at the place of las romblas where we are there were at least eight or nine ambulances waitin waiting. shepard: on the right-hand side of your screen is what we believe to be the mercedes man in question here. this is a still picture from social media. and this is the white van that came to a stop at the end of la rombla, at the end of this pedestrian area and barcelona. we also have reports of a second band that s been located about 40 miles away, we have that from authorities. i certainly don t believe the authorities are misleading in any way but in the early going it can be very difficult to get all the facts straight, even for the authorities to get them disseminated. we are sure that is the van on scene, we know they are still looking for the driver of that van, apparently the driver came to a stop at the end of la rombla, got out of the van, got
we are waiting to see what happens. do people in spanish cities like barcelona, do they spend much time thinking about the prospect of a terrorist attack such as this? certainly here in london, it happened about people still get on public transport, they still go out and see their friends, it doesn t change the way we live our lives here. do you think the same thing in barcelona? to tell you the truth, i know people from different countries that lived here, they think things like this never happened in spain at all. we are going to be a little more
they do report to me that isis accounts are celebrating the attack in barcelona. i would emphasize this is not a claim of responsibility from that group, these accounts are called in counterterrorism circles fanboy accounts, they celebrate act of violence but they are not leadership accounts. i also want to note that the source tells me that in early july on an isis affiliate account, there were postings about barcelona, this was shared with u.s. government, law enforcement and intelligence services because references on these accounts to spain are highly unusual and infrequent. whether this has any bearing on what is unfolding in barcelona is not at all clear. what is being reported to me at this time. shepard: catherine herridge, thank you very much. we believe we ve just received a picture of what may be one of
danger. we now have this situation where police have the area effectively locked down. you can see people, this is earlier from barcelona, people in alleyways being moved away because what they don t want is if this turns nasty and ends up in a shoot out between them and the terrorists, they desperately do not want innocent bystanders in the line of fire, quite literally. they need to get as many people out of there as possible while they lock it down. they are moving to a place where they have to decide if we sit and wait for these people to come out or do something else for do we think that situation is so tense that we need to storm this restaurant and get in there and bring this to a close. of course that has the danger of costing other people their lives. shepard: thanks to sky news for that synopsis, new information has come in.
victims, we just saw people running, crying and trying to get as far away from the scene as possible, we didn t actually see it happen. up until that point, this was just a normal summer day in barcelona? this morning, there it did seem to be a lot of police about but we thought it was just a precaution. i don t know if they had been tipped off but we didn t think there was a lot of police about today. i know you are back in your hotel, we were just speaking to a colleague of mine who is in barcelona who is suggesting people are being told to get indoors and stay in their offices, stay in the hotel. i presume that is the advice given to you as well. all of the cafes were closing as well, i think everyone must be getting inside. have you been in barcelona for longer than a day? i just wanted to try to compare