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Bridge atwrak tack where it wasw tech attack. unlike in manchester where it appears the terrorists had had some sort of specialized training. what do you make of an attack like this? >> i would think of it certainly -- and this is before we know anything about it -- these guys may have self radicalized. they may have operated independently. for me, something like this tells me is three guys, possibly radicalized. im assuming its another ramadan attack. weve had dozens around the world. and becau...

Entities. did any of them travel? were they inspired somehow? i will say something on just what weve seen unfolding as you have been too overnight. the response by the london police, the metropolitan police predominantly was truly remarkable. if you told me that three men entered a van, went across london bridge and had knives to continue the attack, well tonight is a horrible knife. its clear that the quick reaction, the communication to the public. if you followed them on facebook or twitter, ...

Saturday night with shops and cafes. moments earlier a vehicle raced across nearby london bridge. you see it there on the map. slamming into crowds of pedestrians. lets get more on all this with cnn law enforcement contributor steve moore. he joins me now from los angeles. via skype. we were discussing with our other guest the fact this was a low-tech attack. it didnt involve like the manchester arena bombing a sophisticated suicide vest or anything like that. and this would be the second time i...

Secretary and other key cabinet officials. and she will get a briefing on all the police have been aiv able to discover overnight, all the intelligence services have been able to discover overnight if they now know who the attackers were. if they know this stage if they had been on their intelligence services radar in the past as was the case in manchester attack as was the case in the westminster attack. so all of that will give the prime minister enough information to begin to consider what th...

Thanks for be wirin being with . doesnt appear the asailant had any explosives. it appeared the suicide vests are fake. no firearms. >> these types of tactics, knife atacks, vehicle ramming attacks have become much more prevalent since the surge in islamic state terrorism. low tech, no training and very unpredictable. and thats one reason why weve seen home grown jihadists embrace this style of attack. especially in countries where firearms may be -- >> reporter: and we know isis is encouraging ...

And we were following the metropolitan polices twitter feed and they were providing updates in real time, making sure people didnt get false information on social media. so they definitely did a great job. but for counterterrorism agencies, this is a nightmare. this is about the third time in about a month were see an attack. more high tech i manchester, and more low tech here. but stheng is going on where the intensity has increased in a considerable ways. we havent seen this in years. >> part ...

Bridge, then the manchester attack with the suicide vest and what theyre saying is a terrorist attack on london bridge. whats going on here? >> this is certainly the highest intensity for more than 10 years. this is exactly the type of incident that the police here in london and around the uk have planned for and trained for, for several years and especially in westminster youve seen more in the way of deployments. and at the same time what it suggests is that this type of attack, these types of...

>> an eye witness in the immediate aftermath speaking to cnn. a security analyst and former asistent secretary for homeland security. so julia, it appears that all the assailants have been taken out and it apeers as though these two incidents starting with the ramming into pedestrians and the stabbing at borough market are one incident and not two. >> this is a different kind of attack than weve seen in the past. it was highly orchestrated but not very sophisticated. you have two men who organiz...

For every second wasted, another innocent is killed. for every round you waste, another innocent is killed. you dont have time. the response has to be rapid, and shots need to be trained in how to fire bullets into a crowd of people and that needs to get to patrol. so 100% on bobbys answer. >> reporter: all right. thanks very much. this is definitely a conversation i know this country will have regarding how to response to these attacks. and also to the threat and how to gather the type of intel...

Atacks. obviously the police will be investigating any linkages between these incidents and any foreign group. >> reporter: it hasnt been comple completely clear, they claimed the manila incident that turned out not even to be a terrorist attack. theyre desperate, if indeed the claim comes, to associate them sv themselves with any attack in a western city. >> and many of these individuals have been motivated by sympathy for islamic state but certainly at this time theyre keen to demonstrate thei...