department for those issues. as always, make us feel a little bit smarter and knowledgeable on this stuff. thank you, sir. going to continue to follow the news on barcelona. a lot of updates continue to come in and we will bring them to you as we get them. coming up, though, we will also come back domestically. president trump s comments on charlottesville have republicans having to figure out how to take sides and which side to take. but what happens if they can t figure out which side to take? we ll be right back. a penny has never been more valuable!
cellular service is down. i m sure phones are blowing up there. she texted me to say after about an hour, they walked they re in an air bnb five blocks off the scene. they re hunkered there down now. one of them ran out for take-out, pizza and ice cream and wine. because they were starving. but it s unbelievable. i don t know what the plan is. i don t know how long the city will be on lockdown. so i really don t know a lot yet. i can t talk to her. because the cell is down. shepard: from all that we re learning, cher, cher bartlett on the line with us from atlanta, daughter in barcelona. tomorrow they re going to pretty well get things back to normal. the indication is that services will be as normal testimony. they believe they have their suspect. i tell you what, if it s your 23-year-old daughter half a world away, i can only imagine what a rough day it s been. so glad she s safe and you re well and appreciate your
officers there on scene. incredible that all of this is going down in this tightly packed tourist area. the busiest month of the year. people from all over europe vacationing in barcelona and across the region. and now this really horrendous attack. getting an update from the westminster studios of sky news now. let s listen. attack we are seeing has been arrested by the police. but in addition to that, we have been reporting reports from local media about the possibility of armed individuals making their way into a restaurant or a bar. the police have said in reaction to those reports that there is no one held up in a bar in boston. it may well be the case that we re actually at the end point of this terrorist attack given that one individual is in custody. shepard: in fact, we have just gotten this tweet from
monitoring when happening right now and barcelona, as we reported about 25 minutes ago, this is the nations hub analysis that was set up after 9/11. they focus on barcelona, the details of their jumping out at them is the use of a rental van, and what appears to be some kind of follow-up attack with one or two armed individuals. the fbi has an office in madrid, people forget that because the primary domestic law enforcement agency of this country, they have what s called a lead guest in madrid. they said at this point, still considered an ongoing situation and spaniards are obviously in the lead, but if the fbi can help in any way, they will offer that kind of assistance. the other thing i would ve my contacts pointed out to me is that there has been discussion
this. the attack in barcelona part of it as well. all 330 30 of the industrial companies that make up the dow, all 30 in the red today. the s&p 500 down about 1.5%. the nasdaq, the big loser, down right at 2%. more than 100 points. the tech sector taking a beating. the dow is well into bull territory and has been since the president s election. the dow has been on an astounding run. we had a sell off. we had a sell off a few days ago and rebounded well. another one today. markets don t like uncertainty and terror attacks create uncertainty and panic and fear. that all plays into traders and their feelings as they make their way through the trading day. the dow closed about an hour ago. off 274 points on the session. we re getting the new