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obviously the events in paris have changed the tone of possibly the direction of the debate. >> we want to bring in our political analyst, drake political science professor. dennis, we know the tone of tonight has changed. has the expectation for the candidates changed as well? dennis: we have been reminded that we live in a dangerous world. we might have had a debate that focused pensively on domestic and economic concerns, immigration. this changes it somewhat because now the concern is, how do we protect the united states in a dangerous world? that's the first job of a president. >> dennis, you would not want to think that anybody can take advantage of a situation like this. but you have to pay respect to hillary clinton's experience as a former secretary of state. i'm wondering if that gives her an edge. dennis: she can claim to have the experience that gives her the credibility to operate in

she very possibly could claim that her opponents and many republicans do not have that experience. this is an opportunity for her to use an advantage towards her. >> does she have to walk a bit of a tight rope though? dennis: yes she does. she has to be respectful of the tone of the awful things that have happened. she has to avoid alienating the more dove-ish side of the democratic party. she is a bit more hawkish. she has to threaded the needle between national security and the concern that we do not end up in another iraq. >> in the debate tonight, do these events forced the candidates to come up with more definitive plans on t national security? dennis: they may not have had

but something more specific than, yes, i will keep the country safe. maybe questions about the size of the military, dealing with domestic threats. on the other hand, you don't want to reveal too much to those who might do those things. >> our kcci political analyst. political science professor here at drake university. let's go over to cynthia, with a very special guest. cynthia: with the right now is debbie wasserman schultz, the chair of the democratic national committee. thank you for joining us. as a congressman, has it -- as a congresswoman, has it been a busy day responding to the attacks? debbis:e: it's been a bit of a juggling act today, representing a congressional district in south florida and making sure i can send a message to my constituents and as the national

are absolutely firmly committed to combating terrorism, combating the threat from isil and making sure that our next commander in chief, which will be on our stage tonight, is able to clearly articulate the vision that they have for how to take sure we can work with our allies terrorism where it raises its head. cynthia: do you think we will cease for differences among the candidates? -- we will see stark differences? debbie: the goal each candidate has is the same. that is to stop terrorism in its tracks, to stand resolutely with our allies and to make sure that we can protect american's national security interest here and abroad. like many of the other issues, they have the same goals. their approach may be similar or different. i don't think you'll see anything like what you have seen on the other side of the aisle, which is sort of a childish bout

of name-calling and politics of personal destruction. you can get a clear vision or view from the public and field on how they move the country forward or how they keep the country safe. only have engaged in is rampant on warranted criticism. -- unwarranted criticism. cynthia: i know you have to get over to the auditorium. thank you. we will see you after the debate. steve: cynthia, thank you very much. back outside to the front of sheslow auditorium, where ryan smith is located. ryan is watching the candidates of five. i believe martin o'malley and his people just made quite a noise. -- watching the candidates arrive. ryan: that is exactly right. we just saw the former governor of maryland arrive in a white chevy trailblazer. they arrived at old main what you did on the south end of the drake university campus. just moments before that, let's

there is martin o'malley greeted by supporters advanced -- supporters and fans just a block near 20th street and university boulevard. -- 28th street. earlier the afternoon, police shut down between 25th and 28th street on university boulevard. that is where we see multiple rallies to life outside of drink campus. -- multiple rallies take place outside of drake's campus. again, we are out live in front of old main ready to track the remaining 2 democratic arrive on campus. >> a beautiful evening out there now. a beautiful day in central iowa.

and look at the forecast. jason: clear skies all night. a nice days of our. no reason why that will continue into the evening and tomorrow as well. here's a shot of the sunset downtown. hues on the horizon looking absolutely beautiful. no matter where you are at, it was wonderful weather to get out and about. current shot downtown looks equally as nice. 57, a light breeze out of the south at nine miles per hour. the southwest winds will stay with us through tomorrow. that means warm mornings ahead for us and warm days. we climbed back to 63. we start to work in a little bit of cloud cover in the afternoon hours tomorrow. that will be the precursor of what's to come by way of rain chances. not a lot out there right now. southwest winds eventually kicking off moisture across iowa. that will mainly bring us cloud cover throughout the afternoon

and evening on sunday. eventually we will be talking about rain chances. future cast continues to drag about cloud cover to the afternoon hours and increases that. not looking at too suny of the day. get outside early. eventually rain is on the way. he will not let up much monday, tuesday, or even into wednesday. future cast gives us a break but still feeling cloudy. mid 40's tonight. back into the mid-60's tomorrow. the warmest day we will see in a while as this bucket of warm across i want finally starts --across iowa finally starts to seep away. still hanging onto a chance of rain. the slip and slide all the way down the 42 by sunday. some potential for a thunderstorm tuesday into wednesday. other than that, mainly talking

cool downs with lows backing down into the upper 20's by sunday. >> we are back live at drake university with an hour and 20 minutes before the democratic presidential candidates take the stage. team coverage continues after the break. >> we cannot forget about sports on a busy saturday. all across the state of iowa, big night for the hawkeyes. and they would've, could've, short of back if you think there's no solution to the climate crisis, think again.

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>> clones -- the cyclones had every chance to shock the college world. digging on oklahoma state outside the college playoffs. cowboys perfect on the air. saying goodbye to a senior class, including the quarterback that has been surpassed by joe lanning. what performance he had, especially in the first half. over 300 total yards and a couple of touchdowns. here is the pivotal play of the game in the first quarter. joe lanning goes to the ground. it is ruled a touchdown. but upon further review, it is ruled incomplete. nobody seemed to know why. they said the tip of the ball hits the ground. either way it costs the cyclones points. second half, landing back at it. another rushing touchdown. iowa state was leading oklahoma,

coming back in the fourth quarter. a couple minutes to go, three minutes exactly. 35-31 lead. iowa had one minute and 44 to go . that is the ballgame. iowa state loses 35-31. a rough ending, not only for the game, but for the cyclones's slim hopes. >> next 2 weeks we will in large part shape a good deal of their lives. how they will respond in the next two weeks is how they will respond for a lifetime in tough, hard situations when it doesn't look like you are playing for anything. if only your own character and integrity. at this point in your life, who you are as an individual.

the hawkeyes played against rosedale. kick time coming up in 15 minutes in iowa city. the drake bulldogs fall on the road at butler. grandview and william penn playing for the rock and letter trophy. second quarter, scoreless game. finding a little space and finds the endzone. they go on to win 26-14, their fifth conference win chairmanship in a row. 1a semi finals. taking on western christian. inside the 20 yard line, that's enough person rose with the touchdown. van meter was up 17-10. western christian would come back to win 21-17, the final. playing mount vernon in the semi

that kicks off in a couple minutes at the unit dome as well. you state in iowa city not only for the football game -- huge day in iowa city. >> right now these seats are all empty, but this morning it was a completely different story. 42,000 plus came for the grapple on the gridiron, and boy did they get a show. wrestlers are not in this environment every day. getting a major decision to start things off. i what took a 4-0 lead. at 1:33, a takedown. clark would go want to get the decision. oklahoma state has taken the lead, but i will comes right back. -- but iowa comes right back. can you tell that jordan rogers

iowa beats oklahoma state 18-16 in front of a record-breaking crowd. >> it was an incredible atmosphere, you can't deny that. even i can't deny that. i am one that locks to talk about the performance. this was a performance in itself. even if i tried i don't think anybody would understand except for the guys that went out and wrestled. i would not usually think that i would celebrate like that, but i could not even stop myself. >> i would defeats oklahoma state -- iowa defeats oklahoma state. after the meet, he says they still have a lot of work to do. kcci, iowa sports leader. >> just 700 in sheslow

>> let's check in with kim, live inside. kim: you can probably hear it is very loud and sheslow as the auditorium continues filling up. what a difference a half hour makes. i would say sheslow is about 90% already. the auditorium between the upper balcony sits about 700. it's going to be a packed house tonight. just moments ago we thought former iron of the owner -- former iowa governor and former iowa attorney, tom miller, as well as dave luczak all walk to the door. people have been trickling in for the last hour or so. there is certainly a sense of excitement. you can tell just by how loud it is. people are taking a lot of selfies with the beautiful stage. as we have been talking, there is definitely a change in the

tone and direction of tonight's debate because of the recent paris attacks. we caught up with kevin cooney, one of the moderators, to see how they are preparing for that. kevin: everybody knows all we have to do. we are exchanging lots of e-mails and lots of texts. no, i think surprisingly it's a pretty calm process. kim: we are glad it is a calm process. but like i mentioned, sheslow is very packed. just over one hour away from go time. we saw many crew preparing for tonight's debate. they were asking for a moment of silence for the paris victims. back over to the spin room. >> kim, thank you very much. kcci 8 news very committed to this democratic debate. but there are some uncommitted voters.

shaina will pres. obama: outrageous attempts to terrorize innocent civilians. this is an attack not just on paris, not just on the people of france, but this is an attack on all of community and the universal values that we share. >> welcome back on a somber day after what has happened in paris. but nevertheless, the democratic debate at drake university in des moines, iowa goes on. >> let's bring in argument --

what do the candidates need to do again? >> outside of the seriousness of the political event in paris, hillary clinton needs to show that she is concerned about the issues that bernie sanders supporters are impassioned about. if she wins the nomination, she will need to those supporters. bernie sanders has to show hillary clinton supporters that if you were to win the nomination, he could win the election. a lot of people think he couldn't since he calls himself a democratic socialist. to be more crude about it, martin o'malley has to show that he has a political pulse. people seem to like what he says, but they just don't hear the music. he has not resonated in the polls. he has a chance to establish himself as a real contender tonight. >> we want to get back over to meredith and shaina, with 10

shaina: i wanted to give you guys a break down of our group. we are sitting without uncommitted voters. -- with our uncommitted voters. i wanted to give you a breakdown of who we are working with. by show of hands, who is 100% uncommitted to any of these candidates? just a couple of people, 2 whole group. who was leaning towards hillary clinton? 3, 4, 5. and leaning towards bernie sanders? the majority of the group at this point. and martin o'malley? just a couple of others. let's start with michael, why are you leaning towards martin o'malley. >> i lean towards the governor because of his executive experience and what he's done in the state of maryland. he has inflicted these ideas being talked about in the debates. -- he has implemented these

i might change my mind depending on what i hear from secretary sanders and clinton tonight. >> i think he has been a strong force for the social issues i tend to agree with. he has been more consistent than other candidates. >> is it possible for you to change your mind? >> i am interested to what hillary quentin says about -- hillary clinton says about the foreign policy aspect. >> shaina, thank you. commitment 2016 coverage of the democratic debate continues in just a moment. a live look outside old main outside sheslow auditorium,

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>> outrageous attempts. >> these attacks were not just on the people of france, but this was an attack on all of the humanity and the universal values we share. >> we are france. we are free. we value our freedom. [singing] >> today the british and french people stand together, as we have so often before in our history when confronted by evil. >> obviously our hearts and thoughts and prayers go out to our french cousins through this... and terrible time. >> new york city stands together today with our sister city, paris. >> this is a heartbreaking situation, and obviously those of us in the united states know what it's like. we've always been able to count on the french people to stand with us, and we intend to be

fashion. [singing] [applause] [explosion] >> o'donnell: good evening. tonight u.s. officials are calling the attacks in paris a game changer. isis has claimed responsibility, which would prove it can direct strikes far beyond its base in syria and iraq. french president francois hollande called this "an act of war." the terrorists struck with guns and bombs in a coordinatedded series of assaults. they killed 129 and wounded 352, many critically. an american is among the dead. anohemi gonzalez was 23, a junior

scott pelley, the anchor and managing editor of the "cbs evening news," begins our coverage in paris tonight. scott, good evening. >> pelley: good evening, norah. most of the people who were killed were killed just about 20 yards down this way at the concert hall. about 90 people were killed there. the french authorities told us today that the seven attackers that they know about have all been identified now, but they haven't released the names. most of them were identified by d.n.a. most of the bombers blew themselves up, but one of them was killed right here in a shoot-out with police. we're told that one of the bombers is a frenchman, born in france. he's described to us as a petty criminal who in 2010 was identified as an islamic radical by the authorities. some of the bombers worked in teams. others worked alone. they hit six sites, and in the span of just 32 minutes,

light. it appears the soccer stadium was to be the main target, but the attack didn't go as planned. security officials believe the terrorists intended to assault the crowd of 80,000 as they poured into the game to watch a big match between france and germany. the president of france was there, and the match was being broadcast live across europe. but for reasons we don't know, the bombers were late to the game. [explosion] so they detonated their bombs in a much smaller crowd. one of those bombs was a propane tank in a backpack loaded with screws and bolts. one security source tells us that the bombs at all six locations killed very few victims. nearly all of the dead were shot with kalashnikov machine guns. [rapid gunfire] tonight there are about 300

100 of them are in critical condition. four of the attacks hit restaurants and bars, and a witness at one of the restaurants told us that he saw a gunman firing carefully and accurately, selecting a target, firing three times, and moving to the next. the witness said the gunman had the bearing of a soldier. [gunfire] by far most of the dead came from the bataclan concert hall where an american rock band was playing to a sold-out crowd. witnesses say the terrorists opened fire, then barricaded themselves with hostages. when police assaulted the hall, two of the attackers blew themselves up, and a third was killed in the shoot-out. in the attack on the stadium, only one victim died. one of the three terrorists there had a syrian passport,

had been used by a refugee among thousands crossing into europe from the war in syria. it is not clear whether the terrorist entered with the refugees or whether the passport was simply stolen. tonight memorials to the victims are growing by the hour -- flowers, candles, silent tribute. paris is quiet as france enters three days of mourning. the city of light is also a city of bells, and earlier this evening 75 churches rang out a tribute to those who were lost. you could hear it all over town. earlier today, i met a woman in a shop that had made a point to stay open. she said, "we'll be stronger after all this." and it is with that resolve that paris will get through these nights. norah? >> o'donnell: resolve indeed, scott. elizabeth palmer is also

reporting there in paris, and, liz, is there a concern that there could be more attackers out there? >> reporter: the police have not said they got all the attackers. they have said they have launched an aggressive manhunt to try and find all those they assume were helping. and there's a belgian connection developing in that respect. when the attackers dove down here to the club where so many people were killed, they arrived in a rented car, and that car turned out to have been rented by a belgian citizen. he was arrested today trying to cross the border back into belgium from france. a short time later belgian police descended on a suburb of brussels and arrested three more men. this is an area which is home to some radical islamists. police confirmed that one of those three men was in paris yesterday, the day of the attack. >> o'donnell: elizabeth palmer

and scott will have a special report on the paris attacks tomorrow night on "60 minutes." tonight we've learned the f.b.i. is sending a team of agents to paris to help investigate the siege, which played out across the city in quick progression. here's peter van sant. >> reporter: just before the chaos of the first bombs explode ing, the people of paris had been enjoying an unseasonably warm fall evening. at the stade de france, the stadium of france, president francois hollande was watching the soccer match between france and germany. it was friday the 13th, and the bad luck would strike just outside the stadium. it was 9:20 p.m. [explosion] american steve mccurry was

sitting in the stands and taking these photos on his phone. >> when i heard the explosion, i thought it was maybe part of the show, some entertainment element. >> reporter: mccurry says the crowd of 80,000 heard the explosion but had no idea a suicide bomber had just blown himself up. five minutes later, just four miles away in aaris neighborhood popular with young parisians, a gunman opened fire outside a crowded bar and nearby restaurant. at least 15 people were murdered. and 10 critically wounded. become at the soccer game, yet another explosion. [explosion] another suicide bomber. president hollande is evacuated. two minutes later, another bar

five more people gunned down. at another bar, the carnage continues. beginning at 9:36, for three long minutes, gunmen fired dozens of rounds. [gunfire] over and over, killing 19. among those killed last night, 23-year-old american college student nohemi gonzalez, an exchange student studying design from cal state in california. the carnage continues. at 9:40, more panic as another suicide bomber debt indicates his explosive belt right near the bataclan concert hall, the site of what will become the greatest scene of mass murder. inside that hall, a capacity

people, gathered to hear an american band, eagles of death metal. masked gunmen armed with ak-47s begin firing into the crowd. [gunfire] people desperately try to escape, jumping from the windows. this alleyway littered with bodies. the rock band manages to escape, but inside reports that the gunman are yelling, "god is great" in arabic and talking about syria and iraq. dozens of concertgoers are now hostages. >> we drove past the theater in our taxi. it was terrifying. the cars were all jammed and we were stopped, and we were told to get down in the car, to sink as low as possible as we can into our seats, and there were

next to our windows pointing to shoot. >> reporter: it's now 9:53 p.m. 33 minutes since the attacks began when a third suicide bomber debt indicates his belt outside the soccer stadium. the game finally ends. france wins 2-0. but by now word had reached the crowd. and panic set in. >> suddenly everybody just surged. it was almost like a tsunami. it was this wave kind of pushing us along. i got nervous they was going to get run over and maybe killed, so i actually jumped behind a fence. >> reporter: afraid of what he wound find on the streets, mccurry, like thousands of others, stayed in the stadium. it would be midnight before french authorities would storm the bataclan concert hall.

one gunman killed by police, the other two died exploding their belts. [explosion] 89 people died inside that hall, many more were injured. the attack was finally over. and back at the stadium, where it all began, the soccer fans felt safe to leave. france had just endured the worst terrorist attack in its history. as the fans walked out, they sang their country's national anthem. [singing] but for steve mccurry, what he witnessed last night reminded him of another tragedy, an american one. >> it really took me back to 9/11 when there was just

complete mayhem and bedlam. >> o'donnell: and tonight isis is vowing more attacks, but the white house says so far there is no specific or credible threat to the u.s. former cbs news correspondent john miller is the deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter-terrorism at the new york city police department. john, good evening. i think the question people want to know is: could an attack like what happened in paris happen here? >> here meaning the u.s.? it certainly could. here meaning new york, we spent the last two years redeveloping, redesigning the field piece of our counter-terrorism program to address just this. so now we have basically 1,500 police officers in uniform in cars with semi-automatic rifles and heavy vests that are on patrol all the time. i don't think any other city in the world has a tactical capability on that level. and we've didn't that because we've been watching.

this we watched charlie hebdo. we watched the mumbai attacks. and we assessed it. >> o'donnell: the question is:are they coming. isis has been here. >> in the month of june... well, between april and the end of june, we had a pressure cooker bomb plot inspired by isis targeting police that was interdicted between good police work and undercover work. there was a second plot to dehead somebody in new york and the use pressure cooker bombs at the fourth of july celebrations among the things they were talking about doing, and a couple of attacks on f.b.i. agents and police officers in the course of breaking up those plots. so it's not a wake-up call. it's been happening here. >> o'donnell: paris is set to host hundreds of world lead centers two weeks. it's a big global climate change summit that's there. how could attacks with this

virtually undetected? >> nor a, i think what you're seeing here is what f.b.i. director jim comey calls "going darm," and that is in the time following the snowden debate about privacy and about government overreaching and all of those allegation, a series of apps have come out that are encripghted that have messages that self-destruct set to a timer that can hold group chats that are completely protected from surveillance for up to 200 people. and the terrorists have found these app, and they're using it. and nor remarks what i'm talking about is you can walk in the door with a court order of a federal jung and said, we need to see what's inside here, like we did in mumbai, like we did after 9/11, and they'll tell you, we can't see what's inside. we designed it to be uncrackable. that's a real challenge. >> o'donnell: and scarerism john miller, thank you very much. some of the survivor, the lucky ones after the paris attacks, have powerful stories to tell.

>> reporter: the attacks were coordinated, designed for maximum carnage. the targets of terrorist zeal were places that hosted its antithesis, celebrations of the joys of life. the california-based ban eagles of death metal, seen in this youtube video, were playing in bataclan, a paris landmark whose stage has hosted the likes of lou reed when three armed men burst in and began their killing spree. some escaped the bloody chaos by that most basic of instinct, running for their lives. the desperation and fear that had others literally hanging on by their fingernails to survive defies imagination. this man heard what he thought were firecrackers, turned and saw two men firing automatic weapons. "we all laid on the ground," he said. "there was panic, screams. we ran and hid in a staircase. someone was trying to get.

an apartment window was open and escapees climbed in. "we stayed the whole time in the dark. question could hear gun shots, explosions, screams. we didn't know what was going on." across town a capacity crowd watching a france-germany soccer match had no idea what was going on either, not even when an explosion was heard. the french president was evacuated, but the game went on. it was a suicide bomber and the again a miraculous escape. this man was crossing the street. "it just exploded in front of me," he said. "everything went to pieces." one of those pieces of shrapnel is his phone. "the phone," he said, "saved me." and that saved soccer game saved this man. a gunman attacked a restaurant area where he normally hangs out on friday night, he was watching the game on tv. >> i saw all these men running

from here, under the table, and people shooting. it's horrible. it's like war. what crazy. >> reporter: it's a question that has no answer, no more than why some were saved and others were not. some of the victims are still not identified, so the social network equivalent of the 9/11 wall of the missing is twitter #searchingparis. there were green "i am safe" ticks, but man named joe wrote, my girlfriend was at the concert. i was supposed to get engage with her. i don't know if i will see her again. many more were along the lines of this one in english, "i am trying to locate my cousin, colin macdonald."

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>> sunday on "60 minutes," scott pelley reports from paris on the terrorist attacks, including a harrowing survivor's account. "60 minutes" sunday. >> o'donnell: until the paris attacks, isis had directed most of its brutality in the middle east. this map shows how much of syria and iraq they control. also this week, iraqi kurds backed by u.s. air strikes struck back. charlie d'agata reports from irbil in northern iraq. >> reporter: when kurdish forces took back the isis-held city of sinjar, it was seen here as a strategic and symbolic victory.

sinjar had been home to a religious majority until isis overran the city 15 months ago. a yazidi soldier from sinjar told us he fled with his baby daughter when isis militants invaded. what does it mean to be back here to take back your city? he said he was happy to take part in defeating them. he told us, "they destroyed the town. they kidnapped girls and women and even killed children six months old." thousands of women who were unable to escape were taken as slaves. the men were massacred. those who were able to get away spoke of the systematic rape of yazidi women and girls. isis has taken its war far beyond this battlefield. in just the past three weeks, isis and its affiliates claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks that have left nearly 400 people dead. first came the downing of the russian passenger plane over egypt that killed 224 passengers

and crew. then twin suicide bombs in lebanon that left more than 40 people dead. [explosion] and now paris. in all three cases, isis blamed those countries for intervening in their war. the most powerful and most hated enemy isis faces here is the united states. it's impossible to defend against american air strikes that have stalled the isis offensive, killing countless numbers of its fighters. they're already made repeated threats. "americans are the new invaders," says this militant, "and we promise we will meet them on their land." as isis expands into the realm of international terrorism, they have made clear america is in their sights. charlie d'agata, cbs news, irbil, iraq. >> o'donnell: tonight the u.s. is offering much more than

condolences to the french after the attacks. jeff pegues has more on this. jeff, good evening. >> reporter: norah, the french may be leading this investigation, but u.s. law enforcement is digging in, too, trying to track the terrorist's path through the streets of paris. u.s. officials are concerned the tactics isis used to kill there could be used here. u.s. officials say the attacks were well organized but not sophisticated. [explosion] and the explosives used were not high-tech. hour, it is the organizational skill and high death count that has counter-terrorism officials worried. >> this is the next stage in isis methodology, capability and reach. >> reporter: juan zarate is a former counter-terrorism official and a cbs news consultant. >> the real dangerous and troubling part here, jeff, is that you have individuals who are working in tandem. in some way communicating or coordinating, and those communications, that coordination and the material

they brought with them, suicide vests and heavy weaponry weren't caught in the french security system. >> reporter: just hours after the attacks in paris, senior f.b.i. officials ordered agents across the country to step up surveillance of potential isis sympathizers. currently there are about 900 cases. last month f.b.i. director james comey testified before congress about the threat. >> the challenge we face, the folks at this table, is finding those needle in nationwide haystack and assessing, where are they on that spectrum between consuming poison to acting on poison and disrupting them before they act. >> reporter: that's something french investigators weren't able to do in paris. how do you prevent an attack like that in the u.s.? >> you can't prevent every attack. and that's the problem. and when terrorists are trying to go after any soft target, strategic or otherwise, you can't protect all sites at all times, and what we saw in paris was the terrorists winning on

that fateful night. >> reporter: in many ways what happened was the nightmare scenario from western intelligence officials. not only were there mass casualties, but a suicide bomber was able to get close enough to the french president that he had to flee. norah? >> o'donnell: jeff pegues in washington. jeff, thank you. after paris, the nfl says it will increase security at its stadiums beginning tomorrow. erin moriarty got a firsthand look at the challenge of protecting soft targets in the biggest of cities. >> we're going to be safe. we're going to be vigilant, and we're going to be disciplined. >> reporter: rolling through "new york times" square today, a very visible sign the city's anti-terror squad is on the job, a job that gets harder and harder, questioning where terrorists could strike next. is this what you calm a soft target? >> absolutely. there are lots of people here. there will probably be more here at lunchtime.

shoppers, most are probably tourists. >> reporter: vincent is a high-rank count terrorism officer in the new york police department in the years following the 9/11 attacks. he says what happened in paris is a sign of what could come. >> but in this situation, the way they targeted young people in the late evening hours, they knew what they were doing. i mean, they targeted people who were very susceptible, people out partying. it's something that really hits home. >> reporter: he believes this is just the latest tactic of isis terrorists. >> it looks to be terrorism evolving. it looks to be the next generation. >> reporter: focusing primarily on what the experts call "soft targets." >> the goal of a soft target is to hit a place with a lot of people to kill as many as you can. >> reporter: what's the attraction of going for a cafee or going for a shopping mall? >> in my opinion, it's an easy target and it's something that upsets our lifestyle. what they want to do is create as much havoc as they could.

>> reporter: since 9/11, after security was beefed up at government buildings and airports, militants have turned to easier targets. in 2013, it was a luxurious shopping mall in kenya. this summer a tourist beach in tunisia. in paris last night, more soft targets. so in new york today, police were flexing muscle, hoping to deter the same thing from happening here. less than 24 hours after an attack in paris, people are out, living their lives. >> that's what new york is all about. we're resilient people, and although, you know, we've had things happen here, we forget. we move on. >> o'donnell: the attacks in paris forced a big change in tonight's democratic

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original reporting of cbs news. >> o'donnell: the democratic presidential debate that follows this program on cbs will have a very different focus in light of the paris terror attacks. john dickerson will moderate. nancy cordes will join him on the panel. they are both in des moines tonight. good evening to you both. john, the paris attacks have really raised the stakes for this debate. how do they change the dynamics of what you think people will see tonight? >> reporter: well, when people look at a debate, they see each of the candidates as they might act as president, but tonight that will be ever more so the case because we have this fresh crisis that brings up all of the issues that a president faces, an uh unpredictable event that happens out of nowhere and where people look to the president to both explain it and explain how things are going to get better, and that's what they'll be judging. all 2 candidates on stage tonight, that's the judgment they'll be using. >> o'donnell: nancy, there are some big differences between these candidates on foreign policy. how do you think they'll play out. >> i think there are two very different visions of our place in the world.

you'll hear hillary clinton, who is one of the most prointervention members of the obama administration say we need to take a leading role. she was one of the only people in the obama administration who advised arming the syrian rebels in the first place. she was in favor of bombing libya. bernie sanders on the other hand was one of three senators this week who voted against increasing the defense budget, and he has argued that middle eastern countries should be taking the lead in the fight against isis and that the u.s. should be more focused on the problems that we face here at home. >> o'donnell: john dickerson and nancy cordes, we'll be watching tonight. thank you. the republican candidates for president want to make the paris attacks a campaign issue. major garrett has that story. >> reporter: republican reaction was swift and uniform. president obama and former secretary of state hillary clinton have not been tough enough on terrorism generally or isis specifically. the paris atrocities hushed the

>> i'd like to have a moment of silence. >> reporter: earlier this week, donald trump's isis intentions could not have been louder. >> they have certain areas they took away, some in syria, some in iraq. i would bomb the [bleeped] out of them. [applause] i would just bomb those suckers. >> reporter: campaigning in florida, a subdued ohio governor john kasich today urged wider u.s.-european military and surveillance cop ration. >> our thoughts and our prayers go to the people of france, but that's not enough. action is required. time is of the essence.

delay are not acceptable. >> reporter: texas senator ted cruz says the president cannot defeat an enemy he refuses to name. >> we need a commander-in-chief willing to utter the words "radical slammic terrorism" because it is the islamists who embrace this extreme political and theological philosophy. if we do not act, this terrorism, this violence will come to america. >> reporter: and former arkansas governor mike huckabee called for immediate immigration controls. >> we need to close our borders. if a left-wing politically correct country like france will close its borders, it's time for us to put a moratorium on people coming here from countries where there are isis or al qaeda ties. >> reporter: the republican bottom line: isis terror is a

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candidates will take the stage in just xx minutes. it's really starting to at sheslow auditorium where the >> o'donnell: a dark object looms over the city of light. the eiffel tower's lights are off out of respect for the victims of the worst attacks in france since world war ii. the city streets are eerily empty all day, similar to the scene in boston after the marathon bombings. both scenes in stark contrast to the chaos and carnage that shattered the french capital friday night. this marks the first coordinated isis attack in the west. joining us now is michael

of the c.i.a. and cbs news security contributor. michael, good evening. i want to ask you, in two weeks time we have had three attacks we believed were incited if not organized by isis -- the downing of the russian airplane, the beirut bombing, and now these attacks in paris. are we underestimating isis' capabilities. >> i don't think it's possible to overstate the significance of what's happened here in the last two weeks. the downing of the airliner, only the third time that a bomb has brought down an airliner in a quarter century, and as you mentioned, this appears to be the first isis directed attack in the west, the second largest terrorist attack in the west since the madrid bombings. this is very, very significant. >> o'donnell: isis has said they want to be a global terrorist organization. how can we deny they've succeeded. >> i think they are succeeding. what that says to me, norah, our

strategy to defeat them, our strategy to degrade them is simply not working. one of the responsibilities, norah, of an intelligence official, is to be able to look the president in the eye and tell him that his policy is not working, and i think we've reached that point. >> o'donnell: you've helped lead the c.i.a. what needs to be done. >> one thing to look at, norah, is how are they able to move these operatives from the middle east, at least some of them, to paris, and more importantly, how were they able to communicate under the radar? i think that's going to be the most interesting issue, because i think what we're going to find is what we've worried about for the last year, they're using encrypted communications. they're taking their communications, putting commercial encryption on top of it that we can't break, and the producers of those products will not give us the key for. so i think this is going to open up an entire new debate about security versus privacy. >> o'donnell: you mean companies like apple?

>> correct, absolutely. >> o'donnell: michael morell, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> o'donnell: now back to des moines, iowa, where the democratic presidential debate is minutes away. john dickerson will moderate. john, incredibly high stakes tonight. what's it like, the mood inside the room? >> well, the mood inside the room is first of all a gorgeous room, a gorgeous theater here at drake university. people have been looking forward to this debate for a while. there are only six democratic debates, so this is important, and, of course, iowa is a crucial state. the caucus here will set the tone for the rest of the campaign, and everybody here obviously is thinking about this in a new context after the attacks in paris. >> o'donnell: and we will be watching. john dickerson, thank you, as we see hillary clinton entering there. coming up, in the face of fear, how will the french people respond? but first, susan spencer traveled a route that's been shaken by terror before among people who are hoping to keep

to get a sense of paris post attack. on a cold, cloudy saturday that will mark the indelible shift from paris before to paris after. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: we began our trip by train from brussels where authorities have made several arrests after seeing a car with belgian license plates near the bataclan theater friday night. armed guards were on high alert at the station this afternoon. despite what happened yesterday, the additional security should perhaps come as no surprise. it was on this very route earlier this year that three americans thwarted a terrorist attack. the attacker, a moroccan national, shot and slashed at passengers before being subdued. security ramped up after that, but one train employee told us it was doubled today. the police were obvious, and immediately suspicious of anyone taking pictures, even with a phone.

but there were few passengers, and their mood was both somber somber -- makes you sad? >> yes. >> reporter: and thankful. >> i am a live. and it's really a chance to be alive today. >> reporter: when we got the paris this saturday night, life seemed almost on hold. fewer people were out. many restaurants, cinemas, markets closed. [gunfire] it's the first thing that happens when, unlike the charlie hebdo killings, attacks are untargetted, seemingly random, says documentary producer stephan veneura. this is different? this is more random? >> it seems like just provoking fear. they were there to kill the maximum amount of people. >> o'donnell: psychological. what does that do to a city like this? >> i think at first it creates fear, but secondly the spirit of

>> o'donnell: a sentiment beginning to echo in the only crowd we saw, that at the makeshift memorial at the place de republic. >> my friends are safe. i know the friends of other people are not safe. i wanted to show my solidarity. >> soon things will be back to normal. >> >> reporter: time and determination that an act of

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the bataclan concert hall. where just hours earlier terrorists turned a packed house into a house of horrors. [gunfire] the southern california band eagles of death metal was rocking out with their fans, one who captured the show on cell phone video. it was taken moments before tragedy struck. though they may not be a household name, when eagles of death metal play venues like the vipir room here in los angeles, they're packed. fans eat their music up. in fact, their last three albums all made the billboard top 200, and they have a huge following all over france. their music is so catchy it's often used in commercials like this nike ad. as news of the attacks spread, their fans here in the u.s. jumped on social media hungry for any news about the band's fate. late last night cbs news

confirmed that the band members all made it out alive, but nick alexander, a merchandise manager and british national, didn't. music journalist steve appleford. >> my reaction was shock and disbelief that of all the bands in the world that it would be these guys. >> o'donnell: an preponderanceford interviewed the founders of eagles of death metal right before the bond's european tour began. when people hear "eagles of death metal"? >> it's a joke. it's basically a takeoff on what would the eagles sound like if they were a death metal band, which is a ridiculous question. it's really a band that's rooted in classic '70s riff-based rock 'n' roll, and they like the dance, and they like to have fun, and jesse sings about girls and just having a good time.

that this band that's so full of life and wants to celebrate life was in the middle of this horrible tragedy. >> i mean, even though there is the word "death" in their name, nothing could be further than what that band is all about. >> o'donnell: a band built on sharing their love of music has canceled the rest of their european tour, and now, through no fault of their own, the eagles of death metal will be forever linked to tragedy.he boat. for seven hours, we did battle. until i said... you will not beat... meeeeee!!! greg. what should i do with your fish? gary. just put it in the cooler. if you're a fisherman, you tell tales. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance,

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>> reporter: once again tonight the world is doing the math, calculating the cost of terror. there is an equation of evil. innocent victims plus unthinkable savagery equals success in a twisted corner of the world. it is a formula civilization is confronting too frequently, usually chronicled first by witnesses just out of the line of fire. [explosion] senseless death is becoming a part of life. people and governments use what tools we have to cope. last night, amongst the mundane chitchat and catching up,

facebook activated a feature that is a sign of the times -- safety check. it can identify people in areas under attack and allow them to check in as safe. twitter started a hashtag, "open door" in friends, ouring places to stay for people stranded in the midst of the chaos. and when twitter users started posting pictures of the missing, people were reminded of the 9/11 attacks. in 2001, families and friends had to post pictures and pleas for information on a fence near ground zero. the only thing that's changed is the technology. but the shock and the horror and the fear seen fresh with every new slaughter. [gunfire] this year in paris has been book ended by terror. in january, another series of attacks around paris killed 17

people. yesterday's attacks killed many more. it's time again to absorb and remember. outside the theater where scores died during a concert, a man wheeled a piano up and started playing john lennon's "imagine." and across the world, landmark, iconic buildings were illuminatessed in france's color, red, white and blue. today paris is on the minds of all decent people, but in the back of those minds is the fear, where and when will there be more victims to count. are we next? >> o'donnell: and maybe it is that sense of what happened in paris could happen here that americans have been showing their solidarity all day today. take a look at this.

waving the french flag. u.s. landmarks batd in blue, white and red light, the colors of america's oldest ally. coming up, the democratic presidential debate is next. our coverage of the paris attacks continues on cbs sunday morning as well as on "face the nation," "60 minutes" and our 24-hour digital network, cbsn. i'm norah o'donnell, cbs news new york. good night. news we're just minutes away from the democratic debate. you're looking at sheslow auditorium where hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley just took the stage. packed house here at drake university. the moderators - also ready on stage. you see our own kevin cooney there next to the des moines register's kathie obradovich... they are on the panel. face the nation host john dickerson will host the debate - along with nancy cordes.