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Have, all indications, at least at that arena, it was a lone attacker, likely a suicide bomber with some sort of backpack bomb filled with nails and bolts to inflict maximum damage as well as the stampede that caused other injuries. a lone attacker outside the arena along the check points of crowds going in. it was as the crowd was filing out that this explosion took place causing the panic. the question, now, who is this suspect. we've been told from law enforcement officials here, that they had tentative i.d. of the possible suicide bomber and that they're working very hard to confirm that a...

Likely a suicide bomber. but we don't know if that means a vest, some sort of device on the person. we saw the tsarnaev brothers using pressure cooker bombs. as of now, we only know -- we have not heard from law enforcement directly. but of one individual so far. >> that's right. when i saw that report, i'm presuming we don't know the name yet. that they found the physical suicide bomber. that is a significant step forward. fingerprints, facial recognition, presumably they found if it's a backpack bomb, they found whether there's any information on that, including an id card. i would expect we...

These are the very preliminary indications but based on what the u.s. officials have been told by the british authorities on the scene, there are forensic indications, i think is the best way to say it, of suicide bomber with a backpack bomb. >> i want to play some video we have, which is a dash cam monitor that gives you a sense of the scale of the explosion that happened, take a listen. >> you can hear that echo in the background. eyewitness reports that have been streaming in, do refer to lot of people with open wounds, blood and the like that obviously would be dr you know, could have happ...

Whether the size and explosive force of this backpack bomb tells us whether this person had any connection with isis, i would simply say absolutely not. it doesn't tell us one way or the other. remember, that the boston marathon bombs that were also deadly and very sizable, they were set off outside, so just like the ones in the uk, they were pretty well designed and there was never any connection found between the stsarnaev brothers and all indications were they figured out how to build those bombs entirely on their own. so i don't think you can make any conclusion at all. this is a 22-year-o...

And while he was there, this attack happened in manchester. and we saw the prime minister of england come out theresa may come out of 10 down street and she stood in front of the podium. and this is what she said about the attack. >> all acts of terrorism are cowardly attacks on innocent people. but this attack stands out for its appalling, sickening coward disdid hcowardice. targeting young beam who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives. steve: indeed. she also went on to say they targetinged children with cold calculation. apparently used some sort of a ba...