his name is henry bellow. that's multiple law enforcement sources in new york city, jonathan dienst and myself. henry bellow is the suspect. we may have a picture of him shortly but i wanted to break in and name the suspect and again that individual has been identified as deceased by the nypd. they have stated that publicly and we have now gotten that confirmed that that is the person who did the shooting today. >> you are led to understand that henry bellow is a former employee of the hospital? >> we have been told that bellow is in fact a former employee of the hospital and i'm not sure quite what his position is. that's been kind of batted around as far as what his title is. but that's the name that -- that's the name that we have been told by multiple law enforcement sources, both jonathan dienst and myself. >> please let us know as soon as you've got more information. tom winter with nbc's investigative unit. back with me on the phone is bill bratton who gave us a lot of information that turned out to be

henry bellow. he's now dead. he shot four to six people we're being told from police sources inside the hospital before he himself lost his life. >> neil: all right. i want to go back to rod wheeler, if we can, guys. you heard about that. they identified the doctor in question. the one that was doing the shooting as dr. henry below. they don't know when, but that he came back for vengeance. armed with an m-16 assault rifle. four to six were shot. two of them were doctors. maybe former colleagues or superiors. hard to tell. piecing that together, rod, the fact that he returned normally when someone is fired, they put your picture outside the building or all entrances, saying don't let this person come in here. what can we glean from this? >> you're right. the one thing was listening for and that we all listen for, neil, key indicators. key indicators that this person could come back and cause some type of problem such as it appears this guy did today. when this guy was terminated, how long ago was it that he was t

henry bellow. a former employee of hospital. authorities say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. >> one doctor is dead. there are several doctors who are fighting for their lives now. >> reporter: the doctors here refusing to evacuate insisting on staying behind the treat the wounded and care for critical patients even as the gunman was still on the loose. >>> firefighters in the north bay are expecting a busy fourth of july weekend and are ready to fight the flames from the air. >> reporter: they already had a busy day. have you ever wondered what it's like to fly them? we interrupt this with radio call. >> time to go to work. time to go to work. >> reporter: at cal fire air attack base they live for these interruptions during summer months. >> more than likely will launch out of here two times. >> reporter: this force of 51 planes and helicopters that can arrive at any fire within 20 minutes. >> this is the only legal rush time i'm aware of. >> reporter: he's in his 42nd season. that's him. the man with 13,000 fires in

victims, police say the shooter is dead he is a former employee of the hospital, identified as henry michael bellowrism. >>> oklahoma's attorney general is suing more than a dozen makers of opioid pain medications accusing the pharmaceutical companies of defective marketing campaigns. he says thousands of people have died and taxpayers have spent millions of dollars on unnecessary opioid prescriptions. >>> paul mccartney has reached a confidential settlement against sony atv publishing in which he sought to retain copyright to songs of the booettles. >>> on a lighter and happier note, indicate olea has selected five names from 90,000 submissions for its new blue crayon the choices are, dreams come blue, blue-tiful, blue moon bliss, reach for the stars, and star spangled blue people can vote for their choice starting tomorrow and the crayon will debut later this year that is the news update at this hour, guys >> here's my thing you can't fit some of these names on the crayon. it's bigger than the crayon itself. >> it would have to go all the way around spiraling i have a funny dealing given the fact