Hi everyone it is 4 o'clock in New York I'm Elie C. Menendez in for

Nicole Wallace and we start with breaking news this afternoon. Two people are

dead after a vehicle crashed and exploded at the border between the United States and Canada in Niagara Falls.

The very top of this video, you can see a car that appears to be traveling at high speed,

for it launches into the air and disappears off screen.

According to law enforcement, the vehicle crashed into the Rainbow Bridge checkpoint structure

then caught fire and exploded.

The two occupants of the vehicle are now dead,

and one customs and Border Patrol officer

sustained minor injuries that did not require hospitalization.

Authorities did not find a secondary explosive or device.

The White House says they are monitoring the situation closely

and the Canada Border Services Agency said it is working with the U.S. counterparts on this matter.

The FBI is now investigating this incident and whether or not the crash was intentional.

Joining us now, NBC News investigative correspondent Tom Winter, former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Shruck, is back with us and

joining us by phone, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI.

Frank Fagluzzi, why don't you start Tom by just giving us a tick talk of how this all went down?

Sure so basically what happens here there is a vehicle the color of the vehicle

is white as you saw there on screen in that exclusive video and

it's traveling at a very high rate of speed now a witness interview says that the vehicle at some point

tries to pass or get around another vehicle, clearly hits a median, goes airborne right there as

we're looking at, and then crashes into this customs and border patrol

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