police, does that mean that metropolitan police are closer? do they have any concern about communicating about signaling what they might be thinking or what they might be doing? a change in language is part of that potential signalling? >> well, i think that the change in language, you know, is almost a postscript. you know, we've been at this for about three hours. they've had their information in the first 10, 15 minutes. probably wanted to seal it down. and now they've got a lead on the information as it's coming out. so they could be already kicking down doors. shaking up people. intensifying their surveillance on individuals. and preparing armed teams around the city or around the country to start rolling people up. to start getting the advance on anyone who could possibly have any potential to want to do this. but don't forget, this may be a relatively small unit incident where you have individuals, one, two, a maximum of three, who may have done this on their own. thought it up, conceptualized it, took the weapons or took the vehicle, a

there are casualties, and one person arrested the london metropolitan police. malcolm nance, an nbc terror analyst is following this as well. and you have been listening to reporting from lucy kafanov and mac bishop, and both from the london bureau. lucy in the bureau itself, and mac on site, and what are you taking away from this? well, first, it is important to note that to a activity taking place is not just in london in north london near finsbury, but in the vicinity of the finsbury mosque as the previous reporter noted. this is a time during the holy month of ramadan, and the finsbury mosque in the past before it was reformed and had a new imam produced extremism, and that is notabler for richard reid, and zachariah muzawhi. and if this turns out to be a deliberate nature, and a tarting the people in the mosque, the perpetrators could come in with one of two flavors, extremists who now hate the mainstream m muslims, which we see a lot of, and especially the followers of isis or even the westerners or the brith white nationalists or the third part, it could

those are the words coming from the metropolitan police. if you're just joining us here on msnbc, we're in rolling coverage right now of a breaking news incident in london. downtown london at the famous london bridge as you see in the lower right-hand part of your screen, the map. not too far away also, borough market, there are two locations that metropolitan police are looking at right now. what we just learned in the last ten minutes, they are now calling the two incident areas and that which happened at london bridge and borough market as terrorist incidents. they are also telling us, metropolitan police, here at nbc news, that firearms related to that, number one, that a car number two is related to it,

the metropolitan police are saying to remain calm, alert and vigilant. they are using all necessary skills and resources at three incidents, london bridge, borough market and vauxhall. how quickly have police moved people away? it seemed, particularly at london bridge, that many people were being escorted out of the way. i have been here for a little while 110w. have been here for a little while now. people have told me that they saw incident well over one hour ago and they were escorted away from the bridge. but we have been moved further and further south from the bridge itself and it looks like they we re bridge itself and it looks like they were concerned about people being too near the initial area where the incident was reported. we have seen armoured vehicles, police riot vehicles we have police who are slightly more equipment than just your normal and regular patrol police. apart from that we have been stopped on the south side of the bridge and told to remain in this area. were there any local buildings nearby in lockdown? we heard that some res

conflicting reports, we do not know even from the metropolitan police. they say shots were fired in borough market. we do not yet have confirmation of they are the ones that fired them. it may well be that the incident did not involve anything other than police gunfire. but, your experiences - people do have access to weapons. significant dangerous weapons often. >> taking this incident first. what we know, we have heard of multiple stabbings. reports of multiple stabbings. >> one second i'm so sorry to interrupt you again. a statement from the prime minister. following updates from police and security officials i can confirm that the terrible incident in london is being treated as we said as a potential act of terrorism. and she continues, this is a fascinating investigation you want to express my huge gratitude to the police and emergency services on the scene. our thoughts with those who are caught up in this dreadful event. i'm sorry you can continue. >> taking what you know and what we have heard from eyewitnesses and officials about tonight's incid

the metropolitan police were quite extraordinary. i think we need to pay tribute to the police officers, the hospitals, the fire brigade came out. there's a whole range of public sector organizations that came out. >> including the current met chief, cressida dick, said part of that reason was because of lessons learned certainly in the last three months since westminster and obviously, you know, before. but the high alert the police are under and the high state of readiness, she said, contributed to the swift neutralizing of these attackers. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. the police have been practicing for a number of years. if you look at where we were, sort of when i joined the police we used to have a gun in the police station. you had a call, you'd have to book the gun out. we're not in that position now. the threat level is totally different. i think we now have not only routinely armed officers, but we have more officers armed. i think what we saw in manchester was that the numbers of police officers have gone down. 20,000 police

we are expecting to hear an update from the metropolitan police shortly. to tell you what we know so far, 30 people are confirmed as having died but that number is expected to rise. the bbc understands that the number of casualties could be as high as 70. and in the last few minutes it has been confirmed that two tube lines in west london where partly suspended this morning by transport for london amid concern about the safety of the tower. my colleague who is in west london has been talking to the friend of one of the people missing. my people missing. my worries is that everything is very bad and i worried that he is not alive. there are a lot of people who are grieving for him right now, my family who are grieving for him right now, myfamily and who are grieving for him right now, my family and friends and relatives who i know of. and he was a very loving man, you know. he always used to make sure that people were cared for and looked after. yet, he was very loving. where was he living? what floor of the block? he was living on the 20th floor. so quite

earlier, the metropolitan police issued this statement. it said — police were called just after 0020hrs local time on the 19 june to reports of a vehicle in collision with pedestrians. officers are on scene with other emergency services. there are a number of casualties being worked on at the scene. there has been one person arrested. enquiries continue. london ambulance has issued this statement: we heard from an eyewitness saying that whoever it was was amongst the crowd and that this person push the person towards the police and said they should be arrested. london ambulance has issued this statement: "we have sent a number of ambulance crews, advance paramedics and specialist responses teams to the scene. an advance trauma team from london's air ambulance has also been dispatched by car." that was around a quad bus midnight london time but as you can see from the live pictures, it is ongoing —— 1215. the junction the live pictures, it is ongoing —— 1215. thejunction is blocked off by police and a large crowd gathered. our rep

but i believe the neck of pollard and police is well resourced. -- but i believe the metropolitan police is well resourced. we benefited from the support of the military when the threat level went to critical. there isa threat level went to critical. there is a cobra meeting this morning. i am sure jtac will be assessing whether the threat level should go up whether the threat level should go up or not. if it were to go up, or if we felt there was a particular need to ask for military support, we absolutely would do so. i cannot say any more at this stage. one more question. the mayor has asked... inaudible three major attacks... i understand it isa three major attacks... i understand it is a worrying time for everybody, of course. there is going to be considerable concern by some people and fear among some people. what i think we are asking for is that people do not overreact. people of course will make their own decisions about what they do or do not do but the last thing we need is people overreacting or beginning to take out their frustrations on other people in other communities or

services from the metropolitan police and the london fire brigade and the london ambulance service right here, in about 20 minutes time, we're being told. so the microphones are set—up and we will be hearing from representatives then of the metropolitan police, london ambulance service and the fire brigade who will be giving us more details about what happened here and perhaps an update on the casualty figures. the earlierfigures perhaps an update on the casualty figures. the earlier figures we were given six dead, but the police saying that death toll is very much expected to rise. 7a injured. 20 of those injured in critical care in a number of london hospitals. we have been hearing from the mayor of london, sadiq khan. this was his reaction. good afternoon. the fire commissioner has taken me to see for myself grenfell tower and it is extremely distressing and devastating, can i begin by saying my thoughts and prayers as i'm sure the thoughts and prayers of the entire country are with the family

let's recap the police statement we have heard in the last few minutes from the metropolitan police. the metropolitan police has been responding to incidents in london bridge and borough market areas of london. we're treating this as a terrorist incident and they pulled investigation is under way led by london's counterterrorism command. you understand our knowledge of the incident is still growing but at the moment what we understand is as follows. at 10:08pm last night we began to receive reports a vehicle had struck pedestrians on london bridge. the vehicle continued to drive them from london bridge to borough market. the suspects left the vehicle, attempting to stay number of people, including an on duty british transport police officer who was responding to the incident and he risk received serious injuries, fortunately not life—threatening. his family has been informed. armed response officers then responded very quickly and bravely and confronted the three male suspects, who were shot and killed in borough market. the suspects had been confronted and shot by police within ei

let's return to the metropolitan police and what they are saying. they have been making it quite clear that they do not want anybody to speculate about what is going on. they wish to be clear before they report anything. they said one hour ago they were dealing with an incident on london bridge and they would give more information when available. in the last few minutes... sorry, halfan when available. in the last few minutes... sorry, half an hour ago, officers reported to reports of stabbings in borough market. armed police officers had responded and shots were fired. two incidents that they are reporting. information available is that at eight minutes past ten officers responded to a report of a vehicle collision with pedestrians on london bridge. officers also seem to be responding to an incident in the vauxhall area. police will be busy on a saturday night and it will be too easy to connect incidents that are not connected. mark lobel, a colleague of mine, a bbc reporter, he is at borough market. what can you see and where are you? i'm on borou

this hour london's metropolitan police saying they are responding to two terrorist incidents in central london. in the first incident just after 10:00 p.m. local time, 5:00 p.m. eastern time, a van traveling southbound on london bridge veered off the road and struck passing pedestrians. police were called to borough market, a busy area south of the london bridge with bars and restaurants where there are reports of at least one attacker stabbing people with a knife. armed police responded and shots where are fired at that scene. london ambulance have announced within the past hour that another least 20 patients have been transported to six hospitals across london. it is now 3:00 a.m. in london. there is no official word on how many attackers were involved. according to people on the scene at london bridge, a white van was seen traveling fast. it was swerving as it struck several people. the bridge has been closed. one taxicab driver told our news partner i the news he saw three men with 12-inch blades get out of the van after the crash and start stabbing people at random, his words, on b

we are waiting for what the metropolitan police are going to say to confirm that. what the metropolitan police are going to say to confirm thatlj what the metropolitan police are going to say to confirm that. i can see that the cordon behing you is very quiet. we have seen pictures of people leaving areas with their hands up in an effort to clear the area. with your security knowledge, pa rt area. with your security knowledge, part of that is they are looking for any potential attackers who might be among the crowd. this is a difficult situation for the police. they have to contain the area, a crime scene, full of clues, like items that may have been dropped by the attackers. the van needs to be cordoned off to be looked at. ijust came from manchester. they identified salman abedi within two hours. i think it can be sure forensic offices will be down the road from me heading towards the scene seeking to identify who these men are if they are among the men in borough markets, which is what we have been told by eyewitnesses. from there, thejob is to told by eyewitnesses. from there, the j

we'll have from the police, from the metropolitan police based in london, they responded 10:08 o'clock to reports of an incident on the bridge. you can see there london bridge. a number of injuries said to have occurred as a result of the vehicle bearing on and off the road. spoke to a journalist with the spectator magazine that was heading across the bridge at that point. he said that he saw first one individual lying on the ground on the left of his taxi. and then another. i asked him whether or not it could be the case that this was an accident. he said that he did not believe it was so. we spoke with a man that lives very close to london bridge. he described tremendous gunfire. prolonged. in his view before the police were there in numbers. this is what has become rather complicated. the metropolitan police have confirmed that there was another incident that they were dealing with. reports of staffing that took place in the borough market. arms police responded, shots were fired. the police are unable to provide any more information and this may have been the gunfire that we were t

so the london metropolitan police posting this information about 1:00 a.m., about 1:00 a.m. is when they first were making announcements that there was an incident there in finsbury square area. the london ambulance service also making note of that, right about the same time, so to get -- we're very early on therefore about half an hour in in terms of the number and amount of information that we have on this incident. we do not know if it is intentional. we know it is a van. we do know there are casualties, that is what the information is so far on the mets' website, they're saying they were called, just after midnight. about 20 minutes after midnight. that's about an hour and ten minutes ago, local time, and they were saying there were reports of a vehicle in collision, with pedestrians, they also say that officers were on the scene, with other emergency services, and a number of casualties that are being worked on the scene, so although this picture was taken within that time frame, most certainly in this finsbury square area, finsbury park, you can see it is still early o

let me tell you what the assistant commissioner of the metropolitan police were saying. asked if there could be more than three attackers he said that our current belief is that there were three attackers but we have still got more enquiries to do. he also ruled out the attackers having explosives with them although they had hoped vests strapped to their bodies. we saw a picture of one of the bodies of one of the suspected attackers with what appeared to be canisters strapped to his body. that was a picture that was taken of that suspected assailant on the ground with those canisters strapped to his body. an alarming image but the police said that what appeared to be explosive vests of some kind were actually hoaxes and were not real. we have also been talking to redmond shannon who spoke to eyewitnesses after the atrocity. one man who stood up to me with a group of friends out on a night out they were getting to go home and they were getting to go home and they came across what happened at london bridge. the young man who didn't want to give me his name was extremely tr

the metropolitan police, we were told. 16 bodies have been recovered so far. the police commander was telling us how difficult that work has been. he said that the officers have managed to get to the top of the building, but it is very difficult and dangerous work trying to identify and recover bodies inside what is left of grenfell tower. he was saying at one stage yesterday that they had to pause that work, yesterday afternoon, for the safety of their officers. he said we do not wa nt of their officers. he said we do not want any more fatalities of officers in there trying to identify bodies and recover them. in terms of the death toll which still stands officially at 30, but he did say that 58 people who they believe were in there, are missing and presumed dead. but the official death toll is still 30, but the implication is that it may be as high as 58. indeed that it may be as high as 58. indeed that 58 figure may change because they're not 100% sure how many people were in there at the time and the estimates range up to 600 people all together. he said t

the pace feels relentless for the metropolitan police. we're not having any fewer calls for help from the public so we are stretched. today the commission revealed that she was now talking to ministers about the £400 million of savings scotla nd about the £400 million of savings scotland yard said it must make by 2020. we do undoubtedly need a very capable police service in the future for all the reasons that people can see, i'm sure we can become more efficient but we need the resources to do the job and i'm talking to the government and the mayor about that. metropolitan police sources say they confident the government will listen and provide more funding. the home office insisted it would ensure they have the resources needed to cut crime and keep community say. but the mayor rejected the claims of the department that the police budget had been protected. scotland yard also announced today it was paying to train an extra 1800 officers to carry taser stun guns. the commissioner ordered the move after a rise in knife crime and attacks

police, he adds mr watts , metropolitan police, he adds mr watts, the council leader and mr corbyn will attend prayers at things we park mosque later today. we are watching pictures while we talk to you, in fact we are expecting a statement from new scotland yard from police there in the next few minutes. we have heard there are calls for extra police and the mayor of london, city can say the met had deployed extra police to reassure communities especially those observing ramadan. clearly the police are under a huge amount of pressure a cross police are under a huge amount of pressure across the uk but articulate in london, with the recent terror attacks and the tower block fire last week. the mayor of london sadiq khan provide an extensive statement on facebook over night saying he had spoken to the metropolitan police as you would expect, extra police being deployed to reassure communities especially those observing ramadan and you heard in that interview with the home secretary, questions about police resources, she says they tell her they have adequate money, adequate resources, ade

we came here now from the police, the assistant commissioner of the metropolitan police mark rowley. the metropolitan police has been responding to incidents in london bridge and borough market areas of london. we're treating this as a terrorist incident and a full investigation is underway, led by london's counterterrorism command. you will understand our knowledge of the incident is still growing but at the moment, what we understand is as follows. at 10:08pm last night, we began to receive reports a vehicle had struck pedestrians on london bridge. the vehicle continued to drive then from london bridge to borough market. the suspects left the vehicle, attempting to stab number of people, —— the suspects left the vehicle, attempting to stab a number of people, including an on—duty british transport police officer who was responding to the incident, and he received serious injuries, fortunately not life—threatening. his family has been informed. armed response officers then responded very quickly and bravely and confronted the three male suspects who were shot and killed in b

earlier, the metropolitan police issued this statement. it said — police were called just after 0020hrs local time on the 19 june to reports of a vehicle in collision with pedestrians. officers are on scene with other emergency services. there are a number of casualties being worked on at the scene. there has been one person arrested. enquiries continue.

we know that ambulances, the fire service, police, and armed police have all been drafted in the metropolitan police. >> you are watching live news coverage of this multiple scene terror attack. three separate scenes. for sales at large. one person killed. shots fired. in fact multipl multiple peopled by assailants. >> a number of evacuations of people who were awakened in their hotel rooms. children being told to leave the area. will turn it over to judge jeanine with justice, she'll have more details. >> police in the u.k. confirm multiple acts of terrorism in london. hello and welcome to justice, i'm judge jeanine. as we have been reporting for the past several hours here, witnesses and police in london say a speeding band mode down pedestrians on a london bridge just after 10:00 p.m. london time tonight. that is about four hours ago. when this is also saw people stabbed on the judges as well. no official word yet on the number of

shortly before 10:10 yesterday evening, the metropolitan police received reports that a white van had struck pedestrians on london bridge. it continued to drive from london bridge to borough market, where three terrorists left the van and attacked innocent and unarmed civilians with blades and knives. all three were wearing what appeared to be explosive vests, but the police have established that this clothing was fake and worn only to spread panic and fear. as so often in such serious situations, the police responded with great courage and great speed. armed offices from the metropolitan police and the city of london police arrived at borough market within moments and shot and killed the three suspects. the terrorists were confronted and shot by armed officers within eight minutes of the police receiving the first emergency call. seven people have died as a result of the attack, in addition to the three suspects shot dead by the police. 48 people are being treated in several hospitals across london. many have life-threatening conditions. on behalf of the people of london and on behal

but we will wait for the metropolitan police to say what they know at this stage about the motivation. >> again, the statement we got from the muslim council of britain was, we have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left simsbury park mosque. our prayers are with the victims. is that enough to indeed say they were a target, juliet, to call this terror? >> i think the metropolitan police were probably very careful about what they wanted to say publicly to the muslim community at this stage. but i interpreted that as we are nervous, you know, you may be under some heightened threat at this stage, and that probabl has been followed up with greater police presence at mosques during this time. so, the very fact that the metropolitan police would have reached out to the community i think is a way of -- is a kind of community engagement we've seen in britain. we see it here in the united states between law enforcement and the muslim community in terms of sharing information, but also being ready if something like this were to happen. look, you know, coincidences happe

we are looking at the metropolitan police twitter feed. very busy. we are looking at the metropolitan police twitterfeed. 13 minutes ago, they said they were dealing with an incident on london bridge, they will update the twitter feed when they have more information. it has been retweeted thousands of times already. horribly reminiscent of what we saw on westminster bridge only a few weeks ago? yes, in march, in the middle of the day, that incident in westminster where that car mounted the pavement, knocked people down. we now know what happened there. what we will be trying to ascertain, and what police will be trying to ascertain in the next few hours is, was this deliberate? who is behind it? is this an isolated incident? at the moment we do not know. we will look at live pictures in the middle of london. as we have been saying, traffic has been stopped from crossing the bridge, normally a busy way of crossing north to south of the river, blue lights, clearly, many emergency service vehicles with police first on the scene within a couple of minute

police that two of the eight are metropolitan police that two of the eightare in metropolitan police that two of the eight are in a very serious condition. police were on the scene immediately and further police arrived ten minutes later. we know that this man is in hospital himself. the man, the 48—year—old who has been arrested and he will be questioned by police as well who are looking at this as a major terrorist ins didn'tand looking at this as a major terrorist ins didn't and the counter—terrorism officers are on the scene at the moment. as you can see the aerial shots from finsbury park where there isa shots from finsbury park where there is a large police operation still on going this morning. also today brexit negotiations begin in brussels. steph is at a wholesale market in manchester to gauge how businesses feel about the whole process. good morning again. good morning everybody. lots of people that i've talked to, talking about the uncertainty. this is a business which is very much, you know, trades on how consumer spending is going. so there, is a whale sale market

we were told this by the london metropolitan police. they also were saying and reporting that there's been one person arrested. that is all that they have confirmed from the london metropolitan police and now that we are about a four hours after the first call came in to the police there, the progress of information that steve clemens was alluding to, we have not seen more data come out. this is different than previous incidents, london bridge, for instance, we did not -- we were able to get faster pace of information information, if you will, we see pictures like this of what the casualty might be. no confirmed reports of this as terror related as of yet. we have had no confirmed reports that this is intentional as of yet. london witness telling our nbc news producers on the ground there and reporters that three people were in the van, two ran away. this is not been indepennt confirmed by nbc news. this is what a witness has been telling , that there is a lot of different full pieces of information that are out there which is common in

we're just getting this in from the metropolitan police. burro market. what is the location like sf. >> well, this whole area is right in the heart of not the tourist part of london. not the part that you go visit and see the parliament building and westminster abby. this is the financial part. the northern part where i'm sitting now is the in the city of london. the square mile that houses what would you consider the wall street of london. so this area on the other side of the bridge, the tallest building in london, it is called the shard. that's standing vigil over all of this fracas right now. at the central is burrough market, fancy eateries and food stalls that is very popular with office workers. and there are a lot of office workers. in this neighbor, it is a little like wall street in new york. on a saturday night. you won't have that many people around. it is a working place. it is not a place for tourists and partygoers on a saturday night. it is really just for office workers. so that area, burrough market right at the base of the shard, and r

that is the commissioner of the metropolitan police. and still it has been celebrating his 96 birthday. —— prince phillip. the king's troop royal horse artillery staged a gun salute in his honour in hyde park. he is understood to be spending the day presently at windsor castle. time for the weather. the latest satellite shows a swell of cloud, an area of low pressure. those weather front stressed across the uk, bringing some rain with it. the south—east corner, a lovely afternoon, some sunshine and warmth. that is confirmed by one of our weather watchers. underneath that close, here is a picture from wales. there has been some rain stretching to northern england and into wales. maddening wind will dry up and with patchy rain will go through the midlands. there will be a few showers to be had in scotland and northern ireland. temperatures probably 1a celsius for glasgow and belfast. the south—east, 16 or 17 celsius, quite a close and eight. scattered showers in scotland and northern ireland. 15 degrees in the eastern part of scot

he of the metropolitan police in charge of london, greater london and the city of london police. london bridge is just over the river, but in this case it is very much a metropolitan police lead. the uk's national counterterror unit sits in scotland yard and they will be leading the investigation of they'll be leaving the immediate response. but others feed into that. the intelligence agencies feed into that and they will try to ascertain various things as investigation develops. and so to other bodies when they can. >> thank you. that meeting is due to happen tomorrow. another personal attending is the mayor of london. will speak to our correspondent who has also been monitoring the events and tried to bring us up today. we've had a strongly worded statement from them. >> that's right. in the last three minutes we've had the statement from the mayor of london. says metropolitan police are responding to the horrific terrorist attack at london bridge and borough market. he says that my thoughts are with everyone affected and i would like to thank the brave men and women of our eme

she is still relatively new in the job, now the commissioner of the metropolitan police. let's hear what she told journalists in the last couple of hours. last night we saw another appalling and tragic incident in london. something we hoped we would not see again. obviously my thoughts are with all of those affected. those injured, and the families of those innocent people who died whilst out enjoying a saturday night in our capital. in the early hours of this morning, i visited one of the hospitals where the injured are being treated. there i heard truly remarkable stories of extraordinarily brave actions by officers on and off duty, who were first on the scene. i also heard of collea g u es first on the scene. i also heard of colleagues from other emergency services and members of the public who ran towards the danger as this incident unfolded. many, many people risked their own safety to help others and to treat those seriously injured, and indeed to confront the suspects involved. it's clear to me that the courage of those people during and following the attack was ex

the metropolitan police officers arrested rioters on that day. amy: i also wanted to go to another one, a viewer-client, baltimore resident elizabeth lagesse who traveled to d.c. to peacefully protest the inauguration. >> i peacefully marched the street attending with a group of other demonstrators. i did not engage in any acts of vandalism. the next thing i knew, police were firing pepper spray and tear gas everywhere. they never warned us or told us to disperse. i have seen other protests police use pepper spray so i brought a pair of my old chemistry lab safety goggles to protect my eyes but their irritants burned my face and made me feel like i was choking. i ran away from all the chaos, along with the other protesters but everywhere we turned, intersections were blocked. police eventually chased us into a kind of pen set at the corner of 12 and l where they held us for hours and even pepper sprayed us while we were in the kettle even though we krnt move and weren't doing anything to provoke them. the chemicals made me cough and made the crow

assistant metropolitan police commissioner mark rowley. all at a wee treat this as a terrorist incident and an investigation is already under way. our knowledge of the incident is still growing but at the moment what we understand this follows — at eight minutes past ten last night began to receive reports that a vehicle had struck pedestrians on london bridge. the vehicle continued to drive from london bridge to borough market. the suspects left the vehicle, attempting to stab a number of people including an on duty british transport police officer who was responding. he received serious injuries, fortu nately received serious injuries, fortunately not life—threatening. his family have been informed. officers then responded bravely and quickly and confronted the suspects who were shot and killed in borough market. the suspects had been confronted and shot by police within eight minutes of the first call. the suspects were wearing what looked like an explosive vest that were later established to be hoaxes. the ongoing operation is led

there was an off—duty police officer from the metropolitan police that intervened. he suffered serious injuries. two more police officers from the metropolitan police were injured, one was a plainclothed officer, one in uniform, one had to have stitches. we heard today from a clinician who sums up the response from the emergency services. he was finishing his shift, he was cycling home. then he saw all the police vehicles and ambulances. he thought something big had happened, and made the decision to turn around and cycle back to the hospital to become part of the team that were dealing with so many traumatic injuries. thank you very much simonjones at kings college hospital. some of those stories remind us so much of everything we heard after the manchester attack, two weeks ago, the way in which the medical services and hospital staff generally reacted. and we are hearing is similar stories, the sort of thing simon is talking about there. two weeks later here in central london, and it is of course two weeks to night that attacked in manchester at the concert at th

. >> let me read you something that the metropolitan police just tweeted out. they're instructing people to run, hide, and tell. this tweet says you must first run to a place of safety. this is a better option than to surrender or negotiate. if there's nowhere to go, hide. turn your phone to site and turn off vibe rate. barricade yourself if you can and tell the police by 999 whether it's safe to do so. having that tweet just come out, does that tell you that this is an ongoing situation and police don't know what they're dealing with yet? >> absolutely. and watching the video you just announced and watching how the london police were handling that. when you're in an hostage rescue realm, what you're looking for in a situation like this, a kinetic situation is noncompliance. you're telling everybody get down get down get down get down. the person that's not complying is going to immediately get your attention. the difference in between the wra we handle things in the u.s. in the realm of mass shootings and terrorist incidents, we always instruct folks in the un

the commissioner of the metropolitan police, cressida dick. speaking to the press just a few moments ago. a message that any attack like this on the community cannot succeed, and will not succeed. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, saying there needs to be extra resources for policing in london. certainly no more cuts in policing for london. he was saying they would be extra patrols to reassure the muslim community in particular. in parts of london like tinsley park mosque. we can see their son the flowers from people in tribute to the man he died. whitten injured. —— the man he died. whitten injured. —— the man he died. whitten injured. —— the man who died. one of a number of sites around where it happened last night. flowers being left by members of the community. others who have come from outside. tories left as well. mainly flowers. a message saying standing together, one community. let's get a report of all the developments so far. as we were hearing from the commissioner, one person has died in ten had been injured. it's shortl

we have heard from the metropolitan police confirming also that there have been a number of fatalities and there are others receiving medical care. we understand from the london ambulance service that 50 people have been taken to hospital. it's likely that commander stewart cundy said it will ta ke commander stewart cundy said it will take sometime before the emergency services can establish the cause of the fire, but released a number for the fire, but released a number for the casualty bureau which is 0800 0961 233. this is the numberfor anyone 0961 233. this is the number for anyone who 0961 233. this is the numberfor anyone who is concerned about loved ones, in relation to the fire. this is the number that they should use. 0800 0961 233. it number that they should use. 0800 0961233. it is worth saying this morning, we're hearing some very harrowing stories of those caught up in the fire it's deaf and tim muffett is at one of the centres where they have been helping some of those caught up in the events. tim you've had a chance to speak to some of those who did successfully escape f

specialised firearms officers trained by the metropolitan police in military style firearms tactics, that means they can do things like laying down fire to keep people who have guns, keep their heads down, they are caught counterterrorism specialist firearms officers and they are all over this part of central london ready to move at a moments notice. ic mehmet dalman number of them in the westminster area parked up in recent weeks. —— i've seen a number of. it will be something we will seek to get more on later. as i gave you earlier, the eyewitness i saw who described to me what appeared to bea who described to me what appeared to be a co— water naked attack using knives on the bars in the borough high street area —— co—ordinated. food stalls in borough market surrounded by bars, it's become a popular place to go out in this part of south london, the station is on the other side and at this time of night many people would have been going to the station. plus the car or van driven at people on london bridge itself, just around the corner, to give people an idea of the geo

metropolitan police which are the police force in london. so that's what's going on there. we'll have much more as the news continues to break through. it is still raging. big developments in a story you saw about shooting left six-year-old boy in critical condition. we told you last week that wilmington police arrested a man from minquadel. the delaware attorney general's office says those charges are dropped. police uncovered new evidence. the wilmington police chief says they developed new leads with new suspect. that little boy ovary mapes in critical condition. >>> a local family is hoping social media can work some magic tonight for them. they are trying to find some real super heroes. the family is looking for the people who saved their lives on a rip current pulled them out to sea and our shawnette wilson is live in clementon with this story. man, to hear how this woman talked, shawnette, it was so scary. >> reporter: frightening, luc lucy. you know, tonight they just want to thank the people had saved them they came to us to try and

what we do know that happened according to london's metropolitan police is that there was some kind of a collision involving a vehicle and pedestrians near fensbury park on seven sisters road. we just heard from kimberly dozier and our phil black earlier. this is not a typical big tourist attraction although it is a busy road in a high traffic amendment we don't know who was involved, however ples have confirmed they have made at least one arrest. i want to go back to phil black who is joining us from the london area. phil, what more are you learning? >> reporter: at this stage we are still waiting for further police confirmation about just what this could possibly be because as we've been discussing in a sense that initial description is something that will be concerning to the city given the recent events here that we've been talking about, the recent terror attacks that arenvolved with people using hicles to strike, to run down and kill people deliberately in central london, initially outside westminster, the house of parliament, more recently near london bridge, borough market and

this is what the statement says from london metropolitan police. they going on the say that eight people were injured and taketone three separate hospitals. two people were treated at the scene for minor injuries. they are also saying that at this stage, no reports of any persons having suffered any knife injure i res this is despite various reports on the social media and others anecdotal ally that the we at nbc has not confirmed, but now london police saying that so far, no knife injuries. the driver of the van a man aged 48 found detained by members of the public there on scene. when police got there, they the then arrested that the individual in con nnection with the incident. the statement from london metropolitan police saying that he has been taken to hospital as a precaution, and will be taken into custody once discharged. he wil also be subject to a mental health assessment in due cour. a number of police units are at and managing the cordons around the crime scene. including local officers, and we can see it from the pictures as well as t

amazing work done by the police tonight. >> the metropolitan police have acted responsible all over london, ready to respond 24/7 to this sort of incident. it was remarkable that they got there in that short period of time, very quickly closed the situation down and mad the situation safe. >> we expect to hear from the minister. how does she address this? it does feel a bit like more of the same, i dare say. >> the interesting thing, there have been three similar attacks like this. one was stopped by the police before the police could do any harm because they had information from the family of that individual which actually stopped the event -- any harm being done, you noe know to sto. we've seen that in one of these cases. but, of course, very difficult otherwise to predict what's going to happen. >> and these very low-tech atta attacks, i mean they're so easily done. >> we saw in 2005 with the seventh of july bombings. there was a group of people, a group of friends who got together and decided to plan an attack. that attack in manchester was a much more sophisticated attack using explos

you have the absolute commitment of myself, the metropolitan police and eve ryo ne myself, the metropolitan police and everyone involved that as soon as we can, we will recover those who have died in the grenfell tower. theresa may admits the support forfamilies in the initial hours after the disaster ‘was not good enough', after meeting some of those made homeless by the fire. the queen observes a minute's silence at events to mark her official birthday, in memory of all those who died in the tower and in the recent attacks in manchester and london.

they have given some official metropolitan police information about him now. he is 22 yea rs information about him now. he is 22 years old, from east london, and believed to be an italian national of moroccan descent. his name first came out to the italian media. he was not a police are m15 subject of interest, but it is worth remembering that the italian media believes that he was stopped trying to travel to turkey from bologna airport in 2016 and that the british had been told about that. the police are saying that all three men involved in the attack were confronted by armed police and shot, as we already know. the three men now are all named, youssef zaghba, 22 years old, of italian descent. khuram butt, 27 years old,. the third man is rachid redouane. police are asking for any information about these three men, or where they may have travelled to in recent weeks. police have put out an image now as well of this third man, youssef zaghba, which is on the screen now. man, youssef zaghba, which is on the screen now. this will hopefully help people with tryin

follow the metropolitan police and the london ambulance for details, and the police and the ambulance are getting very few details. only saying there are a number of casualties after a van hit pedestrians in this area. in fact, the london metropolitan police saying it's too early to say if the london collision is a terror incident and that they have one person in custody. and say they believe it was the driver of that vehicle, but we have also been speaking to witnesses and people on the ground there feel very strongly that muslims were targeted by the person who was driving this van. there is a heightened emotion in that area as we heard from phil black. how do they -- how would you say is the best way for them to channel this energy and emotion that they're feeling? >> i think the biggest thing is to wait and let's find out the facts. if you look at social media right now, they are telling everybody what happened. they are making conclusions. they may be right, they may be wrong in the long run. but it is certainly genning up fear. it's irresponsible. but that's what twitter is abou