louis, thank you for the firsthand account. i m joined now by nbc s investigative reporter who has joined us on set. what are we learning from new york law enforcement officials, are there more questions than answers at this point? i saw earlier at the scene, we saw the chief of detectives robert boyce, i saw james waters at the scene, these are the officials you would expect to respond. you see that home depot truck that seems to be the truck that was involved in this incident. what we don t know at the time is whether or not this is some sort of an accident or something that s intentional. it sure appears, based on the length of that this person was driving on that bike path and i m very familiar with it. and the distance that he traveled, it would be a little
been coming and going and i did witness them loading two pedestrians, i m not sure if they were pedestrians or a cyclist, that was lying on the ground in the brush by the bike path put on stretchers and taken to the hospital. so i have seen them transport victims from the location where i med a. if you re just joining us, we are covering breaking news on the lower west side of manhattan. we have reports that multiple people are dead, several are injured, that s korlaccording t senior new york city official. we have with us louis bergdorff this was on the scene just moments after. can you describe the sequence of events this afternoon? i was standing just outside my building and i heard
bit difficult to believe that this is an accident but officials have not ruled in a motive at this point. right now we re seeing that multiple people are dead, plu multiple people are injured. there s no indication that this is involving the world trade center. but if you know where the world trade center. that s almost exactly where this truck stopped, about a block north of it, what you re seeing right on scene. and based on louis s description of where he is we know that this vehicle travelled a good 15 blocks before it came to a stop. obviously we know from the injuries, talking to people, senior new york city officials that there s several injuries to pedestrians and bicyclists. we have been looking at a picture where there were bikes that were mangled on this bike and pedestrian path. and this goes all the way from the west side of man hhattan an
they re still people are still trying to figure out what exactly happened here. louis, you said you saw a truck plowed down the bike path? did you see it? reporter: i came to the scene just moments after it passed but there were a lot of people standing in the middle of west side highway, construction workers that were working at a nearby building that were giving me that eyewitness kind of account. we have a picture up right now, louis, of the after math of what you described, badly damaged bicycles on that path and members of nypd walking along that scene you re describing. you re describing what sounds like triage, people evaluating
the injured. reporter: it was triage, and the first to arrive at the scene were police officers and there were police officers on the ground with victims doing their best to help them. and like i said, the one cyclist who was right in front of where i was standing, seemed to be very, very badly injured and they were performing cpr on him, you know, three police officers were there with one, looked like a paramedic or emt, ambulances had not arrived on the scene yet and they were trying to bring this person back to life. just terrifying and very difficult to watch. louis, do you have the sense, i mean i can t hear any ambulances of the back ground of your shot, but do you have a sense if the first responders have transported the victims to area hospitals? or are you still hearing and seeing ambulances leaving the scene? reporter: ambulances have