poli police. at that point, again the motive was unclear. but police not taking chances and blocking off the entire area. it s a similar response that we re seeing here outside london bridge. unclear when this area will return to business as usual. at this point you can see police on horseback just over there. right over there is a major overground rail station. people lining the street and watching as the drama unfolds. earlier we watched as a specialist police unit went down this entire avenue with dogs making sure everything was secure. but at the moment, things seem to be calming down here just a couple of blocks from london bridge. erin, thank you for that. again, just to update you if you re joining us, shots were fired in central london today. they were responding, police, to a stabbing incident, a major response, what was called a major response as well. a major incident by london ambulance officials. let me bring in nbc s bill neely
ago when the worbecause the woro interconnected. you want to narrow it down quickly and figure out what the motive watt, what s still not clear is what happened at the market. even from what i ve been reading in social media people were fleeing the scene. we know that. bill neely, i don t know if you ve had a chance to talk to any police or get any additional information, but it is a little bit unclear we saw the incident obviously that took place on the bridge itself, but do we know the unrest at the market was because police heard gunshots, because it is very close there? do we know exactly what happened at the market? is bill neely sorry, it s bill neely here. apologies. i didn t realize you were addressing that question to me. no, the latest i ve got is that and you may already have this, but the metropolitan
suspect s photo, and we can go are through the slides one more time for those of you who need that shot. all right. so there you can see a very, very dramatic moment and awful moment last night, a 30-year-old suspect goes up to a police vehicle and there is an officer in the car in the driver s seat, and the police officer is jesse hartnett, 33 years old, and the 30-year-old suspect puts the revolver, and the pistol right inside and shoots at a least 11 times and three wounds to the left arm of the police aofficer. as the suspect is escaping, remarkably that police officer gets out of the vehicle and chases and fires and other police officers apprehend the 30-year-old suspect. and we have heard the police commi commissioner in philadelphia richard ross later told the poli police, the suspect, that he was doing it in the name of islam, and the then police homicide
a warning, this is a disturbing report. reporter: forced to pay attention by powerful images, the boy who washed up on a beach while trying to get to greece. the train in hungary blocked by poli police. migrants dragged off to camp. families at budapest s grand railway station and under it where conditions were so squalling they decided to walk out of the country until hungary got too embarrassed and decided to send buses to pick them up. but getting less attention is the cause of this crisis. these people are overwhelmingly from iraq and afghanistan where u.s. military interventions failed to reach stability. and from syria where a lack of international action allowed a civil war to rage on. they are escaping failed stakes and fail politics. it s been four years since the
a warning, this is a disturbing report. reporter: forced to pay attention by powerful images, the boy who washed up on a beach while trying to get to greece. the train in hungary blocked by poli police. migrants dragged off to camp. families at budapest s grand railway station and under it where conditions were so squalling they decided to walk out of the country until hungary got too embarrassed and decided to send buses to pick them up. but getting less attention is the cause of this crisis. these people are overwhelmingly from iraq and afghanistan where u.s. military interventions failed to reach stability. and from syria where a lack of international action allowed a civil war to rage on. they are escaping failed stakes and fail politics. it s been four years since the assad government started bombing its own people.