right now. still police vehicles arriving at the scene and there s a helicopter hovering overhead. but yes, within a number of hours they will want to reopen. as you said, london bridge extremely busy commuter station. this area i m standing just a couple of hundred yards from the biggest commercial well, it s the biggest building in europe and it is close to the financial hub of london, one of the great financial cities in the world. so they will want to get back to normal as quickly as possible. and we want to take a break. jim cavanaugh, i want to let you weigh in on that quickly, because we are less than two hours into this incident. if you have anything to add to what bill neely had to say. it s just great reporting and he s right there on the scene. i ve been watching the video feed over and over of the police shooting right at the instant of
they are concerned, as we all have been over the last decade, about secondary attacks. so a first attack might happen. it might draw the police and the public into an area, and then a second incident happen. so the police are acting here at london bridge with an abundance of caution because at the moment it would seem there is just one attacker, but again, that s no guarantee that there aren t others waiting in the wings. we have no proof of that. nbc news cannot confirm that there is any other person involved in this other than the man who has been shot. but obviously, as far as the police are concerned, they have to treat this as if it s a possible first in a series. they have flooded this area with police, armed police, police vehicles, the helicopters are still circling above me as i
relating to the incident at london bridge remain unclear, remain unclear. they also said from metropolitan police one man shot by police as a precaution, they re responding to the incident as though it is terror related, clint. yeah, it seems that they re staying on this. i m sure what they re trying to sort out is all of the incidents that led up to it remember, they re going to be going back through digital feeds. what we re seeing is probably the end of the incident. and what s remarkable from the footage is how citizens of london responded to this in trying to actually slow down the perpetrator, respond to this incident themselves until law enforcement can get there. so i imagine at this point they re trying to find out what was the center of this attack, what was the target of it. did this person move to this bridge? and if so, was anyone else involved, are there any other potential things that are there?
where would you expect the investigation to be at this point, and what is their priority moving forward right now? well, the priority in the first stages of an incident are to ensure whatever action has taken place is fully contained. so is what happened an isolated incident or are there any other outbreaks now or in the immediate future likely to take place. so that would involve understanding who the individual is that the police have detained, what the capacity and kpapability is and any other associates, and making sure that any ear eyewitnesses and evidence be digital or physical evidence to understand what exactly has taken place today. one on the things we know happens in situations like this is you re looking to see where your leadership is. the prime minister, we are told, boris johnson is back at ten
the incident at 1:58 in the afternoon. they ve made one arrest. that there was a stabbing reported in the area. a number injured as you can hear there, perhaps the police now on horseback trying to clear the area. again, it s a very populated part of london. give us a little bit of the logistics here, just so people who haven t been there can understand the london bridgetself. don t want folks who may not be familiar to confuse it. it is an iconic landmark, the london bridge there. some people who have been to the east coast of the united states and know the area around the brooklyn bridge and what we call the area underneath the brooklyn bridge, it s kind of similar to that, in that it s an area that was once less populated, but has become very, very popular. i go to the burrough market area pretty much ever time i go to