the kodak center. a thousand people were leaving this venue when this suv plowed into another car that was trying to exit the venue. two people inside the car were killed. others on the sidewalk just trying to cross the crosswalk were injured as well as the driver of that suv jseriously injured. his name is michael avery. it s unclear his status. i want you to hear from a concert goer. when we did get outside and saw the carnage of the cars and the one car burnt up and car pieces everywhere and it was surreal to think, wow, this happened right here. you can hear and see the pictures of what this explosion caused with all those gas canisters in the area. the fbi is investigating. jttf is involve d. we re getting a news conference in about an hour to the get some details of exactly what happened, but two people killed in an incident. that we know law enforcement in
york after a fiery crash that is being investigated as possible terrorism. the crash took place outside the kodak center in rochester where about 1,000 people were attending a concert. as people were crossing the street, one car hit another car, sending both into a group of pedestrians and two other vehicles. first responders found at least a dozen gasoline canisters inside the car that caused the crash. let s bring in national security analyst juliette kayyem on this. dom. what do you make of this? we don t have a lot of deal tail, but there were at least a dozen gas canisters in his car. as someone who analyzes these types of situations all the time, what are you thinking about when you hear that? i think we may have lost
immediately the fbi, jttj see, gas canisters found inside a vehicle and a vehicle ramming through a crowd of people. let s back up a bit and give you the facts of what happened here. so this is not even an hour into the new year in rochester, new york, at the kodak center, which was having some sort of concert, about 1,000 people attended that concert. as they were leaving the concert, there were police helping a group of people across a crosswalk and a ford expedition rammed into a car exiting, crossing over that crosswalk. so two people inside the car it hit, which was a mitsubishi outlander were killed. there were people that were injured in the crosswalk. there was also the driver of that ford expedition that was also seriously injured and is in the hospital right now. i want you to hear more from police how they describe what happened. the force of the collision caused the two vehicles to go through a group of pedestrians that were in the crosswalk and
Though the incident led to no damage and seems to have been intended as a dramatic protest, the "what if" scenarios one can imagine are dreadful. What if they were carrying a poisonous gas? What if they were carrying a grenade or guns?