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Western icon and that's what london bridge is. >> we have fred pleitgen joining us on the phone en route to the bridge. it's filled with police cars and ambulances responding to what appears to be some kind of an incident. that's how they are describing it. the police in this area are tweeting out that they are dealing with an incident on london bridge. when we have more information, we'll update this twitter feed. there are officers on scene as they investigate exactly what happened. a number of witnesses have been transported on to buses to do interviews. fred pleitgen, are you able to descr...

But even the police here, it's a tiny handful of police at this location. they seem to be running around not quite clear what they are trying to do and what streets they are trying to close. i'm standing here and more people are still exiting this area here. let me see if i can talk to them. did you come off of london bridge? >> yes. >> what was happening? what did you see? >> i don't know. >> reporter: sir, what did you see? >> i saw a guy who dropped his gun now. >> thank you. >> reporter: so as you can see -- >> nic robertson, we'll let you try to talk to some of the folks there and continu...

Radicalized and inspired and was living in london or living in the uk somewhere and decided that they were going to act out on behalf of a terrorist group. as you cautioned before, we always have to look at these things and we have to weigh all aspects of it before we jump to any conclusions. but in the 21st century, this being our new normal, we have to presume terrorism. >> fred pleitgen is on the scene now. fill us in with what you are seeing, where you are and what you're learning. >> reporter: ana, you can see people evacuating the area here. some people are running away from the area. it...

Also, just this coming from the metropolitan police verified twitter account saying as well as london bridge officers have already responded to an incident in borough market. we have armed police at the scene. now, that tweet also coming moments after we learned that an eyewitness inside a restaurant in borough market said that a couple of people had been stabbed inside a market and people were taking cover. there could be multiple scenes right now that london police are responding to. it was the scene of a van careening into several people on the bridge and now the secondary area of borough m...

To rush in the armed police at this stage almost an hour -- more than an hour now after the event happened. the scene where we are which is just at the back on the south side of borough market where the attack took place is a from notic and hectic area. we've literally had to run the last 200 yards to get out of the area. it's not like a westminster attack where they move the block aids back. they weren't many people and then armed police. what i'm talking about armed police, these are police in helmets, balance clavas. officers moving into the area. a dynamic and fluid situation