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At the place of las romblas where we are there were at least eight or nine ambulances waitin waiting. >> shepard: on the right-hand side of your screen is what we believe to be the mercedes man in question here. this is a still picture from social media. and this is the white van that came to a stop at the end of la rombla, at the end of this pedestrian area and barcelona. we also have reports of a second band thats been located about 40 miles away, we have that from authorities. i certainly don...

Las romblas today. >> [bleep]. >> shepard: you can hear the ambulances and police sirens still racing to the scene as that video was taken shortly after the attack itself happened. the van said to have gone about

Lost in the crowds, obviously on purpose. and evaded the authorities. separately we have this report of the someone holed up in a restaurant with hostages. we are very surprised that none of our affiliated stations -- in fact, not at all anywhere across european media are live on that scene, we have no video out of this restaurant scene. so we wander quite frankly about those reports, though they have come from law enforcement. for the moment we are going to report to you what we are hearing fro...

Restaurant after restaurant, bars, hotels and such, people were barricaded in these. along this very crowded tourist area in barcelona. they were barricaded in and the authorities are now going business-to-business, hotel and restaurant, to the next to evacuate all of those people to get them away from the scene. just breaking now, this just in from associated press, the spanish public broadcaster says one suspect in the barcelona attack has now been arrested. one suspect has been arrested, take...

Police do not want me to go to the scene because they are looking for the attackers, shops are closed and some streets are closed. my mother and sister were in shop because police decided to close some shops, metro stations are also closed, people seem to be very scared. police are working on the scene to find the two attackers. >> shepard: weve just gotten some breaking news, weve just learned that the second van that was believed to be a part of this attack has now been located, about 40 miles...

Careful, you see people from many parts of the globe, its a safe place to be. its a beautiful place to be. its heartbreaking to know this is happening. >> many thanks. >> thank you. >> lets us speak to our senior correspondent who is at the scene and take this through events as we understand them, its a difficult picture to get entirely across, we keep getting bits of information and bits of footage. >> and remember, this is unfolding as we speak. but its been going on for about

People do my police ushering people away from shops, cafes, offices and the immediate area of this restaurant. so they can maintain a cordon around where we believe the terrorists are holed up. there was talk about a second band that may be a getaway vehicle, and now transpired that that van has been spotted from 40 miles away. it may have something to do with this plot in wider sense. as we look at this scene now, people clearly leaving the area and we can see police looking fairly relaxed. we ...

In essence whoever was in that restaurant is still in that restaurant, authorities are speaking with them. to call it a hostage situation seems prudent. we know if they are armed, we dont know if any shots have been fired. authorities have set up a wide court and their and have largely evacuated the area. for the moment at least there will not be live reporting from that scene. needless to say they are looking for those, i told you of another man some 40 miles away, our level of certitude about ...

Rental emblem. this man was mowing through pedestrians on a very busy summer evening in august in barcelona. an extremely busy tourist area, las romblas. if youve been to barcelona you have no doubt been there. local reports out of the region indicate this ban van went as s two or three city blocks crashing into person after person. there is a video we are working to doctor from this, it shows the faces of some of those who have been killed and injured and local media have requested that we do n...

Number of people ran into the market area in a big kind of way, lots of screaming, lots of shouting." he said security guards immediately responded, granted to the bakery with four or five people, ran upstairs and immedy hunker down. authorities are looking to find the driver of the van and are searching for what may be second van in addition, it is believed a gunman may be holed up in a nearby restaurant, there were reports of hostages being taken. now it is really unclear because those of you ...