explosions. police say one person is still holed upup in the apartment. there are explosives in the apartment that could bring down a building. and two suspects are dead. three men inside the apartment werepa arrested by special ops. a man and woman were also arrested nearby. three ofrtsficers and one civililn were i iured in this raid. they believe the likely target wasy obdualabdul, the alleged master mind behind last week's paris attacks. and planes had to be diverted. but first,di we want to bring in kellyy who'sn heray to saint-denis.

>> reporter: as you said, we believe thise is an ongoing investigation. one of the ais spects, a woman who apparently killed rself, blew herself up at the beginning of the assaults. this happened at 4:30 a.m. local time. by 6:30 a.m., there were more explosions about two hours after it began. this is in an apartment building and there are apartment buildings and stores and all arnd. it'sar a densely populated area. neighbors are staying in their apartments in their homes. they have -- are hearing gun fire and explosions throughout the early morning hours and understandably very frightened. policeceave told people in thth neighborhood beforehand, this is not an attack, this is going to

been an unexpectedly violent operation, according to some policeo sources and that is what people are reacting to now. asas w w said, still ongoing, we can't confirm the number of dead suspects or injured police according to a police spokes person. they saype this is still ongoing and they don't want to jeopardize investigations or operations in other parts of the city. dara. >> reporting live from france. a fierce political battle is heating up back home over allowing syrian refugees to enterinter the it u.s. and some in congress want to change the progress of welcoming them in.

potent recruitment tool for isil. than somee of the rhetoric that's been coming out of here during the course of this debate. >> nbc'ss ron allen isith president obama in the philippines. who is the president calling out o here? >> reporter: he isre calling out these republican governors who are saying they won't allow syrian refugees into their state and he's calling out a number of republicans on the campaign trail. he was very passionate on this issue and he says these are people who are playing to our fears and to our worst instinct instincts. there are only 2,000 or so refugeesesn the country, the united states andhe the limit was going to be 10,000.

countries like germany who have admitted 800,000 or so into country. and he says there's a process that takes anywhere from 18 to months and so far, about half that have been admitted are children. thche president also said these are people who are also speaking out, he says, are candidates and others who are saying it would only take a tone to stop vladimir putin or to s sp the ththat of isis. the president is saying, this is something that is not american andn again, so far, it is republicans candidates, republican governors who are saying they won't admit these syrian refugee sdwhz eees and the president saying this is not who we are. late lasas night two air france flights were forced to

receiving phone-in bomb threats after takehr off. and flight 65 from los angeles to france with 497 people on board was diverted to salt lake city.. both flights landed safely. the planes were thoroughly inspected and cleared and resumed their flights. it's unclear if the final destinations would still be ance. and thee attacks includee fighter bombers and crews c missiles missiles. this comes. after a russian plan was brought down killing all 2244 on board. and vladimir putin saying quote we will find them anynyace on earthnd punish them.

reward to anyone who knows who is responsible. governor nsjindal said it's not his time. and the new york times says two of his advisors are critical of his knowledge of the middle east and carson fired back saying one of them isn't really aneabut admitted he was on a learning curve. >> i know a lot more than i knew a year ago and a year from now i'll learn more. and i think it applies to every aspect of our lives. especially in a rapidly changingg world. c >> voters rank carson outside

the top five, 28.7%. and good news for hillary clinton, she's earned a powerful new indorsement, the service employees international union who represents 2,000,000 workers. it's a blolo to bernie sanders. who need the support of organized workers. inor denver, severe snow and wind is leaving whiteout conditions. and trees comingg down and leaving morehan 6,000 peoeoe without power. and bill karins is here with your wednesday forecast. we have a tornado watch, thankfully, we have not had any tornados reported in the hours. we still have a lot of moisture being drawn up intoo it.. this is going to be oo heavy

as far as today's heavy rain event, right now it's in new orleans and eventually it's going to move from m msissippi to alabama. and here's t t rainfalal forecast, , widpread 1 to 2 inches of rain from birmingham to montgomery, about an inch possible up into the ohio valley and thursday's forecast will have heavier rain amounts right along i 95. from boston to norfolk and virginia areas p.. the cold air starting to show up in montana. now a closer look at your day ahead. so, the storms this morning are around panama city, and we c cld have an isolated tornado or two

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leading the news on nbcnews.com, u.s. eyes travel of 800 potential foreign fighters. intelligence officials say 801 names in the u.s. terror base contain connections in france. and they're paying particular atengsza attention to their travel attempts. and in u.s.a. today, mosques vandalized after paris terror attacks. in florida, two mosques received threatating phone calls.

horrific as the terror attacks in france, it can be hard for children to process what happened. and this is a viral video where a father found just the right words off comfort for his son. >> reporter: as paris tries to heal, it's hard enough for adults to understand why it happens. but what if you're seeing it all from down here like this little boy who told a french reporter he was afraid. >> 10-year-old alexandra lost a

teacher in the attacks. even the youngest seem to know. >> she tell me this time france lost the fight. i said, yes, it's true in a way. but this will never happen again. >> those words off reassurance just helped. >> trying to make sense of the world at a time of so much change. kelly, nbc news, paris. >> you know, it's so important these kids watching these things don't understand what is going on. keep it right here on nbc for more updates. d we'll bring you those updates throrohout the day.

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according to bloomberg news, the seed and trait maker appears to be making another effort to purchase syngenta. during a press briefing in advance of monsanto's investor meeting, monsanto c-o-o brett begemann told reporters that his team is discussing internally on the merits of making a new offer. this new attemptptomes about a weekekfter 'china national chemical corporation' made a bid for the world's largest pesticide maker. . in august monsanto pulled its 46-billion dollar offer off the negotiating table. syngenta's leadership said during the summer that monsanto's bid "under-valued" syngenta. the spread b bween diary qualitithay and lower quality hay is reaching a weide gap. and price seems to match it according to university of wisconsin research, that "spread" between the top and bottom of the market will probably 'stay' wide until 2016. dan undersander -who is a forages professor at the university of wisconsin -says