turn their attention on finding abdeslam salah one of the attackers last seen driving to the belgium boarder. he was stopped and questioned by police but they let him go. stateside, dozens of being monitored that pose a high threat of carrying out an attack in the united states. >> now, students formed a peace symbol last night using candles, with the candlelight vigil their way of showing they will not give in to fear. stay with abc for latest on the paris attacks and on top of break news by down leading our abc news app. >> happening today, this morning, the san francisco -- developing news in oakland, a miss stand off is over. a s.w.a.t. team tried to make contact with a man wanted for murder who barricaded himself inside the motel 6 near the coliseum. officers moved in this morning and the alameda county coroner later i moved a body from the motel room. it is believed to be the suspect, 18-year-old jason brown, who is suspected in a double shooting in a c.v.s. parking lot in livermore last month that left a man dead and another wounded. >> this morning, the san francisco public defender

he is stopped by french authorities right near the french-belgium boarder and e was let go. it's believed that a friend says they even stopped at a cafe. the belief by some now is he managed to make his way into syria. let's go straight to phil black, live for us in paris. just to be very clear here. there's one working theory from some intelligence experts that he may have gotten back into syria. that's what they are saying. however, it's just a working theory. belgium authorities have come out in the last two hours and said there's no indication right now that he is in syria. which is this? because this is clearly conflicting intelligence. >> what's clear is that no one knows where this man is. that's the concerning thing. two weeks after the attack, as you say, he's been on the run for that length of time. and simply hasn't been found beyond having returned to belgium in the days after the attacks. as you mentioned, what we have heard from sources is that this theory is something that french intelligence are working on. that is the likely possibility that he may well have

year-old french national accused in the attack, still on the loose after slipping across the boarder to belgiums in paris quickly became an issue on the presidential campaign trail. >> hillary clinton sought to counter criticism from rivals following her statement that the fight against isis, quote, cannot be an american fight. >> the attacks in paris are a sobering reminder of the challenges and the threats that we face. and the importance of american leadership. >> it is a -- >> saturday night's democratic debate, clinton stopped short of saying the paris attacks were another example of being at war with radical islamic terrorism. >> her republican rivals had no problem using that phrase. >> they were not injured by some faceless menace. they were not injured by some abstract and inchoate violent extremism the. they were injured by radical islamic terrorist. >> it's not that we don't want to. we can't. there's no way to background check someone coming from syria. who do you call and do a background check on them? >> in the past, rubio has warned about people with secret ties to islamic milita

he was picked up and driven back towards belgium and eventually got into belgium and stopped on the boarderor a few minutes and so, you know, i think perhaps likely he's in belgium right now maybe even in the brussels area, his hometown. i think that's probably linked at the terror threat going up in brussels. >> it's interesting. he was pulled over. there were two other people who were in his vehicle at the time. i don't know if law enforcement has their names but would be interesting to know who they are and what connection if any they have to the attacks. >> my understanding is they were arrested eventually. >> so they have been -- >> they came all the way to paris that night to pick him up and then bring him back to belgium because he -- the investigators think he was meant to die and something went wrong where he backed out, didn't manage to explode himself and he then gets driven back to belgium. >> cla rrisaclarisa, we talked of an operation this was, not just the eight directly involved in the attacks but how many other people are there who helped organize things? >> that's the ques

he made it to a road side check on saturday and crossed the boarder in to belgium, where he escaped belgian police raid. good evening. >> msnbc's breaking news coverage of the response to the paris terror attacks continues right now. an intense calm has taken hold tonight in paris. as harry mentioned, a few hours ago a vigil at place de le republique turned in to to a scene of chaos. a false alarm, possibly caused by the sound of firecrackers sent mourners running for cover, fearing another attack. meanwhile, as the manhunt intensifies for suspects, french authorities are putting a focus on this man, abdeslam salah. he rented a volkswagen used and abandoned at the theater. police are warning the public if you spot him do not intervene on your own. saying don't intervene under any circumstances. we get more from richard engel. >> reporter: the attackers french officials believe operated in three teams, carry assault rifles and wore matching suicide vests. france's justice minister told us all seven are dead. >> no one who has participated in the attack is still alive. >> reporter: but she sa

belgium man of moroccan origin. two syrians helped him get across the boarder. he was captured at a luxury hotel in turkey. >>> there's a spike in applications for gun permits in the wake of the paris attacks. it has doubled. the approval process to get a conceal carry los angeles -- keel carry license in pennsylvania takes 45 days in pennsylvania. >>> philadelphia is applying extra security for the philadelphia marathon. the parkway is closed from 18th to 25th street. all vehicles must be moved from the marathon race course by 2:00 a.m. tomorrow. any vehicles still there will be towed. the race director had this heads up for anyone coming to the parkway. >> spectators please remember if you choose to carry a bag of your own for personal items those bags must be searched by security prior to the entering the start finish zone. >> we have a list of the road closures at 6abc.com. "action news" will be there live tomorrow morning for the start. marathon. >>> a montgomery woman has been found guilty of getting fiery revenge on her neighbor who was a police detective

boarder. it is easy to understand the anxiety in the country right now. >> and absolutely. you look at 25 countries, what if you came from belgium not on the list. >> see is there any more restrictions to put in place or the system in place adequate as long as we are more vigilant? >> it is it all about a layered approach. to try to prevent a single point of failure. you can't just have one analysis and said that is it, you are good to go. who do they know in the country? and what are their plans to be here? and the uptake in the resources to see if you are a threat. and we need more capability. and help the fbi. we should resource them more. >> great to have you on the program, more. jon? >> to minneapolis from fort lauderdale. to turn around after a passenger appeared to make a bomb threat. a passenger was overheard making mention of a bomb. and after interviewing the passenger, the fbi decided it was a miscommunication. the incident highway lights -- highlights how uncertain americans are. >> reporter: we have all seen the sign, slogan, see, something, say, something. we have different perceptions of what constitutes a threat

boarder. >> this is a rhetorical thing, let's bring back order that borders p. the amount of traffic jams would be fantastical between france and belgiumt they really need, the politicians who bring this up is to check people who get on international trains, like the train where there was the attack about two months ago. and to check people who go on trains and not just on airplanes. on airplanes, there's a little bit of screening and on the high speed trains, nothing at all. so, bring it in to the tgvs. and people who are crossing, cross border workers they're not going to be stopped. you're not going to stop 400,000 people a day and even in the old days, you'd geto a border and show your pass like this. so, we're going to have to have rfid's on the passports to make any sense about this and we haven't even begun to think about this. so, the rhetoric has gone way out in front of our physical capacities. >> reporter: and better intelligence sharing between countries and between agencies within countries. because you were describing earlier about how narcotics, the industry there is being linked to terrorism and we're seeing that with t