welcome back. i m hala gorani. if you re just joining us we want to update you on breaking news as we continue to broadcast live from london. it is 6:42 a.m. here in the british capital. at least six people have now been confirmed killed. 48 hospitalized in a pair of terrorist attacks in the british capital. three assailants were also shot dead. so far no claim of responsibility. here s what we also know. there was a first incident. police say a speeding van mowed down pedestrians on london bridge. police then say from there the van drove to nearby borough market. panick customers went running for as wtheir livenesses say the attackers started stabbing people. we also have this picture taken by a witness which shows two men on the ground. they were wearing fake explosive vests. we don t know for sure if they were the assailants. and they are, as you can see
contact. because their contact, whenever they were together is when they planned theed things. they already know why the plan pla plan how they had the van. the fact there were three of them, you assume they were friends. now you start building a groups. five or six friends that hung out together. then you go to the other two or three guys, did you hear anything about this, do they know anything about this. they re going to be looking at their e-mails. that is how they ll determine if it was limited to these three or they were part of alarger group of even just friends or university or whatever they were part of because everybody s part of something. whatever they re part of what was that larger picture for these guys and did anyone in that larger picture know or have an idea they were going to carry this out? all right. bobby chacon, thanks very much. joining us from california.
channeling them into the right place. it was really it wasn t a chaotic scene but certainly there were some people very frightened as they came out. london bridge obviously a major london landmark. borough market as well was rehabb rehabbed. it s got tons of cafes and restaurants now. it s a hip area in london for young people to go out, have a drink and get some food, especially on a warm saturday night. and it was very, very full. even when we got here, after the attack happened, it was still very full. there were still paem out on the streets a couple of streets down from here, but also still out there near the borough market area with them obviously all coming out. the weather was fairly warm. there were a lot of people out having drinks, having dinner. it was really, really a packed scene. and that of course was also the case when the van went on to london bridge. there were also people there on the pavement walking around. the van apparently started swerving from side to si
appeared as though it was purposefully aiming for people. they say one person was thrown some 20 feet in the air. london police shot and killed three suspected assailants. this picture shows two men on the ground, both wearing fake explosive vests. it s been less than two weeks since 22 people were killed after a pop concert in manchester, england. joining me now is kane pieri who witnessed some of the chaos in central london. where were you when the attacks started? i was just between borough market and the bridge. i was coming out of london bridge station, having done a story with my colleague, and we were wondering what to do. as we were crossing the road on just in front of where the pub, where the van stopped, the white van, we saw all these police starting to arrive and people started screaming running around confused. then we saw armed police raiding the van so you saw the van as it was ramming people or after it had stopped? i think it was moments after
clear the streets. it all started when a van plowed into pedestrians at london bridge. so much confusion police didn t know who among the people escaping might have been at attacker one witness says he saw someone jump into the water to avoid getting hit there is the van on the skren for you. the attackers started stabbing people at borough market on the other side of the bridge. it hapz on 10:00 p.m. on busy saturday night so far for claim of responsibility for the aches. the american president president trump has spoken to prime minister theresa may he offered condolences and support in investigating attacks. athena jones has more from the white house. president trump has been briefed by his national security team about the incidents in london that team was continuing to provide updates to the president as the situation unfolds. president trump also look to twitter saturday evening tweeting first at about 7:17