Presented with another opportunity to be president ial and he chose to offer a factually inaccurate tweet. At least 13 people are dead after a van deliberately swerved on to a Pedestrian Mall in a popular tourist district. Two people have been arrested. Isis has claimed responsibility and theres Police Activity in a town south of bars locelonbarce. Spanish police are calling it a raid. Well bring you details as they become available. Today president first tweeted his He Condemnation of the attack and offered help. Then minutes later, there was this. Study what general pershing of the United States did to terrorist whens caught. There was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years. To study that, youll have to go into your spam folder and find the email forward from your
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possibly eyewitnesses may have seen some kind of activity involving that van before that van careened into a crowd. so talk to me about the importance of what people are saying about what happened just prior to this incident and even in the midst of. right. so what people are seeing, saying, excuse me, is often less reliable than, you know, the pictures, any videos, things like that. because, remember, when you re in a crisis like this, your viewpoint is only from the position that you re in. it s why eyewitness accounts tend to be unreliable during an attack like this. so the investigators are going to essentially begin with not just interviewing people what did you see, how many people, and try to get validity or some sen krus of the crowd so to speak. did enough people see a bag or whatever he was doing to give
we were told in the past hour or so by authorities that quite frankly they do not have any idea where he is. there have been three arrests, we are told, associated with the attack in employebarcelona that 13, injured more than 100, from as many as 24 different nations. in the this is an incredibly touristic area. the long zone that runs from here at plaza catalonia toward the sea. it was full of tourists at around 5:00 in the afternoon yesterday when this van careened down this pedestrian zone, knocking people out of its way. people flying out of the way. a tidal wave of people running from this as it was described. the van driver fled and is on the run.
van careened through this pedestrian street cutting down tourists and locals. a moment frozen in time for those who survived. a moment they expected to die. authorities say it could have been so much worse. the sign simply reads, pray for barcelona. most tell us they were placing themselves for some sort of attack, hardly lessening the shock, sorrow or impact. this now say they believe that this terror assault was likely planning something, using massive explosive power. not just vehicles as a weapon. this is the working hypothesis. that explosives be being prepared in a house somewhere 150 miles from barcelona. on wednesday the house was destroyed in a massive blast. the police chief says the occupants appeared to have been trying to make explosives out of butane gas. did that force the cell to bring
obviously he has the power in the senate but i don t understand the lack of courage. history will judge. thank you. appreciate you both. we re following breaking news at this hour. a second terrorist attack in a town called cambrils south of the site of the earlier attack in barcelona where van careened down a busy street. two people were in custody but the driver is still at large. the latest from barcelona. tell us what you know. claudio? tell us what you know. reporter: well, the town of cambrils is about two hours drive south of barcelona.