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chris dickey is with us, an american making his home in paris as a veteran international journalist. chris, i imagine all you can do is think of these various landmarks and the streets of your kind of adopted hometown and how this is going to change life when you go back. >> well, yeah, it's going to change life dramatically and right away. i think paris is going to go effectively into lockdown. i don't think they have much of an alternative. they have the resources, a very efficient police force and military. they have been on high alert for a long time. but right now, with this kind of concerted attack, it's something we've never seen before. and let me just say, brian, we don't know if this will happen anywhere else. as you probably know, i wrote a book about the new york city police department and their counterterrorism operations. this is the kind of thing they've been afraid of for a long time, that you would see some sort of concerted action, a coordinated attack with a group of different people. we've seen it in nairobi at the shopping mall, occasionally in russia. but this k

. >> chris dickey, you are so right. thank you. one more question to lester holt about the mood of the place. it was midnight your time, kind of afternoon sunday in the united states, we saw that terrifying video of a false alarm, of a kind of public panic apparently caused by someone setting off firecrackers. you wouldn't blame anyone they were mistaken for gunfire. it seemed very nervous on sunday during the day there but coming out in public, especially late at night, is kind of an act of cohesion there. it seems like it has a calming effect for people to be with one another outdoors. >> well, my baseline for what is normal in paris is a little skewed. i have been to this city many times, three times in the last ten months, two of those for terror attacks. i have to remind myself what's normal. sunday, though, was anything but. many of the shops and stores even on sunday that would normally be open, were closed. people were tentatively walking through this square. of course, this is a very emotional place. but people were trying

we are talking to chris dickey earlier who, of course, has lived there for some time. he said security became more visible, more brazen on the streets of late and we can only guess that will increase now. >> certainly will increase. there was a step up in security after "charlie hebdo." people's lives went back to normal. i wouldn't say it was forgotten about but it didn't seem to change how people lived along their lives. you still always had police outside sensitive buildings, outside synagogues. it became a fact of life. it didn't really notice it. you didn't feel you were living in a state of fear. clearly authorities knew something could happen and sadly it has. >> greg, thank you very much. joining us live on the telephone tonight. about these scenes we are watching in the side of the screen we have seen victims from one of the attacks tonight in paris being brought through by ems personnel there equivalent in paris, brought through to ambulances. we have seen police and military go by with obviously wearing body armor but many of them hiding behind shields, seve

. >> chris dickey, we talked about how the situation in france is unique and they have not been able to absorb their muslim population as the united states has been able to do here, that is a concern. allege also, the question is what does france do moving forward? they have been on high alert and the worst attack since world war ii. >> they have been on my alert but in the wrong places. you can't be in the right places. these were soft targets. some of the targets were outdoor caves. how are you going to defend those? put soldiers outside every cafe? i don't think so. i think it's an exaggerated fear in every case. this operation was mounted out of belgium with some people from france, some who have came in from syria and the master mind appears to be someone who lives in a ghetto in central brusles. it's insane to think the united states is anyway protected with any of its policies from this kind of attack. all of them have been absolutely terrified of the prospect of the concerted attack by teams of commandos which is what happened here and could happen easily in the united states

wondering who -- who is on their side now beyond a few facebook images of the french flag. >> chris dickey with us tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >>> still to come, a look at some of the harsh rhetoric towards muslims coming from the republican presidential candidates over the past week. taking small, manageable steps can be an effective... and enjoyable approach... compared to the alternatives. push! i am pushing! sfx: pants ripping how you doing eddie? almost there. small steps. at axa, we'll help you take the next steps, with more confidence. for advice, retirement and insurance, talk to axa today. whfight back fastts tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue and neutralizes stomach acid at the source tum, tum, tum, tum smoothies! only from tums for called "squamous adnon-small cell",er previously treated with platinum-based chemotherapy, it's not every day something this big comes along. a chance to live longer with... opdivo, nivolumab. opdivo is the first and only immunotherapy fda approved based on a clinical trial demonstrating longer life... ...for the

. >> now, i'm joined by jake wallace simons from "the daily mail" and chris dickey for "the daily beast. could react to the syrian refugee crisis considering what happened here in paris and also more importantly what we're seeing from our own elected leaders back at home asking the administration to stop accepting them and certain states saying we don't want them? >> well, that's pretty shameful, isn't it? it also is a complete misunderstanding of what this refugee flow is all about. the refugees are not terrorists. the refugees are just that. they're refugees. and in truth, most of them, an awful lot of them, are middle class, they're educated. they're trying to build a future. their country is destroyed in a proxy war that involves a lot of american allies. as the united states has done very little to actually bring it to an end. that doesn't mean we're responsible for all of them but we're not talking about a you will of them. we're talking about next year maybe 100,000. there are 4 million of them. there are 2.5 million in turkey. they have increased enormously the size of the popul

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coverage from paris, france, i'm joined now by daily feast foreign editor christopher dick kl dickey. chrisium says what? >> at least there was one more plot in the works. that's what everybody here is worried about. people have shown a lot of resilience after one attack. if there is another attack -- isis knows this -- that is going to start to break down the psyche of people in this country. i think that that's the biggest fear provoked by what happened today. good news is they caught these bastards. the bad news is, there may be others out there. >> seven of them are in -- they're talking to them. i don't know how much they'll get out of them. but something. then there's also just the eavesdropping and the information that these seven may have been handling. >> sure. these guys, there have been some, how should we say this, unprofessional things. a lot of clues are coming out of one cell phone found in a trash can. one of the bombers the other night seems to have used it. that's led them in a lot of directions. that's what these searches and seizures going on have been about. probably th

dickey. he is editor of "the daily beast." chris, good morning. >> good morning, savannah. >> i know you love this city and if you could put it into perspective for people what the choice of targets means for the people? you talk about the stadium and cafes and concert hall. >> that is a good way to put it. it feels like very soft targets, savannah. if you look around paris on any given day. if you go to the eiffel tower and you pass a synagogue or jewish school, you will see soldiers in full battle dress defending those places. nobody defending a nightclub or cambodian restaurant. i still don't know how they carried out the attack on the stade de france, the stadium. they were picking soft targets where people went to enjoy themselves on a friday night. an the issue was to say to the french people, we will terrorize you anytime. >> chris, i remember running into you on the streets one time. you were so praising that city. what does this do to the psyche in the wake of "charlie hebdo" in january and what does this do to the psyche o

dickey. he knows the streets of paris and country of france. chris, always good to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you, matt. thank you, savannah. >>> we're back with more on the ongoing coverage of the terror attacks in paris. nbc. >>> still to come on the special when the flu hits, it's a really big deal. the aches. the chills. the fever. an even bigger deal? everything you miss out on... family pizza night. the big game. or date night. why lose out to the flu any longer than you have to? prescription tamiflu can help you get better 1.3 days faster. that's 30% sooner. call your doctor right away. and attack the flu virus at its source with prescription tamiflu. tamiflu is fda approved to treat the flu in people 2 weeks and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursing have serious health conditions, or take other medicines. if you develop an allergic reaction, a severe rash, or signs of unusual behavior, stop taking tamiflu and call your doctor immediately. children and adolescents in pa

dickey, an american who is overseas, these days he's a former editor of "the daily beast." a man from here but has lived in paris for decades. it's in that context that i'm curious, chrisone since you read, watch and hear french media. what has this done to life? especially the added stress of last night's raid? >> well, you know, i think there's an undercurrent of fear are looking over their shoulders. they're nervous. when you wake up in the morning as we all the did this morning that there's bombs going off and assault rifles being fired in saint-denis, really, part of paris, people are i think shocked and very nervous. >> devibe saint-denis. it's hardly tourism paris that most visitors to the city would not have cause and maybe except the basilicas to go there. >> well, that's right. in fact, you're right. few tourists go there and almost all the kings of france are buried there in st.-denis at the basilica and very near the stadium, the stade de france where the tourists trying to get in and blow themselves up on friday night in one of the operations. it's a very mixed neighborhood. a lot of people from africa and north africa and also asian, south asian backgroun