threatening. yes? [ inaudible ]. at which home depot [ inaudible ] we are not going to talk about where the home depot was rented from just yet. do we know how many people were on the bus. two adults and two children. there were two adults and two children on the school bus. in the back. [ inaudible ]. don t know. that s part of the investigation. [ inaudible ]. we don t have that yet. as we said there is a lot of information to be gotten. we wanted to give you a preliminary. wee we don t have too much detail. we ll give you another briefing as more information becomes available. at this point i have to ask you to wait until we get further information and have another briefing. i ll close this off by saying look again n.y.p.d. is investigating this with our federal partners, with our state partners in. there is going to be a very, very thorough investigation. but the most important thing, as governor cuomo said, as
sure. as you know through the shield program we do a very wide outreach. we have just under 20,000 members in the private sector. after isis, reaumia magazine came out with an issue about two years ago around this time of year suggesting car attacks. you will recall one of the targets it suggested was the thanksgiving day parade. we went and did extensive outreach to the truck rental business. we visited over 148 truck rental locations in this area. the obvious ones, u-haul, ryder, home depot, et cetera, we talked about suspicious indicators, ways to come forward on the attacks after christmas market and at nice we made more contact going back to the same places. so the industry has had a high level of awareness on this matter from the n.y.p.d.
is he conscious? we don t know the extent of his injuries. we are not getting very much information about that at all from police. we don t know whether he is whether he is in fact alert, awake, whether or not he may be in a position to speak to police, and whether or not he wants to do that at all. at this point there is going to have to be an determination whether there is going to be a terrorist investigation in the federal courts or something handled locally in the manhattan district attorney s office and the n.y.p.d. that s a determination that from a legal perspective needs to be made here soon. and also you know information about when and where he rented this truck. as the deputy commissioner john miller who he had up intelligence and counter-intelligence for the n.y.p.d. said they have a robust program not only in new york city, but also in new jersey and philadelphia to talk to these rental centers to advise hey if anybody comes in that looks suspicious you want to give us
city s top law enforcement and government officials with the governor of new york, andrew cuomo and we know the joint task force is involved. separately we heard from joe val death who works with us in the investigative unit that the fbi will be a major part of briefing that you see at 1 police plaza the headquarters of the n.y.p.d. the fact that the briefing is occurring there, the fact that the comments that this suspect allegedly made who is currently in the hospital this is a right now a very serious police investigation. i mentioned at this point only as a landmark because there is nothing that ties this to the world trade center. but where that truck is is approximately a block, two blocks north of the world trade center for thoeks that are familiar with new york city, that s just kinds of a i use that only as a landmark. sure. but that s the latest that we are hearing right now. tom winter on top of this for us. thanks very much some we are anticipating that briefing.
david. by the age of and the victims [ inaudible ] . was there any indication that the [ inaudible ] he s a 29-year-old male. i m not going to talk about the truck right now. right there. have you heard that the suspect said allah akbar or anything like that? is this the only indication that this may be an act of terrorism? he did make a statement when he exited the vehicle. if you just look at the m.o. of the attack, that s consistent with what s been going on. so that along with the statement has enabled this to label this a terrorist event. [ inaudible ]. not right now. do you have his nationality? was there any intelligence leading up to this, that it was something in the works? again, two hours old and we ll update you awe go along. lenny. who is in charge of the investigation? it s being conducted jointly with the n.y.p.d. and the fbi. [ inaudible ]. from florida? i m not going to go into that.