we here in an all out situation. france has declared war. >> on that square which you can see right there in the middle of your picture are three statues of mythical women. they are the women of liberte, egalite and fraternite. >> what's happened here is that france as a nation is not going to allow itself to be divided. they want to show unity and that's what this rally is about. >> i was born as a muslim. i have traveled to show solidarity. i may disagree with you but i would die defending your right to say it. >> a poignant synopsis of the day of unity in paris. hello, everyone. thanks so much for joining me. i'm fredricka whitfield. welcome to our viewers around the world. we begin with breaking news. a new terror threat from isis against america. the fbi and department of homeland security have issued a

joint bulletin after isis calls for attacks on american soldiers government employees, media and civilians. sara ganim is following the story for us. sara, what more do you have about this which is indeed a continuation of the attacks in paris? >> that's right, fred. the fbi issuing this bulletin overnight to law enforcement across the country after a new video threat was released by isis. this according to a law enforcement source and this information coming from our justice reporter evan perez. now, this bulletin states in part that isis called for attacks against government employees, against media, civilians and the new video threat specifically targets the united states france canada and australia in response, the nypd put out a memo to officers warning them to be extra vigilant and exercise "tactical considerations in light of the attacks in."

the count terrorism expert spoke on "face the nation." i want you to hear what they said. >> they are using the mow men frum the paris attacks in part of their messaging vat zwroi see who we can get to follow this. it specifically mentions civilians, police officers intelligence officials and military. so it's something of concern. we've put out a city wide notice to police officers last night advising them of the message and reminding them to take extra care and be extra vigilant. >> now, fred, just in addition after the attacks in paris we checked in with several major u.s. cities and none have yet raised their terror level threat in response to those attacks in paris, although here in new york and also in boston heavily armed officers were placed in from e.j. i can places like the french consulate. fred? >> and so these threats are considered indeed credible and being taken seriously.

>> what we're hearing from people here is that these are very similar to threats that we've heard in the past video threats made by isis they're very similar rhetoric. but as you heard john miller say, what it appears they're doing is adding on to what happened in paris and hoping to gain momentum and reach out to these independent lone wolf type cases which is really scary to a lot of people because they're hard to track for law enforcement. >> sara ganim, thank you so much. let's talk more about this terror threat this bulletin. we have the author of "the new middle east protest in the world." always good to see you. >> thank you. same here. >> how do you interpret this? we know there would naturally be an ominous threat as a result of a terror attack that took place on the scale of which it took

place in paris but now this appears, at least according to this bulletin to be very specific very broad and what sophisticated. >> well first of all, for your viewers, this is not the first time that the so-called islamic state or isis has threatened to attack the united states. the leader, the chief of isis abu bakr al baghdadi has called on anyone who believes in the ideology of the so-called seattle to attack all western targets, including american targets. again, for your viewers, it's owl autowar between not just the so-called isis or the islamic state or isis or al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen but with america is waging all out war against both various components of jihad. the question is not whether isis has released a new call, the question is, is there any

specific information pointing towards a particular operation? my numbable knowledge tells me that this is more of a motivational speech they're hoping to capitalize on the attacks in paris to call on freelancers, on copycats to attack american targets because they realize these attacks have worked. these attacks have triggered fear and they're celebrating this particular attack in france as a major victory for them. >> while, of course it's being taken seriously, is it jargon that kpimly phis a fight for bragging rights? meaning al qaeda is the one that claimed responsibility for three-day attacks in paris and now isis follows suit with this bulletin? is it isis and al qaeda fighting for the most attention? >> you're absolutely correct. as you well know there is a civil war taking place within

the jihadist family between isis on the one hand and the parent organization cold. even al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and yemen does not see eye to eye with isis. yet after the attacks in paris we are seeing basically followers and basically militants of both sides saying look we have the same target. it's the same enemy, we could unify and unite against the far enemy, meaning the united states and europe. and the reality is in fact isis now would like to basically show that its followers and supporters can basically -- would be able to carry out an attack against the americans in the same way that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which is part of the al qaeda parent organization the ayman al zawahiri has been able either directly or indirectly to motivate and trigger the paris attacks. >> is it your concern or worry that this reach of terror is

growing even more so following what took place in paris and now with this bulletin that that serves as a great tool of recruiting that perhaps it becomes even more appealing to those who feel disenfranchised or who are particularly vulnerable who are easy prey and this really serves isis or al qaeda well? >> again, really it's a very very important question because the third wave, the syrian wave now, the syrian and iraqi wave. the first wave was the afghanistan wave after the fallout of the soviet forces. the second wave was when the united states invaded iraq. now we are seeing a third wave. and the reason why this is a very serious threat is because you have more than 15,000 foreign fighters who have basically traveled to syria and iraq to fight the syrian and iraqi government. you have almost 2,500, 3,000 western fighters or militants who are basically fighting in

syria and iraq including almost 150 americans and the reality is this particular utopian ideology this murderous, distractktctive ideology is resonated among not only middle eastern men but western men who feel as you said, this advantage who basically have grievances who fall under the sway of militant clerics. so multiple factors are really basically escalating and intensifying the nature of the threat and these copy attacks whether in australia or the uk or in france again, add momentum and basically i would argue that both isis and the various al qaeda groups the parent organization would like to keep the momentum in particular the fear because think of how much we have discussed the paris attacks. think of how much time and effort and energy and the pain in their eyes they're celebrating the attacks in paris. the conspirators as heroes in

the words of isis. they called them heroes. that is the heroes that bloodied the nose of their far enemy the french at this particular moment. >> fawaz gerges from london appreciate your expertise. so many of those foreign fighters that have made their way to syria to get trained with these terror groups many of them hailing from france which brings us to the present concern in paris. my colleague hala gorani is in paris. while this was a day of unity, now, i mean there are hardly any people behind you whereas we saw earlier in the millions or at least in the thousands. it's believed it could have been as many as a million if not more in paris alone and people coming out in great solidarity speaking in a unified voice that they want to get to the bottom of terrorism. they want to make sure that the freedoms in france are protected and that there will be a more concerted effort to reach out to those french who have proven to

be very vulnerable who have maid the commitment to join these extremist groups. is there a renewed sense of hope that that france will feel like it can better communicate, better work with its resources of intelligence and law enforcement to get to the bottom of what is a very big problem right now? >> well i think there is hope. i don't know if it's a better sense of hope but there is the hope out there that perhaps these horrific attacks, the one on the a tier y'all magazine, the attack that left one female police officer dead, that kosher supermarket hostage standoff that ended in the deaths of four individuals and then left this country reeling, trying to figure out just how french born citizens can end up so radicalized that they travel abroad to receive training which appears to have been the case for at least two of the three to

come back to their homeland and then essentially murder innocent people in the name of some sort of ideology. that is going to have to be the question. and it is a multipronged solution. if it were simple it would be a quick and easy plan to implement, but it is not. it involves of course policing. it involves surveillance. it also involves outreach. it involves a big national debate about how the better integrate some of the members of communities that may feel disenfranchised. now, just to set the scene here as the end point of this big rally and it's now basically over as you can see behind me traffic, in fact, is flowing again and we saw police officers they are taking down some of the barricades and pushed people off the streets now we're on the sidewalk and the ordinary flow of traffic for

sunday evening in this part of paris is taking place behind me. as far as what happened at the grand synagogue in paris, we had a representation of a show of unity there as well. we had representatives from the muslim community. we had the cardinal of paris as well and the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu he addressed those attending the service at the synagogue as well and you're seeing images coming us-to-there. that service is over and arwa damon, our senior international correspondent, was there when it was unfolding and she -- i understand she is not there, we've lost contact with her but we'll try to get back to her as soon as we can. there you have it. that's the latest from paris for now where this march has ended and people on this sunday evening presumably are going about their business and as you mentioned fred tomorrow the questions will have to be asked

and the debates and the answers hopefully will be fourth comes as this country continues to take stock and tries to find answers as to what happened try to find solutions to the problems that are confronting the nation. back to you. >> and you know hala i think anticipation was great of what a show of unity it would be to see the leaders of germany, france israel jordan and mali and there were others and it was another thing to see it unfold today. how do you suppose that resonated in the crowd there? many of course were not able to see it with their own eyes because there were so many hundreds of thousands there. but knowing that these leaders were locked in arms walking together in solidarity. did you hear from any of those demonstrators today? those who participated today as to how important it was for them

that these country leaders come together like this? >> right, well i think many people were very, very happy. not only that the world leaders came out but that the showing was so huge. you mentioned one million as the potential estimate as to how many people came out today. i'm hearing possibly two million. some people are saying across the country perhaps the greatest march in modern french history. we'll have to wait for the definitive figures but it was huge. i'm hearing there from our producer morgan that some of the estimates are that over three million people came out and demonstrated. they want to semi-strait their solidarity with the families of the victims who died and country wide as well. we had marseilles other big cities in france with their own rallies for unity. so yes, there was that realization in the crowd today. there was a lot of emotion as well. people holding up signs saying

"i am muslim." people who aren't muslim. they're just saying "i am muslim." "i am jewish." essentially sending the message, this was very touching to somebody this this crowd like us even us hardened journalists. a very touching message of unity. there are other days to be cynical and skeptical of some of the messages and perhaps deconstruct some of the -- maybe some of the political plays that were made in some of the visits but today is not the day. today is the day that was an absolutely unique event with people demonstrating together rallying together in ways that i don't think this country has ever seen before. >> it was quite the extraordinary show today indeed and, of course, the focus now is going to be what comes of this next. you know hala there are very

already some discussions by virtue of the emotion of some of the leaders, including that of the united states president of the united states australia's prime minister was not there, canada's prime minister was not there and now with new information from our justice correspondent evan perez that a bulletin has gone out and that it makes it very clear that isis has created or disseminated warnings to military police journalists in france, in the u.s. in australia, in canada it will now be part of the discussion as to why, perhaps, some of these countries decided not to send their presidents and their prime ministers maybe by virtue of that warning that was already sent out as early as last night from isis. do you think that conversation will be picked up there in france if not -- if it hasn't happened already, it would seem like perhaps a natural next step

in that conversation. >> i didn't really hear many complaints that the u.s. didn't send very high-level representation when germany sent angela merkel for instance or david cameron, the prime minister of the united kingdom came. i didn't hear that. there were some raised eyebrows that the highest level -- highest u.s. representation came from the ambassador here in paris but i think you have to put in the context. it is one event. president obama did call francois hollande there was some communication there. eric holder is here albeit for another event. but i didn't hear anything from ordinary parisians saying really they could have sent someone higher level. i didn't hear that. but it's one of those conversations that was circulating today. some surprise there. but it wasn't a big issue in the comments that i was able to glean today, fred. >> francois hollande there in paris, thank you so much. we'll check back in with you momentarily and when we come back we'll check in with david

gergen talking more about the political posturing of this event and what it means that certain country leaders including that of australia and the united states were not present in this crowd of hundreds of thousands in paris. we'll be right back.

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welcome back as we continue our worldwide view of all that's taken place in and around paris. upwards of 3.7 million people may have come out throughout the country to show a sense of solidarity and in paris alone more than a million people and led by countries' leaders such as france israel great britain, jordan and even mali. but by great omission there was no of leaders from the united states in terms of the president of the united states but the u.s. ambassador to france was there. no prime minister from australia or even canada present. but we also have learned that there has been a joint intelligence bulletin issued overnight to law enforcement across the u.s. and involving other nations, including that of the uk and france and possibly

australia as well stating that isis has issued a new call for all mujahadeen to rise up and kill soldiers government employees, media and civilians. this just days after that three day siege that led to the deaths of 17 people in and around paris. let's talk now about this bulletin and the political implications that come with all that's transpired. cnn's senior political analyst david gergen joining me on the phone from cape cod. and, so, david, while many were quick to talk about the omission of the president of the united states from this demonstration of unity in paris, the white house was quick to say that attorney general eric holder was already in paris and the u.s. ambassador what was the

determination that it was not the time or place or perhaps security wasn't in place for the president of the united states to be there? >> well i presume there were meets with the national security council staff and probably conversations with secretary kerry who was in india, of course. about whether the president should go or someone else should go. in my judgment it was very unfortunate that we didn't have someone directly from washington to come over. jane hartley, our ambassador is first class but i think it would have been helpful to have someone else. i'm mystified fredricka. i understand why secretary kerry had previously promised the new head of india that he would be there today. i'm mystified why the vice president was not sent. typically the vice president is there for something like this and i'm just -- it's mystifying why. and the reason why this is important is not just symbolism but in this renewed war on terrorism the united states has been at the forefront in trying

to round up other countries to show unity and to stand together against isis against extreme rad call muslims. so if you're going to be the leader as we have been in trying to round up other countries, you need to be there when they're in trouble to show solidarity with them. >> do you think this complicates the relationship between the u.s. germany, even france as it pertains to the ongoing commitment of a global continue terrorism? or do you think it will be a level of understanding on their part it's important to note that the administration has called and we learned about it today a "summit" on counterterrorism to be held in washington if you remember back to 9/11, the

french rallied behind us in massive numbers. "le monde" had a big headline "we're all americans now." and importantly the first international visitor to the white house after 9/11 was the president of france jacques chirac. he had previously scheduled a visit and within a week after he was there. he didn't hold back because there were more terrorism threats. he came. and that's what's important sometimes at moments when your friends are in trouble. so though while publicly there may be an expression of understanding, do you think behind closed doors there are some bruises that have resulted from this decision by the white house? >> hard to say exactly. people in the massive crowd were not particularly bothered by it but it's one of those issues that it does matter and it especially matters as it comes to -- as the united states will in the future, repeatedly ask

france and others to stand with us when they're attacked we need to stand with them. >> david gergen thank you so much. >> thanks to you, fredricka. this deadly attack in paris may have shown us the new face of terror, so to speak. why are so many heading to syria to join isis in particularly from france? we'll talk with an expert.

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welcome back everybody. we're hearing numbers upward of potentially three million people across france. the paris police department has told cnn there have been no major incidents throughout the day. one can imagine they are breathing a huge sigh of relief this hour because of the tense environment and because also of some security scares. let's get to samuel laurent, our terrorism expert with more on the developments in the investigation. samuel thanks once again for being with us. we're seeing isis is now issuing threats once again against the

united states. what do you make of the timing? >> well, obviously the timing is very accurate. we know isis is an expert in propaganda. especially an expert on the net and on very immediate tools of propaganda so therefore, yes, i would say that from now on we're talking about people that want to capitalize and that want to benefit further more from what happened in france and that will issue mornings. it will they are week -- i think it was on friday -- we got a tweet from somebody very well known in the french jihadi community that participated in the beheading of 12 syrian soldiers and who was warning of two new terror attacks and actually therefore we will see a wave of frightening and threats

that might be serious but obviously we have no confirmation for now. obviously this is time for them to raise the propaganda flag. >> samuel, what do you make of the fact that french authorities may have missed some really vital clues here in trying to prevent these attackers from carrying out their plans, the attack against charlie hebdo, the kosher supermarket attack and the fact that the presumed girlfriend of the man who attacked the supermarket, amedy coulibaly, may now be in syria. where was the failure? >> the intelligence services date back for many years. we had an attack in 2012 a man that killed jewish schoolboys and girls. here we spoke about a large intelligence failure in which

was needed to revamp the whole system then we got a signal to the french authority last year able to hide and finally to strike jewish again in a museum of brussels and now, again, a major and perhaps probably the most significant one with no progress made over the last years in which first of all all those people were very known and very basically noticed from the intelligence community, they were even highly noticed from the u.s. which put them on a no fly list unfortunately the french at the same time were releasing or lowering the surveillance on them they wering they were too insignificant and not bringing enough information. actually those people were using basically running under the radar, understanding very well the way french intelligence is working perhaps because some

elements are much too public in france and that might be a problem. basically they were waiting for right time using proxy people like that girlfriend you mentioned that was taking care of lodgist i cans communications and finance. this girl has disappeared in syria with all the secrets that would have been so valuable in order to trace and track and neutralize the cells that are probably still existing in france and europe. >> all right, samuel laurent, thanks very much. if indeed, this girlfriend is in syria, i wonder if she'll pop up in a propaganda video in the coming days or weeks. it will be interesting to see that. thanks very much samuel laurent in paris. we'll be right back after a quick break. stay with cnn.

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i'm fredericaricka whitfield, we'll get back to hala gorani in just a moment but first, the new information we're learning. cnn is learning from sources that a little bit more information about cherif kouachi, one of the brothers involved in the attack on the charlie hebdo magazine publication and then carrying on terrorism there in paris leading to 17 deaths. so now we understand that this brother, cherif kouachi may have been radicalized by a former radical spiritual leader who also turned out to be a nurse intern at a hospital in paris. it's believed that this

spiritual leader is the one who may have helped lead to the training which cherif kouachi may have received overseas the older of the two brothers and we hope to learn more information as to how these two became acquainted. and how cherif kouachi became that vulnerable person in order to invite this radicalized spiritual mentor into his life. we're just learning this information and trying to get a bit more but it paints a maybe perhaps a more clear picture of this kouachi brother and how he may have been brought in to the world of the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and we have heard now that the third terrorist in this attack in paris, amedy coulibaly showed his pledge in allegiance toward isis but it's al qaeda in the arabian peninsula that has claimed responsibility of this terror attack in paris.

this on a day when more than a million people have descended on the city of paris and possibly upwards of three million people throughout the country of france to show solidarity. back with us now overseas from paris is hala gorani my colleague at cnn, she has also been carrying on a conversation with samuel laurent, a terrorism expert. so this information just coming into cnn, i wonder to you, hala and samuel if this sounds like that's any real credence to and the possibility of this nurse intern who turns out to have also been a spiritual -- a former radical spiritual leader and that in some way he may have reached cherif kouachi. hala, to you first. >> i'm just -- i was going to say samuel -- i'll get to you in a moment. i want to start out with the

fact that according to sources that this 33-year-old who may have been the "spiritual leader" who radicalize it had brothers was working in the hospital was removed from that hospital's schedule and this the hospital was aware that he'd been previously convicted and jailed in relation to terrorist activities. i wanted to ask samuel this is something that the hospital was aware of and at some point they made the decision to remove this individual from the schedule of the hospital because some of the people who were injured in that charlie hebdo attack may have been taken to a very medical facility. is that what you're hearing as well? >> exactly. this has been confirmed. this is most tragic coincidence is that basically it took this terror attack and the fact that wounded people were flocking to that hospital at the emergency

room where he was working to remove him from his planning and, actually yes, of course one gain of the very striking thing about monitoring terrorist suspects people involved in terror plots as well as this man as we can come back on later is that to become a nurse in france law requires no criminal record. actually this is something he never provided by and this proves again that basically the security and the monitoring around him was extremely light. >> all right. so is it possible then, that the hospital was not aware that this man had a criminal record? is that a possibility that he did not share it with the hospital before he sign uded up for this nursing internship? >> well actually, the responsibility lies somewhere. it might be at the hospital might be at the health

department. to be honest with you, the procedure might depend from one to the other but actual lily this is an obligation to be provided by for starting a nurse internship and this has been asked today to the health department and the health department didn't answer the question and say that the hospital was responsible but by any way the responsibility lies somewhere between the hospital and between the health ministry. actually, what's very troubling is that this man was not only a member of the cell that was basically channeling french jihadi into iraq between 2005 and 2008 he was the boss of this cell. they was emir of this cell. so basically he was the emir of the kwvpouachi brothers and this man was able to basically travel around absolutely free and despite the fact that he had

such large and heavy background in terror he was released and he was able to have been gain jobs in the public administration. >> so hala, do we know his whereabouts? he's not under arrest. >> i was just -- fred reeied rica -- >> go ahead and ask that question. >> he was removed from the schedule of this hospital but do we know his whereabouts? because he's not under arrest he's not charged. he served his prison time correct? >> exactly. exactly. actually he's not in prison based on the information i have. is not in prison and it happened that basically it was like a coincidence that he was working on this hospital. the whereabouts right now we just know that he this planning has been changed according to one doctor of the hospital and we don't know whether he's appearing back in the hospital

or whether for obvious reasons of decency they will try to allocate another post or maybe change them to another location. but even for his own safety. >> and hala, what's interesting here too, is that the hospital is confirm inging that he had a record had been convicted, had been jailed, that didn't conclude him from being able to be a nurse intern. . we're all kind of learning this information at once but perhaps, hala you'd be able to glean light on whether this seems unusual, an unusual practice in a french hospital or does it seem, you know fairly customary that sure anybody would be given a second chance or wouldn't necessarily matter or if the hospital knew to what extent his and jail time was

resulted to.fredfredricka, i don't have any information on whether the hospital knew. >> samuel? >> well according to one doctor this morning which has been interviewed by the press, actually dehid not produce it and the issue was skipped. later on he was probably about to explain himself, explain his case and as hala was saying it's pretty fair to have a second chance but actually lack of monitor monitoring in a job in this which you basically need where it's required to have clear criminal record and the ability to have it for somebody that was traced is something that is

revealing basically the mess in which the monitoring of those is on going. >> we're going to continue this conversation of course the natural conversation will go in the direction of where and how might this man be track eded because of that's great concern right now, samuel and hall da l.a. we'll be right back with more on this conversation right after this.

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once his background had been uncovered by the hospital he left on friday and now he's nowhere to be found so this information very ominous, very curious leading this entire conversation about who these young men were who carried out this deadly attack which led to the deaths of 17 people in paris is now taking an interesting direction. back with me now hala gorani in paris and now joining us is yeta claw son clawson author of "the cartoons that shook the world." so yeta if i can get your point of view on this more is being uncovered and discovered about who these players were and particularly about cherif kouachi, that perhaps he was mentored by the radical extremist who under the guise of

others was doing something else even though he did have a criminal record. the hospital is saying it only learned it recently and now he is no longer working there. give us an idea of what law enforce system likely doing with this kind of information and how this influences i guess the scope of the investigation. >> well it's hard to imagine it was news. everybody knows who farid benyettou was. it was a very famous case. he was a very inventive creature in paris and he brought in a whole group of young people including the kouachi brothers with him and indeed was running a cell known as brothers for iraq and was sending many people as many as 50 people. he's believed to have sent them

iraq. he was arrested in 2005, which was also when the kouachi brothers were arrested. he spent six years in prison. >> so you're painting the picture he's so well known that how is it he could go unnoticed as the intern. it's more likely he used an alias and it's been only brought to the attention of hospital authorities that this is farid benyettou? >> i cannot imagine that anybody in paris do not know who this man is since he's very well known to myself and that team of researchers. that whole brothers for iraq recruitment thing, about 20 arrests in connection with it. the case did not go to court in 2008 and most of the people were released. but we know that the kouachi made other contacts that in many

guards were more dangerous. it's known also that they met up with the bomb maker involved in -- actually another person from the 1995 bombings. he was an agent for al qaeda in london for several years. >> so samuel, this is astounding to hear this especially since it appears to be common knowledge there but news to many of us. so is does this underscore even larger a gaping hole in security? >> well, owe know actually this person is not among the people targeted by police. i'm sorry, but i have an echo and i'm having a real problem on

the line. >> all right, we'll try and work that out for you. that's difficult to continue with that distraction hala i understand that perhaps through security measure there's going to be a ray rey examination on how this could be an oversight. how this is overlooked. that this is someone who has a record with extremist training and that he could have gone unnoticed in the hospital. >> i think we're going to have to wait and see how this pans out. this is a well known name anybody who has any network is familiar with it. there is a possibility tabs were being kept on him and that he was able to sign up for this nursing course because he was

not deemed a risk. this is something we don't know now. we just heard from the hospital spokeswoman that he was employed there. not sure how there was a link with the brothers that was in any way operational. >> lots more questions than answers. we're going to take a short break. we'll be right back.

r: he then explains why he targeted the kosher market. he says it's because his target was jewish people. >> that kind of anti-semitism has france's jewish community on

edge. this weekend, paris's landmark grand synagogue closed its doors for the first time since world war ii. >> i was really upset when i heard about the kosher shop in the east of paris. i know a lot of people going there and, of course all the time when something is happening in the jewish community. every jewish person is feeling concern as if it's a part of himself, a part of his family. >> last night, at least a thousand people braved the cold and rain to show solidarity with france's jewish community. gathering outside the market that was the scene of the ugly hostage standoff. >> we're not going to stop going to kosher restaurants and kosher grocery. we are going to maintain our jewishness and our freedom and we are not giving up to violence.

some people may decide to leave france, as some have already done. >> roger cukieman is a leader of the jewish community here in france and have spoken to some people who survived. >> i've spoken to some of the survivors and they are traumatized. it's very it's even worse for the family of the four men who died. >> antisemi-schismtism has been on the rise in europe and is keenly felt in france. last year an unprecedented number of jews left france and moved to israel. . those who remain mourn alongside all of france trying to come together during this tragedy born from division. jake tapper, cnn, paris. >> all right, that's our coverage this afternoon. thanks so much for being with

me. i'm fredricka whitfield. much more straight ahead from paris with jim sciutto. hello and welcome to our continuing coverage from paris, i'm jim sciutto. >> i'm brianna keilar in new york. >> right now something remarkable has happened here in france. what was already expected to be a massive rally in paris to show the world's resolve and unity against terrorism exceeded everyone's expectations. world leaders from all other europe the arab world, the middle east israel the palestinian territories russia they linked arms and marched along with an estimated 3.7 million people not just here in paris but in cities and towns all across france. the french government says this public showing, this enormous turnout of people and world leaders all with a single purpose and focus is the largest mobilization of people in their country's