interesting way. i don t think we have seen that before. or immediately putting out an appeal for students or teachers who were taking videos or any kind of instagram video to send it to police. so they can piece together a video documentation of what went on. that s not the only reason. the first question i think we re already almost to the end of are solving this. when you see the video do you see anything he suggests he came in with another accomplice. my question is not the tragedy of 17 people killed. but let s ensure there wasn t anything else going on. coordination with another student that suggests there s a follow on incident. you have the question of evidence. if this person goes to trial. do you have evidence as you suggest iphone video for example. that will help. lessons learned. do you have video that suggests to us ways we could have handled this better. i think the bigger question is in the age of digital media,
here today, and as i understand, the confirmation so far is multiple casualties with at least one person killed. . very quickly, phil, i have seen a lot of police. have you seen any military response, british military response to the scene? no. nothing to constituting that at all. heavily armed police, beth those that would ordinarily patrol this particular district of london and others moving in in vehicles at speed as well. that would be the standard response. they are the primary first responders to any sort of incident, security incident like this on the streets of the capital. wolf. stand by. i know you re working your sources as well. paul is joining us, our terror analyst. they re treating this as a terror incident, at least as of now. that s what authorities in london are saying. you have been monitoring all the social media web sites. have you received any indications, is anyone out there claiming responsibility for
i would absolutely stress to the public our number one priority is to keep london safe. if people have information, please dial the number 0800-789-321, but most importantly, if people see anything suspicious dial 999 if he this think it s an emergency. thank you very much. there you heard the statement. commander b.j. harrington of the london metropolitan police. our cnn international anchor, you were there at parliament when this incident occurred. just a little bit more than two hours ago. i was having a little trouble hearing the beginning part of what he had to say. i think he was seeing maybe you heard it a little bit better than i did, that they are now dealing with what they consider to be an act of terror. right. they re saying they re keeping their minds open, but essentially this is a full counter terror investigation, and it is underway. that s what we heard there from police officials. the press association reporting right now that one person has died as a result of wh
implement a lot of damage. so far all we know is according to the british press association that one woman has been killed, but multiple casualties, and as you are seeing in these images that are playing out, the beating heart of london, of the u.k. on lockdown, and, of course, you are seeing a spirit of resillance in spite of this, but certainly it is chilling for anyone who has ever spent anyone any time in london to witness scenes like this. we re just gettingclarissa, mayor of london. let me read this statement. i m quoting here now. there has been a serious incident near to parliament square this afternoon, which is being treated as a terrorist attack until the police know otherwise. the mayor continues. i have spoken to the acting commissioner. the metropolitan police services dealing with the incident and an urgent investigation is underway. my thoughts are with those affected and their families.
and we have also heard nothing about the identity of the assailant nor whether there was more than one assailant nor the precise nature of the injuries nor whether anybody, according to the officials, in other words, the police, nor whether anybody was actually killed. the only thing we have to go by is that the press association says that one person at least was killed in this incident. yes, of course they would close buckingham palace gates and, frankly, they are pretty much closed all the time. sometimes you have changing of the guard and that s something that the tourists come to watch because these amazing british soldiers are walking from their headquarters in their coats and walk into the foreground of buckingham palace and it s around midday every day and they change out. tourists flock there to watch it and doors are open and the gates are open to watch that happen. if the queen is there particularly, then that would take place.