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it's impossible to get into the mind of these people from the fbi just watching from a distance, in the mosque and all over the internet. they are all other these people but it's tough, it's a tough one. >> tonight as we said we now know the identity of the 29 years of the uzbek national who created this terrific terror attack in new york city. our break average continues with anderson 360. good evening. we're here with the coverage in new york city. the nation's deadliest terror attack and sadly lower manhattan was the place of a crime scene
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unfortunately. eight killed. the suspect seen here carrying a paint ball and pel let gun, shot in custody, taken to the hospital along with 11 other badly individuals. it is the worse terror attack in new york since 9/11 and that is how authorities are treating this at this hour. the suspect is 29 years shooting god is great. at this point, law enforcement sources -- and while acknowledging the pain so many are feeling tonight, new york's governor also made one thing perfectly clear, anyone who thinks an act of terror can terrorize new yorkers is missustain. >> we know that this action was intended to break our spirit. but, we also know new yorkers
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are strong, new yorkers are resilient and our spirit will never be moved by an act of violence or act meant to intimidate us. we have been tested before as a city very near the site of today's tragedy and new yorkers do not give in in the face of these kinds of actions. we'll respond as we always do, we will be undeterred. >> tonight if you can see all around you is very much still an act of crime scene. we're looking at all aspects of what's happened here, the reaction to it, what we know about the roots and how it fits to into an outbreak of vehicle terrorism around the world. we're joined by tom. >> anderson, 6 to 8 bicycles a day and thousands of people
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travel on the hudson river in this trail. it's the busiest bike area in america. from houston street all -- it started at 3:05 in the afternoon, that's when he pulled off to the west side highway here and on to the bike path right here, heading south. eyewitnesses say the driver accelerated and was quickly zooming along. the path is paved and easily wide enough to accommodate a vehicle, so it will be very hard to slow him down. it's remarkable more were not injured and how far he made it. down in this area, it's not really clear exactly what happened, whether he was trying to somehow pull off of the bike path and get back into the main traffic here on the west side highway or somewhere el or if he met another vehicle intercepting the path. it's not clear how it happened bud we do know at this point he collided with another vehicle and his was disabled here.
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he jumped out, that's when he was yelling as you mentioned, waving around this paint ball and pel let gun. and he was down in this area, that's when he was shot by the police. >> how long do we know what the terror attack? >> the math says it could not have been long. this rented vehicle he was in is listed as having a power v-8 engine. there was nothing to block his path so he would have been able to go down without slowing down a lot. overall this whole distance was just under a mile. so, if he was going merely under 60 miles per hour, witness say it was faster than that. less than one minute, anderson. >> we're learning more about a suspect who was wounded by the
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officer. shimon, i understand you learned so far the identity of the attacker, we tried to use attacker's name sparingly on this show at all. but -- >> we just learned and verified from multiple sources that authorities tell us, they saw his name -- he is 29 years old and we also just learned his home base, we've been reporting that authorities believe that he was spending time in tampa bay, they are now pretty confident that home base for him, where he's been living is new jersey. and so authorities there are now investigating his connections to there. they also believe that he rented the home depot truck as you said earlier that was used in this attack into jersey. we're also told he's now out of
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surgery. presumably the police and fbi will wait until he's conscious and will try to talk to him. anderson. >> this is still early hours in the investigation, do we have any sense at this point of why or how he came to the united states in the first place? >> we don't know. and that's something the fbi and other authorities and national counter terrorism center is working through to see. they know when he came here, he came here in 2010, what he's been doing here since then and whether he was here or overstayed a visa or here illegally, that is all still under investigation. i am being told by several sources he's not a u.s. citizen and that will certainly factor into this investigation. >> it's a rented vehicle, is that correct? and do we know if he's the one who rented it or what store, do authorities know that? >> yeah they do know the store,
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they believe he rented it. they are going to the store in new jersey and talking to people there and putting a picture together when he rented it. it is possible that he rented it -- we're told he rented the pickup truck today. it could have been hours before this incident attack unfolded. they believe he drove from new jersey on the west side highway, entered this bike path and then unleashed his attack. >> is it known, and again, you know, it's early hours and you've been working your sources all day. is it known this person was on the radar to law enforcement, known to law enforcement? >> at this point there was no information saying he was on anyone's radar. it would appear that they're just learning about him, that's part of why they're in new jersey and their federal partners are all in new jersey trying to learn more about him. at this point it doesn't appear. this could change, and these thing tend to change that he was on anyone's radar.
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>> no doubt we'll learn more in the coming hours and days. shimon i appreciate your reporting today. as you might imagine, president trump has tweeted about the attack. what is the latest reaction from the president? >> the president has done a number of tweets this evening responding to this horrific tragedy in new york city. he said law enforcement is following this closely, not in the usa. he followed that up with another tweet about terrorism saying we must not allow isis to return or enter our country after defeating them in the middle east and elsewhere enough. that was followed by a third one, sending his thoughts and prayers to those impacted. my thoughts and condolences and prayers to the families of victims in the attack. god and your country is with you. melania trump was there today for previously scheduled meetings. she also sent a tweet earlier
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saying her heart is breaking today for new york. anderson. >> and sarah, the president referenced isis in one of those tweets. does that mean he's been briefed that there is a connection or is that an assumption? >> he has been breached by his chief of staff, john kelly. it's unclear whether he's received more information than we know. we also know that the president tends to draw these links more quickly than intelligence publicly does when it comes to attacks like there. it's also worth noting this specific tweet don't mention the new york city attack. we can assume this is probably what he was referring to giving the timeliness of those efforts. so far as no word from the white house. >> all right, sara thank you very much. this is joining us now the
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governor. thanks for being with us. first of all your thoughts tonight on what happened here earli earlier today? >> well, anderson it was terrible, it was a tragedy. you had eight deaths, you had people walking along the west side of manhattan, which you're very familiar with, on what is a beautiful park, the hudson river park. they were bicycling, they were jogging. this was an attack that was designed to create terror, and it -- it killed and frightened people. it was despicable. but, new yorkers are resilient, new yorkers go on. we learn the hard way in 9/11 that we are a target, we are the international symbol of democracy and freedom and we understand that.
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and since 9/11 we've lived with this and we've put together the best security force on the globe in my opinion. and we worked together and the response was great. but, this afternoon was terrible. tonight we're at a halloween parade to say you didn't win and you didn't affect us and we're out and celebrating and we're doing what new yorkers do and we're living our lives because we're not going to allow the terrorists to win, period. and that's why i'm here marching in the parade, not because i have a great costume. >> well, i got to tell you it's not just folks that are in the parade, all around this neighborhood, this is the area where the attack took place, there are kids out with their parents, trick-or-treating walking around, so people are mourning what happened here and concerned. as you said the people in this
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neighborhood are resiyant and continuing their lives and not allowing this or anyone to tell them how to live their lives or stop living their lives. governor, do you believe this attacker was acting alone or any information this person may have been part of a larger cell? >> all the evidence we have suggests that he was acting alone. the so-called lone wolf syndrome. you have to remember a couple years ago they telegraph this, that they were going to go to individuals. they said use a knife, car, truck or what ever you can get. that's what this was. he rented a truck, drove the truck into manhattan and the first place was on the west side of manhattan and went down the bike path from houston street to where he wound up, and created
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mayhem. but we have no evidence whatsoever that this was anything other than a person acting individually. we have no evidence whatsoever that it's connected to anyone or anything or there were any other follow up measures. it's only been a few hours, the investigation is ongoing but we have no evidence otherwise. and as far as people coming out with their kids celebrating, i encourage that. i've been saying all some day they should do just that because that is what they're trying to accomplish. we can't let the terrorist win. >> governor, and again i know it's early hours and there's a lot unknown, do you have a sense if this person was on any law enforcement radar, if this person was known to authorities previously? >> it's -- it's -- it's too early -- it's too early to give you a definitive answer on that,
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anderson. >> can you tell us anything about those that were killed? i know cnn has confirmed some of the fatalities. nationalist from argue tina and belgium, can you give us additional information about those who lost their lives or those hospitalized and how they're doing? >> well, beyond the 8 deathing they're still in the process of contacting families and talking to family members. it's the west side of manhattan, it is what we call the bike path but it's a pedestrian path. you get a lot of tourists and bicyclists, and you had just a mix of new yorkers. tourist, young people, bicyclist. the truck was stopped when it hit a school bus and two children were on the school bus. and they were injured but not
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seriously, thank god. >> and finally governor, i know the lights at one world trade, they're red, white and blue tonight, i think it was you who called for that. what do you want when people see that -- when they look up and see that what do you want them to think? >> one world trade center was 9/11. it was the darkest day that we went through in new york, but what we did is we got right back up and didn't let them win. and we built back bigger, better and stronger than ever before, that's who we are. if you think you're going to beat us, you're wrong. if you think these terrorist attacks are going to put a dent in the new york spirit, you're wrong. and new york, america is about freedom and it is about democracy and will always be.
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and whatever attack you think you can bring is going to fail because our spirit is stronger than theirs. >> governor, i know it's been a difficult day and a long one, appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you very much for having me, anderson. >> we're going to be following late developments on this throughout the program and throughout the night. coming up next what one eyewitness saw as our coverage continues here from lower manhattan.
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. welcome back. we just got a new photo of the suspect taken by my guest here. he joins us now. christian thanks for being with us. when but realize something was going terribly wrong? >> i was walking through the subway or chambers street approaching the intersection of west, which has the bike path next to it. so, i was maybe about 100 feet away from the intersection there. i saw the car or the truck coming down the bike path really really fast. it was mowing things done. i didn't even realize at the time what it was, it was bike riders. >> you actually saw it hitting bike riders? >> i saw it hitting. my brain didn't compute, it was people. >> it is not something you expected to see in. >> no.
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but i saw an undercover car chasing it. i thought it was somebody trying to get away from the cops. you know like what ever they did trying to run away. but on the bike path, that was strange. then the bus came from the other side and -- >> the school bus? >> yes, and he hits and started going up if the air and coming straight at me. so, i started running back to where i came from. >> the vehicle started -- >> vehicle starting coming up like that. and, so i started running this way. there were kids all around me because school was letting out. so i started running pushing them this way, get out get out. they started moving back. and then the truck landed really hard. i turned around to look at the truck and i thought i should take a picture, document the wreck in case anybody needs it. then i saw the driver, i assume it was the driver standing next to the truck with his arms down.
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and he started raising his arms, that's after i took the picture. and then i saw guns in both hands. so then i yelled guns. i started pushing people and saying get around the corner. >> people yelling? >> not that much. the little kids started yelling because they saw it. i looked at the guns and thought they looked very odd. it wasn't a gun i recognized. >> one of the photoing you took, i zoomed into it. you can see this person standing there with what looked like two guns in his hands. >> two guns. as he started raising them i i said oh my gosh i got to get out of here. so kids started moving. i say run around the corner so you can't get shot. >> you said there had been a chase vehicle, did you see them at that point? >> no i didn't see them. no, i just turned -- the minute i realized somebody was standing there with guns it was like get
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out of here. >> do you know did the person fire the guns? >> i wen around the corner. once i got around the corner i heard gun slots. -- shots. but actually, the odd thing was when i saw those guns, i said i've never seen those guns before. >> it was a paint gun and pel let gun. >> yeah, the rival was kind of big but who knows. >> so, the shots you heard could have been the police? >> yeah. it's really hard to tell how many shots because it was echoing and the tall buildings around there. >> and then did you leave the scene, did you stay? >> because i didn't know what else was going on i just said to everybody, get out of here get back to your buildings. just get out of here. so everybody disperse requested they looked -- locked down all the buildings around there. that took a while because even though i was saying things to
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people it was no news on it yet, it just happened. but everybody was kind of like, okay, how many people are involved, what's gung on. you don't know exactly what's going on at the time. >> i appreciate you talking to us about what you saw. and also the presence of taking a photo and telling the kids to get out. >> as i said, the kids recognized it too as danger. they were quite quick about it too. everybody kind of started moving around. >> thank you so much. wish you the best. >> appreciate it thank you. just joining us now is paul crew shank. paul these vehicle attacks, you and i have talked about this. it feels like over the years, we've seen six in the last year alone in europe. this fits a pattern. >> it certainly does. it's something anderson that isis has been encouraging and al-qaeda, because tease attacks are so devastating.
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in niece, the worst attacks took place with 86 people about killed. we saw the full force of how bad these attacks could be. in that case, a truck went along the bike track for more than a mile, similar distance to what we saw in new york. in that drive case the driver in the niece attack had a fake gun and grenade as well. the reason for this because all these cases the ja how dees want to die and be struck by law enforcement. they see that as joining paradise. we've seen vehicle attacks that have been deadly here in the uk. one stockholm, berlin and the list goes on and on. as a matter of fact there was one in the united states in the fall of last year if the higher state where an isis -- >> i remember that. >> drove into a crowd of people
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in columbus, ohio and shot dead by law enforcement. this is going to carry on and it's very difficult to attack against. the terrorist can sort of just do a bit of -- and see where the gaps in any society that we want to live in you cannot protect against these kind of attacks. it's as simple of getting hold of a shock of somebody with a driver's license. >> if you look now in time square in new york there's a lot of foot traffic there, they have now put up the barriers on the street so it's difficult for any vehicles to get on to the street. paul, i appreciate talking to you under these circumstances. more on this when we continue.
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i jumped to my left, if i didn't i would have been dead. >> reporter: more than 4300 people were hurt in the attack. the terrorist was shot and killed. niece is the deadliest of recent terror attacks but there have been many more. ? august of this year 13 people died in barcelona. a van plowed through people in a popular tourist area. >> i saw it plow into the pedestrians, i saw people flying offense report week -- over the vehicle, you know just flying all around the vehicle, it was a really really his or her risk scene of immediate carnage. >> come on come on. >> reporter: two suspects arrested but the driver get away and never been caught. isis claims responsibility for the attack.
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in germany, 6 days before christmas, a tractor trailer bears into a market killing 60 people. four days after the attack the man is shot and killed. isis releases a video of a man pledging allegiance to the group. london has three separate attacks this year including june. 12 people in total were killed in the attack that took place at the london bridge, bed minister and outside a mosque. back in 2006 at the university of north carolina nine people are hurt. the driver who attempted murder says it was restoration for muslims being killed overseas. >> we heard the chaos, shouts
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scream shots. >> reporter: an ohio state police officer shot and killed the attacker, police bereaved was inspired by isis. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. >> perspective from our law enforcement and national security experts. i want to welcome cnn investigator reporter and international affairs, michael wise. phil muddy, james gag llano and cnn agent nanny. you know this kind of attack well. unless you're going to put up -- on street corners it's impossible to stop suspects if they're going to -- >> absolutely anderson, over our shoulders where the path of the driver ended over here, it's not far from offices and places that
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many of us have run or driven through to get to the west side highway. we know he traveled from north to south so there was easy access way to that pedestrian walk way. i think what's going to happen, i know we're resistant to doing it, anderson, but the expansions you're talking about, the barriers, their concrete, you're going to see it, it's already happening in europe and you're probably going to see it in metro politic areas in the united states. the separation of those to separate vehicle traffic from pedestrian areas. >> what do the next couple days look like? >> we got an explosion right now. we know we got a name, that fame mean i have an internet identity. i can check everything from who he's e-mailing and calling. that sounds easy. i got to interview not only friend and families but
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neighbors, people he may have worked with two years ago. so you see the rush of what motivated behind, was it a terrorist. behind it people are saying i got a lot of work to do to figure out not only what was happening in the past but what's going on in his mind. >> you look at the fact he yelled out also alli akbar. >> that's an investigate term. i think this is terrorism. think about some additional questions. what happened in his workplace, his immediate family, does he have a drug or mental health history. >> michael, this person is from uzbekistan, is there a long history of uzbeks involved in terror attacks. >> there is. not just from uzbekistan but from all the foreign companies. i was told these guys are
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referred to as -- central asian countries. he said these guys were the most respected and also feared among isis's upper padres, when they come to raqqah isis would post snipers on the rooftop in case these guys got out of hand. also, look, the former isis war ministers going back to two of them, the guy that was killed was a -- brought to the united states at least three times as part of this program taunted the americans on camera when he pledged allegiance to isis saying i'm going to use all the tools and skill set you need to kill plus lums -- muslims and bring bloodshed to your country. another aspect of this, a lot of tease guys coming from the
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form former sofft -- soviet union has military and training from their country, that's what make them so good. >> does the u.s. foreign intelligence kick in at this point and where do they focus? >> the fact he's been in the united states for several years he qualifies as such person. you have intelligent committees look at wlorntd there was ties overseas. in addition to the fact that not only as phil mentioned before, you're looking at all the sir come fresnos of connections around him. you're also trying to decipher what his background was prior to the seven years he spent in the united states. >> it's also interesting, obviously his ability to rent this vehicle. he heard from john miller, nypd saying, that as a routine law enforcement goes out to the rental truck places, 200 or so
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in new york, and kind of talk to them about what to be on the lock out for. >> absolutely. that happens after the 1995 mc-mcveigh attack on the federal building. if somebody's buying too much fuel, or fertilizer we got to follow up on it. i guarantee you they're seating outside this guy ice hospital bed right now waiting for him to come out of surgery to be able to talk to hum for leads -- him for leads. the second is the crime scene over our shoulder -- >> and he is out of surgery. >> i'm sure they're talking to him. also going to find out where he rented the van from and trying to piecing to more clues. lastly to michael's point, the
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fbi has -- the nypd has contacts there as well. they're going to have legals piece together his complete profile and background to find out woo caused him to do this. >> we're going to take a quick break. and we'll have all of you back in the short-term tonight. the fbi wants your help, that i have set up a tip line 1 800-225-5321 if you have any information about this person select option one. you do not have to give your name. you going to take a quick break, a lot more ahead with our panel of experts and a lot more about what happened here earlier today. we'll be right back. st innovatie campuses. or bringing wifi to 65,000 fans. experts and a lot more about what happened here earlier today.
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found near the truck, it was in english and the authorities now have reviewed it. they're also waiting for search warrants to search through the truck. right now it's very clear at least to authorities what the motivate is in this attack. >> and that was a note found in the vehicle itself not on his person? >> that's correct. i'm told the note was found somewhere around the truck or vehicle. i asked if it was found inside this law enforcement. sources say it was around the truck. it may have been something he dropped or maybe fell out as he ran, as we see him running in video, it could have been somebody he dropped at that time. >> shimon appreciate your reporting. back now with michael wise, phil mud. nato i'm wondering how that -- if he has a note saying he pledge allegiance to isis or
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inspired by isis. does that mean he likely has contact or somebody whose as spir rational, or watch stuff online and saying -- >> it could be either. unfortunately isis has given enough information online to people who are inspired by them to conduct these kind of attacks. we've been talking for years as michael talked about there have been people coming from the caucuses joining iraq and also moving into the isis organization, so this has been an ongoing issue. if he's coming from uzbek, he's been here for seven years, he could have had contact prior to coming to this country and nothing since then. it's very hard to tell. unfortunately the onus on law enforcement intelligence organizations at this point which is very very far into the radicalization process. >> in terms of the
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investigation, does that note change things in your mind, phil? >> it does. you'd have to assume that there's connectivity, even if you're talking to them. you got to assume at the outset there's more significant theory. >> so you want to assume there is and prove that there isn't? >> that's right. you don't want to go into this thing thinking he looks a little shaky. number one, is he communicating with people who are other isis sympathizers who might have seen this and said now i'm going to react on facebook as he travels. seven years in the united states we got to create what he's done in that seven years. i want to know if someone radicalized him. did someone convince him that isis was the true path. i want to know if that radicalalizers has -- >> and to phil's point he's
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talking about the exhaust that his social media platform, what he's google searching. the other piece is the physical evidence. we know we have a note now. was it if his handwriting or somebody else's handwriting. and the hair and fiber analysis that's going to be done inside that van. first we want to make sure there's no more imminent attacks and no conspiracies out there. >> looking at the garland attack there were isis recruiters but ended up being killed in the drone strike. if isis is now on the run and being defeated overseas, has that gone away or are there plenty of people in the united states who b could be -- would be encouraging and enabling? >> it's not going away. they're repairing now to the
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desert bad land regions, but make no mistake they had already disdispatched sleeper cells and operate tifrs into europe and russia to buy their time and wait and coordinate attacks like this. now to phil's point what language was this guy talking to other people in, was it russian, arabic or english. you're going to see fbi camped out this address in florida, trying to figure out everybody he talked to, what kind of mosque he was going to. keep in mind you ono longer have to reach raqqah h 2 to be a part of isis. >> a lot more to learn. we're going to continue covering this.
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nato welcome to cnn it's an honor to have you here with us. we'll talk more with you ahead. up next more on what we know about the man in this video, the alleged attacker. police now have him in custody. the we is what happens to him next. we'll be right back. ohn's diseae i kept looking for ways to manage my symptoms. i thought i was doing okay. then it hit me... managing was all i was doing. when i told my doctor, i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease even after trying other medications. in clinical studies, the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections,
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the suspect in today's attack is a 29-year-old man from uzbekistan who came to the united states in 2010. he was shot by police, taken into custody alive and had surge this evening. a source tells us he's out of surgery. the question now is what happens next. joining me is jeffrey toobin. is he mirandized? >> no. there is what's called a public safety exception to the miranda rule. the miranda rule for most people, is when people are arrested, they are told they have the right to remain silent. but when there's a significant risk to public safety, police are allowed to ask a series of questions about public safety.
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was anyone else involved, are there bombs anywhere else, before the miranda warnings are given. the question of how long that y questioning can go on, so as soon as hedges out of answer these sha, i'm sure they'll ask him questions. >> if he asks for a lawyer, what happens? >> end of story. that has to be honored. but you can't force him to talk. you can't torture someone. but you don't have to offer him a lawyer or tell him that he has the right to remain silent. >> you were down here at one world trade. >> i worked for the new yorker as well, and we were on the 38th floor. i didn't see the attacks take place, but shortly thereafter i
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saw. the first question that's on everyone's minds was he headed towards the world trade center. whether this was meant to be another terror attack at the world trade center is a question on a lot of people's minds. we're only four blocks away, so we got pretty close. >> as the governor was saying, it's lit up red, white, and blue tonight. >> i have to say, one of the things about being a new yorker is how resilient people are. here we are, a lot of cameras, but already people walking by in halloween costumes too. >> i thought this area would be on lockdown, there's kids walking around and it's nice. >> it's nice except it may mean we're getting used to it, which is -- >> you don't want it to stop letting people live their lives. >> i came here from the subway. one block away from here you wouldn't know anything was not
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normal except people are dressed up. >> yeah. appreciate it. thanks v. i like your costume. that's your legal analyst costume. we said the lights in the world trade center are red, white, and blue. the empire state building also lit up. the site no less welcome. we'll be back in a minute. selfies, cat videos and winking emojis. speaking of tech wonders, with the geico app you can get roadside assistance, digital id cards... or even file a claim. do that.. yeah, yeah that should work. it's not happening... just try again. uh, i think i found your problem. thanks. hmm... the award-winning geico app. download it today.
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we begin this hour of breaking news. all we're hearing about the worst terror attack since nichbl. eight people killed along the bike path along the shadow of the world trade center sight. a suspect wounded, in custody today. claiming allegiance to isis. a city celebrating halloween tonight, shaken but far from broken. the world trade center lit in red, white, and blue. the empire state building also red, white, and blue, strength to new yorkers after a very rough day. >> 3:05 p.m. a rented home depot truck barrels down a bike path. >>
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