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Near the bridge where the attacks began. david. >> melissa, it is a gloomy, rainy, windy day here in london. and now almost 48 hours since the attacks took place. you can see over in the distance near my shoulder, though security perimeter is still in place here. police still on the scene. they have a high profile throughout theespecially on bri. a similar attack took place in the park near parliament. they know the identity of all three of saturdays attackers. but the names have not yet been ma...

Against broader kind of western pop culture that many extremist preachers feel as though was attacking their religious values. it could have been, frankly, just a soft target. if you look in this case, the suicide bomber went just outside the security perimeter, but then also positioned himself in a choke point so that he was going to cause maximum damage. one of the things that a security professional, there is a lot of focus on people coming into a venue. theres a lot of focus on the venue its...

Balance this tricky balance between our freedom, versus trying to prevent an attack like the one we just saw? >> those are exactly the forces at play, thats what american leaders and leaders worldwide are going to grapple with in the coming days. basically, as you can see in america, we are already in a heightened security state. no one was allowed to have a backpack inside, no one was allowed to carry a bottle of water in. you can tell it was a heavy security presence. that security guard stand...

Highest terrorist alert. what does that mean in practicality? >> youre seeing it right now. youre seeing armed soldiers on the street, guarding particular location considered to be soft targets. youre seeing a series of raids and policemen carry weapons, which is something unusual in the uk. again, without being able to identify all the people in this network and stop them, all of that is something of a show of force, but theres no guarantee it will protect anyone. these folks are determined to ...

Worried that that combined with robust online recruitment might end up in an attack like this happening in the united states. >> which raises the question do you believe american counterterrorism officials are prepared for similar attacks here in the united states outside that security perimeter, lets say, in a stadium or in some sort of a concert? >> well, i think we have to be hon est with ourselves when all it takes is one deranged individual with a bomb strapped to their body to create so mu...

Obviously theres certain patterns thats hard to ignore. i want to reset as we near the bottom of the hour here, there are 19 confirmed dead according to our sources, 50 injured at an ariana grande concert that was happening in manchester arena. 20,000 people capacity. the light came on at the end of the concert. folks were headed out when there was an explosion that happened outside of the building itself. suggesting the individual that exploded that device did so before being able to penetrate ...

Whether inspired, enabled or directed. >> given the amount of terror attacks happening around the world, does our behavior need to change? this attack took place in the foyer just outside the security perimeter, but some concertgoers said even when they got inside they didnt have their bags checked. do we need to change security practices, given the strain were seeing? >> it would be interesting to see if, in fact, that story that bags were not checked, is true. i would be amazed if that were th...

Arena in manchester where ariana grande was playing a concert. it was at the moment where the concert had just ended. the reason i think this pattern is important where we are, you can see the lights have come on and people are streaming out. the explosion itself possibly happened outside of the venue or in the foyer, what precipitated a mad rush, obviously, to get out of that venue. it was audible and visible, quite a few blocks around. the timing, the fact that it happened right at the end, li...

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...

Itself. we understand it took place in a public space just outside the venue there, and it was that blast, we believe, that was responsible for the 19 people who were killed, perhaps 50 or so who were injured. and what you heard there from the police is theyre treating this as a terror attack until they have reason to consider it otherwise. its pretty clear, we think, that that is the definite direction that the investigation is now heading in. and so from the hours since, what they have been do...