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Ramble. it goes all the way from the port and the aquarium area where cruise ships come in and goes all the way up to placa de catalunya. and as we analyze the vehicle and its location after the attack was over, it's pretty clear that he went off the roadway and drove completely up the middle of the pedestrian walkway. and now we're confirming that this is a terrorist attack. it was a vehicle as weapon attack, like we just saw in charlottesville, like we saw in the last attack, which was in stockholm in april which killed four. this may have had many, many more casualties. >> as you've been ta...

Difficulty in these vehicle attacks, the difficulty in determining ahead of time how they're going to happen. our reporter was talking about the difficulty in stopping them because we live in a world that drives. whose vehicle it is and who rented it and who was actually driving it. in has become a remarkable effective means of attack because of all those things. you used a term for it earlier. >> right. and the term for it in the intelligence community is vehicle as weapon attack. and it's now appearing to deinvolve as one of isis' and al qaeda's extreme igs most simple forms of terrorist att...

That is a solid eyewitness reckoning. you have -- and it makes sense within the pantheon of how some terrorist groups, particularly isis and isis followers, what they would do. you attack on a saturday night, you attack partygoers, people who are in their pubs drinking alcohol. as we know, isis abhors alcohol, they view people who are -- westerners drinking alcohol as essentially a sin punishable by death. to come in in a three-man team after crashing that vehicle jives with some of the things we heard very early on. but coming in and doing a multi-person armed edged weapon attack in a pub, th...

I would think we would have heard of more gunshots because of the sound that comes from something like that. not always, there's no fast rule, but generally they try to bring a lot of ammo. and if they have just one rifle with 30 rounds, they're not going to fire just a few, and then you hear the police fire back and it's quite a gun battle. and here there's reports of just six or eight shots. so it still looks like a vehicle attack, an edged weapon attack, and those witnesses seem to be consistent in the pieces they've seen of this evolving event. it's very good facts you've gathered. and mor...

Anybody who is a british citizen who we've been watching. they're scrubbing that from their minds and databases. and they're paying attention. they're not running out in the streets, places like nypd, lapd, sometimes they'll put people at high profile events right off on one of these things. they're paying attention, because that's what they've got to do right now, to see if there could be something. right now it seems pretty isolated, a vehicle and edged weapon attack. nobody is getting too worked up about it. they're watching, paying attention. they're keeping their superiors informed. and t...