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Released some photos of him being taken into custody. he is wearing clothing. when this shooting happened, he was only wearing a jacket, he was partially clothed. thats what some people had been looking for. at some point, he put on pants, lost the jacket. he was wearing clothes. we know that he had stolen a vehicle last tuesday. police announcing that a couple of hours ago during a news conference. what does that tell you about the fact that he had stolen a vehicle not used in this incident, yo...

I live in the washington, d.c., area, and its hard to think you could get a vehicle anywhere close to a building, in essence, where you could drive it in and detonate an explosive. but the streets of america, there are few ways that we can really protect against something like this. an individual is driving down the street and he or she makes a decision to jerk the wheel to the right or to the left, there are going to be -- in a busy city such as toronto, there are going to be people out and abo...

Authorities are going to find out very quickly. if its an intentional act, they have to consider, is there a follow up? is this a one-to type of punch? if intentional, is there someone else? is this individual going to do the same thing some place else? is there any other act to follow? thats why they have to move very quickly on this to identify the vehicle, identify the driver, and of course, identify the motive, be it accident or intentional. >> we have a little bit of information from a witn...

Facts. that a vehicle left the road, went down and struck pedestrians. could it be an act of terrorism? there is an entire form of terrorism called vehicles as weapons attack, which we saw happen in new york, we saw it in paris and in other parts of europe and many times in israel. thats a possibility. but until the police tell us more about the driver and we know the drivers motivation, then were sort of going to be left in the dark. but from the initial descriptions of it, what we have is a ho...

Dwoent know and we dont know if this was an attack or an accident, we should be very clear about that. >> the challenge right here is that the vehicle has fled the scene. weve seen individuals involved in traffic accidents, bad accidents that have panicked and fled the scene. but again, this seems like -- and i can assure you that the authorities will initially treat it as some type of a criminal activity, until they find out otherwise. >> when theyre -- gosh, i mean, it just -- how do you guard...

Her and the driver down. >> from what i know, malcolm, im not entirely sure about this. the speed limit on this street appears to be i think 30 miles an hour. witnesses are saying that the driver was driving pretty fast. in order to jump a curb and knock over a fire hydrant, tell me if im wrong, would you have to be going faster than 30 miles an hour? >> oh, yeah. when i was in iraq, ive driven down sidewalks at very, very high rates of speed. you really have to hit it. now, 50, 60 miles per hou...

Deformities, not to mention, pedestrians. and each one of those things can cause a vehicle thats over 30, 40 miles an hour or higher to lose control. so that tells us a little something about it. but again, you know, law enforcement will clarify exactly whats going on here. >> we just spoke to a couple or our partners up there just spoke to a couple who described the aftermath and the gentlemen in that video said that his friend saw it happen and the driver jumped one curb and then drove down th...

Gender of the driver as of now. authorities were able to arrest the driver pretty quickly after this happened, within an hour, probably less than an hour, actually. what does that say to you that they were able to locate the person as quickly as they did? >> well, thats an example of really good police work. youp, there are always going to be indications of who the individual is, whether its a description of the vehicle putting out their, a pbs, localizing where that person was, viewing the vehi...

Checks, we need to not put guns into the hand of the mentally ill as the president -- rolled back what president obama had put in place in the last administration and people are looking more not maybe toward politics but whats in the best interests for our children and the future? >> sandra: somebody who wanted to inflict that type of harm to that many people could carry it out with something other than a gun. an individual used a truck here in new york city to mow down people on a jogging path....

And has become more religious over time, although right next door to his house is an area mosque. and people who spoke with my colleague brian thompson said he was not seen very often there. so unclear in terms of where or how he became radicalized, whether it was online. theyll search his computers. theyll search his phone. but again, a note in the van according to law enforcement officials praising isis, saying he was doing this for isis. and that is why so early on they knew this attack was a...