as a weapon attack carried out like we saw in charlottesville, in london, and other parts of the world where members of a radical group take a vehicle and they plow it through pedestrian areas. if you know la rambla, it is a long pedestrian mall flanked by two roadways. it is two streets. and the pedestrian mall is famous for being very crowded. particularly near the metros and the tram points where we see where the vehicle, which appears to be a very low level four to six person passenger van was for the sliding door went right up the middle of this. so until the spanish police give us more information, at this point it is starting to look like it may be more nefarious than innocent. malcolm, we have a few seconds left in the show. the bottom line is increasingly
people. doesn t appear to have hit any of the objects, such as the newsstands or metro, so that has to lend to the belief that this is an act of terrorism, and we have yet another vehicle as weapon attack, which is now starting to displace arson as one of the simplest forms of mass terrorism. and malcolm, we now have reportable from the officials there that there are multiple fatalities, that people are dead. we don t have the number. but as you point out, he did not go for the structures, he went for the people in that iconic square. stand by. i want to bring in janet napolitano, the former head of homeland security, and now out in california as the head of the university of california system. this vehicular attack mode, we re seeing pictures from there now, the globalization of europe and the united states, we see the starbucks right there, this is a corner which would have many american tourists and most
ramble. it goes all the way from the port and the aquarium area where cruise ships come in and goes all the way up to placa de catalunya. and as we analyze the vehicle and its location after the attack was over, it s pretty clear that he went off the roadway and drove completely up the middle of the pedestrian walkway. and now we re confirming that this is a terrorist attack. it was a vehicle as weapon attack, like we just saw in charlottesville, like we saw in the last attack, which was in stockholm in april which killed four. this may have had many, many more casualties. as you ve been talking, we ve been able to con firm with police there, so far at least one person dead, 32 hurt after the massive van crash. again, at this point, local police saying one dead, 32 hurt.
difficulty in these vehicle attacks, the difficulty in determining ahead of time how they re going to happen. our reporter was talking about the difficulty in stopping them because we live in a world that drives. whose vehicle it is and who rented it and who was actually driving it. in has become a remarkable effective means of attack because of all those things. you used a term for it earlier. right. and the term for it in the intelligence community is vehicle as weapon attack. and it s now appearing to deinvolve as one of isis and al qaeda s extreme igs most simple forms of terrorist attack. they don t have to have a sophisticated cell. they don t have to have a sophisticated infrastructure for logistics. they don t even need to have any communications back to a headquarters. all they have to do is find a vehicle, as we saw in nice, they stole a tractor-trailer. or just rent a vehicle at a
that is a solid eyewitness reckoning. you have and it makes sense within the pantheon of how some terrorist groups, particularly isis and isis followers, what they would do. you attack on a saturday night, you attack partygoers, people who are in their pubs drinking alcohol. as we know, isis abhors alcohol, they view people who are westerners drinking alcohol as essentially a sin punishable by death. to come in in a three-man team after crashing that vehicle jives with some of the things we heard very early on. but coming in and doing a multi-person armed edged weapon attack in a pub, that s organized. and they probably i can understand people using improvised implements to ward them off. and then they probably ran off and moved on to another