of covid. >> dana: chad pergram. thank you so much. >> bill: also in washington u.s. supreme court right now are hearing arguments in a heated legal battle. watch this story. a law out of tennessee that is being challenged that bans medical treatment for minors to alter their gender including surgery, puberty blockers and other hormone therapys, the risk of alloying irreversible treatment as applied to the medical safety of children happening in numerous states now. we'll see what the court decides and determine what the other states are or are not allowed. >> dana: this case is considered the biggest case and we'll get a result by june of 2025. people watching that. we'll have the breaking news on the shooting out of new york and the ceo of united healthcare insurance. thank you for joining us. see you tomorrow. here is harris. >> harris: let's pick up the breaking news now because there

are developments coming. a manhunt is underway in new york city for a killer. the chief executive of united healthcare insurance, brian thompson, was shot twice standing outside a landmark hotel in the middle of manhattan. here is the development. we're told to stand by now for a news conference at any moment by new york city police. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." the ceo of united healthcare insurance was gunned down just before the company's annual investor meeting. sources telling fox news they believe he was targeted. aexis act adams with the facts we know right now. >> we are going to hear from the nypd in a half hour or so. what details they will be able to share might be murky. this is what i can tell you breaking down what happened outside in mid town manhattan just earlier this morning. we're talking about an american ceo walking near the hilton hotel behind me when a masked

gunman wearing gloves rolled up on a bicycle. gets off. shoots the ceo twice, once right in the chest. we have two different cameras down here so you can see some of the different angles. the officers have been coming and going. they brought in nypd crime scene units and new vehicles to try to piece through what they have. the "new york post" put out exclusive surveillance photos outside the mid town hotel where the united healthcare ceo was killed. it shows the man leaving on the bike. we're working to get more information on the new surveillance clips that will be key in the investigation. we talk about brian thompson who was in new york city for this healthcare meeting. this was united healthcare ceo having his annual meeting getting ready at 6:45 in this morning heading to the meeting in new york city. he walks outside and gunned down. in town visiting from minneapolis area where united

healthcare is headquartered. this was supposed to be a run of the mill meeting update on what was going on with united healthcare and ends up getting shot and killed in mid town. putting this together we walk around here all the time near fox headquarters. this is probably the busiest time to be in new york city during the holidays. millions of people across the big apple. police want everybody to know there is a manhunt underway but they believe this was a targeted incident. told by sources they believe it was a hit job on the ceo and working to get this guy be hand bars and question him at this point as this all continues. they don't want people in new york city or watching who might be coming to visit to think there is a killer on the loose with random motives. we'll see what happens in a half hour with that press conference. >> harris: if it was a targeting we don't know how random the motive will be but there is a killer on the loose and we know there is a news conference coming up. we'll cover it live as it

happens here. the heated debate over transgender surgeries and treatments for children is now sitting at the u.s. supreme court. the high court is hearing a challenge to tennessee's ban on gender treatment for minor children. it is the first time the high court will consider restrictions on puberty blockers or other hormone therapy. tennessee senate majority leader. >> i think we're looking for the court to hopefully affirm the right of states to be able to regulate these types of medical procedures especially on children. we know the science is unsettled. long-term harmful side effects of these surgeries and use of these medications. hopefully the supreme court will affirm what the circuit said and say states have a right to protect children. >> harris: the whole country will watch this. tennessee is one of 25 states which have restrictions on transgender treatment for children on the books. this exploded and became part of

an election issue just a few weeks ago what voters were telling us. a new piece points out that other liberal-leaning countries are starting to take action on the treatments as well. here is a headline. america needs to wake up. doctors and politicians praise england's landmark decision to ban puberty blockers for children over fears about the drug's long term harms as they call for similar in the united states. "wall street journal" editorial board writes believe it or not the u.s. government will argue that the 15th amendment means a state cannot ban transgender hormone regimens or adolescents. perhaps it looks like jabber-walky. the feds are serious and so are the implications of the case. they include access to restrooms and participation in sports. as i mentioned to you, all of this became an election issue.

not top three, but it was important to people as they headed to the polls on november 5th when you talk with them. justice correspondent david spunt has more now. >> a lot of questions flying around right now in these supreme court chamber arguments began about an hour ago. still very much underway. until today the justices have not formally weighed in on the constitutionality of state efforts to regulate transgender medical procedures for minors and other sex reassignment surgery. this tennessee law bans medical care for transgender adolescents. in 2023 donald trump's campaign promised to ban treatment for adolescents nationally while banning medicare and medicaid insurance coverage for such care to groups for and against the law have been outside the supreme court for several hours. a passionate issue because this case will have implications that extend well past the borders of the state of tennessee.

a broad effect in all 50 states. go past the walls of every en a medical facility. thanes gender protections in sports. access to bathrooms in high school. here is chloe cole against gender affirming care. >> this medical ideology was something that consumed most of my adolescent formative years and i have lost parts of my body. i was on puberty blockers at 13. cross section hormone injections and vasek tommy to remove my breasts before i was old enough to drive a vehicle. >> lgbtq groups have eyes on president biden to see if he will issue some sort of executive order or blanket protection that doesn't involve a fractured congress. many are worried as a new

administration is coming to town and three trump appointed justices sit on the court. who knows what will happen. arguments continue for the next hour or so with a decision likely late spring from the high court. >> harris: thank you very much. i want to bring in leo terrell, attorney and fox news contributor. so glad you are in "focus" with me today. what are the legal issues around these treatments for minors? >> i'll tell you right now, harris. with all due respect to the other countries in europe, this deals with the constitution, the 14th amendment, equal protection. here is the question. does this rise to giving trans genders equal protection under the 14th amendment. why is that important? it will determine the analysis by the supreme court on how they look at the tennessee law. i will give you an example. is it a rational law for driver's license or a constitutional interest where the state of tennessee must be

very tailored in limiting rights. the effect of that decision whether or not it is a constitutional question or not will impact, as you correctly stated, every state and go beyond transgender surgeries. it will deal with sports and everything. this is historic. >> harris: at the heart of this, though, the puberty blockers are dangerous and they are dangerous because many of them, one in particular, was made for prostate cancer and i have had dr. marc siegel explain it on the program and say it makes for brittle bones in young ones. it is complicated to give a child a drug that was meant for an adult for something far afield from what they are treating that child for. he likes the idea of more of the mental health type of approach where we wait. we see what's going to happen. we treat some of what's going on on that end and work with the

parents. he said the complicating factor, my question, we aren't just talking about blanket freedoms for adults. these are children. they are not making their own decisions. >> you just articulated a compelling reason that the states should articulate to justify why this law is valid. it is narrowly tailored to protect young children from a long-range damaging effect. that's the compelling reason that the supreme court has to justify and determine whether or not that law meets that test. it has to be narrowly tailored. those are the magic words, harris. >> harris: i want to get to this. we're watching this and david spunt say it could happen here on t"the faulkner focus" in the next hour. the crowd has gotten bigger and they don't know what's going on inside the building. it could be the time of day as

we round out the noon hour on the east coast. interesting how many people have a vested interest in this all over the country as we have been talking about. some have shown up at the u.s. supreme court today. the biden administration prosecuted a surgeon who spoke out about a texas children's hospital. that facility was allegedly secretly conducting transgender treatments on minors. dr. heinz is now facing federal charges and he is accused of violating hipaa privacy laws and what he told fox news a few months ago in the summer. >> standing in that courtroom and hearing those words facing up to ten years in federal prison is terrifying but there is something greater to fear and that's the fear of not doing something. what kind of world will that be if we don't stand up? we need to win. if we lose, the door closes permanently on whistleblowers in the healthcare system. >> harris: so that's really heart scratching right there.

you lose in the fear of doing nothing because again at the heart of this are children, leo. >> and that's exactly what this doctor did a balancing test. he basically made a gamble to go to prison to save children. again, he made a medical decisions to have implications that would involve his freedom because by disclosing this information, he violates hipaa. hipaa is a law that prohibits this but made a decision in the interest -- the best interests of children. >> harris: another one here one doctor says she will not publish a study that found no evidence that puberty blockers improves the mental health of child patients. what is your take on that? >> i will tell you, everything is politics. you talked about the large crowd growing there. you look this is a political decision that the supreme court is going to have to make regarding what happens with

young children and the 14th amendment. the rippling effect there is a lot to be gained by certain interests as to the outcome of this particular case. that's the problem. the supreme court hopefully is above all the politics and will rule on the constitutionality of this. >> harris: there is the politics and also just plain cash money and the pharmaceutical companies benefit, too, to some degree. if you sell your prostate drug for something else, as sad as it may sound that children would be the victims, i don't think that has been calculated in the boardroom. i want to talk about the wording of how the study put it. blockers didn't help mental health. that to me as a mom says if you aren't helping, you are hurting. how does the law look at this? >> the law will look at it in the sense it is not a viable alternative. she concealed that report in my opinion to hide that type of information. it is to deny the existence of

what actually works and what doesn't work. i have think that's what she did it for. >> harris: can we just talk about basic freedom for a second? i had mentioned to the audience more than once over the last few months but especially today with this issue, this became an election issue, the idea of biological men in women's bathrooms, sports and surgeries without parents knowing for certain districts around the country. now this at the u.s. supreme court about tennessee's push to save children's future by not exposing them to puberty blockers, by banning that. where are we in the march to freedom with all of these things going on? we're having to figure out some stuff on the plate that we have to. >> we have to. the thing about it, go back to the playing around the manipulation of title ix. a law very clearly intended to have female women play sports and separate them from men. it has been manipulated by the

biden administration. right now the whole issue of transgender men playing women's sports is in flux right now. that's why we go back to the transgender case, harris. it was going to resolve a lot of issues at least set the foundation for having a general understanding as to what is happening with trans genders in general in this country whether or not they receive equal protection under the law or not. >> harris: leo terrell, appreciate you as we await what the u.s. supreme court does next. at any moment new york police will give an update on the killing of the ceo of united healthcare insurance. it happened outside a landmark hotel in mid town manhattan. you may recognize it when we show the outside of the building. it is the same hilton where the all-important religious event the al smith dinner took place

before the election. the one kamala harris skipped and it might have hurt her in terms of the faith vote, if you will. but that's where some people may recognize this hotel. that ceo for united healthcare was standing outside when he was shot twice. we're waiting to hear more details. sources are telling fox news from nypd they believe the shooting was targeted and looking for a suspect. it is a general type of description of a man who likely got caught on some cameras down there. there are a lot of them all over the place in the city especially near the hilton area up the block from us as fox. they describe him wearing a black hat and black gloves. the low 30s, early 20s this morning. that could describe a lot of people. cameras will be important. we'll take you live to that news conference when it begins to get more detail. and this is coming up as well. house democrats are pushing back on the findings of a republican-led panel covid-19

investigation. the panel looked into the pandemic's origins and all the restrictions that we lived through and really it's the last public session today. so what comes out matters even more because it will sit with people for quite some time. plus we could get a verdict in the daniel penny trial at any moment. >> you have 12 people there. they all ride the subways, all new yorkers. one of them -- one of them says you know what? if i was in that car i would have been thanking daniel penny as well. >> harris: jury is deliberating whether daniel penny is guilty of killing jordan neely on a new york city subway as he was trying to protect the people locked underground in that subway car from a man who was described as being erratic, unhinged. a live report from the courthouse and retired nypd lieutenant is here.

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>> harris: fox news alert as new york city police are scheduled to give an update now on the killing of united healthcare insurance ceo brian thompson. you can see the lectern in the middle of the screen. we expect that in the next few minutes. supposed to happen the bottom of the hour. we're watching it. meanwhile, the search for the killer is on in new york city. you know, being on edge in new york on a day when more than a million people will show up to a site that's maybe four blocks from where brian thompson was murdered this morning, saying that it is on edge is probably light because we have so many tourist people who have not experienced the event like the lighting of the tree tonight and

certainly not one with a blanket of law enforcement all across the city in a different way. not just giving directions and friendly to tourists as they always are. nypd is the best. now they are looking for a killer who took out a chief executive. brian thompson was shot twice earlier this morning outside the hilton hotel in the middle of manhattan and we're being told by sources that this was not a random act. we'll take you back here live as soon as that news conference begins. i want to bring in now darren, a retired nypd lieutenant and law enforcement professor. i always relish our conversations because you have such good intel on what happens on days like today. this is a big event to protect the lighting of the tree already without this. and now a manhunt. how do they get it done? >> it's a challenging narrative to say the least. what's unique about this particular area we refer to this

as the central mid town quad rant. it runs from 59th to 14th street, river to river. we have an extremely large contingent of officers that work that particular area. in addition to that, the nypd has a consent agreement with a lot of the retail establishments which allows them to come into their live feeds of their cameras. so it afforded the nypd the ability to follow the pathway the shooter took. where he was placed hours prior to the shooting and where he made his escape. that being said it is a matter of time where the nypd with leapfrog from camera to camera to find out where the assailant went. he stood outside of the hotels that houses diplomats during the u.n. general assembly and actually participated or partook

this violent act, horrific, against the ceo of united healthcare. it is a travesty especially as you mentioned in the earlier part. today is the tree lighting. if this is not a terrible time for something like this to happen, i don't know what is. i'm confident in a matter of time he will be taken into custody. >> harris: you've given us a huge amount of information. the web, connectability of the grid of cameras per businesses around the city can go live and assist police and maybe that's not brand-new information but it certainly sounds like important information on a day like today that i did not know the reach of. that's a lot of information. so when you say it's not a random act, how do they know that part? >> for someone to post up hours before the ceo of united healthcare was shot is clearly shows this was something that was a targeted attack. >> harris: your cameras that you told me about. the grid you can work with the

merchants and people around the city to connect you can see the footsteps and how long this individual would have been sitting. >> that's correct. from the point of the shooting and his traveling eastbound on 54th street to by the ziegfeld movie theater where he made his escape. we believe it was a bicycle to make his departure from the scene. >> harris: i want to use this as a back drop. not only tourists here but we have 58,000 known criminals who have crossed our border illegally. not that there would be any connection naturally with this but it makes the work harder for nypd because they are already dealing with rampant crime uptick from those individuals who came here illegally. >> i'm glad the mayor is looking to deport these people with

arrests or prior arrests, the migrant crisis in new york has dilapidated the quality of life in all areas. hopefully we can get something done with the new administration to rid us of the tyranny from the migrant crisis in new york. >> harris: these people intend to live the life before they had crossed the border. a life of crime. 58,000 people is a lot of people to keep up with when you are trying to lock down a crime scene that may or may not have anything to do with them but they are roaming. they are always there. so you have to vet that situation and protect the tree and everything else and the millions of people who will be coming in and moving about the city later tonight. i want to bring in leo terrell, attorney and fox news contributor and have both darin and leo with me on this one.

we're about to hear an update now from nypd. what things are we looking for random act is not something they suspect at this point? talk to me about the law. >> i'm looking at planning and premeditation. this ceo was gunned down. the fact that this guy was there prior to the ceo arriving. i'm looking at the idea whether or not he had partners involved. he had a bicycle and equipment and things that he utilized to execute this individual. i'm looking at whether or not the police department -- i'm sure the district attorney is collecting this information. you raise one another point, harris, talk about the grid that darin talked about. a lot of cities have this cooperation. new york city is a sanctuary city. question mark, this guy had a mask on. question mark as far as cooperation that will take place involving this individual.

we don't know his ethnicity, legal status. a lot of other questions that the prosecution and district attorney will have to feather out. >> harris: that's really chilling actually, darin, when you consider this. there was a time when you couldn't wear a mask in the city. they were worried that criminals were getting away. i live in jersey but i work here so i get the alerts on my phone and i think didn't they think of that during the pandemic? we know that's true. if you cover up your face, the cameras can't identify you. >> absolutely right. masking individuals creates a challenge for law enforcement especially knowing that they can possibly be identified by camera. the average person photographed in manhattan 100 to 200 times a day. that really sets forth a precedent for someone if they choose to act to cover their face to prevent being taken into custody. in addition to that, the nypd is

experiencing an extreme level of officers that are leaving in the backfill hasn't been accomplished. it presents a more challenging narrative in terms of having officers in appropriate locations to create the level of presence for the community to feel safe. the migrant creels is is decimating our quality of life and the challenge to get these people out of our society, them being the migrants here illegally. new york is a sanctuary city. what will we do about this? people are paying money to fund these migrant shelters. that's the million dollar question that the mayor cannot answer but hopeful the new administration coming in will eradicate this migrant crisis plaguing our city. >> harris: let me jump in here and i appreciate that so much. this is video of brian thompson

from 2023. we are starting to get more information. united healthcare insurance ceo was due to be doing what he is doing here, going to an investors meeting this morning to give the lay of the land at the end of the year to talk about this. this was last year. this is 2023. he would have been going to this meeting and you heard alexis mcadams reporting. still trying to figure out where would it have been. we wanted to quickly bring you that. we are going to take a quick break. gentlemen, i will bring you right back and the news conference as it begins. everybody is in place now. stay close.

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>> harris: a new york city jury is deliberating and we'll get to that in just a moment with daniel penny because there has been a little bit of movement there. these are brand-new images.

two breaking news stories happening at once. i want to show these images. we've just gotten these. this is surveillance imagery from the suspect from earlier today. you know the killing of ceo of united healthcare insurance outside the hilton hotel in mid town manhattan. we were just talking about how many cameras there are and the grid of cameras working with merchants like hilton and others. give us your live feeds. they tracked the guy who they are now looking for and why they know and are telling us that this was not random. those are the first images of the suspect. as soon as that news conference begins, you see it there live with the nypd lectern in the center. media are in place. i want to go to this. back to the deliberations in the

marine veteran daniel penny's case. they are deliberating whether or not penny is guilty of recklessly killing jordan neely, a mentally ill homeless drug abuser on the subway last year. this was a situation where witnesses say they felt threatened by erratic and threatening saying somebody is going to die today jordan neely. penny steps in. penny faces charges of manslaughter in the second degree and criminally negligent homicide. if he is convicted of manslaughter he faces 15 years in prison. he says he was protecting himself and those fellow subway riders from jordan neely who was acting erratically and making violent threats. new york city mayor eric adams here. >> now we are on the subway we are hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people. you have someone on that subway

who was responding, doing what we should have done as a city and state of having a better mental health facility. those passengers were afraid. i have been on the subway system and no what it is as a police officer to wrestle the fight with someone. it is imperative we look at the totality of this problem. i'm hoping that the jury will hear all the facts based on all the facts laid out, a jury of his peers would make the right decision. >> harris: cb cotton is live at the courthouse in new york city. >> what a busy day. moments ago the jury passed a second note to the judge asking to rewatch some video evidence in this case. they want to see that 25-minute taped interview daniel penny had with police when he voluntarily waived his miranda rights to speak with detectives and rewatch police body camera video.

the first note asked the judge to reread his instructions on how the law applies to the crime and details on the justified use of force. they appear to listen closely taking notes. penny faces up to 15 years in convicted on the most serious charge in the case. eyewitnesses say neely was hurling threats on the subway before penny placed him in a choke hold. prosecutors called penny's actions laudable but closing arguments they said good intentions can turn bad and reminded jurors they only have to evaluate penny acted recklessly. the defense in its closing said prosecutors have not proven that penny's choke hold was the direct cause of neely's death saying penny is being used as a scapegoat for a broken system and reminding jurors subway riders testified they were thankful for penny's actions. house representative elect who helped disarm a terrorist on a train from amsterdam to paris in

2015 says this case will prevent future good samaritans. >> i think if you live in oregon, washington, california, new york you are kind of concerned that something like this could happen to you especially if you are someone who thinks of themselves as someone who would step up. you want people to step up and try to do the right thing. if he god forbid gets convicted it will frighten a lot of people in blue states into inaction. >> while penny faces up to 15 years if convicted, there is no minimum sentence. harris. >> dana: all right. lots of details. another story we're watching closely today. thank you. in "focus" now darin porcher and leo terrell come back with me on this breaking news day. i want to come to you on the couple of things on the daniel penny case.

we know from published reports that the victim was not dead on that subway when they were talking with and then took for questioning daniel penny. he wasn't dead yet. they questioned him. the police know he is dead but daniel penny doesn't and he talks freely and from that they don't even arrest him for ten days. talk to me about the police work. what are they looking for that says yeah, we need to pick this guy up on a 20-hour hold until we can talk to the d.a.? >> based on the initial interview with mr. penny the police didn't think they had probable cause for arrest. probable cause was not established there was no need to take mr. penny into custody. police had a genuine understanding of mr. penny stepped up and did what he could to assist those passengers that were in dire need of having their safety protected. as we fast forward, the manhattan d.a. picks it up and he elects to prosecute mr.

penny, which is a clear miscarriage of justice. you want to bear in mind there was a warrant against the deceased in this particular case. had he been taken into custody prior to this incident we would have never had him on the subway. >> harris: the news conference, nypd on unite ed healthcare ceo. >> intended to wait for his intended target. the suspect fled on foot and e-bike and last seen in central park on center drive earlier this morning. the victim was removed to the hospital and pronounced. we have been in touch with his family, friends and colleagues and they're very much in our thoughts and prayers at this hour. the full investigative efforts of the new york city police department are well underway and we will not rest until we identify and apprehend the shooter in this case.

the women and men of the nypd take pride in the work they do each day and night to drive down crime and violence in our city. right now we are asking the public for your help. if you have any information about this case call crimestoppers at 800-577-tips. we have increased the reward in the case to $10,000. i want to be clear. at this time every indication is that this was a pre-meditated, pre-planned, targeted attack. millions of people will be enjoying the tree lighting tonight, among other holiday events. the nypd will be out there with them keeping them safe. for preliminary details about the tragic incident i pass it to our chief of detectives. chief joe kenny. >> thank you. the information i'm about to

give you is preliminary as the investigation is continuing. this morning at 6:46 a.m. patrol officers from midtown responded to a 911 call of a person shot in front of the hilton hotel located at 1335 avenue of the americas. between west 53 and west 54 street. at 6:48 a.m. officers arrive and find the victim brian thompson 50 year old male on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to his back and leg. he was removed by ems the roosevelt hospital and pronounced dead at 7:12:00 a.m. mr. thompson is the ceo of united healthcare and resides in minnesota. detectives from night watch, midtown north detective squad responded to the scene and began investigation. what we know is the shooter arrived at the location on foot about five minutes prior to the victim's arrival and stands alongside the building line as numerous other people and pedestrians pass by. we see at 6:44 a.m. the victim

is walking alone towards the hilton after exiting his hotel across the street. we believe the victim was headed to the hilton hotel to attend the investors conference scheduled to start at 8:00 a.m. the shooter appears to be a light skinned male. wearing a light brown or cream colored jacket, black facemask, black and white sneakers and very distinctive gray backpack. the shooter steps onto the sidewalk from behind the car and ignores numerous other people. approaches the victim from behind and shoots him in the back. the shooter then walks toward the victim and continues to shoot. it appears that the gun mal functions as he clears the jam and begins to fire again. the shooter flees on foot into an alley between 54th street and 55th street. once at west 55th street the shooter continues to walk westbound on avenue of the americans where he gets onto an electric e-city bike and rides northbound on the avenue of americas towards central park

where at 6:48 a.m. we have the shooter riding this bike into central park at center drive. at the scene we recover three live nine millimeter rounds and three discharged nine millimeter shell casings. the motive for the murder is unknown but it does appear the victim was specifically targeted. at this point we don't know why. this does not appear to be a random act of violence. seeking information from the public to identify the shooter. we have upped the reward up to $10,000 for information. you are urge evidence to contact crimestoppers. all information will be kept anonymous. thank you very much. >> open up to a couple of questions. start off with cnn. >> an hour and 20 minutes before the start of the conference. any indication he was going to meet someone? is he on his way to meet someone at the conference? >> he leaves the hotel dressed

like he will attend the conference. we are working co-workers to get that information. as of right now he is, you know, in charge of the conference so we believe he was getting there to help set up. >> [inaudible question] . >> do we know where the city bike is now? does he dock it or keep riding it? >> we're still tracking video. the last we see of him on the bike is central park. there are gps's on the bikes and we're working with the company. >> were any words exchanged? if so, what were the words? i'm told a cell phone was recovered in an alleyway on his escape route. does that appear to be connected? >> we're working through the cell phone. we'll be processing it. as far as words being exchanged we don't have audio of the incident, we only have the regular video. one witness standing next to the victim when he was shot and still trying to identify that

victim -- that witness. >> chief, was he checked into the hotel across the street alone? was he in the city alone? accompanied by anybody? did he have any known enemies or anyone that you've been able to find so far? >> we're reaching out to law enforcement in minnesota and interviewing his co-workers and family members to see if there have been threats against him in the past. who was he in the hotel with? we're doing a search warrant in the hotel room now and that might give us more information. >> based on the surveillance you've seen of this individual do you feel like he is professional? you mentioned -- do you think it was a professional individual? and also -- [inaudible] >> i will answer the part whether or not he is a professional. we have no way of knowing that. from watching the video it seems

he is proficient in the use of firearms as able to clear the mal functions quickly. as far as the -- >> just really quick. this incident will not affect the tree lighting. that is slated to start at 7:00 p.m. the show, actual lighting of the tree will be closer to 10:00. 9:55 p.m. we'll have a massive police presence out there around rockefeller center from 52nd street to 47th street. we'll have plain clothes out there and we'll have our crc assets, strategic response group assets. we'll have our intel division out there. a lot of assets out there to make sure people can come out and have a good time and we'll have additional police officers in the subways as well so people can take mass transit to make it easier to travel into the city and enjoy the tree. this is a terrible event but we're going to go on and people will enjoy the tree lighting

tonight. >> i wonder if you could tell me the mayor said there was evidence recovered at the scene that would indicate this was not a random event. i wonder if you can tell me what that evidence was. by looking at the gun it appears there is a silencer on the gun. was there a silencer on the gun and does it indicate not only it was premeditated but somebody who knew his way around guns and might have been a professional. >> you see a glimpse of the gun in video. we can't make a determination whether or not a silencer was use on the quick glimpse of video. we can't tell from that glimpse of video. i won't commit to saying that at this time. that will be part of that investigation. there is a cell phone recovered in the alleyway and we'll process that forensicly and see if it comes back to this shooter. >> you don't think the cell phone was -- [inaudible]

>> once again this investigation is less than five hours old. it will be part of our investigation. [inaudible question] . >> do we know when thompson arrived in new york city? my understanding he was staying close by the hilton but not at the hilton. has anything in the reverse video concluded these two individuals crossed paths at all? >> based on the video it doesn't appear they crossed paths and he arrived in new york on monday. >> we'll take two or three more. >> chief, did he typically travel with a security detail? even though it's early, anything to indicate there had been issues with let's say a patient who was denied coverage or back in minnesota or more recently someone who lives here? >> from speaking to other employees that traveled with him to new york doesn't seem he had security detail. he left the hotel by himself. was walking. didn't seem like he had any

issues at all. he did not have a security detail. >> as far as coverage that's typically an issue with the major companies. any reason to believe he had been the subject of a threat? >> once again we're looking at everything. we're looking at his social media. interviewing employees, interviewing family members. we'll be speaking to law enforcement in minnesota. >> wrap up. >> i was just going to ask if any cursory at any social media, the company, his personal social media, family's, is there anything obvious that sticks out at this early stage in the investigation? >> we haven't uncovered anything at this time. the investigation is still too early. >> with the suspect still at large last seen in central park are you urging new yorkers to avoid the park? is the nydp deploying drones? they started doing that in the park. i was wondering any indication

when he gets the city bike that he is a city bike member? sometimes if you are not a member you can pay to use it. i don't know if you are able to tell. >> the chief of detectives will answer the part about the city bike. we're encouraging new yorkers to go about their daily lives and daily business but to be alert. we put the picture out. you are putting out the picture. we want people to take a look. if they see or hear anything suspicious we ask them to call 911 and reach out to our detectives. with put a heavy deployment into manhattan and additional resources out. drones and canine and aviation out. we don't spare any expense we put all of our resources out there to support the chief of detectives' mission and keep new yorkers safe. we'll have a massive presence out there around the tree lighting, but throughout manhattan as well until more information develops and we're

able to support the chief of detectives what he needs to make a quick arrest. >> as far as where he got the city bike we're still working that through and pulling video from numerous sources and have him on a timeline walking. he has that distinctive gray backpack. he was walking and then riding the bike. we don't have video or witness how he obtained that bike. a cell phone was recovered and we'll confirm it later on if we do our forensic examination. >> thank you, everyone. this concludes our press conference. thank you for your time and attention. >> harris: a lot of details from that news conference. nichole parker, former f.b.i.

special agent, fox news contributor is with me now to talk a little bit about what we learned at the heart of all this, nichole, a lot of questions about the tree lighting that is set to begin tonight and it starts at 7:00 p.m. and several hours to try to catch the suspected killer. they have light at 10:00. you have upwards of a million people in one location two blocks from where i sit, four blocks from where the hit happened on the ceo of the united healthcare insurance. they are looking for the killer. would you cancel that? what do you do with the tree lighting? >> i think what nypd has spoken clearly is that they do have the highest level of security and people all hands on deck right now and want to give reassurance to new yorkers this does appear to be a targeted attack. based on this press conference it was an excellent press conference with a lot of information they provided. i myself based on my experience do believe it is also a targeted attack. any time there is a person on the loose who is armed and

dangerous doesn't give sense of peace for anyone out and about. the city of new york it is up to them and the mayor and law enforcement if they decide they want to proceed with continuing with this tree lighting that is up to them. as civilians i don't know i would feel safe going to a tree lighting knowing there was someone out there that was dangerous. >> harris: my point. this isn't very far from that. they don't know where the guy is right now or otherwise they would have him. they got him on a lot of grid camera work. bring back darin porcher and leo terrell. darin, i want you to talk to the f.b.i. agent. you know more about as a former nypd investigator. can they get it done before 7:00? are there things you can tell us that maybe we don't know they can track him down with? >> what will be interesting is you will have a forensic analysis done on the shell casings and cell phone that was recovered. what struck my attention was after the shooting, the

assailant went into central park. in central park we have far less cameras than we have on the streets of new york in terms of the commercial spaces. however, what is unique about central park. it is participating in a pilot project with drones. central park does fly drones. when i see that the assailant was wearing a backpack it raises my antennas, did he possibly change clothes when he got into the park? these are things police will look to in terms of examining where he exited that park and central park is a really tough terrain to manage from a police perspective. you have a precinct there with limited resources compared to officers that are on the streets that are traveling the streets. that being said i think this is just the beginning, but eventually this person will get caught. in addition to that, the dna or i want to say a forensic investigation of a bike. that bike will going to come to the police's

attention. they're going to capture that bike and that's going to assist with additional forensic investigation. >> harris: i don't know if you can get a city bike without a credit card, but there's a lot of people with prepaid credit cards because this is a sanctuary city and they don't have anybody's name on them. so we don't really know. leo, i heard you in the background. we are almost up to the top of the hour. your last quick thought to mexico 20 seconds subpoenas for everything in that hotel with to mike where the shooter came out of fit how the heck did he come down 5-10 minutes before the ceo? he had received knowledge. there has to be people other than the shooter. >> harris: you said it in less than 20 seconds. nicole, appreciate your expertise. thank you for all of this there is more to come. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" now. ♪ ♪ and we will come right back. an active manhunt underway