Uncover why and how this happened and we will go wherever the facts lead us. This morning i spoke with my good friend orlando mayornd ico gel lechess of the american people. And whatever help he and the people of orlando need, they will get it. As a country we will be there for the people of orlando today, tomorrow and for all the days to come. We also express our profound gratitude to all the police and First Responders who rushed to harms way. Their courage and professionalism saved lives. And kept the carnage from being even worse. Its eelt ki its the kind of sacrifice that our law phoenforcement make eve day and we can never thank them enough. This is especially hard for our fellow americans who are lesbian, dlesbian gay, by sexual or transgender. Shooter targeted a night club where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing and to live. A place where they were attacked is more than a night club, it is a place of solidarity and empowerment, where people have come
Quickly assessed. If they did not have immediate lifethreatening injuries, they were moved elsewhere in the Emergency Department and cared for by our colleagues in Critical Care medicine. We had emts that would drop a patient off that would start putting in lines in other patients. We had, you know, Environmental Services would have the bay where patients would go cleaned in about 30 to 45 seconds with sharp objects, with bloody towels, with all kinds of stuff done. Everybody was doing it safely. I just cannot say enough about how much we increased to the increased our resources to the level of need, you know, within a very short period of time. After we got that initial wave about probably 20 to 22 patients stabilized or sent to the operating room, we had kind of if you would call it a lull while the shooter was barricaded inside. At this point we had used basically everything in the Emergency Department, and our suppliers got stuff from central supply, brought stuff over from Arnold
reporter: hey there, milissa. either they are ignoring the mayor s request or they are from out of town and did not hear the request to stay inside. as you can see behind me, lots of folks in central park are having a good go at it today. we have a snow ball fight. we ve seen a number of sleds and skis as well, joggers are back out. this was not the case three hours ago. it was incredibly cold, 15 degrees before the wind started to blow. that wind howling at one point. those gun metal gray skies, they just started to break apart here maybe about two or three hours ago. it turned out to be a decent day if you can stand the cold. this is the warmest it s been so far today here in new york city. it s about 21, 22 degrees right now. again, that s before one of those wind gusts. we haven t seen a lot of gusts but there have been a few here and there over the past few hours. mayor de blasio, you just mentioned him, he had a news conference about two or three hours ago. this is ju