helicopter crash landing on the top of this building, 51 stories. you see what could be smoke. maybe it s something else. we can t confirm it. you re looking at it with your own eyes at the top of this building is where it happened. it s been pandemonium in terms of the response from new york fire, police, all responding to this helicopter. who was in it? how many people, why it was flying through midtown manhattan on an awful weather day? we don t know. listening to miles, legally flying but for whatever reason, this pilot felt the need to force a landing, crash landed on the top of this building. that then caused a fire which we re told from new york fire has been contained, but we ve been listening to eyewitness account after eyewitness account. the 29th floor, the 18 th floor. just describing the alarms going off in the building. feeling the entire building shake as everyone was told not
offensive mode to figure out what was happening and whether or not it was going to be any worse and if others were in need and needed to be saved. right now it appears the worst is over. i m looking up at this building right now. you would not know anything is happening on top of the building. it s a rainy day in new york. you can barely see the top of the building. it s gray up there. there doesn t appear to be any smoke. no fire coming off the top of the building. and most of it seems to be a controlled operation at this point. that s what i was wondering. we re talking so much about obviously a ton of questions. why was the helicopter flying? how many people were in the helicopter? i am wondering about the people who the governor described as being in the building and feeling the building shake. how big is the building? can you by looking up at it estimate how many floors? yeah. this is probably a 60 to 70-floor building. it s one of two of three on this
helicopter that for whatever reason that is tbd, had to crash land on top of this huge building in the middle-midtown manhattan. as a result there was a fire on top of the building. this is according to governor and police. the fire has been contained. you can see by the pictures it s been pouring rain. the ceiling is low. low skrvisibility in the city. why was a helicopter flying? who was it? and how many were in the held continuer? we know we can confirm one death. and we don t know anything much beyond that. miguel marquez is on the scene. we ve got him in front of a camera. miguel, show us what you re seeing and tell us what you ve been reporting out. i want to show you the building. this is 7th avenue looking up town 7th avenue. you can see the large number of energy vehicles up here, and if
to our sources, only one injury so far. we don t know the extent of that injury. so far we re told that the damage is contained to the roof of this building. okay. we ve been dipping into local news reports here in new york. we ve been following this midtown manhattan helicopter crash on a day where the weather has been absolutely abysmal. you heard the reporter starting to report out on injuries. we don t know that information yet. we don t know injuries. we don t know fatalities. we know a helicopter crashed into the building in midtown manhattan. it s roughly eight or so blocks shy of central park, if you know new york or you ve been in new york. and so it s all right. let s go back to shimon who has been working his sources. what more do you know? we can confirm there s been at least one injury. this was a helicopter crash.
block. it s the tallest building on this block. it s also not clear whether there was a helicopter pad on this building. a lot of buildings have helicopter pads. perhaps it tried to land it on the closest pad and didn t quite make it. it is very poor flying conditions for any sort of aircraft right now. and certainly a helicopter having issues over manhattan would have been quite a scare. since you re there, are you seeing any pieces of debris, parts of the helicopter anywhere on the streets below? there is literally, this is the shocking thing to me. i rushed over here a few blocks away from work. i expected to see something, something more substantial or telling of what happened there. but right now there is nothing so far that i can see. i mean, our view is somewhat limited up 7th avenue essentially, but all i see are fire vehicles, balances and the like, and a lot of police vehicles, but so far there seems