Than 12 injured, were transported here by ambulance. For emergency triage. We know from our sources, that two were sent immediately to the or. But, we do not know the severity of their injuries. Or their conditions. Who dont know if, any of the five are among the eight known dead. We dont even know if the suspect is among those who were transported here. Several of the other injuries, went, went to New York Presbyterian Hospital down in Lower Manhattan. And, as you can see, there is a Police Presence outside of bellvue hospital. We spoke to man of the people walking outside. They told us, there was a heavier than normal Police Presence inside. They are checking ids to make sure that people are who they are and where theyre supposed to be. So the nypd, keeping a close watch here at this hospital. Jeff. Michelle miller, thank you very much. With an update on those bhu were hurt. Major garrett has reaction from the white house tonight to what we saw here in manhattan. This afternoon. Major. Reporter jeff, President Trump has been briefed on the terrorist attack. And for the very first time through his twitter feed moments ago, gave it an isis inspiration, indirect isis linkage. The president writing we must not allow isis to return or return to our country after defeating them in the middle east or elsewhere. Enough. A tweet from the president. Earlier today the president made the first comment about the episode in new york saying looks like another attack by a very sick and deranged person. Law enforcement is following this closely. Then in all caps not in the usa. Moments after that, the Vice President mike pence also went on twitter saying he was saddened by the tragedy, offering prayers to the families. First responders and victims. Adding those responsible must be held accountable. The very first within the white house to tweet on this. Ivanka trump saying. Heartbreaking news coming out of new york city. Praying for the victims. Jeff. Major, thank you very much. More from near the scene of this terror attack today. In a moment. But for now back to Anthony Mason once again in new york. Thank you, jeff. Coming up next on the cbs evening news, after indictments and a guilty plea, President Trump tries to distance himself from the mueller investigation. And, social media executives tell congress, Russian Election hacking was a lot bigger than they thought. Anif youve got a lifee. You gotta swiffer that cough doesnt sound so good. Take mucinex dm. Ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. One pill lasts 12 hours, so. Looks like im good all night why take 4hour cough medicine . Just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Lets end this. Shes had a tiny cough. See you at 5 seriously . Protection. Lysol kills over 100 illnesscausing germs and viruses, even those that may cause coughs. Lysol. What it takes to protect. 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Reporter on twitter President Trump falsely claimed Paul Manaforts alleged offense took place long before he came to the campaign. The indictment alleges Paul Manafort laid to federal officials and carried out a Money Laundering scheme as Campaign Chairman and while advising the transition. Manafort pleaded not guilty to all charges. The president said few people knew george papadopoulos. A Trump CampaignForeign Policy adviser who has pled guilty to lying to the fbi about efforts to contact russian interests for the campaign. March 2016, the president spoke to the washington post. George papadopoulos, hes an oil and energy consultant. Excellent guy. That same month. Papadopoulos was photographed at a Foreign Policy meeting with candidate trump and future attorney general jeff sessions. The white house said mr. Trump barely remembers papadopoulos. This was the president last week. One of the great memories of all time. Today press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders said the campaign turned over papadopouloss emails to special counsel. Communication between papadopoulos and sam clovis, Trump Campaign national cochairman. The plea agreement citing efltmails said the campaign superviser told papadopoulos i would encourage you and Foreign Policy adviser to the campaign to make the trip to russia if it is feasible. But sanders tried to contradict that account today. My understanding is there wasnt encouragement. Clovis nominated to top scientific post at department of agriculture, despite questions raised by Top Senate Democrat on the agriculture committee, the white house see no reason to withdraw his nomination. Major garrett again at the white house. Thank you. Social media executives told a subcommittee that russian linked accounts began trying to interfere with the election in 2015. And they kept at it long after the voting had ended. Here is nancy cordes. We take what happened on facebook very seriously. Reporter executives from facebook, twitter and google told senators today that russian trolls were more prolific than they initially believed. Posting 80,000 pieces of content on facebook alone. Between 2015 and this summer. So this continued after his election . It continued until we disabled the accounts. Most of the posts and ads originated from one Office Building in saint petersberg, russia where an operation innocuously named the Internet Research agency, uploaded 1,100 videos to youtube and published more than 131,000 divisive messages on twitter. Facebookest mates up to 126 million users saw fake russian posts like this one, falsifying Hillary Clintons records with vet claimed to come from texans for truth. All three tech giants say they have invested in staff and systems to keep bad actors out. We are committed to working every single day to get better at solving this problem. Louisiana republican, john kennedy was skeptical. The truth of the matter is you have 5 million advertisers. That change every month. Every minute. Probably every second. You dont have the ability to, to know who every one of those advertisers is, do you . To your question seeing behind the platform to understand if there wore shell corporations of course the answer is no. Bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that would require social Media Companies to disclose who is paying for political ads. But, anthony, most of this russian material was free content. Not paid advertising. Making it that much more difficult to root out. Nancy cordes on capitol hill. Thank you. Coverage of the terror attack in new york city continues in a moment. So my dentist toldell, bume about this. go pro with crest hd. Crest hd cleans and whitens my teeth to eyepopping levels. Crest hd. 6x cleaning, 6x whitening. I did it, i did it, i impressed the dentist. Shes had a tiny cough. See you at 5 seriously . Protection. Lysol kills over 100 illnesscausing germs and viruses, even those that may cause coughs. Lysol. What it takes to protect. The toll in the truck attack here in new york city here today is at least eight dead. At least a dozen injured. With me, cbs and security analyst, paul violas. Paul, you thing that the time was very specifically chosen. The location as well. No question about that. Anthony, i think forensically when we take a look at what the agencies are going to do right now. Who is going to be responsible. One part will be to go back, look at cameras. We have done an exceptional job. Incorporate intelligence to see when this guy came. Was he at the scene before today . I think you are going to find out he was. He picked it carefully it 3iz 00 in the afternoon. Halloween. There is a lot of kids. And he intentionally targets the school bus. That school, that wasnt by happenstance. He clearly sat and scouted that area. And made sure that it was this particular time. This event occurred at 3 05. Police responded quickly to this. In a way this probably was the most prepared Police Department in the country for an event like this. Yes . Yes, think about it, anthony. We see this. Viewers see it. We live here or not. Visit itting here. Youve see the number of exercises the new york city Police Department depliz all the time. Going on all the time. Not by mistake. By design. So we should not be surprised by the expeditious manner and efficient manner in which they responded. As much as we heard people in the nypd say this is probably what they expected next. It is very difficult to guard against Something Like this . Well especially when you start using vehicle as a weapon of mass destruction. We are going to come back. Going to an lays this a little bit more the we are going to have to really examine if we are going to do something differently Going Forward when it relates to somebody renting a truck. I think there can be internal controls and report and i do th make changes Going Forward. Interesting part here when he exits the vehicle and makes the proclamation. He is holding fake weapons. Holding, a paint ball gun. Pellet gun. He was not intending on living through this. He wanted suicide by cop. Expecting the police to respond. No question about it. He was expecting to be shot and killed. Important he is still alive. Critical he is still alive. Because now, we have the benefit of interviewing him. And garnering significant intelligence information based on who he knows and how he became radicalized in addition to huh he planned, why he planned this specifically. Key information. We did not have that available to us in recent incidents over the last couple of years. Do now. Key. Carefully chosen. Time of day, location. Highest return of investment. Paul viollis. Thank you. Up next, jeff glor in Lower Manhattan with an update on the terror attack. Announcer this portion is sponsored by astrazeneca, visit us. Back to Lower Manhattan. New york city going ahead with annual halloween parade with extra security tonight. An event that draws 2 million. Marchers, spectators being held not far from the scene of todays terror attack. Governor andrew cuomo urged new yorkers to be new yorkers and not let this attack change them. From what we have seen so far that is the case. Many new yorkers out and about this evening. At least eight people were killed. At least 11 injured when a man driving a rental truck plowed into a bike path. And then crashed into a school bus this afternoon. Police shot and wounded that suspect who had a paint ball and pellet gun with him. He is identified as 29yearold Sayfullo Saipov originally from uzbekistan. Described as a lone wolf terror attack. We will have much more on this story on our digital streaming network, cbsn on your local news and tomorrow morning on cbs this morning. I will see you then, for now, in new york for Anthony Mason, im jeff glor. Good night. Welcome to the overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im tony dokoupil. There was a halloween horror in new york city. A man in a home depot rental truck drove on to a crowded bicycle path, running down cyclists, joggers and petds as he went. At least eight people killed. More than a dozen hurt. Police say it was a deliberate act being investigated as a terrorist attack. Demarco morgan begins our coverage. Be advised. Multiple people on ground from chambers, halston to chambers. We need buses to chambers. I have got at least four on the ground. All four likely. Just one person in custody. One perp in custody. Reporter it was just after 3 00 p. M. When the horror began. Reporter just after 3 00 p. M. When the horror began. Multiple casualties. Mass casualty situation here. A rented truck from home depot drove 15 blocks down a bike path plowing through pedestrians. In a Rampage Police said was intentional. Along the way the driver hit a school bus. Nearby high school was getting out. The truck came to a rest at chambers street in Lower Manhattan. There was one female i saw near the body. She must have seen it actually happen. Because she, she just kept screaming and, and it was, it was, uh. Witnesses say the driver got out of his truck before being shot in the abdomen by police. I saw the guy with two guns running in middle of the street. I heard the gunshots each of went down because i was scared. Schools were ordered locked down. Beautiful halloween afternoon gave way to scenes of chaos. We seen a bunch of police and ambulance people they were running. A student at a nearby college in the bike lane, two body covered with white sheets. Another body on the floor. Home depot pickup truck crushed from running into a lagt post. He is 29 years old. A truck driver with addresses in florida and new jersey. This is somebody who doesnt seem to have an extensive criminal background. We found about four traffic tickets. So far thats it. But you can bet the fbi and nypd are digging into the persons background. 29 years old, and identified, and investigators believe that he was acting alone. And this was not part of some wider plot. But it is still early. Official believe the 29yearold, suspect, was acting alone when he drove that truck onto the bike path. Federal intelligence officials will be combing through databases looking for lead on the suspect. For example, where he is traveled, who he has been in contact with. In addition to that. Agencies will scrub their databases looking for any signs that he has been on their radar. They will also try to get their hand on some of his Electronic Devices and scrub them for information as well. Was there something that he was searching for on their, on the internet. Was there some one that he was communicating with. In the days and hours before this attack. On its face, this of course has the the hallmarks of the type of attack isis and al qaeda have called for and in cities everywhere across the globe have tried to guard against. What will likely help police in this investigation is that the suspect survived. But that of course depend on how much he cooperates. Social media took center stage on capitol hill, as congress pressed its investigation into russian influence in our president ial election. Lawyers for face book, twitter, and google. Describe how the kremlin set up thousand of fake accounts and posted tens of thousands of ads and stories seen by nearly 130 million americans. Nancy cordes reports. We take what happened on facebook very seriously. Executives from facebook, twitter, google told senators today that russian trolls were more prolific than they initially believed. Posting 80,000 pieces of content on facebook alone between 2015 and this summer. So, this continued after his election . It continued until we disabled the accounts. Most of the posts and ads originated from one Office Building in st. Petersburg, russia where an operation innocuously named the Internet Research agency, uploaded 1,100 videos to youtube and published more than 131,000 divisive messages on twitter. Facebook estimates up to 126 million users saw fake russian posts like this one. Falsifying Hillary Clintons record with veterans and sclamd to k vet claimed to come from texans for truth. All three tech giants say they have invested in staff and systems to keep bad actors out. We are committed to working every single day to get better at solving this problem. Louisiana republican, john kennedy was skeptical. The truth of the matter is you have 5 million advertisers. That change every month. Every minute. Probably every second. You dont have the ability to, to know who every one of those advertisers is, do you . To your question seeing behind the platform to understand if there wore shell corporations of course the answer is no. Bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that would require social Media Companies to disclose who is paying for political ads. But, anthony, most of this russian material was free content. Not paid advertising. Making it that much more difficult to root out. President trump was back on twitter taking aim at the special counsels russia investigation. He skewered his former, Foreign Policy adviser, george papadopoulos, who has already pleaded guilty. The president called him, a lowlevel campaign volunteer, and a proven liar. What was he supposely lying about. Major garrett has our story. Reporter he carried out a Money Laundering scheme during his Campaign Chairman while advising the transition. Paul manafort pleaded not guilty to all charges. The president also said, few people knew george papadopoulos. A Tru