training their guns around the area without actually knowing exactly where they were going or who they were looking for or what they were looking for. it seemed as though this perpetrator was still at large. we haven t heard from the metropolitan police whether they ve caught anyone, any specks, any of the people who were involved. but it seems as though they re definitely going to be looking, just as they were after the manchester attack, for any accomplices or anyone who could be connected to this crime. as i mentioned, this attack, it s now being treated as a terrorist attack. it s going to remind a lot of londoners of an incident in march when a man named khalid massoud drove his car across westminster bridge, jumped up onto the sidewalk, and killed about four people on that bridge. he then got out of his car, approached the parliament building, and stabbed to death a police officer before he himself was shot dead. now that incident killed five people and then the attacker as well.
field office, some of their vehicles arrived here as well. no word yet from officials here as to whether they ll be giving any more information. whether there will be a press conference. certainly an uptick in activetive since we last talked. eric, i ll let you go to get nor information for me. i want to bring jeanne meserve back in with new information. jeanne, the floor is yours. reporter: brooke, this comes from a department of homeland security official saying initial reporting indicates this incident bears characteristics similar to the flaring packages at two maryland state facilities yesterday. no elaboration on that. we don t know if the similarities this official is referring to are simply the obvious ones, an envelope that flared, or whether there s something else here about the construction, about possible notes, about anything else that would appear to draw a connection. but once again, initial reporting indicates this incident bears characteristics similar to the flari