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the paris terror investigation widens. an international manhunt for a suspect who got away. frightening images emerge inside a concert hall along with extraordinary stories of survival. did the attackers use so-called dark apps to hide their communications? president obama huddles with vladimir putin over the fight against isis. security is increased at u.s. football stadiums. what's being done to protect soft targets. >> soft targetsing going to have to rely very heavily on public awareness. >> this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jeff glor. the death toll in paris stands at 129. over 350 hurt, 77 in critical
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condition. isis claimed responsibility and france has responded. these are french war planes unleashed earlier in a wave of air strike trts jordan and the united arab emirates. they bombed command centers around the isis stronghold of raqqa in syria. it comes as the investigation is widening. an international manhunt is on for 26-year-old french national living in belgium. seven other suspects are dead, six from suicide bombs, another killed friday in a shoot-out with police. who are the suspects and how could they plan the first coordinated attack by isis in the west? we have a series of reports starting in paris with elizabeth palmer. >> reporter: hundreds of people who'd gathered near the locations of friday's attacks suddenly bolted tonight. for a few minutes they were convinced the nightmare was starting all over again. they dove for cover anywhere that looked like a good place to hide. even the police went on alert.
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but it was a false alarm. and it's still not clear what started the panic. tension is high, especially after the police today issued an international arrest warrant for a suspected terrorist who's still on the loose. salah abdeslam from belgium is one of three brothers thought to be involved in the attacks. he's suspected of running logistics. and renting a car that was towed away from near the bataclan concert hall for forensic testing. the police have also identified some of the seven dead attackers. they include abdeslam's brother ibrahim who gunned down restaurant customers in central paris then blew himself off. akbaq abdul hamad attacked the football stadium, 25, a syrian who slipped into europe on what may have been a false passport last month, among the thousands of asylum-seekers who have come ashore in greece.
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omar ismail most 77 fy, on a police watch list after being radicalized in 2010. and he led the attack in the concert hall. here's the result. a distressing photo of the crime scene shows the bodies of music fans executed on the spot. today family members got as close as they could to the place still under police guard and their shock dissolved inn anguish. a rabbi and two imams came to light candles and speak to the crowd. "now is the time," said one of the imams" for french citizens to take a clear stand against any form of terrorism." but for 129 innocents, it's too late. this is the second major terrorist attack in paris in less than a year, jeff.
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and the world climate change summit is coming up in two weeks. to say that french politicians and security services are stressed would be an understatement. >> liz palmer, thank you very much. at least 89 of the victims were killed inside a concert hall as a rock band from southern california was performing. but their remarkable stories of survival as well. rewithin you some of the images are graphic. ♪ >> reporter: the eagles of death metal had the bataclan rocking and then shots rang out. the guitarist bolted. the drummer ducked. the concert became carnage. the horror of being caught up in the attack was evidentpy how december operate people were to escape. "please help me, i'm pregnant, i can't hold on." this man and a canyon dove for cover the moment the shooting began. >> we when tried the reach the door, we were crawling out on
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dead people, so many dead people on the floor. >> you were crawling over dead people? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: this photo taken when the attack was over shows what he escaped. the victims were shot methodically with no chance to escape, no mercy shown. in the street outside, more carnage. even as the wound wednesday being helped, the sounds of the assault can be heard. it was even more terrifying for concertgoers who hid. christine tuthole huddled in a small room for three hours. >> you could hear everything from above going on. bullets, grenades, explosions, screams. we could hear it. >> reporter: by the time the injured made it to this doctor's hospital -- >> all the patients were silent. there was a huge silence. we imagine no people were speaking. >> reporter: silence is the most striking feature of makeshift memorials. they come to honor the dead and to try to make sense of violence that is by all normal measures incomprehensible.
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a memorial service at notre dame cathedral marked the start of three days of official mourning. but the fear will linger long after that. president obama is in turkey at the g-20 summit. the focus was meant to be the global economy but now it's isis and it has the president huddling with vladimir putin. margaret brennan is there. >> reporter: as world leaders stood for a moment of silence honoring the victims of the paris attack the looming question was how to respond. president obama even consulted with russia's vladimir putin who has been reluctant to join the fight against isis despite losing over 200 of his citizens in a jet believed to have been blown up by an isis bomb. in a meeting with the president of turkey, a country also hit by isis, president obama vowed to hunt down the perpetrators. >> the killing of innocent people based on a twisted ideology is an attack not just
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on france, not just on turkey, but it's an attack on the civilized world. >> reporter: officials say the fight against isis will now intensify. that includes more air strikes targeting the terror group's top leaders. greater intelligence-sharing between the u.s. and european countries. and tighter control ever the turkish/syrian border to restrict movement of foreign fighters. critics say the scope of the paris attacks requires a significant change of course. mike mor morrell served under president obama -- >> i they it's crystal clear that us our strategy, our policy vis-a-vis isis is not working and it's time to look at something else. >> reporter: following friday's attack the u.s. is hoping that france will consider putting special forces on the ground in syria to fight isis. alongside the u.s. operators already deployed there. >> margaret, thank you. ,,,,,,,,,
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you jerd heard from michael morrell, former deputy director of the cia, joining us now. you were blunt saying our strategy against isis is not working. if you're not ready to prescribe what exactly might work, what do you think at least needs to be reconsidered? >> jeff, it's not that i'm not ready to prescribe. i don't know what to prescribe. but i do think we need to reconsider some things. i think the first thing we need to reconsider is our views on president assad. our policy has been, he has to go, that stability in syria is not possible as long as he's at the helm. but he may also -- he is certainly part of the problem but he may be part of the solution here the way the russians and iranians think about it. that's number one. number two, we might need to
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think about taking more risks on the battlefield. not necessarily putting americans in combat but putting them in forward positions supporting others in combat, calling in air strikes, for example. different things we should be looking at. >> under a possession scenario of the u.s. working with the syrian army, that is a dramatic and serious change in strategy. >> yes, it would be. it's been discussed before. we've always ended up with, no, our policy is that he needs to go, then we'll work with a new government. but what's happened in the last two weeks, the bringing down of the airliner, the directed attack in paris, unprecedented. it's time to think about a new approach. >> oust iraq and syria, why is isis so interested in launching attack in the west at this point? >> two reasons. the first is they want to go after countries who are part of the coalition attacking them in iraq and syria. they're trying to change the political dialogue in those countries. they're having just the opposite effect as we've seen today. the french attacking isis
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positions in syria. the second is they want groups, extremist groups in other countries, to follow them, take on their mantle, take on their objective, which is to form a global caliphate. >> this is not less focused on the caliphate, in fact these attacks on the outside reflects more? >> exactly, global caliphate. >> thank you very much. isis has proposed more attacks but the white house says so far there is no specific or credible threat to the u.s. >> reporter: it's still the regular season. but on sunday there was near super bowl-level security at nfl stadiums across the country. in pittsburgh increased bag checks. eagles fans in philadelphia were greeted by s.w.a.t. teams and bomb-sniffing dogs. the friday the 13th assault in paris is prompting increased security in the u.s. to protect the public not only at sporting events but at concerts and other venues drawing large crowds.
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>> we have no shortage of those. >> reporter: new york city police commissioner bill bratton. >> we also have no short an of soft targets which is the problem. we're going to have to rely very heavily on public awareness as we always try to do. see something, say something. >> reporter: u.s. law enforcement officials say there is no specific or credible threat to the united states. still, this weekend the fbi ordered agents to step up surveillance of potential isis sympathizers. but the old rules may not apply anymore. mohammad frazier rahim, a former counterterrorism analyst for the director of national intelligence, says isis has evolved. >> what does law enforcement have to do now to counter that? >> law enforcement can't do this alone. they have to work in, quite frankly, with muslim populations, communities. work with imams, work with community centers. this cannot be a solely government response. >> reporter: the u.s. law enforcement response to the paris attacks is still a work in
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progress. jeff, federal officials are discussing whether to issue more specific guidance to law enforcement in cities and states in the coming days. how could the teams of paris attackers plan the assault without getting caught? contessa brewer shows how technology could have played a role. >> reporter: the paris attackers may have pulled off their plot in part by keeping their plotting secret. isis uses so-called dark apps to hide their messages from surveillance. the same apps many people use to keep information private. former fbi deputy director timothy murphy -- >> it's caused a huge, huge blind spot for intelligence agencies and law enforcement to actually get insight to what they're doing. >> reporter: often even the app makers can't get the data because messages self-destruct or the encryption key constantly changes. new york city police commissioner bill bratton -- >> these apps, these devices that now allow these terrorists
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to operate effectively without fear of penetration by intelligence services, this is the first example of this. >> reporter: in brussels, searching for accomplices, investigators reportedly discovered a playstation 4. belgian leaders say communications on the gaming console are also difficult to monitor. >> it's a huge, huge problem. the social media recruitment, social media radicalization, then they'll go off those social media platforms into encrypted platforms to have further conversations about travel, about if you can't travel take action against your own country. >> reporter: and isis is already using the paris attacks to build its brands online. >> this event is similar to the events of 9/11 in terms of the game-changing aspect of it. >> reporter: if you think the dark apps are just the domain of terrorists, think again. medical and legal professionals use them to keep your information private. british intelligence reportedly uses them for its own communication. >> contessa, thank you very
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the only american confirmed killed in the paris attacks was a student at california state
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long beach. today that school held a vigil in her honor. here's maria villareal. >> reporter: nohemi was a student with big dreams. >> she wanted to have a different life. she wanted to have a career. and a family. >> reporter: gonzalez was one of 17 cal state long beach students spending the semester in paris. a friday night dinner with other foreign exchange students ended with gonzalez among 19 people gunned down at labellee equipe restaurant half a world away. professor michael ford called nohemi an extraordinary student. >> nohemi was something of a star. she brought joy, happiness, laughter to everybody she worked with. >> reporter: for her family yet another heartache. >> the fbi, they told us it's going to take three weeks or
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more to have the body back. because she has to stay there for all the investigation. >> reporter: nohemi gonzalez was just 23. her boyfriend posted on instagram, i lost the most important person in my life. she was my best friend and she will always be my angel forever." >> the paris attacks also changed the focus of the democratic presidential debates. that story is next.
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the attacks in paris had a big impact on last night's democratic primary debate in des moines. after the debate over half of democrats and independents polled said hillary clinton won. bernie sanders came in second. followed by martin o'mally.
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two-thirds say clinton is the candidate they trust most to fight terrorism. more from nancy cordis who was on the panel. >> reporter: at a debate refocused on foreign policy the former secretary of state said she's best prepared to deal with threats like isis. >> it cannot be contained, it must be defeated. >> reporter: vermont senator bernie sanders argued the u.s. should be part of that fight but not lead it. >> the disastrous invasion of iraq, something that i strongly opposed, has unraveled the region completely. >> let's just be clear. >> what our saying. you're saying secretary clinton, who was then senator clinton, voted for the iraq war? >> i don't think any sensible person would disagree the invasion of iraq led to the massive level of instability we are seeing right now. >> reporter: the candidates clashed over health care, taxes, and big-dollar donations. >> why over her political career has wall street been a major, the major campaign contributor to hillary clinton?
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>> we need to step up and we need to protect main street from wall street. and you can't do that by campaigning as the candidate of wall street. >> i represented new york on 9/11. when we were attacked, where were we attacked? we were attacked in downtown manhattan where wall street is. >> reporter: that comment sparked reaction on debate partner twitter. >> secretary clinton, one of the tweets we saw said, i've never seen a candidate invoke 9/11 to vusfy millions of wall street donations until now. >> i'm sorry that whoever tweeted that had that impression. because i worked closely with new yorkers after 9/11. for my entire first term, to rebuild. so yes, i did know people. i've had a lot of folks give me donations from all kinds of backgrounds. >> reporter: while respondents to our poll called clinton the winner they gave her and sanders equal marks on the economy and gave him a 2-1 advantage when it comes to dealing with income
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inequality. another big story this weekend,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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there are reports two tornados touched down today south of sacramento in stanislaus county. no word of injuries. officials are assessing the damage. four left in critical condition after a double-decker tour bus in san francisco went out of control. >> reporter: the open-top double-decker tour bus ran down a bicyclist, struck two pedestrians, and smashed into moving cars. and kept going. stunned witness katie bailey -- >> the bus was going very quickly through the intersection. at least 40 miles an hour. it looked like it was going out of control. >> reporter: the bus came to a halt at a construction site in the admit of union square, a busy shopping and hotel district in san francisco. security worker john zimmer called the scene horrific. >> it was like a bomb going off.
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it just kept boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. like it wasn't going to stop. >> reporter: 30 people were on the bus when it crashed. 20 were hurt. eight people, including a minor, were taken to the hospital. four remain critical. officer esperanza says the investigation is ongoing. >> we'll look at any mechanical malfunctions, dui or alcohol or markets, as stoord operating procedures. >> reporter: the ceo of city sightseeing released a statement saying he's deeply saddened and is cooperating with authorities. firefighters say the bus driver was awake and talking at the time of the crash but his condition is not known. >> we'll be right back.
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it happened in paris. but the world is watching. england, germany, myanmar, the philippines, afghanistan, pakistan, egypt, india, nepal, vigils and memorials of light stand in stark contrast to friday's darkness. in washington, d.c. today, james jones brought his two sons, riley 7, grayson 5, to the french embassy. at the eiffel tower under extra police protection, this scene at sunrise. the sun is about to rise again in france. and though monday will mean more searching it also means more support as a global audience stands with the city of light. that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us for the "morning news" and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.
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this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm jeff glor. france is striking back against isis which claimed responsibility for friday's attacks in paris. ten french fighter bombers attacked isis targets in raqqa, france's biggest air raid since the start of conflict. france is in three days of national mourning for the victims of the terror attacks. the death toll stood at 129. more than 350 are wounded, including nearly 80 who remain in critical condition. seven terrorists are dead but the search continues for one who got away. a 26-year-old man from belgium. we begin our coverage with elizabeth palmer in paris. >> reporter: in about two and a half hours on friday night, six locations were attacked pretty
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much simultaneously. and at least seven terrorists were involved. the police say those men are all dead. paris is in shock, of course, and the country has begun three official days of mourning. the police immediately working with forensics teams set out to identify these seven men and they said they've done it, although they've only named one of them. they were relying on dna evidence and in some cases body parts so they sound pretty sure of themselves. the named one is a french citizen, a petty criminal, and he has been known to security services radar since 2010 when he was apparently radicalized. the search has gone international for accomplices. turns out the car that was driven to the bataclan concert hall was rented by a belgian citizen. the police picked him up yesterday. he was trying to get back into belgium from france. they've also arrested three other men from a suburb of
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brussels which is known to be a home to islamic radicals. and at least one of them say the man was in paris on the day of the attacks. people wonder why the intelligence services didn't pick up chatter on these attacks. they were relatively complex, they involved a lot of people, some of whom are dead, some of whom are clearly alive. the fact is the security services here have been completely overwhelmed. not only have there been french citizens who'd gone to syria to fight and have been coming back who have to be thoroughly checked out, of course in the last few months there have been hundreds of thousands of migrants flooding into europe in a pretty chaotic fashion. and the security services frankly have been very worried that some of them will be coming in as terrorists disguysed simply as asylum seekers. that may turn out to have been the case in this instance. >> the blood bath in paris has turned the focus of this g-50 summit from the economy to isis.
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president obama said the skies have been darkened by those horrific attacks and his very first meeting here was with the president of turkey, a country that has also recently been hit by isis. >> the killing of innocent people based on a twisted ideology is an attack not just on france, not just on turkey, but it's an attack on the civilized world. >> reporter: he said the u.s. is committed to opportunihunting d perpetrators but he did not say whether that meant the u.s. would ramp up the fight. up to now president obama has argued that air strikes in iraq and syria have kept isis contained. but now allies like saudi arabia and even critics like russia's vladimir putin argue an imminent threat requires a much stronger response. in the meantime, president obama is trying to broker a cease-fire in syria. that war zone has not only sent millions of refugees scattered
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throughout the middle east and europe, but it has also created a safe haven for the growth of extremists like isis. >> at least 89 of those killed in the terror attacks in paris died inside a concert hall. scott pelley has the story of two survivors for "60 minutes." >> reporter: on this sunday night the great bells of notre dame pay tribute to the dead and to the wounded. you're about to meet two witnesses to the assault on paris. one of them was shot as he played dead inside the concert hall where most of the victims were killed. the other watched innocent people shot down by one of the terrorists. together they paint a picture of the day that darkness fell on the city of light. >> what was the very first thing you saw? >> a gunman. dressed in black. black boots. black trousers.
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tight. a black sweater of sorts, no collar. and standing in a very clear gun position, shooting position. he was holding a weapon. and had it shouldered. and was shooting quite deliberately and precisely. >> reporter: marco cluff, a danish psychologist, was walking with a friend toward a cafe. >> where was he shooting? >> the french have a habit of having chairs outside the cafes so you can sit with your back to the window and watch the world go by. people were doing that. he shot three of them. just like that. the three that were sitting outside he shot very quickly. >> so as he opens fire on the crowd outside the cafe -- >> three people. there wasn't a crowd. he had positioned his legs so he would stand in the tripod kind of way. had the rifle up to his left shoulder.
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quite deliberately shot, looked, shot, looked, shot, looked, stopped. >> what happened to those three people? >> they fell off their chairs. >> he hit them all? >> oh, yeah, they were dead. or they fell off their chairs. they could see that. that's the first thing i saw. he was shooting that way down to his right. and he gyrated back and he shot straight ahead into a car that was parked, that was at the crossroads next to the cafe. >> reporter: this is the scene. there's the car. and these are the people who fell off their chairs. the man recording this video says to himself, poor people, it can't be true, it can't be true. >> what happened next? >> he then stepped forward and then he turned right. and walked into the cafe that the three people had been sitting in front of. >> it didn't appear to you that he had the weapon set on automatic and he was just -- >> no. >> -- sweeping the room?
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>> no, it wasn't random. >> he was picking out his targets, shooting them one at a time? moving to the next target? >> he shot the three. then he shot into the car. then he moved into the cafe. looked right. panned right with his weapon. didn't shoot. panned left. shot shot shot, pause. shot shot shot, pause. >> reporter: the shooting stopped, the gunman fled. he and his friend went to see if they could help. >> when you went into the cafe what did you see? >> wounded. some, i could see one guy had been shot in his thigh. i could see another woman had already been given an oxygen mask. i could see the pair members had put themselves on either side of her. so i thought, she's more critically wounded. towards the bar on our left i
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could see three or four dead bodies lying in front of the bar. >> we'll have more on scott's report on the paris terror report on the paris terror attacks in two oh no... (under his breath) hey man! hey peter. (unenthusiastic) oh... ha ha ha! joanne? is that you? it's me... you don't look a day over 70. am i right? jingle jingle. if you're peter pan, you stay young forever. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. ♪ you make me feel so young... it's what you do. ♪ you make me feel ♪ so spring has sprung. dayquil liquid gels and go. hey buddy, let's get these but these liquid gels are new. mucinex fast max. it's the same difference. these are multi-symptom. well so are these. this one is max strength and fights mucus. that one doesn't. uh...think fast! you dropped something. oh...i'll put it back on the shelf... new from mucinex fast max. the only cold and flu liquid gel
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at least 89 of those killed in the paris terror attacks died inside a concert hall. we continue with scott pelley's report of two survivors of that attack. >> reporter: the shooting stopped, the gunmen fled. marco cluff and his friend went to see if they could help. >> when you went into the cafe, what did you see? >> wounded. some i could see -- one guy had been shot in his thigh. i could see another woman had already been given an oxygen mask. i could see the paramedics had put themselves on either side of her. i thought, she's more critically wounded. then towards the bar i could see on our left, i could see this were three or four dead bodies
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lying in front of the bar. civilians. i looked down and i saw big puddles of blood. puddles. not little droplets, puddles. >> tables turned over, chairs flipped over, chaos? >> yes. again, the smell of gunpowder in the room. >> half a mile away, an american band was playing to a packed house at the bataclan music hall. francois was by the stage. he's asked us to use only his first name. >> there was about 1,500 people inside. so people were standing and dancing. on the ground floor. >> on the ground floor there are no seats, it's all open? >> no seats. there is the bar at the back. and people dancing at the front. >> what was the first thing you noticed?
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>> i saw -- heard the gunshots. about ten. i looked back. and i saw these men shooting a rifle. >> describe it to me. >> shooting shot by shot to make sure it was targeting the people. everything was metallic. very precise. and he was trained. clearly trained. >> clearly trained? >> yeah. >> did they have to stop and reload? >> i saw him reloading. very fast. >> you think he was experienced? >> yeah. >> trained like a soldier? >> yeah. >> reporter: francois was hit. a grazing bullet to the back. he fell to the dance floor and played dead. >> what are you seeing around you? were other people wounded nearby? >> yes, yes.
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i saw people hurt. i saw people laid on the ground, not moving. they were probably dead or severely injured. there was blood all over the ground. and -- yeah, it was a nightmare. >> and when you realized there were multiple gunmen, what did you think? >> i just realized that they were here to kill as many became as possible. as many people as possible. i just thought it was going to be a blood bath. it was really hell. like people were just pushing to the exits. it was really backed of people
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trying to get above each other. trying to escape. >> reporter: he made a break for it through this exit. those are people hanging from the windows above. >> as you're escaping through this door, was it difficult to get through that? >> there was a lot of became on me for about 30 seconds. >> on top of you, crawling over you? >> yeah, about two people over me trying to escape. it was really long to get out of the building. >> reporter: neighbors opened their apartments to the wounded. a stranger used a shirt to stop francois's bleeding. later, he overheard the police assault on the terrorists. >> what happened then?
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>> then we -- we waited about two hours in the apartment. the police came to us, making sure everybody was okay in the building. >> can you show me where you were hit? >> yes. so i was shot here. so at the -- on the back. just below my shoulder. and the bullet came out here. >> that's where the exit wound is? >> yeah. the exit wound. right here. close to the spine. >> what did the doctors tell you about the course that the bullet took? >> they told me i was extremely lucky. because the bullet didn't touch any muscles or bones. >> so lucky to be alive. >> yeah, yeah. >> if it happens, yeah, it will be replicated somewhere else. >> they tested the concept here? >> yeah. >> reporter: alan bower is a former security adviser to the french government who helped new
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york city set up its counterterrorism unit after 9/11. >> is it possible that they could get that to the united states? >> i think they will try. we are only the second-worst country in the world for them. u.s. are the first. >> reporter: six locations were hit in 33 minutes. alan bower believes that the main target was the soccer match between france and germany, broadcast live across europe. the french president was there. but outside the stadium, only one victim was killed. >> they arrived too late. >> they arrived too late? after all this planning, they got there late? >> it happens. >> reporter: bower says one terrorist failed to get into the stadium with a propane tank rigged to explode in a backpack full of nails and bullets. that bomber blew himself up. >> the main issue was clearly to create a lot of chaos, and it
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did not happen the way they wanted. so we had a lot of luck. >> reporter: bower sees paris as a turning point. >> and it shows how people that are not very well equipped can have such a determination. first to kill bullet by bullet people they've never seen. and prepare to kill themselves to show their case. this is a big change. in the level of determination and of violence. >> too often we think of these things in isolation. but here in just the last few weeks now, isis blew up the russian jet liner in egypt, it attacked its enemies with a bomb in lebanon, and now a few days later this attack in paris. when you connect the dots, this is not over for the western democracies. >> no, it's just the beginning. i just said it. it's just the beginning. that's right.
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isis has claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in paris but suffered defeats elsewhere. one of its chief spokesmen, the assassin known as jihaddy john, killed in april air strike near raqqa. kurdish troops backed by u.s. air power have reclaimed the >> reporter: the pentagon says america and its coalition allies conducted 250 air strikes in and around the city of sinjar ahead
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of its ground poensive paving the way for peshmerga forces. there were a few tense moments as ground troops moved in. first it was just a dozen or so men carefully snaking down the mountain on foot. the rest of the hundreds of fighters watched anxiously to see what would happen next. young and old, volunteers and regular soldiers ready to take back sinjar one step at a time. as more men made their way down toward the unknown, we joined them. gunfire rang out from nearby neighborhoods. a convoy of vehicles was reduced to twisted metal. kurdish soldiers hauled at least one isis fighter away. most of what we saw of the town was deserted. the trail of destruction from weeks of u.s.-led air strikes is all around us. buildings flattened to rubble. roads scarred with huge craters. amini ibrahim, soldier from
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sinjar, told us he fled with his baby daughter when isis overran the city 15 months ago. >> this is very dangerous. what are you afraid of as you continue through this village? "i'm afraid of the ieds, homemade bops they left behind and the booby troops in the houses." yet we didn't see any specialist checking for bombs or booby traps today. it was clear isis had disappeared, either driven out or had escaped ahead of the assau assault. most of the gunfire we continued to hear was in celebration. as it came back down from sinjar mountain we ran inn a traffic jam of yazidis who heard isis had been pushed out of their city and they are desperate to get back home. with all the destruction, bombs and risk of counterattack, that could be several weeks away. mohammad emwazi is best known as the man behind the black mask
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believed responsible for the beheading of at least seven host ans, including american journalist james foley and steven sotloff and american aid worker keet peter cassic in syria in 2014. his brutality and anonymity earned him the name jihadi john. the gruesome videos presented the world with a terrifying image of the islamic state and were a powerful propaganda tool for the terror group. this morning british prime minister david cameron praised the u.s. mission. >> he was intent on murdering many more people. so this was an act of self-defense. it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: emwazi, a british citizen believed to be in his mid-20s, born in kuwait, raced in london. a graduate from the university of westminster, he had a degree in computer programming. he first came to the attention of british intelligence in 2009, who believed he was planning to join al shabaab in somalia. he disappeared from his family's london home in 2013 and traveled
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to syria. his rise among the ranks of isis is unclear. as is what,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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we leave you with more on the paris terror attacks and the international show of support that followed. >> it's an attack not just on the people of france. but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share. >> they were firing randomly into the crowd. it was a bloodbath. and they shot at us and they reloaded again several times, multiple types. multiple times. >> basically just a horror scene. a lot of people injured. surreal.
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>> families left dealing with the aftermath in a way that the rest of us frankly cannot imagine. ♪ >> people have already come together in showing their support, their solidarity, their thoughts. >> we are not going to let them stop us. we're just going to continue doing what we usually do every day. ♪ ♪ >> in the wake of friday night's attacks, the people of paris were quick to rally to their nation and the colors of their flag. ♪ ♪ liberte, egalite, fraternite
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>> reporter: cities around the world have been showing their solidarity. ♪ ♪ >> that is the "overnight news" for this monday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs news this morning." from the broadcast center in new york, i'm jeff glor.
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captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs it is monday, november 16th, 2015. this is the "cbs morning news." fear continues to grip paris this morning following friday's attacks. the hunt is on for one of the suspects as france retaliates against isis targets in syria and the world pays tribute to the lives lost in an act of terror. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. thanks for joining us. i'm anne-marie green. this morning, the prime minister of france said his government knew isis was

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