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[ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. new inmates are booked into the bergen county jail in hackensack every day of the week. most will arrive in a police squad car, but today one is driven into the compound by ambulance from a nearby hospital. and due to the nature of his charges, robert leonardes reputation has preceded him. >> at the end of the day, a fellow officer got shot at, it sticks with you. you're going to look at that guy differently than a guy that's here for a parking ticket. >> any crime involving law

Enforcement we take a little more personally, especially an officer being shot at. >> you have to put your emotions aside. you can't let your emotions dictate what you do. so i mean, yeah, you think about it. it affects you. you still have a job to do at the end. >> one month earlier leonardes was out on bail for a prior aggravated assault charge. police say he shot at three hackensack officers who fired back, hitting leonardes 14 times >> a shot in my hand. shot in my arm. i'm still healing up, going through a lot of pain and problems. i had open wounds. i still do. four times in my stomach. ...

I don't know what's going on with my case. i went to court. they just read me my charges and then brought me back over here. >> since he was the last known owner of the gun robert leonardes allegedly used to shoot at hackensack police officers, stack has been charged with possession of a handgun while committing a crime. his new cell mate, james george, has advice for him. >> first and foremost, do not go to the courtroom and let them judges do what they want to do. go to the law library. this is what it is. this is what's going on. i need to read up on this. i need to find any loopholes in my...

Arrests were made in miami, baton rouge, detroit, houston and brooklyn. more arrests are expected today. a story we are following this morning. ongoing story. one person we know of is trapped in the rub of this partially collapsed parking garage in is in hackensack, new jersey. this collapsed yesterday morning. right before noon, i should say, around 11:00 eastern time. at least one person in there, but we just heard from a reporter we talked to live on the air a moment ago that police believe maybe two or three other people could be in there because they have another two or three people una...

Welcocome back. bottom of the hour here now. glad you could be here. we're following a developing story happening right now. a rescue effort going on in hackensack, new jersey. this is a tricky one right now because a man has been trapped in a collapsed parking garage for the past 19 hours or so. police believe the man, yes, is alive. you see some of the pictures here of it. but this thing collapsed. essentially there is a three-story structure pancaked around 11:00 yesterday morning and the trick here is, you have to be very careful about trying to get in there and move around because there i...