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

on this wednesday, november 1st. from abc news, this is "world news now." >> we do say good morning on this wednesday. we start with the terror on the streets of new york. >> a man who claim to the u.s. seven years ago and worked as a uber driver is now believed to have use add rented vehicle to kill eight people. >> and here is the suspect holding what turned out to be fake guns moment after the attack. >> here's the latest. at least eight people we're told are dead. of those, five were from aer argentina. one was from belgium. >> more details on his past in just a moment. but law enforcement say a note in the truck said this was inspired by isis. >> it's less than half a mile from the world trade center memorial. let's start with

>> reporter: terror in downtown manhattan. this man accused of turning a truck into a deadly weapon. >> we've got multiple casualty, this is a mass casualty situation here. >> reporter: at 3:05:00 p.m. hitting more pedestrians than cyclists, slamming into cars. at least 13 more injured. his truck colliding with a school bus, injuring two more children, coming to a stop blocks from the september 11th memorial. >> he kept going all the way down full speed. and then the next thing i heard all i heard was nine, ten gunshots. >> a whole bunch of people came running past my way yelling, "he's goat a gu

>> reporter: he's holding what turns out to be two fake guns. sources say he shouted "allahu akbar." this mother saying he pointed one of his guns at her daughter. >> i saw the man with the guns. he pointed the gun at me. i'm sorry. i have to go get my child. >> reporter: hundreds of police immedia immediately swarnling the scene. a nearby school going into lockdown. chaos and confusion in the streets. at first it was reported as a road rage incident, then an act of terror. >> we have been tested before as a city, very near the site of today's tragedy. and new yorkers do not give in in the face of these kinds of actions. >> reporter: and we know that this was an especially dangerous situation, because so many students were already on

school. this area is surrounded by three different schools within two blocks. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> and singer actor josh groban posted a video. >> he says he normally has coffee on the corner where this took place and only missed being there because his dog pulled him into a park at a different point. he praised the first responders. and this morning the suspect is in a new york city hospital. >> he is 29 years old, named sayfullo saipov, a native of uzbekistan and has lived in ohio, florida and most recently his family and he moved to new jersey. >> the van used in the attack was rented

home depot. we're learning more details and the international response overnight. >> maggie rulli's live from downtown new york, just a little distance away from where the attack unfolded. maggie, good morning. what are we learning so far? >> reporter: well, as you mentioned, what we know now is that at least eight people were killed in this attack. nearly a dozen more injured. at least three of those still in critical condition. now among the wounded we have learned that five of those killed were in town visiting from argentina. they were here celebrating the 30th anniversary of graduating from high school. five of those people are among the dead tonight. witnesses who arrived on the scene describe it as surreal and grisly, a mangled mess of bicycles and bodies. something that is very, very difficult to hear. and it's also hard to believe that this has been the deadliest attack in new york city since 9/11. >> that indeed, so many people

near the scene of the last terror attack in manhattan. abc's maggie rulli live for us. thank you. >> let's turn now to former fbi agent steve gomez who gives us a little insight in what goes on in the investigation of an attack like this. >> is there anything to glean from the fact that he rented this truck from a home depot? >> yes. the fact is the home depot trucks are very large and powerful. they can plow through definitely bicyclists, people and smaller cars. as opposed to going and renting a car from hertz or a suv. those trucks are more attractive to terrorists looking to commit this type of attack. and it sounded like the deputy chief for nypd, jon miller, had even talked about how they had made these types of outreach contacts with like, say, home depot and the rental car companies to let them know, to look for

to rent vehicles such as this guy. this suspect here. >> and i just returned from the scene or near the scene. there's a good stretch of west side highway, manhattan, that is still sealed off. it doesn't appear they're picking up any evidence there. what could they possibly be looking at at this point? >> reporter: this is definitely a major crime scene from what i understand. the vehicle, suspect's vehicle traveled nine to 15 blocks. and you don't really know exactly what they're looking for as far as evidence, but you know that they have to cordon off everything. they want to make sure that nothing is contaminated, as far as evidence. they don't want to ever have to open up the crime scene and then they have to close it back again. so they're being very cautious. good reason, this is a major terror attack, and they want to make sure that any piece of evidence, whether it was something that the suspect threw or something that came from the vehicle or one of

that may give a clue forethe th. they want to make sure they capture all that evidence. >> we're just a few days away from the new york city marathon. a huge event, how does this affect security there? it was already going to be heightened. what do they do now? >> reporter: exactly. it was already at a heightened state of alert. they really have to look at this method of attack, using a vehicle, large vehicles or even small vehicles. we saw that at the ohio state attack several months ago, it was a smaller vehicle. it could be any vehicle can be used, but they mostly want to look at where are those crowds that are going to be congregate being, whether it's the runners for the marathon, onlookers, where are those crowds going to be? are the crowds going to move, and are they in a position where a vehicle can get access and plow through those crowds. that's the main issue for them. the target is the crowds and they have to protect that.

thanks again for joining us, steve. >> and we will have continuing coverage of the deadly truck attack throughout the morning. so stay tuned. but we do move on to lighter yet breaking news. >> we did hear from the governor of new york who was saying go out, continue with your daily scheduled activities. even right by the attack, kids were still playing soccer games, the halloween parade went on. we are going to go on with the important news of the day and get to the world series. >> the dodgers beat the astros 3-1 in game six. >> the dodgers had tied the game with a double and went ahead on a sacrifice fly. they added an insurance run with a homer in the following inning, and they haven't won a world series in 29 years. >> and houston's never actually won. >> never, never. >> in its 56 years. so somebody's going to be celebrating tonight like it's 1988 or like

>> zero? never? pretty awesome, though, it's been a great series so far, so many home runs >> this was the most important part about the game. oh, hey, kate. >> oh, enough already. >> hi. that's mrs. soon-to-be verlander. >> you know she's engaged, right? she's spoken for. hence beyonce. >> she hasn't said "i do" yet. >> oh, i see. >> it depends on how tonight goes. kate upton was in the stands there. there are only like three shots of her, but hey. >> you need a kate upton cutout for this one. >> we should. >> i shouldn't have said that. coming up, coming to america, see what prince harry is doing state side and what he had to say to the crowds. and the online ads that may have fooled american

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we're back with some other world headlines, including this. we're learning at least 200 people were reportedly killed in a tunnel collapse at a north korean nuclear test site. it happened during construction of an underground tunnel. 100 workers were trapped and died. another 1 hyundai00 reportedly during a rescue attempt. here at home, another hollywood celebrity is being accused of sexual assault. "suicide squad" actress took to twitter to accuse jeremy piven of groping her on "auentourage." they are looking into the allegations. attorneys for facebook, twitter and google were all on the hot seat

>> they were slammed for not doing more. and they pointed to displays of outrageous ads. >> there were signals we missed and we are now focussed. >> okay. people are buying ads on your platform with rubles. you can't put together rubles with a political ad and go like, hmm, those two data points spell out something bad? >> senator, it's a signal we should have been alert to, and in hindsight, it's one we missed. >> okay, okay. >> well, two of the most egregious examples were also tweets urging clinton voters to vote from home. one ad suggested they only needed to tweet clinton-kain e

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♪ skinny ♪ so skinny yeawe're starting off "the skinny" with a scary moment for wendy williams. >> she was in the middle of her halloween show when this happened. take a look. >> we do it every year. it's always a lot of fun. let's get started. our first caress -- >> so the 53-year-old was dressed of course as lady liberty and blamed the incident on a heavy costume and makeup as well as lights. members of her staff could be seen on tv, this is live, rushing in to help her.

stunt or part of the show. she did come back after the commercial break and finished the show. she told the audience at that point that the whole thing was not a stunt, but she said i'm a champ. and we're finishing this show. >> a little later she tweeted that she was doing fine and she just needs some water and electrolytes. >> and in true wendy williams fashion she added, on another note, i slayed and laid halloween, lol. >> not to make light of wendy williams, but one of her catchphrases "how you doin'." >> now many people are asking how you doin'. she's bouncing back. and at least we can tell you, wendy, you looked good in that costume, at least that. all right, next, it's the prince on a visit to america, prince harry and former first la lady michelle obama surprised students at a school.

and credited his military service with instilling in him ideas of service and duty. he also went into detail about his family's charitable efforts, including the invictus games for wounded warriors. >> yes, but where was meghan? there she is from toronto. >> we watch baseball, we have to see kate upton. we watch prince harry talking about charity, and instead, okay, glad to know meghan's nearby. halloween, by the way, very sad that it's over, but we can give one last shoutout to some of the celebs who went all out. check out neil patrick harris and his family as a troupe of circus performers. >> that's lebron james as penny wise. >> oh, that is terrifying. mind you, think about how huge lebron james is. that's going to be the most gigant gigantic penny-wise out there. >> that's a quarter wise. >> let's

steel. can you recognize who's in that costume? >> looks like steve mnuchin. >> that is canadian prime minister justin trudeau here to save the day. >> yes. check out the queen of halloween, heidi klum, revealing she's michael jackson from the "thriller" video. in case you missed our halloween fun, we thought now would be a fun time to recap and live the glory of our halloween moments. starting with the dino takeover. >> yeah, kendis, you win in this one. >> it was tough. it was hot. >> your costume was a little -- >> difficult to deal with. >> a little more over the top than mine in this case. >> couldn't see anything. >> my favorite was what you didn't see off camera, when kendis stood up, the rest of the costume inflated and he couldn't sit back down in the chair. let's check out us as the caped crusaders. batman and bat woman? girl? >> that was so tight, i could not stand up and show the cameras.

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youth. did some things that fortunately were not recorded because there was no social media, hence, i was ultimately able to be elected president. but in college i started thinking to myself, how could i have an impact? how could i make a difference? and at some point in your lives you've asked yourself the same question, which is how can i make an impact? how can i make a difference? throughout my presidency, whenever i got down, whenever i got cynical, whenever things got tough, the one thing that i knew would always pick me up was when i met those young people with that desire to have an impact and make a difference. the moment we're in right now, politics is the tail and not the dog. what's wrong with our politics in part is a reflection of something wrong in our civic culture. make sure that when you

you're not disagreeable. real change comes through persuasion. and openness to others. for michelle and myself, this seems trivial, but it's not. no selfies. one of the weird things about being president is i found people were no longer looking me in the eye and shaking my hand, because they approached me either like this or like this. and it seems trivial, but it's not. >> like that. >> no selfies with the former president. now we know. i wonder if he took any selfies with prince harry, though. ? i'm sure, he might not, but i'm sure mrs. obama did. but chance the rapper was also there at the summit. so you have a lot of huge, huge people who were there for this first-ever event. >> lin manuel miranda, chance the rapper, 20,000 people applied for 500 slots. >> that's it

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making news in america this morning, terror in new york. breaking details overnight about the suspect in the deadly truck rampage. >> his alleged ties to isis. the visa he used to enter the united states and his past in florida. >> also this morning, the victims of that attack. >> she just had eyes on the man with the guns. he pointed the gun at me. i'm sorry. i have to go get my child. >> the frightening moments for schoolchildren and new images. the school bus that stopped further carnage. >> this morning president trump responds with a new order to homeland security as new yorkers vow to move forward stronger than ever. >> we go forward together. we're not going to let them win. >> live t