times of year, especially in august as well as europeans from all over europe going to barcelona, and the fact of using a van if this is indeed terror, talk ing about fatalities, and a driver or drivers who ran off. they re looking for several people. yes. and one of the things that that is significant about this kind of attack is how difficult it is to prevent. it is very low tech. you rent a van. you identify a spot where there are a lot of people and you ram your van into it. from a pure prevention standpoint, it is difficult to see how such a thing can be prevented in free and open societies. when you as homeland security and other counterterror officials would game out how to prevent pointing out it is very difficult to prevent, we
away lessons learned from nice, and from some of the other tragic events around the world, i think that there has been some of these attacks that have been thwarted because of the collaboration with these law enforcement agencies. certainly not very comforting for the folks in barcelona today. because this is clearly a tragedy. but law enforcement is learning as well, andrea, i think that the fbi s contribution from an intelligence perspective, what the fbi s taking back to the united states to help prevent these types of attacks here, domestically, those are important lessons learned. and as we have been talk ing, shawn, the barcelona police are confirming that they re looking for at least one suspect from what they re calling the attack that occurred in las ramblas. they cannot confirm the motive behind the attack, but this time, but they believe the incident to be intentional. so that is near confirmation that we re talking about terror
the united states has been a key issue for this president. so these are the types of events that he spent a lot of time talking about as a candidate. making sure that they don t happen here, trying to stomp them out internationally. so obviously if he does speak out, we anticipate he has some strong rhetoric in the wake of what we re seeing unfold in barcelona. but, again, andrea, at this point in time, no reaction from the president, but we do know he s been briefed. and let me just to get a fix on the schedule, kristen, he s interrupting his working trip there to go to camp david for a key meeting tomorrow with his national security team, which was to be on the afghan review, the delayed afghan review decisions to be made on whether or not to follow pentagon guidance from general nicholson in the field, wanting more troops in afghanistan, the president resisting. this has been a key division and the president also isolated because of the interviews, steve
streets. lots of shouting. lots of an extraordinary scene to watch. like you re in a movie or something. not something i really want to see again if i could help it. now, i m standing here watching a game, just extraordinary. but normality is returning quickly. there are helicopters flying overhead. that is remarkable because the barcelona police have just tweeted that they are looking for the architect of this attack. so they seem to believe that it is an attack. we haven t had official word yet. that seems to indicate they re still looking for a suspect who ran away from that van. and that s probably why you re seeing those helicopters. but the fact that people are back on the streets is remarkable. what did the market security
and berlin, this is a new challenge. by the way, we do not have any confirmation, no confirmation of a shootout. so people may have heard noises, but we don t think that we re hearing actual shots. yeah. it does sound now as if that reporting suggesting that there was there are armed attackers, if you like, perhaps in a bar that may not be the case. always in these situations, reports emerge that we cannot confirm and that don t turn out to be true. others turn out to be true. just in terms of our reporting that barcelona police now say there have been fatalities, i have seen some video from the from the aftermath of the incident that we couldn t show on television because it is so graphic. and i m not surprised by that