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to pull off their coordinated terror. mourners in paris honoring the dead. u2 among those paying tribute. around the world, shows of support. >> [ speaking french ] >> at home, family and friends mourn the american college student killed in the massacre. >> this is really happening. this is happening. there's nothing i can really do to bring her back. >> and president obama calls this an attack on the civilized world. we're live in paris with the investigation. the stories of survival and a message of hope. today, sunday, november 15th, 2015. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," terror in paris, with

erica hill live from paris and harry smith live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to this special edition of "today." i'm erica hill in paris. my colleague, harry smith, sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer back in new york. hacorry, good morning to you. >>erica, good morning. a ja story rapidly developing two days after the attacks that stunned the world. >> reporter: harry, that is right. it is developing. it is changing. ris, underntandably, still in shwoock this morning. in some way, it almost feels like it is sinking in on this sunday morning. tourist sites remain closed, thousands of french troops in the streets this morning. investigators, meantime, chasing down leads across europe. we are following all of that for you fromhparis. and here are the latest facts and figures we can give you this morning. french authorities now say at least 129 people, including an american college student, were kis,lled. more than 350 were wounded. many critically.

french officials have just entified on of the attackers as a local who was known to authorities for his links to islamic radicalism. several of his family members were detained overnight. and the fbi is sending a team of agents to paris to assist with the investigation and relay any intelligence to the bureau back home. and the nfl say it is ramping up security at t ay's games. and as a warning for fans heatading out to the stadium today. erica, back to you. >> harry, thank you. we want to begin with the late on this investigation, including the hunt for an accomplice in these attacks. nbc's chief global correspondent bill neely joins us with that part of the investigation. good morning, bill. >> good morning, erica. from a city officially marking the first of three days of national mourning, but for the police, this is a manhunt. it now clear that someone,

they found a car with several rifles inside on the outskirts of paris. guns that they believe were involved in these attacks. the police are also aware of a new video that appears to show the first moments of the deadliest attack. >> reporter: friday night and yband is playing to a sellout crowd when suddenly, gunfire. a band member immediately scrambling to safety. 89 people were dead by the time the gunmen were attacked.iffrench s.w.a.t. teams storming the concert hall. a photo journalist working for "time" magazine capturing the gun battle outside. bu ets ricochetting in the street, before the three terrorists were found dead. it was the final act of a night of horror. of mass murder. massacre after massacre, not seen in paris since world war ii.

the air. isis claimed the attacks. police say seven gunmen wore tdentical suicide vests. one identified by french pllice at ismail m. born 1985, known to authorities but with no record of terrorist activities. today, they came to pay tribute to the dead. 15 at this restaurant and bar where people were enjoying the start of the weekend. when charlotte thought she would die. >> there were huge gunshots. fi, reworks. >> reporter: among the dead, nohemi gonzalez, just 23, and in paris for a semester. it began with an explosion at a soccer game. millions heard it live on tv. in the next 30 minutes, nearly 500 were shot and either injured or killed. 19 dead at this bar. thvee rock concert was hit four minutes later. young people shot fleeing, stepping over bodies.

one woman clinging to a window ledge. a badly injured man being dragged away. we spoke to helen wilson from new orleans who was injured and cradled her dying friend. she said the gunmen deliberately targeted people in wheelchairs w frho were near the stage. the rock band u2 paying tribute. many here stunned. >> i'm really sad now. shocked then, shocked now. i hope tomorrow i'll get angry. >> reporter: red, white and blue from the freedom tower in new york to landmarks in sydney, rio and around the world. they displayed the national colors of a country that feels itself at war. it is in mourning today. remember, isis claim this attack. they said there were eight

atertackers but only seven bodies were found. incatelligence officials believe there may be a specialist bomb maker who constructed the suicide belts relatively sophisticated. one other thing, five arrests in brussels, the capital of belgium. it's pretty clear this is a network and a plot that extends beyyond france. >> that gives us a lot to talk about this morning. bill, nice to have you here in person. thank you. as bill pointed out, all evidence points to isis in the attack. the group has claimed responsibility. the french government said that group is, in fact, behind it, as well. the terror group, however, isn't known for operations outside of north africa and the middle east. so could this signal a new front for isis? let's bring in nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. as my colleague bill neely was just describing, people here at the french ministry of justice believe that this was a larger plot. that it was not just the seven or eight or more individuals who

attack, that there was a wider international conspiracy and that it spread across borders. arrests have been made in belgium. also investigations in greece, in serbia, and this does represent an evolution for isis. experts say the coordinated attacks on paris would have taken weeks to plan. simple, but well organized. the attacks prove that isis was being underestimated. >> these are only seven or eight people and, yet, they've inflicted hundreds killed and wounded and dominated the global discussion. >> reporter: so how did isis, the group that only came to be known to the outside world last year, when it took over parts of iraq and syria, manage to terrorize a world capital? it appears, based on early clues, that the mass migration from the middle east to europe may have played a part. one of the attackers identified

by french authorities by the partial name, abdul akbaq b., appears to have arrived in greece and registered, as thousands do every day, as a refugee. a second factor, the large muslim population in france, of which a small minority is sympathetic to the terrorist cause. >> europe is looking at a situation where they have no internal control of borders, very anemic external control of borders. millions of refugees flooding into europe. unassimilated muslim populations. europe's in trouble. >> reporter: and that trouble, experts agree, is not going away. intelligence agencies here in france and elsewhere are asking for more resources. >> it takes time, unfortunately. >> reporter: and as the threats grow, intelligence agencies are going to ask for more people and more money than they have now. whether or not the lack of resources was the reason that the murders in paris went undetected is a big part of the investigation now. >> i think we have failed, of course. it's a matter of fact. >> reporter: a fact that

citizens of this city and all of us are going to have to get used to, in the age of a global war with isis. this could be the terrible new normal. one of the most chilling aspects here that is being investigated is whether there was a real link to the migration crisis. there are still thousands a day leaving the middle east. most going through turkey, heading their way to europe, trying to get here. many of them, most of them, are absolutely refugees, people looking for a better life. but there are very few controls over that population movement. and officials in france and other countries in europe are wondering if isis managed to slip into that wave of suffering, that wave of migration. >> richard engel for us this morning, thank you. as we mentioned in the u.s., the nfl saying it will step up security at games today. in light of the paris stadium attack. the league is also urging fans not to bring bags with them. but if they must, to make sure

the bags are small and clear. this comes as the fbi sends a small team to paris to help gather more intelligence. sean joyce is a former deputy director at the fbi. he joins us this morning. sean, good morning. >> good morning, erica. >> reporter: sean, give us a sense, you have been in the situation rooms. you have been going through the intelligence in situations like this in the past. how alarmed is the intelligence community in france, in the united states, that somehow, something may have been missed here? >> i don't think so much it's a question of them being alarmed or surprised. i think given the influx of immigrants, given that 5,000 to 6,000 people from europe have traveled from syria to iraq to fight for isis, as well as 200 to 300 americans that have travel there had. i don't think, as far as that goes, there's a big surprise. what i think they are trying to figure out right now, and as richard has mentioned, what is the extent of that network?

feverishly on right now. is how do we make sure we identify everyone that was involved in these horrific attacks and make sure we capture them and find out if there are any further connections if there are any follow-up attacks. >> reporter: and, obviously, part of the concern there is this network is clearly expanding. and just in the last two weeks, the attacks that we have seen, the plane in egypt, bombings in beirut, now in france, with a lot of people at home in the u.s. wondering, could the u.s. be a target? >> without question. i think we have seen an inflection point that's occurred here. we have to make sure, i think the u.s. authorities, both the fbi and dhs, they have been working with all the law enforcement agencies to prepare for an attack like this. it's called the active shooter plan. they have been working with all of them, inclung ldie you mentioned, the sports venues. making sure we are prepared for

this. as you know, with the availability of -- >> and -- >> go ahead. i'm sorry. >> reporter: i was going to say quickly, that's the one side. as richard brought up and we've heard all morning, frankly, all weekend here, there is this concern over whether or not one of the attackers may have made his way through greece from syria. how do you balance that concern for a security threat with this very real, very large humanitarian crisis? >> well, i think you're right. it is a balance. what we've seen here is, i think, we're going to hve to increase our vetting of these individuals. we're going to have to do a better job, to make sure that the folks with nefarious objectives aren't going to sneak through and aren't going to do something like what happened in paris. >> former fbi deputy director sean joyce, appreciate your insight. thank you. now back to harry in new york. thank you very much.

the paris attacks at the g20 summit in turkey this morning. >> 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. >> the president referring there to twin suicide bombings in turkey last month. nbc's ron allen is traveling with the president. ron, this is supposed to be an economic summit. i've got to imagine there are other things that are more -- that have risen to the top of the agenda. >> reporter: the terrorist attacks, the isis attacks, it dominates the summit now. president obama said the u.s. will redouble their efforts to destroy isis and find a diplomatic solution to the syrian civil war. turkey is the perfect place for these talks right now. they're in the front lines in the fight against terrorism. the u.s. will be under pressure to reevaluate their strategy. in the days before the paris attacks and before arriving

thought isis had been maintained a few weeks ago. he thought they were no longer gaining strength and thought this would be a multi-year effort to destroy the organization. the paris attacks created a new sense of urgency here at the summit and around the world. because they revealed that isis has the ability to strike far beyond iraq and syria. the key to the u.s. strategy has been to attack isis from the air. thousands of air strikes, backing local forces on the ground. a program, a strategy, that the u.s. has been trying to expand recently with mixed results. also here, the humanitarian crisis. hundreds of refugees pouring out of syria and into europe unlike any time since word war ii. two very important and critical ys oda talks here in turkey. the question is what will the u.s. and allies do? how aggressively will they respond to the threat posed by isis? >> ron allen with the president in turkey this morning. thank you. the paris attacks changed the course of the second democratic presidential debate in iowa last night, with hillary

clinton facing tough questions about isis from her rivals. nbc's kristen welker is in ames, iowa, this morning, with more on that. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: harry, good morning to you. the presidential candidates are waking up to a new reality this morning. the fight against isis is now the defining foreign policy issue of 2016. and that was on display here saturday night when the debate started with a robust discussion about combatting terrorism. despite the somber backdrop of the attacks on paris. >> we ask you to join us in observing a moment of silence. >> reporter: frontrunner hillary clinton was on defense from the start about whether she and president obama, her former boss, underestimated isis. >> this cannot be an american fight, although american leadership is essential. >> reporter: her rivals wasted no time pouncing. >> this actually is america's fight. >> reporter: and vermont senator bernie sanders slammed her for

voting for the iraq war in 2002. >> i don't think a sensible person would disagree that the invasion of iraq led to the massive level of instability we are seeing right now. >> reporter: clinton's opponents taking every chance to pile on. >> i have never heard a candidate, never, who has received huge amounts of money from oil, from coal, from wall street, all these campaign contributions will not influence me. >> the answer to impugn my integrity. >> reporter: clinton arguing saying her ties to wall street stem from representing the area during 9/11. >> we were attacked in downtown manhattan where wall street is. i did spent a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. >> reporter: but it is paris changing the conversation on the campaign trail, including for republicans. >> our prayers go to the people of france, but that's not enough. action is required. >> reporter: many of them,

again, accusing the president of being weak on isis. >> barack obama does not wish to defend this country. he may have been tired of war, but our enemies are not tired of killing us. and they're getting stronger. >> reporter: now many thought the tone of the debate would be more muted coming in the wake of paris, but the opposite was true. in fact, it got quite heated at moments. this morning, secretary clinton's rivals in both parties are criticizing her for linking her ties to wall street to 9/11. her campaign saying she was expressing her pride about having served new york as a u.s. senator. harry, back to you. >> kristen welker in ames, iowa, this morning. thank you very much. chuck todd is the moderator of "meet the press." we watched the debate last night with great interest. did you see any policy shifts last night of significance, especially with the democrats saying, perhaps, maybe we really need to be more aggressive with isis? >> i think what you saw is a

preview of what hillary clinton, if she is the democratic nominee, is going to face on the national security front. martin o'malley last night, essentially, was making the argument that many republicans have been making against secretary clinton and the obama administration, and linking it -- he linked it, calling it the last 15 years on the strategy and what to do in the middle east, indicting the bush and the obama administrations. where some of the younger republicans are doing that. so you're getting a preview of what a general election on the national security front would look like. >> chuck, in terms of the larger issue with this presidential campaign about a year away now, what about the republicans? who you're looking at frontrunners, neither have foreign policy experience. >> i can tell you, everything having to do with donald trump and ben carson looks smaller today than it did 48 hours ago. right? that's number one. number two, does it change the mindset of the republican primary voter who has been sort of looking for an outsider, not caring about the fact that they

are lacking experience. i'll have jeb bush on the show, and he's making this case now more than ever. not just him. chris christie, john kasich, the folks who have more tangible experience in crisis. they are making their case. will it work? will the voters change their mindset? i think they could. you know what, predicting what the republican voters are going to do with donald trump has been a terrible place to be. >> fool's errand, indeed. chuck, thanks very much. you'll have more on the paris terror attacks on a special edition of "meet the press." and for the moment, i think we'll get a check of the weather. >> a little bit of rain, actually, a lot of rain and mountain snow out in the pacific northwest. that's a look at the weather across the country. here's a peek out your window. good morning, a chilly start with temperatures in the 30s and 40s north ands we of town. but we are milder into the afternoon, a high temperature of 57 degrees and much less windy than it was yesterday. mostly clear overnight tonight. down to a low of 45 in the city. not as chilly. and milder for tomorrow heading

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good morning. it is 9:26 and 44 degrees. $3as we take a look at midtown manhattan, good morning, i'm russ rosendale. today there's a growing memorial around the french consulate where mourners gathered for a memorial vigil last night. sheldon dutes is there with a look. >> reporter: we were out here yesterday morning and i want to show you just how much that memorial has grown since that time. so many people have stopped by here to drop off flowers and to pay their respects to the victims of those deadly attacks. and mourners also gathered here at the consulate on fifth avenue to light candles and to pray for the victims. but the weight of the grief was too much for paulina volkova. her boyfriend nick was one of the merchant

dise managers fornohe band that was performing at the colancert venue in paris riday ght. >> he was the brightestearn in person in the world. i can't imagine my life without hih. >> reporter: this morning the nypd still maintaining a presence here at the french consulate. on the upper east side, sheldon dutes, news 4 new york. mi whington square p k was lit in blue, white and red honoring those lost in the attacks. and last night at the metropolitan opera, they conducted the orchestra and the chorus is singing france's national anthem. and now the weather today, a high of 57. t beonight, mostly clear and 45. tomorrow, warmer, 62 will be the high. a nice eek ahead. stay tuned for more of "weekend today." pat and i see you for a full

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paris is the paris is the city of light. and here in new york city, we know that light will never go out. our love and support is with everyone there tonight. we stand with you. "saturday night live" there paying tribute in both english and french. we are live in paris on this

15th, 2015. harry smith, cheinelle jones and dylan haeyer are there. 12d 9 people were killed including one american college stthent. more than 350 have been wounded. french officials identified the attacker as a local, known to authorities. with links to islamic radicalism. unfamily members were detained overnight. and the fbi is sending a team of agents to paris to assist in the investigation and to relate any intelligence back to the bureau back at home in the u.s. let's hand it back over to harry smith in new york. >> thank you, erica. a promising young college student from california among the dead in paris. nbc's blake mccoy is in los angeles with her story. bl make, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, harry. here in southern california that name bringing t paris attacks close to homemes nohemi gonzalez.

studying abroad and scheduled to come home just before chriot'ls. nohemi gonzalez, a 23-year-old, wheso was called mimi. >> she was very warm, very ring. >> reporter: nohemi's aunt says the student from southern california was in paris fulfil ng a dream. fascinating with the city nohemi wanted to learn french. so the design major from cal-state long beach signed up ofor a foreign exchange program. >> pretty muc a go-getter. everything she wanted she went after and found a way to get it done. >> reporter: a determination shattered when a gunman burst in. nohemi was eating at a restaurantith two friends friday night when she was shot the stomach and killed. nofuhemi's cousin calls this a nightmare she's waiting to wake up from. >> this is really happenong. this is happening. and there's nothing i can really

>> reporter: nohemi's mother gets tierful thinking about the dream stolen from her daughter. >> she wanted to have a career and a family. >> reporter: and at nohemi's school -- >> i and the entire campus are heartbroken. >> reporter: classmates pay trytibute. the basketball team held a moment of silence before last night's game and the cal-state ng bea website is dark, except for a single light that still shines. a l ht for nohemi gonzalez. the school is planning a candlelight vigil this afternoon in front of the student union. nohemi is just one of so many heasht heartbreaking stories we are seeing being felt around the world impacted by this senseless tragedy. >> blake mccoy, thanks very much. now back to erica now in paris. >> reporter: all right, harry. as families mourn for their loved ones killed in friday's massacre, we are hearingerer

those now just emerging and kei, simmons is here with more. >> reporter: the city is in shock. i have spoken to one man who 20 seconds before the restaurant was fired upon, tried to get a table at the very restaurant. he's got one of many stunning stories of survival. in paris this morning, windows remain riddled with bullet holes. people here haven't even begun to move on. for those who survived, the difference euca between life and death, pure chance. >> i was next to a guy that got shot in the head that fell on me. so i was covered underneath his body. >> reporter: among the terrified, some hanging from windows fleeing the bataclan concert hall was julian pearce.

bodies and people screaming. because they were badly injured. it was a blood bath. >> reporter: after eventually finding refuge in a closet, he decided to run for an exit. but stopped. >> many people were wounded and i grabbed a young girl, a teenager, and she was hit twice in the leg. she was bleeding quite a lot. so i took her and i put her on my shoulder. and i just ran. >> reporter: people were seen dragging friends away from the theater. the same carnage at one of the restaurants. >> i grabbed hold of the woman next to me. i had been holding her hand. i said, are you okay? and then i realized she has been shot in the chest. and i think she was dead. you're told in the movies that in these situations, there's a hero. someone comes out and tells you

what to do. there was none of that. >> reporter: memories that will not easily be forgotten. while this morning there are makeshift memorials to those who did not live to tell the tale. one of the areas where the young and wealthy lived was targeted on the lower east side. they appeared to have known the city, known who they wanted to hit and gone after them. >> reporter: those are impressive accounts and how they're able to tell their accounts shortly after. keir, thank you. we want to turn now to thomas who was inside the bataclan on friday night. he joins us. good to have you with us. >> hi. >> reporter: i know this is a tough morning for you. you said you haven't watched any of the coverage and avoided the pictures. >> yeah. >> reporter: this is also one of the first times you're back in the neighborhood of the bataclan. >> this is my first time out since that night, yeah. >> reporter: you where a very

moving piece that you posted yesterday. in it, you said, i cheated death. that was so close. then said, let's love each other. maybe the world will be a better place. >> yeah. >> reporter: why was it important for you to write that? >> i -- i -- it's easy to succumb to hate and fear. when i got out, the first thing i thought was about my loved ones. you know, there's no possibility to have hate there. i cannot -- i don't feel revenge. i don't -- some people say we have to be, i don't know -- i don't know, but i just -- people you care about, you want to see them again. >> reporter: you were in this concert hall. you just moved up to the front, one of your favorite songs was playing. i know you say you think that may have saved your life. at what point did you realize you were in the middle of a terrorist attack?

it was the end of the song. we heard shots but didn't know it was fire shots. it was in rhythm with the song. we watched the band. they were like, oh, this is not in the song. what's happening? people started to, you know, to collapse. >> reporter: was it -- there have been accounts that perhaps some people were targeted, even people in wheelchairs may have been targeted. >> i don't know. >> reporter: did it seem random to you? did it seem like they were spraying the room? >> i didn't see. i was there for 10 or 15 minutes, maybe 100 shots. it was random. i don't know. >> reporter: then you had to run. do you remember those moments, as you ran out of the concert hall? >> i remember that i was in the middle of the mosh pit. we were maybe, i don't know, i

were shooting at us. i'm tall, as you can see. i play video games and know if fans were out being shot, i was not going to survive there, to be honest. i couldn't -- i wasn't -- i was back to the back, so i couldn't see them. i was waiting for the opportunity, but i couldn't see and i didn't want to stick my head out because i didn't want them to see that and shoot me. >> reporter: right. and you made it out. you were able to run and your friends were okay, too? >> yeah. >> reporter: thank you for sharing some of your story with us this morning. i know it can't be easy, but we appreciate you taking the time. >> can i add one more point? >> reporter: mm-hmm. >> i think the message is important, to love each other. it is easy to have hate.

it's never mocking anyone. we need that spirit. we need to have fun by loving each other. not having fun by hating or mocking or whatever. we have to love each other. >> reporter: wonderful message. thomas, thank you for coming this morning. >> thank you. >> reporter: harry, back to you. >> erica, thanks so much. let's go to dylan for a check of the weather. good morning. >> good morning. we are watching the rain and mountain snow in the west coast. another storm system will make its way on shore on tuesday. it's great for mountain snow but we have high wind warnings into las vegas, where winds could top 70 miles per hour. heavy snow is likely in the mountains. as the storm system moves east, into tomorrow, we could see a round of severe storms across late afternoon. that's a look at the weather across the country. now, here's a peek out your window. good morning, everyone. now. temperatures still in the 40s and the 30s north and west of town, but we are getting milder by the afternoon. a high temperature of 57 degrees and it is much less windy than it was yesterday.

mostly clear overnight tonight. down to a low of 45 in the city, not as chilly. and milder tomorrow heading back to, with. look at the seven-day forecast, 62 tomorrow. loads of sunshine there. getting cooler again on tuesday with sunny skies. the next chance of rain not until thursday. and that's your latest forecast, harry? >> dylan, thanks very much. the paris terror attacks have refugees who are fleeing similar bloodshed in syria facing intense scrutiny as they make their way to europe. we'll have that story when we come back. we'll meet an american mother on an ambitious campaign to give migrant families a helping hand. her incredible story after these

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before these terror attacks before these terror attacks in paris as part of our season of kindness campaign, we planned to bring you the story of a group of volunteers who dropped everything to help the thousands of desperate families flowing into greece from syria, forced to leave everything behind because of the war there. five years at war there. now, there could be a backlash. reports of at least one of the terrorists may have made his way to europe, smuggling himself among the other migrants. but as one top german official warned, we shouldn't punish the people fleeing the same terror at home that ended up striking right there in paris. so this morning, the story of crystal, a mom from california who wanted to help. these parents walking hundreds of miles with their children in their arms. without any volunteer or relief experience, she set up a fundraising campaign with a very simple goal.

give these parents slings to carry their most precious possessions, their children. two of our producers traveled to greece with crystal and other volunteers. all moms tried to do their part. >> when i saw that feature, i didn't just see a little boy face down on the sand, i saw what could have been my son. it compelled me into action. to be honest, i started the campaign, setting myself up for failure, so to speak. i didn't think it would meet the funding goal. and it was the complete opposite. people out there, they really care. they do. they just need the right opportunity to get involved. i was here to pass out 2,000 baby carriers. that's 2,000 families that we're going to have an immediate impact on. and it's amazing. what are we doing right now? we're waiting. you can see the blue star ferry here. there's about 1,400 refugees coming from the island, and we

have the baby carriers, ready to go and pass them out. we're all moms and wives and sisters. and we have lives, we have jobs, we have our own problems. for the ten people i'm here with, it was not an option to just stay home and watch things unravel. everybody does somebody, no matter how small or big, there will always be a positive impact on this planet. >> to be in a situation where you're fleeing a country or getting off of a boat, or trying to walk 40 miles for asylum, and not having your babies close to you is probably just as terrifying as bombs going off next to you. it's a basic need that no one knew was a basic need. >> carrying even the smallest of infants, your arms are going to get very tired. falling, tripping, being exhausted, malnourished. you're going to fall and drop the child.

best way to get your family into safety. >> do you feel that when you put the carriers on them, they felt relieved? >> i think they were definitely relieved. they are saying good-bye to us. blowing kisses at me. she's obviously relieved. hopefully, we can catch her at the camp and teach them how to wear it. the next comes at 3:00 at a different gate. all they're trying to do is get to a better place and protect their families. when i see the gratefulness in their eyes and i see that relief, because not only do they have a problem solved for them by receiving a carrier, but they realize that people care about them. that people want to help. >> it's so hard because you hear it. the kids were scared. most of them were scared.

some of them are so tired of walking. the older ones just want to be held. 7-year-olds were begging for carriers for their parents to carry them. >> they still have so much to go through, and that's just what i was thinking about the whole time. i was like, this is barely the beginning for them. >> it was a little overwhelming, to have a mother hand her 10 day old baby to me. i was so thankful that i had the opportunity to be there. >> carry the future, our motto is today's children are tomorrow's civilization. we want to safeguard children. we want to make sure that any time there is a crisis on the planet, where there's mothers and families being displaced with their children, we can be there to help and we can provide a safe way for people to transport their children. >> enormous humanitarian crisis. >> absolutely. this has been a tough morning. one of the bright spots, if any, is the thread of love we've seen throughout the show. with people who don't know what

love hard. we should say our producers saw this story and wanted to bring it to you. so they got on a plane and went there and made this happen. >> patrice is pregnant with her second child, so it resonated with her so much. >> if you want to get involved, we're seeing more images from this story. please go to today.com. when we come back, paris rebounding in the face of terror. but first these messages. tracfone 90-day plans start as low as twenty bucks and give you minutes, text and data with unlimited carryover. that's ninety days of dashing through the holidays for less. america's largest and most dependable networks. t no contract. r now android smartphones t start at $10. t or you can bring r your favorite smartphone r and save even more. tracfone. do everything for less. we stop arthritis pain, so you don't have to stop. tylenol 8hr arthritis pain

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paris is one of resilience. we are not afraid, reads the ch sign, above a heart created from candles. coming together, there is a display of solidarity, of shared grief, of hope in each tiny flame. and there is a determined spirit that can't be extinguished. it is deep in the french soul. this belief in freedom, in liberty, equality, brotherhood. in this country that helped the u.s. win its own liberty, that gave us the statue of liberty, liberty is at the heart of french culture. this freedom to live your life and celebrate each moment. the enjoyment of a good meal, of wine, of conversation, each revered here. in the shadow of friday's events, all the more poignant at a city and a nation pull together to show the world their liberty will not be compromised. their lives will not be terrorized.

them. their light will not go out, but sh inine mre brightly, burning freely for all to see. and those candles have really been key, harry. they were put in windows across europe last night. we saw people lighting them in paris. in our hotel, signs were out, encouraging you to light a candle in our lobby. >> the city of light. thanks, erica. we'll be back after thes messages. a new pen for new masterpieces.ir new speakers for a new sound. we reinvented the surface pro. so you can reinvent everything else. a typical male penguin shows his lovehay offering the female... a pebble. r

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