essentially for turkey. your reaction to that? let me say hearing that story we re going to go right to new york now because the press conference beginning on the this incident in times square. have a listen. today here in times square. we re going to provide you with information. i want to emphasize up front this is preliminary information. obviously investigation under way. there s a lot we will learn in the coming hours. but we re going to give you the information we have at this point. i ll start then you ll hear from our police commissioner james o neal and commissioner dan nigro. so far what we know, 23 individuals were injured in this incident. that includes trageically one young woman who has passed away. the perpetrator is in custody. is a united states citizen and a former member of the armed
forces with the united states navy. he has a criminal history. the commissioner will go over that in a moment. based on the information we have at this moment, there is no indication that this was an act of terrorism. i want to clarify again. based on the information we have at this moment, there is no indication that this was an act of terrorism. that being said, we are reinforcing key locations around the city with our anti-terror units of the nypd. we ll have an abundance of caution, major sightes in the cy will get additional police coverage from our anti-terror units. those who were injured and for the families and particularly for the family of the young woman who was lost, our prayers are with her family and with all
serious injuries. our prayers are with the families of those who died and those who remain in the hospital. thank you, commissioner nigro. and thank you to all the men and women of the fdny, all the first responders, all the emts who went to the aid of those who were afflicted. and did it so well. i want to start by thanking all of my colleagues that are here. thank you, governor cuomo and all of our state partners who are here, all of our federal partners. thank you congressman jerry nadler for joining us. everyone is here for common cause. this was an attack on the united states of america, an attack on new york city, an attack on our people. and it was the definition of terrorism. an effort to take away people s hope and spirit and to make them change. and what noew yorkers showed already is we will not change.