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>> reporter: tonight in queens, the epicenter of the new york city outbreak, ems workers are the infantry and they are overwhelmed. the number of calls to new york's 911 system skyrocketing. every call is treated as a potential coronavirus patient. they let us follow them from a safe distance on several calls. this woman says her aunt is covid-19 positive and has pneumonia. this is her second trip to the hospital. she's scared? >> i am scared for her. >> reporter: with 20% of the ems force out sick, the ones that can work are working nearly nonstop. sometimes with only limited protective gear....

Me. what do you know? >> the shooter is dead. we've seen that at least for now police there believe they have the situation under control. the key now for them is what we see in these situations time and time again is the local authorities to go through the building, through the area to make sure there's no other threat. there was something going on there, some of the ems workers got a little spooked and they walked out of the building. >> while they were trying to -- >> while they were trying to assist. so this is the normal stuff. people see things. they hear things. they pull out. they come...

Helicopter, you can tell it's a pretty big area where this happened. lots of tents. so, probably there had to have been a lot of people there. so, from what i can tell and based on some of the stuff that i've heard that the ems workers, the police, they were still going through the scene trying to find victims, making sure that they could clear it. and they're still as far as we know looking for at least one shooter. >> yes. that's -- that is the information we have here. thank you so much. stand by because now we have an eyewitness on the line with us. she's just been reunited with her family...

After 9:00 p.m. there, shimon, in gilroy. so what are they up against now that darkness has fallen? >> well, if they're searching for this shooter, that's going to be the most important thing for law enforcement right now, is to try and apprehend the shooter. that, by far, is the biggest priority. you would think that by this point they have a handle on the injured, that they've been able to go through the scene, try to find anyone that's been injured and get them the aid that they need. that was something -- in a lot of situations in these shootings, there's always a delay in getting to victi...

The professionals, army, navy, coast guard, national guard. and then the citizens, the firefighters, the police department, the ems workers and the citizens who we've seen rescuing people. miguel, when they go down, when they rap pell down, when those rescuers are there to put somebody in the basket and lift them up into the helicopter, do they impose conditions what they can carry with them? >> no, they don't have conditions. but crews are asking them not to bring too much because there simply is not that much room and the more belongings, the less room there is for people. form for some of t...