a major daily newspaper in barcelona is reporting that the van which came to a stop at the end of las romblas along the boulevard, that van was rented about 25 kilometers north of barcelona in the small town of perpetua de mogoda and they have the name of the person who rented it. police say the driver of the van that rammed over all of these people on la rombla, they don t know our understanding is this person is armed, there is negotiation going on of some kind, i stand up for the moment and are cordoned off area. we reported earlier that
to make it clear, the pictures we been showing you, clearly demonstrate, there is a massive police presence. armed and unarmed, . bomb disposal and ambulances have arrived at the city center. we are told that spanish president is being kept abreast, as indeed are those in the white house. the foreign offices have changed their travel advice for that this particular part of spain, telling people to stay inside and stay away from the las romblas area of the city. it may be the case. the foreign office here in the united kingdom, update your travel advice further. information about what has happened in barcelona continues to emerge. two incidents, a van crash which
two hours now. we are talking about barcelona, it was about 4:30 u.k. time, the police described a massive cras crash. note, no talk of terrorism on the initial report. as we move on, we can go down into the map and find out where this was happening. las romblas, this big boulevard through the city, largely pedestrian eyes but traffic is allowed up. we are getting reports pretty quickly of people killed and injured. the police finally called it a terror incident. that is the first time we heard that keyword, it became clear this wasn t an accident, this was something that was orchestrated as a terror
actually telling somebody every step of the way, get the vehicles here, get your target set in this place, those are all things will be finding out in the next few hours, the next few days, but so far, the target set alone is indicative of a being a terrorist attack. this is a heavily traffic area. we ve seen this before but people who were remote-controlled or inspired by isis. it s all lining up and unfortunately, it s one of these incidents where people are going to be asking questions like how can we stop this, how can we prevent this? very difficult to prevent a low-tech attack like this we can also be a mass casualty low-tech attack. sandra: sky news just tweeted out an update of where we are, what we know at this point. a number of people have been run over after this van hit crowds and the las romblas area in
shepard: it is good to talk to you, i m glad everything worked out for you at least. i am watching what appears to be an impromptu news conference in spanish, i believe a police official is speaking and discussing injuries but not with any specificity. we will get to that and a translation of it in just a moment. authorities speak of multiple scenes they are working now, the injured have largely been taken to hospitals and are getting the treatment they need. the area right around las romblas has been fully evacuated now and the standoff continues. it s our understanding though we don t have pictures from there, the standoff continues a short distance away at a turkish restaurant where we believe to armed men are hold up.