Photos captured by folks on the scene of the Brooklyn subway taking pictures and witness accounts piece collectively an image of the panic and chaos that ensued when pictures started to ring out within the smoke-filled practice automotive.
Folks backed away from the door and a person banged on the door attempting to maneuver into the subway automotive, video taken by the passenger confirmed. In one other video, folks could be seen dashing off the subway practice after it pulled into the thirty sixth Avenue subway station.
Smoke pours out of the automotive the place the taking pictures came about, and folks could be heard screaming, that video reveals. Somebody helps an injured and bleeding individual off the practice, and one other man is seen hobbling off the practice shortly afterward.
Photos taken by others on the scene present the subway platform streaked with blood and folks sitting and mendacity on the practice platform following the assault.
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Hourari Benkada, 27, was sitting subsequent to the subway taking pictures suspect on the “N” practice and was shot behind his knee whereas attempting to flee, he advised CNN.
“I really feel shocked, I really feel shaky, I do not know if I can ever trip a practice,” Benkada, a lifelong New Yorker, mentioned after popping out of surgical procedure.
Benkada, a housekeeping supervisor on the New Yorker Resort, bought on the final automotive of the N practice and sat subsequent to a person with a duffel bag who was sporting an Metropolitan Transportation Authority vest, he mentioned. The gunman then let off a “smoke bomb” and began taking pictures about 20 seconds after the practice took off, Benkada mentioned.
Benkada was targeted on serving to a pregnant girl, whom he feared would get damage as folks rushed to the entrance of the automotive, when he bought shot, describing it as “the worst ache of my whole life.”
The bullet hit him behind his knee and got here out the opposite facet, he mentioned. Docs advised him the bullet grazed his kneecap. He’s anticipated to stroll on his personal after a number of weeks on crutches.
Benkada heard different folks in ache however could not see them or the suspect due to the smoke, he mentioned.
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Claire Tunkel, 46, took off her jacket and tied it across the leg of a person who suffered a gunshot wound, she advised CNN. Tunkel, who went to the hospital for smoke inhalation, mentioned a number of victims had been mendacity on the ground of the subway platform after the practice arrived on the station.
“One of many guys who was shot, his leg was bleeding fairly unhealthy, so I took off my jacket and tied it round his leg,” she mentioned.
Tunkel was within the subway automotive the place the taking pictures came about and described the scene as chaotic. Whereas she could not see something due to the smoke, she mentioned she heard folks crying out for assist and others who mentioned they had been bleeding.
“You could not see something, however you may really feel it,” she mentioned. Folks had been dashing to the entrance of the automotive, and a few fell to the bottom, she famous. “You may really feel the our bodies.”
Two bodies were discovered in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane on Monday after a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.
JetBlue Flight 1801 departed Kennedy Airport in New York at 7:49 p.m. Monday and landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport at 11:10 p.m., according to flight tracker data. The bodies were discovered during a routine post-flight maintenance assessment of the plane, the airline said.
Paramedics pronounced the two people dead at the scene, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. It was unclear how long the people had been in the landing gear compartment.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages Kennedy Airport, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about how the individuals may have gained access to the aircraft.
Landing gear compartments, located under an aircraft’s wings and at the front of the plane, have long been used by people attempting to travel undetected on airplanes. The airline did not say whether the two people who were found dead on Monday were stowaways.
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Such attempts to hide in landing gear compartments have proven deadly in the past. The compartments open and close upon takeoff and landing to deploy and retract wheels and other landing components, and other stowaways have fallen to their deaths from the openings, sometimes landing in public spaces along flight paths.
Those who can stay within the compartment risk being crushed by landing gear when it is withdrawn back into the aircraft, along with other hazards, including severe temperatures, pressure changes and lack of oxygen. Many stowaways die of hypothermia.
As recently as Christmas Day, a body was discovered in a wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hawaii. In 2023, a man was found alive in a landing gear compartment after a commercial flight from Algeria to France, though he was suffering from severe hypothermia.
An investigation was underway on Tuesday to determine the identities of the two individuals discovered in Fort Lauderdale and how they might have accessed the aircraft before it departed from New York, JetBlue said.
“This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this occurred,” the airline said.
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Facebook owner Meta is ending its third party fact-checking programme and will instead rely on its users to flag misinformation.
The social media platform on Tuesday said it would “allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations” and “take a more personalised approach to political content”.
Starting in the US, Meta will move to a so-called “community notes” model, similar to the one employed by Elon Musk’s X, which allows users to add context to controversial or misleading posts. Meta itself will not write community notes.
Former President Jimmy Carter‘s casket is being transferred Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for the next phase of his state funeral.
Carter has been lying in repose in Atlanta, as part of six days of observances that began Saturday with a service at his boyhood home in Plains, Georgia.
“This is somebody from a small town in south Georgia who was a peanut farmer who ultimately became the president of the United States,” said Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, at the Plains service on Saturday. “It’s a pretty remarkable American story.”
Carter, the 39th president, died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100 — living longer than any president in U.S. history. His beloved wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, died in November 2023.
On Tuesday, Carter’s body will be flown from Atlanta to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where his casket will be transferred with ceremony to a hearse. From there, a motorcade will proceed to the U.S. Navy Memorial, where his casket will then be transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson with ceremony.
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Members of the joint services military honor guard conduct a changing of the guard near the casket of former President Jimmy Carter as he lies in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, on Jan. 6, 2025. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
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The caisson will travel to the U.S. Capitol, where Carter’s casket will be carried up the stairs into the Rotunda by military body bearers. Members of Congress will be able to pay their respects during a service.
Beginning Tuesday afternoon, Carter will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until Thursday, when his funeral service will be held at the National Cathedral before his remains are flown back to Georgia. President Biden is will be delivering a eulogy at Thursday’s service, along with several others. President-elect Donald Trump said he will attend.
There will be a final private service in Plains, and Carter will be buried next to Rosalynn Carter at his family’s peanut farm.
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Full schedule of Tuesday’s events (all times Eastern):
9:30 a.m.: A departure ceremony from the Carter Presidential Center.
10 a.m.: The motorcade departs for Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia.
10:40 a.m.: The late president and his family arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and board Special Air Mission 39 after an arrival ceremony.
11:15 a.m.: Special Air Mission 39 departs for Washington.
12:45 p.m.: Special Air Mission 39 arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, and Carter’s remains are transferred with ceremony to the hearse.
1:15 p.m.: The motorcade departs for the U.S. Navy Memorial.
2 p.m.: The motorcade arrives at the U.S. Navy Memorial and Carter’s remains are transferred from a hearse to a horse drawn caisson with ceremony.
2:15 p.m.: The funeral procession begins marching up to the U.S. Capitol via Pennsylvania Avenue, turning left onto Constitution Avenue.
2:40 p.m.: Upon arrival at the U.S. Capitol, the late president is carried up the stairs by military body bearers and into the Rotunda.
3 p.m.: Congress pays their respects during a service in the Rotunda.
3:45 p.m.: Carter begins lying in state while the military maintains a guard of honor.
7 p.m. to midnight: Lying in state opens to the public.
Caroline Linton
Caroline Linton is an associate managing editor on the political team for CBSNews.com. She has previously written for The Daily Beast, Newsweek and amNewYork.
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