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As he mentioned, one person was killed. ten people are still injured from that attack. and the suspect is in custody. with that, i'd like to go to nbc's lucy kafanov, who is on the ground in london, in finsbury park. lucy, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, dara, as you heard neil basu telling us there, this is still the early stages of this investigation. police are asking the public for help with any information they might have in tracking down more details about what took place just a few hours ago. they believe that this 48-year-old man was acting alone, that there were no other susp...

How were you successful in that? >> there is a loft terrorism in israel. people get killed and it's very frequent. i responded -- ainsley: is it working then? >> yeah. we prevent hundreds and hundreds of attacks a year. brian: didn't stop the series of knife attacks. >> just like general diane said you can't protect every bridge and pipeline here is the overalmack crow plan exexact a very high price. the only thing we learned jihadis are afraid of is fear. there is a psychology involved here. and we have to start making them scared. steve: can i ask you about this. >> can't take a soft approac...

Killed, or at least shot at, because the police now are on very high alert. there's been a number of attacks here against police officers, including one fatal one, but there's also been some knife attacks on police officers, one over at the lourve, for example, and now this one at notre dame, which wasn't a knife, but it was a hammer. still, it's the kind of thing that the police are going to respond and it's becoming clear that if you go at the police with any kind of a weapon, be it a hammer or a knife or whatever, you're probably going to end up like this attacker has, and that is flat on t...

Engaged on that front with some requirements passed last year. so i think this is going to be one of the biggest stories coming out of this. it's prime minister may's belief that physical safe havens are important but online safe havens are sort of dominating in this stage of counter-terrorism. and that's going to require us to relook at things, of course, the u.s. first amendment may make it much more difficult but she wants this to be an international effort. >> now, manchester was different but in these other attacks, the attacks at westminster and here at the london bridge and in the marke...

The gunfire. that could have been five, ten minutes after the critical incident, we just don't know. >> with westminster being an unfortunate parallel, is this in the, if you will, isis guide book? is this in the terrorism attack guide book? >> oh, yes. this has been -- you know, this has been in the pantheon of terrorist tactics for decades. what we're seeing now, certainly with isis, and to a lesser extent with al qaeda, al qaeda was the first one to actually publish this in a manual to use a vehicle what we call vehicle as weapon system. and that's where you just take your car and run over ...