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Their way toward the door to meet their parents upfront, some arrive to ride the trains back with their parents and others to get in the car and go home, quoting from the bbc. when i got up and looked around, theyre just bodies everywhere, i reckon 20 to 30 bodies. i cant say if all of them were dead, but they look dead. they were covered in blood and seriously hurt. the first thing i did was run into the arena trying to find my family. so this parent had been right out front. every report seems...

Im standing in front of the manchester arena. the actual attack occurred on the opposite side here, right where the exit to the arena sort of joins the entrance to victoria station. thats a major rail station here in northern england. that area is where this bomber was able to move into the crowd as they were exiting the concert. it seems they would detonate themselves in the foyer or vestibule to this major 21,000-seat arena. that seems to have allowed him to make maximum casualties without hav...

Attack, what happened there? >> it was almost the same thing, if this turns out to be a suicide bomber attack, two suicide bombers were dropped inside in front of -- just across the street from the main entry of very very large soccer stadium at the height of a fully packed crowd and the bomber could not penetrate the exterior perimeter security. in fact, he was standing in front of a small snack bar for some time trying to determine the proper time. there were two bombers. and they went through...

Foyer where they sell the tickets, thats the area where this generally happened. were you sent out a different exit? >> caller: yeah, we were. opposite from that. we got out of a different exit. the way the venue was shaped, we had to go past where the bomb exploded. just to get out. the security diverted us all one way. >> shepard: what were you able to see in and around that area as you exited? >> caller: just saw a lot of security. a lot of people crying, the kids being very scared. >> shepar...

>> no. going into the concert tonight, ive been to concerts before and sometimes you get down, absolutely nothing at this concert tonight. got our tickets. that was going going into the concert. where the explosion took place. >> tucker: so anybody couldve brought anything into where the bomb went off? >> yes. anyone. as we left, there were so many children in their and teenagers and in the foyer where they explosion took place as we were walking through it, there were lots of parents in there a...

By the horrific explosion in manchester and as a precaution,w enforcement will step up security and patrols. with history as our guide, the subway stations and train stations, bus congregation areas in new york city will have heightened security. if nothing else, we are letting you know that we are on this. im guessing big cities across the nation -- you might see the same sort of thing. ive also gotten an interesting bit of information from the bbc, radio manchester. which give us an an idea of...

Investigators, mi 5 and the met and others in the u.k. they are going through the protocols. they are step-by-step. they are identifying associates of the attacker. they are talking and picking them up. they are searching addresses. they are doing all the work on cttt footage. what are they going to do? they undoubtedly have footage of this individual arriving at or near the site prior to the attack. they are looking at that with previous footage of the surveillance. was he with other individual...

Ended, everybody was going out the exits and he was right there in the foyer between the venue and the train station. >> right, as security experts we trouble with in all the time. wherever you put up a security perimeter, there is going to be a line that forms. that line is subject to attack. so, we have to increase our surveillance of that line do everything we can to separate the people who are there. and use undercovers more exclusively than we do to try to identify an individual who looks s...

>> so many family members were together for tonights concert, so many parents, for example, brought their teenage daughters. the crowd base for ariana grande, the concert tonight and manchester arena. i want to read you the way the associated press is putting in at this hour, dateline manchester england ap, a highly anticipated night for ariana grande fans ended in blood and terror after an explosion tore through the foyer, at least is the concert goers were killed, about a others were injured o...

Then one would go through security. they had bag checks at the concert. we believe the explosion took place somewhere in whats been described as a foyer around the box office area. thats based on a number of eyewitnesses. as you know, those can be unreliable. a number of people talked about coming through that area when they entered the venue. but when they left, they did not go through that area because that is where they believe the device exploded. 10:35 or so, the concert had just ended. the...