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Authorities are treating this as a likely terrorist event. I want to have bring in to the discussion the information that you have just mentioned which goes to the idea that there was a level of coordination and likely a cell that was involved in this attack. We have the initial event, which was the plowing down of pedestrians, tourists, families On Las Rambla, which is pedestrianized. It does allow for some vehicle traffic. Now a followon event in a nearby street with the police, individuals apparently armed. Now, as you have been reporting for the last 90 minutes, shepard, they have also shu...

The diagonal at the police check point happened there weren't media around there at the time except for the photographer. you saw the picture of the white ford focus on scene there. we showed it to you earlier. just that one picture. that's the white ford focus and previous was the suspect now, the one who police say is alive and brought into custody dris oukabi who is a man in his late 20's from morocco had been living in spain and he is in spain and in custody and apparently speaking with authorities though we don't know the degree to which he is cooperating of the spanish civil guard as the...

Reports -- >> shepard: sounds like we have lost the phone connection. are you still there? yeah, phone connections have been spotty throughout the day. we lost the reporter for the moment. we know a suspect is in custody. shorts have confirmed that to us. we know the name of the person who rented the van. the renter of the van, we have confirmed is dris oukabi. and now local media in spain are reporting that it's dris oukabi the renter of the van who was arrested for driving the van, swerving and picking up speed along that boulevard. but authorities have not confirmed that to us. but it's cer...

Chief said unfortunately due to the number of seriously injured that the number of deaths could go up. >> shepard: what do you know if anything about the renter of this van who has been identified as dris oukabi? >> at the moment everything is based on local media reports. there has been nothing official. nothing has been confirmed as of yet. the only thing that is official is that the catalan police arrested one man. a man held up in a bar surrounded by police. right off the ramblas. there is nobody in that bar. so it seems that the man had sounds if the police arrested him. >> shepard: sound...

Barcelona over the last three and a half hours or so. he is from morocco. he lived in spain. and we believe he is -- well, we believe he is 27. but we know he is in his late 20's. dris oak oukabir. that's his name. and he is under arrest. we we told you earlier that one person was killed in a shootout with police. and we know that that's the person who ran up on a police check point and began firing on police, according to those authorities afterwards. that person eventually died in the shootout with police. we really don't know his exact ties to the main incident, to the van plowing through a...