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Investigative seat, wolf. >> paul crookshank, we've seen other terrorist where is a vehicle was used to kill people. that's becoming increasingly more common. >> exactly right, because it works. we saw 86 people being killed in that terrorist attack in nies over the summer in july where an isis inspired terrorist plowed into the crowd of people. there have been vehicle attacks which have killed people in the united kingdom, in canada, and in israel, there have been more than 30 vehicle attacks. that's more than gun and bomb attacks put together. isis and al qaeda are calling for these kinds of...

Was it the normal course of morning activities. was there a fire alarm pulled. >> we have reports that at least two fire alarms were pulled during the morning. did people rush out of the building as a result? that's not clear. we hope some of it will be clarified when university officials hold a news conference in a short while from now. >> jim, let's talk about the use of the vehicle here. the car as weapon. is this something you have seen more of, that law enforcement officials have seen more of? do we expect to see more of that? >> in the terrorist theater and we are not saying this is terr...

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Deploying more officers around the city. >> you'll see them in the airports, you'll see them in the tunnels. it's not because there's any evidence of any ongoing threat or any additional threat, it is just out of vigilance and out of -- out of caution. >> reporter: security stepped up tonight on the night millions of parents and their children are out on the streets trick or treating. the scene of that attack, just blocks away from greenwich village, where tens of thousands of people are expected at the annual halloween parade. that parade is going forward tonight with heavy police presence. >...

Atf and now an msnbc law enforcement analyst. jim, you and i were together on tv several hours ago when this news first broke. one of the interesting things that new yorkers wonder about is we talk about the soft targets. we look at the examples over the last year and a half of vehicle attacks across europe. and we wonder whether or not these soft targets can be hardened. is there a way to keep people who will kill others with a truck and a knife away from pedestrians and cyclists? >> well, there's no absolute way to prevent every attack, but we sometimes fall victim, ali, to that idea and it ...