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This as audience members, tens of thousands of them, many of them young people, mostly young girls, teenage girls, or preteens, leaving that manchester arena. witnesses describe a huge explosion. chaos. victims. and injured people on the ground. and, again, i must tell you we're awaiting a news conference, that news conference is supposed to happen at 9:00 p.m. eastern hour here in the united states. it has not happened yet and we're awaiting that. soongs it happ as soon as it happens, we'll bring it to you live. let's get you up to date on the detail and what's possibly behind this now. i wan...

Again, social media posts from the scene show panic concertgoers as you are seeing now running down the arena stairs in an attempt to get away from this really madness, just chaos inside the manchester arena. according to the british constable, now they're asking for help and gave out a number if you're there in the manchester area in england. they're asking you to call them. again, being investigated as a terrorism event. a terrorist attack. and working with their national counterterrorism experts and i would imagine that is folks here in the united states as well. asking people to avoid the ...

And look to the weakest points. >> we are just getting bob -- ariana grande is tweeting now. she's saying "broken from the bottom of my heart. i am so sorry. i don't have words." and that is understandable. when speaking to that mother, i didn't have words as well. that mother reached out to cnn because she wanted to get the information out about her daughter and her daughter's best friend. ariana grande saying there are no words and there are no words tonight, bob bear. >> there are none at all. it's such a senseless act attacking children who have no -- with what's going on in the middle eas...

Some hours after the incident, don. >> absolutely. our phil black joining us. phil, that target outside of the arena is what's known as the soft target area. the soft zone that is very hard to secure. again, if it is terrorism, the person who had this bombing device may not be en allowed to get past security or might not have been able to get past security just because security is so strict and the bomb exploded outside. again, i need to tell you that this is according to the information that was gathered from our pamela brown and sources here at cnn, a western law enforcement official told kr...

So many of these people being pressured by the advance against isis in syria and iraq and they're coming home. they're flooding back. they're trying to sneak back in any way they can and probably haven't changed their stripes. they're going to try to do something at home now that they're back. >> evan perez, obviously this is cell phone video from inside that arena, that explosion happening earlier. 10:40 p.m. there manchester time. they are plus-five hours ahead of us. it's 10:00 p.m. here now. 3:00 a.m. in manchester. some of the people who were there telling cnn that they heard an explosion...