Joint Terror Task Force News Today

Jewish community. making the comments to the antidefamation league wednesday that all the comments made saturday by special agent originally stating the hostage takers demands were not specifically focused on issue t the jewish community, they adde that the fbi joint terror task force will continue to investigate that. the new york city gunfight hit the 11 -month-old baby girl in the face on wednesday leaving the infant in critical condition . just the latest senseless act o violence underscorin...

Who may be known to law enforcement. does he have any immediate connections? >> what kind of people are known to law enforcement? the jttf is one of the most sophisticated sort of city wide terrorist units in the world, isnt it? and wouldnt anyone sort of on a watch list or anyone that people have suspicions about be on their radar? is that the kind of list theyre checking the suspect against? >> there are all those types of lists is this somebody we have had interactions with before. i could ma...

Heres where we think the investigation is going. its a tense room, usually 20 to 30 people. and inside of that room theyll come out and brief us once they have gone through and once they understand froms some information we dont want to put out, we have a prosecution possibly in this case, theres certain information they dont want to divulge, but theres obviously information they want to tell the public. and what we know is that because of certain things, and certain ways that the suspect behave...

Direction that this investigation is taking sergeant gomez? >> it tells me once the jttf takes over, that they are going to potentially treat this like an act of terrorism and so this changes direction because once we have that in hand, now we know that its not only intentional, but that it appears that indeed, it was an act of terrorism and that is -- will be a concern because, again, there could be another lone wolf out there that could be watching this and saying, hey, i can do this as well. ...

>> terrifying firsthand accounts from witnesses. you are getting some reportable information about the investigation? >> nicole, my colleague jonathan dooens and i have from at least four senior law enforce men officials this is a full-fledged terrorism investigation at this point. the suspect upon crashing his vehicle got out, shouted "allah akbar" several times. believe he may have also hit a school bus as well. there were injuries on that school bus. i have that from several officials. and af...

B the joint terrorism task force is investigating this, or is on scene at least and at this point it appears as if they are going to look at this as a terrorist act. sometimes it turned out not to be that. i want to be a little bit cautious, but theres some specific things and some details im aware of that they are looking at in this investigation thats pointing them have strongly towards that. >> obviously were sharing with our viewers everything that were learning but nbc is now able to confir...

Have thousands of detectives that are going to be working round the clock to find out if this person was a lone actor, trained, inspired, received instructions or resources from a terrorist organization, if so, who, what, when and where? and if so, theyre going to ensure this is an isolated incident. though tragic that it is an isolatesed incident and that there is no threats of another such incident. a big concern is a copycat. this person did it, so maybe i can do it as well. >> so the fbi joi...