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in gaza to be released but also the release today of 39 palestinian detainees and prisoners from israeli prisons. that followed the same number being released yesterday. the video youre looking at there, thats the scene on the west bank in just last hour. a huge celebration, crowds gathering there to meet those palestinians coming home from those israeli prisons. cnns kaitlan collins is in tel aviv with latest developments on this second day of hostage releases. >> reporter: alex, were...

Authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. I want to have bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. We have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families On Las Rambla, which is pedestrianized. It does allow for some vehicle traffic. Now a followon event in a nearby street with the police, individuals ap...

She purchased the car with up of those identities and whether she has others or not, im not sure. i would not be surprised. won be surprise that had he has some false identities, but, you know, the -- her knowledge of the system and her as the assistant director who coordinated all the transport and so forth, we had sent two lands out that morning to the courthouse with inmates. each van had two deputies on it, and one van had five inmates and the second van had seven inmates and it was minutes ...

When one of the vans collided with a red pickup truck. >> we have a two-vehicle accident. >> reporter: authorities believe the van pulled into the path of the truck when both had solid green lights team members in the second van witnessed the collision. >> we need one more engine. >> reporter: killed in the accident, team member grace red. she recently broke an indoor rowing record, 62 hours without sleep, and celebrated her 20th birthday just yesterday. >> grace was a light to all who knew her ...

Headed to a practice in vero beach, florida, this morning when one of the vans collided with a red pickup truck. >> we have a two-vehicle accident. >> reporter: authorities believe the van pulled into the path of the truck when both had solid green lights team members in the second van witnessed the collision. >> we need one more engine. >> reporter: killed in the accident, team member grace red. she recently broke an indoor rowing record, 62 hours without sleep, and celebrated her 20th birthday...

According to authorities. you want to know whether others were involved, you want to find out if you can whether there is anything else planned and whether there is anyone out there who needs to be brought into custody. it was our initial belief that there was one person in this van along the boulevard there and then there is the second van from 40 miles away. we believe a person in that second van has been arrested but of this we cannot be sure at this moment. we know there are live pictures on...

Boulevard. imagine the damage it had done from getting in there and smashing through all of those people. as we move through to the next graphic, youll see, its called a terror attack. they moved into an area of market just beyond the carrer dehospital. there were reports of gun fire. so far nor has been able to cop firm whether or not that was police firing, an alleged terrorist on the other way around. we found later on that a second van had been discovered 40 miles away. that was linked to th...

Have come forward to say what everyone thought was a standoff was actually people holed up inside a building trying to protect themselves. not as if they were under attack in any way. so the driver of the van that was -- at the end of las rambla, the driver of that van is now in custody and being treated as a terrorist. the second van is a ways away and 40 miles away. as you heard from the reporting of sky news, getting this just as we were, it appears now, we can hope, that this thing is windin...

Police do not want me to go to the scene because they are looking for the attackers, shops are closed and some streets are closed. my mother and sister were in shop because police decided to close some shops, metro stations are also closed, people seem to be very scared. police are working on the scene to find the two attackers. >> shepard: weve just gotten some breaking news, weve just learned that the second van that was believed to be a part of this attack has now been located, about 40 miles...

4:30 in the afternoon with what police called a massive crash. quickly, that became something different. they call it then, a terrorist attack. in las ramblas, the big boulevard through the middle of the town. popular with tourists, lots of people around. the van itself ended up stopping, but by then it had killed many people and injured many, many more. there was then gunfire. shortly there after, police decided they were going to arrest this man. one of two men taken into custody in connection...