WHITFIELD: Right now police are searching for a gunman who shot at least ten people in New Orleans. Authorities tell CNN a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people near the famed French quarter. Two of the victims are in critical condition. Natasha Chen is live for us in New Orleans. So tell us about this investigation. Where does it stand?</s>NATASHA CHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right. Well, Fred, it happened just before 3:25 in the morning. About a block away from us down canal street from where we are standing. And police are still, as you said, looking for the people responsible. There are ten people who were shot when this happened. Two of them in critical condition. Police say that one of them was shot in the chest. Another shot in the torso. They are all at local hospitals. And this was a very crowded evening yesterday. A lot of folks were here in town for the bayou classic that was played at the superdome last night. And so police say there was a large law enforcement contingency here because of the game. So they were within feet of the shooting when it happened. Here's the police chief describing their response tots incident.</s>CHIEF SHAUN FERGUSON, NEW ORLEANS POLICE: You had officers right there within that very block that actually thought that they were being fired upon and took a position to respond to this.</s>CHEN: And the mayor has also released a statement today. She says the shootings on canal street early this morning were an ugly disruption of an otherwise beautiful holiday weekend. We will do everything we can to wrap the victims and their families in our love and support and to bring the criminals responsible to justice. The city of New Orleans will not allow incidents like this to derail the progress we have made or to further disrupt our community. And right now we are asking the police some more questions to update this investigation, to find out how those ten people were doing and whether they have any people for questioning at this moment, Fred.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Natasha Chen, thank you so much in New Orleans. And we will be right back.
Police Are Searching For A Gunman Who Shot At Least 10 People In New Orleans.