{"id":131922,"date":"2017-10-31T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131922"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:51:28","slug":"van-strikes-kills-injures-people-bike-path-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131922","title":{"rendered":"Van strikes, kills, injures people, bike path NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-131923\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BikepathaccidentNYC2017-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BikepathaccidentNYC2017.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BikepathaccidentNYC2017-266x175.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A law enforcement official says more than eight people were killed and nine injured, Tuesday when<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\"> a rented van drove on a bike path near the World Trade Center in New York City.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official was familiar with the investigation but wasn&#8217;t authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the rented Home Depot van emerged from the vehicle screaming. The official says the man had two imitation firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the man was shot by officers and is in custody.<\/p>\n<p>The official says it is being investigated as a possible case of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says President Donald Trump has been briefed on the vehicle that drove onto a bike path near the World Trade Center and struck several people.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the president and New York native has been briefed by White House chief of staff John Kelly and &#8220;will be continually updated as more details are known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sanders says, &#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A law enforcement official says at least six people were killed and at least nine people were injured when a rented van struck them on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A law enforcement official says more than eight people were killed and nine injured, Tuesday when a rented van drove on a bike path near the World Trade Center in New York City. The official was familiar with the investigation but wasn&#8217;t authorized to speak publicly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131949,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131922\/revisions\/131949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}