The white house. We have full Team Coverage starting with nbcs matt bradley, who was near number ten downing street. Matt . Reporter hi. Andrea, its matt. Were here at white hall street right down the street from ten downing street, the official residence of Prime Minister theresa may. We cant see the action directly in the house of parliament but we can see flashing lights and ambulances, police cars, other emergency vehicles darting back and forth attending to the situation. As you mentionmentioned, scotla and the metropolitan police say theyll treat this as a terrorist incident until they know more. Associated press was quoting mi5 the Domestic Intelligence agency for the uk said they werent going to be treating it as a terrorist incident until they know more. This is two separate Law Enforcement agencies in britain kind of treating this differently, but the fact remains is that this is still a very volatile situation, quite a lot of people who cverged on this. Do you remember last
as we ve been reporting, bill if i may interrupt you, scotland yard is beginning to brief. let s go to that. thank you. although we remain open-minded to the motive a full counterterrorism investigation is already under way. this is led by the counterterrorism command. at this stage i will confirm what we know happened but i will not speculate. we received a number of different reports, which included a pson in the river, a car with pedestrians and man armed with a knife. officers were already in the location as part of routine policing. but immediately additional officers were sent to the scene and that included firearms officers. we are working closely with the london ambulance service and the london fire brigade. i d like to repeat our request for the public to avoid the following areas parliament square, white hall, westminster bridge, lamberth bridge, victoria street up to the junction with brod wei and victoria embankment up to embankment tube stations to