governor was just out here andrew cuomo, the governor of new york and said a helicopter crashed. it s not clear if this was a hard landing, a controlled landing. they didn t call out emergency. he says that there are either injured and/or dead in the helicopter. it s not clear how many at this point. the crash or whatever happened when it came down on top of this building caused a fire in the building that fire department is confident it now has under control. but there are multiple, dozens of fire vehicles up and down 7th avenue right now with an enormous number of not only nypd fire new york state police as well trying to make sure that there is nothing beyond this, and as the governor said, we all have 9/11 ptsd. when you hear something like this, a plane into a building, it just sends shivers. i think everybody went into
general population endorsing the idea of impeachment to make the speaker comfortable with this idea which lends more credence to the fears that maybe republicans like bigs are right at this juncture. but this is the fundamental push and pull. is it going to look like it was their last option and they had to do it? that s what democrats who want to convince the speaker are trying to forgive me. right now we re going to come back to you and what s happening in washington d.c. we are getting some breaking news regarding a helicopter crash. that s all i have at this moment. a helicopter crash. we have a correspondent working this for us. shamone, where and what and how? the nypd is responding. they ve on scene in what appears to be a helicopter that has crashed in midtown manhattan. this is just steps from times square. it s a 51st and 7th avenue. we don t know of any injuries right now. there s conflicting information
helicopter that for whatever reason that is tbd, had to crash land on top of this huge building in the middle-midtown manhattan. as a result there was a fire on top of the building. this is according to governor and police. the fire has been contained. you can see by the pictures it s been pouring rain. the ceiling is low. low skrvisibility in the city. why was a helicopter flying? who was it? and how many were in the held continuer? we know we can confirm one death. and we don t know anything much beyond that. miguel marquez is on the scene. we ve got him in front of a camera. miguel, show us what you re seeing and tell us what you ve been reporting out. i want to show you the building. this is 7th avenue looking up town 7th avenue. you can see the large number of energy vehicles up here, and if
block. it s the tallest building on this block. it s also not clear whether there was a helicopter pad on this building. a lot of buildings have helicopter pads. perhaps it tried to land it on the closest pad and didn t quite make it. it is very poor flying conditions for any sort of aircraft right now. and certainly a helicopter having issues over manhattan would have been quite a scare. since you re there, are you seeing any pieces of debris, parts of the helicopter anywhere on the streets below? there is literally, this is the shocking thing to me. i rushed over here a few blocks away from work. i expected to see something, something more substantial or telling of what happened there. but right now there is nothing so far that i can see. i mean, our view is somewhat limited up 7th avenue essentially, but all i see are fire vehicles, balances and the like, and a lot of police vehicles, but so far there seems
and again, we re obviously working to find out how many injuries there are if anyone has survived this. obviously a chaotic when you think about where this happened, time square of 51st and 7 th avenue is in the center of manhattan in the heart of manhattan. it s a serious, serious situation here. you can see that by the response from the nypd and the fire department, brooke. shimon, thank you for jumping in and we ll let you go and you can make your calls to sources to nypd and beyond. if you re just joining us, we re reporting on a pretty intense situation in the heart of midtown manhattan. this is time square. you re seeing the rescue vehicles and fire running to the scene as there has been in the early on i can t say if it was an accident. it s a helicopter crash into this building at 7th avenue and 51st. that s just around time square. it is pouring rain, in manhattan