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00:00Annick, are there concerns about the potential for similar attacks and what steps are being taken to prevent something like this happening again?
00:12Well, Leanne, any time that something like this happens, there is that increased concern that we may see similar attacks.
00:18Police at this stage are saying they believe the suspect acted alone.
00:22They are not saying that there is any suggestion of further attacks to come.
00:27They're not seeing any chatter on social media that would suggest such things.
00:31But we do know that authorities in some of the biggest cities across the United States, here in Washington, D.C., in New York, also in Los Angeles,
00:39they are stepping up security, in particular around Jewish places of worship and Jewish community centres,
00:46because there is this real feeling in the Jewish community that they are under attack.
00:51They are saying that they feel on edge.
00:53Just here in Washington, D.C., about a week and a half ago, we saw two Israelis being targeted in what seemed to be an apparent hate crime,
01:03a young couple who were shot dead outside of a Jewish museum.
01:07And again, in that instance, the alleged suspect also reportedly shouted,
01:12free Palestine around the time of the attack.
01:15So Jewish people here in the United States saying that they are feeling worried
01:19and authorities trying to respond to that concern by upping security.