will to continue and exist to continue and fight. but they made a mistake. they made a very grave mistake, and the outcome will be the dismantling of hamas. the day hamas committed its terrible murders, it actually doomed the fate of gaza and decided the fate of hamas. any ending image must include clear aspects, one dismantling hamas as a government and military framework organization, and number two, the return of all the hostages to the state of israel. i am fully committed to that. so is the security establishment, the idf is committed to that, and we will carry out this mission of ours. for almost a month, idf forces have been operating inside the gaza strip. they are operating with determination, precision, and lethality. it is achieved through cooperation and combination of ground forces, air forces, and from the sea. everything is accompanied by very precise intel, provided by the intel director and by the isa and other agencies, and we are achieving two very important goals. first of all, we are dismantling hamas as a belligerent combative organization. we are harming their troops, their commanders, their infrastructure above the ground, beneath the ground. every day dozens of items which prove exactly what kind of an organization hamas is, we are capturing terrorists and we interrogate and gain information from them, and in addition to that, as the ground forces, as the idf is maneuvering on the ground, they are bringing closer the conditions that will allow a deal for the release of hostages between us and hamas, and that's very simple reason, and this is exactly why i recommended to the cabinet and glad to say they accepted my recommendation to continue our maneuver into the depth of the gaza. hamas only understands force. >> we have been watching the update out of israel regarding the hostages. good to be with you, i'm katy tur. we are watching the breaking news out of niagara falls and the border crossing. we're going back there in a moment. fist, as you just heard, prime minister benjamin netanyahu addressed his country for the first time since a deal was approved to release hostages. a decision between a hard choice and a harder choice in exchange for 50 women and children, israel has agreed to a four-day cease fire, starting as early as tomorrow. that cease fire could be extended for additional days if more hostages are released. the prime minister said the red cross will be able to visit the remaining hostages and do treatment if necessary, and he vowed the war will continue until hamas is dismantled and eradicated. let's get right now to our reporters. we have raf sanchez who has been covering this for us out of tel aviv. raf, it's good to have you. what do we know about when this deal is going to begin? when the cease fire will begin, and when they expect, israel expects, to get the first tranche of hostages out? >> reporter: our expectation hearing from both hamas and senior israeli official i spoke to a little while ago, this cease fire will begin 10:00 a.m. local time, 3:00 a.m. eastern, and then we expect at some point between a window from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. that the first hostages, we think probably 10 or 12 out of that overall 50 will be handed over to the red cross, straight to the border or south to the egyptian border. around the same time we're expecting israel to begin releasing palestinian women and children being held in israeli jails. they have agreed to release 150 in total in exchange for those 50 hostages. we don't know how many of those 150 are going to be released tomorrow. it's worth noting that prime minister netanyahu in his remarks just now said that he just spoke to president biden. as far as we know, this is the first conversation between the two leaders since the israeli governments approved that deal in the early hours of this morning. local time after a marathon cabinet meeting. we don't yet have any readout from the white house on that call. the prime minister said president biden intervenes directly in negotiations to improve the terms in israel's favor to get more hostages out in exchange for fewer days of cease fire. now, the agreement as you mentioned right now is for a four-day cease fire. so assuming that starts on time, we expect it to go through mondayment there is an option to extend it. israel says it will extend the cease fire by one day, in exchange for additional hostages. that could keep going. they're skeptical, they can see what happens with the initial tranche of 50 hostages. but there is the possibility that 50 could become 60, could become 70. that four days of cease fire could become five days, six days. the israeli government released guidelines to israeli troops about how to deal with these child hostages when they finally come out of gaza. remember, these kids have been, we know, underground for 47 days. they may not have seen the sunlight. they went through unspeakable things on october 7th. one of the guidelines to soldiers is don't pick them up without asking their permission. these kids have had all agency taken away from them. don't pick them up. if they ask about what's going on with their parents, don't tell them, and that will be especially applicable to this 3-year-old american toddler, abigail, who we do expect to come out tomorrow because her parents were killed on october 7th and it's not clear that this little girl knows that yet. kate. >> oh, my gosh, raf. that's so difficult. thank you for walking us through it. let's go now to the president of the u.s. middle east project, daniel levy, an israeli negotiator with the palestinians at taba under prime minister barack in 2021, and oslo b in 1995 under prime minister yitzhak rabin. thanks for being with us. it's hard to come out of what raf just said and to consider what that little girl has been going through and what she will continue to go through. but let's try to keep the big picture here. we're all waiting for this deal to begin. what could still derail it? unfortunately, that's the right question to ask. we're hours away from the beginning of the implementation, the releases, the beginning of the pause. i fear it's not going to be a simple night in gaza either. that there may well be serious israeli strikes as there have been in the last 46 days. tonight, there could be something that upsets the deal. i think during the implementation of the deal, it's going to be very fraught as well. there are a lot of details. both sides are going to have to adhere to those details for us to get through these four days, and then the question is, will we be able to see more of these israelis being held, and duel nationals coming out. will we be able to see more quiet in gaza or are we going to go back to a situation of the pulverizing of gaza, the death and destruction, the death toll, we're looking at these pictures of abigail, and we want to see her, even though she's going to be coming to a very changed home circumstances. her safe. are we going to see the children in gaza safe again after 5,000 apparently being killed during the israeli strikes. unfortunately without a massive effort of the days of a humanitarian pause, without a massive, political, diplomatic effort, we're going to be back to death and destruction after your thanksgiving weekend. that's what we have to avoid. i don't know if it's avoidable. if it's going back, we have to make it as short lived as possible to bring this chapter to a closure. >> if you were president biden having discussions with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on what happens next, where would you begin? the u.s. has been trying to get israel to pull back to lessen the civilian casualties, to extend the pause periods so more humanitarian aid can get through, and according to the reporting in the "new york times," prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been refusing to do that. if you're president biden, what do you say, what can you do to i assert more leverage, and pressure? >> i think you've got a problem. you have packed yourself into somewhat of a corner with the positions you have been taking until now. i think you have to start maneuvering yourself out of that corner. i think you have to really be trying to pin down what is the israeli plan. how can israel offer guarantees that acting in self-defense will no longer mean the mass killing of palestinian civilians and children, especially as israel's war plans move south to where all of the palestinians in gaza are now kettled, are now confined to a much smaller area, and the reassurances cannot be given, and unfortunately the last 40 plus says suggest they will not be given, if they are not given, you have to condition your support and move assertively toward a full cessation of this part of the hostilities where israel is carrying out bombardments. i think you also do two other things, you try and appeal to the fact that by getting some of these prisoners out, you have shown the theory that this can be done, and you try and get the israelis to be focused on getting the rest of their people out, therefore more of these cessations, more days, israel will have to release more prirs prisoners as well, and i think the second thing you do you don't confine the conversation just to netanyahu which i imagine is what is happening. you begin a cross section of those in the israeli leadership. netanyahu is incredibly unpopular right now, and it may well be that the only way out of this is that netanyahu is no longer prime minister. that's not america's job, but if you're talking to different factors inside the israeli system, you're testing the waters on who stands where on that question. >> that's what i was going to ask next, is that benny ganz, could he take netanyahu's place. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. new details on the explosion at niagara falls, what the video is showing us about what happened. is showing us about what happened liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. oh. 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day of the year. joining us now, nbc news investigative correspondent, tom winter who's following the story for us, and tom, i just want to caution everybody out there to take a breath. we still don't know exactly what happened, and law enforcement officials are still obviously trying to get a handle on this. i also understand there's some video of the actual collision. we're going to play that for you, once we're able to get it online on our air waves. tell us what you're able to confirm at this moment. >> sure, you laid it out very well there. the video is going to show, we are told and, again, it should just kind of getting through the computer server, but once it does, it will show a vehicle traveling at an extremely high rate of speed, as you mentioned, hitting a median, and i believe this is video of it now. yes, it is, you can see it go airborne there, and then it crashes into the secondary screening area and explodes. right there, you see the video go airborne, that's how fast it was going. it hit a median, and then it crashes into a cvp, customs and border protection, secondary screening facility and explodes. this video obtained by nbc news, and all the reporting i'm bringing to you is from my colleague, jonathan dienst. you see this moment where the vehicle goes airborne, and later you see the video we've shown first, which is of course the aftermath, traveling at a high rate of speed, and in fire this occurred afterwards, obviously the occupants of that vehicle were told there were at least two, are deceased at this time. we do not have their names. we don't have any sort of information, and we are piecing together a series of events. it appears this incident started on a local street, that's where it was a local street on the u.s. side of the border, to be clear. hits the median, goes airborne as you saw, and we have the after math video of the fire we saw just seconds ago. that's the sequence of events. it was not a vehicle coming from canada. was not a vehicle that crossed the bridge but as you mentioned, several of the bridges are closed, as a precaution, in that area, between the united states and the u.s. as far as the question that everybody wants to know, is this a tragic accident, was it somebody that had a medical condition, were they fleeing local law enforcement, no indication of that, tied to something more on the local side or was this an intentional act, and if it was an intentional act, what is the motive, what is behind this, and is it, in fact, terrorism. it's just too soon to say, according to at least four law enforcement officials that have been briefed, contacted, people involved in the investigation, in that part of the country. folks that we have relied on over the years for a number of these major stories to give us clear and accurate information and to not get ahead of where the evidence actually is and what's developed. we've seen some unconfirmed photos and our folks are in the process of getting those, katy, of once this fire was put out, if those photos are, in fact, legitimate, it's just pieces at that point. i mean, there is not a whole lot that's there. but i think the important thing for folks to know is that the initial investigation has determined so far that there wasn't an explosive device, was not an explosive device in that vehicle. there's no evidence of that so far. there's no evidence of additional explosion. there's just evidence of a car flying through the air. incredible video, and two people now dead as we're looking out there on screen. >> these stories, when they break, obviously get everyone's spider sense, but they, you know, take a breath and wait to see what happens, obviously law enforcement officials are working really hard to figure out what preceded the event that we saw on that video. tom winter, thank you very much. and joining us now, nbc news national security analyst, and former fbi special agent clint watts, and again, clint in these moments of uncertainty, where we all start to get worried, considering the heightened environment that we are currently living in, tell me what law enforcement is doing to nail down the specifics? >> they do have a vehicle, and probably a license plate vin number. they have a lot of video footage of this incident. they would be narrowing down what the circumstances were around it. as tom noted, it was also on the u.s. side. there could be other evidence or other information around this vehicle and why it was traveling at such a high rate of speed close to the border. when you look back over the last feyears, we have had several incidents like this where it smells of some sort of terrorism situation, which we've seen over the last 20 years, but turns out not to be. you might remember the uneituation of a car flowing through a parade in wisconsin, which had no relationship to any sort of terrorism, and even the 2020 explosion in nashville which ended up having no real ideological motivation. they're going to be trying to parse out why these two individuals who died in this car were traveling at such a high rate of speed. why they were near the border. was that a coincidence or deliberate, and why would they crash in such a way. this would all tie back to motive. they want to make sure the motive is there. it is a holiday weekend. we have the israel-hamas war going on, where there have been calls for jihad and international terrorism so they're going to try and parse those out and arrive at some motive to explain why this incident happened. >> this is the busiest holiday travel day of the year, the border crossings are busy. there are four of them which are shut. what's your expectation for how long security officials will be, you know, willing to keep them shut before they feel comfortable reopening the crossings. >> katy, they'll have to remove all sort of threats that might relate to some sort of larger terrorist incident. something related to the border crossing between the two countries. they may be able to do that quickly based on the identities or some circumstantial evidence we don't yet. if there was a reason they were traveling near the border, they might be able to narrow it down, and feel more confident of the reducing of the security posture. if they could do that, a quick return in terms of transit to and from. if they go through the evidence and see connections, everything from communications, to some sort of statements made on social media, to something that was said in relatives to the incident, they'll be looking for connections to other individuals, something about the motive that would speak to a larger broader motivation of the group or idea. that could take many hours to arrive at that or could happen very quickly. >> and they're looking into it. again, this car as you see in this video was travelingn't u.s. side, toward the canadian border on a local street as tom winter reported before it hit a median, and became airborne and crashed into the screening area inside the check point. so unclear if they were even headed toward the check point. they were initially on a local street. clint watts, thank you very much for joining us. >> and coming up, we're learning more, thanks to new video from the explosion at the bridge. we're going to bring the latest later in the hour, and also get to other news. don't go anywhere. t go anywhere. we're still going for that nice catch. we're still going for that sweet shot. and with higher stroke risk from afib not caused by a heart valve problem, we're going for a better treatment than warfarin. eliquis. eliquis reduces stroke risk. and has less major bleeding. over 97% of eliquis patients did not experience a stroke. don't stop taking eliquis without talking to your doctor as this may increase your risk of stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal bleeding. don't take eliquis if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. while taking, you may 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a high rate of speed into this check point. tom winter and jonathan dienst reported that no evidence of a car bomb was found. there was a lot of concern about the huge plume of fire and smoke that was seen emanating from that explosion. no car bomb doesn't mean that this wasn't intentional. it also could have been an accident. law enforcement officials tell me that's what they are investigating right now, and they're being very cautious and conservative and not using the word terrorism to attach to this, and it's being investigated to determine if there was terrorist motive, katy. >> it's being investigated right now. ken, when you talk to your sources, i know you've been talking to them nonstop since obviously constantly, especially since the israel-hamas war broke out. how nervous are they about something happening here, and when something like this happens, i imagine that everybody tenses up? >> you are correct, you put your finger on it. we are at a heightened state of terrorism threat. that's according to fbi director christopher wray and other intelligence officials. they have been very clear about that. they say the threat is as high as it's been in many years with foreign terror groups calling for americans inside america, sympathetic to their cause to attack in place, and there's a lot of concern that it only takes a handful or single radicalized individual to heed that call to cause a lot of damage, and whatever happened with this incident, there will be a lot of questions asked about how a vehicle was able to mount this attack. were there not barriers, speed bumps, what if this had been a car bomb, the implications are extraordinary, so there will be a lot of scrutiny about security measures at the northern border check points, but you're right, the reason that the fbi swooped in and joint terrorism task forces were activated, there's a grave concern about the potential for a terrorist attack because of the israel, hamas conflict. >> we don't know if it was an attack. we're trying to figure out if it was intentional or an accident. ken dilanian, thank you very much for joining us. joining us now, msnbc law enforcement analyst and retired seattle police chief, carmen bess, do you have experience in these experiences? >> there are a lot of unanswered questions. we had a vehicle, a high rate of speed on the bridge, run into people and kill them, and occupants were determined to be under the influence of drugs, so we don't know if this is something like that, some intentional act. it looks like at least early on it doesn't appear to be coordinated. too soon to have a definitive answer. so we're just trying to, as we pull together all the evidence and information, we know that it doesn't appear to an explosive on the car, the vehicle went at a high rate of speed. unclear if the target was at the facility or not. there's a lot of things they're still going to be looking at. certainly we have seen something like this where drugs were involved. >> in a situation like this. there was no explosive on board, going from the u.s. to canada, which is maybe unexpected, when you are looking at that, how do you start to discern motive? >> well, you know, the fact that there was a high rate of speed certainly looks like they were intentionally going fast for some reason. you won't know for sure until they ferret together all of the information, that is identifying who the occupants of the vehicle were, any potential motive they may have, in terms of groups they may belong to, look at their computers, see a chat or anything like that, believe this is a coordinated event or they had some ideology that would lead them to do this. we know that in this current heightened state of turmoil and political awareness, anything is possible. they're looking at all possibilities of what could contribute to this. >> when you have an event like this happen. if it is intentional, there's worry that it could be a distraction for something else that might be coming. how does law enforcement react in that situation. what do they do in order to make sure that they have not too many of their resources focused on one place? >> yeah, for example, tomorrow is the macy's day parade. i can assure you that the nypd, while focused on this is going to make sure they have extra precautions for the large events that they're having in the city, and elsewhere across the country. so everybody will be highly cautious, extra vigilant, paying attention at the airport, traffic routes, parades, events that make sure they can keep people safe. obviously there can be a connection or copy cat people who try to attempt to do some harm. >> this is the stuff that's going on in the background, but again, we don't know the intention behind this. we don't know if it was an accident or somebody speeding and running into that barrier, and then flying into the air and into the border check point on purpose. that's still being investigated right now. take a 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>> there's a few things. one, the pressure inside of gaza, and what i mean by that is anyone who wants to try to sabotage this for their own individual gain, and most importantly, hamas not being able to deliver all of the hostages that it is thousand committed to deliver. >> and there's been no proof of life so far on any of these hostages or the majority of them. >> there hasn't been proof of life that we know of that have been given to third party, the international community of the red cross, that's something israel has been asking for, to allow the icrc to visit these hostages to see firsthand what their conditions are, and we understand that that will be a part of the truce. it has been a hard part. hamas has been saying they have not been able to consolidate the hostages so they can hand them out or deliver them to the israeli side. >> how hard has communication been between members of hamas? i know the leadership has had a harder time getting ahold of them because the individual hamas militants are in gaza, and communications are difficult, but what about from within gaza? >> i think it's extremely difficult, and there's a few reasons for that. one, the communication, as you mentioned between the political exiled group and the military wing inside happens very, i would say, i don't know the frequency of when it's happening to be quite honest but it's not happening as easily as we think it would, and that has been confirmed by those that have been involved in the negotiations saying that sometimes they would make an offer but then they would have to wait for hamas to reply based on when they can get an answer from the military wing. inside gaza, it's much harder. we don't have a lot of insight as to how hamas communicates and how sophisticated their communication is. if you see the level of destruction in the northern part of gaza which is where hamas had been headquartered, you get a sense of how disruptive that must have been to their operations. hamas has been clear in the negotiations, saying we need time and we need a cessation of hostilities so we can go out and figure out where all the remaining hostages are that are not under our control. they have been telling mediators that they do not have all of the 200 plus. >> islamic jihad has some. >> islamic jihad has some, and they are claiming that some palestinians who went into israel during the breach on october 8th during the attack. >> terrorist groups that are smaller that are not known. individual gangs, criminals that wanted to avenge. the border had been breached for eight hours. they are saying, we weren't inside israel the whole time, we were back in after a few hours. obviously the israelis are putting all the blame on hamas, saying all of these hostages, they are your responsibility. if you're going to negotiate and expect us to give a truce or a cease fire, we expect you to deliver all the hostages, and hamas has been saying, well f you suspended surveillance flights, pause the military operations for six hours, we can work on trying to consolidate hostages, which is why the surveillance, the suspension of drones was a major demand. >> a third of gaza has been wiped out, the northern part of gaza, 2/3 of the country has had to move. there have been thousands of deaths. the israelis have shown tunnels under al shifa hospital. there's cctv footage of hostages being taken into al shifa according to the israelis. how does hamas feel they are doing in this war? do they feel like they are winning the war? do they feel like they are in a good position? do they feel like they will survive as the leadership of gaza or whatever comes after it once this is over? >> i'll start with the last question first because that's the thing that they have spoken so clearly about, which is hamas as an organization is not going anywhere. they have been clear about that, they have the ability to replenish themselves and kind of reemerge from this destruction. they see themselves as an ideological movement. the name hamas literally is movement, an islamic resistance movement. it's not about destroying the organization, there will be a resistance to what israel does. in terms of how they view what happened so far, you get a sense from the statements they are saying publicly, that are being released and the statements that they're saying, that they're calling on the palestinian people to remain steadfast and victory will be promised to them, and delivered to them. >> do you think they have the palestinian people on their side still? >> from the conversations i have had with people inside hamas, and outside, i think they were surprised by what happened on october 7th and the reaction that has now happened by the israelis. right? i think nobody expected this within the movement the israeli reaction would be as devastated as it has been, just over the course of the past seven weeks. you heard that in the comments, on october 7th, hamas doomed gaza. they signed the fate of gaza to this destruction. so i don't think that hamas has really assessed what has happened yet. i still think they're living in the moment, and it's a conversation that will be had, if and when this war does come to a conclusion at some point about just the level of destruction that it has brought on to the palestinian people. >> one of the nagging questions is how do you start negotiating for a sustained peace when the other side is not -- there's not a head of state. there's not a unifying leader of the palestinian people. it's not mahmoud abbas, certainly not hamas. is there a figure within -- among the palestinian people that could come out of this that could speak for the palestinians if there were to be a negotiation for a two-state solution? >> we have heard those questions in the past because people have been raising them, and one of the obstacles is israel. israel has not wanted to allow for elections to happen because they don't want palestinians in east jerusalem to vote, and the palestinian authority and hamas have said if we are not allowed to hold elections to unify the palestinian body into one single cohesive organization, we're not going to allow for elections. to your point, hamas and the palestinian authority have tried to have national reconciliation. they have had several agreements in the past since 2007 in which hamas took over gaza to say, look, we don't want to be the governing body of the palestinian people. we are resistance movement. we have the plo which is the official organization that deals with israel on issues of peace for the palestinian people. but you have weakened that organization. you have not allowed for us to have elections. you have not allowed for them to have their own strength in the west bank, and so by undermining them, you have left no choice. but the presence of palestinian figures and political leaders, there's no shortage of them. in order to unite the palestinian people, that would require the israelis in the international community to say fine, let's have elections, palestinians will be allowed to vote in the elections and the palestinians in the west bank will be allowed to campaign in gaza. which israel has not allowed to happen for years. they don't allow free movement of people from the west bank and gaza and vice versa. >> and netanyahu has been criticized for trying to tear down abbas to prop up hamas to keep a two-state solution from becoming a reality. thanks for being with us, tal, i'm glad to have you back. what's the mood like in israel on the eve of hopefully a tranche of 50 hostages being released? >> yes, the mood is very very tense. you know, so many families are waiting for their loved ones. 40 kids. we heard tonight that 30 out of the 40 kids are located and the rest of the 10, the families of the ten other kids might wait until hamas will be able to locate those kids because they were kidnapped by other terror organizations and private citizens in gaza that took them from their houses at gunpoint. also, other than the women and kid, babies that will be released, israel has more around 180 people in there. so some fathers, some young people, some men will not be released only because they are men. so it's not easy. i mean, you feel like the world is just, you know, it's all going apart, when you are, you know, sending some of the people in, those fathers and young people who were in the music festivals. there were civilians, they were not soldiers, but yet they're not going to be released according to the hamas deal. >> yeah, their argument is that everybody has to serve in israel, and when you're of serving age, you're a soldier regardless of whether or not you are in uniform or not. i'm not making a justification for that argument. i'm just putting it out there. let me ask you about netanyahu. what's the support level like for him and his leadership right now? >> it's very low. it doesn't have support. we do see some extreme factions in government, factions that he brought in to power. those extreme ministers, few of them voted against the deal because they're thinking that israel should continue with the fighting and even when the release will be postponed, i think netanyahu has, you know, so many problems at the moment with the israeli public, yet, this is wartime, so even with this atmosphere of not supporting him and being frustrated with him, people are more focusing about the war and about those kids and families that were kidnapped than about politics. i have to tell you, politics is not a major issue at the moment. it's more about, you know, how fast can they bring them. will the release be managed okay because as we know, in the past, you know, we have a long history with hamas, during cease fires or pauses, they usually bridge them, and, you know, they kidnap soldiers during past, they kidnapped him during a cease fire. there is a huge tense for tomorrow because we also know that probably just an hour before the cease fire enters or truce enters, there will probably be heavy bombardments. i don't know if you're aware of that, but the entire israeli population is under bombardments every day, so, i mean, with this cease fire or truce entering, we don't know what's going to happen with all of those rockets that we are being shot at. >> the petitions potentially to stop this deal from going through, has the israeli supreme court taken up any of them? >> there was just one of them, and it was denied in a couple of hours. there is a long history of those petitions and petitions and the supreme court went by precedence where they usually don't put their foot down in manners of, you know, national securities such as that. so at 10:00 a.m. in the morning, this is around 12 hours from now, maybe -- it's already nine hours from now, there will be maybe a stop of the fighting. there is a huge concern with respect to attacks on israeli soldiers, while the truce is on. and if soldiers would threatened at the gunpoint or with missiles, according to the agreement, they may answer with fire. but israel has said, and we just had a press conference with the leader, they said that they will not initiate, and they will not bridge it from their own side. they're hoping no bridge from the other side. >> tal schneider, tal, we're all holding our breath and hoping this goes through. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. let's go back to the other breaking news story, the explosion at the rainbow bridge between u.s. and canada. a car crashed into a checkpoint at a very high rate of speed, hit a median, flew over the median and hit the checkpoint going into canada on the u.s. side of the bridge. it then caught fire and exploded. back with us now is nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter who is following that explosion. so tom, have you been able to learn anything new in the last 30 minutes? >> right, katy. so the most important thing i think from the onset of this incident, and remains the most important question at this time is whether or not this incident was intentional, whether it was part of an accident or something unrelated to the border, whether it was somebody trying to flee police. was it a stolen car? was it somebody having a medical episode? i can think of all sorts of permutations. but you saw kind of the precipitating incident, this vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. and right here it goes airborne, and then apparently crashes into this customs and border protection facility. and after that, there is a fire, and the gas tank explodes or catches fire after that point. two occupants of the vehicle, and you're look at the aftermath now, two occupants of that vehicle are dead. this incident happened just before 12:15 eastern time today. and so right now, investigators are obviously quickly trying to understand, was this an intentional act, and if so why? and to make sure that nobody else is potentially involved in it. and now you're looking at some images, i was referring to you earlier, just the fact that this car is completely in shambles, and is just pieces that are left over. you're looking at what it crashed into there, and the remnants of the fire. so these are images that we saw earlier and the remnants of it. i think it's important for people know that according to four senior law enforcement officials to myself and colleague jonathan dienst, there is no indication that there was an explosive in this vehicle or any sort of secondary device. so i think it's important to know that that's what they've learned so far. and obviously, you can see the car is in pieces. so the most important question when we first came on air approximately two hours ago here on msnbc, is why did this happen? and was it accidental? was it intentional. and if intentional, is there any sort of nexus to terrorism? and we're saying that, of course, because the nypd has just said in a statement, as the new york city's mayor said in a statement, the fbi director earlier in the week, as you well know, katy, we're in a heightened threat environment, given what's been going on and what you've been just talking about, israel and hamas in the middle east. so we'll continue to report on this and follow it. obviously, if we get anything as far as why this happened, we'll get right back on with you right away. >> okay, tom. let me just before you go, play a little bit of the witness sound to this crash. this is a guy named mike gunther who saw it happen. >> we were walking up the road, and we seen this car coming down towards the border, and he was flying, over 100 miles an hour. there was a car in front of him. he swerved out, went in front of the car, hit the fence, went flying up into the air. i think there was an elevation part. he went up into the air, and we just seen the fireball, and that's all we could see. it was covered in smoke everywhere. >> so the car was coming from the u.s. into canada? >> yes, it was going towards canada, yes. i've never seen anything like this. it was just incredible. the fire was so high up in the air. i just -- my only concern is i hope nobody else got hurt, because if anybody was in that way, i don't think they would have survived. >> and our colleague ken dilanian reports that there was a customs officer who was also injured. but they're expected to be okay. tom winter, tom, thank you very much. and don't go anywhere, because we will be right back. so caramel swirl is always there for the taking. the new subway mvp rewards earns you points for every order. this mvp uses it for free subs. you can use your points for anything. like free cookies. whoa, peyton. what — i'm not playing anymore. join now and get a free cookie when you buy a sub. as the world keeps moving, help prevent covid-19 from breaking your momentum. you may have already been vaccinated against the flu, but don't forget this season's updated covid-19 shot too. have fun, sis! ♪♪ can't stop adding stuff to your cart? 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"deadline: white house" starts right now. hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i'm alicia menendez in for nicolle wallace. we start with breaking news this afternoon. two people are dead after a vehicle crashed and exploded at the border between the united states and canada in niagara falls. the very top of this video, you can see a car that appears to be traveling at high speed. it launches into the air and disappears off screen. accordinto