Announcer news4 at 4 00 begins with breaking news. And that breaking news involves reports just coming into us that multiple people are dead following an incident near the World Trade Center memorial. News4s Scott Macfarlane monitoring developments for us at the live desk. Whats the latest . Reports are thin right now. There is gun fire and vehicle accidents blocks away World Trade Center memorial site. New York City Police, the n. Y. P. D. And medics are surrounding the area. We have reports initially of vehicle crashes, possibly including large box trucks and a school bus and the first images from the scene show the damaged school bus. They also show crowds that have gathered in Lower Manhattan. One person is in custody according to nbc news. It is also unclear from whom the gun fire emanated. Was it police or was it this individual who is in custody . There are some graphic images we are not going to show you. They are making their way through social media. We dont want to show you something you dont want to see. The police tape and the crowd of new york police to give you an indication of the severity of the situation. New york city mayor bill de blasio dwroe is en route to the scene. Anybody that steps foot in manhattan knows its a crowded area. 4 00 p. M. In the afternoon especially where a halloween parade is to or two. Multiple people dead, at least two, several hurt in a shooting and or vehicle accident in Lower Manhattan. They are expecting reports and an update from the police or mayor in just moments. So we ask you to stay here. New updates from Lower Manhattan. Until we get them, back to you. Thank you, scott. Now we turn to a story that youll see only here on news 4. His heart is broken, but his body is mending. A local teenager critically injured in an awful crash that took the life of his mother when a converted bus slammed into their car on Evergreen Mills road last month. This afternoon we are hearing from him for the first time. Northern Virginia Bureau chief julie carey has the latest from the hospital. Julie . Reporter hi, pat. We came here to follow Ralph Northam on a hospital visit and we ended up in a room on the eighth floor where ben caplan is spending his 54th day after being flown here in extremely september. But his progress, his improvement remarkable to see, so much so that later today he will be heading out those doors and on to a Rehab Facility for the next steps. Happy halloween. Reporter when Ralph Northam entered this hospital room, he didnt know what brought 17yearold ben caplan here. Mind me asking why youre here in the hospital . So, a man crashed into our car when my mom was driving me to work. Im sorry. I lost my mom. Im so sorry. Reporter this was a horrible scene on september 8 when a man driving a bus converted into a food truck ran a stop sign and slammed into the caplans vehicle. Aaron caplan was killed. Ben, his two Little Sisters and his grandma also badly hurt. Only ben remains in the hospital. When i asked how hes doing, this was his answer. Its been tough. I have a broken heart over the loss of gets a little better and i couldnt do it without my grandma. Reporter the community has embraced the caplan family, raising tens of thousands of dollars to help with medical costs. Bens sisters were at this recent volleyball game fundraiser. And in spite of the pain and loss hes endured, ben is grateful. Oh, its meant the world to me. The man who hit our car, he taught me about the evil in the world, but seeing all these kind actions has really taught me that the world can be very nice, too. Reporter pretty touching words. Now, no charges have been filed yet in connection with that fatal accident. The investigation continues. Ben was also happy to hear from us that safety improvements are being made right now by vdot out on that stretch of road where his mom was killed, coming up on news 4 at 5 00 well show you the work going on there. Back to you now in the studio. All right, julie carey. Going to return now to our breaking news. Reports t york that several people are dead after an incident near the World Trade Center. Thats right. News 4s Scott Macfarlane has more developments for us right now. Is that the worldst scott . Yes, we expect a news briefing. The situation we confirmed includes multiple deaths which means at least two and several injuries in Lower Manhattan began initially with reports of gun fire, gun fire just a short distance away from that area which is a few blocks from the World Trade Center memorial site. But it becomes clear now that the injuries that were connected with that gun fire might have actually been from a vehicle accident. There were reports of a box truck going the wrong way down a bike path in that part of new york city and people being injured by being plowed over by the box truck. We are also told from our new york city affiliate wnbc the box truck may have collided with a home depot truck. There was a school bus damaged in this collision of vehicles from the images we saw from wnbc and nbc news as well. Multiple vehicles, you see t be the bike path in question. A vehicle going the wrong way down a bike path. May be responsible for at least some of these injuries and deaths, but there also still are reports of gun fire. Social media images show more graphic picture than the one youre seeing, but these images show you the damage of the bikes that might have been connected to all these injuries and some of these deaths. There are reports of gun fire and reports of vehicle accidents that mako inside. There is a huge Law Enforcement presence there. There was initially from the new York City Police department. Always a potential that the police had returned fire against one of the vehicles involved. So, as we await the new York Police Department briefing and the mayor bill de blasios arrival on the scene, we have questions about whether the injuries connected to the vehicles or to the gun fire. These images here are from a few minutes ago. This is not a live picture. New York City Police are at this point pushing the cameras away from the scene. Cameras, as you can tell, got pretty close to where the action was here and ultimately police want to clear that scene and build a perhaps quite a few injuries, quite a few deaths. So, the latest reporting from nbc news is that there are multiple deaths, at least two, and many injuries, several injuries at the scene of this incident in Lower Manhattan. Again, for those of you who know Lower Manhattan, they know it to always be quite a busy area. But especially busy on a tuesday afternoon as so many workers get out of work, as so many tourists crowd the area, as people just go about being in manhattan. There is an aerial view from our new york city affiliate, wnbc. Get a sense of how far police have blocked off now. This would be heavily traveled roads this time of day and there are some vehicles there, but not a lot of movement. New York Police Department has a heavy presence in Lower Manhattan. They have a police precinct. They are on the scene at what seems to be a major incident. Let me gather my wits and toss it back to you for a moment. You are welchith there in Lower Manhattan on a day where there probably would be a lot of people out considering this is a holiday. A truck allegedly driving the wrong way down that bike path. Now you are looking here at a chopper shot. Cant not familiar with the Lower Manhattan area so i cant tell you for sure what road were looking at here. But as you can see there is a substantial Police Presence there. It a appears they have the road blocked off there. Officers walking the area looking for more evidence. There is no talk now of there being any other threats in the area. We are waiting for a special report from nbc news about this. You are watching live coverage as this story breaks just into us again, several people dead, several reportedly injured after this accident in Lower Manhattan. An incident, rather. A box truck apparently involved. The driver reportedly mowing down several people on the street, according to nbc york in manhattan, at least one of them dead, several people dead. We believe the driver may be in custody. Lets go to the special report. All right, Savannah Guthrie thank you very much. Fire fighters making their way down the bike path. We dont know at what point this person jumped onto the bike lane how far he traveled. We did see Police Activity as far north as Greenwich Village, which would be a quarter to a half mile from the scene where this came to an end. We dont know if it started there or if that is the staging point. We also dont know the motivation. We know, of course, over the last several years that vehicles have been a weapon of choice in terror related attacks. No one has characterized this somebody perhaps fleeing a crime. We dont know. Were waiting for a statement. All our minds obviously going to the same place, but we simply dont know right now. So, well ask you to bear with us as we try to get as many answers as we can. Tom costello is watching and monitoring all this. What do you have to add, tom . Reporter well, ive actually gone back and looked at recently how weve seen these types of incidents. We dont know if this is terror or a criminal act. Weve seen this in nice in the last year and a half, in london, in sydney, australia gentlem, i square. We had one person killed in an incident. In barcelona, germany, stockholm, israel, charlottesville of course when that woman was run over by an alleged white supremacists. There have been a lot of these lowtech, if you will, attacks on individuals really just innocent citizens in the last year and a half to two years. And there is some reporting this afrn act, that this home depot truck may have been rented. The suspect, for whatever reason, was armed with a fake weapon, either a bb gun or paint ball type weapon when he chose to drive his vehicle, were told, the wrong way down a bike path. It would appear that all of the injuries and perhaps all of the deaths are associated with that truck running down the bike path. And we can also tell you that now the Fbi Joint Terrorism Task force has joined the n. Y. P. D. On looking into what exactly has happened in Lower Manhattan in the tribeca area and whether in fact it is terror related. Lester . All right, tom costello with that. We noted they have taken steps to protect against truck attacks in many parts of new york, primarily large tourist areas. Times square, where a car plowed into a crowd several months ago as one of the places where they have added these big concrete blocks. These Critical Response comma armor and heavy weapons often patrol in these areas on the look out for just this sort of thing. But as they note, even at 1500 officers, they cant be every place. In this case police were close enough, though, to engage the suspect after he apparently ran into something or another vehicle there, a little bit farther down this path. But not before running down several people. And again, six confirmed dead according to wnbc. 15 injured. This is the beginning of the rush hour in new york city. This is a time that path would normally be quite crowded with commuters. Again, new york city has a very robust Bike Sharing Program that has attracted a lot of people, not only locals, but also tourists. And it would be quite crowded on a nice fall day like this. Were going to pause here for just a moment as stations join us, others leave us. All right, we are back on with you here as we cross the bottom of the hour for stations just joining us. This is nbc news continuing coverage of an incident in Lower Manhattan, new york city, where a vehicle has apparently run over a number of people on a protected bike path area. Wnbc, our station in new york city, is reporting six dead, 15 injured. There is a shot from above the scene here, west side highway is about a sixlane highway. There is a picture that doesnt require any description there. You see some of the of what has happened. There is a school bus. We dont know if that vehicle was struck or not. We havent heard anything about a school bus being struck, but it stopped there in the middle of the intersection. Crowds gathering. Elementary school, a large high school. Tlts the Manhattan Community college. This is the view along the path here. These are still shots here. Again, looking at the bike path, the emergency vehicles on it. There is the Center Divider of the west side highway. The suspect reportedly, after striking another vehicle, left his vehicle and produced what appear to be a lethal weapon. The early reports are it might have been a paint ball gun or bb gun. Police responded with gun fire. The suspect was taken into custody and taken to a hospital. As we look at these aerial views now of the west side highway in new york city. We have not gotten an official Police Statement or a briefing. We do expect one at some point. We know the mayor made his way to the scene, mayor de blasio. So, we would expect some kind of briefing, but this may be a case where the crime scene extends for quite a di this is a looking, again, Battery Park City area and between those buildings is roughly where the point of impact was as this vehicle hit another vehicle and the driver exited and was engaged by police. Our Savannah Guthrie remains on the scene. She is joining us by telephone. Savannah, what more can you tell us . Reporter i just saw an officer from n. Y. P. D. Who said there would be a briefing at headquarters at 5 15 eastern time. So, that was just one person telling shouting in front of us reporters who gathered here on the corner. You hear the helicopter still very much in antive scene. You know, a lot of people this is my neighborhood, lester, so, im getting a lot of emails and texts from friends who live in this area. One friend saying that shes right at 400 shes pretty much on the same block, not being permitted to leave her building. Police seem to be checking out a suspicious vehicle that was the rumor inside her building. And kids go to school right here at ps89, a middle school and elementary school. A lot of kids heard the gunshots and started running. A lot of them are worried, obviously, wonder if its kids that may have been caught up in this. We dont know that, of course. And as you mention, bill de blasio, the mayor of new york city is on his way if not here already. We heard word Governor Cuomo was on his way. Right now we have just a crowd of people standing on the corner. In fact, i see one right now trying to walk toward the scene and being told to stay back rather vehemently by one of the n. Y. P. D. Officers right here on the scene. Another ambulance heading there excuse me, another police van headed right now. Thats the situation here right now. I mean, just at a moment when schools are letting out, really near the downtown area where the courthouse, all of major thoroughfare in manhattan, schools letting out, trick or treating. This is a huge residential neighborhood. It would normally be full of kids with costumes. Instead we see police and hundreds of people standing on the Street Corner wondering what exactly went on here. Savannah, we should point out the Greenwich Village halloween parade is scheduled for just a few hours from now. That goes by where i live, and i can tell you the precautions theyve taken there and theyve padlocked mailboxes. You know, theyve removed large objects that could conceal weapons. They have blocked off streets for fear of these kinds of things. And this would be taking place probably less than, maybe just a half a mile or so from here. We dont know what the status of that parade is, but thats the kind of thing that n. Y. P. D. Is obviously focused and concerned about a lot of people gathered. In this case its commuters going up and down and tour highway. I think we have a piece of video that we want to show you that wnbc has aired. This may be the perpetrator. This is a person running across the highway, presumably after the impact. It stops there. That may be, we are told, the perpetrator in this case. There is the video again. You really cant make out much. The guy appears to be in some kind of hooded jacket. And there is the live scene right now. Kristen dahlgren is also stationed along this area. Kristen, what are you learning from your Vantage Point . Reporter well, lester, we know now that the mayor and governor are here on the scene. They are at the high school where they are being briefed by the n. Y. P. D. Theyll then go over to Police Headquarters for the News Conference to fill us in on the rest of the details. As far as the elementary school, th parents inside with kids not able to leave. Others trying to get their children. One of our producers was able to speak with a dad who was a witness. He said he was at that school when he started hearing gunshots. He sort of dove over the children to try to protect them. He has since been interviewed by the police and were trying to get more information from him after he speaks with police to tell them what he saw. Still, a huge Police Presence here on the scene. You talked about the stanchions. Its interesting. Where im standing there are stanchions along the bike path. But if you look to the north, there are at least two blocks i can see through with no stanchions blocking the way. So, would have been quite easy for a vehicle to get through onto that bike path without anything blocking this particular area. All right. Kristen dahlgren, thank you. Again, we are looking at one of the vehicles there. We also saw a home depot vehicle. Its not clear which one, in. There is a vehicle here you see that appears to have a crumpled front end. And thats getting a lot of attention from detectives on the scene there. But this is a large crime scene obviously they have to process. We are told we will hear from authorities at 5 15. So, a little over a half hour from now, we expect a briefing at Police Headquarters, which with lights and sirens is probably ten minutes from this scene as we would expect to hear from the mayor and the Police Commissioner with the first indication, although again wnbc, our new york city station, is reporting six dead and 15 injured in this horrible incident thats taken place in new york city. Lets go back to Savannah Guthrie who has more for us. Savannah . Reporter im listening to a witness now saying what he saw. Lets take a did you see a school bus involved . Im doing all right. Im happy that there werent more casualties than there are. How are you feeling . How are you holding up . Im all right. Im happy there werent more casualties than there are, you know. The safety of everyone else is my concern. How many people were on the ground, how many people did you see on the ground . I only saw one man laying on the ground who appeared to be injured. Did you see the truck actually drive up . I saw the truck after it was in the accident. I saw smoke coming out of it. But i didnt see the actual collision. I heard it was with a bus, but i didnt see the actual bus. What kind of bus, a school bus . Im not sure. I just heard a bus. Okay. You said the man looked like he was armed. Did he have any weapon . The man who was being arrested was not putting up any fight. I heard that the man who did the shooting got out of the car with two guns in his hands, but that is also something iea young, tall, short . The man that i saw looked about 30, a larger man, but i didnt get a great view of him. And then the other man that ran, i never saw at all. When you say not putting up a fight, did he look like he was injured . No, he was on his knees, he had his hands behind his back. Seemed like a normal arrest. Did he seem calm . What was his demeanor like . His face was away from me. I just saw the back of his head. But he didnt seem like he was putting up a fight. He was, you know, he was on his knees getting arrested. Did you see people well, there were police going along the highway. Traffic was completely stopped. I mean, it was a mess for at least an hour, the roads. But thats the least of anybodys concern. Take us through your perspective of where you were. I was walking dohe chambers . The school is on the west side highway. Roughly around what time . Roughly 3 30 or so. I know. What did you see first when all this happened . The first thing i noticed was the man who was laying on the ground surrounded by police officers. And then immediately after that, he was right next to the other man who was being arrested. And then after that i noticed the car that was clearly destroyed, so. The person who was hurt, how did they get treated . Did an ambulance come for them . Yes, i saw an ambulance rolling up. We had to leave before he was put into the ambulance. So, i wasnt able to see if he was dead, alive, anything like that. But he was when i saw him he was laying face down on the street, clearly looking severely injured. Did anyone try and help him . Did anyone come up . There were police on the they would be told to go back. The police were there already . I was extremely thankful for the women that and children that were running towards me because if they werent there, i most likely the time it took me to get there, i would have been right at the shooting when it took place. Would you say it was frantic on the street . Yeah, definitely chaos. There was a lot of people seemed very scared, but i mean, everyone also that i saw was thankful they werent right there. Did you see a lot of kids around . It was right when school was getting out. There were lots of kids, yeah. Did you see people running toward the people on the west side highway . I didnt see too many people going towards it. I mean, a lot of people were just walking past it. They had places to go. You know how new york can be sometimes. In terms of response, the man on the ground not the perpetrator, was he injured . And if he was injured, how do you think he got injured . Was he shot, did the ground. He appeared to be injured, but im not to say how he was injured. Do you know if he was shot . I could not tell. I could not tell. He was just laying face down on the ground on the highway. Okay, thank you. John williams, thanks very much. Later, okay. All right. A man who apparently witnessed the apprehension of the suspect in this case who we believe was driving that rental truck that youre seeing in the middle of your screen there, and may have been the person that ran into several people on a protected bike path along the west side highway along the hudson river, Hudson River Park trust, killing today according to wnbc, six people. 15 people injured. We should tell you we heard from the folks at the white house, the president has been briefed on whats occurred here by chief of staff kelly. Hell continue to update him as he knows. We dont have any word on a motive here, but tom costello, youre getting some indication of what theyre looking enforcement sources are telling us that the n. Y. P. D. Is now investigating this as, in fact, a terror incident in new york city, and that would, of course, fit into this profile that we have seen over the last several years in which terrorists around the world have used trucks and cars to mow people down. And it was, it was a tactic advocated by isis very publicly. Weve seen it in nice, in london, australia. Weve seen it before in barcelona, germany, stockholm, israel. Those are the known terror attacks involving cars and trucks. And, of course, weve also seen it in individuals who seem to be mentally deranged. For example in new york city in times square and then we had the case over the summer in charlottesville when somebody killed and ran down a woman in the protest. But as it relates to the n. Y. P. D. Now viewing this as a possible terror incident, there is a track record in which isis and al qaeda havevo its been used around the world very effectively in injuring and killing scores of people. And we should note this all taking place virtually in the shadow of ground zero. Its about a tenminute walk just south from here to the World Trade Center memorial and museum. And, of course, the Freedom Tower along the west side highway. This taking place, in fact, in front of a school where you may recall from that horrible Day High School students witnessed the disaster as it unfolded there at 9 11. But right now as tom noted, a possible terror incident here. Police will not rule anything out in these cases, but they have to obviously look in that direction given the nature of the weapon here. Jim kavanagh is an nbc news security analyst who is following this along with us. Jim, what avenues here do police take in a case like well, they have the suspect, lester, thats the key. When he got out of the truck, was he yelling anything that might indicate his motive . Officers who stopped him and may have shot him would be able to understand that and know that. They would report that to the detectives and the joint Terrorism Task force and n. Y. P. D. s Critical Incident team. So, they would know what he said, how he acted prior to being stopped. And depending on his injuries, can he be patched up quickly and interviewed, because he has all the answers in his head. You know, in his wallet, in his computer, in his phone. And then they work out from there in giant concentric circles to see if there are any other actors or is he acting by himself. And the vehicle appears to be a rental vehicle so i would assume even by now they will have probably tracked down the rental records here to figure out if potentially anyone else is involved. Reporter right. You know, im sure detectives are already at the hell be pulling the video, interviewing people there. That goes pretty quickly. Weve seen attacks around the world by terrorists who use rental vehicles. Thats been more than a few times. Sometimes the vehicle is stalled and the driver is killed or kidnapped. But other times they just use a rental vehicle. And, of course, the length of this crime scene, lester, as savannah reported on the ground, and other reporters on the ground, seven to 14 blocks. So, in a pedestrian area. Someone who is drunk or berserk or crash may not go that length. Someone trying to run people down and has no other vehicle to block them because its a pedestrian path can just continue on and on and on until somehow someone can stop them. Yeah, i spent time a few months ago for a story with a Critical Response command in new york city. This is what keeps them up at night. Theyve seen it happen other places around the world. They know they cant be everywhere. They have done their stanchions and blocks to prevent vehicles from leaping on curbs. They were already prepared for, i guess you consider a high threat event thats supposed to take place in a few hours, the Greenwich Village halloween parade up 6th avenue in new york city, not far from here. That was going to bring out a robust Police Presence to secure that. Now they are dealing with this situation here along the west side highway where, as weve noted, six people, according to wnbc, have been killed, 15 people injured. We are standing by for a briefing from Police Officials and perhaps the mayor. We are told that is going to come about 5 15, a little less than half hour from now. We expect to carry that. They are going to be holding that at the one police plaza, the Police Headquarters there also in Lower Manhattan. Savannah guthrie remains on the scene for us. Shes watching the comings and goings and hearing said in the crowd. Savannah . When i look down, down to see where the truck went well get back to savannah. Kristen dahlgren is along the west side highway as well. Kristen . Reporter hi there, lester. They are still loading up patients into ambulances here. We are now, what, an hour plus after this happened. Emts still on the scene. I saw them put a middle aged gentleman, he was alert and awake. From the neck down sort of wrapped up under blankets. Its cold out here. They have been treating him on the scene. They finally brought an ambulance over, loaded him onto a stretcher. He was talking to paramedics. They put him into the ambulance and sort of telling he had a bicycle helmet at his feet on that stretcher with him. So, presumably he was on his bicycle on this bike path here. We are about two blocks, id say, from where the vehicles finally came to rest traveling along this bike path, but this gentleman was here on the south side of where this started, where the police tape is now taping off the scene. The vehicle came to rest about two blocks north of here. So, quite a ways that he may have been driving along that path. And as i see them now loading another person onto an ambulance, this person as well looks to be looks to be alert and speaking with police. Not a huge urgency to get them off the scene. Theyve been working this quite sometime. And another person being loaded up. So, several injured where we are here. All right. Kristen, thank you. We should note home depot is confirming that it was a home depot pickup truck that was rented. They are cooperating certainly and working with authorities to track down more records as well. Tom costello, what do you have . Reporter enforcement sources telling wnbcs jonathan deets who is part of the nbc news Investigative Unit that the suspect specifically did, in fact, seem to target the school bus. We have some photographs of that school bus that seems to have been involved in an accident, and now Law Enforcement sources saying that that school bus was targeted. It had children, at least three children inside, and the driver allegedly screamed allahu akbar while carrying two fake weapons. The suspect described as somebody who looks like he was of middle east origin and is being treated currently at bellevue hospital. But that is now the first report that somebody or that the driver of this rental truck was gming allahu akbar and allegedly did target that school bus. So, we now have people who have been mowed down on the bike path and we dont noef if any children were injured as a result of the crash into the school bus. We would also make the point the si again, the Fbi Joint Terrorism Task force joining the investigation along with the n. Y. P. D. And, tom, thank you for that. And what we may be seeing is something that authorities also are constantly concerned about, an asymmetrical type attack if in fact thats what this was on a day that they were preparing for the massive security of a halloween parade, this happens a few blocks away. And what might be considered a less threatening area. Ive done many, many, many, many miles on this bike path. Even if you saw a vehicle coming at you, there is not a lot of places to go. Its hemmed in by walls on either side and its often very, very crowded. So, even those who might have been aware of the threat might not have had the time or space to veer out of the way as this vehicle made its way apparently with the intent to kill from the indication were getting, intent to kill down this path that is protected as well from the park areas there along the river. We want to go to im sorry, Hallie Jackson right now at the white house as we noted the president has been made aware of this. Hallie . Reporter hi, lester. Yeah, the chief of staff john kelly has briefed the president about what we are watching on our screens right now. Whats happening in new york city with the press secretary saying that our thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected. We do expect the president to continue getting briefed as updates by his chief of staff or by others on his National Security team as this continues to unfold. I also note the president s daughter and top advisor ivanka trump just tweeting about this as well, calling this heart breaking. She and her father, of course, both from new york city. So, this is something that one might imagine hits particularly close to home. The president , remember, is dealing with not just whatever is happening in new york. This is all coming as he gets ready now in just a couple of days to leave for a critical trip abroad. It comes as he is gng capitol hill to roll out a tax reform plan. And as hes dealing with continued news and fallout from the special counsel investigation with that indictment and the plea agreement coming out yesterday. We are going to run back in, check with our sources inside the white house about what else the president is learning about this, and what his National Security team is doing now. As you imagine, they have been activated to assess and monitor what is happening here in new york, lester. All right. Hallie, thanks very much. And as we watch these pictures of some of the highranking uniform members of the n. Y. P. D. Converging on the scene, let me walk you through what we have. This is a case were going to tell you what we know, what we dont noech. We a know. We are waiting for a statement, a briefing from officials in new york city 20 minutes from now. What we know from wnbc, six people killed, 15 people injured. The reports are of a middle eastern man treated for a gunshot wound. Authorities have described the driver as while carrying two fake weapons. Police did open fire and we heard from a witness who saw the man alive being taken into custody and handcuffed by police. Nbc also reporting that according to the n. Y. P. D. , they are looking at this preliminarily as a terrorist incident. They are unaware of any claims of responsibility. Thats what weve learned so far. The vehicle was rented from home depot. It was a pickup truck youve seen in many of the pictures here. Home depot has confirmed its one of their vehicles and they are obviously working with authorities now who are trying to connect the dots. There is the vehicle in the middle of the intersection. We also saw a picture of a Smaller School bus that, according to some witnesses, it appears the driver was targeted. There is the school bus right there. There were apparently children on board. We dont have necessarily specific information about injuries of people who were injured in addition to the six people who have been pronounced dead there as a result of this incident. Savannah guthrie remains on the scene for us. Savannah, what do you have . Reporter i just did an interview with a witness who was a staff nearby who said he was walking home actually, and saw the white truck on the bike [ inaudible ]. Savannah, we are losing you there a little bit. Were going to get back to savannah there because i think she had some information about someone who saw the vehicle on the bike path. Now, where that vehicle would have been able to get on the bike path is a bit of a mystery because there are a lot of stanchions along the way. But there are some peers there that do have traffic that can go in because you have to pull into the parking areas there. So, theyll be looking at where the person may have gained access. I think we have a sound bite of a witness that savannah was about to introduce. Lets play it. I hear a loud commotion coming from behind me. So, when i go back across where i was crossing the street from, i looked down and i see a truck going down towards chambers street. And im saying, whats going on . As i go down more, i see two hes in the bike lane, clearly in the bike lane. And i see, when i go down, i see two gentlemen running right there in the bike lane with tire marks across their body and you could tell that theyre not here no more. And you hear the lady screaming. An awfully graphic description, but it is apparently the reality of the horror that has visited the Lower Manhattan area, tribeca area today when a vehicle drove up onto the bike path and ran down innocent people. There you see some of the still pictures from the scene today. The initial indications that they are investigating this possible terror incident, and it certainly follows the model that we have seen carried out in so many parts of the world over the last year or two. And something that new york city has braced for, has kept Counter Intelligence officials up at night, planning for, trying to protect, but too many, too many potential avenues of threat. In this case, a bike path, not, not times square, places like that that are heavily guarded, but a bike path here. Thats the Manhattan Community college you are seeing there in the background. Savannah guthrie, are you back with us now . No, weve lost her. Tom costello, what do you have . Reporter ive been looking at how often this has happened. If this is in fact terror, and its really striking. Unfortunately, we have so many attacks around the world these days that we forget them all. But dateline after date line germany, we forgot about ohio, for example, london, england, it just goes on and on and on, the list of attacks over the last few years in which people have used these low grade tactics. In other words, you use a car or truck to mow people down. Isis particular called for this back in 2014. They called for people to use any vehicle possible to mow people down. And we have seen that used to deadly effect, of course, in nice, when we had nearly 90 people killed. Its happened around the world. Several times, of course, in london itself. It is why so many cities as we have reported have put up these barricades trying to create concrete blocks, if you will, or jersey barriers to prevent people and run away trucks or suspects in these types of vehicles from gaining access to pedestrian areas. But, of course, its virtually impossible to completely wall off, not only sidewalks, but you of course have to be able to get vehicles through those areas. Maintenance vehicles, ambulances, et cetera. And this is the a challenge that every city in the world is facing right now. So, it would appear that on halloween 2017, new york city is yet a target of the terror attack. I would think, lester, being a parnl parent, i know youre a parent, pause on halloween night whether you are going to take the kids out tonight in new york. Certainly in manhattan, trick or treating knocking on doors yeah, on your floor and in a high rise building. But the point is taken. And certainly for other folks who would be gathering just a few blocks from here in a few hours for the halloween parade in Greenwich Village which is always a major event in new york city, certainly people would have a pause, i would think, in that case. Were going to stop here for a moment and bring on other stations in our coverage. breaking news at 5 00, witnesses describing that scene of horror on the streets of new york city. Thats right. It started at 3 30 when a pickup rumbled down a bike path. It crashed into a school bus. Here is what we know now. Our sister station wnbc reporting six people dead, as many as 15 injured. Lets head to the live desk. Scott macfarlane has been monitoring this. Hes there with the very latest. Scott, what have you learned . In the headlines, the suspect is in custody. According to nbc news hes a man in his 30s, driving a home depot Truck Driving the wrong way on a bike path. Six dead, 15 injured as you report. A joint terror investigation is underway. A terror investigation just blocks away from the World Trade Center memorial site. There are schools that were in lockdown till late this afternoon because this happened in an area in which there are a high volume of schools, including high schools, High School Students on social m