Ten Shot Outside Empire State Building
LEMON: An American landmark is now the site of a crime scene. A mass shooting outside the Empire State Building.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): We're looking down at 34th Street just off of Fifth Avenue where you see at least two people being taken off in a stretcher after being shot.</s>LEMON: New York City's mayor says a total of 10 people were hit including the man who allegedly ignited it all. At a news conference, Michael Bloomberg says the shooter named Jeffrey Johnson gunned down a former co-worker and then police gunned down Johnson who was 58 years old. An eyewitness talked to CNN's Poppy Harlow.</s>POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM CORRESPONDENT: Did you talk to anyone else, Rebecca, who witnessed the shooting like you?</s>REBECCA FOX, EYEWITNESS: I did. He had a photo of the person the shooter shot in the head. So I knew that he was dead from the photo.</s>HARLOW: What did that fellow witness tell you?</s>FOX: He just said a man had been chasing another man down the street by the Starbucks and shot him in the head and the police shot him.</s>LEMON: And the eight others who took a bullet. Well, there could be more. There were apparently at the wrong place at the wrong time.</s>MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG (I), NEW YORK: Earlier this morning a little after 9:00 a.m., man who had been fired from his job about a year or is a began shooting near the Empire State Building, but out in the street. He killed one person and at least nine other people were shot some may have been shot accidentally by police officers who responded immediately and while confronting the suspect and fatally shooting him, unfortunately there may have been other victims as well. All of those are not seriously wounded and there's no expectation that any of them will do anything other than recover quickly. I ask everyone to keep the victims in their thoughts and in their prayers. This is a terrible tragedy and there's no doubt that the situation would have been even more tragic, but for some extraordinary acts of heroism. Every day, as you know, our police officers put their lives on the line to protect us. They did so again today responding immediately and they were joined by a number of civilians whose bravery and assistance probably also saved lives.</s>LEMON: So what was the alleged shooter's gripe? Commissioner Ray Kelly indicated Johnson and his apparent victim who police are not yet identifying had a history involving workplace harassment.</s>COMMISSIONER RAY KELLY, NEW YORK POLICE: Johnson had been employed for six years at Hazan Imports as a designer of women's accessories. During a downsizing at the company about a year ago, Johnson was laid off. In a dispute with one of the former employees of Hazan in front of the building, Johnson produced a pistol and fired at close range striking his 41-year-old victim in the head.</s>LEMON: And now people are taking note the time of mass shooting. Just this morning, Mayor Bloomberg talked about gun violence.</s>BLOOMBERG: It's too many guns on the street. It's not the only problem and you know, the argument that guns don't kill people, people kill people is one of the most disingenuous things you can say. It does take a person to pull the trigger, but if they didn't have the gun -- we are the only developed country in the world with this problem.</s>LEMON: The mayor giving his weekly address on WOR Radio in New York City. Tropical Storm Isaac bringing torrential rain to Haiti right now. Our Chad Myers is keeping watch. Storms on certain path has Tampa and Republican National Convention leaders making precautionary plans. That's ahead.