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>> reporter: that's what they said, this is new york, we're going to continue on. in fact a lot of people that we talked to, they're here with their families. so in this crowd, there are kids with their parents who have had to explain what happened. but one thing that's making people feel a little bit better, there are officers here lining this whole entire street. that stretches all the way down, we have seen officers that have come back by on horse back, and every time they do, people are saying hello, they're giving them cheers, this is one of those days you're seeing new yorkers come toget...

Way to stop it? it seems to me there isn't. it's such a primitive method of warfare, of death, of terrorism. it's at the fingertips of anybody to be a killer that way. >> it starts with the intelligence on the forefront of this, identifying the attacker before they get behind the wheel, before they pick up a knife, before they grab a gun. that's the intelligence policing that is used by the joint terrorism task forces. the use of international cooperation, the intelligence community, but more importantly where we've got these self-radicalized individuals who are doing this and of course we don...

By as many as 2 million people. and we have officers that all along these barricades, some more on rooftops, a lot of people say they know what happened earlier today, it was a tragic incident what happened, but there are people out here who say they don't want terrorism to win, they're going to come out here, they're going to continue to live their lives and they're going to celebrate halloween. >> it seems to be one of the things about new york, my kids have lived up there, new york has come back from 9/11 in a way that nobody would have thought. it's a safer, more optimistic new york than i...

Groups directly, or was he just inspired? there's no way to know that right now. he used a method of attack that's been used by other terror groups and that has been encouraged as a method of terror attack by isis, al qaeda and others, and secondly that he jumped out and said allah akbar, but anything beyond that, we don't know of yet. we don't know what he's going to say in the interrogation, we don't know if authorities are going to learn anything from his social media. that's going to take some time. that will be a big question, what was he looking at on social media? where were his interne...

Months and they talk about thanksgiving being a favorite holiday of theirs because it reallyislam. these are people who are susceptible to this type of rhetoric. it's a small minority of the islamic population and there is an opportunity for the communities to come together and try to identify people, reach out to them, people who are subjected or suspect to this type of recruitment. it's not very different from the gangs, the street gangs that we see in a lot of urban areas, the inner city. the same type of philosophy in terms of outreach and policing that helps to stem those types of crimes,...