. this is "don lemon tonight." a manhunt underway in new york city for the person who police say set off a gas canister and opened fire on a crowded brooklyn subway car. the nypd saying ten people were shot and at least a dozen injured. that is what a man who is in that subway car when the shooting started told me a short time ago. >> i couldn't see past halfway down the same cart. that's how smoky it was. no matter how high or low you got, you couldn't see. all you could see was bodies piled on top of each other, people trying to get as far away as they can, people screaming people -- this utter chaos and mayhem. >> police say 62-year-old frank james is what they're calling a person of interest. they believe the rented -- he rented a u-haul van whose keys were found at the scene and they are investigating if he is connected to the shooting. also tonight heavy fighting in eastern ukraine as russia moves more of its forces into the region. a ukrainian official saying as many as 22,000 people may have died in the besieged city of mariupol. but i want to begin with the subway shooting. bren, good evening to you. give us the latest on the urgent manhunt. there is a person of interest. what more do you know? >> reporter: yeah, like you said, don, this person's name is frank james. of course, authorities from the federal level all the way down to the nypd and state authorities are looking for that person, trying to figure out right now the link between this frank james and the actual subway shooting. there are some leads that they have been chasing as you sort of outlined for the viewers there. we know a key was found in the shooter's possessions on that train, that key was to a u-haul and we know that james rent thad u-haul. however, again, police being cautious and just calling james a person of interest at this point and not a suspect. so still looking for them. listen, don, you talked about this in your last hour. i heard you. there are thousands and thousands of cameras along the city with that latest news conference we had we know that they put out a picture and name and now there are thousands and thousands of eyeballs of new yorkers trying to help locate this person and, hopefully, have some sort of an idea of what took place early this morning on the subway. >> talk to me about the weaponry found at the scene. what did investigators find? >> reporter: yeah, a whole lot of stuff, don. i mean, this is incredibly alarming, terrifying. of course, we know the anecdotal stories we heard from people riding the subway su. authorities found a gun on this -- at the crime scene in the subway. they found multiple magazines, gasoline, fireworks, commercial-grade fireworks. we know that there were two detonated smoke bombs and two more found among the possessions as well as a hatchet. so this really speaks to the fact that this could have been a much larger event than what we actually experienced, which of course was a -- a pretty large event. but we learned from sources that through -- during the shooting, which took place this morning during the morning commute, the gunman's gun actually got jammed. so that was also contribute to go the fact that this didn't go further than what you would think would initially was the intent of this person who committed this act. so again there is so much more from that crime scene. i know that there are investigators still processing the crime scene here at the train station. again that u-haul van we talked about earlier, that was also located about three miles from here. that has been towed away and that is being processed as well within the nypd. >> all right. thank you. appreciate your reporting. i want to bring in chris, former fbi director and darren, a former nypd officer. i am so thankful to have -- grateful to have both of you on to talk about this. chris, the fbi is working with the nypd on this investigation. what are they doing to track this person of interest down? >> yeah, he left a lot of things behind, don, that i think led to his identification. if they found a residence, you know, up in wisconsin or wherever it is, they will grab everything they can out of that house, you know, electronic media, phones, computers, anything with that memory in it. they processed that van. i am sure it has some information in there that's useful. it's really a pure manhunt at this point. they know who he is. now they just need to find out where he is. i think they by now or by tomorrow morning they will have that person's life dissected. they will know his social network, probably two, you know, two or three levels out, and they will have an entire portfolio of him. then the next question is who is he going to run to, where is he going to go, how can we get him in custody as soon as we can. darren, i want to ask you a question about the weaponry found. they found a 9 millimeter glock handgun, three extended magazines, two detonated smoke grenades, two non-detonated smoke grenades and a hatchet at the scene. what does this tell you about the suspect and what would police do, will they be able to get dna evidence off of any of this? >> this speaks to the testament of the collaborative approach. atf, federal law enforcement authorities and the nypd, local law enforcement authorities. we do not -- we have not assessed these were stolen weapons. more than likely these weapons were acquired based on a lawful purchase. it's clear this was a person who was looking on atrocities to us as the 8 million residents that resfwlied in new york. fortunately, the nypd use technological innovations and capture an image of this individual entering the subway system eight stops away and exiting as well. coupled with this individual dropping the keys to this rental van. this is significant. and this shows how the tremendous work of the nypd has worked for us as common citizens. >> i am glad you mentioned that. you mentioned the keys. it's clearly premeditated to commit an atrocity and terror really on the citizens of new york city. but leaving the dekey to that v, the bag behind, does this indicate sloppiness here for this -- what does that tell you? >> no criminal is 100%. and that's what we capitalize on as law enforcement on the mistakes that criminals make. we look to, as you mentioned, with the keys, look to see is there any dna, any fingerprints on these keys. and that's going to collaborate the additional information that we have in connection with this individual. on top of that we also have a picture of a person of interest. we want -- we want to show the same picture to all of the people that were in the subway car so they can say whether that was the individual that fired the shots in the subway car. >> chris, let's talk about this. almost 10,000 cameras in the melanimta system but the nypd says three stations the video wasn't working. they don't know if it was mechanical or electrical or what. and i spoke to the former police commissioner about that. he said there are steel issues from, you know, the wheels and the brakes on the train and being down in the subway system, there is probably soot and dust and all kinds of things. how does this hamper the investigation or eventual prosecution if at all? >> i do a lot of security assessments. i am in the middle of one now. one the biggest components is these days the security cameras. and i find that a lot of times they are not inspected, they are not -- i always get in there and look -- have the monitors pulled up, look at the views, look at the placements, make sure they are in working order and that sort of thing. obviously, that didn't happen this time. they say which is not inspected will deteriorate. that's apparently what happened here. there is cameras all over the place, private and public. you know they have photos of this guy. it may have taken longer to get it. it's, obviously, hindered the identification of this guy. but given a lot of that evidence that he left behind, i am not sure they have lost all that much time on it. but it is a major, major short coming here and you can bet that they are going to be going through all the cameras throughout the system and making sure that they are in working order. >> are you surprised they have not been able to find this person or at least to get an image or images of him leaving to trace his steps after this happened? >> when -- >> because of the security system or on somebody's camera somewhere? >> the average person's photographed a videotape 100 to 200 times a day in new york city. we don't have an expectation of privacy. although we may have had inoperable cameras, we have the public as a backdrop that's allowing cellphone footage. we do a backwards investigation. we start from the scene of the crime and then we work towards where this person possibly exited. i am confident that we're capturing information that hasn't been introduced to the public and the rest is imminent for this person. >> i want to play what we heard from one of the survivors of the shooting. >> i was so shocked. i was like i didn't even think it was a bullet. i was so shocked. i wanted to get out of there after hearing all those shots firing. i think i might have, you know, i might be scared of riding the subway again because you just never know. >> you know, chris, he is scared to ride the subway again. look over, 3 million people rode the subway just yesterday. it's a miracle the shooting wasn't worse. does this reveal a big security issue for police and what's to stop this from happening again really, especially now knowing the breakdown, you know, with some of the cameras, there may be problems, they may be jauch line, so on and so forth? >> yeah, it does. i believe invisible deterrence. that's a uniform -- the biggest -- the most effective visible deterrence is a uniformed armed officer conspicuously present in place throughout the subway areas, you know the cameras, the signage that says "you are on camera." there are a lot of things to deter this type of activity and be proactive in your enforcement of the laws, you know, throughout the subway system. they have the metro transit authority. but i heard today that a lot of people were afraid to even -- they sit, wait for the subway with their backs against the wall. they don't want to get fished in front of the tracks like what happened before. people are riding again, but they are fearful. and that shouldn't be happening in the new york subway system. i think they are going to have to take a hard look and decide whether they want to upfund the police department again and get back to where they were a year and a half ago. >> thank you both, gentlemen. appreciate it. did russia use chemical weapons in mariupol? the reports are unconfirmed but the pentagon is fmonitoring the situation. if true, how would it change the war? >> russian forces may use a variety of riot control agents including tear gas mixed with chemical agents that would cause stronger symptoms to weaken and incapacitate entrenched ukrainian fighters and civilians as part of the aggressive campaign to take mariupol. i didn't know my genetic report could tell me i was prone to harmful blood clots. i travel a ton, so this info was kind of life changing. maybe even lifesaving. ♪do you know what the future holds?♪ so the pentagon confirming today the u.s. is looking into reports russian forces may have used a chemical weapon in mariupol. cnn has not been able to confirm those reports. it comes as cnn is getting new video of that devastated ukrainian city. you can see smoke rising outside a shipping yard there. i want to bring in journalist and authors sebastian unger. good to see you. let's talk about what's happening in mariupol specifically because ukrainian marines in mariupol are vowing to hold on to the end they are saying, but their city is being demolished. president zelenskyy is saying tens of thousands of people have died there. and the u.s. is lacking into reports that chemical weapons are being used. how much longer can ukrainians hold on to this city? >> well, i don't know how much food they have, how much ammo they have, resupplies constantly a problem. if they are deeply dug in, they can withstand the rocket attacks, the bombings. calif /* kruns civilians, of course. if they have gas masks, they mate be able to survive a chemical attack. these people aren't stupid. they have outfoxed the russians at every turn, every single turn, outnumbered three to one, five to one. i assumed they gamed this out and have a plan for mariupol. >> are you hearing -- if it is confirmed that they used chemical weapons, how does this change the war? >> well, i would say in some ways it's the sign of desperation, right? i mean, you turn to wmd when conventional warfare isn't working. it's clearly not working for the russians, and putin clearly is sort of registering that. he potentially is facing a massive humiliation just the kind of thing he was trying to avoid. so the risk are using chemical weapons its purpose is to shock your enemy into surrendering and fleeing and it's very good at that, right. but it is kind of a red line. and it's possible that that might peel china away from it's sort of -- even the neutrality about this. i mean, putin doesn't know at what point the fgeopolitics wil shift and a battle position changes his position in the world. he is going to be hesitant as well. i think at the end of the day when his personal honor is sort of at stake, because he is losing a war he thought he would win easily, at that point he might sort of do anything. >> i want to play what he said. but on the other side i'll ask you because i was speaking earlier to fareed zakaria and he believes that he is -- that putin is believing his own propaganda. but i asked him, i wonder if he has some awareness that is he losing. he made a rare public appearance today and talked about the war. watch. >> the military operation will continue until its fully completed and the objectives that were set at the beginning of this operation are achieved. we are helping people. we are saving them from nazism in the first place and on the other hand we're protecting russia, taking measures to protect russia security. and it's obvious that we had no choice. it was the right thing to do and i have no doubt the objectives will be achieved. >> peace talks he said are dead. what do you make of that? >> well, not to -- i mean, he is a dictator, right? he is an authoritarian. not to compare him to a democracy, but during vietnam the public, the outward facing statements of various administrations which knew that we were losing, failing to win the war in vietnam, the outward facing statements clearly put a rosy picture on things, which is what he is doing. i am guessing he is saying that the peace talks have failed because that's another way of saying, okay, the gloves are coming off, you know, don't think you can run for the exits. this is it now. a lot of war, i mean, it's like a bar fight. a lot of war is sort of posturing and trying to scare your opponent into actually not fighting because when two people fight or two armies fight, there is inefably losses on both sides. >> this is all about -- this is all about terror, right? terrorizing the people of ukraine and also just bombarding them and knocking down infrastructure. >> yeah. >> i think that there may be a false sense of security in some places in the country because as he gets more desperate he may start bombarding for the west. who knows? we are told that russian forces are looking to intensify their attack in the east. this is going to be a fight out in the open, not in the cities, right? so do ukrainians have to shift their tactics? >> they still have to take the cities, and that's very, very hard for attackers. the ratio is five to one to take a city. something like that. and even if the russians take the east, which has the most sort of russian -- people with russian blood in ukraine are in the east. that would sort of make sense and putin could walk away with supposedly a victory. but even if they take the east, they still have an insurgency to fight. we took afghanistan in some weeks in 2001, 2002, and 20 years later we could not deal with the -- we really couldn't defeat the insurgency. our occupation failed. even in the east, i am not sure he is looking good. it will be enormously costly for them politically and economically. the russian economy is not particularly big. this is a tough one for him. >> and they -- but ukrainians need weapons and they need them past. you hear volodymr zelenskyy saying this is going to be on the west. we need your helpful he is getting more pointed and more pointed. but you can understand in a way his desperation. he needs it. >> oh, absolutely. nd-and he is getting weapons. but every public statement has a purpose and the purpose is to get the enemy to back down and your friends to help you. and so, you know, you connecting real realty to the statements isn't the most obvious thing to do. >> i enjoy your conversations. i learned a lot. thank you. a renewed russian offensive in eastern ukraine. how the new front will change the fight. at the magic wall, we'll break it down next. but heinz knows there's s pleny of magic in all that chaos. ♪ so different and so new ♪ ♪ was like any other... ♪ >> tech: cracked windshield? 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>> great questions, don. i think we will see a lot of this kind of thing. a as a reminder, this is the area we are talking about here. ukraine's east. the donbas region right here. and if we go into a more detailed look at this, this is zaporizhzhia right hear where you just mentioned, the see you a battle taking place. close to the russian lines in the south and you have ukrainian elements that are listeden the map in here. obviously, they are right in this area as well. a little element right here. what they're trying to do is they're trying to keep these areas away from the russians. in essence, what they are trying to do is save central ukraine. if the russians get a hold of zaporizhzhia, that would be a major problem for the ukrainians. so what they are trying to do is trying to contain the russians along these lines right here. of course, in the north they also have a job of containing them up here. so a see-saw battle will be the norm and they are going to be taking place over the next few weeks. if not longer. and it's going to take some time before the russians can be dislodged no matter how many weapons the ukrainians get. >> the pga says that ukrainian forces are contesting mariupol. those forces saying they will hold out to the end. they are increasingly cornered there. how long do you think they can hold out without for supplies? >> without more supplies, it's going to be really tough. mariupol is right here, right on the coast of the sea of azov. the problem is it's almost impossible for the ukrainians to resupply through here or, obviously, through the sea. so that's not going to happen. so the ukrainians who are in mariupol, the only way that they can be saved is either through air drops or through -- of supplies or through some kind of miraculous movement of ukrainian forces in here, and that's going to be really tough for them to do. so the ukrainian forces in mariupol have a very tough time standing fast in that city. they can do it for some time, but the key is resupplying them not only with weapons and with ammunition, but also with food and the other means of sustenance they would need, and medical supplies as well. of course. if ukrainian forces can't hold out and mariupol falls, how would that change the battlefield? >> if that were to happen, mariupol is on this map right here. if mariupol falls, it really wouldn't change the dynamic that much for the ukrainians except, of course, there is a political and symbolic value to mariupol and keeping it is, obviously, in ukraine's interest. it's almost like an alamo last stand kind of thing. of course, it's much bigger and a much more significant thing for the ukrainians. but in terms of the actual battlefield, none of this would really change. the russians would get their land bridge in here and they would potentially be able to then turn and move their forces this way. but mariupol is draining a lot from the russian forces that are attacking it. so it's not going to be easy for them to pivot and move those forces into other areas. and to actually subdue mariupol and actually subjugate it is going to take a long time. they can't pacify it, even though it's a destroyed city at this point. >> ukrainian officials are hoping heavy rains in the east could slow down russia's advance and force armor on to roadways where they are more vulnerable to attack. how much could that help ukrainian forces? >> this satellite picture and forecast rainfall picture of ukraine shows exactly how much rain we can expect in the eastern part of the country. if that happens, you know, as the weather forecast calls for, what's going to happen is there is going to be a lot of mud and it will be force the russian forces on to the roads. it's also going to do some hindering for the ukrainian forces. it's going to provide them with some difficulties as well. but it's their country. they know the back roads. they know all of the different things that they need to know about this because they will be able to then squeeze the russians into certain paths and tunnelling the russians into those certain paths along those roads will enable them to be -- the ukrainians to target the russians and that will make it easier for them to prevail against them. they'll still be stuff to do, but the weather may very be on the ukrainians' side. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. hardly anybody thought ukraine would still be fighting. nearly 50 days into this war. well, it is david and goliath all over again? 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>> well, there isn't really a good historical precedent for such an overwhelming great power such as russia completely failing in an invasion of a much smaller neighbor. the russo/japanese war of 1904-1905 perhaps is an example. japan was considered a minor power in asia. russia was a great power of its day, and yet japan prevailed in that conflict. later on in 1939-1940 the finns put up a stout resistance against the russian invasion and were able to fend off the russians for a matter of months. but, you know, eventually numbers and weight of superior resources prevail in these sorts of conflicts normally. but you know ukraine has defied all odds to this point and i predict it will continue to defy the odds going forward. >> as you know, colonel, so many wars have been fought because one nation considers territory to be culturally or historically theirs. but it is clear that ukrainians have their own identity, they have proven they are willing to die for. are putin's miscalculations so far due in part to him not understanding that? >> oh, absolutely. the first, the most far reaching act a statesman and commander have to make is to understand the kind of war that you're embarking on, and putin thought this would be a walkover. he didn't understand ukrainian nationalism. he expected the ukrainians to actually welcome russian troops with bread and salt, and instead he's created a massive resistance to the russian army. you know, about 87% of ukrainians support, believe their country is going to win this war, and, therefore, support resistance. you compare that with a place like iraq where i fought where perhaps 20% of iraqis were supportive of the resistance against the u.s. and coalition forces. so this is a massive problem for vladimir putin, the fact that he has miscalculated the ukrainian will to fight. >> and we've seen the interviews of the little old ladies saying, you know what, f-you to these people and i told them to get out. it's amazing to see the support from every day ukrainians and how they are standing up to the russian army. president biden today accusing russia of genocide. the horror that we're seeing in ukraine is absolutely terrible, obviously. civilians are paying the price for russia's brutal envision. you hope they never see anything like this again. war is always hell, but does this look like a return to a more ruthless style of warfare to you? >> this is a pretty typical style of russian warfare. it's not surprising at all. you see what they did in syria when they battered syrian cities into dust and forced people to vacate with airstrikes and artillery strikes on hospitals and schools and marketplaces. they are merely taking that template and putting it on to ukraine. they want to break the will of the ukrainian people. so, no, this is not surprising. this is a reversion really to the norm of warfare which is brutal and bloody and doesn't always accord to the laws of war, which make it somewhat more palatable to civilians. otherwise, this is to be expected and, you know, vladimir putin should pay a price for his war crimes in ukraine. but i wouldn't hold my breath as long as he is in power. >> yeah. the most important question for me, i believe, is that you don't believe putin will stop with ukraine. if he isn't stopped, what do you see happening? >> well, this is an important point. the only reason that nato hasn't gone in and supported ukraine, in my belief, that putin has rattled the nuclear saber. and this is setting a precedent that if you have nuclear weapons, you can launch an invasion of a neighboring state provided it does not have nuclear weapons and you can make it stick. and so this is why it's really important for putin not to win this war, because otherwise this sets a new precedent that nuclear powers can do what they want whether it's within the law of war or not and get away it. and we cannot allow that to happen. it simple y is out of bounds fo civilized world in the 21st century. >> isn't it a conundrum that we are getting involved in large part because it's nuclear weapons and we are not getting involved in a big part because it is nuclear weapons? you understand what i'm saying? >> well, to a point. i think the, you know, one of the things we could do is we could arm ukraine with a wider array of weapons. we can give them artillery. we can give them tanks. we can give them aircraft. there is no reason why we shouldn't. the russians gave those sorts of weapons to the north vietnamese when they are at war with us, and this would just be returning the favor. so i think the biden administration has more options at its disposal which it needs to look at in order to even the odds, because ukraine can win this war if it's properly armed. >> colonel, always a pleasure. thank you. please come back. be well. >> thanks. an entire city? lockdown. if you thought that 2020 was bad, you have to hear my next guest's story. and what he is doing to stay sane while stuck inside a shanghai right now. you just have to hear it. stay with us. 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look, you guys have to be going through a bad time for people to love playing drums. you know what i mean by that. usually it's stop it with those drums! >> yeah. >> it's good to see you. thank you for joining us. you have been in shanghai for 14 years. now you're in the lockdown with china struggling to maintain its zero covid strategy. tell me about what you're doing and how many days you have been stuck inside. >> well, we've been officially locked down now for about two weeks. but prior to that, prior to the official lockdown, most people were just staying inside voluntarily. the city was shut down. there was really no reason to be going out. so everybody was just kind of staying inside voluntarily. until the lockdown took place. and then that's how it's been for two weeks for us now. >> yikes. so you're only allowed to leave your apartment to get tested for covid. how do you get food and other items you need? do you get a delivery? what happens? >> so at least in our apartment compound, there is a committee that's in charge of making sure that everybody has their basic necessities, the food, water, and all the basic things that we would need. aside from that, there are limited deliveries that are allowed in some of the compounds. so that's how we get by for the food. >> wow. okay. the video of you playing drums on your balcony went viral. talk to me about this. what made you go out there and just start playing? >> well, it's kind of a funny story. in the compound, everybody was kind of out on their balconies and kind of singing songs together, and chanting shanghai jaiyo. basically that means "let's go shanghai." trying to lift each's other spirits. it was kind of like a socially distant block party, if you will. >> very similar. that happened here in new york city as well. and in many u.s. cities. did anybody join in? did you get any sacks players or trumpet players or guitarists or anything like that? >> well, that actually happened later. after the video went viral, some musicians were taking some of that footage and then layering guitars and things on top of it. but when i was actually doing the show from the balcony, it was just me by myself. >> you say that you have settled into a routine since this all began. how do you spend your days keeping busy? >> excuse me, what was that? >> how do you spend your days keeping busy? because you're locked inside. this has become -- you settled into a routine? >> right. so, you know, anything to keep busy and to keep productive. so there's definitely a lot of -- well, i practice a lot. the whole day is still centered around music. but there is definitely a lot of home cooking, a lot of housework, anything to keep me occupied. the housework, my wife couldn't be more thrilled about. but it's basically anything to -- anything to keep me occupied and to just stay productive. and yeah, that's kind of the name of the gym for me right now. >> hey, best of luck to you and your family. and we're happy that you could join us. >> thank you. >> and we wish you well. thank you so much. all right? >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. so, listen, a sad note from the world of entertainment. comedian and actor gilbert gottfried has passed away at the age of 67. his family is saying he died after a long illness. over the decades, gottfried played a lot of different roles on tv and in movies, and he was known for his distinctive voice. >> hi, i'm margaret thatcher. this isn't on, is it? i'm gil gottfried. even when i'm not working, i'm just walking across the road. yeah, i have a reservation. i'm liam neeson. if someone else is paying for the food, then i go to the most expensive restaurant in town. when i get to the hotel, i immediately go into the bathroom and steal all the soaps and lotions. i do a lot of vocal exercises. a voice like this, you have to protect. >> so, listen, i got to be honest. he was one of my favorite comedians, if you saw a comedy central roast with gilbert gottfried, you were rolling on the floor laughing. irreverent, devil may care, he went after everyone. there is a lot to be learned from the good old days when gilbert gottfried went after you, and we were okay with it. gilbert gottfried's family posting a note on twitter saying while it is a sad day for them, they're asking everyone to laugh as loud as possible in his honor. thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues with john vause. this is cnn breaking news. >> hello. i want to welcome all of our viewer here is in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton at cnn headquarters in atlanta, and we are following late-breaking details on the manhunt for the person accused of opening fire on a crowded subway train in new york city.