Thanks for joining us. Im Maria Bartiromo in for neil cavuto. Catherine herridge is tracking the story and in washington with the latest. Good afternoon. Thank you. The incident happened at 1 30 eastern and this is a very heavily trafficked, dense, busy sector of toronto. Yonge street is the main artery that runs north and south and the east west artery that traverses young street. This is not only sort of a big center, its also residential area with a lot of condos and also where they have one of the major sort of transition hubs for what is called the tcc, the toronto transit commission. The driver of this ryder rental van got on the sidewalk and began mowing down pedestrians at 30 to 40 miles an hour before coming to a stop after a half mile later near shepherd avenue, which is the next big intersection that crosses yonge street. We just had a News Conference from what amounts to the governor of ontario called the premier, kathleen wynne. She told reporters that they are taking all
Hospital. Just one hospital there. And witnesses who have spoken to cnn partner ctv described seeing people on the ground and victims in body bags. They also described horror at the height of the day. In the middle of the intersection and the van went right into them and plowed right into them. He drove down further and went on to the sidewalk by the next building and he hit more people there. And just kept going. Were told that he may have driven along the sidewalk for half a mile, perhaps a mile. This is believed to be the van involved. A white ryder rental van in a busy part of toronto. Ill play another video now. What you are going to see here shows a standoff very near the scene of this with an individual pointing an object at police and this happened moments after the van plowed into the pedestrians. [ sirens ] get down. Get down. Get down. Get down. To be clear, police have not yet confirmed that is suspect. But youll note he is standing next to the van we showed you earlier whi
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