. >>> pair is expected ever killing 12 people, the hunt moved to the picardy region. tim friend reports. >> before dawn the search goes on of the men suspected of of carrying on wednesday's deadly attack. close to where the brothers, cherif and said kouachi reportedly robbed a petrol station. >> each entry into the village have been blocked even tiny foot paths. but the fear is the brothers have once again eluded the police. >> the village was sealed off during house to house searches for brothers. french police say they're armed and dangerous. they were born and raised in france to al year algerian immigrants. u.s. officials say said trained in al qaeda camps in yemen. french police say said's i.d. card was found at the scene. >> we found an identity card with the name said kouachi born in paris living in the 19th arrondisement. >> does this picture that emerged on thur and shows thursday and shows the aftermath of the scene at "charlie hebdo," in which 12 people were killed. doesn't believe was behind the attack. >> i have one piece of advice to give to mr. kouachi.

>> the two brothers made to get away this morning from the picardie region.e a car the second car they stole in the past 24 hours and they came back towards paris. we understand they may have spent the night in the woods. now, as i said they are close to the airport. contact has been made with them and they say they want to die as martyrs. >> thank you very much for that. let me come back to you now. obviously, we are looking at the situation minute by minute developing actually quite slowly now. the latest we have is that they have made contact with these two men. they are saying they want to die as martyrs. and yet these two men have been wearing bulletproof jackets. isn't that contradictory? >> i really wonder what they actually want. they chose to carry out a paramilitary assault, not a suicide mission. >> they could have stayed in that first place until police arrived. >> done the shooting and gotten into a shootout then and there. what was the point of trying to get away? perhaps they planned to keep doing this kind of thing in the future except they ma

officers blocked roads and searched houses in the picardie region north of paris after reports that the two heavily armed men had robbed a gas station there. said and cherif kouachi are the chief suspects in yesterday's massacre. today more details get be gann to emerge about their past. french media described the two as orphans of algerian dissent who were raised in foster care. the younger brother cherif grew up performing and listening to rap music and worked at a pizza delivery boy but according to some reports he became angry at the invasion of iraq and joined a small group of extremists. he was arrested almost a decade ago, as he set off to join allahu al akbars fighting american forces in iraq. according to testimony at his trial in 2008, he also dreamed of striking jewish targets in europe. the two brothers were well-known to french authorities raising the question of how their plans to attack "charlie hebdo" went unnoticed by police. as darkness falls tonight, the hunt continues. >> police are going through towns and villages across this entire area. they're on foot. they're go

in some villages in picardy police carried out house to house searches all this after a sighting in a garage at villa couture. place say cherif kouachi and said kouachi are armed and dangerous. cherif kouachi has a conviction for helping to send fighters to iraq. meanwhile france is grieving and not just for the dead. the french are in grief because they know their country will struggle to recover from the moves. they fear what will come next. this is place de la republique in the center of paris. the silence was observed across the country, a long point yet pause. each as the country mourned there was another attack on the streets of paris. south of the center two police officers shot. shortly afterwards they heard the news - one of those shot a policewoman died of her wound and yet again the killer got away. the president says this is a time for national unity. >> translation: france has been struck districtly in its heart, the capital in a place where the spirit of liberty and resistance breathes deeply. the spontaneous gathering shows that our great france nose how to come togethe

they are searching throughout the picardy region and up to the border of belgium because if they get into an international situation where they go into other countries, it gets even more complicated. but the truk is -- the truth is erin they are trying to follow a moving target on different landscapes on scant information about where they may be but they seem confident they are tightening the net. >> thank you very much tom foreman. and you think how could they not have found them but it is difficult. and now mike rogers also our newest commentator and also fbi, along with theory arnaud. and i know you are on the ground and have information about the search and you were looking at the forest and moving to other places as well. i understand there are caves in this area where they believed the men may be hiding. how are police dealing with all of these different things with the forest with the caves, with the different terrains? >> well by pursuing as many leads as they have erin. and that is the reason why it is a moving target all of the time and they are redeploying sources as they

example, when they're talking about the area they were searching they said they were searching in picardi, a region of france that's hundreds of -- maybe thousands of square miles. it's like saying they were searching montana. -- we didn't have an idea where they were looking. >> so if these guys are on the run, hiding out, they're clearly going to be watching local french media reports. about where police are searching. >> also what's interesting is if this shooter -- and it appears this is the case -- that ended in the death of this unfortunate policewoman is the same individual who's now holding hostages at this kosher supermarket that means that there was 24 hours in this big city, this big french western capital where you had a shooter on the loose who just gunned down a police officer in broad daylight. so this is a situation now in paris, the likes of which i don't think this city has ever seen. and jim you were saying this before. the second point here also which is something about people have brought up including experts in hostage negotiations is that now security forces are bec

yesterday, the region of picardi, located northeast of paris, has been placed under high security alert in total, 88,000 policemen and troops have been deployed to ensure higher security level. most of them of course deployed in the french capital to protect public mragzs. and all the newspapers after the attack of carly hedbo on wednesday. in there are still events unfolding right now. as you were just pointing out. stephane can you help us understand how far that town is from the headquarters of charlie hedbo? >> it's located about 30 kilometers away northeast of paris. it's exactly in between the french capital and the area where yesterday the police was looking for a suspected gunman. which would mean if we were talking about the same people, that they tried to come back to paris after being search by the police yesterday. it's very close to the airport, according to a report that we have. so again, people taken hostage and we don't know how many people are in this factory where the two suspected gunmen are at the time being. >> thank you so much for keeping us up to date on those d