someone that he had a personal relationship or a supervisor? until we get more facts to the nature of the victim, it was just speculating. do you ever wonder i don t know what the policy is in new york or any area for hospitals. particularly in urban areas. security that i ve seen is fairly tight and quite intense. there there are magnetometers or anything that would pick up a gun or anything like that. does it depend on the hospital? this is a large hospital system. what do you make of it? likely no magnetometers at the desk. especially a busy hospital like bronx lebanon hospital. a lot of traffic going in and out. lots of metal detectors. adds security but slows down access. so staff there not alarmed. let s say they have magnetometers. then what? then they re just the first victims. if you have the magnetometers, you need personnel prepared to
there are reports that the gunman may have worked at the hospital. some of the reports say that he was wearing what appeared to be a white lab coat. again, this information also unconfirmed. we re waiting now for new york s mayor bill de blasio to hold a news conference. he s here at the scene and we expect at that time to learn more information about what happened here at the start of the july fourth weekend. again, neil, emphasizing the gunman we re told is now dead and authorities not yet identifying who this individual was or what the possible motive was in the shooting here at bronx lebanon hospital. neil? neil: thanks very much, david lee miller. there are reports that they have identified the gunman. our own affiliate has report dr. henry bello was working at the facility.
much. again, this borderline lookdown or however you want to describe it outside this bronx hospital, it s about 1 1/2 miles from new york yankees stadium. that won t be an issue tonight. the yankees are playing the astros in houston, texas. so nevertheless, in and around that area will be a nightmare. david lee miller on the scene. what can you tell us? neil, the headline this hour, authorities are saying that a shooter has been killed. they re not elaborated, not saying whether the police shot the shooter or whether the injury was self-inflicted. apparently the shooter is now dead. this from authorities. no word that there may be a second shooter. we re hearing now outside the hospital, bronx lebanon hospital, you can see for yourself, that although there s dozens and dozens of police cars