of state mike pompeo talking to reporters, actually answering questions. we didn t really see that from his former from the former secretary of state, his predecessor, rex tillerson. he did announce that kim yong chol, the former top north korean spy he was meeting with, will travel to d.c. the secretary said it would be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste. he said real progress has been made to set the conditions for the summit, real progress made in the last 72 hours. he maintains the u.s. still wants complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula, but did admit that they still center a long ways to go to convince north korea that they would be safer without nuclear weapons than with them. hands nichols is nbc s defense correspondent traveling with james mattis in singapore. here with me is gordon cheng,
[shouting] again, we apologize for the language at the end of the clip. has not quite been removed as promised. once again we will our defense correspondent. i keep reiterating this because this is a developing story. conflicting reports, we do not know even from the metropolitan police. they say shots were fired in borough market. we do not yet have confirmation of they are the ones that fired them. it may well be that the incident did not involve anything other than police gunfire.
our defense correspondent is here. what do we see? another update from a different section. these are the police who patrol the river. they tweeted same number into and marine three are part of the response to the london bridge incident. working with lifeboats to evacuate the public. i do not know whether that means there evacuating members of the public who has been in the vicinity and are taking them away via the water. but all aspects of the metropolitan police including the marine are they are today. nick archer who was a distance away from london bridge, we also hurt will who was on london bridge and they were people caught up in the incident and injured. we also spoke with another witness - we were at the pub and
been happening. the problem of course is that the police want to do their job. as we have seen in the last couple of minutes with the cameras they are trying to get as many people out of the area as possible. but of course, with closing the bridge, closing the tube station and indeed there were reports of other transport disruption elsewhere. vauxhall, is something of a hub for that part of london. it may well prove to be rather difficult for people to get home. i just want to bring in, draining the studio is our defense correspondent. who has the following what s going on at the moment. we know the prime minister is being kept up to date with events. i imagine she would be heading back as soon as possible. the latest that i have heard is that she is on her way back to number 10. i have to confess i do not know where she was.tonight anyway.
bataclan concert hall. this is the scene where the police stormed that theater earlier. we had the reports that between 60 and 100 were being held hostage in that concert hall. we then heard a series of explosions. fran sway hollande said it would it now appears there are 100 dead in that theater that may well be that most of those people being held hostage were killed. reports have suggested that as well as the two attackers there being armed that they may have had explosives as well. defense correspondent. that is the update as we reported just a moment ago. i want to continue to look at live pictures as i give you more witness statements that have just come in to us. a witness named samia currently telling radio station france info that she