attacks and what that connection might be? that s right, so in another town around 70 miles or so out of barcelona, a house exploded. it looks pretty gruesome, the explosion that happened there. police believed that theh e eru perpetrators of these attacks were trying to make explosives in that house. if there was least one fatality. it is thought that the fatality could ve been somebody trying to makeke explosions. it s a really strange and scary series of events that happen here in barcelona in and around the city of barcelona. trace: yes come alive for us on the ground there in barcelona. good off you to join us. thank you, sir. with us foror more on this, jim hansen, president of the security studies group and aaron cohen who is a former member of israel s counterterrorism movement and into the founder of tereus, the leading manufacturer of terrorism readiness. you can listen to the report.
we found you have traffic on both sides. people walking in the middle. a lot of places like this around the world. we talk about the london bridge. we talk about westminster. a lot of places, and i know you think itce is easy to secure these, but how in the world what you have locked down la rambla today? las ramblas, and i have been there, trace, not on similar to any o type of boardwalk you hav. the difference is that las ramblas only has one way in and one way out. what i would ve done there, and how you look at security in the macro picture, all of the more well-known known places where people gather, and you and i have discussed this, iav would t bollards down, even temporary bollards that could raise and then go down. and i would have uniform armed patrolled police officers at either ends of la rambla. physically, if you have the bollards or someou type of plasc
yes, indeed. as you mention, and other similarer scene is in the town f cambrils, around 70 kilometers to the southwest side of the spanish coastline. it appears that another vehicle tried to ram into further pedestrians, seven people injured, one is a police officer. we also believe that the p attackers, police have confirmed that they think that the attackers in that incident were also wearing explosive belts. we believe that there have been no fatalities of that incident so far. to the spanish police saying that they neutralized that attack. clearly, that coming within 12 hours of therl attack that we sw here on las ramblas in the heart of barcelona. some big concerns for spanish security this evening, tonight. trace: yes, i am curious, we talked about the driver of the van at the attack on las ramblas today, is there anything you know that the driver of the van who we believe is on the run