i talked to commissioner bratton about this. you rarely hear of a shooting in new york city of a long gun. >> it's not a common occurrence but i'll tell you from a personal perspective, i worked in that area which is the 44th precinct and you have a lot of violence perpetuated in that neighborhood. this wouldn't be the first time i heard of anyone using an ar-15 in that particular area. we go back to the dinkins administration, that's when we had the assault ban that came into play for the new york city. and that said you cannot have an assault weapon in the city of new york. so that long gun is definitely something that would be more of an aberration as opposed to the norm. >> darren, stand by for a second. i want to listen in to an eyewitness on wnbc. >> thank you so much for talking with us. actually, there are a lot of people -- there's a lot of people who were just here watching the scene. but we have spoken to many people who have friends, who have family inside the hospital. employees, patients. right now they're waiting

i've got bill bratton on the phone.he commissioner of the new york city police department twice from 2014 to 2016, prior to that 1994 to 1996. we are getting now reports from there is a fire on the 8th floor and smoke on the 16ing floor. bill bratton is on the phone with us. commissioner, you have been hearing the information i've got. i don't know if you have more information, what comes to mind when you hear this? >> okay. i understand everything that you are getting and i'm giving you is preliminary. there is a little change in terms of this is a multi-story hospital. one of the larger ones in the bronx. so those fire locations, you are correct, that they are reported fires in the building on different floors, smoke possibly from fires on all floors. at this time there are multiple casualties. the number is not specific two or three, but there's a belief that some additional floors that they have not had access to may have additional. the individual involved black male believed to be a former employee. they have iden

and colonel, those comments from bill bratton about it hack happeit -- could happen in u.s., do you agreeshould we be doing. >> i think we will see more of these common usage attacks where lone wolves or small groups use every day items, automobiles and knives to kill americans. but at the same time, we're very fortunate that we have a different problem than europe or a smaller problem. europe's problem is order of magnitude larger looking at demographics, most of immigrant to u.s., with many exceptions, are better educated, higher skilled, family, and older, and ambitious, europe on the other hand, that got overwhelmingly this latest wave of immigration, unattached young males, illiterate, unskilled looking for handouts, they have had work more problem than us, they will have far more problem than we will have. and nonetheless, we must be vigilant, we need legislators to give our law enforcement officials the correct tools to fight in the digital able. gerri: well, you know, you talk about isis weaker. i have to tell you during ramadan, estimated death toll 63 individuals, in 5 confirmed

. >> you spoke to bill bratton immediately and told him you wanted to do something. came on and talked about you and commended you as well and apologized for what happened. in the past week we've seen several cases of police officers being acquitted. the minnesota officer who shot and killed philando castile during a traffic stop. a milwaukee police officer who fatally shot cybill smith last august. ohio jury deadlocked in the trial of a police officer who shot samuel dibos. do you believe justice is being done when you see what i read here? >> it's shocking. it's tragic. it's something that is really sad. i can't speak to the exact specifics of all of those but the numbers of over 10,000 deaths at the hands of police officers and only 11 convictions. there's something that could be amiss there. there's clearly times when people act in the wrong manner, and police officers are human, too. there are times when they need to use lethal force. there are times they are in danger and in harm's way. but it seems a little -- the numbers don't seem to match up. they do make m

. >> bill bratton, thank you, as always. >>> coming up the congressman whose district includes that ballfield in alexandria. we'll talk to him when "the 11th hour" continues. wrinkles? your time is up! new neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair with the proven power of retinol. reduces wrinkles in just one week. neutrogena® >>> welcome back to our broadcast tonight. i want to bring into the conversation this evening, congressman don buyer, a democrat that represents northern virginia, including the park in alexandria where the shooting took place. congressman, thank you for staying up with us and coming on tonight. >> absolutely. >> i'm curious how it felt to be the member of congress on whose home turf this happened today in this day where we saw this burst of bipartisanship, almost the most we've seen since 9/11. i have to ask the cliched question, why does it take this to see the reaching across the aisle that we saw today? >> you know, brian, i think actually there's a lot more reaching across the aisle than people realize. but today really brought it out because you saw an awful lot of democra

. >> you spoke to bill bratton immediately and told him you wanted to do something.ked about you and commended you as well and apologized for what happened. in the past week we've seen several cases of police officers being acquitted. the minnesota officer who shot and killed philando castile during a traffic stop. a milwaukee police officer who fatally shot cybill smith last august. acquitted of all charges. ohio jury deadlocked in the trial of a police officer who shot samuel dibos. do you believe justice is being done when you see what i read here? >> it's shocking. it's tragic. it's something that is really sad. i can't speak to the exact specifics of all of those but the numbers of over 10,000 deaths at the hands of police officers and only 11 convictions. there's something that could be amiss there. there's clearly times when people act in the wrong manner, and police officers are human, too. there are times when they need to use lethal force. there are times they are in danger and in harm's way. but it seems a little -- the numbers don't seem to match up. they

rudy giuliani and william bratton who was his police chief at the time in which a l.a. and that's ranking back to new york and if one can say look, the basic causal theory at work. again 20 years later, 30 years later, we still have a good handle on white crime drop as it did. there is no definitive empirical work very out this basic thing was what actually happened. police and city administrators believe it deeply. what you have now is sort of a fundamental reinvention of the chess assistant in a city like new york and which, an incredible work on this written where the misdemeanor court system becomes like this entire massive court system, to patrol public urination, public drinking, selling eminence on subways, selling handbags on the street all his municipal violations that are part of the broken window sort of code enforcement and then you start channeling people in this huge funnel into the criminal system whose job is basically to sort people between the people who will show up with a court date and the kind of people whose lives are to disorder and the don't ann