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Is assessing risk, and assessing threat. and in the subway, at least, especially, maybe new york subway, it's either -- is it either particularly vulnerable oar a particularly attractive target? what is it about subways? >> well, that's a great question. you know, subways and public transportation, you know, represent soft targets. so whether it's the subway platform, the subway itself, while there may be police presence, these are not, you know, fortified locations. they don't have an increased level of security. so anytime you have locations that have -- that -- where the general public cong...

Idea of where the individual went. there's also some question about whether the surveillance cameras on the platform and at the subway station were working or not. there are some reports suggesting they were not working, which may be one reason we have not seen a picture of the individual yet. police may be withholding that as part of their investigation until they can figure out some other things. there is a police surveillance camera out on the street in front of the station that apparently was working. again, trying to pin down the specifics of that. there's a lot of camera footage no doubt...

Device actually took place on the subway car, as it was traveling from 5th street to 36th street. so that takes what we thought from initial reports was a very localized scene on the platform of 36th street, and turns it into something that happened, you know, that basically stretches your crime scene out across the entirety of the subway system, almost. in terms of looking for the perpetrator of this attack, right? investigators are now looking at likely video capture at every single subway stop along the "n" and the "r" line, in which an individual matching this guy's description could possi...

Honed in recent years put into play in a case like this to try to identify and apprehend the person as quickly as possible. >> the good news pete williams reports he did leave behind it seems quite a bit of material at the scene. when you heard the description of what was happening, that the man donned a gas mask, opened a gas canister and opened it on the train as it was heading into the platform, the train filled with smoke and then he hoped fire, what struck you about the way in which that man operated? >> i think the first thing you think of is the premeditation, clearly this is somebody w...

Oversees the city subway. they don't have additional details. if you're here in new york listening to this the trains of the d, n and r lines are delayed because of this. >> bill: we won't share the picture with you but it comes from the new york -- the post reporting this. a picture of several people, dana. looks like at least three on the ground and they are bleeding with one person getting a tourniquet applied to his right leg and on his cell phone at the same time. this happened on the subway platform. not on the train and not on the street above but actually in the subway down below. anot...