>> steve: more with rodney atkins in the after the show show. this is our final summer concert series concert. hats off to a.j. hall of our staff. >> brian: rodney will be playing in the after the show show. he'll never leave. he'll stay here all weekend long. >> steve: have a good weekend. good morning, everybody. a brand new snapshot of the race for the white house only days to go before the republicans kick off in tampa and for the first time this election season "fox news poll"ed likely voters about the entire ticket, meaning both presidential and vice-presidential candidates and what we find are the candidates are in for what could be a epic fight to the finish. likely voters are harder to find. you have to ask more questions. it takes more time. costs a little more money but historically they are more accurate. that's why we mention i had. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to friday. how do you doing, jamie?

martha is working later today. jamie: i'm jamie colby filling in for martha today. they are in a virtual tie. the romney-ryan get getting 45% the vote and team obama-biden, 44%. bill: when it comes to issues on voters minds americans say they trust the republican ticket to improve the economy and create jobs. even that is neck-and-neck. 45-43. naturally governor ryan and president obama both say they have the better plan to get america moving again. >> they don't really have a plan. [cheers and applause] and the plan they have got won't work. >> one out of six americans has fallen into poverty. the president's policies have not worked. bill: steve brown now. steve brown live in tampa starting our coverage of the convention 72 hours a way. how are things shaping up,

steve? good morning. >> good morninging bill and good morning, jamie. things are being built out. fences are being put up and barriers. we're sure everything, weather permitting will be a go monday night. they're changing things up this go round with a couple things happening later in the week happening earlier. they will take care of both. the platform committee report, which essentially the planks that the party members themselves say that the party is about, they're going to try to take care of that on monday and roll call as well. could be a rather lengthy evening on monday. they're trying to take care of both of those pieces early on in the process, saving the rest of the week to kind of frame the argument for the romney-ryan in the fall election. bill? bill: every four years we see a new wrinkle how the campaigns really try to get their message out. social media will play a huge role for both teams. how, steve? >> reporter: well, both of them, believe that this is

an, way to get at a whole range of voters. the pew center back in june took a look who uses social media and it really cuts across all age groups, all race groups, all income groups. so you've got a opportunity to get people out in front of your, or get people to the take a look at your message, get the out in front of people. what they will try to do here at the convention is extend their reach, making all of their speakers, or as many as possible available in a digital greenroom through twitter, through skype, what have you. so they can talk to local reporters. they can talk to people who have curiosities about their positions. they can talk to folks out there unable to be at tampa to try to extend the reach. they're very much watched events, political conventions but in this particular instance they're trying to extend the reach to a broader audience that may not watch it traditionally on television. bill: interesting to note, john mccain, 39 million americans watched his speech four years ago. big audience for the next

two weeks. see you in tampa. steve brown town there in florida. jamie: you will be there too, bill. governor mitt romney talking with a fox affiliate the key battleground state of nevada. it has been one of the hardest hit states during the recession. he touched upon his plans to make north america energy independent by 2020. >> it creates three million new jobs. it adds $500 billion to the economy. it is great for our national security not to have to depend on opec or venezuela for our oil. i think people in nevada have a pretty good measure about how the president's policies have worked or not worked. and by the way, if i win in nevada there is a good shot that makes me the next president of the united states. so the people in nevada are going to have a big say about the direction of the country. i think though want somebody who understands the economy and has a plan to actually get the economy going again as i do. jamie: both he and president obama have been a good amount of time campaigning in nevada. and both governor romney and

obama plan to spend even more time there. bill: and for good reason too when you look at unemrate in that state. jamie: those folks care. they're paying attention. bill: little more background on nevada. six electoral votes. a candidate needs 270 to win. nevada has a history of picking winners. going eight for eight in the last presidential elections. almost unparalleled in recession misery. foreclosure rates among the worst in the country. ranged third highest for the most recent month. jamie: well it is a big storm, tropical storm isaac and gaining some steam this morning and threatening to hit florida as a hurricane just as the republican national convention gets underway in tampa. right now it is strengthening in the caribbean and where isaac goes from hear is the big question. meteorologist janice dean who likely didn't get any sleep last night, is live in the fox extrem weather center. i know you're keeping close

track. seems like it could be a dangerous storm. >> absolutely. the one take-home message i want everyone to know this storm is going to be in the gulf of mexico. what shape it will be in we don't quite know and the exact location where it will make landfall we don't know but this storm isaac will be in the gulf of mexico and there is really no escape. someone is going to get isaac on their doorstep. right now 50 mile-per-hour sustained wind. it is just south of hispaniola. it is strengthening. it is a sloppy looking storm. it is very large. that is kind of the reason why it can't get its act together. but look at the precipitation we're getting out of this storm. anywhere from 12 to 20 inches in parts of hispaniola. haiti, badly damaged from a earthquake couple years ago, hundreds of thousands people are without homes in tents. this could be a really devastating blow for them. for us let's take a look at the track. i want to let you know the new track, with brand new

information coming out at 11:00. sometimes we get that early. you know what? we'll break in and bring it to you. there is our track of earlier this morning. new track at 11:00. making its way across hispaniola and then cuba. we'll have to see what type of core it has after it makes its way across land. it will weaken but if it does have a core intact the waters here are incredibly warm, 90 degrees. that is huge octane fuel for the storm. as we head further out in time we're dealing with a hurricane. i'll tell you if this storm is intact and it is over water for a long period of time, this could easyly be a category 2, possibly a category 3. depending how long it lasts over water. the other thing i want to mention real quick, the model yesterday were trending more toward the rest. that's why you see the cone stretching across the louisiana. one of the reliable computer models tracking back eastward.

the whole state of florida i don't want to let your guard down because it is really important. we still do not know where this storm is going. jamie: i heard you call that water like a hot tub. we know that could play a big role. janice, if the advisory comes out earlier even, we're coming to you. stand by. >> hot off the presses. bill: meantime folks are flying in, right? tampa international airport bracing for about 50,000 visitors starting this weekend as risk of a citiwide evacuation looms in the background. if isaac hits as a hurricane, people may be forced to get out. tampa's mayor says it will be his call. >> tampa is really, really excited about hosting the rnc. we don't have any plans to cancel it. the decision on the proceedings would be the rnc's decision. my role would be to call the evacuation. at this point we're not looking at doing that. bill: so do you have to bring umbrella? bring an umbrella. your ports are urging travelers to check with the carriers before going to the airport that is common

sense. jamie: did you pack your umbrella? bill: yeah. jamie: i would bring my raincoat. 40% of the all u.s. hurricanes hit florida. 83% of all category 4 or higher hurricanes strike florida or texas. i was thinking about them with that cone going west, now east. since 1852 the tampa area has been hit by 27 hurricanes including six during the months of august. at least where you're going they have experience. stop at home depot on the way to the hotel. bill: maybe she continues to go west. if it doesn't hit tampa it goes somewhere else. let's hope for the moment the storm does not increase in intensecy. 40 mile-per-hour winds. jamie: more people die from the flooding after than the actual storm. be safe, folks. bill: isaac is not helping outs when it comes to gas prices which are already heading higher. aaa reporting average price for a gallon of regular now 3.73. that is nearly 20 cents more than a month ago. this is weighing on the minds of americans planning

to hit the road for labor day weekend. stu varney, anchor of "varney & company" from the fox business network. good morning to you. we usually see this around memorial weekend. what is going on now? >> the price of gasoline has been going up for weeks now. eight, nine weeks, we've had this gradual rise but my headline number one for you this morning, bill, we have a gas price spike in florida because of hurricane isaac. i have fwoot the price of gas up just four cents a gallon in just 12 hours. in miami and fort lauderdale, west palm, boca, tampa, also way up today. that's because of hurricane isaac. headline number two is that $4 gasoline is a ride for tens of millions of drivers. with the six largest population states all of them are at $4 for regular, or within a cent, 3.99 for regular gasoline. that is the six major population states. that is tens of millions of people. five of the 10 largest

cities, they have arrived at $4 already. as you said there a moment ago, the national average is 3.73 and climbing. this should some political impact, bill, 74 days before the election. >> what is pushing that, stuart? >> a variety of issues. number one, the underlying price of oil has gone from 78 to $97 a barrel. that pushes gas prices up. there are refinery issues in the midwest. hurricane isaac affecting florida and probably affecting the gulf coast region very soon. that refinery fire in northern california that affects the west coast. california in particular. a variety of factors but the bottom line is, when will goes up so much, gas goes up. bill: thank you, stuart. see you at 9:20. let's hope it is not the new normal. don't want this to hang around. >> that is another story entirely. bill: our national debt about to reach a major milestone, $16 trillion and counting. it will likely hit that point in time for the republican national convention as it ticks on and on.

still no plan, no plan to confront a growing fiscal crisis on the horizon. jamie: when will that clock go in the other direction already? preparing for the worst in tampa ahead of the convention. what the city is doing with 50,000 expected visitors if isaac hits? bill: regardless of isaac the race for the white house continues. governor mitt romney set for what is likely to be the most important speech of his political career. what he should say. governor mike huckabee will respond to that after the break. >> he said he would cut the deficit in half. he doubled it. he said he would get people good jobs. instead we have gone 42 straight months with unemployment over 8%. 23 million americans out of work or stopped looking for work. it is inexcusable.

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millions and millions of american people during the republican national convention. mike huckabee knows a lot about giving speeches as communicating. former governor of arkansas, a 2008 presidential candidate who defeated governor romney in the iowa caucus and host of "huckabee" here on the fox news channel. good morning to you. >> good morning bill. bill: very interesting piece in the "wall street journal" that really goes to the personal side of mitt romney. what did you make of that in terms of, i don't want to call it a resistance but appears, listen, i'm a guy but only so much of my personal side you're going to get to go but i'm a serious guy who wants to get things done. what was your take on that? >> i think it is mitt romney being mitt romney. he is not a guy that loves to be outward disclosing all the particulars. he will not do the interview with the radio station to talk about his favorite color and favorite superhero. let's talk about the america and situation is in. if you go to the doctor for

checkup you want him to be jovial and chatty and. if you've been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer you want to know the answer is this the most competent surgeon that exists in my immediate geography that can deal with this cancer. bill: what you describe would be a personal crisis for a human being. how does that relate to a country struggling in many ways? >> we have are in a crisis. we have an incredible debt. we're choking on it. people don't have jobs by the millions. unemployment rate remained upward 8%. we're headed toward greater disaster. this president and his policies aren't working. we are in stage 4. i think people are looking for competence. not personality. it is not that mitt romney doesn't have a nice personality but he is driven by that sense of duty, responsibility, get the job done. bring the results. bill: i think it is also clear that he understands america often times is driven by a celebrity focus society. but he is not going to buy

into that. i mean you and i may not give a darn about what is on his ipod. >> i really don't care what music he is listening to. i'll be honest i will go further than that. i don't care what is in his tax returns. i'm interested how my tax returns are going to look. if i have a job i know they're not going to look so good. if somebody can help get the economy back on track, i'm worried what kind of job i will have and i think that is where most americans have. not what kind of job mitt romney had 25 years ago he was running bain capital, which by the way did a pretty good job. bill: get to issues in the country. "fox news" polling. this is staggering. we asked people how you feel the united states right now as a civilization. 57% say we're on the decline. >> that is a horrible number and it is one of the reasons that i think we're going to see a dramatic shift in the election. this is the kind of number that scarce incumbents to death. it says if you ask traditional right track, wrong track. that just doesn't say we're on the wrong track for an

election cycle. we're on a wrong track for a generational cycle. that is even more serious answer than the typical poll question. bill: to that point has the country changed to the better or worse the last four years? 46% of those polled say for the worst. simple math shows you that is almost half. >> if you're the president you own that. you own that number because people, whether wit is fair or not, doesn't matter. just as if when bush was president, things go wrong you blame bush. obama still blaming bush but barack obama owns that number an owns that disappointment. bill: as a politician look at this next number. is the importance of your candidate winning extremely important? romney wins by 10 points. how does that reflect in voter enthusiasm, how do you gauge that. >> one. key factors looking for where the election is going is intensity of the voters. not when you call a poll and say who you are likely to vote for. that gives interest. what you're looking for

interest, intensity. interest gets you in trouble. this is shows incredible intensity romney voters. i don't care if isaac hits their front door they will vote whatever it takes. that is how you win elections. bill: look at our polling and a lot of polls, it is neck-and-neck, virtual tie. tells me whoever gets voters out on that day they win, do they not. >> voters only vote when they really, really care. interesting figure among younger voters in the millennial age, 76% say they will vote. highest number ever. bad news for obama. number one reason anger. that is not good for obama. bill: we'll see and get your take how important the speech is and what your expectations will be for him. >> all right. bill: you're really keen on a speech he gave in ohio couple weeks ago. >> terrific speech. i thought the best of his campaign. >> we'll pick up on that on sunday. >> see you then. bill: check you out sunday night.

saturday and sunday. >> saturday and sunday. bill: check out more of "huckabee", saturdays and sundays 8:00 eastern time on fox news channel. thaw, gov. jamie: thank you governor. independent voters will be very important. there is new poll which shows which candidate is leading among the all-important independents. bill: he is greatest cyclist of all time, certainly in our country's history. lance armstrong's last day in the record books? could it be? there is breaking news on the investigation into his doping possibilities, against a seven-time winner of the tour de france. >> i try not to let it bother me. and just keep rolling right along. i know what i know. and i know what i do and i know what i did and, that's not going to change. hello?

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bill: got a fox news alert now. breaking midtown manhattan outside the empire state building. a shooting that may still be underway. our local fox 5 affiliate, wnyw reporting at least two people shot. perhaps as many as four. that may or may not include the shooter. this is midtown manhattan, 5th avenue and 4th street. at 9:00 in the morning? can you imagine home people on the sidewalks and streets of new york city at that hour? this is a scene above on board the chopper. i'm not sure if this is wabc or wnyw. the local fill wrats here this new york scrambled to get in the scene. all traffic is stopped. obvious why they would do that now. buses in the middle of this large intersection in the middle of manhattan. jamie: we do know what it is like at 9:00 in the morning

there. this is the number one tourist attraction i imagine anyone coming to new york city, especially before the holiday weekend coming up quite soon, the empire state building. outside many people. this is a bus lane in front of it that goes down the busy, bysy street, 9:00 in the morning. so many people getting off to go to work. a busy commercial and residential area off to the sides. people all over. they're calling it chaotic. bill: fire department in new york saying several injured. how many that number is, we do not know. a fox reporter is enroute. we'll bring you an update here in new york city. stay tuned for that breaking news this morning. jamie: also breaking this morning, cycling icon lance armstrong could see his name wiped from the record books by the end of today. the u.s. anti-doping agency says it plans to strip armstrong of his seven tour today frons titles, all seven. after he ended it fight

against allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs. he said he had enough. laura ingle following the story. the accusations have been going on for years. why now would lance armstrong say, he has not admitted it, he is not saying he did. he doesn't want to fight it anymore. why? >> reporter: while the cycling legend continues to deny ever doping he cites his family and foundation as the driving force behind his decision to drop the fight against the accusations, which will, according to world anti-doping codes strip him as you mentioned of his seven tour de france cycles and 2008 olympics bronze mid-dale he won. and all winnings from 1998 on. through his attorney armstrong says quote, there comes a point in every man's life when he has to say enough is enough. for me that time is now. armstrong went on too say the feels the anti-doping case against him has been

unconstitutional witch-hunt. adding the toll this is taken on my family and my work for our foundation and on me leads to me where i am today. finished with this nonsense. now armstrong could have chosen to go to arbitration in the case which would have brought witnesses forward to testify against him in a public hearing. bowing out he won't have to go through any of that, jamie. jamie: thank you so much, laura. let me ask you before we go about the endorsements. i think that will was big question for folks. whether or not he will lose those. have they said? >> reporter: we're waiting to hear back from his lawyer on that. we have reached out but it is being reported today there could be even further consequences with the possibility that the u.s. postal service which gave tens of millions of sponsorship to armstrong's teams could try to get some of the money back. a texas company that shelled out 7.5 million to armstrong for performance bonus in 2006 could also try to get the money back now that he will be stripped of those titles. it also means, jamie he will be barred for live from competing coaching having

any official role with any olympic sport or other sport that follows the world anti-doping code. we'll let you know. jamie: thanks, laura. bill? bill: back to new york city, midtown manhattan the cause of the shooting outside the empire state building is not known. the shooter we're told is in custody. traffic is starting to move again slightly. but the area around the 34th street and 5th avenue are closed for the investigation. we do not know how many people have been shot. we however had a figure between two and four. several were transported to the hospital. one we believe was the shooter. we're working on more information on that. in broad daylight on a beautiful august morning in new york city we're dealing with this outside the empire state building. back to that in a moment. also where is isaac going to go? heading for florida, we know that. could it be on a collision course with the convention next week. live in tampa as the city gets ready for what could be

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bill: back to this breaking news now here in midtown manhattan outside the empire state building, one of america's iconic images certainly in the city and across the country. a shooting reported 9:00 eastern time which is 33 minutes ago. we're working through the information and working numbers right now. believewhat we@o happened.@?@/w 9:00 thiscaíd empire outside the oure building isú@ underway.as beenal people have shot. the seriousness of their beinges is now from serious to condition. been÷x÷xgyparino hasfl o the>ç police scanners and talking to folks here in new york city. he is with me now. charlie, what did you find out? >> this is preliminarily being described as a commercial shooting, a robbery. this is at least prime minister narrowly little.gkegs described as terrorism. they always get involved in situations.@w a robberywe have near.g@?

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critical condition. all others in stable condition. charlie you mentioned this commercial shooting as a possible robbery? >> that's what i'm being told by my sources right now. that this is being described at least preliminarily as a rob remember. i always say preliminarily because these things are murky. who knows what we'll find in the next three minutes. based on my sources this is being described as a robbery. seven people have been shot. perpetrator of the robbery has been, from what we understand has been shot and jamie just said before, killed. and i guess we just have to wait a little more to find out if any police have been shot. obviously we would like to know where exactly it is being, this thing occurred. it is unclear if it is inside the empire state building. there are shops around there. there are places, if you want to rob a place, there are, lifelong new yorker around that area. right now we know it is on 33rd and fifth. jamie: it is a block from macy's basically which is an

icon here in new york. right now we do of course have our producers working on this reporter on the way to the scene. look very much from the pictures we've been watching since after it happened, very, very quick police response to the area. one report that we're hearing we do not know whether or not the injury which caused death to the perpetrator, a male we are told by the nypd, was self-inflicted or not. bill: david lee miller is on the scene there reporting live from the sidewalks of manhattan. what do you have, david lee? >> reporter: as you would expect the entire area is completely sealed off. there are dozens of police here. i talked to a security guard that worked at a nearby business he told me a little before 9:00 this morning he heard eight or nine rounds that were fired. he didn't witness the shooting itself. apparently the sidewalk is bloodstained according to a witness i talked to on the corner of 5th avenue and 34th street which is where the empire state building stands. at this time all the ambulances have now left,

presumably. all the injured have all been removed. this is still a secure area. the police tape is up all along 34th street. new yorkers and tourists alike being kept a good distance away while the police try to figure out what happened here within the hour. bill: david lee, i'm reading something off the reuters newswire here, reporting two are dead in this shooting outside of the empire state building. jamie: charlie has more information. >> we just got that confirmed. likely a female, a woman apart from the perpetrator is likely dead. and i think --. >> reporter: i'm with you. >> i think pretty clear this is robbery. this is what the police are --. bill: david lee, in the area you're seeing there, describe the buildings and storefronts you're seeing. >> i'm at a coffee shop in the ground floor of the empire state building. buses are lining the street here. the transit buses not being allowed to travel up and down 34th street which is a

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jamie: slight update too on the condition of those folks that were involved, the injured in addition to the male perpetrator and a woman, unrelated to the perpetrator. it is believed being shot. we're hearing a third person believed to be in critical condition. initially we knew seven people shot but we did not know their condition. bill: new york city officials saying several people shot outside the empire state building. gunman is reported dead. we have one other fatality. at least three or four civilians were wounded in a friday morning shooting that occurred about 9:00 a.m. eastern time which by our watch is 45 minutes ago. from the fire department in new york a spokesman said it received a call about the shooting just a bit of a emergency units were on the scene within minutes. you can imagine on any hour of the day that there are police officers that are near this scene, if not on the scene at the moment the shooting went down. fascinating. the rush-hour get there.

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shops around it. bill: this is what we're getting here how many people could be in the area at peak times, meaning morning rush hour or evening rush hour. at that intersection there could be as many as 10,000 people across this area. nypd telling fox news at least five people shot include the gunman, the gunman is dead. not known whether or not he killed himself or shot dead by police. no people were shot inside the building. it is not known whether it was a case of robbery or act of terror. that is the official word from the moment from the nypd. in a moment after commercial break an eyewitness to the shooting outside the empire state building that is coming your way in three short minutes. this is breaking news here on "america's newsroom." okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle --

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bill: back to our breaking news outside the empire state building. there has been a shooting in new york city at 9:00 eastern time. there were several people shot. at least two people are dead as a result including what we believe the perpetrator, the gunman. now jackie booth is a fox employee on the telephone here. she was enroute to work this morning right around 9:00 at streetc? and [soq qél youy.hi see? >> hi, bill, as i was crossing the street i heard four gunshots, maybe couple more. people were running in every direction. i was crossing the street and someone fell at my feet because they were shot. i didn't realize that at the time. i kept walking and i looked around and, there were just people, likelying around all on the street. it was really unbelievable. bill: was it a man or a

woman, jackie? >> it was a woman. bill: and do you know her condition? >> i believe she is okay. she was still moving and, she was able to say a couple words. i think hopefully she will be okay. i know they also shot at least one of those sightseeing like, new york city guys that always stand out here and want to go up to the empire state building or whatever. i know one of them was shot. bill: would that be an >> i believe so. i'm not sure. i didn't --. bill: based on what you witnessed just take us through the scenario. you were walking on the gunshots and people started running. was looked were just laying in the middle of the and --. crowd

34th street. or gunshots too? >> yes. many like? >> it sounded like almost a very deep, almost like a rumbling. i don't know if it was the buildings or what but it describe i bill: where are you now? still on scene. some of the nypd wanted to me since i them.

moment but we like story trying to piece this by. scene her feet and three others on the sidewalk of wow! let's get a break here. of of this sheeting as we try together for we try to connect the dots on facts quick break here. back with breaking news after this. >> everybody started running all over the place. and front of the

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has never been stronger. bill: got breaking news. if you're just joining us, i'm bill hemmer live here in new york city. there has been a shooting one hour ago outside the empire state building in midtown manhattan. this is broad daylight. several people have been shot. at least two people we're told are dead as a result and we're trying to work through the facts and information and gather more as we go throughout the morning as our second hour of coverage continues here. jamie: well one good news that we are hearing there is a belief it is not linked to terrorism. charlie gasparino has a police source and more he has been talking to. you have new information, charlie. >> looks like the motive is changing. police initially believed it was robbery. as we're hearing from our police sources. as i say, this is murky situation. right now what we're hearing from police sources appears to be some sort of workplace violence where with the perpetrator got fired from

his job and came back, according to our source. he put it this way. appears he came back and , aú?@@.g fairly tragic situation here. we're talking about this occurred, looks like the initial crime scene, and again, it is murky, 10 west 33rd street. that is west of 5th avenue. and then there was a second crime scene and 34th and fifth. obviously multiple people were shot. we know at least two people are dead, a male in his 40s, apparently according to our sources was shot as well. jamie: charlie, we'll let you get back on the phone. meantime we're hearing from people on the ground and witnesses, not only a fox employee who spoke to us earlier but bill, you have more. bill: you can imagine. there are hundreds if not perhaps thousands of eyewitnesses to this scene at 9:00 in the morning. reported4x at peak that this intersection of new york city you could have as many as 10,000 people cross that sidewalk in just this part

of the city. here is part of what we're learning from those who were there one hour ago. roll this. >> i was standing at the corner of 34th street and theavenue waiting forp light to turn green so that i could cross towards 33rd street on 34th. a sudden we heard shots. soundedx likepú@?@ about six ofp@ them approximately. next to me,nding lady in her 20s, got shot on the hip and fell state x@]wo empire got shot andp ,34 street on street.@oxoñopf÷p emhad.úd@dfd@d@t runningy started@0b8 .@xú?ú

we're getting by the minute here including our own jacquee boothy reported that a woman dropped at her feet. if the police reporting that we're getting, remains accurate throughout the, the factual gathering of this story, what we have here is a person fired from his job, left his work place and came back there, came back to get revenge. david lee miller, outside the empire state building. what do you have now? >> reporter: the building in fact reopen ad few moments ago. i talked to a security guard for the empire state building and the tenants were being let back in. as i speak to you right now, watching police lines here and i'm getting, best position yet, to see, first-hand where the shooting occurred, at the corner of 5th avenue and 34th street. i'm told by witnesses here

that the sidewalk is bloo blood-stained. i overheard a conversation who told a police officer, a very worried employee of the building that the shooter had been killed and it was safe to go back inside the building. that said, gridlock how you can describe midtown manhattan right now. 5th avenue completely shut down between 34th street and 33rd street and the crosstown artery, 34th street also shut down. thousands of people in the street. many curious onlookers. many others people who can not get to their offices. the comercial establishments here because the street itself has been shut down. more importantly at the outset the empire state building is now allowing tenants back inside and a police officer told the employee that the shooter had been killed. bill: there are two pieces of information we're trying to confirm here, david lee. do us your best with the following. there was one report that suggested this man was firing indiscrimenantly.

can you confirm that, a? and b, our eyewitness, jacquee boothby talked about him approaching one of the security guards that seemed to usher people in and out of the empire state building for a tour of the observation deck on the 88th floor. can you say whether or not gunfire with the gunman? >> reporter: i don't know.p9ú>í8 can tell you certainty, a@' thatw @ívñxwv worked base of÷ñtheú building,pñ;÷p+x=o< say that he shortly after 9:00, seven or eight rounds being fired. said there was an awful lot of shooting but again he himself did not witness it thiswwwwww what@wwww , bill, had to sayú o one orúa two shots. repeated gunshots that were heard and that would be consistent what we're hearing about multiple victims. jamie: i do have one piece of information on this. the associated press quoting a witness telling fox news

local affiliate that she was a witness to it and that the gunman was quote, shooting indiscrimminantly at people. bill: it is kind of what we heard. more developments. this is what we're getting from our sources close to the new york city police department. this was an employee of the empire state building who was fired yesterday and then came out and shot someone , inctly this morningxx÷ we'rexxxpxx hearing.pp theoslslwpgpgpgpgpg werepg onwho detail broke it up.÷÷÷÷÷÷ when this thing started to get out of hand. obviously it was a gunbattle. bill: what was this positions person at the building? is it possible he was a security guard himself? >> it's possible, what we're a gentlemanú: employee atp@ inside the empire state building. empire stateúñpç +++q÷÷pk@-zupupupupupupupupu(?

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most factual way possible.é theconnect between reporters atp what policedúú us and fire department as well. screen screen right, there people at this intersection who witnessed hour ago.down one employee,kókéó=3oúóúó aú/u/ú/k.ó] graphic and@ó@q chilling description about how jacquee boothby a fox employee on her way to work and literally witness ad woman who shot in front of her and fell at her feet and saw three others on the sidewalk below. we'll get back to david lee. he has been in touch with the nypd as we work through his sources and our own fox affiliated wnyw. and aerial pictures, their police sources. bill daly is on the phone. we'll talk to him in a moment. we're reaching out to many others to put this together for you. jamie: as you look at pictures, scene remains chilling. how many people around the world know this corner of 5th avenue and 34th street

and investigation continues. we see as david lee confirmed. allowing people to go back into the empire state building. many streets are, diverted. shut off. you can see how many of the police officers are still there doing their investigation. fbi is on the scene. after 10 people, the nypd says, were injured in this shooting. the nypd confirming to fox as well, police were the ones with that shot the gunman. bill: jacquee boothbiwas with us 10 minutes ago. this is part of what she saw earlier today. we'll roll it and let you listen to this. after the commercial time out we'll get more information what we're gathering midtown manhattan outside the empire state building. here is what jacquee experienced on her work today one whour ago. >> i was crossing the street and someone fell at my feet and, because they were shot. i didn't realize that at the time. and i kept walking, and i

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bill: continuing coverage of here#"#t@'úpú@ in new york city.ag@]@? building,te manhattan. we can confirm according to the fox channel at least 10 injured as a gunshots.a@ possibly at least two are dead at the moment which includes the gunman, aééçéçé the new york city sidewalk at 9:00 in the morning. the height of morning rush hour. here is part of what our own jacquee boothby saw in route to work today. >> i heard gunshots. people started running, and i wasn't sure gunshots or just normal noises of new york city or something. and then, i just looked around and people were just laying in the middle of the street and on the sidewalk.

bill: how did the crowd around you react? what did they do? >> they just fled in every way, but the way, like, every way as far as away as they could get from 34th street. bill: and how many people, how many people did you see hit by bullets? was it just the one woman or did you see more? >> i saw four. i didn't actually see the gunman. i'm not sure if he was in the car or walking but i saw four people get hit. bill: clearly you heard gunshots too? do you recall how many? >> yes. bill: or what the sound like? >> it sounded almost like a very deep, almost like a rum wling -- rumbling. i don't know if it was the buildings or what. didn't seem like a sharp gunshot, typical sound, i'm not sure how to describe it but it was like i counted four shots. bill: jacquee, where are you now? >> i'm still on scene. some of the nypd wanted to speak to me since i witnessed it. so i'm still here, waiting to speak with them.

.úl: okay clearly you hear her voice breaking up there. the shockagineúú÷ , wheneality sets in0ñ something like@ this.ú@ñ we're hearing more than 100 scene at the empire state building. security dogs also working their way through the area. see we're starting to is this picture now of a disgruntled employee fired today, perhaps, delivered the news, and then left and came back to exact his revenge on people with whom he had worked for. jamie: the other thing to note, bill, this is probably one of the most secure locations in new york city. the empire state building, visited by so many tourists from around the world, also, a busy and bustling@ñ neighborhood.@c e building. joining us now, because we hear that the fbi is on scene, taking a look into this investigation with with the nypd, bill daly joining us now. a former fbi investigator. bill, what is the first step for the fbi here? >> first step will be, jamie,

will to put their arms around the crime scene, working with nypd, they will be the initial response organizations taking control scene, obviously take care of those injured and start to debrief the witnesses. but because the empire state otherk1 majork/xo@/@; u.s.tures here in the yorkçx aretx?uf landmarks and are designated by homeland security as being places to protect against terrorism, we're going to make sure there are no elements involved in this and making sure they're looking at all those aspects to make sure we can give the all-clear to say this is more of a+++]wñ÷

jamie: here the alleged suspect, the shooter, is dead. how do they come to the conclusion, whether it was, a work place incident, there's a report, that, from, a police source with charlie gasparino it was a work place revenge shooting. do they go to the suspect's apartment? is this a situation where they expand the search beyond the immediate area? >> well, jamie, as they go through talking to some of the witnesses and some of this may become apparent pretty quickly and i know in the fog of the media reporting on these incidents we hear various, takes on it. hypotheses, maybe it is true it is related to a work place episode. if so, they will quickly be

able to understand whether or not that has any legs and whether there's anything more they need to be exploring. jamie: one thing we're talking with but the fbi's development but what we're looking on scene, new york police commissioner ray kelley getting into a vehicle within such a short period of time, being on ,@ehdhdhd@n@d centerúy[flyúylyúyly of world really. bill, back to you. >> sure. i was saying the investigation will continue, and, this individual is responsible for it, they will need to go and search, get search warrants and search his property, whether he had other, you know, whether he had lockers or other private spaces or considered to be private look atp]rants top? space and see what y may find out about this individual. takes more of a investigation opposed to terrorist investigation. that is why the fbi is there to do that check and make sure, if it is a local, kind

of criminal investigation, that, it is being adjudicate properly. if not that they take control. jamie: at this point, no link to terrorism according the nypd? to suggest that. jamie: thank you, bill daly, investigator, frontlley may be inús ,púúópyxç any moment= presspxñóñs??óç beginence couldpí÷ópo0opoññyq momentarily, and ray kelley with mayor michael bloomberg. to give us a status update where things are at the moment. we're awaiting that. we're waiting update from david lee miller outside the building on scene. charlie gasparino has been working his sources. back to charlie in a moment as our breaking news coverage continues here on "america's newsroom." it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the

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bill: back to our breaking news here on the fox news channel. we're getting more information about the police commissioner.

he will brief at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. that is 36 minutes from now. we will certainly have, have good idea what the police are seeing down at the scene. how they believe it is unfolded. stay tuned for that. david lee miller is standing by with an eyewitnesses. we'll talk with david lee in a minute rather. perhaps who this gunman might have been and who the target is. >> this was the initial , there has beenñnhñóñúó,[ wentúy thingm[ , now 10:30.c things change a lot in in anion like this hour and a halfé.]ú uwñ w . ñ

have all the details. we should poichbt out the world trade center, the empire state building is an , locked out pretty well. talking aboutç 112 guards. 15 dogs. these are guard dogs. .pg it is, you knowpo'oúo@3>úg?a bill: charlie, new york city police department. toañpñ@xhñ reporters at confirmçó?, second that ap=ó÷ . dead i in the end, it could turn out to be only the gunman, only the perp was the one shot, right? >> the report was, though fire? initially killed.ñú was two@k descriptions.@o@w@÷ witness and wnyw who is providing pictures for us right now. he was firing

indiscrimminantly. david lee miller at the this@gith a witness to tragic shooting thiso morning. leeúupç? reporter: we're about blocksgsñúç away from the building.çy see behind me. there is a police barrier set up, you can see the scores of police vehicles, and if we pan the camera around, paul. pan the camera this way. you can see dozens of reporters, in the middle here is a young woman a witness to the shooting. little more than an hour ago. she just described the gunman, she said as a middle-aged caucasian male. casuallyhe was@@@ppupwñ addressed.wg dressed. i heard a new york city police officer tell one of the employees here at the empire state building the gunman had been killed and it was safe for the employees to return to work at the empire state building. another witness told me heard as many as eight or nine gunshots shortly after

9:00 this morning. and, a third witness said. he saw >> the entire street as we've been saying for the last hour has been sealed off. one quick point. e a newsav tern÷ 11:00 eas÷ n i'll have a great deal more information. your question? >> what i wanted to ask you is clearly you're showing us the shot of a witness being interviewed. your inclination if you're in a s.tuation like thi employeesúa whoa3 was there told us is you don't real.ve it's run.k you'd aroundw witness .ht@ now stillce are weme, which hey they are, have t taken them to another location? theolding on reets of new york? arealed off the tate building.

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york police department is going onference, and will then learn a great deal more about what happened here this morning. i have to say too that for the last hour or so i've been talking with police and many of themselves sayre hadt@mre unclear about happened, conflicting reports. we've heard as many as ten people have been shot. confirm that. as many as adid ring out ago. time there, and once you get the eyewitness we'll bring you back on the air to our viewers at home. we urge you, be a little patient with us as we try to piece the facts together. this briefing in 30 minutes will be critical to the investigation into what we understand as to what happened 90 minutes ago. ray kelly will be there, the police commissioner, as he always seems to be 24-7 in this city. the mayor also, michael bloomberg. we will hear from both men in 30 minutes. one of the witnesses he is speaking with our local fox

affiliate, wnyw. she witness they'd shooting and talked about a young girl being shot next to her. not even a minute passed by, it happened right away, there was no screaming but people started running away from the scene, people running like christopher aoefplt there was another girl next to him who dived down and in about two minutes the police were there on the scene. he says it was amazing the way the police force responded. by the time he saw this man near the scene, said to be the gunman, he was already on the floor, which i suggest he meant the sidewalk at the time, described to be in his 20s. he was casual, he describes, but i remember him wearing something beige with casual clothing. gaspereno says this was a man working at the empire state building, was fired from his weekon thursday t workplace to hispk y loaded with a weapon.

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forth between one and two. before we even try and firm that up we'll wait for the police commissioner to talk in about 24 minutes. >> that is police commissioner ray kelly who was on the scene and will give us a statement from the scene. you're look at the mode yum where he'll speak. our charlie gasparino has been talking to nypd officials and former officials who have given him very interesting insights into what is now being described and believed to be a work-place shooting. bill: we should point out this is the operating assumption. this is a chaotic situation. is waiting until 11:00 to piece it all together. we'll get the full story. maybe not even the full story then. we'll get as much as we k. the operating assumption, we are getting this from police sources, they are telling fnc is that this was either a direct employee of the empire state building or a contract employee. this gentleman was fired yesterday, and he came back shooting today, and from what we

understand, and again, we're piecing this together, it's with sources, it's not confirmed. it began with shooting someone at the scene, directly in the head. it began at 33rd street, and then what has been described by running gunas a battle occurred with new york or,e perpetrat t isóñó@í@í÷íóoña and tragic@t@ñxñp situation. seems ithis the police will only confirm that the gunman is dead, believed to have been shot by police, also confirmed from the nypd. ten victims is the estimate right now. obviously people could realize later they have some injury in conjunction with eithertzuú[ ? is.essing@[ ho was on their way to work and described it, it seemed like it was just settling in, what she had witnessed a

t her feet who had been shot on her way to work. >> pretty soon we'll see a strong trail of evidence through pictures and possibly video phone cameras. everyone walking on that sidewalk has a cellphone in their pocket and every phone has a camera on it. and you will see now some of the m whate frotly . there we've beennsúúgpwpl given will play out in vivid video.and still jamie: it's been described by multiple sources as a shooting that is indiscriminate. charlie gasparino has been kind enough to be the reporter on this because of strong police was the initial target? s ascribed aan n his 40s is the . have so far hange.uld cúó larere someone in particu tlooking for auí=d/vó problem below one of the most

nd privateolice a theú0 empire state at 9:00 in the morning, one of the busiest times n new [ york, but fvx orne o 34th and 5th. >> law enforcement will brief us in a matter of moments here. injured. how many shot is not clear, perhaps four or more according to police sources that we're getting here and the reporting we've than able to nail down here. 34th street and 5th avenue, the heart of manhattan the eight oft the h rush-hour. tcials saying tha relation to the moment. and a guard at this landmark building said it did not involve g whereildin tourists gather to visit the sky scraper. that is critical too in the end as we examine the injured and how they will or will not recover from their wound here, because the entrance for tourists is on the 5th avenue and 12,g,ex2

14, 16 hours a day there is a crowd outside that entrance. jamie: absolutely, not to mention all of the businesses that sort of feed off of this es there on am daily basis, tourists from all over the world to come up to the observatory at the empire state building, plus all the people going to work in that building and in the area at the height of the morning, and the drivers as well. thank goodness, according to our charlie gasparino, two nypd officers who were on terrorism duty, although they say this isn't related to terrorism were s welloe a so quickly, bill, the ambulances, as david lee roundú taking the g the injured away quickly in anpñ etx to@@@ey could g hospitalses. >> that looks like ray kelly. that?ight or wrong on ñ ray kelly is the police commissioner for new york city. he is going to brief in front of that microphone that you'll see in a moment screen right, along with the mayor, michael bloomberg. utesú away and

they'll try to piece this .ogether as best they can lee miller has been talking to countless eyewitnesses outside the building. we'll get back in touch with moment.e in a colleagues here the fox news channel was on her way to work by foot, one of if not thousands of pedestrians moving around that part of new york city at 9:00 morning. this is part of what she saw an hour ago. crossing the street and someone actually fell at my feet, because they were shot. lize that at the time. t÷'@w walking, and i looked ere justnd there w people like laying around all on the street hi. i'm henry winkler.

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the shooting shortly after 9:30am, about an hour and 15 minutes or so this morning by homeland security adviser john brennan. we are advised through a white house official that he will continue to receive updates as the news progresses here. we are 15 minutes away, we believe, from hearing from the mayor and the police commissioner, ray kelly and michael bloomberg. they will be in front of a microphone there outside the empire state building. as we await that we talked to jackie, who was en route to work here at the fox news channel last hour. jackie, welcome back here. we let you go because we knew you had to be questioned by the police. that has since taken place i assume, right? >> yes, it has. bill: what did you tell them, jackie? >> i told them, i just recounted my experience as i was crossing the street i heard four gunshots. a woman fell at my feet, and i

honestly got nervous and hid behind a planter for a little while. one of the gunshots -- i got back up and i tried to help the woman, tried to hold her head up and do whatever i could. i'm not sure of her -- if she is okay now or not. bill: where was she shot, jackie? >> in the abdomen, or the side, i continue reall couldn't really tell. bill: could you tell if she was breathing? >> yes she was breathing. she could move a little bit, but it was hard for h. they said -- i believe they shot the shooter, i'm not sure if he's still alive. >> did you witness -- were you able to see the shooter, jackie? >> i was not. it sounded like he was on foot, but there were still other people crossing the street, owe maybe he was in the crowd. when the shots happened everyone

just fled the intersection and just plan any opposite way that they could. bill: one of the describes we were given is that this was a running gun battle. >> uh-huh. bill: is that what you witness stphed. witnessed? >> it could very well be. jamie: one other witness is telling our local fox affiliate that they not only heard gunshots but they officers with a gun pointed at the suspect. the suspect was actually there lying on the floor and thought it was a movie set. jackie back to you. you described earlier that you really couldn't believe this was real. >> yeah, at first -- i mean i've never heard a gunshot before so i wasn't sure if it was the sound of the city or something. you could hear the actual

shots. but i could see that there was a police officer on the corner and i guess he had maybe seen this and i believe he's the one who chased down the gunman and shot him. jamie: jackie, what did police ask you? >> they basically just asked me, i mean if i had seen the gunman, if i had known anything about this. this this. which i obviously didn't. they asked me what i had seen. [inaudible] bill: the phone line is breaking up a little bit. jamie: jackie take care. bill: you've had quite a morning there. thank you for being our eyes and ears on the ground there outside the empire state building. we'll see you here shortly. jackie by telephone there. more than a hundred guards have responded now to the empire state building, more than a dozen dogs, security dogs that are strained in matters like these are going throughout the building. quite possibly the entire matter has been contained based on what

we are hearing. jamie: contained but a city left on edge, without a doubt. bill: we are certainly about to see some scenes and images that will be fed out by the hundreds of new yorkers, if not thousands of new yorkers who were near the scene. charlie, i know you're giving me a motion over there. do you have something you want to adhere? >> we know that ray kelly will speak in ten minutes. he'll have much more details. some of the details we are getting now, than are unconfirmed. apparently the initial shooting occurred across the street from the trade center -- ther from the empire state building, it was at west 33rd. it was a business. a gentleman shot his boss. that is one of the story lines being developed right now. this was an argument that they had. he was fired yesterday, the gentleman, and came back today and shot the boss. bill: charlie standby here. let's get a break again. we are waiting on the police commissioner and the may th

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bill: welcome back. if you're just joining us we continue our live coverage here of the shooting outside the empire state building. we are six minutes away from hearing from the police commissioner, ray kelly in new york along with the mayor, michael bloomberg. they will deliver what we believe are some key and critical facts to what happened over the past hour and 54 minutes. moments ago david lee miller talked to this eyewitness on the sidewalks of manhattan. >> we were about to leave the apartment, all of a sudden we heard gunshots or shots fired from the outside, ran to the window, ran out onto our balcony where we could see straight over in front of the empire state building where we saw officers with a gun pointed at the suspect that was actually then

lying on the floor. >> did you see the shooting at all? >> no we didn't see the shooting but we heard the gunshots from the balcony. >> what is your reaction to this when you're looking at this out of your window. >> totally surreal. thought it was a movie set. couldn't comprehend at first what happened. we thought maybe there had been an accident, and just saw the man lying on the floor with a gun pointed at him. bill: that from a tourist, or in newg@9residen but/1 clear, description of went down two hours ago. k with usbac ou, what do yid l there? >> all indications, bill, are that the shooter is dead. one of the witnesses described the shooter as a middle-aged man. yú@apparently casuall dressed. we are also told there were as many as eight or nine gunshots heard, this from witnesses.

at this hour, bill, the empire state building is open for business, at least when it comes to those who have offices inside. we are told they have now been butwed to return to work, midtownóñ manhattan. look at 34th street and 5th avenue the street very much sealed off. a couple of blocks in all directions. major arteries completely shut down. we are now awaiting the mayor and the police commissioner for a news conference to give us further details. that expected within the next five minutes. >> david lee miller thank you. charlie standby. we'll get a quick break here and do not leave. in a moment we'll hear from the police commissioner and get you more information here. breaking news as it continues here on fox. @e@e@

bill: in the final moments we h you we are waiting eright for the polic@ñ thatthe mayor, will give us the latest information on what happened in hoursttan two ago. hat we did noty t anticipate, but that's what happens on days like today