here s where we think the investigation is going. it s a tense room, usually 20 to 30 people. and inside of that room they ll come out and brief us once they have gone through and once they understand from s some information we don t want to put out, we have a prosecution possibly in this case, there s certain information they don t want to divulge, but there s obviously information they want to tell the public. and what we know is that because of certain things, and certain ways that the suspect behaved and certain things they have gathered from the scene, they are going to looking at this as a terrorism investigation. jonathan dean said the fbi s joint terrorism task force is there to assist in the investigation. we know that this individual drove at least seven blocks. we know at least six people died on this pedestrian and bike
terrifying firsthand accounts from witnesses. you are getting some reportable information about the investigation? nicole, my colleague jonathan dooens and i have from at least four senior law enforce men officials this is a full-fledged terrorism investigation at this point. the suspect upon crashing his vehicle got out, shouted allah akbar several times. believe he may have also hit a school bus as well. there were injuries on that school bus. i have that from several officials. and after he yelled allah akbar he then proceeded to start firing that pelt gun, and possibly another gun, not sure if it s fake or real or not, either way this is a full-fledged terrorism investigation at this point. the fbi s joint terrorism task force in coordination go the n.y.p.d. are investigate. as you were discussing before, we know that senior new york city officials and the new york governor are being briefed right now. and that s briefing happening with the top 20, 30 officials in
the first report was that he was shot in the buttock, the second report was that he was shot in the stomach. do we know if there s any initial interrogation? stomach wounds are horrible and painful, but they don t stop you from being able to talk. since this is a terrorism investigation, it s quite possible that he will be interviewed without his miranda warning by the fbi and they have a high value group that talks to people when they re in that condition. is there an ongoing threat to public safety and they did this in boston with dzhokhar tsarnaev, so the fbi was able to go in and say no miranda warning, is there somebody out there that you know of, is there something else in the works? we need to keep that in mind. so you re allowed to do it if
though, that the van was just flying through this crowd. they were estimating something like 50 miles an hour. another witness says they heard the sound of gunshots while they were hiding out in a nearby store. rylee carlson is on this for us from london. rylee, what s the very latest you have? reporter: now that the death toll has risen to 13 and the number of injured at 50, there are still concerns that the death toll could go higher and obviously you showed that absolutely horrific video there and that shows you some of the reason why. some of the injuries that we see from these attacks of this nature that have taken place across europe are just absolutely horrific, very devastating injuries, and so there is always the concern that some of the people who are injured could be so seriously injured that that death toll would rise. we also know now that police in barcelona have activated a terrorism investigation. they say that they believe this was a terrorist attack, although at thi
this president, when he see as threat. right? a threat for instance in inlegal immigrants voting. set up a commission to look into that. when he talks about illegal immigrants creating he set up a hot line. right? looking into that. there isn t much policy at this point in terms of addressing this. the doj is certainly looking into it. any kind of full-scale investigation into this, we haven t seen that. laura, he did say the department of jut is formally opened a civil rights investigation. he did say the department of justice has opened up a terror investigation. walk us through from the legal perspective the difference. certainly you have the civil rights division coming in to play because you have the affiliation of neo-nazis, white supremacists, saturated with racism and bigotry. a national information to go to the civil rights division. you don t have a terrorism investigation at this point. the u.s. code defines domestic