nothing thus far about what motivated the attack. a days like this, of course, what is in the front of the minds are other teems we have seen vehicles used as deliberate weapons of mass murder. over the past couple years, in a bunch of different countries, national holidays fireworks display in nice, in france last summer. on london bridge last summer in london. on a major pedestrian thoroughfare in barcelona and of course on a bike path in the western manhattan in october. in all those instances, the drivers turned out to have links to terrorist groups or at least inspired. again today we do not know the motivations of this attacker, if he had any, but he himself did survive it and police have him. we will let you know more as we
following the developments for us. our justice correspondent evan perez is with me here in washington. michael, help us better appreciate exactly what has unfolded over the past hour or so. wolf when these sorts of things happen, of course, your first instinct is to hope it is not a terror attack. catalan police, you point out in the last few minutes, really, confirming that this is, indeed, being treated as a terror attack. they had activated their terror protocols earlier, but now confirming this indeed looks like an intentional attack on this most famous street in barcelona. a beautiful place. a lot of people watching may well have been there. a pedestrian thoroughfare, popular with tourists lined with shops and restaurants and bars, and remember, you re at the height of the tourist season. it s a sunny day in barcelona, late afternoon. it would have been teeming with people. some images we ve seen from the