as you indicate it could be a robbery and very well a violence in workplace. i live in the washington, d.c. area, and it was just a little more than a week ago we had a shooting in a major facility here in washington, d.c. in that case the security officer was able to stop the individual before he penetrated and shot the people that he apparently wanted to shoot. in this particular case, it looks like it appeared outside. we heard the weapons could be a handgun as well as a shotgun. a shotgun, of course, would suggest why a number of people may have been injured and why we may see these leg and back injuries. clint, what is it that we know about the profile of a person where they find themselves in a different work situation, in this case he may have been recently fired, would resort to violence? well, unfortunately we see many people who are simply copycats. they re full of anger,
without hearing multiple languaging being spoken, or without people taking pictures of places obviously like the empire state building. it s also an area that is heavily pleased as all the major tourist areas are. it s a very comforting sight, especially for people this is a city that s heavily trained, not only for incidents like this, but anything that is either of criminal activity or frankly that would disrupt traffic. in new york city, i can tell you that once they feel their investigative work is done, they ll get traffic moving against. it s a friday. there are a lot of people coming into the city for tourist, and believe me a lot of people trying to get out of the city. in the summer it gets very hot here, this is one of the last weekends of the summer, so there will be a great exodus of people who live in new york city. i can tell you they will get those lines down and the city up
i understand that the bodies and patients have been moved away. i can see a couple officers coming towards us but as soon as we know more, we can tell you, but again right now. still grid did not lock in the heart of manhattan as everyone is trying to figure out what happened. a stunning development this time of year on an early summer morning. chris? ron allen, thank you. we are getting new information from the fire department officials who the on the scene. they were saying that 10 people were injured, 4 of them shot. you can imagine in the chaos that ensued there could be people who sustained minor injuries. i think you could put yourself in that position if you were on the streets of any major city and you heard gunshots wring out. again this could be an area that s fairly crowded. almost any time of day. it s just one of the heavily trafficked areas of new york
me and 5th avenue, right near the empire state building, a peaked described by our jonathan dienst as a disgrunt you would employee who may have been fired yesterday, returned to the area, one victim, perhaps as many as eight were either shot and wounded or trampled in the may lay that ensued. that suspect was then shot and the area around me street and 5th avenue is shut down. you can see the police tape that s coming from wnbc, that was jonathan dienst that this may have been a disgruntled employee who was fired. nypd, a heavy presence in that area, they were able to take out