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What you describe as the individual being confronted by the police. so well see as it unfolds. >> commissioner, stand by for a second. i want to bring in a witness to the incident in toronto, henry miller. henry, what did you see? >> oh, hi. so, yeah, i saw a white van speeding down young street which is one of the major arteries here in toronto, driving in oncoming traffic, then mounting the curb. right across from my condo building, i see a lady lifeless on the floor and the truck was speeding...

Video shared with our partners at ctv who were told at the scene that this was the driver of the van. you see him there? he seems to have something in his hand. nbc has not confirmed it is the driver. clint van zandt, this is the video were you talking about, the image you were talking about where you see a guy standing in front of the van who seems to be holding something? >> very much so. you see the police officers right there. >> on the right of the screen you see police officers. >> if, in ...

So many americans do, it is no service to get them weapons and to give them back weapons that have been taken away from them legally by law enforcement. thanks to you clint van zant and maya rodriguez. a bitter sweet ending to this story. all right, we are following breaking news out of toronto where a number of people have been hit by a vehicle. heres what we know so far. toronto police told nbc news that eight to ten people were hit boy a vehicle around 1:30 p.m. eastern time. there is no word...

Van. joining me now a spokesperson for the toronto police department. gary, what do we know right now about the person who did this? >> right now, currently, we dont know a lot. we do know that we have located the van and that the driver is in custody. at this point, its still under investigation. we dont know the cause or the reason for the collision. and even the number of pedestrians that were struck or their injuries. we have not been -- finalized that yet. its still an ongoing fresh investi...

World trade center bombing in 1993 when the terrorists rent ared a van, blew it up under the trade center and killed people there, six or eight people were killed. and the atf and nypd and fbi was there. they went down into the whole of the world trade center, found the axel of the truck, tracked it back to the rental company. and thats how they caught the terrorist. >> it has been a habit. a modus operandi of terrorists to use a vehicle in an attack. years ago i went to ottawa and met with them...

Incident like this. its hard to imagine that terrorism wouldnt be the first thing that police think about before they consider any other motive at this time. >> when you heard the gentleman who was talking to us, the eyewitness, the man who went to perform cpr on a man who he said was dead, you heard him say, this van did not look like it lost control. it looked like it was weaving in and out, almost targeting people. he said it went on for almost seven blocks. so the earlier consent, look, busy...