Talk to your doctor about xarelto®. there s more to know. all right. the breaking news tonight a pair of what london police are calling terror incidents, where a van appeared to mow people down intentionally and a stabbing attack on the south side of the bridge in borough market. fred pleitgen, there appears to be a the lot of police activity around you. what can you tell us? reporter: john, absolutely.
You can sense the fear. you can sense the chaos which frankly has not subsided in some areas. the white house says president trump has been briefed. and he has been tweeting. his first response to this incidence was a retweet. he has since tweeted out two personal tweets. the first saying we need to be smart, vigilant and tough. we need the courts to give us back our rights. we need the travel ban as an extra level of safety. whatever the you states can do to help out in london and the uk we will be there. we are with you. god bless, he tweeted. we re working to bring you every new detail as we get them. a team of reporters and experts standing by. nic robertson has been near the scene for a long while now. tell us what you re seeing. reporter: police have enforced a hard core done about
Breaking news out of london with the metropolitan police are calling a pair of terror incidents, plural, one on the london bridge where a van appeared to mow down people w k walking across in the nighttime hours and then what appears to be a stabbing attack we want to show you. this appears to be at a different restaurant near the london bridge but a sense of the chaotic scene as it s unfolding. they are yelling for people to get down on the floor. police he are looking for men who stabbed two people inside and picking the restaurant.
what are you seeing running down the street? a lot of panic and commotion. a lot of people actually were coming down from their homes barefoot and in pajamas. people without shoes. people without pants. people were literally running away as fast as they could and taking direction to the best of their it abilities. reporter: guys, thank goodness you re safe. try to find somewhere to stay tonight. people are tweeting out if you don t have anywhere to stay, come stay here. take a look on twitter-ville. people are offering up support, help, somewhere to stay, somewhere to stay warm. london is a better place than this. come back another time. thank you very much. there you have it, a scene of chaos and confusion when the events went down. there are so many stories like this tonight. as people managed to get out, begin to collect their thoughts, to realize and understand
Market. they are practically connected. they are urged to avoid those areas and follow local media and other information sources for additional guidance. if you are a u.s. citizen in the united kingdom and are safe please let family and friends know including by updating your status on social media. when the first details of the incident started to come in we spoke with an eyewitness moments after this unfolded still enroute to speak with police investigators on a bus, mark roberts in london. listen to our conversation. the police got here very qui quickly and it sounded to me like the gunfire was coming from the borough market area. i know london fairly well.