watched on his cell phone. specifically a video of al baghdadi questions what muslims were doing to respond to the killing of momentuslims in iraq. that particular video might have inspired him. >> we're staying on top of o the breaking news. thanlgs very much. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. next, the breaking news. federal terror charges filed against sayfullo saipov moments ago. investigators revealing stunning details about the attack. he's talking. plus, president trump quick to point the fincke ner the wake of the attack. blaming democrats. and the victims. what we're learning about the eight people who lost their lives in this horrific attack, including a group of friends on a high school reunion. good evening. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. charged with terror. the 29-year-old suspect who killed eight people moments ago charged with federal terrorism

crimes. the official charges that sayfullo saipov provided material support to isis and violence and destruction of motor vehicles. also breaking at this hour, saipov speaking with police, revealing stunning new details about the attack, including this. he planned to continue his rampage after striking on the west side highway of manhattan to strike on the brooklyn bridge and he planned his attack for two months. choosing halloween as the day pause there are more people, he said. more potential victims that he thought he could kill. officials say saipov told him he wants to display the isis flag in his new york hospital room. he planned to fly the flag from his truck during the attack. somebody he decided against because he thought it might draw unwanted attention. he told investigators he feels good about the attack and told him his goal was to kill as many people as possible. an nypd official calling the

attack straight out of the isis play book. >> he appears to have followed almost exactly the instructions isis has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. >> earlier today, the fbi issuing this poster. seeking information about another national in relation. the fbi then quickly saying they had located the man offering no further information. more on that in a moment. potentially crucial piece of this puzzle. also today, the new york police officer, ryan nash, who took such incredible action in taking down the suspect, spoke out for the first time. >> i appreciate the public recognition of the actions of myself and my fellow officers yesterday. although i feel we were just doing our job, like thousands of officers do every day, i understand the importance of yesterday's events and the role we played and am grateful for

the recognition we have received. >> cnn covering every detail of this fast breaking story from the scene of the attack to the suspect's home in new jersey where he began his rampage to the breaking details on the law enforcement. we begin now with shimon who is in washington. what more do you know about the second individual, this poster that was put out that they were seeking information about. >> right. so what we know is moments really after, about a half hour after the fbi released this photo, they told us they found him. this is not something the fbi does lightly. releasing a photo, the name of an individual they're seeking. they're telling us they want to question him. perhaps he has answers to some of the questions the fbi has. they had spent the day looking for him. they were not able to find him and then they decided to put his photo out then shortly after, we're told we found him, and now

we're told he is with them, with the fbi and with nypd officials and they're questioning him and seems right now they're treating him as a witness. we're told there was no public safety issue relating to him, but it appears he perhaps may have some answers to questions that they have. could be about the timeline. it could be whether or not he knew what saipov was up to. >> crucial questions and of course as they are so you know, desperately trying to find out whether he had help or accomplices of any sort. very significant they would have requested that information and i want to go to bren with breaking details on what we are learning about the suspect. >> we know now that saipov has appeared before a federal judge on those two charges. we know he was in court in a wheelchair. we also know he did not have to enter a plea and that's because an indictment hasn't been filed and we know that the u.s. attorney's office has 30 days to

file that indictment in which he'll have to make a plea then. >> they did, the indictment got filed, but they did file this complaint and i know you've had a chance to comb through it. there are a lot of crucial details in here. >> a lot. one of f the biggest is the fact that he wanted to cause mass casualties according to authorities. as you said, this all comes from a federal complaint, but in that complaint, there's details about investigator's conversations with saipov and he talks about the whole truck issue. he says he actually planned an attack a year ago, but decided on using a truck just two months ago because quote, he thought that would inflict maximum damage. we also know he specifically picked halloween night hoping that most pedestrians, it would have the most pedestrians on the streets. we know from that complaint that saipov planned to actually drive not only just on the west side of the highway, which he did,

but also then continue down the brooklyn bridge. as you've already mentioned to your viewer, he wanted to display that flag, that isis flag, on the truck, but then decided against it thinking it would be obvious to other people what he was doing. however, he also did tell investigators he wanted to display the isis flag in his hospital room, saying he had no regrets. >> no remorse at all. and you're getting new information on what they found in that truck. >> yeah, a lot more was found in that truck. we knew about that paint ball and bb gun, also the knives. but we didn't know the knives were in a bag and investigators say through conversations with him, he intended to reach for the bag, b possibly then we can infer maybe he was trying to cause, wanted to cause more harm to people. obviously he wasn't able to reach that bag. also in this bag we're told there was a stun gun.

and also we know that there were cell phones. the other thing we've learned from this complaint is a little bit more detail about the note which pledged his allegiance to isis. word for word. i can tell you it said no god but god and mohammed is his profit. islamic supplication, it will endure. investigators say that last part, will endure, direct ly refers to isis. >> thank you very much. i want to go "outfront" now to the democratic congressman, jerry nadler, who was at the press conference this morning, who respepresents the district where the attack occurred. i want to start by asking you about this other individual that law enforcement said they wanted information about. as you heard. that they are now questioning this individual as we speak. they issued this poster with his face on it. couple hours later, said they'd located him. do you have any information as to whether he knew b about this

attack? >> no, no, i have no information about the second individual. i assumed he'd be further, but they obviously had reason to suspect he knows something, whether he's involved is another question and they have them him and they're questioning him. >> do you think the terrorist, the attacker, acted alone or had help in some way? >> we don't know. i don't know and i'm not going to speculate at this point. we have to see what the investigation reveals. it's possible he acted alone. use iing a truck in that way isn be done by one person. it's b possible that he conspired with someone else. i'm sure that what they're talking to this second person about. but i'm not going to get ahead of the investigation here. >> a law enforcement official tells us that the terrorist is connected to an individual that the fbi did have on its radar. saipov himself though was not on any terror watch list despite as we know having his cell phone now full of thousands of isis images and videos, which we're

going to be sharing more with our viewers in a moment. should hefb on have been on a w list? >> we spend a lot of money and time and effort on trying to follow terrorists or potential terrorists. unfortunately, the president and his budget has greatly reduced the terrorism funds. i don't know why. maybe he'll rethink that now. but you cannot know what's on everybody's individual computer. this, this, the -- the attacker came to this country seven years ago. it's quite possible. i'm sure he was vetted properly at that time. but it's possible he was perfectly fine then and subsequently looking at propaganda and social media got radicalized. when that happens, there's little you can find out about them. >> they are saying they believe he was radicalized in this country, at least at this time.

>> which is why the president's immediately politicizing this and saying this is the fault of immigration. is is to disappointing. you know when there was a mass shoot iing in las vegas and peoe start talking about doing something about guns, the president and his people say no, no, no -- all of a sudden, when we know nothing about what happened, suddenly it's the fault of immigrants, of chuck schumer. it's very wrong of the president to exploit this politically. >> i want to ask you though about again that the questions of whether this was possible to prevent. we know the attack began on the corner of how'sen street and the west side highway. a specific location where the attacker drove on to the bike path. this picture is in that exact location. the phone has the isis flag on it. the terror tracking group site posted this picture on august 23rd. we know he start eed plan innins

two months ago and did this attack in the same location. do you think this picture influenced the attacker? is it possible? >> it's possible. again, i'm not going to specula speculate. the interrogations will find that out. unfortunately, it is impossible to track everything that everybody is, is, is reading on social media. >> you have long pushed to close the guantanamo bay prison camp. you've called it a stain on your national honor to use your words. the president was asked if he would send saipov to gitmo. here's what he said. >> i would certainly consider that. i would consider that. send him to gitmo. >> your response? >> well, my response is first of all, we had, khalid shaikh mohammed is at gitmo. he was one of the people at 9/11. he still hasn't been tried because the military commissions down there don't work.

this terrorist should be tried in an american court in new york and convicted, presumably he's guilty, and sentenced to a harsh sentence. and if you want justice done, that's the way to do it. >> like the death penalty, do you support that in this case? >> i don't support the death penalty ever, but under federal law, he may well get the death penalty in a federal court in new york. if you want to make sure that nothing happens for 20 years, send him to guantanamo. >> thank you very much, congressman. i appreciate your time tonight. we have new details on how the suspect repprepared. he had rented the truck for dry runs. those breaking dee tails next. plus, president trump playing politics with a tragedy, saying this about the american justice system. >> what we have right now is a joke. and a laughing stock. >> that after he blamed all this on a chuck schumer beauty. and paul manafort story getting stranger. the chairman applied for ten

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them were with him. during the attack. miguel mar qwest is "outfront" in patterson, new jersey, where the suspect was living. a lot was on these two phones. >> yeah, this guy was clearly consuming a lot of social media. there were 90 videos that caught investigator's eye. beheading videos, killing of prisoners and how to make improvised explosive devices. also thousands, some 3,800 isis inspired images on the cell phone. clearly, this individual was consuming lots of material online before he himself turned deadly. agents searching the patterson, new jersey home of sayfullo saipov. search warrants being serveded on several locations as authorities begin to dig into his life. >> based on the investigation overnight, it appears mr. saipov had been planning this for a number of weeks.

he did this in the name of isis. >> in the rented home depot truck turned into an instrument of terror, authorities found knives along with a note. >> the notes were handwritten in arabic. they had symbols and words, but the jest was that the islamic state would endure forever. >> neighbors say he was seen driving a rented home depot truck for weeks and never appeared to be doing any work. just driving. >> first time i saw it was three weeks ago. he constantly rented the same model truck out. >> the federal charging document says he rented the vehicle to practice making turns. it says he chose halloween because he believed more people would be on the street. he was inspired by isis leader al baghdadi. for all the planning, the attack didn't take long. authorities say he rented the truck at a home depot in new jersey at 2:06 p.m. crossed into manhattan at 2:43.

21 minutes later, he entered into the bicycle path and started his killing spree. four minutes later, dozens of 911 calls flooded into police dispatch. >> he appears to have followed almost exactly to a tee the instructions that isis has put out in its social media channels before. with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack. >> accounts from neighbors of saipov vary. some say he was polite, uncon fronational and ooempb at times, a peacemaker. an acquaintance in ohio saying he was a nervous man, even aggressive, but no signs of radicalization. now one of the interesting things about mr. saipov, he was not on any terror watch list and had been, he hadn't been the direct focus of an nypd or fbi investigation, but he may have

been a character in the investigation of others and that's something that authorities are looking into now. just how close was he to other people who were radicalized out there. >> miguel, thank you very much with all those new details. i want to go now to james, special agent and tim clemente, former fbi counterterror agent. james, you heard what miguel said. that he had been seen in the neighborhood for weeks driving a truck like this. his neighbor said without doing any work. within this complaint, they said he did so to practice making turns. clearly premeditated. >> absolutely. that is indisputable. once he entered manhattan, he knew that to come down south the west side highway was going to put him direct ly next to where the bike path was and also, erin, we're familiar being new yorkers, with the bike path. we know there are spots where there are concrete barriers and

impediments. he knew where to enter. he entered somewhere below tribecca in lower manhattan where a used to work by the federal building and he entered there and was able to run 16 blocks in one mile and kill eight people. the important thing here is to determine this for motive. was he isis directed, which means it was definitely a conspiracy. isis inspired, which means he looked at things online. >> the video as miguel is reporting. >> or an aspirant. somebody that just saw something sand hey i think i'm going to go kill people and say it's in the name offal la. >> tim on page eight of this complaint, this very sobering statement that i think will sort of bring a chill to everyone. they say during interview, he requested to display isis' flag this his hospital room and stated that he felt good about what he had done. absolutely no remorse. pride, in fact, tim. >> that's what i would expect. he did this for this very reason.

he is proud of what he did because he now feels like he is a part of isis. i would add to what jim just said. to become a part of isis, there's no playbook you have to follow. there's no rulebook. no process that you go through to become an isis fighter. all you do is pledge feelty to isis and its leader and commit and act. and isis, i believe, will claim this as one of their own because that note may have been enough to for them to accept him to the group. it's unfortunate that we're going to see more and more of this around the world and isis as a group has become much more fluid in their membership and their capabilities by reaching out and say ng ting in the videt was swrus mention nd the report, that what are you doing for the muslims that are being harmed around the world? what are you doing? it's playing on guilty and trying to get people everywhere to adhere to their ridiculous and sadistic ideology. >> and it's also james, we are learning here that he prepared,

he was prepared to continue this attack. as we showed the map of manhattan, he was going to do an attack on the west side highway then brooklyn bridge. he pickeded halloween because he thought there would be the most number of people on the streets to kill. it is unclear whether that means anyone else was involved. there was somebody who careded enough about that pult a poster up today. >> two things here that we have that we don't usually. the london bridge attack which happened in june of this year. nobody survived it. so in this instance, we have the subject who was wound ed by police officer, but is alive and talking. we don't know if he's cooperating and he has a spouse that's also talking. what i can't underscore enough now is the connection to east asia. we look at the middle east and syria and iraq and think that's where isis has their caliphate and that's where all these fighters come from, but this guy came from uzbekistan and three

years ago, the new york city police department and the fbi tlarted the a plan to men trying to go to raqqa and then do attacks like this. unfortunately, this was one we didn't get the intelligence about and were able to stop. >> tim, they believe he was radicalized here in the united states. obviously, he was here legally, but not an american citizen. he left the notes behind pledging feelty to isis, tim, in both air bik and english. b obviously, his native language is not arabic. what does this say about his level of radicalization? he could have had someone else write it or print it, but to your mind, how significant is that? >> i think he's trying to prove he is a student of islam. the language of islam is arabic and so the arabic language is used on isis flag, on every proclamation made by isis and its leader. so by him using arabic, a tongue

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president trump talking about the new york terror attack calls the american justice system a joke. here he is. >> you need quick jus kis and we need strong justice. much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke. and it's a laughing stock. >> sarah murray is "outfront" live at the white house and tonight, the white house on the defensive, explaining why the president said that and of course why he blamed democrats for the terror attack only 16 hours after eight people were merslessly killed. >> that's right and the white house is basically insisting the president wasn't politicizing any of this. let's remind people what he was saying this morning. he tweeted the terrorists came into our country through the diversity visa lottery program. a chuck schumer beauty. i want merit based. in another tweet, he called out democrats more broadly.

now, this is a different tone from what we heard from the wake o of the shootings in las vegas. when he was asked about the possibility of move iing forwar with gun control, here's how he answered that question. >> we're not going to talk about that. >> u now the white house insisted that what the president was talking about immigration, he was talking about bringing an end to this visa lottery system, he was just reiterating his stance on views he's held for a while. although if you ask gun control advocates, i'm sure they'd say something similar. >> now to bob, former cia operative and josh, i appreciate both of your time. josh, let me start with you. the justice, department of homeland security does confirm saipov entered the united states in 2010 on a diversity immigrant

visa and you just saw the tweet, what the president said 16 hours after the attack. the terrorists came in through the diversity visa lottery program a chuck schumer beauty. what's your reaction to the president's choice of say thg 16 hours after a terror attack in new york? >> well, i'm concerned about politicizing something that is at this point both an individual tragedy, but also something that should be bring iing us togethe as a country. he's asking how do we keep terrorists out, but based on what we know, this individual became a terrorist while here. that's a challenge but it's its own type. zpl what do you make of that, bob? chuck schumer beauty. his response. >> quell, first of all, it's not factually correct. this happened under george h.w. bush, had wide bipartisan support. schumer didn't write this law. he tried to get it revoked in

2013. and by the way, politicizing this is just playing into the game f of islamic state. look at everything they publish and it's to twdivide the united states. these terror attacks are meant to discourage us and divide the country and that's what it's about. so he's playing right into their hands. come up with a bipartisan objective fortune policy and not attack the other party. trump is making things worse. >> and as you point out, long on the fact, not just on the devicive intent of the message. the president today called the u.s. justice system when it comes to terrorism, a joke. we played a short clip of that, but i want to play more so people can true hear the full context of what he said. >> we also have to come up with punishment that's far quicker and far greater than the punishment these animals are

getting right now. they'll go through court for years. at the end, they'll be who knows what happens. we need quick justice and we need strong justice. much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke. and it's a laughing stock. >> bob? >> well, erin, you know, it's hard to even address comments like that. our justice system works great. we can put people away for their lives who have committed terror attacks. it's an open, transparent justice system and what we don't want is a justice system like exists in saudi arabia and the rest of the middle east because this is what provokes more terrorism. it's amazing. the fbi and department of justice work just fine. they're not letting terrorists out of jail and so why mess with

the system? and the idea of guantanamo, you cannot, you just can't do that. they committed a crime in this country. they go to trial. go to prison. or capital punishment. depending on the case, but it works fine. >> just like tsarnaev was given the death penalty, obviously you've got appeals, but the system works. let me ask you, josh, on this point about gitmo. the president was asked specifically about whether this individual should go to gitmo who are buy the way lived in the united states was here legal here's how he answered the question. >> mr. president, do you want the assailant sent to gitmo? mr. president -- >> i would certainly consider that. >> are you now? >> i would certainly consider that. send him to gitmo. >> send him to gitmo, josh. >> the goal for a national

security a national security professional take someone who appears to be b a terrorist off the battlefield so to speak even if it's here. the clear tool useful here is criminal prosecution in article three court. it's been proven. gets extremely long sentences. while this individual like anyone is innocent until proven guilty, this case is a prosecutor's dream. the idea of sending someone to gitmo, even if you put aside the human rights concerns about it is a nightmare for those who would to v to deal with the hab yous petition from there, calling into question perhaps the applicability of the 2001 authorization for use of military force to isis because he's be the first isis associated individual there and dealing with what it moo means for an lpr to go from the united states with rights other than gitmo may not be deemed by the courts to have. >> resident i assume. >> that's right. >> thank you both so much. i appreciate your time. and next, the mystery man.

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paul manafort's fake alias. a court filing from robert mueller revealing he had both a phone and e-mail account register today a fake name. we'ral learning manafort applied for ten different passports in the same number of years. jim shuuto is out front. a phone and e-mail under a fake name, ten different passport requests. these are not normal. >> they're not,. worse in the filing, the special counsel calling the behavior misleading and decepsive. this is contained in a mem ran dam where -- make this bail on manafort, the same bail bernie madoff had as well as trial. but they also relate to the broader case here because they're alleging not only was his travel deceptive, but his business dealings and illegal. the base of his charges. but i think as you look at this,

because it's a pattern of behavior here and this was the president's campaign chairman for a number of month, it shows the kinds of things this special could be sell is zeroing in on. deceptive behavior. lying under oath. deceptive business dealings. not reporting work for foreign companies and countries. these are the areas that he's looking into not just for manafort and gates, but others potentially involved in this guest investigation. >> thank you very much, jim and i want to go now to gloria borger along with a former white house counsel for president nixon, john dean. john, let me start with you. given this news, manafort applied for ten different passports in roughly as many years. he had three passports concurrently. there was a phone and an e-mail account registered under a fake name. as he was traveling to various countries including china, ecuador, others. does someone do this if they

have nothing to hide? >> no, they do not. it's extraordinary. it's extraordinary somebody like this would be associated with any presidential campaign. i don't know who he's hiding from. whether it's the government. other governments. his own business colleagues. but this is extraordinary behavior. particularly when you put it in the context of the massive tax fraud and money laundering scheme he's part of. this is, this isn't norm al to presidential campaign. anyone could ever get that close to a presidential candidate. >> and i want to ask you about that in a moment, but gloria, first of all, the word extraordinary, it seems fair. we just at this point, we don't know the motive. was it as john says, to hide from someone. just hide income? we have no idea. we do know that no normal person would have cell phones registered under fake names. multiple passport, maybe. but not a fake name. >> well, and you know, the

question that john raises i think is the right one, which is how did the trump campaign bring him in. and the answer to that i think is that they didn't know. that there was not extreme vetting to use the president's terminology. of a lot of the people who were coming into the campaign. and the reason they brought matter of fa manafort into this campaign is because he had a skill or they thought he did. they thought they were going to face a contested convention and paul manafort had helped gerald ford in 1976 on that very same issue. and so he had been recommended as someone you know u, he knows how to deal with delegates, how to count these delegates and he'll make sure that donald trump gets over that hump. i don't think they were thinking so much about this other part of his life. >> but there were people, gloria, close to the president,

t the then candidate, who did know manafort well, who did know he was shady. >> well, i don't know, i think that what they were focused on, to be honest, was what he could do for donald trump. >> right, so cares about all that. we need him to do this. >> and i will tell you this, and i've been told this by a couple of sources, donald trump wasn't close to paul manafort. he brought him in because he felt he needed him. he didn't want a political operator. and manafort was known as an operator. so at first i'm told the president was kind of, was kind of skeptical about manafort. corey did not like him, but he brought him in because good friends said you need this guy because he's going to help you. >> right. this is the question of course, john, that they did not there was a dark side. they decided they needed his skill more than that. and that was what was more important. you know, when you talk about

manafort and what he could do, obviously, the only person above him that he could give information on at this point would be the president, john, and the president today called "the new york times" today to talk about manafort's indictment, calling maggie. he said quote, i'm not under investigation as you know. and even if you look at that, there's not even a mention of trump in there. john, what do you say? the president is insisting he is not under investigation at this point. >> well, i think he's living in an unreal world. he doesn't really read the "new york times" apparently. he doesn't want to look at any mainstream media. he is so out of touch with reality. it's frightening. the fact that he is out of touch is the fact that he has no real establishment people that are close to him that could have warned him about something like a manafort. that's well-known. those were not secrets. they were apparently to him. but manafort had a reputation

and his firm was known for some shady business before he joined the campaign. so you know, while he didn't, he needed the expertise, he was high risk in taking it. and how many people walk into a campaign with real skills and are volunteering those skills and taking no salary and running a campaign? that's extraordinary in itself. >> right and of course, manafort like others, volunteer, if you want to use those words, which the campaign used to disparage papadopoulos. but gloria, you were also reporting about a major clash here on how trump is going to handle robert mueller. we know trump has listened to his lawyers. they have told him, do not argue with this, do not fight this. provide the information requested. but you're learning steve bannon has been talking to trump in recent days saying no, don't provide this. cut the funding.

fight mueller. >> right. steve bannon wants him to fight mueller. i think he feels that the president's legal team is being outgunned. and that the president told bannon, look, for now, i'm going to stick with the playbook we've got, which is we're going to cooperate with mueller. hand over all the documents, which they've done and i'm not going to do anything to antagonize him. remember, in july, he was tweeting about mueller. you haven't seen him do that lately. how long this will, erin, is really a big question here because as mueller starts circling around more and more people who work for the president, we'll see if the president changes his mind. >> all right. thanks so much to both of you and next, george papadopoulos, the white house says he was a big player. a volunteer. well, we've just got some new information. he may be a lot more than they are making him out to be. and also, the victims of the terror attack in new york. include a young man from new jersey. somebody described by so many as

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papadopoulos was more involved in the campaign than everyone wants to believe. trump in the warehouse both say he was a coffee boy in their words who only attended one meeting. here's sarah sanders. >> it was a brief meeting that took place quite sometime ago. it was the one time that group ever met. >> there was though, of course we now know at least one other meeting that papadopoulos attended and he also appeared in an american jew wish committee in july of '15 where he admitted to working in the campaign. manu, clearly more questions about how involved papadopoulos was. >> yeah no question about it. for four months after joining the campaign in march of 2016 he appeared to appear at events, including that one around the republican national convention. a lot of questions about the first meeting he did attend with

then candidate trump. court documents he mentioned setting up a meeting with then candidate trump and vladimir putin. trump did not dismiss the idea but left the option open. the person who did dismiss the idea was general jeff sessions. he said we should not move forward with this idea. this is raising a lot of questions on capitol hill because sessions did not disclose that when-asked about russia. tonight the democrats are asking questions. >> jeff sessions concealed his meetings with russians and he had an obligation to be more forthcoming about the meeting that involved papadopoulos as well. and in fact, one of the points of question is whether papadopoulos in that charging document where there's a

reference to a campaign supervisor was in fact talking to jeff session. >> what kind of concerns do you have? >> will be whether he is being honest and forthright with the committee and what does that mean for the highest law enforcement officer in the country. >> and erin tonight, no comment yet from the justice department about what jeff sessions actually said at that meeting with george papadopoulos. at the white house, secretary sarah sanders was asked what the meeting if it had occurred, she says the president disease not recall. erin. >> thank you very much, manu. up front next, eight people killed in the terror attack in new york. a mother of two young children among them. we'll be back.

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york. ann decaulk about mourned in two cities tonight. she was visiting new york her mother and three sisters. her husband says she was a fantastic wife and a beautiful mother. a group of friends from argentina, they were together in new york to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation, that was the group that was here and those you see lit up are not alive tonight. hernan mendez, deeg, alejandro, aerial and her man fa rue chie did not survive. and then there's darin drake, here's from new milford new jersey, 32 years old. he was the most incident delicate kid in the world, the perfect son and they're only

child. and nicolas chiefs was 23 years old, a software engineer. a local shop owner told "the washington post" he was quote, absolutely lovely, he was a sweet heart, warm and friendly. and he was the only new yorker killed in this attack. our great sympathy goes to those families who are mourning tonight. and thank you for joining us. anderson is next. good evening we begin tonight with breaking news. so much of what we were hoping to know in the yesterday's terror attack in lower manhattan we learned details today, federal charges against the driver. there's more than authorities want to know which is why we're again breaking with tradition tonight and showing his photograph just in case anybody have any information about this person. that's the number to call at the bottom of the screen. first, the facts that we know. two reports starting with shimon who