build. he was wearing a green construction type vest and a hooded sweatshirt. the color is gray. now the police commissioner clear so say they do not believe there is any active explosive device on any new york city subway train car. they are not investigate ing th as an act of terror right now, but they have said they have not ruled anything out. here along 4th avenue, the road has reopened here. traffic is moving, but things are not normal. there is a massive police presence here. local police, transit police, the fbi here on scene as well. as this investigation is just starting. we re about five and a half hours from the shooting that happened this morning and still as mentioned, this massive search for this shooter as you heard a very limited description of the suspect. let s bring in brynn gingras. there are agencies from all over the place. they are coordinating with the federal authorities. they are basically all huddled together trying to pull in video and talk to
Authority officials. they responded with a level of care for their fellow new yorkers and our first responders at the neighboring hospitals. immediately kicked into gear and provided the necessary care while lives were saved based on the actions that we witnessed on some of the amateur video released. you saw passengers coming to the aid to each other. i cannot thank new york rs enough for how we responded. at that news conference, someone came forward and invoked 9/11 in the sense that so many people were just trying to help each other get off that train and get to safety. so many people were injured from just the smoke inhalation, being suffocated and trampled to get out of there. so certainly, this is something that they are wanting to find this person. that s priority number one at this point. and that investigation is still ongoing. the police commissioner said
Scene. we ll check back with youz. as was just talked about, the fbi is now working with the nypd on this investigation. they say they are following every viable lead. let s get right to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. what s the deal with the investigation? reporter: the role of the fbi here is to provide support that the nypd is using there on the sc scene. you saw there fbi and new york police department people who are serving on the joint terrorism task force. they are on the scene. you heard earlier from the police commissioner that they don t believe this is connected to international dmesic terrorism groups, however, they have this expertise to help use not only analyzing the surveillance footage that i m sure they have already collected from that area, but also electronic surveillance perhaps if the suspect was carrying a
And now they are worrying about whether they can breathe. so that seems to be the case here. it s unclear to what the motive is. which is why the police commissioner mentioned earlier and josh mentioned this point, as to the terrorism part of this, with terrorism we re generally talking about someone who has a political motivation or is looking to act out in a violent manner to achieve a political motivation. but that s unclear at this point. it could be just a garden variety spsycho path. we don t know enough yet. we do know enough about the description of the perpetrator, which is why people can call the tips line with any bit of information they saw. even if they saw someone running out from there, whether they have it on video or not, every little bit of evidence is going to be helpful to authorities. what we we know from the police department is the suspect they are looking for is a black male, 5 5 , heavy ier build wita
This is not being investigated assen an act of terror, but we heard people were terror rised. the impact on the system that everyone in new york takes. i know you guys have done it on your show multiple times. there s fear right now on the subway system. multiple people are texting me being like, this is why i don t take the trains anymore. this is something that s invoking a the lot of fear because there was already fear there seeing a lot of different attacks whether it be slashings or stabbings. nothing to this scale, but fear inducing for had people here in new york. what more do we know about the victims? there are 16 people being treated right now at area hospitals. that number could change. we are hours away from this. ten people shot by a gunshot wound. we know that five people are critical but stable. the police commission er saying they don t think anybody is going to die from their wounds, but certain ly we pray they dont