we need to make this point, don t we, about whether or not this is terrorism, whether it has been called terrorism because there s a lot of tension around that, and the media is being dragged into that as well. reporter: yeah, indeed, that s right, max. the police are not calling it terrorism yet. they re saying the counterterrorism command is involved but they re clearly keeping options open. they make the point the man they have in custody is in hospital at the moment. they say he will undergo a mental health assessment. they re saying he is the only person involved in the incident. we have heard from other witnesses who say there may have been more than one person in stran. the police are not saying that. the point is the politicians are going a little ahead of the police. theresa may, the prime minister, calling it a potential terrorist attack. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, going further and calling it a horrific terrorist attack. we wait to hear from authorities precisely wha
whether it is counterterrorism command that is taking over the investigation. hard to believe they would not takeover this investigation. if it is thought to be deliberate attack. still early on, they are gathering the facts, one person is in custody, that is important as well. we don t know if that was the van driver, but if it was, then the police will be able to establish fairly quickly, you would imagine from the van driver. there were reports he was injured, they will be able to establish quickly from the van driver who the motivation for this was. thank you very much. i want to bring you up-to-date with something that evening standard newspaper, here in london. they reported that a man armed with a knife, let out of the vehicle, near north london
center of the shot we re looking at, quite likely, quite possibly an area where forensic police are current working at the moment trying to establish more about the circumstances of the incident. ian, this is the situation now. of course, we have learned that the counterterrorism command has taken over this investigation, and we ve learned from theresa may, the prime minister of britain, that police are treating this as a potential terrorist attack. she will chair a meeting in the morning, an emergency cobra meeting to discuss how london and indeed britain will deal with this. this is difficult time for the prime minister of britain. reporter: that s right. you have a number of attacks now, and so the question is how are you going to provide security for everyone here in the city and around the country, and that s one thing when i was speaking with the residents here, i asked them, you know, how do they feel about this attack, do they feel the police are doing enough, and they said
that really could apply to today. so that is obstruction of justice he said. i believe the obstruction of just you tis wice was also one articles of impeachment against president nixon. so seems like we have a couple press departments jucedents in . new to the overnight breaking news out of london where one person is dead after a van rammed into a group people in a crowded sidewalk. the incident happened early this morning near a mosque in the finsbury park neighborhood in the northern section. two people were also hurt. police say that a 48-year-old man was arrested at the scene and that the incident is being treated as a terror attack and the counterterrorism command is investigating. it marks the latest such incident in recent months to hit the uk following the london van and stabbing attacks, and the
we re doing breaking news, instead of that we have steve talking with us about the attack. we see here in london, one person arrested, possible casualties after a van or a vehicle that has crashed into a crowd of people coming outside of a mosque about 12:20 monday morning. continuing to follow. that on the phone is former cia covert operations officer mike baker. thank you for sticking with us. sure. what do you think about the no-go zones that are there? do we need to do more to find out what s happening in there? these have been building. it s a little bit of a myth or inaccuracy on the no-go zones where the british police are incapable of going or don t want to go, but, look, i ve worked with mi 5, the counterterrorism command, and there s not really at the