Wednesday 1st april. Also this morning the nhs reveals its losing more than a billion pounds a year in england through fraud. In sport, chelsea manager antonio co nte in sport, chelsea manager Antonio Conte criticises team. Good morning from Hastings Pier which won another award. You cant seat at the moment but it will soon as day breaks. Its beautiful. The same can be said of the in scotland. Slowly moving south over the course of the day. Ahead of it, when the fog lifts, we will get a bright day with some sunny spells andi a bright day with some sunny spells and i will have more on that in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. At least eight people have been killed and ii seriously hurt in new york city, in what officials have confirmed to be a terror attack. Eyewitnesses saw a white pick up Truck Driving at speed down a cycle path in Lower Manhattan, before it mowed into a number cyclists and pedestrians. The vehicle, continued for 20 blocks to chambers street where it smashed into a school bus, just a few blocks from World Trade Center memorial. A 29 year old man was shot by police before being arrested. Officials say a note was found in the truck, which referred to the so called Islamic State group. Our new york reporter, nada tawfik, has more. This was the scene of the deadly attack on new york since 9 11. Cyclists and pedestrians enjoying a Beautiful Day struck by a white pick up truck speed, leaving bicycles and bodies in its wake. The journey ends only when he smashes into a school bus and passers by had to call for help for some of the injured. He can be seen here leaving the vehicle and brandishing a paintball and pellet gun before being shot by police. Eyewitnesses describe that panicked moment when they realised something was terribly wrong. He was running around with a gun. So police from stuy came out and they came in and the guy fight a couple of shots before and there was a shootout between the police and the guy and thats when they started to close down everything. He was screaming and he was screaming in the street, he looked frustrated, panicked, confused. From there, whole bunch of customers started running past me, a whole bunch of people came running my way yelling, is got a gun, hes got a gun. The full force of yours Emergency Responders swarmed the area. People on the ground from chambers all out to houston. From houston to chambers, multiple people on the ground. We need buses from houston all the way down to chambers. Authorities believe this was an act of terror aimed at innocent civilians. They say a note on the suspects vehicle referenced the so called Islamic State. Suspects vehicle referenced the socalled Islamic State. Its painful day in our city, a horrible tragedy on the west side. That any let me be clear based on the indian let me be clear based on the information we have at the moment this was an act of terror and a particularly cowardly act of terror. The suspect has been identified as 29 year old Sayfullo Saipov who came to the United States in 2010, said to have travelled to florida and working for the company uber as florida and working for the company uberasa florida and working for the company uber as a driver. President trump has been briefed and in a series of tweets promised to crack down further on those entering the country. Every day thousands of new yorkers make their way down this bike path and just blocks from the site of the World Trade Center, this attack in Lower Manhattan is a stark reminder that the city remains a target. This attack happened on one of the most festive days in the big apple. Just as people prepared to go trick or treating. And new yorkers carried on with that tradition is normal with the annual halloween parade ina normal with the annual halloween parade in a show of defiance and resilience. Let us pick on the reaction from world leaders. President trump blaming Islamic State. And from the Prime Ministers official twitter account. Canadas Prime Minister has offered his condolences. The president s of france understanding on the bicycle path at the edge of the police called. There are the red sikh investigators poring over the scene, trying to pull out any evidence they can find. Earlier on, i heard one father described the moment when he was trying to get across the street to pick up his children from school. A Police Officer had to stop him but he saw in the ground in the distance, the pellet gun at the driver was apparently carrying when he emerged from the vehicle before he emerged from the vehicle before he was shot by police. We know that he was shot by police. We know that he isa he was shot by police. We know that he is a 29 year old, Sayfullo Saipov, who was shot and taken into custody. He is being treated in hospital. Of course, now, the question is, what was his motive . Why did he picked this moment . Because this is, after all, halloween, what should have been a festive time for the city. More coming up later as we speak to a reporter from cbs. The nhs in england estimates that more than a billion pounds is stolen from the service through fraud each year. That amounts to just under one per cent of its overall budget. The Nhs Counter Fraud Authority says patients fraudulently claiming for free prescriptions is one of the biggest problems. Our health correspondent, rob sissons, has more. Nhs abroad, we are told, has to be tackled on many fronts. Now bosses are appealing to list dedicated nhs staff to report anyone they suspect of committing a crime. Patients sometimes fiddle the system, falsely claiming forfree sometimes fiddle the system, falsely claiming for free prescriptions or dentistry. Professionals including dentists have been caught claiming the services not provided. And suppliers have been known to overcharge for items of a Higher Quality or number than those delivered. Earlier this year, the former boss of Torbay Hospital in devon, was convicted of defrauding the Health Service of £11,000. She paid her husband here on the left for work you didnt do. Now the head of the new organisation fighting fraud says her aim is to see more people convicted. Staff can really help us identify fraud and fraudsters and really put a stop to people taking money out of the system so if you are in the nhs, please report any of your suspicions to us and if you are a fraudster and you are committing fraud in the nhs, then we are looking for you and we will find you. The nhs accepts the £1. 25 billion fraud figure is an estimate. Most cases are undetected. Rob sissons, bbc news. A government commissioned report will be published today, which aims to identify what lessons can be learnt from the experiences of families of the Hillsborough Disaster. Written by former bishop of liverpool, the right reverand james jones, its intended to help the authorities respond to future tradegies. The Prime Ministers deputy, damian green, is to be investigated following an allegation of inappropriate behaviour towards a female conservative activist. The complaint is the latest in a string of sexual allegations sweeping westminster. The first secretary of state has strongly denied the claim. 0ur political correspondent, ben wright, joins us from westminster what more can you tell us . Good morning. Damien green is effectively the deputy Prime Minister. An old friend of theresa may and certainly one of her closest allies in cabinet. Hes become the most senior politician to become caught up in these allegations of miss behaviour, inappropriate behaviour which allows which is swirling around westminster. He strongly denies claims made by a writer and academic who has written in the times today that two insta nces, in the times today that two instances, a meeting she had with damien green in a pub in 2015 in which miss mulgrave claimed he briefly touched her knee and a second time, when mr green sent Kate Mulgrave a text message which he which she believes was flirtatious. She says in the times, he offered me career advice and in the same breath made it clear he was sexually interested. It was not acceptable at the time and should not be a cce pta ble the time and should not be acceptable in westminster in the future. She goes on to say damien green issued a statement himself strongly denying. The most senior civil servant, the cabinet secretary, has been asked to look into this although the time these alleged instances took place, damien green the cabinet. Separately, the separately, the labour party has launched an investigation how a labour activist called becks baby was treated. In interview, she said when she approached the labour party about an alleged rape that happened to her in 2011, she was discouraged from making any sort of formal complaint was she was told it might not the prospects within the labour party. A reminder of the perils of social media. It was supposed to be one of televisions best guarded secrets. The newjudge accidentally named the winner ina the newjudge accidentally named the winner in a tweet. Dont worry, weve blobbed out the name in this version. She said, no one told mejudging a gbbo final would be so emotional. I wanted them all to win. Bravo. In a later tweet she said she was mortified by the mistake. Later on this morning, well be talking about who was crowned champion but well give you plenty of warning before we do that in case you still havent seen the final episode. It has been broadcast in the first half hour of the programme, we will not say. You have been warned. you watch it and you havent seen it, itll be awful. But it is going to be said. You been warned. Lets return to our top story what officials in new york city are calling a terrorist attack. It took place yesterday afternoon in Lower Manhattan and left at least eight people dead and 11 seriously injured. Joining us now from new york is cbs correspondent, kenneth craig. Details are still coming out about the suspect what more do we know about him . Also, what about the victims and those who are hurt and injured . Also, what about the victims and those who are hurt and injured7m sad and tragic situation which unfolded not far behind me. Just to give you a sense of where we are, this all happened just about one or two blocks down the street. That is the westside highway which might be able to see eliminated by the lights behind me. That is where this tragic attack all came to a screeching halt. Eight People Killed during all of this. 11 or 12 others injured. 0f the eight People Killed, one of them is from belgium. Five others a p pa re ntly is from belgium. Five others apparently from argentina. A group of friends here in new york city celebrating the 30th anniversary of their High School Graduation. In terms of the people has survived, we understand their conditions range from good too critical. Many will have a long physical recovery ahead of them. The picture is emerging of the man responsible. Tell us what the man responsible. Tell us what the authorities are saying at this stage. We know he is a 29 year old. Sayfullo saipov, with a florida license plate and his last known residence is in tampa, florida. As far as we know, they believe this was a lone wolf attack. They do not in the they do not believe this was part of some larger terror plot. He came from uzbekistan. During the course of the investigation, authorities also found a note inside that a rented flatbed truck which had some sort of reference to isis. Beyond that, we had a commercial drivers license he had a commercial drivers license and was a driverfor uber which commercial drivers license and was a driver for uber which has since banned him from being able to drive. They said they did a full background check and they hired him and nothing came up. At this point, investigators have a lot of digging to do, talking to people in circles, who they knew, bakeries communications, his cell phone records to try to piece this altogether, figure out if he was working intent with any other groups for larger organisations and how long he might have been plotting the attack. As you mention, the streets in areas directly related to the attack sealed off. As for new york and how it will respond, what is the sense . Well, i can tell you the folks here are resilient and courageous. New yorkers not letting the attack, despite how horrific and terrifying it was, bring things to a halt here tonight. It is quiet here tonight, but it is also just past 2am in the morning, and we are right against the crime scene, so you wouldnt be able to see pedestrian traffic anyway. But not long after this happened, it was really remarkable to see, it was halloween last night andi to see, it was halloween last night and i saw hundreds and hundreds of families and small children and party goers and people dressed up in costu mes party goers and people dressed up in costumes heading out into the night, still celebrating, despite what happened. There is an annual and very large halloween parade that happens in Greenwich Village every halloween, attracting thousands and thousands of people. There were a lot of questions about whether or not authorities would cancel that event, and that did not happen. New yorkers were encouraged to proceed with their evenings and have a good time, and that is what we saw, despite a very sad event that unfolded. And obviously in the back of everyones mines here tonight. Thank you very much. And we will have more on that throughout the morning. Last night was a big night for the architecture world. Carol has got the weather for us from Hastings Pier this morning, which has just been given the biggest award in british architecture. Good morning to you. And look at the view from Hastings Pier. What a beautiful sunrise. We will see Hastings Pier in all its glory as day breaks, but you are quite right. But won that prestigious award last night. It has won a few awards in its time, and when you consider back in 2010 this pier was devastated by fire, and with funding from the National Lottery it has been restored to the Award Winning pier that it restored to the Award Winning pier thatitis restored to the Award Winning pier that it is today. It is breezy and chilly here, and in parts of southern england temperatures have fallen to two or three celsius. There is also some mist and fog. Through the course of the day in the north, we are looking at rain at times. Some of that will be heavy, especially around the central islands and argyll bute, and in the south we will also see some sunshine. If we have a look around the graphics at 9am in the morning, you can see where we have that heavy rain there will be a lot of surface water and spray on the roads. It could lead to some travel disruption but to the north of that in scotland we are looking at some showers. As we are looking at some showers. As we come further south into Northern England, a dry start for you. Temperatures in manchester by 9am will be about 10 celsius. And it is dry as we push into the midlands, into east anglia and southern counties, when the fog that we currently have lifts. It should do fairly readily through the course of the morning. Moving into the south west, again, a lot of dry weather. Variable amounts of cloud, ripening up quite nicely and for wales it is a similar story. Find start to the date with some a fine start to the date with some sunny spells. Along the north coast, we have another edge to the weather front affecting scotland, and that is producing some rain. So through the course of the day it will be breezy, especially in the northern half of the country. Later we will see local gales around shetland. Rain across the Central Lowlands sinks slowly southwards and weakens in doing so. By the time it gets into Northern England it will be lighter, and it will be light rain and drizzle basically. South of that we will see some sunshine, more so than we did yesterday, and temperatures could get up as high as 15 celsius across parts of eastern scotla nd 15 celsius across parts of eastern scotland in south east england. Through the evening and overnight the weather front sinks south again, bringing spots of light rain and drizzle with it. Under that, temperature will fall to about ten. Ahead of that, in southern england, more widespread fog on the night just gone, especially across wiltshire, hampshire and yorkshire. You can see, despite the temperatures you can see, loads of 1 temperatures you can see, loads of 1 and maybe 2 in the north of scotland. It will be windy as well. Tomorrow we have the remnants of that front pushing southwards, lifting the fog and taking the cloud with it but a fine day for many of us with it but a fine day for many of us behind that. Much cooler across scotla nd us behind that. Much cooler across scotland compared to today. In the friday, we have a weather front coming into the north west of scotland, introducing some rain, and through the day we will see some more rain piling on across south east england and North West Wales. More of a messy picture and that leads us into a cooler weekend. Thank you very much, we will see you later on. It is looking beautiful, and it is only going to get as. We will get to see the pier in all of its glory. Lets have a look through some of the papers this morning, and events in new york largely dominating the front pages. That is the image. It is still in the location we ha