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Being politically correct is fine, but not for this. >> yesterdays attack was the latest in which an attacker turned a vehicle into a deadly weapon. isis have called for low end attacks. tom costello has more. >> reporter: its a growing terror tactic used around the world with devastating results, judgment, 2016, a truck on the boardwalk in nice, france, plowed through thousands of people on holiday, 86 killed, 200 injured. similar attacks on the london bridge last may, eight dead. another five ...

Very nonstressed posture. theyre talking to people. theyre talking to one another. nobodys rushing around. theres no weapons held at the ready. >> yeah. >> so, it appears to me that theyre fairly sure that this was a one individual, a lone wolf type attack, and theyve taken out the individual. i havent heard of any other reports of any other injuries or any other attacks in the city itself right now at this point. >> yeah. and let us hope and pray that it stha stays that way at this moment. >> e...

[explosion] >> oh my god. something happened [bleep] >> whats going on? >> oh my god. >> a fox news alert now at least 22 people dead, including children. and dozens more injured and many fighting for their lives at this hour in 8 different hospitals all because they went to an arianna grande concert and suicide bomber detonated an explosive so powerful it shook the walls. brian: what county evidence tell us about the terrorism, the level and where it came from. here to weigh until expert michae...

Those slain will be post humusly promoted. the driver drove onto a crowded walkway, a group of soldiers, all in their 20s, getting off this bus. the attacker was shot and killed at the scene. now the investigation will focus on where candidate truck come from? was this planned in advance? did anyone else know about it? that is what police are trying to focus on, or was this a lone wolf type attack. its much more difficult to pin point for flens services and much more difficult to prevent. that w...

Times coming from turkey, coming from yemen to get into syria to become a fighter for isis and having failed to do that he was offering materiel support in other ways back here in the united states, including discussions of other potential plots and one of which included musing about the idea of doing a nice-style type attack in times square with a truck so this was an individual who was -- had already committed a federal crime but was becoming of increasing concern to us. >> so you think you av...

Having failed to do that he was offering materiel support in other ways back here in the united states, including discussions of other potential plots and one of which included musing about the idea of doing a nice-style type attack in times square with a truck so this was an individual who was -- had already committed a federal crime but was becoming of increasing concern to us. >> so you think you avoided a crisis? >> i dont know that. but, don, i would say this, if you look at the boston mara...

What do you think? >> well, two different strategies by two different groups. remember, they have the same goals and desires and political ames and they were at one time the same group. the isis threat is real here and i think you hear from fbi agents that theyre worried about it because we know we had so many open cases by the fbi in every major field office in america for isis sympathizers. that is always a risk. that home grown radicalization nudged on by isis to do a very low technical type ...

It seems effective. what too you make of it? >> its effective when someone is presenting themselves for observation. this guy clearly, by the fact he was using public media, social media, to tell people what he was doing apparently his family recognized there were problems after he was discharged and put into a mental health facility. this guy was easy. this is the kind of guy that the fbi should easily pick up. what we have to really worry about now is that the jihadis who have studied this, wh...

Pamela brown, thank you very much. cyber security expert jim lewis for technologies program. thank you for being with us. i want to ask about the breaking news cnn learned, prepared to name as a sony hacker. a, does it surprise you and how savvy are they? >> its not a big surprise. the north koreans are the one who stood most to benefit and theyve been investing in these kind of cyber capabilities for about 20 years. its been a concern for their leadership. theyve had a few thousand people who c...

I want to ask about the breaking news cnn learned, prepared to name as a sony hacker. a, does it surprise you and how savvy are they? >> its not a big surprise. the north koreans are the one who stood most to benefit and theyve been investing in these kind of cyber capabilities for about 20 years. its been a concern for their leadership. theyve had a few thousand people who can do it and four or five big attacks against south korea. theyve done something against the u.s. its always been the case...