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Effective job and they have been disrupting a lot of terrorist attacks like this. here, its very difficult to stop each and every crazy person who just want to drive a car and hit plans on the roads. what we are witnessing is the weaponization of every day life r. we know they are in pat terson, new jersey, his last known residence is. what kind of questions will they be asking about this man? >> reporter: well, was he always, you know, like this? was he always an extremist? we seen the long bea...

Reporting the suspect in new york was yelling allay akbar as he exited his vehicle, this now and for every appearance appears to be at least the fourth major high profile ill terrorist attack just this year, using vehicles and inflicting multiple casualties, august 17th, a van plows through a crowd of people in a popular tourist district in spain, 13 people killed, about 100 j urd in that attack. isis claimed responsibility now, two days later in a coast am city about 60 miles from here, attacke...

Kind of attack, and we dont know exactly what this was yet except a horrific incident, but this is the kind of attack that weve seen theoretically in new york. but more importantly, we have seen in action in europe where individuals seeking to do harm have -- have not had to worry about complicated schemes involving bombs or airplanes. theyve just gotten their hands on trucks and driven them into crowds. art? >> yeah, no, youre exactly right, jake. again, we go back. we look at the terrorist att...

Get around town. as alison pointed out, its a busy time of day, its halloween, its right around, you know, a couple of schools in the tribeca area and mere blocks from that beautiful 9/11 memorial tower, the freedom tower there, the two fountains are in lower manhattan. ive got a minute to go. what are some of the key questions that police are asking for right now? >> well, clearly what theyre looking for is what caused this to happen? was this simply a fender bender, a road rage incident or som...

Crave if this was an act of jihad terrorism. >> and the authorities that did confirm, palm, he was overheard shouting as we got out of that vehicle, allah akbar, god is great in arabic, explain the significance of that. >> well, all sorts of people will use that expression for all sorts of reasons, but in the jihadi contacts, this is an exhumation heard before terrorist attacks. weve seen that often times in europe just before somebody inspired by al qaeda will start shouting this out very, very...

>> that last tweet from the president coming just a few minutes before the hour. just a few minutes ago, the white house putting out a statement from the president reiterating some of those tweets saying our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the terrorist attacks. the presidenten wept on to say my administration will provide its full support to the new york city police department, including through a joint investigation with the federal b bureau of investigation. the statement goes on...

Standing right now. authorities were able to apprehend him after shooting him. witnesses describe the gunshots, he was sho the in the abdomen and taken to a nearby hospital. hes gone out of surgery, but a lot of information still coming in at a news conference not long ago. governor cuomo talked about the nature of the terrorist attacks and how there are requests for these lone wolf attacks and said at this point, preliminary information shows this was not part of a larger plot, but were only ab...

At any time and find recruits and sympathizers who are willing and able to go forth and carry out terrorist attacks. this is the 13th one this year, and since this first started with niece in 2015, we are a 30% in the lethality of the attacks. >> bret: i want to turn back to the interview we had with chairman mccall. take a listen to something he said during that period >> this is the ninth vehicle assault used by isis, nice, we saw this happen previously. >> so you think this is isis? >> i beli...

Look at was he the one that represented the truck? if he had a drivers license on him, you will be at that apartment or house very quickly. i will look at a social media post, see if he is talking to anybody, referencing anybody, to get to the heart of the matter, perhaps the, where did he travel, did any of his family peek about what he was going to do to get to that level of servitude that nobody knew, nobody was cog my zant he was going to rent a traumatic truck. >> that aint going to take an...

When juliette raised the point that uzbekistan wouldnt be covered by the travel ban. this guy has been in the country for seven years. we dont know his travel in and out. that will possibly end up being significant. but the reality of it is that its already here. >> thats right. in march there was a dhs assessment of people getting involved in violence extremism in the united states. they found the majority of people actually were radicalized after arrive iing in if the uni states in terms of fo...