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Investigators Probe Motive, Background Of NYC Attack Suspect

Emergency personnel respond after reports of multiple people hit by a truck after it plowed through a bike path in lower Manhattan on Oct. 31, 2017 in New York City. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
Emergency personnel respond after reports of multiple people hit by a truck after it plowed through a bike path in lower Manhattan on Oct. 31, 2017 in New York City. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

Police say the suspect accused of killing eight people in an Islamic State-inspired truck attack along New York’s Hudson River Tuesday is from Uzbekistan and has been living legally in the U.S. since 2010.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Bennet Waters of the Chertoff Group to get the latest on the investigation that counterterrorism officials are undertaking.

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