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Hospital. Just one hospital there. And witnesses who have spoken to cnn partner ctv described seeing people on the ground and victims in body bags. They also described horror at the height of the day. In the middle of the intersection and the van went right into them and plowed right into them. He drove down further and went on to the sidewalk by the next building and he hit more people there. And just kept going. Were told that he may have driven along the sidewalk for half a mile, perhaps a mile. This is believed to be the van involved. A white ryder rental van in a busy part of toronto. Ill play another video now. What you are going to see here shows a standoff very near the scene of this with an individual pointing an object at police and this happened moments after the van plowed into the pedestrians. [ sirens ] get down. Get down. Get down. Get down. To be clear, police have not yet confirmed that is suspect. But youll note he is standing next to the van we showed you earlier which is believed to be the van that had plowed into the pedestrians. Cnn Shimon Prokupecz joins me now. And i understand youve talked to Law Enforcement and been briefed on the incident. What are they telling you . In most of the situations, u. S. Officials get briefed bnd were told by all accounts this is a deliberate act and there was no medical issue with the driver of the van. They believe, at least toronto officials, this was a deliberate act. The question of terrorism on everyones mind. I was told that they were waiting to speak to the driver of the van, the suspect before making any determination to really figure out what the motive is here. So u. S. Officials dont have that yet. Obviously several injured here. Seriously injured. So well probably learn more about that soon when police there hold a press conference. But certainly here police are monitoring it. The feds are monitoring the situation here as well as local Police Departments. Which they normally do in these situations. As we know, u. S. Law enforcement is very close, intelligence sharing relationship with the canadian counterparts there. First things that come to mind as i look at this, reminds me of halloween last year in new york. A rented vehicle driven along a busy pedestrian path. Again it is too early to say what the mo what the the motive or the person involved but those two hallmarks are a pattern that weve seen before. That does fit the pattern where a person gets in a van and then intentionally runs down people and injuring and killing people. That is probably playing into some of what Law Enforcement is thinking about this. Certainly Law Enforcement here remember in Toronto Police are doing the best they can to keep u. S. Officials posted on what the situation is here. But they are in the middle of their own investigation and granted they do have a suspect that is alive and so hopefully they could learn a lot about the motivation here. I want to go now to the scene there in toronto. A reporter for global news toronto camille coremally was on the scene. Tell us what you are seeing now. Still an active scene here. A lot of this major artery in toronto is closed up, taped up. A lot of onlookers wondering what is going on and once they hear it, they are shake e sha because it is a closeknit neighborhood along this stretch of young street north of downtown and a lot of residential buildings and a lot of people wondering how they will get home tonight. We see a lot of Police Officers with big assault rifles guarding along the street because it is still very much active. You could imagine this many police and people hit, it is not going to close down any time soon. Tough to remove any of the bodies and i myself as well as a lot of reporters here have been were on scene early enough to see the bodies themselves. So we know there are multiple casualties here. Cam ill, did you count how many bodies you saw. I myself saw two. But it was a chaotic mess and trying to meet up with my cameraman and because of the chaos and we tried to meet up and once we did we did a body count ourselves and between us we saw at least four. But once again the numbers are not confirmed. Police gave us an initial update when this first happened but they have been quite quiet. I think trying to do a body count and injury count themselves. But they will be giving us an update in the upcoming minutes or hours but still things are not clear. But as of right now, still a lot of fear, a lot of chaos and a big mess just in terms of a lot of questions that are still unanswered along the very, very busy what is usually a busy stretch of toronto. As weve been speaking to you, were seeing aerial footage that shows what appears to be bodies under orange sheets perhaps body bags and another witnesses told us they saw something similar. I just want to ask you, based on what you saw when you arrived at the scene, this vehicle was up on the sidewalk for a stretch. Based on what you saw, did it look to you like a deliberate act . It is tough to tell because there are so many questions. But i will lay out the facts for you that there are three major stretches at least where the van jumped the curb. So there were three pockets where at least there were the van went and up on the curb where there were pedestrians and a stretch of pedestrians that were hit. It seems like it would take a lot of control to be able to climb the curb and then climb back down and then drive along young street south and then climb back on the curb and do it again. So the answer to that only police could tell after a detailed investigation. Possibly after speaking to the suspect. But the van itself, im sure you could see the pictures, they are dense along the front. The van is heavily dented. Likely because of the pedestrians that were struck and just i saw a very clear shot of one of the pedestrians under the blanket that police were pushing people back and it looked like a very, very traumatic impact between the vehicle and the pedestrian. So well just have to find out once the word comes down from police and from this investigation as to what really happened. Camill, thank you very much. Please stick around. Well get up dates. Joined by our pam. I have art roderick in washington. And new information there, art, where this witness saying that the driver appeared to go up on sidewalk multiple times. Early on had they just mounted the sidewalk or the curb once you might say possibility of an accident but multiple times over quite a long stretch. What does that tell you . It tells me more than likely this was clearly on purpose. I mean he meant to do this. Weve heard earlier reports from the Fire Department in toronto that that stretch is at least a half mile to a full mile in length that he drove down not only the road but on the sidewalk when you listen to the witness statements there was also an earlier witness statement from an individual behind him in a vehicle possibly thought he had a heart attack and was trying to speed up to assist him and at that point he saw him go up on the sidewalk. When you look at the arrest scene that we see there, obviously there is no medical condition there. Ive had sources tell me that he didnt have a weapon. That it was very possibly a cell phone and it looked to me like he was attempting a murder by cop suicide by cop scenario. It is remarkable when you look at the video. We havent confirmed an the police have not confirmed that is the suspect. But pointing something at a cop in a situation like that is you might think you have a death wish. Phil mudd, in counterterrorism, and you see driving a rental vann which is an m. O. Weve seen before in new york in halloween last year. Something that certainly was a terror attack. As you piece together this early information and again we should emphasize this is early information, what does it tell you . There are two things it tells me. I won be looking at the van and looking at motive. But there are two clue we have not only one obviously access to the individual who conducted this and to whatever he is saying, but my first concern is imminent threat. Whether we can prove in the next minutes or hours he was acting independently and that nobody else was participating. The information that art was receiving speculative at this point though but the information about a cell phone in his hand my first question is whether the Law Enforcement and intelligence could access that cell phone and whenever that shows he was calling or texting anybody in the minutes or hours before the event. I want to know immediately whether anybody else will do the same thing and then go back and piece together what happened here. That is a great point. Phil mudd and i should remind viewers, we are covering this incident if toronto, we are told by police they will brief us with a press conference sometime this hour. The moment that comes up well take you right there. Juliette chyme, a long history with Homeland Security and i mentioned to shimon there is an intelligence sharing between u. S. And canadian authorities but getting to the point phil raised about imminent threat that major cities are looking at their own protection with regard to attacks like this right now. That is right. Because as phil said, you are constantly worried about copycat or followon. So there is the normal to the extent you could say this is normal, but just the normal interaction of intelligence sharing and see what toronto knows and whether there should be any what you call an uptick in security guidelines for u. S. Cities. And then just going back to toronto, obviously theyre concerned first with that this doesnt happen again or a followup and second the victims. But because the suspect is still alive, that is going to be just an opening for intelligence and in particular, the rental of the van which is rather obvious. But just to find out whether he has any colleagues or anyone helping him. I will say i know were anticipating the Toronto Police, but one thing that we know now is that the police really do have to get out in front of information because were getting these eyewitness accounts and firsthand accounts and so the better use of social media or other instruments to get the information out there calms a city down. So the gap that weve had in information right now, i hope it will be alleviated relatively quickly by toronto. It has been over 90 minutes now. We should hear from them by now. And as i said, we are expecting a press conference shortly from police. Well continue to follow this story. We also have major news out of the white house as the pressure is building on the president and his socalled fixer. Well be right back. Behr premium plus, behr through it all with a toprated paint at a great price. Find it exclusively at the home depot. Liberty mutual saved us almost 800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. Liberty did what . 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More than 20 tweets defending Michael Cohen and hitting james comey and fuming over the russia investigation. Sara sanders insisting firing Robert Mueller isnt on the table. We have no intention of firing the special counsel. Weve been beyond cooperative with them and continuing to cooperate with them and we continue to repeat that we think that the idea that the Trump Campaign was involved in any collusion with russia is a total witch hunt. Our position on that has been very clear since the beginning of this process. Reporter trump also defending his personal attorney Michael Cohen. Tweeting, theyre going out of their way to destroy Michael Cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. They use nonexistent sources an a drunk drugged up loser who hates michael. A fine person with a wonderful family. I dont see michael doing that. The white house not naming the drunk and drugged up loser mentioned by the president but today affirming trumps belie o belief cohen will not turn on him. The president is clear he hasnt done anything wrong and weve stated that about a thousand times and beyond that i dont have anything to add. Reporter but a source familiar in the Trump Legal Team tells cnn the president s lawyers are preparing for all possibilities. The cohen raid led to speculation that trump could pardon his longtime confidant and the white house is still not closing the door on that polt. It is hard to close a door on something that hasnt taken place. I dont like to discuss or comment on hypothetical situations that may or may not ever happen. Reporter the pardon speculation in the wake of trumps pardon of Scooter Libby, and another trump tweet over the weekend that hes considering a full pardon posthumously for boxing champion jack johnson. And as the president seemingly ramped up his twitter use the past weekend were learning that the president is increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to communicate with outside advisers according to advises and speaking to my colleague Sara Westwood weve learned from one white house official that hes using it more frequently and more recently. And this is also seen as a way for the president to get around his own chief of staff, john kelly when kelly first came on board the president used the white house switchboard more frequently although he still did have his personal cell phone and at that time john kelly would then print out a list of who the president was speaking to. Now were told, according to sources, the president is basically trying to get around that using his own cell phone so there is no watchful eye on who he is speaking to. Speaking of watchful eyes, do we have any knowledge of his cell phone being encrypted or expect the conversations could be heard by other watchful eyes or foreign intelligence services. That is the big concern of course when any government officials uses a personal device and foreign governments will listen in and particularly when you are the president of the United States. We reached out to the white house communication in charge of this kind of thing, enabling putting security on the cell phone so it is unclear if that is the case here. We know with president obama that was the case. The president did use a blackberry from time to time and equipped with certain security measures but the fact that the president is using a personal cell phone does raise concerns about security vulnerabilities, jim. Very key question. Pamela brown at the white house. Thanks very much. Joining me now is Jeffrey Toobin and former fbi official phil mudd. So you lips listened to the messages from the white house and the president tweaking and critique of the special counsel saying he was appointed possibly on a illegal basis and the white house said he has no intention of firing Robert Mueller. Phil, who do you believe . I dont think he has an intention of firing. I suspect if you want to read the intent of the United States after 15 months, you butter ask somebody else, jim. But looking at this logically, as a law of unintended consequences. The president got burned by the firing of james comey and then he disappeared from the scene and mueller came on. The avenue president has now that congress will step up or reappoint someone else. The team is brilliant. They wont go anywhere. If you try to go the other route and removing the Rod Rosenstein or the attorney general, whoever the president tries to put in to replace them has to get confirmed by the senate and they couldnt confirm anybody other than they would allow the investigation to continue. If the president doesnt want this goose to be cooked he should have turned the oven off a while ago to shut this down. Lets look at president s tweet over the weekend. He said james comey illegally leaked classified documents to the president to generate a special counsel and misspelled and based on an illegal act and does everybody know what that means. Jeffrey, what is the president implying there . Well, what he is saying is that when james comey took those memos that recounted his conversations with the president and gave them to professor dan richmond at columbia university, that was an illegal leak since he considered and knew that richmond would give that to the press but are notes about a conversation with the president taken by then a private citizen, are those classified . They may or may not be. And in fact when the the administration or congress released those some versions of those memos, some of the portions were blacked out. I think james comey actually is in a pretty vulnerability position here. Just because something is not marked classified doesnt mean that after the fact it couldnt be retroactively designated classifies. I think james comey may have a problem there. The president is wrong however that the leak was what caused the appointment of the special counsel. What caused the appointment of the special counsel was the president firing james comey. That was the key that was the key event which had nothing to do with the president s with comeys leaks. So the president is pushing on a vulnerability of comey but giving a misleading picture of how the events unfolded. On the issue for classification, for clarity, could the president classify retroactively those documents and the question would be did he do so in his own interest . Well the answer is the administration the classification authorities could classify these documents retroactively. Remember, here we have a sort of car ma issue. Hillary clinton, who is james comey bed noir got in trouble because after the fact certain emails that she sent that were not marked as classified were designated as classified. It could be that james comey is getting into the same kind of trouble. I dont know. There is an Inspector General investigation of this among other things just underway. But it is not out of the question that documents and statements that were not originally marked classified could later be designated as classified. So phil mudd, the president is talking about pardons again. This weekend about the deceased boxer jack johnson and read, yes, im considering a full pardon. It was just ten days ago you remember that Scooter Libby was officially pardoned by the president. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabeesanders not refusing the possibility of a pardon for Michael Cohen as well. Is there a wee a way the tweet on johnson and libby is a just a coincidence or do you see that as a precedent to those in trouble. I think the more important is the message that he offered when he spoke with Michael Cohen about a week and a half ago. I would like to know what that conversation is even a benign sentence of dont worry, this is going to be okay and after pardons, how would you interpret that if you are Michael Cohen. I think the story is bigger. If we see a move in the direction of a pardoning of Michael Cohen, what do you think if you are in the special Counsel Office and youre heading maybe toward further indictments of people in the white house, whether it is the president s son or the soninlaw, i think if you are the special counsel you say we better document everything because eventually if anybody else gets pardoned, those documents will go to congress and congress is going to have to determine what to do if the Justice Department cant prosecute anybody because the president pardons them. Jeffrey toobin, sara sanders was asked this morning on why the president was tweeting all of a sudden about jack johnson and here is how she answered. The message about talking about jack johnson and Scooter Libby. That is something on the table for quite sometime. That call took place im trying to remember. It was close to a month ago. So this is something on going. Why tweet about it this weekend. Because were getting close to a second conversation on that front. So Jeffrey Toobin, youre a lawyer, do you see anything interesting or does anything raise questions about the timing of that tweet, the decision on Scooter Libby as the attention on Michael Cohen has gotten more intense . This is always the biggest challenge in Law Enforcement. Which is to determine intent. What was the president s intent . Is it just a coincidence that he pardoned Scooter Libby outside of the normal pardon process in the department of justice, that he pardoned joe arpaio outside of the normal process that he suddenly is talking about jack johnson and with a posthumous pardon, is that a message to Michael Cohen and paul manafort, hang in there, dont worry, the calvary that is a pardon is on the way. It depends on suspicious a turn of mind one has and there is plenty of reason to be suspicious. Perhaps just a side benefit. Fill mudd and jeffy toobin. Breaking news in the deadly waffle house shooting. 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They werent entirely legislatu werent sure if this was him and they brought the Narcotics Team down there and noticed a path and split up and were told by the lieutenant of that team that when they saw him, one of their agents spotted him, the guy just stopped and he went on ground and laid down and they handcuffed him and he wasnt wearing the same thing. He looked nothing like the description that theyve been putting out there from the last time he was spotted nearly 36 hours ago at this point. But they took him into custody arrested him and asked for his lawyer immediately. No comment whatsoever. Just a mile away from the waffle house. Was he armed when the police came across him . Reporter he was. So we talked about before, you remember when he when he allegedly committed this shooting here at the waffle house, he was nude, just wearing a jacket. When he left somebody saw him about half an hour later wearing black pants, upon arrest some of the photos tweeted out by the Metro National Police Department show him in dark jeans and a ripped maroon shirt and in a backpack there was a flashlight and a holster and there was a handgun that was loaded and additional ammunition. It just kind of just puts forth the danger to the community and he stayed close and they dont know what he had been doing for the past 36 hours. They do know they had aerial and canine agents out there searching for him in that exact area the day before. He had a history and arrested at the whou at the the white house a number of weeks ago and his guns taken away but he got them back. How did that happen . Reporter he did get them back. And that handgun was one of the guns that was taken away from him in illinois by authorities there. After the incident at the wouse. He has a long history with sort of the runins with police. Most of them seem to deal with mental health, bizarre in some cases. He thought taylor swift was harassing him and he he boasted to lifeguards and showed up wearing house coats and armed. So he was no stranger to authorities in illinois. They had four weapons. They took them all away. His father told police according to authorities here that he gave them back to him. The ar15 that was taken away from him was used in the crime here behind me. They found the other two long guns in his apartment and that handgun that was loaded in his backpack when Police Arrested him. He got his weapons back after threatening the white house. Incredible. Thank you very much. Tune into Anderson Cooper 360 and the hero who stopped the waffle house shooting joins anderson live. And any moment Toronto Police will give an update of the van that plowed into people that cnn was told was a deliberate act. Well bring that to you live as soon as that begins. We just got married. Were all under one roof now. 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We are very well served and were from the first moment that this became known to the authorities and that i want to assure people that the city is in safe hands at the moment and that theyre continuing with their investigation and the deputy chief will have more to say about that in just a moment. I also want to say that this is a time when the community should come together. Those are not the kind of things that we dont want to happen in a city and nowhere in the world but especially in toronto. But things are as they are. And beyond supporting our First Responders as they continue to do their work and youll hear more about the task in front of them investigating this terrible tragedy, i hope that we will as a city remind ourselves of the fact that we are admired around the world for being inclusive and for being accepting and understanding and considerate and that we are united in standing in solidarity with those who have fallen victim to this terrible tragedy today. Now i have some very practical matters to look at my notes to make sure i dont forget these but i want to convey a number of things to the people of the city of toronto and people in this area. First of all, were asking people who live here or work here, please dont come to the area if you are not already here. The police and the other First Responders have a lot of work to do on a very complicated investigation and it just helps with the task in front of them if people are not in this area. Secondly, weve asked and we are asking that all of the businesses and buildings that are Office Buildings where people work during the day, those people would in an orderly fashion close those businesses for the remainder of the day. And ask people to go home. It is close to the end of the business day for many people in any event but were asking if people will close businesses and were asking for those businesses that are on the east side of young street they use doris for those trying to leave by car or on foot and on the west side that they use bea croft and were trying to keep those away so the police could continue with the investigation and little chance of any disturbance of the scene of this incident as possible. So were asking that to be the case. I have already asked that the City Government building at the square be closed for the day and i think again it was close to the closing time and im hoping those people are leaving that building in an orderly fashion. Were asking that people who are coming home to this area, please do the same thing. If they could use bea croft to the west of young street to get to where they are going, and if they could use doris to the east, that would be very helpful. We have Toronto Police Service Officers and we have as well people from our Transportation Services department here to help with the traffic flow so people could get to where they are going. But obviously people do have to come home. But again, if they dont have to come home for any reason, then again it is easier if they dont come tonight or if they come at a later hour so that not everybody is coming here at one time. With respect to public transportation, as people will know, we have had the subway closed at the north york center station today but the trains have been passing through and passengers are asked to get off at shepherd and the trains go through on to finch and people are not able to get on or off in that work center and the trains are empty between the two stops northbound and were asking people to take that into account in travel plans and if possible use the York University subway line or other means. Because obviously it will be more complicated than normal because we cant offer shuttle buses on the section of young street that is closed and expected to remain closed for some period of time. I would say to people that ive been advised in the briefings that ive been privy to this afternoon that it is likely there will be several days of disruption because there is a Major Investigation and there is going to be taking place here and i hope people will be considerate and understand there likely be will be disruptions to traffic and other things in this area of the city. But as part of pulling together well understand that the sacrifices people have to make in that regard would be reasonable in the context of something terrible as this that has happen and that we have to get to the bottom of as quickly and efficiently as possible. Were in the process of establishing two hotlines, two response lines for people. The first and most important is for the families of those who are worried about loved ones and trying to inquire about the the well being of their loved ones and i dont have the number at this very moment. But theyre in the process of being established as we speak and well have that information for people very shortly. And the second one is one that will be established separately which is for people who can help the police in any way. If people have any information whatsoever about this terrible incident, were asking that they should contact the police through this number that well make available to you at the same time as we make the one available for the families and loved ones of those who may have been affected or those who are concerned about that. And so in introducing deputy peter ewen and it is a time to be as calm as we can be in the city to understand that our First Responders are doing their job, especially the police. I can tell you how impressed i was with the professionalism and the thoroughness of the people in the room we just come from and i hope people wont forget that unit of spirit and calm as we deal with an awful tragedy but nonetheless dealing with it im sure very effectively and i would ask the deputy to brief you from his end and well not take any questions today. Because it is just at a stage where it is too start to get into the kinds of things you want to know about. Deputy. Good afternoon. My name is acting chief peter ewen and im here to relate information to you as to what happened today on yonge street. 1 30 this afternoon Toronto Police received a number of calls from citizens indicating a vehicle was driving on yonge street and striking pedestrians between finch and shepherd avenue. This is what is nobody is known to us, we have located the vehicle and the driver is in custody and been investigated to the events that took place this afternoon. I want to offer my condolences to the families and the victims of this tragic event that took place. We can confirm for you tonight right now we have nine people that are dead. 16 that are injured. Toronto Police Services have mobilized all resources and i could assure all of the public all available resources have been brought in to address the tragic situation and to investigate and i want to assure the public, the rest of the city adequately police and other resources. As the mayor said earlier, well be establishing two hotlines. One is for victims and families to call for the loved ones, the other one is for more importantly for witnesses to call in because this is going to be a complex investigation. So Toronto Police service will be here for a number of days to shut down a busy stretch of toronto but this what is required because this is going to be a long investigation, with multiple witnesses. We have a lot of surveillance cameras and namely at 1 30 this afternoon there were a lot of pedestrians out enjoying a lot of witnesses enjoying the sunny afternoon. So were urging anyone that saw anything, please call crimestoppers or call Toronto Police service and let us know. Those two hotlines numbers will be published very shortly on our website through social media and twitter. So please stay tuned. The chief is on his way back to toronto. Le be addressing the media later on tonight so there will be more information to follow later on tonight. At this stage, i ask the city of toronto, pray for all victims and also to assist the Toronto Police service in bringing this matter to a successful conclusion. As i stated earlier, we have one person in custody and investigation is ongoing. That is all im prepared to say right now. Thank you. Weve just been listening to an update from toronto and we learned that this attack worse than we imagined, police confirming nine people killed. 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Whether its a big thing, small thing, or something unexpected, pnc will be right there when you need us. Because when it comes to your finances, if you focus on today, tomorrow has a way of working itself out. Back now with breaking news. Authorities confirming that nine people have been killed, 16 more injured in a van attack in toronto. Our experts back with me now. Phil mudd, this looks like much worse of an attack and again shows the power of vehicles potentially as weapons. It does. But, boy, the single question i would have now is even when weve seen this rash of vehicles used as weapons over the past years, is there anything you could have done about this. By tomorrow morning we ought to have initial answers to that question. For example the data explosion and the identification, presumably a drivers license and cell phone and interviews with his family and the initial question in addition to what i spoke about earlier, that is imminent threat and were there any signals from the persons past from conversations with family for example that suggested that this was going to happen or was this just one of those tragedies we keep seeing where somebody decided they want to do something evil and there is not much you could do about it. If he didnt speak to anybody. Julia chyme, after the attack on halloween last year in new york, there was talk of putting up more concrete ballards around the city to block attacks like this but you cant bulletproof an entire city from vehicles. No. Look at the distance that were talking about. In fact, the mayor who i thought was really good in this press conference sort of laid out some of the challenges that People Living in toronto will have just because three different potential sites over a mile in a city that has to come back to life tomorrow. You just simply cant close down the cities. And so there are ways to try to minimize the risk, especially in high population pedestrian areas and of course looking at who is renting cars. I will just quickly add that the press conference was interesting. They sort of tried to calm people in toronto. They said there is no further threat. But no discussion of an assailant that they have in custody. So more stay tuned. More later. Again nine people dead and 16 injured and five in critical and we expect hospital authorities to give us more information. Our breaking news continues ahead. We just got married. Were all under one roof now. Congratulations. Thank you. How many kids . My two. His three. 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