a great deal of havoc being reaped here in new york under the circumstances. i would have to believe, as i ve said earlier, that video that as we are speaking now that law enforcement officers are looking over all of the video that they have to try to locate the perpetrator. we don t know if this is a one
firefighters and paramedics standing by. their posture seems to be calm in terms of the initial chaos after an event such as this. we aren t seeing that right now. we re seeing an overwhelming show of force. on both sides of the street we have state police, aff, nypd standing outside of the off ramp of the subway station. you can see there is this really sort of glow, that s the entrance to the subway station as those below 4th avenue. right now we re seeing heavy presence. nobody has brought out that was injured at this moment. people are in shelter in place and no arrests at this time. we do know there is one suspect described to us as a 5 5 black man wearing a gas being mask and some sort of construction vest at the time of this incident but we don t have any
what went on there, where are the suspect or suspects. it is important that also you have eyewitnesses who may have very well observed something. the nypd is trained on these kinds of unfortunate incidents. and what you have now are all sorts of first responders responding to that scene. you have the atf, the f.b.i., the new york police officers there. so they will get to the bottom of it. right now they are trying to take care of the wounded that are there and there is a certain segment of the police department that has fanned out now trying to find the perpetrator or perpetrators. bill: we re seeing a new image here on board the subway car itself. and dana, i don t know what you see here but i see a water