and that is just coming in to us within the last had few minutes. at issue here, what is in question is a white van that may have hit several there have been reports also of bodies being seen on london bridge, also of stabbings. we have already heard there has been an incident in borough market specific to a suspect. again, all of these pieces of information coming from different reputable sources. however, we have not confirmed yet here at nbc news the details behind any of these reports. and as is typical of an incident like this, only an hour in, there are more items in question that are items of certainty. but we continue to get reports from those who are on the ground. mo abbas, our nbc brother, was on the northern end.
might mean they haven t caught the suspect or they re suspecting there is another suspect, another accomplice who would be on foot. nbc s matt bradley on the scene, on the northern side of london bridge which is closed down. thank you for standing by. to get you up to date in terms of what we re watching. matt giving us what he is seeing live on the seasonable. also, we have reports from our mo abbas with our london bureau. the activity is still ongoing. just starting our coverage in the last 30, 35 minutes. what we know at the moment. we can confirm not all the details. we re only getting reporting from reputable sources about what has happened at london bridge. it is 11:00 a saturday evening. closing both directions of traffic on london bridge. if you ve been there, you
burrough market is being cordoned. this is where we had reporting from mo abbas, an nbc producer, that the streets were quiet. they had a helicopter above. he was running through that area of burrough market to get away from the restaurant that he was at. so we have london bridge which was closed, and this picture here that we just put up. it would be in the lower left hand part of the screen. in terms of where borough market is close to. on the southern end of london bridge. matt bradley, nbc correspondent reporting on the northern end said yes, i know borough market. that would be a great place if you were to be a fugitive to try to disappear. we don t have any reporting that necessarily says there is a suspect that is in that area. but they have just recently, the metropolitan police within the last ten minutes, has said.
foundation of facts are. we re not attributing our movement to that necessarily. but sometimes you ve got to move ahead, otherwise you ll be left behind. that s what the antiterrorism police are about. jim, have you been able to watch the video we ve been broadcasting? no, i haven t seen it. the video is interesting, because the arc of it has been pretty consistent. we ve not seen running. we ve seen pedestrians walking for the most part. we ve seen law enforcement vehicles come at basically the same pace. however we ve seen an accumulation in the last now two hours. of course it s almost impossible to determine whether it s double the amount or, you know, 50% more, whatever the case may be. we ve seen increase in vehicles. but many of the pedestrians walking in an orderly fashion. as i was speaking with joe dillon, he was clearly running from london bridge because he was so close by. our own producer, mo abbas, when
news producer, was close tom area, if not walking through that area. his reporting from 20 minutes ago, that market area, again, what? about ten minutes? is that right? reporter: i would say less than ten minutes, yeah. it is very, very close. all of this is basically connected as a pedestrian area. borough market spreads out a few minutes from there. and again, it would have been incredibly busy on a crowded saturday night. this incident taking place at about 10:53 p.m. local time. exactly when people would be out and about in the streets. perhaps eating at different restaurants, like our producer mo abbas was. perhaps visiting the pubs there. this is definitely a busy location. one where a lot of folks would have been affected. police are trying to clear the area. they re trying to warn folks from staying away from there. we know that people were getting moved from the surrounding locations as they try to