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This is a network we are investigating. it continues at a pace. extensive investigations going on and activity taking place across greater manchester. >> authority say that abedi spent at least three weeks in libya before traveling to london where he spent a couple days before taking a train to manchester monday and detonating a sophisticated improvised explosive device in the foyer of the manchester arena as thousands of fans were leaving a ariana grande concert. the blast killed 22, including ...

Clearly in distress. my wife just rushed forward. >> do you know how old she was? >> she was 14. my wife is screaming, my babies, my babies, my babies. i said to her, just look after this young girl. i will go find them. i promise you, i will find them. i went back in to the foyer. i didnt find my daughter and granddaughter there. i checked every single person to see whether it was our daughter or granddaughter. thankfully, it wasnt. >> your wife is back with the 14-year-old girl. and you have r...

>> thanks very much. earlier today, i spoke with phil dick. he dropped his daughter and granddaughter off at the concert. he and his wife were waiting to pick them up when the bomb went off. its strange to call phil one of the lucky ones given what he saw and what he described to me, which you will hear. his family survived. here is our conversation. phil, you and your wife will dropped off your daughter and granddaughter at the concert. you were waiting to pick them up. can you tell me what hap...

It must have been five feet away from where we were. we heard the explosion happen. the boom rattled in my chest. you could feel it in the ground. it was just horrific. >> can you tell me what direction -- you said you were that close to the explosion, you actually felt it in your chest. what direction were you walking in? what direction do you think the explosion took place in? theres been some who have said it may have taken place close to a box office on a way from the train station. >> yes. ...

Officials here are confirming 19 people killed at least 50 injured, though weve been seeing numbers much higher than that being treated at hospitals across this city with what police are saying are probably a terrorist attack. saw law enforcement officials have told cnn they believe it is possibly, quote, likely a suicide bombing that happened in the box office area, the foyer has they call it here in the united kingdom where the ariana grande concert had just ended. the blast was absolutely hug...

The arena in manchester where the explosion took place, what is being treated now as a terrorist attack. police are operating under that assumption until proven otherwise. the latest death toll we have from the latest is 19 people killed, at least 50 injured. you might be able to hear helicopters flying overhead. its still a very tight security situation here in manchester around the arena where that ariana graenld concert had just ended. police believe the explosion, the attack really we can sa...

Minutes after the concert finished and ariana left the stage and people started to leave the seats to leave the arena and there was a really loud explosion. a really loud sound that turned out to be the explosion. lots of people came running back in to get away from it. then from then on it was just a mad rush to try and get out of the arena. by the time we got out, about five minutes getting down the staircase and got outside. then the emergency services had begun to arrive, were starting to ar...

Targets for any terrorist. and were talking also about somebody who detonated explosives in a foyer area where people were streaming out for maximum damage, in order to cause maximum carnage as well. and this makes it all the more cowardly and disgusting. >> thats right. as you heard in that press conference, authorities are rapidly trying piece together the identity of that individual who carried that i.e.d. into the foyer and detonated it amongst children out for a couldnt certain to see one o...

Whether inspired, enabled or directed. >> given the amount of terror attacks happening around the world, does our behavior need to change? this attack took place in the foyer just outside the security perimeter, but some concertgoers said even when they got inside they didnt have their bags checked. do we need to change security practices, given the strain were seeing? >> it would be interesting to see if, in fact, that story that bags were not checked, is true. i would be amazed if that were th...

Arena in manchester where ariana grande was playing a concert. it was at the moment where the concert had just ended. the reason i think this pattern is important where we are, you can see the lights have come on and people are streaming out. the explosion itself possibly happened outside of the venue or in the foyer, what precipitated a mad rush, obviously, to get out of that venue. it was audible and visible, quite a few blocks around. the timing, the fact that it happened right at the end, li...