elizabeth palmer is in paris. >> reporter: abaaoud, a convicted isis recruiter and presumed terrorist mastermind, was killed here in a suburban apartment. [ gunfire ] as he and his accomplices made their last stand in a ferocious gun battle with police wednesday morning. the police aren't sure if the 28-year-old was shot or if he blew himself up, but forensic officers had to rely on skin samples and fingerprints to identify his dismembered body. french media say the woman who is thought to have detonated a suicide vest in the shootout is abaaoud's cousin, hasna aitboulahcen. authorities believe abaaoud not only directed the paris attacks four out of six other failed attacks in france this year, including one on a train in august when a gunman was overpowered by three american passengers. french intelligence thought abaaoud was in syria and had no idea he was in france until a tip-off three days ago that he was back. "we received no information" said the interior miister, "from any of the european countries he must have traveled through." with hundreds of young european men like abaaou

people with links to islamist extremists have been put under house arrest. >> pelley: elizabeth elizabeth palmer, elizabeth, thanks. abaaoud is from belgium, and today police there carried out six raids in search of suspects. allen pizzey is in brussels. >> reporter: reporters and camera crews rushed to scene of one of the raids but the suspect from this house had already been whisked away. the sullen atmosphere left behind show why the jihadi recruiting grounds are so hard to penetrate. several men say they knew one of the paris attackers. one told us he smoked marijuana with terror suspect salah abdeslam, still on the run, four days before the attacks but no one would talk on samara. "we've got families," he said "and we don't want trouble from the police." as second-class citizens because they come from immigrant backgrounds makes young men susceptible to the call of the jihadis. recruiters allegedly troll the central train station. deputy mayor ahmed el khannouss says he is fighting a losing battle. no one, he says, knew isis had developed what i call the frankenstein of terror, the power of

elizabeth palmer is in paris. >> reporter: abaaoud, a convicted isis recruiter and presumed terrorist mastermind was killed here in a suburban apartment. [ gunfire ] as he and his accomplices made their last stand in a ferocious gun battle with police wednesday morning. the police respect sure if the 28-year-old was shot or he blew himself up. but forensic officers had to rely on skin samples and fingerprints to identify his dismembered body. french media say the woman who is thought to have detonated a suicide vest is his cousin, hasna ait boulacen. french intelligence thought abaaoud was in syria and had no idea he was in france until a tipoff three days ago that he was back. "we received no information," said the interior minister, "from any of the european countries he must have traveled through." with hundreds of young european men like abaaoud traveling back from isis battlefields in syria, that points to serious holes in border controls and the failure of some countries to share their data. france's government is pushing to extend the state of emergency for three more months he

back to you, charlie. >> thanks, scott pelley and elizabeth palmer. last night appeared on my pbs program. our remember iffer cbs correspondent says the paris transforming the terrorist threat. >> in the 14 years following 9/11, terror groups challenge themselves. this is the failure of al qaeda. they challenge themselves to say, how can you top that? what about the dirty bomb? what about the nuclear? sophistication of the operation in paris was its lack of sophistication. when using bullets and bombs, rudimentary things, you can paralyze a city with fear. you can cause tremendous carnage and you can have an extraordinary impact with almost minimal preoperational surveillance and minimal preoperational costs. a couple years and a half of planning. the idea of being able to turn around a mumbai plot or "charlie hebdo" plot in a little amount of time for a little amount of money, a light bulb has come on in the terrorist world where they say, keep it simple and you will have more success. >> and this morning's french police raid happened about a mile fr

eight days after 130 people were killed and more than 350 injured, elizabeth palmer shows us how parisians are taking back their city. >> reporter: the cafe carillon, where 15 customers were gunned down on november 13, is still closed. it's a solemn place, a memorial where parisians can look back and forward. "paris will come alive again, requested said bruno huvlie. "we can't stop living because of those killers." and tonight, just blocks away, other cafes are doing brisk trade. food, drink, and the healing company of friends are helping people through the sadness and the stress. outside the bataclan where 89 music lovers were gunned down air, sea of candles and tributes is growing. the concert hall itself is shut, but at another club nearby this weekend, le trianon was playing to a packed house. security was tight, but showing up was a way of sending a message to her three children, says delphine molimard. >> what we want to give them for the life is the strength to live free and to share joy and just to live. >> reporter: tonight, one of the main paris train stations where passengers ar

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. >> elizabeth palmer covering the story for us. thank you very much. as liz just said, t@e big question of the hour is have they caught the mastermind of the terrorist attacks on friday. we'll know a bit later today. back to you. >> sounds totally terrifying, and elizabeth palmer. >>> french warplanes are still pounding the stronghold of raqqah, syria. officicis say lastt night r rds hit two command centers. a human rights monitoring group says the raids have killed at least 33 isis militants. militants and their families have moving to iraq to escape those attacks. >>> russia is targeting isis strongholds in on tuesday, a day after president obama met with vladimir putin inn turkey. margaret brennan is traveling she shows us how an all-- first, russia has to help end the syrian war. >> i've also welcomed moscow going after isil. >> reporter: just days after russia launched its first significant strikes against isis, president obama extended an offer. >> if we get a better understanding with russia about the process for bringing an end to the syrian ci

. >> elizabeth palmer covering the story for us, thanks much. big question of the hour, have they caught the mastermind of the terrorist attacks on friday? we'll know a little later today. back to you. >> sounds totally terrifying, and elizabeth palmer. >>> french warplanes are still pounding the stronghold of raqqah, syria. officials say last night raids hit two command centers. a human rights monitoring group says the raids have killed at least 33 isis militants. militants and their families have moving to iraq to escape those attacks. >>> russia is targeting isis strongholds in on tuesday, a day after president obama met with vladimir putin in turkey. margaret brennan is traveling with the president. she shows us how an alliance between the two super powers is developing. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. russia's already coordinating air strikes with france. here in manila today, the russian prime minister said the best way to combat isis is to unite with the west. president obama seemed to agree, but he said there's one can catch --

i said, actually, there was no proof of, that even the children burst into tears. >> pelley: elizabeth palmerwith us here in palmer tonight. liz, thank you. isis released a video today which implied a threat against new york city. it shows scenes from new york and a suicide bomber preparing explosives. in a statement, the n.y.p.d. said the video reaffirms the message that new york city remains a top terrorist target. the police say that while there is no current or specific threat, they remain vigilant. of the nine terrorists police say were involved in the paris attacks last friday, five are or were french. suspected mastermind abdelhamid abaaoud is a citizen of belgium and allen pizzey is there. >> reporter: the people of abdelhamid abaaoud's old neighborhood came out in the thousands tonight in a gesture the jihadists would have hated, a rally to show sal dale jarrett with the residents of paris. several young men who say they knew abaaoud described him as normal. "he dressed like me in a tracksuit, a regular guy." as for becoming a jihadi, before that he was a victim of discrimination, th

the search for the terroristwidenned today, and elizabeth palmer is following the investigation. liz. >> reporter: scott, the police say that tonight they're look for a second man who got away. that would make him the ninth terrorist, and they say they spotted him inside a car on surveillance camera video very near the place where the clients of the restaurants and cafes were gunned down. first, a police robot moved in to examine this car abandoned on a paris street. searching for links to the terrorists. police are scouring europe for evidence that might lead them to salah abdeslam, the attacker who got away. but in brussels, his brother mohammed appealed to him directly. "my advice to him is to turn himself in to the police," he said, "so justice can shed light on what happened." at this hotel in the paris suburbs, another piece of the puzzle fell into place. it's where salah abdeslam and his coconspirators are believed to have spent the two days before the attacks. police discovered it and dusted it for fingerprints on the weekend. when salah abdeslam reserved two rooms in thi

elizabeth palmer begins our coverage. neighborhood turned enter a war zone when just after 4:00 a.m. swat teams stormed a third-floor apartment and came under a barrage of heavy gunfire. [gunfire] including from a woman shooter who is then believed to have blown herself up. the battle raged for an hour. the police, 110 officers in all, backed up by military reinforcements, fired off 5,000 rounds of ammunition. during a lull, neighbors ran for cover. when the shooting finally stopped, three naked men were taken away into custody with at least five police officers wounded. a block away, the owner of the apartment spoke with reporters. he told them that as a favor to a friend, he loaned it to people he didn't know. arrest, too, along with seven others, but the presumed leader of the paris attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud, was not among them. however, it is possible he is one of at least two killed. as forensic specialists got to work looking for, among other things, more bodies in the ruined building, the paris prosecutor, franco

elizabeth palmer in france is following this. . >> reporter: hotel guests were rushed to safety after an assault that began shortly after 7:00 a.m. they'd been trapped in their rooms when gunmen drove up inn a toyota s.u.v. with diplomatic plates and started shooting. mailan special forces set up an antiterrorist cordon, and thenn helpedy thehe french counter-parts and one off-duty american special forces member, they moved floor to floor evacuating more traumatized guests and staff. those rescued includede about a dozen americans, among many foreign diplomats and businesspeople, who were taken to a nearby sports center where embassy staff came to pick them up. "at about 6:50" said this eyewitness "some men started shooting everywhere," shouted allahu ackbar. they were jihadi. >> the french defense minister degrees. he says there was little doubt this man mokhtar belmokhktar is he's had of an al qaeda offshoot in north africa and kidnapper of dozens of westerners including the canadian diplomat robert fowler. terrorists under his command also attacked a gas plant i algeria, an atrocit

a street cleaner found the belt in a paris suburb, and elizabeth palmer is following this investigation. >> reporter: scott, police are telling french media that the phone of f lah abdeslam was geolocated to a spot very closese to where that suicide vest was found. he's the young terror suspect who got away, which was not part otherwise went off very smoothly. today another isis video, gloating about the paris attacks. but as offensive as the group's propaganda is, they don't lie. abdelhamid abaaoud, the presumed ringleader of the paris terrorist, popped up regularlyly in isis videos, and he openly boasted that after fighting in syria, he'd been able to reenter europe and buy weapons and even slip through police checks. francois heisbourg is a security expert and special adviser to the french government. >> that should set alarm bells ringing. >> he is taunting them. >> yes,e was taunting them. [gunfire] >> reporter: for french security forces, the paris attacks exposed dangerous flaws. >> we have been through the gauntlet in the most humiliating manner. >> reporter: the bottom line can

they were sisters who were gunned down together on the . >> pelley: elizabeth palmer in paris for us tonight. liz, thank you. and the belgians have just announced that brussels will remain virtually shut down for another week because of an imminent threat of attack. in the city of moore than 1 million, schools, shops and mass transit are closed and deborah linz is there. >> reporter: police conducted 29 new raids overnight and arrested 21 people. convinced that a new terror cell is still plotting a paris-style attack, belgian prime minister charl michel said the threat is still there. >> i can confirm that the threat is imminent and serious. >> reporter: for these children, the lockdown meant nothing more than a surprise holiday. schools will stay closed until wednesday, first time such a drastic step has been taken since world war ii. the subway will also stay shut. and all public gatherings like concerts and soccer matchs have been banned. today brussels' normally bustling historic city center was showing the effects of the stringent security measures. but salah abdeslam, europe's

elizabeth palmer is in paris. >> reporter: abaaoud, a convicted isis recruiter and presumed terrorist mastermind, was killed here in a suburban apartment. ( gunfire ) as he and his accomplices made their last stand in a ferocious gun battle with police wednesday morning. the police aren't sure if the 28-year-old was shot or if he blew himself up, but forensic officers had to rely on skin samples and fingerprints to identify his dismembered body. french media say the woman who is thought to have detonated a suicide vest in the shoot-out is abiewld's cousin, hasna aitboulahcen. authorities believe abaaoud not only directed the paris attacks last friday, but is connected to four out of six other failed attacks in france this year, including one on a train in august when a gunman was overpowered by three american passengers. french intelligence thought abaaoud was in syria and had no idea he was in france until a tip-off three days ago that he was back. "we received no information" said the interior minister, "from any of the european countries he must have traveled through." with hundred

elizabeth palmer has been covering the action for us. elizabeth. >> once the police s.w.a.t. teams got into position zeroing in on this apartment in a residential building, they were fired on almost immediately. a woman suicide bomber inside the apartment blew herself up and then the gun battle just amplified. terrified residents, some of them hiding under their beds for at least an hour and a half until special forces came to rescue them. in the end, there were two killed, including the woman suicide bomber, and seven arrested, although we don't know yet whether abdelhamid abaaoud, the mastermind of the paris attacks, presumed mastermind, was among them. >> elizabeth, thanks very much. that is the big question this morning and we hope to have an answer a little bit later today. back to you, charlie. >> thanks, scott pelley and elizabeth palmer in saint-denis. >>> last night on my pbs program the former senior correspondent said the isis attacks show how they are transforming the terrorist threat. >> in the 14 years following 9/11, terrorist groups challenged themselves. this

elizabeth palmer begins our coverage. >> reporter: a vibrant paris neighborhood turned into a war zone when, just after 4:00 a.m. s.w.a.t. teams stormed a third floor apartment and came under a barrage of heavy gunfire. [ gunfire ] including from a woman shooter who is then believed to have blown herself up. the battle raged for an hour. the police, 110 officers in all, backed up by military reinforcements, fired off 5,000 rounds of ammunititi. during a lull, neighbors ran for cover. when the shooting finally stopped, three naked men were taken away into custody, with at least five police officers wounded. a block away, the owner of the apartment spoke with reporters. he told them that as a favor to a friend, he loaned it to people he didn't know. a short t me later, he was under arrest, too, along with seven others. but the presumed leader of the paris attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud, was not among them. however, it is possible he is one of at least two killed. as forensic specialists got to work looking for, among other things, more bodies in the ruined building, thehearis prosecutor, fr

anthony. >> elizabeth palmer. thanks. you can see shock and confusion in the faces of appreciation parisians as they tried to understand before realizing they were targets of an attack. elaine cobbe has been on scene all night and also at the bataclan theater. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president hollande calls the attacks cowardly and promises the fight against the terrorists will be without mercy. french security forces poured in overnight. as the city remained on edge. people afraid to go out. this woman managed to escape the shooting at the concert hall. >> we hid for two hours she said. it was as if people were being tortured. it was terrible. they were shooting them. it was butchery. carnage. dead people everywhere. i'm just very shocked another survivor said. very shocked more than anything else. this man was caught in one of the suicide blasts at the soccer stadium. saved from flying debris only by his cell phone. "i was crossing and boom," he said. it exploded just in front of me. everything went to

elizabeth palmer will have more on all of this just ahead. president obama is calling the terrorism in paris, an attack on the civilized world. president is in turkey this morning to attend the summit of g20 leaders. still obama is pledging to rebuild u.s. efforts to the attacks dominated last night's cbs news democratic presidential debate. front runner hillary clinton was put on the defensive over her 2003 senate vote in favor of the iraq war. >> i don't think any president would disagree that invasion of iraq led to the massive level of instability we are seeing right now. >> i have said invasion of iraq was a mistake. this is an incredibly complicated region of the world. it's become more complicated. and many of the fights that are going on are not one that the united states has either started or have a role in. >> osgood: former maryland governor martin o'malley took aim at republican front runner mexican immigrants. >> the fact of the matter is, let's say it because you'll this are never hear this from the immigrant bashing carnal bark