people, but this is now open again, whereas other roads around westminster are still closed including milbankround parliament square. one of the other interesting things, some who works in one of the ministries here was talking about it yesterday, what was particularly impressive about the security services' response is how they kept some of these narrow roads open and closed off the area around westminster quickly, but what they did not want was traffic backing up in this area. this has obviously been rehearsed in the past. what you don't want is people getting eye ra ke don't want is people getting eye rake and stressed by trafficjams in an area that is potentially under attack. —— people getting irate. they have worked out which roads to keep open and wish to keep clear to get traffic out of the area. it is obviously being done quite skilfully. that in itself is reassuring, it is a sign from the police who have been very visible around westminster today, the professional way that they have dealt with this. they have practised it many times. they were trained for it, even at the weekend. th

if there are still people inside these buildings along here, along milbank who are trapped inside. they are being told they can't come out and so therefore, this is still very much of course active crime scene as they try to piece together what has happened. we did just see within the last few minutes, and an ambulance and came past here with police escorts at the front and the back. there is a speculation among some of us here in the press whether that potentially was the attacker or perhaps someone involved in it. at those police were clearly guarding the ambulance as it left the scene. as i hear sirens coming from almost every direction it seems, it is still very obviously an ongoing situation. a fire engine that's coming down through here, that's a first we've seen of those, but obviously considerable act. >> for now, we'll say thank you. >> we can bring you up this story. sean spicer, president trump's press officer has announced that the president has been briefed on the situation and the u.k. and is continuing to monitor and be updated on the situation. in terms of a number

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. >> just to give a geography, milbank is down here and left-hand side and a little bit further off to the right is where the palace of westminister is. >> as we came running out of that office, we saw these people running in the opposite direction. they were being pushed back by police. we came out after those shots have been fired, but this was obviously at the moment police were trying to expel as many people from the area as possibl possible. they were also trying to clear the area. they were imparted by police for a silver jaguar. our cameras got the picture and it appeared to be the prime minister who is being evacuated. >> are attracting more vehicles coming past us now. we're told by an officer that they're going to stop traffic of this vehicle. not sure what it is. we'll keep an eye on that. mark white is with us. i don't know if you can see these pictures. >> those are the ctf officers. the counterterrorism specialist specialists, those of the officers, the elite of the metropolitan police. they are specially trained to deal with terrorist related incidents. some of those off

joining me is dana milbank, yamiche and anna still in it.talked about this developing news on one story today. the other big headline is health care. you heard vaughn hillyard reporting about what people think about this. in arguing for this new bill, the president and republicans have said again and again, obamacare is in a health spiral. you write, no, it's not failing. it's being destroyed by republicans. so make your case. how are they sabotaging it? >> the result is the same whether it's in a death spiral or being sabotaged, but there's no question that things have been deteriorating in the market. the aetna ceo saying last month it is, in fact in a death spiral. >> republicans pointing to that. >> i say you're saying it's in a death spiral because you cut the power to the engines and pointed the nose down. that's why it's in the spiral right now. ad adds were taken away durg that crucial week for enrollment. various changes in the executive order imply to americans they are not going to be enforcing that individual mandate so you don't

you literally walk along parliament square, and long milbank, and you're right next to the building. there's a fence, but you will have multiple points where individuals can enter and leave the building, both from the underground, the subway, which is very close to westminster, which i understand is closed at the moment. in addition to that, it's a major tourist spot because you've got big ben. people will come along to see big ben and houses of commons and it's an incredibly challenging place for police to keep safe. at this stage we have to wait to see what information we get from police. there will be a lot of speculation. i just heard about the comments about bodies lying. i don't know what the veracity of that information is. at the moment i'm probably like many of us, just a little bit unclear around exactly what's happened other than what appears to have been confirmed, that there was a stabbing of an officer, shots were fired, a helicopter is being rushed in. the bbc reported that prime minister theresa may was whisked away from the scene. >> metropolitan police, you'll be in