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>> reporter: tonight in queens, the epicenter of the new york city outbreak, ems workers are the infantry and they are overwhelmed. the number of calls to new yorks 911 system skyrocketing. every call is treated as a potential coronavirus patient. they let us follow them from a safe distance on several calls. this woman says her aunt is covid-19 positive and has pneumonia. this is her second trip to the hospital. shes scared? >> i am scared for her. >> reporter: with 20% of the ems force out sic...

Me. what do you know? >> the shooter is dead. weve seen that at least for now police there believe they have the situation under control. the key now for them is what we see in these situations time and time again is the local authorities to go through the building, through the area to make sure theres no other threat. there was something going on there, some of the ems workers got a little spooked and they walked out of the building. >> while they were trying to -- >> while they were trying to ...

Helicopter, you can tell its a pretty big area where this happened. lots of tents. so, probably there had to have been a lot of people there. so, from what i can tell and based on some of the stuff that ive heard that the ems workers, the police, they were still going through the scene trying to find victims, making sure that they could clear it. and theyre still as far as we know looking for at least one shooter. >> yes. thats -- that is the information we have here. thank you so much. stand by...

After 9:00 p.m. there, shimon, in gilroy. so what are they up against now that darkness has fallen? >> well, if theyre searching for this shooter, thats going to be the most important thing for law enforcement right now, is to try and apprehend the shooter. that, by far, is the biggest priority. you would think that by this point they have a handle on the injured, that theyve been able to go through the scene, try to find anyone thats been injured and get them the aid that they need. that was so...

The professionals, army, navy, coast guard, national guard. and then the citizens, the firefighters, the police department, the ems workers and the citizens who weve seen rescuing people. miguel, when they go down, when they rap pell down, when those rescuers are there to put somebody in the basket and lift them up into the helicopter, do they impose conditions what they can carry with them? >> no, they dont have conditions. but crews are asking them not to bring too much because there simply is...

To see us honor him. [ speaking spanish ] clear. earlier it was a critical situation. there was one area that had been evacuated. it was an area that everyone moved to higher ground in the elementary school. they were sheltering in place but that place was taken over by water. so they brought everybody here to dry land and now there is another place in need of [ speaking spanish ] assistance so well make our way over there. >> gadi schwartz in baytown. i do want to remind you all. i dont want to...

Whole body. >> ribs can drop along. you have a problem with somebody cant breathe. this is going to sound heartless. someone who just breaks a leg or arm, if they dont have any other injury they have to be taken care of after someone who had a chest wound. >> is that where the color coded -- >> absolutely. >> if something happened you would have a doctor like dr. siegel on my car to help out. >> the key is getting doctors involved. the ems workers, even more important to get people stabilized an...

Support. people bringing water, juice, food coffee whatever they thought the first responders needed. and we love our first responders here in philadelphia. everyone knows the great history of the fire department the police department, ems workers. they save lives last night. 200 plus people walked off of that train. youve seen the records. youve seen the damage. and the fact that they were able to walk off of that train get service, get to a hospital get support and get reunited with their fami...

Heard from eyewitnesses and people who were there, dr. siegel the closer you were to the front of the crash, the more damage to the car you were in. the car on the -- first car that was impacted apparently completely flipped over. then we were just showing some youtube video where the people were crawling out and crawling on the roof. but the roof was where the floor should have been. >> in that kind of disorientation occurs the cars in the front had the most force, probably going to the regular...

Sara ganim takes a look at cases. >> reporter: the arrest of six baltimore police officers in freddie grays death has renewed calls for justice for eric garner, the 43rd-year-old father who died after apparently placed in an apparent choke hold by an nypd officer last year. garner repeated the phrase 11 times during his arrest. now we learn the 25-year-old gray also indicated to police officers that he, too, could not breathe. garner spoke about the similarities between her husbands last moments...