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Afternoon. in the meantime, joining me now is former new york state homeland security adviser. michael, as you look at these pictures from today and earlier today in boston, what goes into securing an event like this. >> first of all, it begins way before the actual event itself. so it begins with a notification and then the parade route is discussed and then what you do there is try to secure the parade route and obviously with all the things that have happened not only here in the united states but certainly in europe, vehicle attacks become a major focus so that -- the concern then is about...

Or trump hat were getting surrounded by members of the counterprotests who we wanted to make their argument against the president or against what they felt would be a different political views but at this point, both of those rallies have dispersed and here is where we stand with the situation on the street, literally here on the street in boston. police have been prepared for this sort of thing throughout the day. some 500 law enforcement officers on hand to respond to both of the rallies and respond to any sort of additional element or people that were coming here just to cause trouble but d...

And right now save 50% on the labor day limited edition bed. ♪ >> trace: welcome back to the breaking news coverage, vehicle attacks in europe are sadly all too commonplace. before today's attack in barcelona another one this week east of paris where a security guard intentionally drove his car into a pizzeria, injuring 12 more, but suspect

Inside al qaeda. peter, the author of united states jihad. k -- author of ashley's war. nice to have all of you here, experts on all of this. peter berg gin, this morning you have a new cnn -- not an opinion piece, a fact piece, laying out what has led us to this point in the increased use of these vehicles by so many to i a tack so many across europe. the what stands out to you about what happened in spain? >> well, unfortunately this is part of a pattern where we've seen 14 vehicle attacks in the last 12 by jihadist terrorists and two by sort of right wing extremesists. if p you thing become...

Terms of its sophistication and planning? >> we know there have been 31 vehicle attacks since 2006. as you mention, from 2014 to 2017, the last three years, there have been a total of 14. there is a trend here. one of the things that we've noticed from the law enforcement perspective that's different is the fact that the police were able to make arrests. they don't know if it was the van driver himself, but they know it was two of the associates. and this is going to be a treasure trove of humans intelligence. we'll be able to interview folks and get information. police are speculating. there ...