Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. I apologize at the outset for my cold. We begin today with breaking news. A suspected attack at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg in central Germany. Up to 80 people have been injured. It happened when a vehicle plowed into a crowd. Hospitals in the area bracing for a possible mass casualty event.

What we know at this hour is this, according to local news agencies, is that the suspected driver of the car has been arrested.

The deputy mayor of the city says that at least one person has been killed.

Here at home, police in New York City have increased security at holiday markets in and around the city as a precaution and in response to the events in Germany.

Let's bring into our coverage, NBC News producer Carlo Angerer.

He's in Germany live for us now.

Carlo, what are you learning?

Good evening. Nicole, what are you learning? Good evening.

Nicole, we just learned that the city has now confirmed some additional details

on how many victims there have been in this incident.

They have confirmed that one person has died.

15 people have been seriously injured, 37 moderately, and 60 people have been slightly injured. So over 60 people injured, at least one person dead in this incident at the Christmas market tonight.

And police have also said that they continue the investigation on what has been going on.

And we have seen the pictures from there of a big emergency response.

And obviously, this is something that, you know, has also stirred up

memories of a similar incident eight years and one day ago when a truck plowed into a Christmas

market in Berlin. And at that time, 13 people were killed that night.

Carlo, with markets, tragically, Christmas markets being targeted in the past in Berlin,

what sorts of precautions were in place tonight?

So what we've seen since some of these terrorist attacks on Christmas markets years ago

is just an increased security presence at these Christmas markets.

Even in the small towns, you'll now see these barricades that have been put up at the entrance of Christmas markets that

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