WEBVTT 1 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:25.960 And hello, Hi, how are you here? We go Happy Wednesday, 2 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:31.800 hump Day. Today is the thirtieth day of July, Year 3 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:34.719 of Our Lord, twenty twenty five. My name is Tom Sullivan. 4 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:38.159 So where do you want to start today, boys and girls. 5 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:42.600 We've got all I got to talk about the tsunami 6 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:47.719 and the big earthquake over in Russia that affected the Pacific. 7 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:52.679 We'll start there. We've also got some more in depth 8 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.479 new information about the shooter at the high rise in 9 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:02.439 Midtown Manhattan, the starvation in Gaza. They are moving in 10 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:09.239 food faster, better, but Israel has a slightly different take. 11 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:13.319 We'll play that for you. And a big economic day 12 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:17.599 to day. The Federal Reserve met that kept interest rates unchanged. 13 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:20.640 Oh no, President Trump's going to be all upset. Yes, 14 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:23.840 but they kept as as Wall Street expected. There was 15 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:26.000 a ninety nine percent chance they were going to leave 16 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:30.239 rates unchanged. They did. Plus we got a bunch of 17 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:35.680 economic data out today as well. But this tsunami in 18 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.400 camp Chekta Peninsula of Russia. If you if you fly 19 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:44.560 to Asia from the United States, you go up over 20 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:49.000 Alaska and you come down the east coast of Russia, 21 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:52.719 and that is where the Kampchukta Peninsula is located. That 22 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:56.239 is where I saw this last night, and I couldn't 23 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:59.599 believe my eyes. They said an eight point eight on 24 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:04.159 the Rick scale, and it was about twenty minutes later 25 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:09.240 they had like eight point two, and then twenty minutes 26 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:11.439 later it had seven points. I mean, it was just 27 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:16.439 one massive earthquake after another. And I grew up in 28 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:18.960 earthquake country. A lot of people don't think Seattle is, 29 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:23.639 but the whole the Ring of Fire is basically all 30 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.360 the way South America, along the Pacific, South America, up Mexico, 31 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:34.759 western west coast of US Canada, Alaska, around over through Asia, Japan. 32 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:40.159 It's earthquake country. And so you know, when I was 33 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:43.080 a senior in high school, we were about a week 34 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.039 away from graduating, so we had one foot out the 35 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:50.960 door anyway, and we were in my high school and 36 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:56.520 earthquake hid. It was big. I killed a few people. 37 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:02.759 We were in a room that literally we this part 38 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.120 of the high school collapse, and part of it was 39 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.759 the room that I was in. So myself and my classmates, 40 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.719 they say, don't run. We bolted out of there because 41 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.439 we felt the ceiling coming down on us. So they 42 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.840 have and and then living thirty some years in California, 43 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:22.840 I mean had I had my share of earthquakes there. 44 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:27.199 Worked in San Francisco, went to school in the San 45 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.719 Francisco San Jose area. We had earthquakes, not all, not 46 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:35.960 every day, but they were not uncommon. And on the 47 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:39.159 West Coast. People laugh because the media goes crazy when 48 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:44.039 there's a three point five. People in California don't even blink. 49 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.719 Maybe there's a five something that you know, a few 50 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.879 cans of beans will be knocked off the shelves. But 51 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.960 that also for people in earthquake country, they kind of 52 00:03:56.039 --> 00:03:58.680 roll their eyes at it. But when you see an 53 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:03.319 eight point eight and it turns out it was I believe, 54 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:08.639 the sixth largest earthquake ever recorded, and I would have 55 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.080 thought it was the biggest, but it was the biggest 56 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.520 in a long long time. So once that strikes, then 57 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:20.360 that's right along the Pacific Ocean, there goes the tsunami waves. 58 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:25.040 And the tsunami waves are below the floor of the water. 59 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:30.199 They're down below the surface, and when they they're fine 60 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:34.759 until you get to a shoreline where this where the 61 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.120 water the surface basically comes up to the shoreline, and 62 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.199 that's where the big waves can come in. So there 63 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:49.199 were six foot waves in Kahului, which is Maui. There 64 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:53.439 were Crescent City, California, way up in the northwest corner 65 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:57.720 of California, they had four foot waves overnight. I was 66 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.199 with my family. We went on vacation to Hawaii. One time. 67 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.519 We landed in Maui and they said, hurry up, hurry up, 68 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:07.199 hurry up. The rental car places are closing. So I 69 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:09.120 went over and I said, what's going on. They said, oh, 70 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.759 we've got to evacuate there. There was an earthquake. I 71 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:15.480 forget where it was, Alaska if I remember right, and 72 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:17.879 we have a tsunami wave warning. So everybody's got to 73 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:22.959 evacuate the airport. There is right sea level if you will, 74 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.319 and just a hop, skip and a jump in from 75 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.399 the ocean. And so I got in the car and 76 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:33.720 the local traffic turned on the radio local traffic reporter. 77 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:35.920 If you've been to Hawaii, you know that every street 78 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:39.920 they use a lot of j's and k's and their 79 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.319 names and they all sound the same, and they were 80 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.079 directing people to higher land. So we start following along, 81 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.639 and I started heading toward where our hotel was, which 82 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:52.839 was down on the beach and the police had the roadblock, 83 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:55.439 and they sent us to a to a high school 84 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:59.160 and an evacuation center, you know, and I've heard about 85 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.360 those her but we went. Yeah, we went to this 86 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:05.639 high school and they red Cross came over and they 87 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.040 had snacks and water and things like that. Whereas while 88 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:13.639 we waited for the tsunami waves to come crashing in 89 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.160 to where our hotel was. Well at the time, I yes, 90 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:20.839 I was working in radio and television at the time. 91 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:23.639 So I went over to a neighbor's house, knocked on 92 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.399 the door, and the lady was very nice. I said, 93 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:27.560 I've worked for the media and I'd like to be 94 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.759 able to phone in what's going on, And she said, 95 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:32.879 come on in, and she said, she said, my husband 96 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:37.079 has a fishing boat, you know, a trawler, a big 97 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:40.800 commercial fishing boat. And he took off. He went down 98 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:42.399 to get the boat and take to bring it out 99 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:44.879 to sea. And I said, he's going out to see Yeah. 100 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.240 She said, if you're out in the water some distance, 101 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:53.240 the waves go underneath you. The danger is at the shoreline. 102 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.480 So I called in the whole thing about it, and 103 00:06:57.560 --> 00:06:59.839 we waited, wait to wait and guess what the water. 104 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.040 The thing you look for is you watch the beach 105 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.680 and you watch the water, and the water starts going 106 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:10.680 out like it's low tide, and it keeps going out, 107 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:14.399 and it kept going out further and further, and you're going, 108 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.920 oh boy, here it comes. It's going out. But the 109 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:20.680 big wave is coming. And it turned out to be 110 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:25.120 kind of a trickle of a wave. I'm glad, but 111 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.000 the surge can last for hours and hours as the 112 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:33.120 waves under the ocean finally make shoreline. Whether it was 113 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:37.879 in Japan, or in Hawaii or in the West coast 114 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:42.839 of the United States, they all were on tsunami watch. 115 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:48.480 It's been dropped now, but always keeps you on your toes. 116 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.560 The wave waves under the water move as fast as 117 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.879 five hundred miles an hour, so in a very short 118 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.040 period of time, within hours, they've gone all the way 119 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:07.519 across the ocean. I'm riding long. As a seismologistic Yale, 120 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.839 this is her comment about the big tsunami and the 121 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:11.519 big earthquake. 122 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.240 Well, it's always very sobering when we have a very 123 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:20.240 large underwater earthquake that does trimmer trigger excuse me, a 124 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.360 tsunami that travels all the way across a very large 125 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.680 ocean basin, So you know, this event is really a 126 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:29.639 reminder that we are vulnerable to tsunami waves that are 127 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:33.879 generated by large earthquakes. Thankfully, what we've seen in the 128 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:37.320 last eighteen or so hours, it's that the tsunami waves, 129 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.240 while they are measurable a tsunami was generated, have not 130 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.399 generally been so large to cause extensive damage, and we 131 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:49.200 can certainly be thankful for that. Interestingly, tsunamis do travel 132 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:51.919 very fast, they travel about as fast as a jet 133 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.720 airplane flies. But the Pacific Ocean is a very large ocean, 134 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:58.960 and as we've seen, it takes about eighteen or twenty 135 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.639 hours for the waves to reach the other end of 136 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.279 the Pacific Ocean basin. So certainly I would encourage anyone 137 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:09.240 listening to heed local advisories about when is it safe 138 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.600 to you know, be back down on the beach, be 139 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.840 back in the water. As as Chris mentioned, you know, 140 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:18.960 even after that initial first wave has passed, you know, 141 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:23.399 for several hours afterwards, sometimes we see unusual currents or 142 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:27.200 some you know, later successive waves. Sometimes the later waves 143 00:09:27.200 --> 00:09:29.600 can actually be a little larger than the first wave. 144 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:32.559 So you know, my advice would be to certainly always 145 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:36.440 heed local advisories, in local warnings about when it's safe 146 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:39.039 to be back on the beach or at the coastline. Again, 147 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:44.200 whenever you have an earthquake this large underwater in a 148 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:50.960 subduction zone environment. So that subduction zone is a tectonic 149 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:55.000 setting where we have one tectonic plate that is diving 150 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:59.320 beneath another. In this case off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, 151 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.080 we have the Pacif Plate that is actually diving beneath 152 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.399 a portion of the North American plate. When you have 153 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:10.200 a large subduction zone earthquake that happens very shallow, what 154 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.360 that does is that displaces some of the water column, 155 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.759 and whenever you have vertical motion of that water column, 156 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.720 that can trigger a tsunami wave. And so in this case, 157 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:24.559 the tsunami wave was triggered. It travels out in the 158 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.159 open ocean. Actually in the open ocean, those those wave heights, 159 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.559 our amplitudes are actually pretty small. So tsunamis are not 160 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.480 a threat to ships or ships or boats out on 161 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.360 the open ocean. But when tsunami waves hit that coastline, 162 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:42.200 they can they can steep in the waves basically steepen 163 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:45.480 and their amplitude grows and that's when it poses a hazard. 164 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:49.440 So this earthquake, as you said, the sixth largest earthquake 165 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:53.240 that has ever been recorded since we've had modern seismic instruments, 166 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:56.679 a really vivid reminder of these kinds of hazards. And 167 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.519 you know, luckily we were very prepared for it with 168 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:04.519 our earth quake monitoring and with our tsunami warning networks. 169 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:11.279 So for those of you that have experienced earthquakes, I 170 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:14.679 mean eight point eight, it's not linear. I mean that 171 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.799 is the Richter scale, and it never seen one that 172 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:22.480 big of I saw that report last night, my eyes 173 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:29.240 bugged right out. So earthquakes, by the way, I know, 174 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:32.000 I don't have a life, I get the kind of 175 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.320 a Google. I signed up for the notification of earthquakes 176 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:38.399 around the world, and there's been a ton of them 177 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.840 down off the coast of Australia and down near Antarctica, 178 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.360 off of this the some of the islands out in 179 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.200 the deep Southern Pacific. So there's been a lot of 180 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:53.600 earthquakes lightly and then this one popped up last night 181 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:58.679 and I whoa, that was huge. So we've got that 182 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:07.000 that's behind us, hopefully this New York City shooting. They're 183 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.639 digging in and they found some more information. They found 184 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.279 a second note that the shooter had left at his 185 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:18.000 apartment in Las Vegas. But we also have just a 186 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.919 summary from some of the investigators that we follow. John Miller, 187 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:31.919 from former NYPD guy talking about the police type of work, 188 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.960 but also the CTE. I want to get into this 189 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.840 because for years I've heard about the CTE. I'm obviously 190 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:45.360 I'm not a medical expert, and he stretched the imagination, 191 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:48.720 but I thought, this doesn't make any sense to me, 192 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.320 because you had guys like Aaron Hernandez who played for 193 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:55.840 the New England Patriots, and he was a young guy 194 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.519 who was twenty seven when he died, and they found 195 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:04.320 lots of CTE with him. Frank Gifford who played for 196 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:08.559 the New York Giants one hundred thousand years ago. He 197 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.519 lived well into elder I forget what age he died at, 198 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:15.480 but I think he was in his eighties. And so 199 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:18.639 he took and those one they had the old leather helmets. 200 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:21.159 They didn't have the helmets that they have today. He 201 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:25.440 lived a good long life. So how is it that 202 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:29.720 you can have two football players, one that is crippled 203 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:32.480 in his twenties and the other one who doesn't have 204 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:35.759 a thing happened to him. So well, let me start 205 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.960 with Sanjay Gupta. Doctor Gupta is a neurosurgeon, a brain surgeon, 206 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:45.399 and he has studied a lot about CTE and the 207 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:49.399 fact that this shooter proclaimed in his suicide note that 208 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.840 he thought he had CTE. He played high school football 209 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.120 in southern California for two different high schools. Apparently a 210 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:01.759 very good running back. The only critique of him was 211 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.480 he wasn't very big, so he did not get accepted 212 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.960 by colleges or the NFL. But you've seen there are 213 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.080 some running backs that are not very big, but they're 214 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.000 really slippery and quick, and apparently that's what this guy was. 215 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:19.279 He was very talented, but he was convinced that he 216 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:22.399 had CTE. It could have been that he knew that 217 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:28.559 his mental abilities were starting to be ill. Say it nicely, 218 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:33.279 but here's doctor Sanjay Gupta talking about this whole thing 219 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:34.799 about CTE. 220 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.879 The only way you can definitively diagnose this is that 221 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.120 autopsy after someone has died. But you know, people can 222 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.600 have strong suspicion of this if you've had a history 223 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:49.399 of repeated blows to the head. You develop some of 224 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.240 these symptoms that are oftentimes associated with CTE, people might 225 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:55.919 start to believe, look, is this me? Is this a 226 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:58.440 possibility for me? As well? If you look at some 227 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:00.000 of the studies. For example, there was a study that 228 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.360 came out in twenty twenty three people under the age 229 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.399 of thirty seventeen to twenty nine who all worried that 230 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.720 they had some of these symptoms. They donated their brains 231 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.840 to science after they died. Obviously, forty percent of them 232 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:16.799 tested positive for CTE. So you can have a strong 233 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:20.799 suspicion and maybe a validated suspicion, but you cannot know 234 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:23.159 for sure, so you know, it really sort of is 235 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:27.600 in these broad buckets of cognitive symptoms behavioral symptoms, So 236 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:30.600 you look at things like memory loss sometimes that's confused 237 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:34.200 for Alzheimer's if someone is older, impulse control problems, lack 238 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:39.240 of judgment, depression, suicidal behavior. Even as people get older, 239 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.519 they may develop movement problems. Tremors sometimes can be confused 240 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:48.159 with Parkinson's, So CTE, you know, a relatively new diagnosis 241 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.639 as far as these things go, and it's often a 242 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.080 great mimic of other things which can make it very 243 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:55.960 confusing for people. Yeah, there is evidence of this, and 244 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:57.960 it's you know, it was a little surprising to me 245 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.120 as well. You typically think of someone like a and Hernandez, who, 246 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:03.240 as you know, John was twenty seven years old when 247 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:07.639 he passed away in prison, died by suicide. This gunman 248 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:10.960 also twenty seven years old. But you look back sort 249 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.840 of at some of these studies and you find that 250 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:18.279 even people as young as seventeen years old, seventeen to 251 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.679 twenty nine. There was this study done showing that one 252 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.919 hundred and fifty two brains were donated to science people, 253 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.720 all under the age of thirty and forty percent of 254 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.879 them they found CTE. Again, the youngest person being seventeen 255 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.399 years old, So it is possible. One thing we are 256 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:36.960 learning is that there is probably a vulnerability for some people. 257 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:39.159 Some people may have a short career a few blows 258 00:16:39.159 --> 00:16:42.320 to the head still developed CTE, compared to others who 259 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:45.279 have a long career, like an NFL career, lots of 260 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.200 blows to the head, they never developed CTE. So trying 261 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:50.200 to figure out who is who, why some people develop 262 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.120 and others don't, That's what a lot of people are 263 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:53.039 trying to figure out. 264 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:56.399 And that's exactly my point is that Frank Gifford was 265 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:58.919 an old man and had lived a long life and 266 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:00.519 took a lot of blows to the head and had 267 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:05.519 a very long successful football career and then broadcasting career, 268 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.920 and then you got Aaron Hernandez who got it early. 269 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:14.519 So did this shooter have CTE. Will find out after 270 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:16.960 they do the autopsy. I'm sure they're going to tell 271 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:21.319 us on that. But it back to the police investigation 272 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.039 part of this. Here's John Miller, former NYPD. 273 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.599 Well, the motive seems to be centered around his idea 274 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.279 that he suffers from CTE. When police searched the car, 275 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:38.079 they found zoloff antidepressive medication zomatriptan, which is generally associated 276 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:42.559 with migrain migraines in pain, and an amount of cannabis 277 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:47.119 which could be recreational or could also be for pain 278 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:54.319 relief or migraines. But his notes talked about CTE, particularly 279 00:17:54.319 --> 00:18:00.680 a documentary called It was a frontline documentary about CTE 280 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:07.079 and his impressions that the NFL's denial of this for years, 281 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:11.799 according to his interpretation, is something that caused his suffering 282 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:16.079 to be worse. Going into that building. You know, you've 283 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:18.920 seen the picture. He's walking across that entryway with that 284 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:22.119 long gun and he walks into the lobby spots. The 285 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:26.400 police officer opens fire on him at that point when 286 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:30.279 he wounds the NFL employee, that's the only NFL employee 287 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.799 that he actually wounds, injures, or shoots, and he does 288 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:36.799 it while he's aiming at the police officer. You see 289 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:39.359 them both go down at the same time, likely from 290 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.400 the same one or two bullets, and then he ends 291 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:46.599 up in the wrong elevator. It isn't clear, but authorities 292 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.799 are looking at the theory that he was going to 293 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:54.119 the headquarters of the NFL at three forty five Park Avenue, 294 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:56.720 and that it was his belief that that was the 295 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.519 NFL building and that whatever floor he got off at 296 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.519 would be the NFL, which is what led him to 297 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.200 running into the open elevator, pressing the first floor, which 298 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:09.200 was thirty three, and ending up in Roodent Management, where 299 00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:13.480 he literally went into hunting behavior, stalking people and opening fire. 300 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:19.119 He had a concealed weapons permit he was able to 301 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:23.359 purchase the three point fifty seven magnum the cold python 302 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.559 that was found loaded in the car in June, which 303 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:30.839 is not that long ago, and a friend of his 304 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:36.680 identified as Rick, supplied him with the main part of 305 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.920 that AR fifteen rifle, and then he built the barrel 306 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.559 and the stock and the rest from that part that 307 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:45.279 came with the serial number. When they ran that and 308 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.799 it came back to it was sold to Rick. Las Vegas, 309 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:55.079 Metro questioned him NYPD atf the FBI are on their 310 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:59.279 way if not there now to talk further about why 311 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.200 did he give him the did he sell him that? 312 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.920 But if you note in that suicide note he left behind, 313 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:08.839 one of the last things he writes is tell Rick, 314 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.680 I'm sorry about everything, So he may have had a 315 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:13.720 clue that this was going to get his friend jammed up. 316 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.519 By the way, now they have determined Rick is a 317 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:22.880 fellow employee security guard at the Hosteshoe Casino in Las Vegas. 318 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:26.079 And as far as the second suicide note that they 319 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.000 found out his apartment in Las Vegas, apparently it was 320 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:32.039 to his mother and father and he wrote to them 321 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:36.960 and said, when I look into your eyes, I see 322 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:44.079 disappointment and I'm sorry. So he was I don't know 323 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:47.000 how much of this was he was blaming on CTE, 324 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.400 But again we will find out. Back to John Miller. 325 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:56.079 When he opened fire in the lobby, people began running 326 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:59.680 through the Now they have the stanchions there and they 327 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.240 have the glass things that slide together and then come 328 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:05.359 apart once you hit the censor and it finds your autherise. 329 00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:08.319 People didn't take time to find their idea and touch that. 330 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:13.039 They literally broke through the glass stanchions. So after that 331 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:16.079 he just walked through the broken glass between them and 332 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:18.799 went to the first elevator he could find. They're looking 333 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.200 to trace that weapon and figure out how the long 334 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.160 gun got into his hands, but they're also going to 335 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:28.200 look at what were those encounters that brought him to 336 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:33.200 the hospital twice? Were there were there the proper notifications 337 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:36.200 in that he was issued a concealed weapons permit. He 338 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:41.000 was still working as an armed security person for a 339 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:43.039 casino he had been with Caesars. He had moved a 340 00:21:43.079 --> 00:21:46.880 horseshoe and it was Sunday when he didn't show up 341 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:51.279 to work that they first encountered some kind of problem. 342 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.720 And of course we now know the day before that 343 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:57.559 he started driving across the country specifically to do this thing. 344 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:01.200 Oh then there's this gentleman's his name is Jonathan Wackgrow. 345 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:05.079 What he does is he's one of the top security 346 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:10.640 consultants for corporations and corporations. It's like the United Healthcare 347 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:14.519 executive They have security, but a lot of the executives 348 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:17.960 really don't want much to do with it. They feel 349 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:20.279 it's too much and it costs a lot of money. 350 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:22.799 But this is a guy who makes a living and 351 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:26.799 advising those corporations. He's of access that this individual had 352 00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:30.839 in bringing the armor light rifle into the building and 353 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.680 then launching his attack right away. In the free flow 354 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:36.359 that he had from the front of the building, all 355 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:39.960 the way he'll pass multiple banks of elevators deep within 356 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.640 the building to eventually stopping where he did. Now, we 357 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:46.240 don't know why he stopped at that elevator bank that 358 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:48.640 would eventually bring him up to the thirty third floor. 359 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:51.759 Some believe that because of the access control measures that 360 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.599 are in place, that was a point of vulnerability. There 361 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:57.720 was somebody coming out that the gates open, the elevator 362 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:01.079 door was there, and he sees that opportunity. But to me, 363 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:05.039 just that level of access and agility he had to 364 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:08.839 maneuver inside again is something that needs to be looked at. 365 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:11.720 Now that we know this type of threpresents itself. I 366 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:13.480 don't know if he had ease of access. I think 367 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:16.599 it was his naivete. He did not know that the 368 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:19.960 whole building wasn't the NFL. He thought it was the 369 00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:23.119 NFL building. There's all kinds of companies that are in 370 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:25.880 that building. And the other part about it was there 371 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.200 was a woman who had taken the elevator down to 372 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.599 the lobby and when the when the door opened and 373 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:36.200 she walked out, that all he knew was that was 374 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:40.000 an open elevator. He didn't know that the bottom level 375 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:43.519 Florida only went from thirty three to forty four. So 376 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:46.599 he pushed the first button, which was Ford thirty three. 377 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:49.519 That's how he got to Ford thirty three. It wasn't 378 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:54.200 because of any genius on his part. And I again, 379 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:56.519 I mean people. And the fact that she got off 380 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:59.519 the elevator and he did didn't bother her at all, 381 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:03.839 didn't she her, didn't scare her, She got off, he 382 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:07.559 got on. He had no idea that that elevator only 383 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:10.599 started at four thirty three. Well, listen, first of all, 384 00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:13.160 let's give credit where credit is due. Since nine to eleven, 385 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:17.000 the corporate security program, specifically here in New York City 386 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:20.319 is become the best in the world. These buildings are 387 00:24:20.359 --> 00:24:23.240 fortified to the nth degree, but it doesn't mean that 388 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:26.680 they can't be improved, and they are designed based upon 389 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.640 current threat environment. The thought that someone would be bringing 390 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.599 in an armor light rifle into the lobby of a 391 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:38.319 midtown Manhattan commercial building wasn't in the rubric of the threats. 392 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:42.480 Workplace violins, handguns, that is a commonplace and there are 393 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.920 protective measures there. So right now this is a seminal 394 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.079 moment for corporate security programs here in Manhattan to go 395 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.200 back and reassessed because the threat landscape has now changed. 396 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.160 We know that this was a successful attack, and property 397 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:59.079 owners need to now go back and make sure that 398 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:02.200 their programs are a to this new threat environment. I 399 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:06.480 don't think it applies to just high rise buildings in Manhattan. 400 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:09.119 I remember years ago and I worked in San Francisco, 401 00:25:09.640 --> 00:25:14.000