supporters. many mitch mcconnell has been fwakd this president and when this president stoop ed to his lowest point. 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.
people from the mosque? what more can you tell us about the area? it s a mix of people really. i was able to spe to a number of them. a lot of the people were just locals. there s a number of mosques in this area. so, when they heard about this incident, many people came from those mosques to see what was going on and there were a few people who were lingering around who were at the scene when it happened. one man that i spoke with who was an eyewitness was escorted from behind the police cordon back outside. he said that he gave police his statement and then talking to him, we were able to get an idea of what happened. he told us that this van careened into a crowd of people after a worship. and talking to this man, he said this is a family mosque. this is a neighborhood mosque. people from around here go and
i m going to let you carry on with you work. i know you re working very hard today across religions and churches and the mosques as well. thank you very much as well. my pleasure. reporter: we re going to speak to ian lee who is another police line. ian, just take us through what we know about how the event unfolded. there was this amazing heroic moment, wasn t there, where members of the public detained the man in the van. there was a lot of anger around that, but they handed him over to police. that s right, max. i arrived here shortly after this attack happened fromwhat mayor sadiq khan is calling a terrorist attack, and i was able to speak with a number of eyewitnesses. they were telling me that it started when an elderly man collapsed on the pavement, on the ground. a large crowd of people gathered to help him and that s when this van careened off into this group
jumping 20, 30 feet in the air. the van careened past london bridge. at that point the assailants got out of the vehicle. they were carrying large knives and they began essentially, fareed, to run into restaurants and bars and stab people. now, within eight minutes, eight minutes, a really extraordinarily rapid response time, police were on the scene and had shot all three assailants dead. but nonetheless, during those eight minutes, they were able to kill seven people, 48 people remain injured. the police have arrested 12 people today, but what they haven t done, fareed, critically, is to raise the terror threat level. the terror threat level remains at severe. you may remember that after the manchester attack, they elevated it to critical. that was the highest level it had been in a decade. but in this instance, authorities do not believe that there is a larger network at play. they believe that the three assailants who were all shot dead by police within eight minutes are as far as
and do your thing. welcome back to state of the union. jiem jake tapper. seven people are dead in london after a van careened into people. president trump used the event to bring attention to his travel ban.