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>> reporter: everyone is surprised. people who are down here are surprised. everyone we talked to -- this is not a crowd that typically pays attention to the news or cares about what's happening in the world, in cable news. everybody that we speak to down here is either watching it, talking about it, heard about it, taking selfies in front of the place. it's a shock that this man existed in plain sight. by the way, three blocks away from the 9th precinct where the perp walk happened. >> everyone rides the subway, which is why there's interest in this. miguel, thank you very much. perspective...

This is somebody who was considered armed and dangerous because the weapons he brought on to that subway. there was the u-haul, the warning that if you approach the u-haul, be very, very careful, but at the end of the day, you said he was arrested without incident. >> it seems as though. at least that's the latest information that i have from someone that says he was in custody and it seems there was no incident here. they took him into custody and that he's at the 9th precinct and it was around 1st street where he was taken into custody. it's remarkable to me this guy was not hiding. you'd th...

So it seems that frank james here was walking the streets freely. almost nonchalantly. maybe not realizing there was in man hunt for him. so very good police officers on routine patrol see him, took him into custody and now he's over at the 9th precinct. we're also waiting to hear from the police department. they were expected to have a 2:00 press conference and obviously now with this new information, this will likely get delayed, but obviously a huge sigh of relief for people here in new york city, for law enforcement, as they now believe they have the guy they've been looking for. i can als...

It might look a little chaotic. there's a huge number of press here and a massive police force as well that's come in here now that this individual has been arrested. lots of police officers coming in and out of the precinct. shaking hands, hugging, bumping fists. ch clearly a since of relief this individual has been arrest ed. his arrest as mundane as arrests come. he was picked up on the street. people were all around him taking videos of it and he was put into a police car without almost anybody saying anything. it's not clear if we're going to see him soon out of this pre precinct. there a...

Manhattan. he's been taking to the 9th precinct. we're expecting to have a press conference from the police shortly. they were just supposed to update us on the investigation, put out new fphotos and video. that now changes everything. they now have the guy that's in custody and hopefully we'll hear more about how these officers took him into custody. it's remarkable. daylight out. 2:00 in the afternoon here and this person, not far from here, really. we are pretty close to manhattan. >> yeah, this manhunt was not what ended this. just two officers paying attention. you said you spoke with som...