Anything can happen. Some others say, well, we came to new york expecting to see Something Like this. But they still arent quite sure who the man, what his motives are, if he is suicidal. Police still trying to talk to him to figure out exactly why he is doing this. Valerie, quick question, too. It doesnt look like he is getting very far. We have been watching him for quite a while. He might be getting fatigued at this point. Any idea what First Responders might be saying to him right now and any idea if stop and go right to them . Reporter its unclear. It looks like he is using suction cups. It looks like a slow process from the video. You can see police in some of the video yelling to him from some of the windows. Im sure they are trying to coax him over to one of those open windows. Still unclear how far he plans to go or where exactly he started from. Valley, as we keep it here Jersey Service unit officers on the case. They have broken some of the windows there at trump tower. You see them off and on over the past few moments talking to him, attempting to coax him into quitting one would assume. They have broken the glass above him. Its falling toward him. We have seen glass on that side, on the other side of the facade there. Again, this is trump tower 56th street right at fifth avenue. This is the south faci of windows and we have a young guy with a harness and suction cups and trying to make his way up. This is like the fifth or sixth story of a 58Story Building so he hasnt gotten very far. We can city that glass raining down we can see that glass raining down on him. He seems very calm. And glass raining on him like you said and officers trying to talk to him. He hasnt gotten very far. Hope for the best, quite frankly. You look at that backpack, we have no idea whats in there, hoping its just equipment and gear and so forth. But, um, nypd on the scene. Emergency Services Officers now we see for the first time theres something of a harness with i guess thats a window washer type unit that they are lowering toward him as they look to bring this thing to an end. I dont know if we have control of the camera if we can widen out but you see more officers on the ledge there to they are perched and presumably talking to him, as well. Again, we dont know what is in that backpack. Thats the big concern. Great concern to the nypd and all of the people in the surrounding area. Once again they have closed down that area right around trump tower in midtown. That man has been climbing for [ signal breakup ] very far. Again, they were just breaking some of the windows, talking to this man, not sure whats going on between them at this time. It looks like they are lowering that window washing of late when mr. Trump himself is around, there are secret Service Agents swarming the building in a protective sort of ring and fashion but you would expect it to be something, um, somewhat lesser. So right now, again, if you are just tuning in, we are watching a scene high above fifth avenue not that high actually, 5 or 6 stories up on a skyscraper of 58 stories, this is trump tower where we have a young man with suction cups and a harness and some equipment in a backpack stopping traffic, stopping the city really, stopping building and we have officers to his left, right, above and below, trying to get to him and get him to stop and hopefully bring this thing to a peaceful end. Again, he has been in the same spot for quite some time. It doesnt appear they are going down to him i guess they are waiting to see if he comes up to them. They have him surrounded. You can see on the far right of the screen again, you have the emergency workers there. You can see them sticking their head out occasionally through a window they broke. You can see the scaffolding above this man, as well. Again he has been at this quite some time not getting very far. A short time ago they broke that glass to try and get [ signal breakup ] a better closeup right there. There you can see someone in the scaffolding. Looks like they might be getting ready to make a move but that man is right below them. We have seen many rescues in this town with window washers who get stuck and officers working with them in a less hostile kind of fashion but in this case, um, theres why he is doing it, how far he wants to go, whether he is listening to the officers or, um, ignoring them. There we have it. A climber dangling above a few stories up five, six stories up above trump tower. Check, check, check, check, check. The out facing side of the building. Again, this is the 58story tower. He is not very far up but we dont know if he was trying to get to the top again, what exactly he was trying to do. But nonetheless he is there and we waiting to see what this is all about. It first started popping really about an hour ago when social media just lit up with images and video, people just surprised in the middle of the afternoon to have a guy doing this kind of thing. So here we have fifth avenue is shut down south of trump tower. Actually i should say its open south of trump tower leading up to it in and in that area its closed. Traffic is snarled. Tough enough getting around it looks like he has done this before, obviously, this contraption, were calling it suction cups. We dont know the exact name of it right now. But he has been doing it, he has been at it. He has the harness on and, you know, again were just waiting to see why he is doing this and how he even got this far. Hoping for the best. Its the kind of thing would you wear for Something Like this like it was well planned out or at least thought out. This is what he wanted to do and here he is. In midtown. Just checking, too, Donald Trumps twitter seeing if anyone notified him about this. He hasnt tweeted anything about it. We dont know, you know, what his reaction is going to be to this. Once again, he has [ overlapping speakers ] were wondering if this man is working with them and will in fact go to them. Maybe he is stuck because he is not really making much more progress and obviously they are not going to let him get much further up at this time. Back in with Valerie Castro. Can you hear me . What have you got . Reporter hi. I can hear you. Actually, we have a lot of spectators down here as you can imagine. Everyone has stopped to take a look and see whats going on. This is max. He works in the area. Max, what do you make of all this . I dont know. Its kind of crazy, right . You could see anything just going for a coffee in new york city. Um, i heard someone was climbing up using suction cups and im not sure why. Maybe he thought town and he wanted to talk to him. Who knows. Reporter what do you think when you see all the people who stopped to look and wonder whats going on . I think people see trumps name and, you know, they want to know whats going on and they are in new york and some people thought the celebrity sighting might be in store but who knows . Reporter youre a new yorker . Ism. Born and raised. Reporter so to you is this we are, out of the ordinary . Well, i guess the timing, given that you know, he just talked about the Second Amendment yesterday and to but otherwise, no. Just a regular day here, i guess. Reporter okay. All right. Max, thank you. Back out here live in midtown, again we want to show you the Police Presence here on the ground. Fifth avenue southbound still shut down at 56th, traffic is allowed to turn southbound on fifth avenue from 56th. You can all the police vehicles, there are several ambulances down in that area. Again, a lot of spectators here a lot of police surrounding the base of trump tower. We saw a few on one of the corner terraces from trump tower appearing to try and get a look from their Vantage Point as well but again, Police Holding this area very secure until they can get this person down and, of course, figure out exactly why he is climbing up the tower. Back to you. Do you get a sense of people being frustrated, bemused, curious . Annoyed . How would you characterize what people are saying down there . Reporter from this Vantage Point its really hard to see these people arent sure what theyre stopping to take a look at. They just around and see everyone looking up, many of them not sure what theyre looking at until we have told them theres a man climbing trump tower. Many want to know if he is home. One person asked me if it was trump climbing the tower. [ laughter ] reporter a lot of speculation and wondering, you know, who this person could be and what his intentions are. Yeah. Yet another moment in the president ial campaign if we can even call it that. I dont know if we have control of the camera, guys. And see the big picture . I want to get a sense of which floor he is on. Last we checked it was five or six up. Not that high. High enough to fall and hurt yourself. There are ledges off to the right. There are broken windows above. If you are just tuning in thats because nypd officers have done that. Theres a shot four. Its in an effort to try to get to him, speak to him, hopefully get him out of than five or six stories you up. Its a fair way up. It appeared he got to the ledge to climb out. Theres a towel outside the window that the First Responders have broken. Not sure if they are communicating with him. They are right by him. Maybe he is going to climb in the window. He has been in the same area for quite some time. Hasnt made much more headway atop this 58story mixed use skyscraper in midtown. Its a heavily trafficked area. You ha a over there people going shopping. So no doubt the crowds on the ground are just stopping and staring and as valerie mentioned, the roads are closed off keeping people away. We dont know what this man has in his backpack, why he is doing all of this. He has quite a getup on there, that harness and these so called suction cups. Hoping it works. That towel hanging out of the window we presume it would window and give them a better shot at reaching him, hopefully, um, but it looks like he is about a floor beneath that open window where nypd Emergency Services, officers there on the scene, trying to work with him and trying to get him out safely. So this is what its been for more than an hour, hour and a half or so. We see a head, theres an officer, um, its a perilous thing. And it does appear to be a calm situation. They do under control and i mean, the man seems to be pretty call. He has to be tired at this point. He has been up there for quite a while. It doesnt look like that something, ha ha, relaxing to do. His arms are probably tired. Hopefully he will reach up to the First Responders and go through the window and then well find out what exactly he was doing this for. Hopefully run out of gas. Well, but what we notice is that above he was on the wall of windows under that officer, hanging outside the window. Now it appears hes changed course and is going up the perpendicular glass there and dont know what the communication, but dont know what security is like at that building. We dont know how long it was before anyone noticed he was doing this. It mixed use, perhaps communicating with the First Responders, dont know if he is trying to get away from the window. Looks like he is making a left turn to get away from them. You can only guess whats going on but you would hope they can at least open a window on that wall of windows and reach him. But, um, its tough to tell. How you game plan and strategize Something Like this, as it unfolds. Again, we saw he is stories we initially saw but its a 58 Story Building. I dont see how he would get all the way to the top. The windows are thick in nature so they always have to bring in the diamond cutter blades to cut them. They cut through it quickly. They have blankets and towels through. It looks like he is communicating with the window. Valerie castro is still there at the scene. Reporter police have set up barricades on either side of fifth avenue so people cant cross the streets. People cant see whats going up. People are wondering whats going on. Many are just surprised to hear that someone is actually climbing the tower. One woman says this is a crazy person. Still trying to figure out the motivation and intentions this man has by climbing up. The area surrounding the base of trump tower is shut down. There are a lot of police vehicles, fire trucks, a few ambulances. This area obviously will be shut down for quite some time and again police containing the crowds behind those metal barricades. You often see parade or rally here on fifth avenue. But in this case, its a much different situation. Yeah. This is a stunt. If you are just tuning in to cbs news at 5 00, here it is at 5 15. We are into a broadcast where all we have seen is a guy on trump tower scaling the building with suction cups, harnesses and what looks like repelling gear. And the nypd is trying to coax somehow. Emergency Services Units on the scene. Fifth avenue shut down under 56th street. Traffic snarled, spectators wondering whats going on. We are watching as well hoping for he is communicating. We see him talking with the First Responders interest through the window there through the window. They have the blanket there because they broke the glass. You can see them talking right there. Demeanor is calm right now. We are just watching and head coaching he goes in with them calmly. If he wanted attention he has it. He has everybodys attention. We need this thing to end, um, there are a lot of spectators watching this all unfold wondering what exactly is going on. Were all wondering why exactly this man is doing this. Thats a heavily trafficked area with pedestrians, you have a lot of tourists over there, of course, fifth avenue notorious for the shopping so huge crowds are gathering watching all this. You can see that man talking and we are just wondering if he is going to actually do what they want him to do and go in. Or if he is going to climbing. He is surrounded by First Responders. The window washer scaffolding is lowered just above him. You have First Responders to the far right of the scene out of the screen right now. But they are all surrounding him so they are all ready and waiting and hopefully negotiating this man coming inside with them peacefully. Having a conversation. Making some gestures. But so far no dice. We have someone on the phone Anthony Pagano is a retired fire commissioner of yonkers. Mr. Pagano, thanks for joining us right now. We have seen rescues in your town and others in the area. What are your thoughts as you watch this . Reporter well, this is an odd situation because it doesnt really represent a rescue. I mean, obviously, its some kind of an antic this that gentleman is doing and the First Responders that are ns glass, are probably trying to talk some sense into him and ask him to climb in before any of that equipment does fail and it turns into a rescue situation. What is the checklist of things they would go through to coax him out of there. We havent necessarily seen this before. How would they go about it . Well, i would believe they obviously would try and let him know that, you know, this is not something that he should be doing, obviously. Safety of everybody on the ground and for his own safety, okay, youre at a situation where now you can enter into the building and, you know, kind of talk him into getting in there before anything happens to him or anybody else. When you have a situation you dont know whats in the backpack, you dont know why he is here, you dont know what its all about, how do you approach him . Reporter well, i with kid gloves. You dont know whats in the backpack. You dont know if its something he is trying to do to draw attention to himself. You got to kind of like just convince him that, you know, you should come in, are you in far enough, you drew enough attention. Hopefully his intentions arent to do anything drastic and hopefully theres nothing in that backpack thats dangerous. You look at the body language, he is sort of waving with what theyre telling him. And he is going about what he had in mind. Thats the way it appears as he moved farther away from them and continues to climb. Now, if he keeps going, could is it possible that they could grab him, pull him inside . What would they do right here . I mean, if they can reach him, i would think they would try to before they forcefully grab him, make sure that they are safe inside and this pretty difficult because you can see he is always moving. And if they are going to grab him, they have to secure themselves. I mean, god forbid if they grabbed him and he fell and pulled a First Responder with him. Its hard to do when continuing to refuse whatever they are telling him to do and he wants to continue to climb up the side of the building. The body language i would hope at some point he decides, okay, i had enough, im coming in. And hopefully its not any kind of a, you know, act where this guy wants to cause damage. As best we can tell the body language is not receptive, shall we say, to what theyre telling him and he seems to be gog his original plan. So have you in your career as a firefighter ever come across i dont know how to call him a hostile person to be rescued . Anything like this . Have you dealt with it . Not where, you know, obviously theres points and times where people are on top of a building and they are threatening to leap. But nothing like this have i ever come across that. Often downtown. But i do know they have some expert piece in dealing with a hostile person. It may have some problems. This is an odd situation. He seems to have equipment that is safe enough to do what he so they have a lot of questions in mind. He wants to do more than just scale the building. Is it somebody thats just trying to draw some attention . You know, thats a possibility there. There are so many possibilities that these First Responders have to react to that its again, all they can do right now is continue to back into the building talking some sense into him. What what his goal, they are going to have continue to talk to him. They have area. Lets update our viewers who are just tuning in. We are watching drama over midtown. This is trump tower. There is a man climbing up the side of th