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Lethal. >> absolutely, jake. that's a common misnomer about cops being trained to shoot to wound or warning shots or shoot weapons out of people's hands. that's just not the case. you an trained to shoot center mass. obviously some of the incidents of recent where people are armed with body armor on, then you have to follow up to another part of the body afterwards, something that is not covered by the body armor. in this instance, i have no doubt that the nypd folks that confronted him were aiming center mass. very difficult if he's getting in or out of the car or moving, it's very difficult ...

Attack, and that's what the fbi is treating it as right now, this will be the first successful one that involved casualties in new york city since september 11th of 2001. >> although there certainly have been attempts prior. the times square bomber, for example. art roderick, what's your final thought on this? >> well, i think, you know, we talk about the joint terrorism task force, for people that don't know that out there, this is a task force made up of multiple state, local and federal agencies. it's not just in manhattan or new york, they're all around the country in every state, in every...

All of this information is preliminary. all of this information is the law enforcement officials telling us what they're hearing right now and it could change. but we are being told -- shimon is being told that up to six people have been killed in this incident. where somebody was driving a van or a truck of some sort on a bike path, just taking down cyclists and runners and pedestrians in manhattan. cnn law enforcement analyst art roderick joins me now. art, formerly with the us marshals service. when you hear a vehicle was going on a bike path killing cyclists and pedestrians, what goes thro...

Figure out what was going on. everything got blocked off. from every direction, the roads were blocked off. police were coming from every angle. >> john, thank you very much. i appreciate you telling us what you saw. and i want to go with that straight to our panel, who are going to be with me throughout the hour. bob baer and art roderick. thanks very much to all of you. let me start here with what we know and don't know. we foe that he's an uzbekistan national. he came to the country in 2010. we have no idea whether he was here legally or stayed here with a visa. we know nothing. he yelled a...

That's the official time right now. then 12 minutes after that that the first officers arrived there on the 32nd floor where the gunman was. so i want to start there now with cnn law enforcement analyst and former u.s. marshal art roderick. we also have tom fuentes. cnn analyst and former assistant fbi director. i want to also bring in scott mclean, he is outside of police headquarters. first off, tom, can you speak to this? because i was struck so much by the emotion there. we will dissect the time line and some of of the changes there but clearly sheriff lombardo feels like his police depart...