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Jumped out of, all heavily armed, wearing masks. more ambulances come racing through, all lights blazing, as well. now theyve set up a live cordon and weve spoken to another police officer and described it as a major, ongoing incident. its just a crazily busy area just swarming with police right now. >> so are people -- are there still a lot of people in the area, as well? im assuming that this is probably causing a lot of attention. >> yeah, the victorian, as nic was saying, museum district, so...

Down a bit, but ive been here 30 to 40 minutes now and the presence has grown by about 50%. >> the presence of police officers? >> the presence of police officers mostly. weve also seen more ambulances arriving with paramedics riding around to the side of the road here. there are police down on benches with what we presume are eyewitnesss taking notes on what they saw happen and, of course, well try to get more information on them as soon as its available and bring it to you guys. >> mohammed, l...

We believe when a car drove into a crowd of people, i believe. nic robertson is joining us on the phone right now. nic, what are your learning about this incident that metropolitan police are referring to? >> yeah, the police are just beginning to release the first details. they say that they have arrested a man at the scene, they say a vehicle drove into a number of pedestrians. they havent given a number of -- they say the medical services, the medical service is on the scene. its a very early...

Storm surge was category 5, as you know. so were hopeful that, you know, its moving in the direction and with the speed that i think 20 miles an hour plus. thats -- that will, you know, ease the blow. i think well sustain. >> thats what were hearing from chad myers in the cnn weather center, that this storm will move through quickly, it will not be like harvey, which sat there for a while. once it makes landfall, its going to keep going. mayor andrew gilitch of the city of biloxi, well check bac...

Nic, thank you so much. well get back to you in a moment. >> i want to go to our producer now, he is there i believe in london. mohammed, what are you hearing and where are you? >> all right, so youre pretty low on the line, but i was just telling you what were seeing, just driving into south kensington and hundreds of people, teenagers and children amongst them, were streaming across the road. it was very confusing. we looked around and they were just closing the tube station. again, this is ab...

Incident in london. this is something that happened near the national museum. we understand that a number of people have, indeed, been injured. cnn senior law enforcement analyst tom fuentes joining us now, but these are some of the pictures were getting in from the incident. we understand a vehicle drove into a crowd of pedestrians. >> there have been people that have been injured and the met police, according to a statement, says a man and then in parentheses say no further details, have been ...

>> okay. patrick greenfield, cnn intern, who is there at the scene. stay close for us. well likely come back to you before the hour is up. patrick, thank you so much, and well push forward on this breaking news of this incident, as its described, by met police there near a museum in london. several pedestrians injured. a man, were told, in custody. >> and were going to get more information here, well be back with you in just a moment. do stay close. ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i k...

Is to identify who this driver is. they have him in custody, so they should be able to gain that persons identity pretty quick, and then from there try to determine was this a deliberate act, an act of terrorism, mental illness, or some other effect like that, or was it an accident, was it a drunk driver. so theres any number of things, but the british typically are very close hold on this type of information until they are really certain and will put something out, but, of course, its very susp...

Now, there are actually a number of foreign embassies, in fact, around this particular locale, as well, so there is by general standards a very high police presence, so im not entirely surprised to see such a quick response. >> and we know from our intern there, patrick greenfield, who well speak with in a moment, that the area is cordoned off and people, as you see from this video, being kept back at a considerable distance. will geddes thank you so much for being with us. well come back to you...

There. how long, tom, do they usually keep a road like this blocked off? because some of the video that were seeing, we dont -- we usually at least see part of the incident, and i dont see a whole lot of the incident here, which makes we wonder how many people were talking about. >> right. well, first, christi, they are going to want to do -- if they think they have a crime scene here, as opposed to an accident, but either way they are going to do the same forensic investigation on the sidewalk ...