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Carnage. a closed space amplifies the effect of the explosion. the disfiguring impact. maximizing casualties. maximizing injuries. the degree of sophistication and level of evil we have been talking at length about. jay, you wanted to weigh in at length? >> what im concerned about here -- the act itself and where it was done. the fact that in a free society, how do you prevent a guy, a terrorist, from doing that? i want to go a step further. youve got to go further into these communities and rat...

To arenas but installed several blocks in each direction to monitor for suspicious activity. resources like so-called vapor wake dog teams, those are teams specifically trained to sniff out suicide bombs and also things like geofencing that can detect computer activated bombs but some of these measures maybe deemployed for big events and not necessarily individual concerts like the one last might in manchester simply because officials dont have enough resources. >> brian todd reporting for us. t...

Issued in the last year. only four months this march 2016, you mentioned previous attacks, that is where the state department was not advising americans to go. terrible because of the threat of the terrorist attacks in europe. was there anything they could have done to prevent this? >> there is a problem with focusing on security measures that try to stop terrorism without identifying the fact that you have to stop the terrorists themselves. you can the layers of security around things, force th...

Who perhaps self-radicalized. thats possible but in this particular case given the magnitude of damage and the significant size of the bomb, it looks like there was more than with us one person involved. but even with more than one person involved, i mean there is literally thousands upon thousands of people who are on really any country as watch list. its just extremely difficult to know when precisely theyre going to strike and under what conditions. again its not particularly emotionally sati...

That the threat level should be increased for the time being from severe to critical. this means that their assessment is not only an attack remains highly likely, but that a further attack may be imminent. >> a u.s. government official tells fox news that the evidence strongly suggests the 22-year-old suspect was trained online or in person to carry out the attack. investigators are focused on the possible support network, and whether it was inspired by or enabled by a foreign terrorist group. ...

Well probably have a sense to the sense this person was tied to another network. weve been talking about was he acting alone, inspired, directed. ive been looking through the list of previous terrorist attacks. if you look at truck attacks in sweden, a truck attack in berlin in 2016, knife attacks, the nice attack that killed 86 in july 2016, those were lone individuals operating with a truck, a handgun, a sword, something they could get in their everyday life. those attacks that involved high p...

Terrorist attacks, people driving vehicles into crowds of people. in that case you saw it. those small, kind of minimal looking steel bollards, they are called, actually stopped that car and prevented that attack from being much worst than it could have been. >> but stephanie, not everything can be protected by those steel bollards. what are police departments like the nypd doing in order to stop this thing before it happens and can they ultimately stop everything? do they know that? >> well, th...

This is things we will look for in the press conference, coming just minutes from now. >> shepard: thank you so much. just 18 minutes now from that scheduled news conference. theresa may has just issued a statement. we are working to establish the full details of whats being treated by police as an appalling terrorist attack. our thoughts are with the victims and families of those who have been affected. if this is in fact a terror attack is authorities believe it is it would be the worst on u.k...

Are incredibly good at their work. they are tracking a number of individuals of concern. this seems to suggest that this may be an individual that was on the radar screen or at least that they had information about biometrics or other information readily available that they could match to the forensics at the scene. authorities want to be very quick in these cases. they want to find out what they know, not only about this attack in particular, this attacker, but they want to make sure that they ...

Suicide bomber shouted god is the greatest in arabic. it was by all their accounts very serious, well-run operation and something that, not just in manchester but across europe and around the world were concerned about. suicide bombers in a crowded venue office they said we dont know yet if this was terror, this was some sort of a mechanical malfunction but of course our minds immediately go to the attacks in paris and even last year in istanbul outside of the stadium there. >> martha: is exactl...