Six People Killed in Shootout in Miami; Two Missing in Boat Accident in Hudson River
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everybody. I am Suzanne Malveaux.</s>POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: I am Poppy Harlow. It is 9:00 on the East Coast, 6:00 out west. This is NEW DAY SATURDAY. We begin in Florida where six people and their alleged shooter were killed overnight at an apartment complex north of Miami. It happened in the suburb of</s>ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.</s>MALVEAUX: And we have this breaking news here. We know are learning that two people are missing. There are four others hospitalized with injuries. This is after a boating accident. This is on the Hudson River in upstate New York. Now, according to the Coast Guard this accident happened when a recreational boat crash into the a barge last night. WABC says one of the women is due to be married in two weeks and this is what - this is how her mother described what they believed happened.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She lives in</s>MALVEAUX: And Alina Cho, she is following the story from New York. Alina, just explain this, if you will, for us. It's a little bit confusing. There are two people who are missing, that was the bride- to-be and best man, and it's actually the groom that called the mother?</s>ALINA CHO, CNN, CORRESPONDENT: The groom called 911, and he was knocked unconscious in this accident, Suzanne, and it is developing at this hour. And actually, we should tell you we just learned a police news conference is expected to begin momentarily. We will bring that to you when it does. Here is what we can tell you. Two people missing, and four people survived, but injured in this boating accident. Among the missing is a woman who is 30 years old named Lindsay Stewart. She was due to be married in two weeks on August 10th. As you mentioned the other missing person is said to be the best man in the wedding. And here is what we know that happened, according to our affiliate WABC in New York, a 21-foot stingray boat, a small recreational boat went out on to the water on to the Hudson River last night at about 10:30 with six passengers onboard. Apparently this boat hit a barge. If you know this area, it happened around the</s>MALVEAUX: All right. Alina, thank you very much. We appreciate it. Obviously you're going to be working on getting more information here. We want to bring a spokesperson from the U.S. Coast Guard Ali Flockerzi who was on the line joining us on the phone here. What you have learned so far? ALI FLOCKERZI, SPOKESPERSON, U.S. COAST GUARD</s>MALVEAUX: Ali Flockerzi, can you still hear us? You are on with Poppy Harlow and Suzanne Malveaux, can you hear us?</s>FLOCKERZI: I can kind of, yes.</s>MALVEAUX: OK. Please continue.</s>FLOCKERZI: And the four people were transported to the</s>MALVEAUX: And we know that the Rockland County Police are going to have a news conference here. Any moment, of course, we will try to bring that to our viewers live. Of course, what's really important here is taking care of those four that are hospitalized and finding the two that are missing, one a bride-to-be. We just heard from her mother who said - she said "We're praying for a miracle here." Have you or the police been able, Ali, to talk to any of the others that we're on the boat to get any sense of what injuries the two missing may have sustained where they may be. Are they able to give you any leads?</s>FLOCKERZI: I was not personally able to receive that kind of information. I know that detectives are working on hard to conduct interviews with the injured person and they're waiting for a toxicology report to possible see if anything else is involved in the accident. Other than that, we are not sure but the Coast Guard and the corresponding agencies are doing all they can to successfully recover these people.</s>MALVEAUX: And just to give our viewers a sense of where this happened. If you know the island of Manhattan, the Hudson River is on the west side of the island. It goes pass Manhattan, it goes all the way up pass the Bronx and then up north. It's up north there a few miles passed the end of Manhattan where the Tappan Zee Bridge is where this would have happened, just to locate people. Can you talk to us, Ali, about how long someone can remain in the water, given the temperatures outside. You know, this is not the middle of winter but how long can they stay in the water alive?</s>FLOCKERZI: You know, we actually had a case similar to this that a man</s>MALVEAUX: You mentioned that the search was suspended last night. Can you tell us why? What were the conditions in which they stop searching for those two missing?</s>FLOCKERZI: To be honest, I don't know the reason that they stopped searching. I would say that it's too - honestly I'm not going to speculate. I don't know the reason why they stopped searching. The important thing is that they - we continue the search at 9:00 this morning.</s>MALVEAUX: Can you talk to us about the injuries sustained by the four others?</s>FLOCKERZI: I do not know the injuries that were sustained.</s>HARLOW: What kind of resources are out there? Do you have out there now, searching for them right now? I know you had crews into the middle of the night and resuming this morning. What kind of resources are we talking about?</s>FLOCKERZI: The Coast Guard actually has a rescue boat on scene, and the New York state police, NYPD and Westchester all have aviation units out. Tarrytown, Sleepy hollow, Piermont and</s>MALVEAUX: And Ali, in light of the fact that the search had been suspended for quite some time. We're looking at this window here. That would be overnight in which the search was not taking place, and it since has been resumed as you mentioned, is there any kind of assets, anything out there in the water that would allow them to hold on to something or to rescue themselves if they had to in this situation considering the search had been suspended?</s>FLOCKERZI: Yes, definitely. If they were wearing life jackets, which is unknown, that is always a positive sign for survival, and like I said, that is unknown at this time. So hopefully that is the case. If perhaps the current pulled them towards the shore or towards a stable object, they could have grabbed a hold of that.</s>MALVEAUX: Do we know if the four hospitalized, were they wearing life jackets, do we know that?</s>FLOCKERZI: I do not know, I am sorry.</s>HARLOW: Ali, we want to let you let you get back to what you guys are doing, and the search for two missing people to bring our viewers back up to speed, we are talking about breaking news, a boating accident, a tragic boating accident on the Hudson River just north of Manhattan happening at some point last night, two people, including a bride-to- be, and supposed to be married in two weeks, missing at this hour and four people are injured at the hospital, and the extent of their injuries unknown, and the Coast Guard working along with police, and a lot of resources trying to relocate the two missing people. We will bring you the latest as soon as we have it. We will be right back.