government does the "charlie hebdo" attacks. there are a lot of briefings and connections back-and-forth try to figure out what could happen. as this starts to unfold, paris intelligence will start sharing information with the u.s. they will start working together much like they did with the charlie hebdo attacks to identify who may be involved in this. u.s. officials not willing to speculate about who is behind this or what is going on. but obviously, cognizant of the appearance this is a terrorist attack. one thing to that this is a terrorist act. president obama spoke by phone with president hollande, or earlier today, not about the climate talks that will bring president obama to paris in a couple weeks. so far, u.s. officials being briefed, very aware of what is going on, but not as yet willing to speculate what is going on on the ground there. bloomberg reporter joining us on set, this is sort of in your wheelhouse, what leaders can do to support france? reporter: there will be ongoing conversations the tween the president

that happened in january with the charlie hebdo attacks. there were people, some assailants were watching or listening. what we know in paris is that the police force and the military essentially because they are already on the streets of paris because it's at its highest terror level should be ready to go because they have been on the streets of paris since the 7th of january because of that heightened alert. you have police forces in there, assault forces, the raid forces and of course, the military. more of which have been called onto the streets by the president. what we're seeing now is a cabinet meeting pretty much in an hour and a half's time, midnight cabinet meeting will be happening in chance. the cabinet is summoned. the french president has to take a decision, might have taken it to get with the interior minister of what exactly to do with this concert hall. we know also that the mayor of paris is outside of the bataclan. certainly, we know from past experience that the police and the local authorities will encourage reporters t

it was not a specific target, like charlie hebdo last year.se was to show that from now on, anybody, each of us can at any time in any place be killed the an attack. >> sadly, geraldine, it was a nightmare. it was all real, and 153 people are dead. what reaction do you expect from french officials? do you expect some kind of crackdown. after charlie hebdo, there were sweeping laws put in place. are you expecting to see more laws in place, higher security, what is your instinct telling you? >> reporter: well, of course, normally at this time you have cars and families in place. this morning i went down to get bread, and it was closed. yesterday i was in the middle of my flat, and we couldn't go out. and i was hearing all the gunfire shots from my home. everybody was you know, at the window, just wondering if we are at war. and actually, it's the sentence which we heard yesterday was we are at war. you have to understand this district, which was under attack yesterday is a district -- it's the most popular district in paris where people go out.

in january, gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical magazine "charlie hebdo," killing some of thentry's most famous cartoonists. the magazine was a target because it had mocked the prophet mohammad. for the survivors of terror attacks like this, it's difficult to leave behind the trauma, as we found out when we met up with some of the surviving "charlie hebdo" journalists earlier this year. >> journalist zineb el rhazoui found it hard to come here back in june when this was shot back to the place where her colleagues were killed. it brought back too many memories. she was on vacation back in january. otherwise, she'd have been at the editorial meeting when gunmen stormed in and murdered seven of her co-workers, her friends. zineb: it's sealed off because of the police investigation. this is where we worked. >> she was trying to move on, but there were still more questions than answers. zineb: now we have to refocus on the basics. why was "charlie hebdo," a little magazine produced here in paris, the object of such immense hatred and violence? it's because it represented something,

since "charlie hebdo" itself there has been a number of terrorist incidences. the attempted beheading of a man that has been the attack on the train. >> knife attacks on police. >> it is not uncommon in france for terrorist incidents to happen and the french intelligence services are very, very good as are their military security services as well. >> let's get back to paris. i think we can speak to henry samuel daily telegraph's correspondent there. where are you at the moment? >> a few minutes from the 10th mall which is cordoned off. this is an area i know extremely well and know the restaurant as well, and extremely shocking because the east of paris has taken the brunt of this, very much like it took the brunt of the last attack. the bataclan is literally 200 yards from the former offices of "charlie hebdo." there seems to be another attack up the road that hasn't been spoken about very much yet. and you know, the stade de france is slightly further out. but it's extremely shocking, not totally understandable why they chose that part. the symbolism of charl

"charlie hebdo" scandals. this is unprecedented. one in a restaurant, we believe that was assault rifle followed by grenades or suicide attack and others outside the stadium. while these attacks were going on, there was a football match going on. the president of france, francois hollande was in the stadium. they continued playing for a while trying to get people to leave slowly. but we know that chaos ensued. apparently, i'm hearing there may have been a stampede at one of the other locations which may have killed a number of people as well. this is ongoing. we are hearing new figures, new attacks all the time. paris is certainly not a place -- safe place to be right now. twitter is apparently on fire. so we're going to continue updating but that, but multiple gunmen on the streets of paris, holding hostage parisians and foreigners. i'm sure you heard interviews with foreigners in the busy night life district when all hell broke loose. this is a friday night in one of the busiest areas of paris. we expect the death toll to continue

later that same day, the second day of the "charlie hebdo" attacks, the two gunmen from the "charlie hebdo" office attack, they robbed a gas station outside paris and after a police chase ensued they holed up in an industrial building. it was the day after, that the third day, that those two basically committed suicide by cop. facing a siege, they came out of that industrial building guns blazing. they injured two police officers before the two brothers were themselves killed by police. but even then it wasn't over because that third day, even as the "charlie hebdo" attackers were killed in that hail of gunfire with police at that industrial building outside paris, even as that was under way, you may remember it still wasn't over because another terrorist who was linked to them took hostages at a kosher supermarket in paris. he ended up killing four of his hoft ngz before police killed him. among his demands, that the other two attackers be freed. in all the attacks that started with the "charlie hebdo" massacre in january of this year, in all in those attacks 17 people in total were

it's 300 meters away from "charlie hebdo."e know the terrorists are planning, planning, planned attacks. each detail is counting. we have to keep in mind this is a very sophisticated attack, well prepared with a lot of symbols this evening. >> yes, this is certainly the most sophisticated attack we've seen in a long time, probably since mumbai where we saw two dozen, at least, assailants at eight different locations. this is, as of now in terms of casualties, this is the worst attack on french soil since world war ii. it's the worst attack in the west since 9/11. this is an eyewitness attending the concert in the bataclan who told the translation to reiterate the kind of scene of horror in there. there were three of them, i think, that were shooting into the crowd. they were armed with huge guns. it sounded like hell. there was blood everywhere, bodies everywhere. we were screaming. we were trampling on each other. it was hell. i want to read now, president obama earlier today when he spoke, he had called francois hollande bec

as with charlie hebdo, in fact, things didn't stop after the first attack on charlie hebdo. it went on for three days. >> and jim, the french cabinet met hours after this attack. what sort of security powers has been enacted as far as the cabinet is concerned. well, declaring a state of emergency as the president announced tonight is a pretty serious thing. it's never been seen here, except perhaps during the algerian war. but sealing the borders has never taken place. and i think the president also said that after that meeting that, in fact, they would be sealing off areas of paris, that they would be stopping and searching people at random. the mayor's office announced that she was going to order all schools closed today. saturday. i take it by that she means the larnl superstock markets, not the corner store. but nonetheless, any place where anybody would gather, swims pools, that sort of thing have all been closed for the day today. so it's quite exceptional. >> jim, we turn our attention to the victims of this horrific event. what are we hearing in terms of survivor, in

and in the wake of the "charlie hebdo" attack. there were police raids in france and there were police raids in belgium, searching for everybody who might be connected to those attacks, anybody who might be about to launch a follow on attack and these raids, there are dozens of them. they were fayely frenetic. they went on for days and then all of a sudden one week after the assault on the "charlie hebdo" officers, one of those police raids, basically turned into a war. there were a lot of these raids, now went down slightly differently. in only one of them was it a war zone, a fuselage of fun fire basically out of nowhere. >> reporter: this is what it sounded like today. like a war. in the normally quiet belgium city of vervieres. it turned into a prolonged gun battle. it began, authorities say, when the suspects int house opened fire. >> two people were kill, a third one has been arrested. luckily during this intervention, no policeman was harmed. >> reporter: nor any civilians. the suspects were clearly armed and dangerous. in

like "charlie hebdo."e drinking, like being free. >> we'll be right back with more on the ground in paris and i'll tell you what struck me about the difference between the reaction here and in the states. >>> it's been striking here the last few days to compare the french discussion in the aftermath of the horrific attacks with the american discussion. in france, there has been very little focus on the refugee crisis, though it's been a huge political debate for months and months and months here. that's because as of now, all of the assailants have been identified as french or belgium or eu nationals. i think that the french have the feeling there's not just some faucet they can turn off and the people who did this were french or belgium or european and had passports and citizenship and the problem is much more complex. there's a lot of talk about fighting isis in syria, but none of the focus on the syrian refugees we see in the states. in the states, on the other hand, all of the focus has been on the syr

not even a year after "charlie hebdo."he messages painted are from "charlie hebdo" but now a new wave of pain and mourning. people trying to have a semblance of life here. there are skateboarders around us but the tone is quiet here as the nation is in shock. >> yesterday, the mood was intense and chilly. the streets of paris, i've never seen it as empty as it was yesterday on a saturday night. today, you really get the sense that perhaps of the weather and because of the fact that french people and parisians have had an opportunity to digest what happened, people are out. what is sad some of these messages of unity and resilience date back to a year ago when "charlie hebdo" attack happened. >> i watched people observing and taking in the moment. some are up on the statue there and not unusual in a situation like this. but people going aggressively ripping down things and sending messages they don't like about things that were vibrant here days ago about the impression of refuges and about what is going on to muslims aroun

and we are just ten months after the attacks of "charlie hebdo." >> and bataclan is not far from "charlie hebdo" headquarters where that attack happened in january. let's talk more about the suspects, the attackers here. there have been reports that three of the attackers were wearing explosive vests. is that what you're hearing? >> that's what said on the air or investigators. but we don't have any official confirmation right now. >> i also want to talk about the security in the city. i know that the president, francois hollande, said that the attackers are going to face all the force that france can muster. they must know they will face a france that is determined and united. what about security in the streets in the city tonight? >> right now, we are a state of emergency. we know that schools will be closed tomorrow. and we know that a lot of soldiers and policemen will be on the streets. right now it's the night. but tomorrow morning, it's obvious that the people will probably be scared and they won't send their children to school and that's going to be a very tough day tomorrow. >> i

the same is true with "charlie hebdo" bombing and the boston marathon.o idea that their scaremongering is even could rat, if terrorists might face-to-face should we allow government to put monitors in everyone's home. no bod would say that government should be able to have access to every communication. kennedy: it seems that road that france is going down now, open fully that opens door for a civil liberty discussion, i want to talk to you about anonymous, the hacker grouch said they -- group says they will bring down isis. hour important are these hackerred in dealing with terrorism. >> i don't think that anonymous can bring down isis. you know, i think that what anonymous has seem -- they say they have succeeded in doing is knocking a few of them off line. i don't understand why that is a benefit. if anything you want your adversary on-line to communicate openly gather intelligence. knocking them off line does not make them disappear. we should learn the lesson of afghanistan. in 2001, and 2002, u.s. said we'll destroy the taliban, 13 years later, the

and we know al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was responsible for the charlie hebdo attacks. without venturing into what we don't know, what can you tell us about what you see talking pl - taking place here. >> well as bob does, he ello kwebtly lays out the key issues here so i agree with him. what is striking about all of this, it is not that the french have been on their heels since charlie hebdo and turned the page. they have been in a very high-operational environment and very worried. the aftermath of charlie hebdo led to a series of policy changes and more funding for counter-terrorism and a reem face for them. and what is striking for them is this type of attack could take place in france in the aftermath of charlie hebdo reflects how permissible of an environment has come for -- if you believe it, islamic militants to operate. and the points about the number of grants -- imgrants, i hate to use the term sophistication, but there was none extensive element to this type of planning and execution of operation that regardless of who is responsible is a pretty damning indi

we know the "charlie hebdo" attack was in january.ou been -- i guess -- had this been a part of your mind set that could this happen again? is this potential? or was it in your mind that happened in january, fnce has moved forward, paris is moving forward, what was your level of thought regarding your safety? >> i would say it was only recently that i partially started to feel safe. parisians and people living in paris were just starting to feel safe after the "charlie hebdo" attacks. i know the months follow and during the summer, there's been a heavy police presence in paris and there's been police outside my place at work and that's just started to stop and cool off in the recent months so, i actually felt like we felt like we were getting back on our feet. eif anything with we thought there would be a greater level of protection and they would be ae able to identify and stop these kinds of attacks. so it was the first thing that came into my mind, i thought of the "charlie hebdo" attacks? is there going to be the same level of att

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we had charlie hebdo this year and now this larger attack. i'd like to probably speculate here a bit that whoever did -- the people behind the hebdo attack, watch very carefully, watch the response of french security and they -- this attack is greater, it's larger. they are learning rapidly. the whole point is to -- as much as this is going to hurt isis? i believe it's isis? i'm speculatinherbut i think it's going to hurt the terrorist organization behind it because this is going to create a great deal of resolve behind the international community including us to be more vigilant and more aggressive against those people trying to using islam as a method of perpetrating violence. >> why do you say isis and not al qaeda? >> two things. i think it could be a joint op. hebdo was a joint op. according to one of the intelligence people i talk to they said one of the isis terror feeds they monitor picture of paris burning. now, we don't know if that's because of the attack or something that was related to the attack but isis is good at doing two thi

this of course after the horrific shooting at the magazine "charlie hebdo."n, french officials have taken the lead in europe in trying to combat islamic extremism. france, according to officials there, knowing they have been a target, that there have been threats made that the fight would be taken on french soil because france decided to take the lead in europe on the fight against islamic state. we will continue to follow this and bring you more developments as soon as we get them. back over to you. scarlet: thank you, mark crumpton. you are looking at live photos from paris. excuse me, this is not live. this was taped earlier. it gives you a sense of the chaos in paris. alix, you were talking earlier about how one of the incidents took place a couple of hundred yards from the former offices of "charlie hebdo." the location -- alix: is something to note we would say. it is hard to make conclusions because there is so much we do not know. we do know according to the a.p. that the restaurant hit is in the same neighborhood as the "charlie hebdo" offices on the

it's not like "charlie hebdo" in that respect. >> but malcolm, how long does an attack like this take? i'm curious if this has been in the planning stages for a long time or if it could be as a result of activity, bombing runs. france's involvement there in syria against isis, the fact that jihadi john may indeed have been taken out. we have reports of, you know, a drone strike on a car in which he was allegedly traveling. there were two bodies that have been destroyed beyond recognition that literally incinerated. so the specific confirmation that jihadi john was taken out, you know, we're still waiting for that ultimate confirmation. but could this be done just as a result of something that happened two, three, four days ago or does it take longer? >> it takes much longer. i'm certain that the planning for this type of attack probably took place after the "charlie hebdo" attacks. and which is carried out by al qaeda, arabian peninsula. i'm sure isis is having control of the global jihadi movement, their followers and adherents who were back in france, they could marry them up with w

that was in the wake of the charlie hebdo shooting obviously. and yet still this. >> i think sometimes living in in somewhat of a bubble when it comes to what life is like, uhm in europe and having spent some time there because of my father's military background, there is just a different way of life there. and things that they have to think about, um, every day that i think as americans we're somewhat, um, you know, sheltered from. >> reporter: and yet it is the city of light with wonderful culture and great food and so in many respects it's easy to forget about concerns like this. on a friday night it all happens. >> well, of course, that's the main goal for terrorism is to scare the general public and to have people have doubt in their minds about their safety and we can't let that happen, that we have to heal and move on but right now the situation in paris is obviously very frightening. >> and as we watch that marcia kramer is here with an eye on what measures new york has been taking and how they are reacting. >> police even as we speak ar

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not even a year since charl charlie hebdo is thrown into turmoil. will be the response in the investigation? cnn's coverage will be picked up with jake tapper after the break. i'm chris cuomo with hala gorani. stay with cnn. >>> hello, i'm jake tapper in cnn and people still on edge and warning it may not be over and police all over the world are hunting many accomplices that may still be at large. one terrorist still being investigated, investigators found his finger on the floor where he blew himself up. his name is ismael mostefai. and some of his relatives are in custody.

i mean, we saw in the wake of charlie hebdo as we remember, not only the initial attack on charlie hebdo but there was different gunmen going in different locations and two, what ended up, days later with two stand offs in separate locations and more people lost their lives. prudence on the part of authorities there. jim, we'll continue to check in. just before air time, i spoke with a woman, charlotte brayho was her name. listen to her experience. charlotte, you were eating at the restaurant, walk us through what happened. >> i was eating at a restaurant with a friend of mine. all of a sudden, we heard huge gunshots and lots of glass coming through the window, so we ducked onto the floor with all of the other diners and we heard numerous more gunshots coming through the window and shards of glass were hitting people lying down on the floor and i was holding a woman's arm next to me and when i suddenly started to process what was happening, was asking around if people were okay and i realized she had been fatally wounded, she had been shot in the chest and there was blood all around her

it's only yesterday that it started charlie hebdo again. lot of stuff you might see in the states. that's not what's going on here. like the no-go zones. we have no no-go zones in south paris. this is funny to us but -- >> do you think this is going to change now the way you perceive your level of safety, whether people will actually think something like this now is possible to happen again, especially given the large scale of these attacks and how well coordinated they were? >> yes and no. because now we know it's coming from the outside and i believe that you will never be ready enough. so i think we have to go back to normal life. and hopebó that it thing that hurts me is everybody that got killed and hurt yesterday have one thing in common, friday night we are going out to party or -- >> that's the saddest thing. >> it really is. >> your president hollande calling it an act of war that has committing to be merciless in radio venging the loss of life in your country. just hours before the attacks began president obama said isis was shrin

the "charlie hebdo," taking over the kosher market there. that is the fear. but there are other questions, right? how you had such an extensive operation, seven attackers carried out deadly attacks with a horrible death count, as we know, nearly 129, 352 injured. with the state of alert that has been here. we know that french authorities have been looking out for this kind of thing. this is an enormous network. international as we know. we know they're getting help, french getting help, from american authorities, et cetera. you have intelligence cooperation. they were watching for this kind of thing and yet able to happen. >> you said 5,000 people that they should be tracking right now. >> french estimate 5,000 suspected jihadys in france. it is impossible to keep them under surveillance because you need at least 50,000 by a factor of 10 to keep one person under surveillance, 50,000 operatives to do that. they can't do that, that's impossible. you had that with the "charlie hebdo" attacksing one of the brothers under surveillance. you have that here to some d

and, paul references the "charlie hebdo" shootings in which 11 people were killed, another 11 wounded the brothers of the french policewoman and of course the other is dent in the kosher supermarket where five were killed, 11 wounded. i think what is so striking is that shootings are rather rare in france. and that is why something like this happens. people immediately suspect that it might be terrorism as opposed to the united states where there are tens of thousands of homicides and suicides and another accidental death due to firearms. >> so listen, there are parallels here. in fact, we don't know the cause behind it yet. so as you and i know well we have to be careful. we have as paul said you have attacks roughly at the same time at two different locations. one a restaurant, one a bar outside the national stadium where you have this france-germany match. that at least is a parallel to past attacks we've seen. again, no information. i have reached out to u.s. counterterror officials where there are reports and checking now to see if they get any information about what french autho

charlie hebdo was a very shocking attack. we saw that nationalist sentiment grow. this only reinforces the trend. we may not only have our attention on france. there are other countries as well that are going to be susceptible to these types of grassroots attacks, including the 90 states. as we can already see from the city of new york, they are increasing their security measures. publiclyho is involved in that fight against islamic state is a target. i will be looking closely at turkey, particularly, moving forward as we see the battlefield shift in a very interesting way there. we are looking at preparation for a ground operation, which is a new level of involvement. we are getting news about twitter accounts linked to jihadist celebrating. i'm sure you're familiar with a group that tracks a lot of these militant sites using hashtags stateay #caliphate strikes france. i'm wondering how you see this play out -- how you've seen this play out in the past? reva: we will likely see multiple claims of was on stability, sometimes you see people trying to take credibilit

much more so than the attacks of charlie hebdo. it's 8:00 on the east coast. 5:00 p.m.t. 2:00 a.m. in paris. i'm shepard smith in new york city. the o'reilly factor will not be seen tonight as we continue fox news coverage of the terrorist attacks in paris. it was the french president who made it clear to all of us it was the french president who really could make the proclamation that that is what had happened that terrorists had struck his city. in coordinated attacks against across two different areas with guns and grenades and bombs and suicide vests, they attacked one after another after another. the most telling things we have heard this night came first from one man who we were told was arrested and said to authorities i am syrian.

but people here, very close to "charlie hebdo." people live here like, been through so, the atmosphere is kind of, people are, having a beer, watching tv and, just waiting what is going to happen. >> thank you very much indeed for joining us with your response tonight, having been in the middle of this as we are getting more from le figuero, which is saying there are three shootings they say. the locations they're giving, which is this theater that we were talking about, in the same district. >> we understand there is some sort of hostage situation there that police confirmed that. we don't know when there are any injuries or deaths there. we do know at this other location in this bar near another part of the city that 18 people, french media are reporting, have been killed and many more serious injured. now we understand a gunman there be used an automatic gun. he opened fire in that area and we're just looking at some pictures from the scene at the moment. there is clearly a cordon. the police have been very, very quick to respon

we saw earlier at the beginning of this "charlie hebdo."nd also the train attack just over the summer. and of course, there was also beefed up security of presence because the climate talks that are scheduled in the next month or so. i mean, this is a country that has been vigilant when it comes to security. i mean, what could be done to keep the citizens safe? >> it's very difficult because in all european countries, but in france in particular, the scale is vast. you have seen over 1,500 people trying to travel to iraq from france alone. this is indicative of the level of support that groups like the islamic state or other jihadist groups are enjoying in the country. security agencies are driving on fifth gear. it is quite impossible to monitor everyone that they suspect of wanting to become involved in acts of violent extremism. keep in mind that in order to monitor one person, it takes about 20 people. this is a huge scale that all european security agencies are completely overwhelmed by. so it's going to be very, very difficult for fra

it was on a jewish site, and it was the "charlie hebdo" officers. and this -- it was awful, and it changed france. this is random. these are just people going out in any number of places. once you feel that you're living in a city where anything can happen, you're in beirut, former yugoslavia. >> the true definition of terrorism. thank you very much indeed. >> all right. so much breaking news here. we have new developments on the investigation, the possible search for people who still could be on the loose and the victims, as well. we'll be right back. ♪ every insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. for those who've served and the families who've supported them, we offer our best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. ♪ i brto get us moving.tein i'm new ensure active high protein. i help you recharge with nutritious energy and strength. i'll take that. yeeeeeah! new ensure active high protein. 16 gra

we heard those words in january after the "charlie hebdo" attacks. and the president was slated to travel to paris, but this has to rattle leaders both in america and overseas tonight. >> striking how somber the president was. this is a major setback in the fight against terrorism. and comes just as the president was talking about progress in drone strike overnight that took out jihadi john. there has been progress in iraq against isis. but the president was quite clear, he didn't want to speculate who was behind the attacks. but this shows the terror threat iraq. look what has happened in the past two weeks. the russian airliner, taken down, the attack in beirut just yesterday. isis claiming responsibility. and now, this in paris. >> isand as we watch these pictures and the unfolding situation in the theater itself. word that the associated press has confirmed at least a couple of these attacks were suicide bombers. we heard this was the worst fear for the white house, at least in this country, on the next step >> it would be exported from iraq and

we saw it in charlie hebdo. we saw the france vulnerability and why again? >> france is deeply engaged in syria and iraq with the u.s. coalition and france does have a difficult relationship with muslim communities going back to algeria. i think it is too early to say if this is al qaeda or isis. but what we could be confident of is that this is ultimately going to be violent sunni extremists and a level of sophistication we haven't seen in urban area since probably 2008 and the attack in mumbai, india, and -- >> and that is what i wanted to follow up. the sophistication, if these are coordinated attacks how does that escape the radar in this day and age in the vigilance against terror networks. >> it is surprising. the french of incredibly effective in counter-terrorism and they strengthened the laws after the charlie hebdo attack. i think they are probably found to be some communications possibly using encryption which kept the french officials from seeing this. but a lot of soul searching in france and also beyond in the u.k. and the u.s. to understand ho

and i go back to "charlie hebdo." we must go about penetrating a network with old-fashioned intelligence. i have a feeling the french did not go far enough to identifying the whole network to defeat the network, and i think they're paying unfortunately a very heavy price. >> as for tonight, the french, of course are grieving this terrible loss. the french president at the venue that has seen apparently 100 or more deaths under one roof tonight. evan, you've been listening to this conversation, what do you make of this? these two different al qaeda and isis, and how it's playing out? >> that is one of the questions here. is this part of the al qaeda/isis competition? two groups both claim credit for the january attacks in paris. one of those groups is lying, because it's not possible both of them coordinated the attack. they hate each other. to understand the degree to which they hate each other, you have to look at the publications, not just the once in arabic, but the ones decided to reach audiences like this. the ma

this is of course less than a year after the charlie hebdo massacre in france. france is a hot bed of isis organizations. there's a very close pipeline. it's in it's there's travel between france and syria. forth between those two countries. that's been a concern for terrorism experts that we've been hearing about since that attack 10 months ago. now it would appear that we're in a similar situation but of course it's hard to know for sure right now. the death toll still revising by the minute. when it comes to who is to blame that takes more time. >> of course the other question is, was the french president a target in this as well. we don't know that at this point. much happening over seas. thank you, josh. >> josh, thank you. joining us now on the phone is congressman peter king. what are you hearing about these attacks? >> well, even though there's nothing yet i say this has to be a terrorist attack. this has all the earmarks of it, the coordinated attack, the shootings and the bombing going off, the fact that the president was in the soccer state, now hosta

these are close to the charlie hebdo offices.t's a structure that can be seen as a medium-sized venue. shortly before the concert began, the base player for the band, this american band in california tweeted out this photograph of the venue inside there. so you get a little sense of what it was like. in the street level, you can see that most of the buildings around it are a little bit taller than the theatre itself. and you can see some of the view there on the street where, of course, many of the victims came out as they tried to flee and then later on as they tried to triage people, see who was hurt and who had been killed. not a bad walk. you get to this restaurant, this is a popular restaurant in the area. it is in some tourist guide books. it's not really a tourist site very much. more of a local site. but it would be very crowded, because it's very popular with young people there, cambodian food being offered here. and also a very densely populated neighborhood here in the tenth arroundsment or neighborhood as they would c

the differences charlie hebdo was a symbol. now, paris is a war zone right now. people are terrified. all the places people would go out are completely abandoned the right now. it is a war they can't win. but, it is creating this context, this idea of a conflict. >> reporter: he is a student at georgetown university offering some of his thoughts outside of the embassy here tonight. again, security is a primary concern for us. we have heard two sources that there is no apparent nexus with an events that may occur here in the united states. we are not seeing any heightened security here. the gate appears to be operating normally and there is an events scheduled here this evening. whether it will go on remains to be seen. we will beat discussing that and at -- we will be discussing that and and to you. scott broom, wusa9. >> that young man saying it is a war zone right now. by the way, capital police are telling us that out of an abundance of caution they do have enhanced patrol however, there is no known threat to the capital complex at this time. you might see som

echos of a "charlie hebdo" attack where multiple shooters targeted a magazine office. on twitter, paris is burning began trending. in paris, there is shock and fear tonight. tonight there are reports they were wearing suicide vests and blew themselves up when the security services stormed the building. the french police are saying they believe all the attackers are dead. the french president declaring a state of emergency. france must be strong, he said. lester? >> keir, let's take a closer look at the hostage massacre inside that theater. the concert hall in paris where scores are dead, an american band was on stage when the gunmen stormed in. the bataclan club is a half mile from the site of "charlie hebdo". 12 people died then. tonight, the toll at the music venue is much, much higher. here's anne thompson. >> reporter: inside the bataclan hall is carnage. the intimate club with room for a thousand patrons turned into a shooting gallery by terrorists. at least 100 people killed. along with gunfire, paris police say the attackers tossed explosives at their hostages.

less than half a mile further is the office of "charlie hebdo." another attack the european security services fail today preevlt. 12 died in the attack of "charlie hebdo's" newspaper office in january. here too the weapons included culish nukauvs. p parisians shocked a man wielded a culish nucough was stopped on a train in august when he was taken down. a greek security source tells nbc news they believe two men connected to the attack travelled through greece one in october one in august. this will heighten the refugee concern. >>> thank you. president obama discussed the massacre today with his national security team. the head of the g 20 summit in turkey where isis is expected to top the agenda. many wondering now whether the attacks in paris will be a game changer in the u.s. approach against the terror group. nbc news national correspondent peter alexander has more on the white house response. >> reporter: in route to the g 20 summit in turkey a few hundred miles from isis's stronghold in syria. president obama faces an urgen dilemma, what's

storming the officings of the charlie hebdoe magazine. terrorist killed 12 people, wounding nearly a dozen more. today, secretary kerry said, "there's something different about what happened from charlie hebdo. and i think everybody would feel that. there was a sort of particularized ficus. and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say okay, they're really angry because of this and that. this friday was absolutely indiscriminant. it was to terrorize people. ambassador john bolton is a former fox news contributor and ambassador to the united nations. ambassador, your thoughts on that? >> i think secretary kerry made the classic washington mistake. he said exactly what he believes. i i think you can understand now very clearly what informs the obama administration's policy towards international terrorism. in a sense, they think the terrorists have been proposed by the west. charlie hebdo writes cartoons that make them so angry that they respond by killing innoce