this morning on "world news now," an act of terror. >> the halloween horror in manhattan, steps from ground zero. a truck turned into a lethal weapon, we're following breaking developments, new reporting on the suspected attacker and about the people who were killed. also breaking overnight, a whose strate hostage standoff inside an elementary school. see how this finally ended in gunshots. and breaking sports news. there will be a game seven of the world series. the dodgers battling back to stay alive in front of a hometown crowd. a world series for the ages

it is wednesday, november 1st. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we do say good morning to everything and turning out to what's turning out to be a very busy wednesday. we'll start here in new york and the deadliest terror attack since since 9/11. of the eight people killed, five are from argentina. >> authorities say that's the suspect, sigh fewayfullo saipov. he jumped from the truck waving what turned out to be paint ball and pellet guns. a new york city police officer took him down with a single shot. the attack lift a roughly mile-long path. new york city mayor and the governor led thousands of people at the nearby annual halloween parade. >> and the parade taking place just blocks from the terro

thayer there in lower manhattan. i was there minutes ago. dozens of police officers are still on scene. we're here in tribeca. all of this came to an end about a block from where we're standing right now. you can see all of those floodlights. police are still on the scene and plan to be there in the overnight hours. i can actually see the school bus that was hit right there. that's where this whole mile of carnage ended. and that's where the bike path is located. it is a very, very popular bike path here in new york city. something that i've used on a weekend. i probably would have been there with my bike or running. it's something that's popular for many, many new yorkers, but on a tuesday afternoon, it is a popular spot for many tourists. and that explains why so many of the victims were, in fact, not from the new york city area. but this still hits so hard for many people in new york. to give you a sense

one world trade center is, that's it. just a couple blocks from where all this played out. the lights on top in red, white and blue in the overnight hours. once begin, so many people, hard to believe that terror has hit right here in the heart of lower manhattan. >> we were actually walking down there and saw people in tears walking away from the scene. let's head right back down there, because abc's maggie rulli is standing just steps away from where all of this unfolded. and maggie, what are you learning right now about that suspect? >> reporter: well, we are learning rapidly more details about this suspect. authorities were quick to call it an act of terror and name the man responsible. 29-year-old sayfullo saipov. he moved her from uzbekistan, seven years ago. his driver's license places him in tampa, florida. but sources say he also lived in ohio and most recently in paterson, new jersey. he lived there with his wife and children and was a uber

police say he rented this white truck from home depot nearby, it was that that he used as a weapon in this attack. they found a note saipov left behind that credited this attack to isis. now we still need to learn much more, but plenty of details have already come out. >> and maggie, what's the security situation there now? >> reporter: well, diane, right behind me a few blocks is where that attack kurd. a -- occurred. authorities do not believe a bigger threat is at play here. new yorkers should expect to see an increased presence through the weekend, especially with the new york city marathon happening on sunday. >> it will be a security threat indeed. maggie, thank you. >> and we're learning a little bit more about the victims as well. five have been

citizens of argentina. a sixth is confirmed as being from belgium. >> the five were killed in new york, celebrating their 30th high school reunion. one of the men reportedly paid for his friends to travel to new york. several other argentinaens were among those injured. >> and president trump responded to the attack on twitter, calling it another attack by a sick and deranged person. the president also tweeted, quote, i have just ordered homeland security to step up our already extreme vetting program, be being politically correct is fine, but not for this. >> what does that mean? the white house has not said what extra measures would be put in place to verify the identities of people traveling to the united states. >> let's go over to abc news contributor, steve gomez. what do you make of the president's tweet? >> it has to be a reference to the evaluation that's being done on the vetting of immigrants coming into the u.s. there's been the discussion that they were going to look at the oc

extreme vet eting procedures. it can only mean the evaluation process to move that faster to get to that point. >> so steve, we're learning that the suspect was in the united states on what's called a difficult irsity visa program, any idea what that's about and how did that allow him into the united states? >> it seems to be a program designed to bring in immigrants from countries that don't have a large immigration population here in the u.s. to heclp our country diversefy. it appears to be a very good program. then it's a matter of when people are applying from those countries where they qualify, how are we able to vet them, to ensure that they're not going to be a problem. that they fit the cry tire yeah and meet the requirements. and sometimes that's very difficult with some of these countries whose records are not very reliable and the vetting is not going to be accurate. and there's definite procedures that can be

as frying trying to vet them pr. >> they got this guy alive. how important is that at this point? >> this is amazing. we never see any of these terrorists, you know, walk away in custody and alive. in this case, it appears that the officer who did a great job in resolving the situation in shooting the suspect, he shot him in a place where it put him down on the ground, but it didn't kill him. and the suspect probably thought that he was going to die by cop, which is what a lot of these people think, especially when you have these fake guns or a pellet gun, something like that. so they're definitely going to question him, try to get as much information from him as possible as far as why he did it, if he was doing this for isis, what led him to start to follow and believe in isis, was there any communication with isis in did he have any contact with anybody here in the u.s. or abroad, did he travel, things like that. that will help us in law enforcement deal wit

terrorists coming along the way. >> this suspect is from uzbekistan. a lot of people don't know where it is. was this country on the radar? do we have a refugee problem with uzbekistan? >> it's not necessarily on the radar. it's one of the countries that broke off after the soviet union. it's one of those countries that would have qualified, from what i understand, for the diversity program, for the visas. it's one of those that may not have the records, as far as intel that the u.s. would get from people on the ground to determine if somebody is going to harm here in the u.s. if they are, say, of an ideology that's going to follow isis. we may not even have known that back in 2010 when he came over. so it's definitely a country that would have been a concern, but we just don't know. >> steve gomez joining us. and even if the president's travel program had gone into effe

one of those countries that would have been impacted. steve, thank you for your analysis. and when we come back, we'll have a look at the rest of the morning's headlines, including the latest on the russia probe and the man at the center of the investigation. who in the trump campaign knew of his foreign contacts? and with a few cracks of the bat we're promised what will be one of the most exciting game sevens ever, but first we're going to tell you what happened in game six. there's a hichbt, the dodgers are happ are happy. you' you're watching "world news now."

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the probe and george papadopoulos. he's the former trump campaign advise irwho's pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russians. >> this morning enough questions are focussing on who he reported to inside the trump campaign. here's jonathan karl. >> reporter: he wants to sign tax cuts by christmas. but the announcement was quickly overshadowed by questions about the russia probe. >> are you going to pardon manafort? >> thank you all. >> what's your reaction -- >> thank you very much. >> your reaction to the guilty plea, mr. president? >> thank you. >> reporter: and on twitter, the president lashed out at former campaign adviser, george papadopoulos who pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts to the russians. few people knew about the young low-level guy. he sat a few seats away from him during a national

meeting. this newly-octan obtained video him at a meeting for greek americans. papadopoulos told investigators that during the campaign he met with people he believed to have close ties to the russian government and even tried to set up meetings between vladimir putin and candidate trump. prosecutors say he revealed this to at least five senior campaign officials. among them, abc news has learned are paul manafort, deputy campaign manager, rick gates. campaign co-chairman, sam clovis. and the first campaign manager, corey lewandowski. lewandowski says he doesn't remember any of it. >> i think it's an example of somebody doing the wrong thing while the president's campaign did the right thing. >> reporter: there is absolutely no indication that it is the case that the investigation will wrap up soon. in some ways it looks as if the

getting started. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. and house republicans are delaying the rollout of their massive tax reform bill by a day. the bill will be revealed on thursday instead of today. that's reportedly over disagreements to 401(k) retirement plans. gop leaders still want to pass it by thanksgiving, though. they are hoping to have it to the president by christmas. and the sign-up season for obamacare starts today. this comes as the trump administration makes several change, including cutting advertising and slashing the enrollment period in half. the white house also canceled a subsidy that lowered costs for some consumers. but obamacare advocates note that 80% of people can find a plan for less than $75 a month. and breaking overnight, an hours-long hostage standoff inside an elementary school has finally ended in southern california. a parent barricaded himself

inside a catholic classrolassro teacher. you can see the kids walking out. the 70-year-old teacher was rescued by police after nearly seven hours. the suspect shot by police and later died at the hospital. >> we were just staying underground. and just making sure that we were safe. >> it's one of our first grade teachers had a disgruntled parent. and just pray for her. >> such an emotional scene there for many of the parents. the teachers what not seriously injured but was taken to the hospital as a precaution. it's still unclear if the suspect was carrying a weapon. he has not been identified. family members say he had some kind of emotional break down, but quite a scene in riverside, california. over in utah where a suspected gunman at the university of utah is in custody after allegedly gunning down an international student and leading police on a 15-hour

austin butane surrendered after a librarian recognized him and alerted the authorities. he's also wanted for questioning in the murder of a 63-year-old man in colorado. his wife is a person of interest in that case and is already in custody. meanwhile, police in tampa were on high alert forehallow n halloween. the interim police chief has been advising residents not to walk alone especially after sunset. residents and police made an extra effort to make trick-or-treaters feel safe, including making popular areas secure and well-lit. but still an ongoing manhunt in tampa, florida for what they believe to be a possible serial killer. >> police have received hundreds of tips there so far in the tampa areas the seminole heights area. but think haven't tracked down anybody. they released that surveillanc

suspect. quite an abnormal halloween. >> they've found so little connecting the victims. they do believe they're connected. coming up in the next half hour. bosses for facebook, twitter, even google, grilled on capitol hill. for the first time, we're sieg the fake online ads linked to russia. but first see how the l.a. dodgers survived and forced a game seven of the world series. that's next on "world news now." . i'll text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. one pill lasts 12 hours, so... looks like i'm good all night! why take 4-hour cough medicine? just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. let's end this.

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game six of the world series starting on a somber note with a moment of silence for the victims of the new york city terror attack. >> but as for the game itself in los angeles, it sure ended with a lot of noise. >> oh, yeah. >> in fact roars of happiness in dodger stadium and beyond as the home team beat houston 3-1. and of course that ties the series all up, three games ap

solo home run. justin verlander held the dodgers to one hit through five innings. >> but they pulled ahead on a double and a sacrifice fly. and they didn't need any homers this time to take the lead, just classic, good old baseball. >> all right, fine. they added an insurance run. game seven tonight. >> so we get, everything that we wanted answered right there. and by my count, there were only try shots three shots of kate upton through the game. >> were you disappointed? >> i was disappointed. she looked great. justin verlander's fiance. >> there's a game going on? >> what? kate upton's there. >> they have given us

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time now for the mix. and many of you are probably wondering what the best strategy is to eat the halloween candy, that is of koscourse if you havt already done it. i have good news. one of the solutions -- actually this isn't the good news. one of the solutions is eating it after a workout along with a protein shake. essentially, it helps mitigate the damage. wait till tomorrow, go to a workout and then pig out on candy. the other suggestion, eat it all at once. >> oh! >> i like that one better. >> so just kind of carb load. >>

the second one is to save your keith. >> dive in there, kendis. >> i'm going for it. >> there you are. so all at once. >> rather than have your teeth coated all week long, the whole thing in one shot. >> i'm going to have a whole whopper. >> this is the most anti-climactic moment ever. >> this is why i don't get the whole eating and talking on tv. how do you talk after that? then you have your mouth full and it's kind of weird. >> scariest pumpkin. whoppers melt in your mouth. did you know that? it's like fizzing. >> this is interesting. tell me more. play by play on eating a whopper. >> get some caramel in there. >> let's get some scary pumpkins, shall

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breaking news on "world news now." terror in new york city. a truck used to ram people on a cycling path killing more tourists than americans. reports that the attacker is claiming he did it for isis. we have reporters standing by live with more. plus russia and social media were in the spotlight on capitol hill as facebook, twitter and google were questioned about ads from russian agents used to confuse voters. and wendy williams was in the middle of a live broadcast when she collapsed on air. we'll show you