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friend and their children. >> there was just smoke and there were embers falling down from the roof and people were screaming and we just ran and ran and ran. >> reporter: bethany keeling was right near the exit when the bomb went off. >> i saw like a flash. like, an explosion flash. i grabbed my friend's hand and we just ran. but we looked and we could see the bodies on the floor. >> reporter: victims were lying where they'd fallen. the ground was streaked with blood. the killer today identified as 22-year old british-born salman abedi. police believe he detonated his suicide bomb here, in an area connecting the massive arena to the nearby train station, which then descended into chaos. when the bomb went off, many parents were waiting outside to collect their kids after the show. for some of the youngsters, it was their first concert. joe gregory was sitting in his car, waiting to pick up his girlfriend.
22-year-old salman abedi, was born in manchester, the son of a family who emigrated from libya. a college dropout, abedi was once one of the almost 500 young men known to british authorities as possible terrorists. >> abedi was a terrorist suspect in the uk, mi5 were aware of him, they were aware he posed a potential threat, but they didn't think he posed the imminent threat that he obviously proved himself to do in manchester. >> reporter: neighbors today told abc news the abedi family would only talk with people who were muslim. the neighborhood, around an area called moss side, just a few miles from the concert hall, is considered by police to be a hotbed of isis recruitment. >> moss side is very well known. a lot of people with petty criminal pasts, involvement in gangs, getting involved instead with isis later on. >> reporter: manchester police
have actually been planning for a terrorist attack for some time. this training exercise was held just last year at a manchester shopping mall, to help police plan for an attack on a crowded, soft target. >> and brian ross joins us tonight. you reported there that this suspect was known to british authorities as a potential terrorist? >> that's right, david. he was once on a kind of a government watch list. but we learned that he wasn't being closely watched because authorities didn't believe he posed an immediate threat, david. >> brian ross tonight, our thanks to you. and this evening, the awful reality. this attacker knew so many young people would die. tonight, the faces and parents holding photos of their children still waiting. and the mother who is still missing. from the teenagers who were on their own for a concert, to the children running out holding their mother's hands. the attack was cruelly aimed at young lives, innocent children. among the dead, saffie roussos, just 8 years old, separated from her mother and big sister. she did not survive.
her school saying today, "she was simply a beautiful little girl loved by everyone." there are reports here that her mother was critically injured, in the hospital, and might not be aware of what happened to saffie. 18-year-old georgina callander had her picture taken with the pop star two years ago and was back to see her in concert. she did not make it out. and at a vigil here today in manchester, in albert square thousands honoring the young faces that did not make it. [ crying ] >> it's a horrible thing that's happened. it won't change this city. >> reporter: why was it so important for you to come out today? >> it's an attack on manchester, which is our city. and i think everyone needs to show support and show that we are all together and we are all strong. >> i cannot begin to imagine what the parents are going through. anyone who's a mother, like myself, you just cannot bear too much. >> reporter: and we met the
children here who are still struggling to find the words. what should everyone do now? >> um -- >> carry on as normal. >> yeah, carry on as we usually do. just not hurt anyone. >> reporter: tonight, more than a dozen still missing. families and friends still waiting, still searching. >> i'm sharing pictures of missing people. people that need help. >> reporter: looking in hotels, hospitals, a teenager's uncle searching for his 15-year-old niece, olivia. >> you haven't seen this girl by any chance, have you? excuse me, i'm just asking if you've seen this young girl. >> reporter: olivia's mother, charlotte, holding a picture of her daughter. >> if anybody has seen her, please contact the police. contact somebody. let her know you've seen her. even if you think you've seen her, just let the police know, please. >> reporter: a desperate plea from a mother. >> please just phone me and come home please.
>> reporter: the hashtag #missingmanchester has been shared around the world. chloe rutherford and liam curry, missing. courtney boyle and her boyfriend and martyn hett, separated from his friends at the end of the show. and this mother, wendy fawell, who hasn't been seen since the concert. but there are families tonight, thankful and relieved, posting photos of the missing they've now discovered. this tweet -- "all of these people have been found. let's keep going." and here in this square, we met a grandfather whose own wife is a child psychologist and a first responder. she's been helping children and hasn't been home yet. >> it's cowards and it's the weakest, affecting people that are the weakest and families that are affected. and i don't know what they hoped to achieve. >> the grandfather and his wife counseling the youngest survivors here. tonight, many back home in the u.s. asking, what about concerts there? even sporting events? late today, the fbi held an urgent call with field offices
across the u.s. abc's justice correspondent pierre thomas tonight. >> reporter: tonight, abc news learning that state, federal, and local authorities are now working to identify potentially vulnerable "open venues" here, ranging from sporting events to concerts. at a john legend concert in grand prairie, texas, last night, as manchester unfolded -- >> we want to make sure they saw plenty of officers out here. >> reporter: -- beefed up security. at the melissa etheridge concert in los angeles, same story. more security, bags being inspected. >> i understand why they have to do that. it's the world that we live in now. >> reporter: with terror attacks surging in europe, u.s. officials locked in. worried about isis and the potential for copycats. expect increased security at this weekend's indy 500. today in new york, the nation's number-one terror target, more heavily armed police at more locations. >> and pierre, we just heard brian ross report earlier, there are some 500 people being watched here in the uk because of potential terror links.
but you reported before that there are countless cases back in the u.s. that authorities are watching as well. >> david, here at home, the fbi is conducting more than 1,000 terrorism cases in all 50 states. they're under constant pressure. >> pierre thomas in times square tonight. pierre, thank you. president trump weighing in on the manchester attack during a stop in bethlehem, choosing his words carefully. to deny them any glory. i want to bring in cecilia vega tonight, traveling with the president. cecilia, let's listen here to what the president had to say. >> so many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives, murdered by evil losers in life. i won't call them monsters. because they would like that term. they would think that's a great name. >> "evil losers" his words for the attacker and anyone else who might have been behind this. in the meantime, cecilia, you were telling us the next stop
tomorrow is a meeting with the pope. >> david, you remember, they had that very public feud during the campaign over the border wall, the pope said that building the border wall was unchristian. then-candidate donald trump called the pope a political person. they are meeting tomorrow for the very first time. it's just a short meeting, 15 minutes to 20 minutes. all eyes will be on the vatican. if they go past that it could be a sign they're becoming friends. david, the white house tells us that the president is looking to find some common ground with pope francis. >> cecilia vega, thank you. meantime, the president and his team well aware of the headlines back home. and there was another major development today, the former head of the cia testifying on capitol hill. he said associates of the trump campaign were in touch with the russians and often and that it worried him. abc's mary bruce on the hill again tonight. >> reporter: on capitol hill today, blunt talk from the former cia director. >> i encountered and am aware of information and intelligence
that revealed contacts and interactions between russian officials and u.s. persons involved in the trump campaign. >> reporter: for the first time, john brennan saying during the campaign he was concerned about ties between the russians and the trump team. so much so, he thought the fbi should investigate and said he warned the russians to cut it out. >> it raised questions in my mind again whether or not the russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals. >> reporter: but today he stopped short of calling it collusion. >> i don't know whether or not such "collusion" -- and that's your term -- such collusion existed. i don't know. >> reporter: that question is now at the heart of multiple investigations. and now, "the washington post" reports president trump asked two of his top intelligence officials to publicly deny any coordination with the russians. one of those officials, the director of national intelligence, pressed by lawmakers today, would neither confirm nor deny.
>> it's not appropriate for me to comment publicly on any of that. >> reporter: for now, the director isn't saying anymore. did the president at all -- >> we've said what we're going to say. >> and mary bruce joins us live tonight from capitol hill. mary, you're getting word that the president is hiring a private attorney to deal with all this. >> david, we've just learned that the president is expected to hire a private attorney to represent him in the special counsel's investigation. even though the white house today continues to point out that so far no one has presented any evidence of collusion. david. >> mary bruce with us tonight from washington, mary, thank you. there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" -- the deadly explosion back home. the images coming in this evening. the fuel truck bursting into fuel. restaurants and businesses evacuated. emergency crews are on the scene tonight. the severe storm alert. tornado and flood watches at this hour. and remembering sir roger moore, 007 in seven films.
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as stories of heroism now come to light, like paula robinson, hailed as the angel of manchester. >> this big explosion just went off, so we came out the fire exit and as soon as we came out, we were directly at the bottom of the steps to the arena. >> reporter: she saw crowds of teenage girls running from that arena -- >> i just shouted, "everyone, just make your way to the holiday inn." >> reporter: -- bringing dozens of young girls to safety at a nearby hotel and calling their parents for them. >> then i put on social media, "everyone make your way there if you're missing children, i've got children there." >> reporter: there are other stories emerging here, too. cab drivers who offered free rides to get, children, young people out quickly. >> god only knows what these people were feeling like. >> reporter: and there's the hashtag -- #roomformanchester -- hundreds of residents near the arena offering shelter, food, comfort. >> we only live around the corner so we just wanted to see if anyone wanted a place to sit that was warm. >> reporter: and today, the
young people telling me they will move forward. how do you process what has happened here? >> haven't really. it's horrible. >> reporter: and there was the little boy wearing the tie and what his mother told us, hoping the future will be better for her sons. what do you hope? >> i just hope the world gets better as he grows up and people can start to learn this isn't going to change the way people live. >> we all hope for that. thank you for watching here on a tuesday night. i'm david muir. i hope to see you here tomorrow. good night.
new at 6:00, we track down that deadly we're going to do it all over again, and we'll do it every single day, until we find our little girl. >> parents search tonight for their children, the victims of that terror attack in england, this has police hunt for all of the people behind the carnage. >> these people can't face us, we're proud of what we are and who we are and they will never beat us, you might as well just give up because you're never going to win. >> the terror attack outside a concert by american singer arianna grande last night
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