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Actually rode into the road. at that point, i ran into the middle of the road and stopped all the cars. and then pandemonium broke lose. everything went crazy. i stayed with the man to make sure he was okay and make sure no other cars drove over him. >> was he okay? >> he was conscious. his eyes were close and he couldn't move, but he hung in there. i hope he's all right. the officers asked he to come up to the intersection to see if anybody else had been hit. i saw three or four bodies lying on the ground. other people were getting cpr, i had to go back and relay that information to him. i hu...

Health issues, but one of the points that you made earlier, where the witness said he saw this van plow through and also knock over a fire hydrant. i mean, to knock a fire hydrant over, you've got to be going at a pretty good clip or pace in that vehicle. and then to take out pedestrians, as well as that fire hydrant, that seems more like somebody who kept their foot on the accelerator, as opposed to trying to in any way or shape trying to stop. could be an accident, but the good news is that the law enforcement has found the driver, a eventual vehicle, again, many times sounds suspicious, but...

Intended to stop a car from jumping a curve and injuring any pedestrians. this, of course, is not what happened in this innocent, or at least it didn't stop this car, this van in this incident. this is all unfolding, as we speak. joining me by phone is nbc terrorism analyst, malcolm nance. malcolm, we want to stress that we don't know the motivation. we don't know if this was a terrorist act. we don't know if this was just an accident. we don't know who the driver was. we don't know if it was a man or if it was a woman. but from your knowledge, from your expertise, what does this look like rig...

Looks like video of the van, a white ryder van. it appears to be the van that plowed into those people, the pedestrians on the sidewalk. there is some damage to the front of the van f if i'm seeing this correctly not far from where it happened of while the driver fled the seen -- yeah you can see right here damage to the front of the van, the fender and the sides of the van. not far from the scene of the accident or the scene of the attack. we just don't know which yet. the driver was arrested. and witnesses saying again that the driver didn't just jump a curb and ram into people. the driver j...

Get ran over again and i just held there. that was all that i could do. >> did you get a good look at the driver? >> didn't see the driver at all. i didn't even really see the van. it happened so quickly. >> how fast would you say he was going? >> i don't know pep probably about 60, 70 kilometers an hour. hard to say. i mean, i just saw the guy go flying and heard the bang and just wanted to stop traffic. that's all i wanted to do. that's it. >> did you see him anybody else? >> i did not, no. i didn't. but i saw a lot of people lying on the sidewalk. there are -- in pools of blood. and i was t...