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
of high-rises. don t know how high, how huge this building would have been, but certainly he said the people in the building felt the building shake. he confirmed one injury. but we have nothing as far as fatalities. he did say there may be casualties in the helicopter but that s as far as he went. we have people with me to talk about it. josh, former fbi, what s jumping out at you as you are hearing the details. there s different phases in incident management. we see pictures of emergency personnel setting up. they want to mitigate any continuing threat to life. they re put out the fire and try to ensure there s no one impacted. we also have to keep in mind that although we re seeing it on the screen, there are a number of different resours that are now deployed and working this from federal, state and local
things they ll look at right now. but it s whatever happened, it has to be somewhat exacerbated by the weather, because while that was happening, he had to be pretty close to being in the clouds if not completely enshrouded by clouds on top of that building. that s not a good situation to be in. we have confirmed that the pilot has been killed. we don t know if that is the one single fatality or if there was another fatality in addition to the pilot. miles o brien, your expertise as always is invaluable. let me read this tweet from the president of the united states. he has just tweeted, i have been briefed on the helicopter crash in new york city. phenomenal job by our great first responders who are currently on the scene. thank you for all you do. 24/7/365. the trump administration stands ready should you need anything at all. we are near the top of the hour and in case you re just joining us, we ve been covering this
just reported. we re trying to clarify. we know that the pilot was killed in this crash. and you re mentioning that video, and you brought it to my attention as miguel was talking. this is an erie sight. that s what authorities raced to when they got this call just before 2:00. they at first were told that it was a plane that crashed into a building. and as the governor staid, ptsd. there was almost a sigh of relief when they learned it was not as serious. bring it down a notch. of course. at least one person was killed. all right. bryn, thank you very much. let s go back down to the scene to miguel marquez with another eyewitness for it. miguel. reporter: we have morgan on the 14th floor of this building. yes. reporter: how are you doing? a little shake snn. a little shaky at this point. at least now we got some clarity as to what happened. reporter: what were you in the middle of and what happened? i work on the 14th floor.
building. but there were a lot of people that were still on the way out when we got downstairs. so there are a lot of upper floors up there. reporter: given the history of september 11th, 2001, what was it like when you felt it and the confusion there? well, a lot of people felt the building shake. at first they didn t think a lot of it. when security said get out of the building, then you got a little nervous. then you started thinking staircase. do i want to be coming down a staircase if there s something bad that s happening? we had no choice. we were nervous. that thought is in the back of your mind. reporter: may i have your name? i am nathan hutton. reporter: you re on the 29th floor? i work in bnp in the i.t.