the suspect wearing a gas mask but the fdny reporting gas and smoke coming from the scene. did you see any of that? did you see any smoke around you? no, i didn t see anything like that. there was nothing. i wasn t really looking, you know, the stairway down to the platform was a little bit out of my view at that point. i was just on the first, the bottom of the first flight of steps down into the station, into the, i guess where the station booth sand then another set of stairs to go down to the platform. konrad, thank you so much. glad you re safe. appreciate you telling us what you witnessed there. we have some news into cnn that we re learning president biden has now been briefed on the shooting, as has the attorney general merrick garland and the dhs secretary miorkas.