insinuating he wanted to carry out the plan after the president decided to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. as allegedly as the undercover agent to provide guns, ammunition and explosive materials. his family said they had no idea about the alleged plot. i believe it started with losing his children. that is why believe it began. that is when he decided to convert. i hope that i am not related to someone who would take innocent lives like that. over a religion or something that they believe. i hope that he was just releasing whatever type of anger he has inside. according to the fbi, everitt aaron jameson wanted his assault to be a lot with the recent assault in new york on halloween. where ms messed a truck into a number of people in the bicycle lane. of course that is one of two lone wolf attacks to strike new york recently. what is the trump administration saying about this law enforcement success?
man laying on the ground with ems trying to help him. was he he was one of the bicyclists? i don t know what he was. if he wasn t in the bicycle lane he was in the opposite lane of the bicycle lane. i saw two people laying down covered with sheets and their bicycles next to them. and what appeared to be like their bicycles were run over. you could see they weren t right. you could see something hit the bicycles. i know you took the video obviously smashed in the front. did you see the person get out of the vehicle or the person who had been driving? no, by the time i got there i would say it was pretty much the aftermath, because the shots were already done, everything was done by the time i got there. the police responded. it took me maybe two or three minutes to walk over there. the police were already on the scene. you re a criminal justice student. you re going to the college down here to study that. but to actually see this up
i heard several gunshots, i want to say about six go off. and i knew something was wrong. at first i saw kids running away laughing, so i thought maybe it was a joke, halloween. but something inside me knew it was more than just that. i heard a gunshot before, so me and my cousin started walking over to see what was going on. and there s what i guess you would call an overpass from the west side highway, and we walked up there and i could see a totaled pick up truck, another man laying on the ground with ems trying to help him. reporter: was he one of the bikalists? i don t know what he was. he was in the opposite lane of the bicycle lane. i saw two people laying down covered with sheets and their bicycles next to them. what appeared their bicycles run
welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with halloween day terrorist attack in new york city. eight people are dead after a man drove down a bicycle lane on the city s lower west side. nbc s kristen dahlgren has more. reporter: bodies and mangled bicycles strewn across this new york city sidewalk, at least eight people dead after a truck sped down this popular bike track intentionally hitting pedestrians and cyclists. all the people on the ground. reporter: the attack targeted a school bus injuring two adults and two children inside. and this shows the suspect running from the scene with something in his hand. i saw the guy with two guns. the guy with two guns for some
there were more eyewitnesses who we ve interviewed. let s listen to them. i heard the crash first, and then i thought it was a genuine accident having gone right across the cycle lane and shortly thereafter i saw somebody laying down beside which again, i assumed that it was a cyclist they d gone into and i thought oh my goodness. we re fortunate to have nbc s keir simmons, normally in london but on duty here in the states right now in new york. keir, you ve been talking to your sources. what have you been able to glean? reporter: that s right. i ve been speaking to british security officials. they are still trying to figure out the crucial question here, which is whether this was one person or more than one person involved. that is crucial, because it will give them an insight into whether this was a some kind of a coordinated terrist attack or whether it s somebody acting as a lone wolf, if you like, inired from abroad. the kind of thing that we have seen has been encouraged, i