Helicopter makes emergency landing in Bayonne, NJ

All right, Newsroom Live. We're going to start with some breaking news right now. This is happening in Bayonne, New Jersey. I want to focus your attention on that helicopter that's right there in the middle of your screen. That helicopter made what's described as a hard landing about 30 minutes ago, and you can see it sustained some damage. We're being told that this is a sightseeing helicopter of some kind. Made an emergency landing on Bayonne, the pier there. The aircraft definitely has some damage to its tail. I mean, look at that. You can see the tail has pretty much been sheared off. And look to the right of the screen. Skyfox is zooming out. There's the white police vehicle. And then right next to that, you see that piece of debris. That's a little bit of the rotor. It all happened about 9 o'clock this morning. The Port Liberty Container Terminal. Two people are believed to have been on board so far. No major injuries have been reported. The cause at this point is not clear. So look, anybody who's familiar with Bayonne, this is kind of an industrial area. They know it as like the back roads. And so yeah, you can see it's right along the water there. And certainly a big concern this morning because we're still trying to figure out exactly what happened. The tail section damaged. Those images from the scene, the extent not exactly clear. The initial report says the helicopter had some kind of engine problem before it made this hard landing. Officials have not confirmed what caused the problem. First responders definitely securing the area. You can see the yellow tape that is up around it. I mean, look, the tail of an aircraft like this has an important job. It helps the pilot control the helicopter's direction. Damage visible on the tail is, I mean, obviously it's significant. It does not tell us when or how that damage occurred. So it's possible that that happened when it was landing and may not have been part of the reason for it to have made that emergency landing. I mean, an engine problem, that can mean a lot of different things, could indicate like a warning or a mechanical issue that led the pilot to think. I got to get this aircraft on the ground and think about where it is right here, very close to the water. And even even in this this this area where he did land, he's very close to the edge there. So the serious situation, if an engine loses power, a helicopter can still make a controlled descent. When the pilots are trained to use a maneuver, it's where the airflow keeps the main rotor turning as the helicopter descends. We don't know exactly if that's what happened here, but investigators are going to look beyond the visible damage. They have to examine the engine, the transmission, the rotor systems. You know, we've seen our fair share of helicopter incidents like this that have gone much, much worse. Okay, here's a much closer look. At the chopper and the tail there, the tail that has been sheared off, just behind our banner, yeah, right there where the firefighters are standing, that is the tail. So we know the NTSB, National Transportation Safety Board, will definitely be looking into this, and we expect that some of their investigators will arrive on the scene probably by the end of today, maybe even this morning. If they have one of those go teams that is around in the area. Okay, so that's happening right now out in Bayonne, New Jersey. A hard landing of a helicopter, breaking news situation. We wanted to bring it to you because we had our chopper up and let you know what is going on there. But the good news is it does not appear that either of the two people who were on board that aircraft have been injured. More on that as we get it.