In both directions, major thoroughfare, takes people into the city and out to new jersey. Three lanes in each direction, sometimes four lanes. Next to that is a popular, wellknown, longestablished bike path. Its not a path. Its a Concrete Street but only for bikes. It is separated by a median between the West Side Highway and the bike path. There is a median in the middle with trees, sometimes just a curb but always a separation. To the right is the highway, to the left is the bike path. We are looking north. A truck got into that bike path and began mowing down pedestrians and bicyclists. The hudson river to the right, new jersey. These are all victims. At latest report from the authorities, this white truck, this home depot rental truck, not one driven by a home depot
trying to piece together what happened as you said, this does appear to be an Act Of Terror. Everything that the witnesses observed is consistent with an Act Of Terror. None of the authorities going on camera here at this time saying that. But it certainly looks like this was a terroristic act. There are a number of published reports that say the gunman did shout allah akbar. None of the witnesses i talked to said they heard him say anything but another report says he resembled someone of Middle Eastern descent. Again, we expect to learn more in the next 2 minutes. Speak to that video is crucial. If you can hold the phone up again. Ive been down, not the Landscape View but the other view so that it is full screen and tilted forward a little bit to remove the glare. We can get a much better shot of it. We are getting a bunch of text in here now. Let me shepard he has a better view. There we go. We have it. We are ready. Youve got it now. Shepard yes. And that is the suspect. In his hands are those two fake guns, as they are described by police. The glare is an issue but you get the idea. We will feed this in a more proper way but it was after that video. Thanks so much. After that video was taken, thats when police engage the suspect. He had is described as two fake vehicles. Police shot him, two different officers fired, shot tim and the like. Hes in the hospital. Heres the location of the carnage. The bike path on the left, highway on the right and then pan around and will be looking southbound. Hudson river, west on highway. We are between chambers andHouston Street. Soho in new york city. According to the authorities, that man killed six people, injured nine people. We are waiting for a News Conference to begin at 1 police plaza, locations of the headquarters of the new York City Police department. Eric shawn on scene and we will join him. Early reporting of the details of this came to us from our Senior Correspondent rick leventhal, who is he with us again. Rick, an update and a look back. The video of the aftermath supports everything weve been hearing about what happened on there which a scene of carnage as this truck apparently went a block south along the bike lanes, hitting pedestrians and people on bicycles, killing at least six and injuring at least nine. Law enforcement sources, some of them local Law Enforcement, members of the joint Terrorism Task force which works with the fbi tell me that the jttf has determined this truck was rented
from a home depot in jersey city and that members of the jttf are there now, looking at surveillance footage, trying to figure out who this person was. If he was with anyone at the time that he rented the truck, who might have been with him, who mightve been connected to this individual. They are fast tracking it to try to make sure theres no one else in no other threats lingering. They have told me, Law Enforcement sources, that this individual drove eight blocks south in the bike lane, was stopped when he had a school bus, got out, as you saw from the footage. Apparently with two weapons. One i was told was a bb gun, the other was a paintball gun. Officers shot him twice. Hes expected to survive. They are trying to figure out exactly who he was and while he was fair and why he did what he did. Sources telling us he may have been carrying a florida i. D. Probably likely rented that home depot truck from a
home depot in jersey city, new jersey. Shepard rick leventhal, thanks for that. Continue watching this video. I want to tell our viewers. If you look at manhattan, on the west side is the hudson river and then you get to new jersey. In the 30s, 40s there is the Lincoln Tunnel. A couple lanes in and out. If you go to the lower end of manhattan around canal street, in the area where this happened, there is the Holland Tunnel. If you get in the Holland Tunnel on the new york city side and go under the hudson river, when you come out on The Other Side, you are in jersey city, new jersey. Its the first thing when you get out of Lower Manhattan and go across, its the first thing you hit. There is nothing before it but the river. Jersey city has a huge Waterfront Area builds up in recent years, extremely high riverfront condominiums that tower into the sky and overlook Lower Manhattan. If you go a little bit inland
from jersey city, you can get on a labyrinth of highways that takes you all over new jersey. You can go south to philly. Over there, jersey city, just The Other Side of the river, that is where rick is reporting he rented this truck from home depot. Literally a mile from new york city you have to go under the tunnel, through the Holland Tunnel to get there. Now, where all of this began was around the Lincoln Tunnel. Which also goes to new jersey in the 30s, 40s. Thats where this started. We are getting reports he went at least nine blocks. What do we have . Lets listen. Okay, okay. Stand back. Stand back. Shepard we are listening to a witness described what he
saw, multiple reporters in on it and one didnt want others hearing. You can see the media scrum. We are going to get official word from the new York City Police department and a News Conference scheduled to begin in 3 minutes. Eric shawn is there. Good afternoon, shep. We expect andrew cuomo, Bill De Blasio, and james oneill to brief us. This sadly becoming an alltoofamiliar scene here in new york and around the world. The specter of radical islamic terrorism striking the city yet again. I heard ricks comments about the Home Depot Truck Being rented in jersey city. It was in new jersey where the bombers of the World Trade Center in 93 rented the van that they drove into the World Trade Center, first islamic attack, 1990. The shooter in a midtown hotel, an egyptian follower. He had a selling jersey city. It went on to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. The landmark bombing plot in 1995 to bomb not just the u. N. Building but the Lincoln Tunnel and Holland Tunnel. Lincoln, probably where this van driver came out as well as, weve had other Terrorist Plots that that have been foiled. New york city has detectives around the globe whose specific job is to deal with these type of terrorist threats. Certainly this is a fastmoving developing story. Trying to find exactly what the motivation was and who the suspect is and if indeed he had any radicalization or help or direct assistance from any foreign terrorist groups, all part of the wideranging investigation right now as we expect the mayor, governor and Police Commissioner as well as
other officials to brief us momentarily. Shepard we will have live coverage on fox news channel. Fox stations across the country. From the new york daily news, i thought it was a Halloween Prank, said the witness from queens. I saw the gun, gunmen running in a circle and i realized it was serious. Nypd snipers took positions on the roof of the City Vineyard restaurant. The daily news reports. We thought the guns were fake and it was a Halloween Prank, said the Stuyvesant High School student. There was a car crash and he started to shoot. This was 3 00 in the afternoon. Stuyvesant high school, literally you can throw an apple to Stuyvesant High School from where this thing ended. Stuyvesant high school was just letting out for the day. Halloween afternoon. Lots of kids in costume, people in costume all over the place. Clearly the man did have fake guns. The authorities they won was a paint gun and one was a bb gun. Some people at least on scene thought it was a Halloween Pran prank. Other information we have just gotten, we have a lot of new Traffic Issues in new york city which i want to mention. Manhattan bound lanes, the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is shot. Traffic in Lower Manhattan is in gridlock. There is a gridlock alert. Police activity all along the lower west side. We do not have an update on the annual Halloween Parade, scheduled for Greenwich Village. A Million People expected to be at that. Suffice it to say, good luck getting there. You cannot come in the wake of a Terror Attack in new york city. Authorities believe it was terror related, that the driver of the Rental Vehicle got on somewhere around Houston Street, traveled for at least nine blocks and the bike lane. One witness quoted to have said he was traveling in the
neighborhood at one one point fr zero , 50 miles an hour. Mowing over bicyclists and pedestrians. Running into another vehicle, our understanding that the vehicle who was crossing had the rightofway. The bike lanes wouldve had a red light for lack of a better term and bicyclists would have been stopping allow cross traffic. Instead, the perpetrator in this case continued to drive south in the bike lane. This is a northbound look. You can see victims and the bike lane to your left. Looking north, and then it turns around and looks to the south. That can happen about now. The camera is going to pan to the left and we are looking south to the hudson river, West Side Highway. There is the bike path. You see helpers running and bicyclists down, people helping each other. Bicycles crumbled in the background and then the video ends. This is the video of the
perpetrator taken by a witness on scene. Described as appearing of Middle Eastern descent, carrying two fake weapons. Described by police, running around, shouting, according to multiple witnesses allahu akbar, which is god is great in arabic. Being taken down by police. We believe in this area, he was running around. You see police. This is the West Side Highway, southbound lanes. That would be Northbound Lanes of the West Side Highway. Because of the way the shadows are going. This is the scene in that neighborhood that appears to be southbound traffic. Southbound traffic pretty much gridlock in Lower Manhattan, getting up to one of the bridges. This is a chopper from wnyw, the fox chopper. You can see in this intersection, i am not sure which intersection but i know that is southbound lanes of theWest Side Highway. You can see the shadows going away from the screen. They are telling me. To cross the street to help the kids. We walked over, i see a home depot pickup truck mashed into a street post. Two people laying on the ground with sheets covered. They appeared to look like they had been run over. Were they in the middle of the West Side Highway or the edge . Stick with they were in the bike lane. I see another gentleman on The Other Side laying on the floor while ems was trying to assist. Reporter could you see the suspect, a man with a jacket, a stripe across the back . Stick oh, no, i didnt see anybody. I only saw those three people who appeared to be injured. Reporter we are hearing
waving them around. The leaders of our city are entering the News Conference. This is a picture of the perpetrator as taken from a cell phone on scene as recorded by someone elses phone by david lee miller. Authorities are beginning their update from 1 Police Plasma in Lower Manhattan, an apparent Terror Attack on the nations largest city. Lets listen. Good afternoon, everybody. Keep in mind this incident occurred a little more than two hours ago. The information we are giving you right now is preliminary and subject to change. After i speak, youre going to hear from Governor Cuomo and mayor de blasio, bill sweeney, assistant director in charge of
the new york fbi office is standing up here and members of my executive staff. Members of the state police. First i want to say today there was a loss of innocent life in Lower Manhattan. The dead and injured were just going about their days, heading to work or school or enjoying the afternoon sun on bicycles. This is a tragedy of the greatest magnitude. For many families here in new york city and beyond today. We want to commend the response for the nypd officer on post near the location who stopped the carnage moments after it began. Also the work of the First Responders, including the Fire Department and ems personnel truly help save additional lives. I will give more a villa chronology. I would like to introduce now mayor de blasio. Thank you, commissioner. Its a painful day in our city. A horrible tragedy on the west side. Let me be clear, based on the information we have, this was an Act Of Terror, and a
particularly cowardly Act Of Terror aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea what was about to hit them. We, at this moment, based on the information we have, we know of eight innocent people who have lost their lives. Over a dozen more injured. We know that this action was intended to break our spirit, but we also know new yorkers are strong. New yorkers are resilient, and our spirit will never be moved by an act of violence, enactment to intimidate us. We have been tested before as a city very near the site of todays tragedy, and new yorkers do not give been in the face of these kinds of actions. We will respond, as we always do, we will be undeterred. I want to thank everyone at the nypd, all of our First Responders for their extraordinary efforts in the midst of this tragedy starting with the officer who stopped this tragedy from continuing. All of the First Responders who came to the aid of those who were injured. The investigation is underway to get all the facts. What we tell you today will be preliminary. But we know we will get to the bottom of what happened. I want to ask all new yorkers, all americans to keep the families of those lost in your thoughts and prayers. They will need our support, and i want to ask all new yorkers to vigilant. We know its halloween night and we know in the days ahead,
people will be uneasy. We ask all new yorkers to live by the idea of you see something, say something. Tell an officer immediately. Anything unusual, anything that worries you. Be vigilant and know there will be extensive additional appointments of nypd officers this evening and throughout the days ahead. We will also keep you posted as this Investigation Continues and as the nypd gains more information. Governor cuomo. Thank you. First, our thoughts and prayers are with those new yorkers who we lost today. Reminds us all how precious life is. They left the house this morning. They were enjoying the beautiful west side of manhattan on a beautiful fall day, and they are not going to be returning home. And that shock and pain is going
to be very real. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of them. Our First Responders did an extraordinary job, the nypd, the fdny, fbi, new york state police, ems. We have the finest security on the globe. To see them in action today prove that once again. The new Terrorist Tactics which they have called for publicly are these lone wolves who commit an Act Of Terror. This is all very preliminary. Its only been a couple hours but at this point, theres no evidence to suggest a wider plot or a wider scheme. But the actions of one individual who meant to cause p