a number of canine to include blood hounds. even three aerial support aircraft. two state police helicopters and one from homeland security have been in the air since this event occurred this morning. the urgency is here. 35-year-old david sweat and 48-year-old richard matt had killed before. i was worried they would kill someone again. i was worried they would kill somebody. they re both killers. killers so terrifying, they were worried they may turn violent again. go pro with crest pro-health. it s formulated to target and kill 99% of germs without the burn of alcohol. so you move to a healthier mouth from day one. what do a nasca comedian. and a professional golfer have in common?
and the massachusetts national guard combined with 26 different states are on hand to look for chemical and biological threats and massachusetts governor standing just above the multiagency coordination center. he came along with the homeland security dave johnson to look at things and how they are running and where everything is coordinated and this is what the homeland security secretary had to say. we look forward to a secure and safe event, but we remain vigilant. and one of the things we continually remind the public to do if you so something, say something. and every place on the course where we see crowds and surveillance cameras and they will be monitored from several places. there are also four state police
a father and child running across the street. a woman told to get down. even now we can see the state police helicopters have been overhead and we look up here there is a blackhawk helicopter cruising across the air, several actually. this of course is headed in the direction of where where the media is converged, where all of the staging is occurring. and they are lowering down as they head over towards that area. maybe they ll be landing there. of course they are going out of our range of vision. here is the state police helicopter above yous now. we ve been seeing obviously this kind of air traffic with the state police helicopter looming overhead. what we are being told about what happened here at the scene a father and child, they didn t want to talk to us on camera. he said his son was a bit shaken up. he he had been told there was a bomb threat in the area. i actually heard one of the officers yell as a woman in the doorway to get inside and just yell the word bomb. whether or
are burning near the brook haven national labratory complex, a federal nuclear research facility. but no buildings or labs have been hit there. state police helicopters are dropping water and officials are hoping for rain, too. with the water drops, we hope we can get ahead of this thing, but you can never predict. we re cautiously optimistic. are we at the mercy of the wind? you always are with these things. any wildfire, you re always at the mercy of the wind. in staten island, new york, a fire at a landfill went to five alarm, nearly 200 firefighters from 44 units responding, three suffered minor injuries, the smoke forced closures and delays on nearby roads and highways. in new jersey, firefighters have now contained 75 percent of the blaze that s consumed about 1000 acres, and the pinelands of burlington county. dozens of firefighters have been on scene there since yesterday, digging ditches to keep the flames from spreading to nearby homes.
from 20 different states are on hand as well. there will be hundreds of cameras along the course and four eyes in the sky from state police helicopters. bill? bill: what about tactical resources. what are we allowed to report on that? reporter: there has been a lost effort put into speed in this case. there are a lost k-9 units, at least 90 different teams of k-9s to respond within moments to anywhere along the racecourse and some other tactical resources being staged along the 26.2 miles. we had a chance to talk with the nema director kurt schwartz. take a listen. we have a tactical resources to deal with any threat or hazard situation that comes up. and does that include s.w.a.t. teams? it does. and it include all of the homeland security resources we have and all the capabilities. they re staged in every