>> we covered a lot of ground over the last two hours. the briefing is momentarily. sandra, good to be with you. see you soon. >> our best to all the victims recovering. "happening now" starts right now. >> jon: and we start with a fox news alert as we await that news conference involving new york city police commissioner james o'neill on the deadly terror attack in lower manhattan. the news conference set to start any minute now. good morning to you. welcome to "happening now." i'm jon scott. >> melissa: i'm melissa francis. eight people were killed. 11 more seriously injured when a driver in a rented truck plowed into pedestrians on a bike path along the hudson river. >> jon: david lee miller is live with more from new york city as we await the beginning of that news conference. david. >> jon, the street where this rampage ended still completely

shut down. this as the rental truck that was turned into a weapon of mass destruction remains in the middle of the street as this investigation continues. at this hour the suspect is at bellevue hospital on the other side of manhattan being treated for a gunshot wound. investigators are trying to speak with him now. the alleged attacker sayfullo saipov is 29 years old. he is from the former soviet republic of uzbekistan. he lived in paterson, new jersey, a new york suburb. a short time ago f.b.i. agents were at that location seen exiting the home with garbage bags of evidence. >> jon: we are going the pause for one moment to let our fox stations join us. i'm jon scott in new york city, this is fox news coverage of

the terror attack on new york. new york city police just beginning a news conference. let's listen. >> i know you have a lot of questions. we'll field the questions as best as we can. please work with us and wait to be called on. >> good morning, everyone. regarding our joint nypd/f.b.i. investigation into the truck terror attack on the west side of lower manhattan. we'll give you an update on some things relearned overnight. an update on the injured and mayor deblastio and governor cuomo. sigh vans is here and commissioner roger perino and joe esposito and like to thank the state police for being here today and everything they did yesterday. chief of the department carlos gomez will lay out some of the security plans we have in place in light of yesterday's event.

and ahead of sunday's new york city marathon and give you an update on the traffic situation on the west side. bill sweeney the assistant director in charge of the new york office of the f.b.i. will make a statement and then john miller, deputy commissioner of intel and counter terrorism will share with you some of the details about the work we're doing on this case. you have to understand that this investigation is still in its infancy. we do not yet have all the answers and there are details today and there will be more down the road. and not everything we'll be able to share with you. you understand that? in terms of casualties the worst terror attack since 9/11. i want to commend everyone who lives in, works in and visit our great city. no one in this city is complacent. we saw the strength of that resolve last night with a large crowds that attended the annual halloween parade in the village and we'll see it again on sunday when 50,000 people

compete in the marathon and another 2.5 million people cheer them along the route. nypd, f.b.i. and all of our law enforcement and partners remember our past and we work very, very hard together each and every day to prevent the type of thing that occurred here yesterday. what happened yesterday was not okay and will never be something any of us will accept as inevitable. since 9/11 we again along with our partners at the local, state and federal level, have disrupted or prevented two dozen plots against new york city. countless lives have been saved but none of that matters when eight innocent lives are taken by a criminal committing a cowardly act driving a rental truck. we're working hard to get to the bottom of exactly what happened yesterday and why. and we're working tirelessly to prevent anything like this from getting repeated. i tell you as often as i can that true public safety is a shared responsibility. law enforcement, government agencies are doing what we can.

and the men and women who work with us do it better than anyone anywhere in the world. we need everyone's help. there are more than 8.5 million people in new york city plus all the people who commute in every day and all the tourists. that's a minimum of 17 million extra eyes and ears and gut feelings that can remain vigilant on behalf of all of us. i talk about this all the time. if you see something out there that doesn't look right, if it makes you uncomfortable you have an obligation to make a call or to flag down a police car. at least give us the opportunity to investigate that. i want to thank everyone for their on going help today and everybody. the fierments and ems workers and police who did a great job under the circumstances. let me introduce dan to give you an update on the injuries from yesterday. >> thank you, i'm going to be

very non-specific regarding the privacy of the victims. 20 victims at yesterday's attack. six of them were pronounced dead at the scene. we transported 14 victims to three hospitals. two of those victims were pronounced so the total number of deaths were eight. six of those were citizens of other countries, five from argentina, one from germany, two were americans. of the 12 remaining, thankfully three have been released from the hospital. nine remain in the hospital. four of those were critically injured but are in stable condition. the others are seriously injured. the injuries ranged from a bilateral amputation to serious head, neck, back and chest trauma and trauma to arms and legs. this was a heinous attack that resulted in eight deaths and serious injuries. our prayers are with the

families of those who died and those who remain in the hospital. >> thank you, commissioner and thank you to all the women of the first responders and police and emts who went to the aid of those who were afflicted and did it so well. i want to start by thanking all of my colleagues that are here. thank you, governor cuomo and all of our state partners and federal partners. thank you, congressman, for joining us. everyone is here in a common cause. this was an attack on the united states of america and an attack on new york city and the attack on our people. an effort to take away people's hope and spirit and to make them change and what new yorkers showed already is we will not change. we will not be cowed or thrown

off by anything and this cowardly act targeting the most innocent people in the middle of the most innocent pursuits was meant to make people feel they could not go about their daily lives. we went to our halloween parade, a million new yorkers showed up for that event. as we spoke with them, they were undeterred and they were strong. it made me very proud of new york city and all the people in this country to see that strength in the face of adversity. this morning people went to work, kids went to school. no one thought there was any choice but to stand up to this act of terror. so as we now move forward, we start with giving our prayers to the families of the eight who were killed. they, as you heard, six of them

came from other nations here because they saw new york as a special place to be and we now and forever will consider them new yorkers. they shared this tragedy with us. we'll remember them as new yorkers. they were here because this city is a beacon to people all over the world. a place that every kind of person comes to and is respected and that won't change. 8 1/2 million people here. we understand this was an attack on our values. it was never to break our spirit. but as an effort to break our spirit it failed. new york city is a very strong and resilient place. we have great faith in the men and women who protect us. we have such pride in the nypd. and we see them on duty and we know they are the very best.

so we're strong, we're resilient people because we know we're protected and we know that this place works when people don't feel deterred. i'll tell you, this violence was an effort to make us blink and we won't blink. we won't change. the nypd yesterday showed us once again how much new yorkers can rely on them and i want to commend officer ryan nash. i spoke to him earlier today. a good young man five years on the force. he was very humble about what he did but what he did was extraordinary and gave people such faith and such appreciation in our police force. now this investigation, as you've heard, has just begun.

that's important to emphasize again this morning that we do not see any additional credible and specific threats against new york city. we'll constantly keep people posted. but we do ask everyone to be vigilant. commissioner o'neill laid out what everyone has to understand. be a part of the solution. share what you know with the police. don't think twice, give information to our officers. many of those previous efforts to undermine us the commissioner referenced. the almost two dozen previous efforts to attack new york city, a number of them were stopped because good people came forward with information in time. we need everyone to understand they can do that, too. as we move forward, we will look forward to the marathon on sunday. it will go on as scheduled. it will be an extraordinary

event, as it always is. it will be well-protected as it always is and we'll take additional measures to ensure that. but my message to all new yorkers is do what you do best, be new yorkers, be strong, be proud, be resilient, show the whole world right now that we will not be moved by terror. again, you see everyone here, every agency united in common cause and this is also part of what makes us strong. and with that i want to thank for his efforts and the state's efforts and welcome governor cuomo. >> thank you very much. let me begin by asking us all to remember in our thoughts and prayers the eight lives that were lost tragically.

that is damaged and that can never be undone and there are families today feeling pain that is unimaginable. mayor, to the nypd, the state police, i was on the scene yesterday, the performance was phenomenal and the coordination and the effort was top shelf. and it gives one reassurance to know that there is this level of professionalism and expertise protecting the people of this city and this state. it's also important to remember that while the leadership of the police departments is top shelf, officer nash, five years on the job, 28 years old, he was a hero.

and the nypd is not just the leadership, it is the men and women who are out there every day, who are on the first line and i think officer nash really showed how important they are and how talented and how brave. so we all applaud and congratulate him. i spoke to the homeland security secretary yesterday who pledges full coordination with all the federal efforts and the f.b.i. i think it's important that we are all working as one and in this kind of situation there is no alternative. this is not a time to have politics. this is not a time to point fingers. this is not a time to find blame. it's a time to come together and work for a common goal.

the effort yesterday killed eight people. but in my opinion the effort failed because the effort was not to kill eight people. the effort was to disrupt us, to terrorize us, to scare us, to create mayhem. that's the effort. that's the goal on all of these attacks. new york is a special target because of the the statue of liberty in our harbor that we're proud of holding up the torch for freedom and democracy. we've seen it all around the world. it is to create mayhem and terrorize and it failed. the mayor is exactly right. the halloween parade last night was a beautiful example of the failure of the attempt. a million new yorkers came out with their families, with their children.

they celebrated, they were there. just a number of hours after the incident and it was new york's way of saying we will not be deterred. we are not terrorized. you will not win. we said that in 1993 after the world trade center bombing the first time. we said that after 9/11, and we said that yesterday. unprompted, spontaneously. they were all there and the mayor and i marched and it was really reassuring the see the resilience of new yorkers. now you'll see increased police presence all across the metropolitan area. we'll double the number of bodies at places of congregation, airports, tunnels, penn station which has 600,000 people that go through it every day.

the most heavily traveled transportation hub in the hemisphere. i don't want anyone to draw any inference from that. we don't know anything. we aren't responding to anything. it is just as a precaution. same thing at the marathon. the marathon will go on because new york goes on and it is an important event for all of new yorkers. again, i want to end where i started. the effort by the first responders was phenomenal. the reaction by new yorkers, as evidenced last night, this morning, people got up, they went to work, children went to school, and that's what makes new yorkers special. that strength, that resilience, that ability to be undeterred in the face of ugliness and the actions of a depraved coward

because that's what this was. this was the actions of a depraved coward. there is no grand statement to what was done. it was the act of a coward. and that's the way it should be regarded because that's the way it was. i was proud to be the governor of the state of new york last night. i'm proud every day, but seeing new yorkers response made me feel especially proud and again to the team you see assembled up here, the f.b.i., nypd, fdny, the seamless coordination is really something to behold and a source of strength and comfort i hope for all new yorkers. thank you. >> thanks. to reiterate what the governor and mayor said now is not to

time to live in fear or be fearful. now is the time for all new yorkers to be strong as we always are. right now chief carlos gomez will talk about what we're doing to increase security throughout the city. carlos. >> good morning, everyone. immediately following yesterday's attack in lower manhattan, the department quickly mobilized and deployed additional resources, additional police officers and additional heavy weapons teams to key locations throughout the city. last night's halloween parade which attracted over a million participants was also security at that parade was enhanced. we added more sand trucks and vehicles to the side streets that led to sixth avenue and assigned more heavy weapons teams to the surrounding area. new yorkers and others who utilize our transit system will see a lot more officers and uniforms and more officers on

the trains. they will see more officers on the platforms. they should expect more bag checks at more stations. they will be canines, explosive detecting canines in the subway system and heavy weapons teams from our strategic response group as well as our critical response command will be deployed to major hubs and other stations throughout the city. there was some traffic closures that remain in effect. i would like to point out. the west side highway from 14th to the tunnel remains an active crime scene and we anticipate it will be closed until early this evening. so we've assigned traffic agents to the area but motorists, please avoid that area. we're just a few days away from the new york city marathon which over 51,000 runners will participate as the commissioner said 2 1/2 million spectators

will line the streets in all the burroughs in our city. we've enhanced security for this also. it will be a very safe event. we've added more sand trucks, more blocker vehicles. i can't give you the exact number. it will be the most ever deployed at this event. we more than doubled our observation teams, our rooftop observation posts as well as our counter sniper teams from the emergency services unit throughout the boroughs, not just manhattan and added heavy weapons teams throughout the city. from our emergency services unit, strategic response group and critical response command will be at fixed locations along the route but they will also have a mobile response capability. if they are needed elsewhere. and this increase will supplement the already large, substantial detail of unformed officers that you'll see along the route.

they will be officers in civilian clothes. they will be mixing in with the crowds to detect any suspicious activity. canines, large number of canines will be deployed along the route and counter terrorism officers with their resources and equipment. our aviation helicopters will patrol from above and survey rooftops as well as the route. certainly traffic control agents will have the hard task of keeping traffic moving in the affected areas, as the commissioner said, 8 1/2 million new yorkers, several million other tourists. it's a lot of eyes and ears in our city. if you see something, say something. tell an officer, call 911, or certainly you could call the new york city terrorism hotline 888-nyc safe. we look for it to be a safe and enjoyable sunday.

thank you. >> thanks, now we'll hear from the assistant director in charge of the new york f.b.i. office, bill and his people continue to be great partners in new york city. bill. >> thank you, jimmy. good morning, everybody. our thoughts and prayers from the bureau are with all the victims' families especially this morning and for all those that are still recovering. right now the new york -- comprised of 50 plus agencies is following up on related leads as we work to process and analyze intelligence information related to yesterday's attack. like last year, our partner jttf in newark is fully engaged. both of those in new york and newark are operating 24/7 and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future and joint terrorism task forces around the country following up on leads as we generate those and kick those out. the investigation is in its

early stages. i say this each time but it is vitally important that we do not inadvertently disclose information that could adversely impact this investigation. i think the public understands that need for the level of operational security and for that reason i may not be able to answer specific questions on how much or what we know. i can say we've been conducting searches throughout the night and into this morning. i expect those searches will continue and additional searches will develop as we generate additional information. i expect evidence collection on the scene to continue to at least early this afternoon but more likely until early this evening. we're very grateful for the patience and the resilience of the workers and people that reside in the area. i'm asking the public to call us with any information that you may have. we set up a hotline. the two numbers are on the chart to your left. the first nationwide 1-800-call

f.b.i. the nypd number is there as well but we have a second site that's vitally important. the public can upload videos and photographs they may have obtained when they were down at the scene. that link is fbi.gov/nyctribecca so we can review them for additional evidence. >> john miller will give us an updated chronology what happened yesterday and talk a little bit about the investigation. again, what bill said you will have a lot of questions but we have to let this investigation get more mature. it is not even 24 hours yet. there will be some things we can tell you but a lot of things we can't tell you. john. >> thanks, commissioner, just to reiterate we're in the early stages of this investigation so the information i'm going to

give you today remains preliminary meaning some details, timelines, etc., may change as we develop more granular information. this investigation is being carried out joint by by nypd, intelligence bureau of the nypd and counter terrorism bureau and f.b.i. and hundreds of detectives who responded through the scene who are developing evidence and following leads. the timeline as we have it now starts at 2:06p.m. when the suspect rents a large vehicle from the home depot located in passaic, new jersey. according to license place readers, he exits the bridge into new york city southbound on the west side highway at 2:43 p.m. at 3:04 a port authority camera on top an air vent outside the

holland tunnel shows it entering the bike lane and traveling at a high rate of speed. at this point according to witnesses, video, and investigation he appears to target bicycle riders and pedestrians within the southbound bike lane traveling at a high rate of speed. that ends when he collides with a school bus injuring a number of additional people and at 3:08p.m. we get more than a dozen 911 calls reporting people down, the school bus accident and the man with a gun in the street. two first precinct police officers out on another call are alerted by civilians about the activity going on outside. they leave that location, they are joined by a third officer. they observe a man who appears to be waving a gun and yelling at the scene of the accident and they observe people down on

the scene. one of those officers, brian nash, takes action and fires his service weapon bringing the attack to an end. as the injured were being removed by fire department and ems personnel and being triageed at the scene, a perimeter was set up around that truck and the nypd bomb squad was called in to clear that vehicle for any suspicious devices. the suspect is identified as sayfullo saipov, a 29-year-old legal permanent resident of the united states who came into the country from uzbekistan in march of 2010. overnight based on the investigation, there have been a number of search warrants executed and there may be more witnesses interviewed, associates tracked down and other activity. we've been able to piece together a number of facts.

recovered in and around the vehicle were multiple knives. the two imitation pistols, one a paint ball gun the other a pellet gun. 8 dead. 11 injured. we have a lot to go through. the detective bureau in particular using hundreds of detectives have been going up and down the westside highway on both sides of the street trying to pick up every piece of video from every security camera, every traffic camera, every bank camera, anything that will help us put together this timeline and have the imagery to go with it so we can reconstruct as much of this as possible. we'll also be reviewing license plate reader data, not just our own but the surrounding area to reconstruct the suspect's movement over the preceding days as well as interviews with associates. suspect was transported to

bellevue hospital. we are awaiting to hear an update on his condition today. obviously he is in custody and under arrest. based on the investigation overnight, it appears that mr. saipov had been planning this for a number of weeks. he did this in the name of isis and along with the other items recovered at the scene was some notes that further indicate that. he appears to have followed almost exactly to a t 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. at this point we'll open it up for questions. >> [inaudible question]

>> the mayor talked about this yesterday and it is a big city. i know the bike path very well. of course, we will take a look at that now. we learn from every event, not just in this city but across the world. >> have you had a chance to talk to the suspect and what did he say? >> bill or john. >> suspect was interviewed at the hospital and we're not going to be able to go into his statements in any specificity. >> question for governor cuomo and the mayor. have either of you gotten a call from president trump since it happened and for police commissioner we have sources telling us that authorities knew associates of mr. saipov

before this incident. [inaudible question]. >> john, you want to answer that first? >> what we can say is mr. saipov has never been the subject of an nypd investigation or the subject of an f.b.i. investigation. we know that through our work with the jttf and bill overnight. what we're looking for is how has he touched the subjects of other investigations, what is his connectivity to those people? and we're kind of building out in concentric circles to try to document that. it appears he will have some connectivity to individuals who were the subjects of investigation, though he himself was not. >> i received calls yesterday from the homeland security secretary and from the homeland security advisor in the white house, mr. boss ert and both offered any and all help to new

york city in this moment. and said they would be 100% available to us in any way going forward. those calls happened give or take 7:00 yesterday evening. not from the president directly, no. >> i received no call from the president. i also received a call from the homeland security secretary, acting secretary duke. and we spoke about coordination of resources, jttf, f.b.i., but basically did we need any other assistance from the federal government. >> i actually received a phone call from the acting secretary also a little bit after 8:00. >> [inaudible question] >>

>> look, i'm not bothered at all because two senior officials called promptly and offered help. i think that was appropriate. i think we are here to talk about this situation and the facts and no one up here wants to politicize any of this. i don't think anyone should be politicizing this tragedy at this moment in time. every focus should be on those whose lives were lost, on their families and the work we have to do in this investigation. >> i am not bothered that the president didn't call. i am bothered by an attempt by anyone to try to politicize this situation. that plays right into the hands of the terrorists. they are trying to disrupt. they are trying to create mayhem. they are trying to divide.

the point is to do the opposite. it is to unite, normalcy, proceed as one. so to politicize this event i think is wholely counterproductive. >> [inaudible question]. >> are you talking suicide by cop? we haven't made that determination yet. in the back. >> [inaudible question] >> it's too early in the investigation to tell you that. >> is there anything out of the

ordinary regarding this rental or the employees or how he paid for it and does video show anything in particular? >> as far as the truck rental goes, those interviews are being conducted and i haven't seen that. but there was certainly nothing unusual enough to cause anybody to call. >> [inaudible question] >> that's part of the expanded canvas for witnesses. we're looking for people to come forward and part of the expanded video canvas which bob's people have been instrumental in. we want to be able to reconstruct his entire trip. as you saw in the chelsea bombing we were able to take him from the train to both scenes. we expect to try and come as close to that as we can here, too. >> a follow-up on that truck

question. i know you spoke to a lot of companies that rent trucks. was this particular company spoken to as well? >> our shield program does the outreach on a fairly wide level. the nexus program in intel has visited more than 100 of the truck rental places within new york city. we work with the department of homeland security and their programs and other agencies to cover the ones outside the city. and i can't tell you to a level of specificity whether that program got to this location, but i can tell you as early as two weeks ago we were engaged with them and the new york state police doing the areas around new york city. >> is there any evidence he

tried -- [inaudible question] >> as part of the investigation we'll go backwards in his history and what he has done in the last couple of months. i can't give you an answer to that. >> [inaudible question] >> you want to talk about the notes? >> the notes were handwritten in arabic. they had symbols and words but the gist of the note was the islamic state would endure forever. >> like to ask, there is a death penalty for murder that is willful, deliberate and premeditated. do you anticipate filing that in this case? >> obviously at this point since we haven't yet filed any criminal charges there is not much i can say about potential

charges. i can say that from the moment of the attack we had federal terrorism prosecutors working with the nypd and the joint terrorism task force in coordinating with the district attorney's office to assist in the investigation. get search warrants and legal process filed and to gather the evidence and assist in the investigation for the purpose of ultimately determining whether there are federal terrorism charges to be made. at this point i won't speculate as to what charges might ultimately be brought and what the sentences might be. >> follow up. the fact that the note was written in arabic, how significant is that and does it speak at all to the level of radicalization of mr. saipov? >> i don't know. >> you repeated earlier he has been planning this for weeks.

[inaudible] >> we are going to reconstruct that day-by-day going backwards. but at this point i'm not going to get into that in any detail. >> did he say whether it was online or whether he was contacted by people? >> everything you said is part of the investigation now and we are peeling back through -- there is a process here. what were his communications, who were they with? what is the content? what's relevant to this? >> colleen. >> can you talk a little about his time when he came, florida, ohio, new jersey, and what he was doing? >> we're 20 hours in now so we will speak to everybody involved. speak to relatives and acquaintances people he has worked with. i don't have that right now.

james. >> do you have any more on just how important officer nash's action was and can you detail more about the conversation you had with him and if you have any information to when or whether or not we'll get the information? >> in a typical fashion of on nypd cops he thinks what he did was not an act of heroism. he think it is something that why he joined the police department. i had the opportunity to talk to brian last night. he was at the hospital and i don't think we could find a more humble human being. they were at the high school for an unrelated call and somebody came in and told them there was a vehicle accident at west street and chambers street so brian and his partner thought they were going out to handle a vehicle accident and once they got outside they were confronted and they took proper action. so all new yorkers should be thankful to ryan and his

partner. they showed great courage. i talk about the courage of the men and women in this police department every day. yesterday you saw it. 28 years old. five years on the job and this is what he did for the city and the country. i'm really proud of him. >> let me add, ryan is a hero but he was so humble about his achievement it was very striking. i think the commissioner is right. he thought this was all in a day's work and what a cop does to protect other people. but he deserves the accolades of the people of this city as do his partners. to your question, what was the potential there had he not stepped in? as you know, after the fact we found out more but in that situation you don't know if the shooter has multiple weapons, has a bomb on him. you don't know. and god forbid that situation was even more dangerous, how many more lives literally,

dozens more lives could have been in danger. ryan stopped that threat immediately. we owe him a great debt of gratitude. >> [inaudible question] >> i have to talk to him again and see what he wants to do. he is a humble guy so maybe he will give you the opportunity but i will leave that up to him. >> in light of the situation yesterday, the security situation in the city going forward, are you considering closing time square to vehicular traffic? >> it's premature to say that. you see the presence we have there now. >> [inaudible question] >> we have not yet. obviously our condolences to people in argentina and belgium. our condolences to the people of those nations and those family and do everything we can to support the families in this

moment. i think everyone feels -- we're all connected at this moment. we ought to be there for each other. >> [inaudible question] >> i won't confirm that. >> was there any indication that he did prior reconnaissance of this place? >> yes, we're not going to get into the details of the what or where but he seems to have followed the regimen prescribed. all the way on the left. >> question for the governor and mayor. talking about setting up

extreme vetting and secondly, what do you think the gun control laws of new york and -- not sure what you're doing, but he had -- [inaudible] >> again i think today is about a focus on this incident and all we have to do to respond to it. i could say simply we support vetting of individuals. we support very thorough vetting. not of groups of people just because they belong to a group. i think this is a very crucial distinction. there should be very, very careful vetting of anyone where there is an indication of a concern but not because of their religion. or not because of their country of origin. and there is a much bigger conversation we could have about gun safety.

the nypd has always rigorously believed we need to keep guns out of this city and gun safety laws are here to protect us and our officers. there will be plenty of time to discuss these issues going forward. i want to affirm the governor's point. this should be a unity moment. the focus should be on solving the crime and figuring out how we can move forward together, not the pointing of fingers. >> the president's tweets i think were not helpful. i don't think they were factual. i think they tended to point fingers and politicize the situation. he was referring back to an immigration policy that dealt with a lottery and blaming

people who passed that immigration policy. his tweet wasn't even accurate as far as i'm concerned. it was a bipartisan law that was passed. that had basically no relevance to the facts of this situation. as i said before, you play into the hands of the terrorist to the extent you disrupt and divide and frighten people in this society. and the tone now should be the exact opposite by all officials on all levels. this is about unification. this is about solidarity, normalization and protection. the last thing it's about is politics period. as far as gun laws, i am increasingly proud that new york state passed some of the smartest gun laws in the

country. the safe act. i think it is madness the number of assault weapons that we have in this country. i think it endangers law enforcement and i think it costs us untold numbers of deaths and i hope one day we will have a federal policy that actually brings sanity to the gun policy laws in this country. >> two more questions. >> [inaudible question] >> we are going to go back through all of his contacts and habits. i think this is an important time to say this isn't about islam. it is not about what mosque he attends. there are hundreds of thousands of law-abiding muslims in new

york city who are adversely affected by things like this and it is probably a good time to say we have seen in the aftermath of incidents like this bias incidents, hate crimes, assaults and bob and his hate crimes people will respond to those, investigate those and anybody behind those will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. as has been said here before, it is a time to come together and to not confuse this terrorist act with any broad brush against a religion or a particular institution. >> [inaudible question] >> we are doing interviews with family members, friends,

associates. we won't be able to get into what they are saying or not saying or who is cooperating or otherwise at this point. it is just too early. >> thank you all. >> thanks very much. >> jon: the chief and top officers of the new york city police department along with the mayor of that city, the governor of new york and the f.b.i. holding a news conference that ran about 45 minutes regarding yesterday's terror attack. the worst terror attack in new york city since the attacks of 9/11. interesting to note that news conference went about 45 minutes took almost as long as the attack itself from the time an immigrant from uzbekistan rented a home depot flatbed truck and plowed into a number of cyclists and pedestrians using a path yesterday. eight people dead at this point.

six of them foreign visitors from argentina and either belgium or germany. we have conflicting reports on the latter. 11 people injured. it appears that all of those injured will survive although some of their injuries are quite serious including a double amputation. please stay tuned. i'm jon scott in new york. joining us now is bob stra*ng from the anti-terrorism task force in new york. the mayor and police made it clear this guy was inspired by isis trying to do what isis has called on him to do. bob, how do you stop an attack like this? >> jon, this is a tough one and something that in new york we've been looking at for quite some time. we've seen it in europe and we know this is the choice for an

act of terrorism. it is very difficult to stop. many of the cases that you heard commissioner o'neill talk about were stopped by intelligence, stopped ahead of time. this is the kind of thing where there is no footprint, no background information, no social media profile to date that they can find. so it becomes a real issue for law enforcement because how do you stop someone who wants to take a truck like this on any city block in new york or anywhere across the country and killing people? it's a very difficult thing to do. >> jon: in some respects this suspect did not fit the profile at all. generally the perpetrators of attacks like this are 18 to 22 years old, unmarried, you know, no real future. this is a guy who has a wife and kids and had been sort of building a business in the united states. >> right. here is a guy -- you look at him to your point.

he is not disenfranchised in the community. an uber driver, he has a job. started a business in ohio. someone who is march aoefd -- -married with a family. when it comes to terrorism, when it comes to these kinds of suspects and these individuals, these defendants, they can come out of nowhere. we've learned that. the best intelligence, unfortunately and the best immigration policy we have in place and enforcement at the border isn't always the answer. as john miller said this morning, this is the kind of thing where this individual was probably known to other active targets of investigation but was never a target himself. how many people are there like that out there? how many people and how many targets out there that we know of that we can't even follow because we don't have the manpower, the f.b.i., the police department, homeland security. it becomes a very difficult

task for the government to monitor these things. >> jon: the authorities learn something from every one of these attacks and perhaps this one will also provide some lessons for the future. >> i hope so. >> jon: the former chair of the anti-terror task force in new york. >> melissa: less than 24 hours after the attack in new york city president trump placing some blame on chuck schumer and democrats for immigration policies that he says led to the terror attack claiming the diversity visa lottery program allowed the suspect to enter the united states. chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us now. >> thank you. the president taking some heat this morning for some people are saying politicizing this act of terrorism. let's unpack what the president was saying last night in the early hours after this attack when he said i have just ordered homeland security to step up our already extreme vetting program. being politically correct is fine but not for this. the white house will not

provide any details of what the president might be talking about in terms of just ordered dhs pointing only to new vetting procedures that arose out of the travel ban executive order toughening standards for allowing people into the country. the appearance of the word just in that tweet may be open to some interpretation. now to the politicizing of this. the president ventured to the realm of politics this morning taking aim at new york senator chuck schumer tweeting the terrorists came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery program, a chuck schumer beauty. i want merit-based. the president adding we're fighting ard for merit-based immigration. no more democrat lottery systems. we need to get tougher and smarter and quoting a guest saying senator chuck schumer helping to import europe's problems. we'll stop this craziness. senator schumer ripped the president for going on twitter

to say things like that comparing his response to the tragedy yesterday to that of president bush back after 9/11 when he invited senator schumer and clinton to the white house to say i will do whatever i can to help the city of new york. listen to what schumer said last hour on the senate floor. >> president bush in a moment of national tragedy understood the meaning of his high office and sought to bring our country together. president trump, where is your leadership? the contrast between president bush's actions after 9/11 and president trump's actions this morning could not be starker. >> the president receiving some criticism from the new york governor andrew cuomo saying his tweets were neither accurate or helpful. he and the mayor said no one should be playing politics when it comes to an event like this. >> melissa: john roberts, thank you.

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>> tough newsday but thank you for joining us. >> "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we will start with the new details on the deadliest terror attack in new york city since 9/11. please say a 29-year-old immigrant from uzbekistan plowed his rented truck into pedestrians on a busy bike path in lower manhattan yesterday. chilling eyewitness video shows the suspect during that attack. which unfolded just blocks from the world trade center. a people are dead including children. 11 others injured. this is "outnumbered." i am harris faulkner. here today, sandra smith. republican strategist and fox news contributor lisa boothe. democratic strategist and fox news contributor jessica tarlov. in today's #oneluckyguy, fox news, sr., judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano is here.