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Season. national average is 2 ppts $7is has fallen for five weeks in a row. that is a real feel indicator for so many consumers. >> indeed. "early start" continues with the latest on the helicopter crash in new york city. you could feel the building shake. >> so what caused the helicopter to crash and burn on the roof of a building just blocks from times square, new york city? red sox legend david ortiz moved to a boston hospital after he was shot in the dominican republic. president trump...

Building. a witness describes the moment of impact. >> you could feel the building shake. and you could actually hear the alarms when they went off, the alarms went off, security came in, told us everybody get out of the building now. do not take the elevators. walk down the stairs. >> the pilot has been identified as tim mccormick, he was a certified flight instructor with 15 years of experience flying helicopters and single planes. his colleagues left heartbroken and stunned. >> tim will be ex...

There were just too many people. it was too crowded, and everybody was trying to get off on all the floors at the same. >> reporter:. when this happened, what did you feel and hear? >> you could feel the building shake. and you could actually hear the alarms when they went off. the alarms went off. security came in, told us everybody, get out of the building now. do not take the elevators. walk down the stairs. we could feel it when it hit. but no one knew what it was. we thought, like, years ag...

Helicopter? was this a chartered helicopter? where was it going? where was it coming from? all of those questions, the police, the nypd is working on is working to get that answered for us. and were waiting to hear from them. obviously weve heard from people inside the building. very scary moments. the building shock. folks were evacuated. some of the people from inside the building saying it was crowded. the stairwells were extremely crowded as they were leaving the building. but good news here...

Landing at first. now we know it shook the building the way it has, it was more than a hard landing. if the fuel is leaking, something more went wrong. more than 100 emergency workers were deployed according to authorities there. weve heard from the different witnesses who felt the building shake and all the rest. nobody knew what was going on. a man named melvin douglas, 50 years old, told "the new york times." he was selling umbrellas. heres the thing about umbrellas. when youre in new york it...

Correspondent brian llenas is on the scene. >> we are on seventh avenue in the middle of midtown new york blocks away from times square. behind me is where the private helicopter crashed at the very top of this 54-story building. the pilot is dead, but remarkably there are no other injuries tonight. at 1:43 this afternoon the first 911 call came from inside the 750-foot tall axa equitable building. witnesses report hearing an engine noise before feeling a shake. minutes later an emergency announ...

And it crashed landed on that building. some color now from inside the building, a woman works in that building and said shed come back from lunch and got in with her coworkers and faulty building shake and two seconds later she said on the loudspeaker they said they needed to evacuate and she grabbed her thanks and started going down and there were a lot of people coming down the stairs like a bottleneck on the worker said, "please let me get to the bottom of the staircase. i dont want to be in...

Atlantic ocean, change so quickly that these helicopter companies operate under great restrictions. what they were less private helicopter is another matter. a witness we just heard from a faulty shake and remember, that witness was on the third floor, but this happened on the 54th floor. imagine a shaking and disruption they felt in the higher reaches of the building. in many of these buildings in fact the one we are in now, 20 or 30 floors up on a windy day coming off the new york harbor or th...

Vacation, all personnel evacuate the building. i told all our customers, everybody in the building to leave. right now theyre checking to see if everybody is out of the building. also i heard that the pilot is okay, so thats what iheard. >> yeah, reports are still developing so right now were trying to get that information confirmed. but you were on the first floor and you still felt the building shake. >> yeah, we felt the building shake but it wasnt like a heavy shake. it was just like a tum...

Is -- the firefighters they came in like 20 -- they just went in full force. i thought maybe it was a gas explosion or something, but i dont know. >> reporter: raphael, thank you so much for talking to us. and were kind of in a holding pattern, too, kasie. a lot of the buildings have been evacuated. emergency responders are just spread out across this area, and you mentioned the weather has just been pretty awful. i mean the rain has been pouring down so people have been standing in this weather...