investigators have so far? reporter: right now the new evidence coming in is video. they have a couple different camera angles showing the assailant wearing a couple different outfits, does that mean more than one individual? turkish officials are remaining tight-lipped about it. the manhunt is under way across turkey, much of eastern europe. estimated 600 people were inside the nightclub around 1:15 this morning when the attacker opened fire. 39 killed. many foreigners about 70 injured. no one has claimed responsibility at this hour but the attacker was armed with a long barrelled weapon in one of the videos it shows. that the terrorist is hunted, turkish tv channel has the video of the individual, one that we know of, dressed in black, carrying a backpack, shoots down a police officer outside of the nightclub. a different camera shows him wearing different clothes in a santa-type hat. this is dark footage, at night, that s what it looks like.
we continue to follow news out of istanbul, turkey, slow but steady. new information that we have according to associated press is not confirmed by nbc news. according to the governor of istanbul, saying that the attacker armed with a long barrelled weapon killed a policeman and a civilian outside the reina nightclub. there you see in the upper right hand corner at around 1:45 a.m. local time. this on january 1, 2017. then entered and fired on people that were inside. he did not say who may have carried out the attack, but did say this, quote, unfortunately, he reigned bullets in a very cruel and merciless way on innocent people who were there to celebrate new year s and have fun. this according again the governor of istanbul telling reporters that. and then according to to the associated press, some of the
christmas market, christine, the alleyway or pathway with the market stalls with the items displayed, they are narrow. there wasn t anywhere for people to try to escape or try to get away as the fast truck was moving through. to make matters worse, the truck was heavy and fast. 25 tons of steel beams loaded in the trailer and barrelled through. the market stalls did nothing do stop it. the truck came to a standstill i would say about 20 to 30 yards from where i am right now. the people here in berlin absolutely shaken and concerned. many people we have been speaking to say this is something they feared might have happened, but hoped it never would. it has happened before in nie nice.
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still expected to hit parts of massachusetts, cape cod, martha s vineyard and nantucket island preparing for heavy rains and heavy winds. we should say we re about seven minutes away from a new update from the hurricane group. janice dean is tracking that. will give us an update shortly. sometimes we get it early. we ll break in and give you the latest. we re almost done with the system. started its northeastern acceleration. clearing the outer banks right now. the eye of the storm we re still going to see some battering winds and waves and rainfall. there s the landfall about six hours ago around 11:00 at cape lookout and its barrelled to the northeast ever since. let s zoom in. i was talking about it on twitter, peter doocy experiencing that calm eye. not a lot of people people get to experience that. it s pretty darn cool. but, again, he s going to start to see those outer rain bands and the winds and even some of that storm surge on the back