backpack bombs like we saw in attacks in london in 2005. they want to access areas like airports or airplanes that are now hardened. if you wanted to get on the news internationally with a major attack, you re going to avoid a hardened target and some of these people aren t going to have the capability to build a sophisticated backpack bomb. you come down to, why not just have a truck and mow down people in the ways we ve seen in europe in the last year or two. i suspect what happened here is this cell accelerated what was to be a truck bomb attack. when that bomb went off a couple nights ago, they realized they had to move quickly, because otherwise the police would move in on them. that would have been more lethal i think. david sanger, on president trump s response to all this. the first message on twitter was what you might expect from any president, condemning it. this is the second one, though. he said after this, we should
other. we have the report of explosion in the night before. all of this comes together and looks like a complex attack. it s still early and we have too see what the authorities recover. we ve seen islamic state media claim responsibility. there had been no terrorist attacks in spain since 2004 since the train system attack. they had been doing a very good job of this prevention effort. the fact it now sits spain tells you what? it tells us that the perpetrators of this are at least adhering to direction that has come from the islamic state. we ll see if this is directed by isis leadership but even if it was merely inspired by, they re using the same tactics that isis has told its followers to use. and the weakening of isis on
what has everyone questioning what he was thinking. appreciate your analysis thank you. chris? a second attack coming hours after the worst act of terror in spain in over a decade. so much chaos and everyone just screaming and yelling. he was just plowing people down. president trump under fire this morning for the response to the tragedy, retelling a debunked mythical story about shooting muslims. terrorists know the united states and our allies are resolved. just when he couldn t get any worse, he quadruples down. moral authorities compromised. also recently has not demonstrated he understands the character of this nation. this is a party that s is in crisis and it couldn t happen at a worse time. this is new day with chris cuomo and.
while this is an attack that has shocked spain to a certain degree, although the country was bracing for this kind of violence, it has also reverberated with people across the globe, people from 24 different nations among those who were killed and wounded. here is a look at how the horrific events unfolded. it was just hours after a white van plowed through crowds of pedestrians on one of barcelona s popular streets. decat land police foiled an attack 70 miles south. it injured six civilians and one police officer. authorities fatally shot the driver of the car. the late night incident is believed to be related to the terrifying earlier attack in barcelona that killed at least 13 and injured more than 100. i saw people flying over the
right in the center of barcelona there. you didn t see the attack, but you know what is going on now and you saw the aftermath and the people running for their lives afterwards. what was that like? i was running with my motor bike to go on the radio. and in catalunya square, i see people running in different directions. a policeman stopped me and was shouting terrorist attack, please leave, leave, leave and i managed to park my motor bike and i didn t know where to go because all the people were getting inside shops. shops closing. other people was running through different directions. it was a panic situation where you don t know what s happening. i knew there was an attack down la rambla, but not there. it was the thing the feeling of the situation on going with panic and everything. to see in your own city where