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Jumped out of, all heavily armed, wearing masks. more ambulances come racing through, all lights blazing, as well. now they've set up a live cordon and we've spoken to another police officer and described it as a major, ongoing incident. it's just a crazily busy area just swarming with police right now. >> so are people -- are there still a lot of people in the area, as well? i'm assuming that this is probably causing a lot of attention. >> yeah, the victorian, as nic was saying, museum district, so you have the science museum, natural history museum, french institute around the corner, south ...

Down a bit, but i've been here 30 to 40 minutes now and the presence has grown by about 50%. >> the presence of police officers? >> the presence of police officers mostly. we've also seen more ambulances arriving with paramedics riding around to the side of the road here. there are police down on benches with what we presume are eyewitnesss taking notes on what they saw happen and, of course, we'll try to get more information on them as soon as it's available and bring it to you guys. >> mohammed, let me ask you a question because you mentioned the tower incident, i believe back in june, and i...

We believe when a car drove into a crowd of people, i believe. nic robertson is joining us on the phone right now. nic, what are your learning about this incident that metropolitan police are referring to? >> yeah, the police are just beginning to release the first details. they say that they have arrested a man at the scene, they say a vehicle drove into a number of pedestrians. they haven't given a number of -- they say the medical services, the medical service is on the scene. it's a very early stage, so they are not at the moment, they don't know what caused this. they are looking into wha...

Storm surge was category 5, as you know. so we're hopeful that, you know, it's moving in the direction and with the speed that i think 20 miles an hour plus. that's -- that will, you know, ease the blow. i think we'll sustain. >> that's what we're hearing from chad myers in the cnn weather center, that this storm will move through quickly, it will not be like harvey, which sat there for a while. once it makes landfall, it's going to keep going. mayor andrew gilitch of the city of biloxi, we'll check back in to make sure everybody is okay. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thank you. th...

Nic, thank you so much. we'll get back to you in a moment. >> i want to go to our producer now, he is there i believe in london. mohammed, what are you hearing and where are you? >> all right, so you're pretty low on the line, but i was just telling you what we're seeing, just driving into south kensington and hundreds of people, teenagers and children amongst them, were streaming across the road. it was very confusing. we looked around and they were just closing the tube station. again, this is about 20 seconds from where the incident happened. we came around and there was a huge cordon set u...