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Threatening. yes? >> [ inaudible ]. at which home depot -- [ inaudible ] >> we are not going to talk about where the home depot was rented from just yet. do we know how many people were on the bus. >> two adults and two children. >> there were two adults and two children on the school bus. in the back. >> [ inaudible ]. >> don't know. that's part of the investigation. >> [ inaudible ]. >> we don't have that yet. >> as we said there is a lot of information to be gotten. we wanted to give you a preliminary. wee we don't have too much detail. we'll give you another briefing as more information be...

>> sure. as you know through the shield program we do a very wide outreach. we have just under 20,000 members in the private sector. after isis, reaumia magazine came out with an issue about two years ago around this time of year suggesting car attacks. you will recall one of the targets it suggested was the thanksgiving day parade. we went and did extensive outreach to the truck rental business. we visited over 148 truck rental locations in this area. the obvious ones, u-haul, ryder, home depot, et cetera, we talked about suspicious indicators, ways to come forward on the attacks after christ...

Is he conscious? >> we don't know the extent of his injuries. we are not getting very much information about that at all from police. we don't know whether he is -- whether he is in fact alert, awake, whether or not he may be in a position to speak to police, and whether or not he wants to do that at all. at this point there is going to have to be an determination whether there is going to be a terrorist investigation in the federal courts or something handled locally in the manhattan district attorney's office and the n.y.p.d. that's a determination that from a legal perspective needs to be m...

City's top law enforcement and government officials with the governor of new york, andrew cuomo and we know the joint task force is involved. separately we heard from joe val death who works with us in the investigative unit that the fbi will be a major part of briefing that you see at 1 police plaza the headquarters of the n.y.p.d. the fact that the briefing is occurring there, the fact that the comments that this suspect allegedly made who is currently in the hospital -- this is a right now a very serious police investigation. i mentioned at this point only as a landmark because there is not...

David. >> by the age of -- and the victims -- [ inaudible ] . was there any indication that the -- [ inaudible ] >> he's a 29-year-old male. i'm not going to talk about the truck right now. right there. >> have you heard that the suspect said allah akbar or anything like that? is this the only indication that this may be an act of terrorism? >> he did make a statement when he exited the vehicle. if you just look at the m.o. of the attack, that's consistent with what's been going on. so that along with the statement has enabled this to label this a terrorist event. >> [ inaudible ]. >> not righ...