video of the westminster bridge. the area is in lockdown. people have been injured on that bridge. no traffic moving at all, clearly a serious situation. we re also told that president trump has now been briefed on the situation by his national security advisers. but we re showing our viewers some pictures from the bridge. kevin brennan is still with us, member of parliament. how unusual is this in london? well, of course we did have a major terrorist incident back in 2005, wolf, when there was attacks on public transport, on the tube in particular in london, and of course many, many years previously, people in london got used to terrorist attacks during the era of the troubles in northern ireland with the i.r.a. but police forces have been successful in recent years in
this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise. i think you re really hearing from police that they want people to understand that they need to be on the highest possible state of alert and the highest level of vigilance right now until the situation is fully contained. and from what we are seeing on the ground right now, it is still fluid. it s difficult to know exactly what s going on. so unsurprising that police are taking those kinds of draconian precautions. but again, just to give you a sense of how many people would be walking along that bridge, that bridge is packed when you try to cross it, and lots and lots of tourists, wolf. this is a very popular area with people who are visiting great britain. we ve seen reports that you just heard from the polish foreign minister sikorsky of victims lying on the bridge. we re getting a very brief statement, a warning from the u.s. embassy in london. we are aware of a reported
a shooting incident. that s all we know at this stage, according to many and varied witness accounts, pointing to potentially gunfire, explosions, right in this area, very close to britain s houses of parliament. no one officially has talked about who was responsible for this yet or what the potential consequences of it were. the british media are reporting that at least a number of people have been injured as a result of what has happened here today. i can tell you, on a day-to-day basis, at this time of day, this is an incredibly crowded area. two things to consider. first of all, houses of parliament is where prime minister s questions take place, every parliament member in the country was in that building today. on top of that, it s an incredibly busy site for the many tourists that come here on a daily basis. the crowds around the houses of parliament are always very large, so is the security. you see it here every single
it appears one of the underground stations, westminster, which is very near to the location where this attack took place, appears to be closed, although there s no indication that there s anything actually going on. but just that that perimeter does continue to expand as they want to make sure that everything is secure in that area. then famously, of course, some years ago there was another attack on an off-duty soldier, lee rigby, in a different part of london, towards the southeast, another horrific attack. and then last year, i should add, there was an attack on a british very beloved british parliamentarian, jo cox, not by an islamic terrorist group, that was by a right wing radical fanatic. at this stage we have no idea who has perpetrated this attack, what might be the motivation behind it. i can tell you, regardless of who is responsible or what drove
this attack, this certainly is putting a real fear into the hearts of british people, because although everyone in the united kingdom understands that there is an elevated threat, that we do live in dangerous times, as i said before, this is the center of london. this is the seat of power. this is a bustling area. you can see all of those red double decker buses now lined up, stuck as they lock down that entire area. anyone who has been to london, who has spent time in london, has been to this area. and presumably most of these people wouldn t feel unsafe in this area, because there is a heavy police presence around. one simply, wolf, does not expect this sort of thing to happen in broad daylight, for a car to be able to go over westminster bridge like that, mowing into multiple people, and