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from there, ana. nick paton walsh on the scene in london. we are an expecting an update from law enforcement in about five or so minutes. let me turn to james gallia that, former fbi, cnn analyst. you were alongside me when we covered the bridge attack in 2017. they re treating this as terror related, but also say it s unclear exactly what they re dealing with. what do you think is happening right now? i only have about a minute or so. yeah. great point. you and i did meet in june of 2017 during that fatal attack where i think eight people were killed and a number were injured. police are using careful terms here, treating, not declaring. that s definitive language there because in the united states and the uk is also one of the five eyes, this intelligence alliance we share information, we always assume terrorism until proven otherwise. that doesn t mean we don t follow the facts, the evidence,
a terror-related incident before they ve got it confirmed. the language, they say they re treating it as terror related as a precaution. they re not saying they have thaefld it s terror related. that s what we re looking at from this press conference. can the police confirm this is terror related. on the bridges, alex, you know this area well, after the last incident in 2017, which had a car involved, they put these big concrete balls along the bridges to avoid that happening again. a car wasn t involved this time. but just with a knife you can cause a huge amount of damage. is it someone a personal grievance or someone part of a wider network, these are the questions we re looking to this press conference for. max, i want to play the video of this incident again. i remind your viewers this is graphic. this was shot by a passerby on
gridlock, waiting to see what will emerge. there are tens of thousands of policemen and women on the streets of france to keep an eye on the situation and under control. there would have been a lot of questions when this first took place. we learned from authorities it was a gas leak, not terror related. that city rocked by so many terror related incidents. in the early moments of the explosion, on the minds of many people. authorities saying it was caused by a gas leak. we ll continue to stay in touch with you. the yellow vest protests are taking place. we continue to follow that on cnn. thank you for the reporting. now, to a story many people here in the united states are following, brave and courageous. that s how police describe a 13-year-old girl in wisconsin. she escaped captivity after three months. jayme closs went missing the