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Number to remind you is 0-800-096-1233 our priority now is to work with our colleagues in the national counterterrorism police network and also with the intelligence agencies and other security services to establish more details about these individuals who carry out the attack and the background to it. finally, this is a very worrying time for people and i do understand that. i would ask people in london, londoners and businesses, to remain calm, please, of course, be vigilant and if you see anything suspicious, anything at all, or you re concerned about anyone at all, even if you think it is very insignificant, don t ....
Gregg: were getting new reaction from visibly shaken eyewitnesses describing knife wielding terrorist bombarding the attacks they claimed the lives of so far six people. take a listen back were just keep running so we get to the [inaudible] gregg: joining us once again, steve rogers, former member of the joint terrorism task force. people are so fatigued with this, another day, another week, another month, another attack. we are at war and it seems like ....
Take jihad into their own hands, literally, using vehicles, using knives and whatever weaponry they have at hand. we also have expecting escalation of those kinds of attacks during the month of ramadan and this does look similar tactics to what happened at westminster recently so, for those reasons it certainly seems like an isis inspired attack. everything points that right now. we ll find out in the hours ahead that that s exactly what happened here. patti ann: it s scary because were talking about a soft target. not something like an airport where you go through security, something where there s a crowd gathered but we have hardly any way to stop it. how do we stop it? fortunately, police response was rapid and they were able to take out the three attackers within minutes. that s why the body count isn t higher than it already was. in this instance, people want to ask why hasn t desmet can t there be prevention two of these ....
Attacks? you take counterterrorism police and security authorities are stretched very thin dealing with all the suspected radicalization cases that they have and sometimes there are indicators but sometimes there s nothing that could have been done. there wasn t a mistake made by the jihadist partners in the run up to this kind of attack and so it turns into a numbers game and they have to be right under percent of the time on the good side site and if they re not, quickly, and attack happens. patti ann: politically what can happen? there s an election coming up and you ll see some discussion of the possibility of an escalation against isis and iraq in syria. i also think you ll see a discussion on crackdown on home about radicalization which is happened in the past in the uk. patti ann: you so much for joining us. greg. gregg: seven dead, 48 injured in a terrorist attack in london last night. three assailants shot dead by police and were expecting the prime minister to resume to be ....
Meeting with the cobra committee which is their top level security anti- terror group that they can been whenever there s something serious like this happening. we are expecting to hear from teresa mae within the next 30 minutes or so. we could hear her say that they are raising the threat level, the terror threat level back up to its most severe. it had been dropped about a week ago to the second level. this after have been raised to that level following the manchester bombing about two weeks ago. otherwise, were getting a bit more of a breakdown, greg, on those killed and those injured in this attack. we ve been talking about six dead, 48 said to be hospitalized and we have confirmed at least two french citizens were injured and there are reports of at least one or two australians and a person from new zealand. we have no confirmation of any americans involved in this but it does sort of talk about that area, london bridge, borough ....