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Erin, in the last 10 or 15 minutes since we spoke? reporter: chris, at the moment they re just clearing the area for emergency vehicles, now moving in the opposite direction of the bridge. this area, though, continues to remain on lockdown. we watched as one woman came up and asked a police officer if she could go into her shop, they responded no. the shops have been thoroughly evacuated. police are taking no chances. westminster police tweeting as much, saying they are treating this as though it is a terror incident, taking every precaution. though at this point, that is not confirmed. very reminiscent, actually, of an incident that happened about a year ago outside westminster. a car rammed into a side of the road and was apprehended by ....
A knife in his hand. another video showing police pulling people off the man before shots were fired by one officer. that is flooding social media at the moment. i wasn t there and i certainly can t confirm that. and police aren t confirming that. but as ever, with iphones and all sorts of recording devices, people are able to create as i say, it does appear to be over, or at least contained, at the moment. but with incidents like this, you simply never can tell and the police are acting appropriately. in fact, we re being pushed back further along this road now by police officers, some of them armed. bill, you can weigh in on this and any of our panelists can join in this part of the conversation as well. ....
Going to be big news anywhere. and this is, you know, partly because of the location. if this happened in a back alley in any city in the world, a person is stabbed and the police kill a man, it s not even on the news. so a lot of this we re dealing with here is location, central london, on a bridge which has faced attacks before. so we re all trying to assess it and see. and that s a good thing. we need the world to see, we need the police to know, we need our intelligence leaders to know and everybody to be spun up. and if it turns out to be something smaller than a terrorist attack, then the law enforcement will deal with that as well. let me just interrupt you for a second, because we have at least the first official information that we re getting. this comes from the metropolitan police on twitter. at this stage is circumstances ....
You re seeing and hearing there. reporter: central london, and just over that way you can see armed officers and police dogs. and what they ve been doing is going up and down this street, clearing the area. you can see there over that way, police officers on horseback. and they ve been clearing out this entire area of traffic and pedestrians. just over that way is london bridge where the incident in question took place. and just that way you can see is an overground train station. you can see the christmas trees in the window. people here lining the street and looking at the scene unfold. an incredible police presence and dogs sweeping this area. ....
Up and down this area, has a lot of sc-019 officers armed that can come in and deal with any kind of terrorist situation or criminal situation. so what we re looking at and again, as you point out and we can all see from looking at this feed, jim, it looks like something major, but that does not mean it s something major. it could be we just don t know yet that we have everyone involved. we are still making sure that we can say to people it s okay. so you shouldn t look at this and necessarily make any assumptions about it? no, that s right, chris. and you know, you ve covered so many of these things on the ground and i remember you doing it in paris and all over the country in our attacks, and you know how they develop so quickly and they get spun up. of course, the police are used to it. we re watching the feed. but let s just say, you know, a stabbing and police killing a man on a major urban bridge, is ....