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Younger than that. because this concert was letting out when this ploegs took place, a lot of people got separated. and there were reports initially, police and venue organizers were telling parents that if they got separated from their children to meet up at a local hotel, at a local holiday inn. theres one witness account saying among the debris, among the shrapnel, he saw nuts and bolts, and that would be very typical of something that a suicide bomber would stuff into a device in order to cr...

Explosives. hes going to learn on you right away. that backpacks going to heavy because its loaded with nails or nuts and bolts, ball bearings, its very heavy. and i would venture to say lot of these casualties and fatalities are going to be in proximity to the bomber. theres going to be a lot of vicious wounds and fatality wounds right there. a nail bomb shrapnel bomb san anti-personnel bomb designed to kill people in proximity. >> jim, im going to ask dow hold on for just one second. we have a...

Which means that everything came into play, bringing together a terrorist correctly, it could have been a one-man correctly, or a five-man correctly. we dont know. putting a bomb into an actual working device. based on the number of victors even if its a crowd in a dense area like that, if the bomb is weak, youre going to have a lot of injuries. youre not going to have a lot of deaths. you usually have one or two deaths. if the bomb is very strong and professionally done, thats where you get cas...

Because she couldnt move like everyone else out of the arena. so i recon a lot of the injuries came a lot from that. also in a state where you heard the word bomb and explosive, you can try to calm people down, but people will sprint and trample, human instincts to get out. >> in terms of the response from police emergency services, you said that there was a big presence in the streets instantly as soon as you got out of the venue. do you feel like they handled the situation in an orderly and ap...

We havent got a lot further to go in terms of prepared. there will be a review going on now that whether the threat level needs to go up. >> vikram dodd, the crime and terrorism reporter at the guardian newspaper. thank you for helping was this tonight. i really appreciate your time. >> no problem. good luck. >> here with me on seat is a "new york times" correspondent who works on al qaeda as her beat. what vikram was just saying about the id of this possible suspect. if they believe the suicide...

Ariana grande had only -- the concert just finished. she did her encore. she went off strangers and then bang. big explosion. suddenly a lot of smoke and a lot of terrified young people. >> ill ask you one last question. have there bee more recent concerns, more concerns recently than usual of uptick of concern in the northwest of england in recent weeks and months? >> another ambulance has just arrived. no, not really, not specifically in manchester. im sure youre in america youre aware of the ...

Qaeda and isis. no claims of responsibility here. police are treating this as a terrorist incident. the working hypothesis is it was a suicide bomber. no claims of responsibility yet, but lots of celebrating as you said online and the chat rooms where that would happen. appreciate you being here. i want to bring in now to the coverings law enforcement expert jim cavanaugh who has among his many years of experience in law enforcement a lot of time working with explosives and working with extremis...

The crowd. you can hear it from the tone of the young women from the girls who are shouting here. you see people jumping to try to essentially get around the cue of people. you get the sense of panic in that room. mindful of the prospect that weve got a death toll of 19 tonight. we do not know if those 19 deaths were caused all of them by the explosion. it is possible. and looking at some of this tape, it seems very possible that some of the deaths and injuries may have been caused by the panic ...