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Thorough investigation and get all the facts. we also have a halloween parade tonight. the nypd is prepared for that. so this could be one event that leads to another event. right now there's so much taking place that we need to start to digest all of this information and learn who this individual is and look into his background to see where this is really going. >> neil: all right. thank you very much, my friend. i want to go to rick leventhal who might have an update. rick what are you hearing? >> more confirmation as this is being treated as a possible if not likely terror attack, neil. i'm...

Paul, witnesses say the police are considering this as a possible act of terror. could this fit into the pattern of other vehicle attacks we've seen, especially in europe? >> well, wolf, if this is a terrorist attack in new york city, it would be the first fatal terrorist attack in new york city since 9/11, something that the nypd has been preparing for every day. since then they've been very concerned about vehicle attacks, given that m.o. has been used so much here in europe, in the united kingdom a couple of times. also in nice, france, berlin and also even in the united states. we saw that...

Pickup truck. >> let's pause on the analysis you're doing. you're citing something that commissioner bratton was speaking about. that this may echo or overlap with a type of vehicle based murder or terror attack that we've seen in europe. but you're making a distinction, that while it overlaps, it doesn't appear nearly as effective as some of those attacks? >> it was very poorly planned. look. honestly, carrying out a vehicle attack is not something that you have to have a p.h.d. to do. being a murderer doesn't require a phd. in london and nice and elsewhere, this does not appear to have been ...

Stalled. what do you make of this? >> at this early stage when you have reports that are unverified and unconflicting, the beth you can do is get an early sense of what we're dealing with her and look at the probabilitiesprobab similarities. there was gun fire that he was shooting at random civilians and if there was anything other than an intentional attack. we all know this was an attack. you go beyond that, once you're talking about a vehicle and follow on gun fire, even if fact that's the case, it's not confirmed yet that that happened in that sequence, but once you're talking about a vehi...

So the counter measures for a vehicle attack and we've seen this in europe as well, the counter measures are limited. then it becomes an issue of making sure you find was there -- were there other individuals in this cell. was there a cell, were there other individuals trying to help conduct this attack. was there a cluster. were there people involved in a more secondary fashion but could have alerted law enforcement. because of the congregation that will occur tonight with the halloween parade in new york city -- >> neil: if that is still on. we don't know if that is still is on. buck, thanks...