her name is hayat boumediene. she's 26 years old.ngerous and is reportedly the girlfriend of amedy coulibaly, who was killed in that hail of gunfire when french police stormed the kosher supermarket in east paris. take a look at some of the most dramatic video here. [ gunfire ] four hostages were killed. you mentioned their names there, fredricka. another 15 survived. coulibaly reportedly said he was working in tandem with the kouachi brothers. police killed those two brothers in another standoff in northern paris. said and cherif kouachi were suspected in the attack on the hebdo magazine. a closer look at their apparent journey into violent jihad. >> reporter: around a decade ago, in the 19th district of paris, two orphaned brothers began their journey to so-called jihad. said and cherif kouachi's path to terror seemed to have different. little is known about said the elder of the two, other than he traveled a few years ago to yemen, meeting terror groups there. cherif went from rap-loving hipster to radical. this video was made in

right now, french authorities are trying to find this woman, 26-year-old hayat boumediene. e about accomplishing of amedi coulibaly at a hostage taking incident here at a kosher grocery here in paris in which four civilians were killed. coulibaly was killed when he stormed the market. he actually seemed to run into the hail of bullets. police believe boumediene may have escaped amid the chaos. she's also the suspect in the shooting of a policewoman thursday. officials say she exchanged 500 phone calls with the wife of cherif kouachi, kouachi behind the brutal terrorist attacks here at charlie hebdo magazine. this video shows the terrifying moments when police closed in on the kouachi brothers at of all places a printing shop outside of paris. [ gunfire ] >> both brothers, said and cherif kouachi were killed in that hail of gunfire. according to a new report, aqap, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, that's the al qaeda affiliate in yemen, they're claiming responsibility for the brutal attack on charlie hebdo. cnn has been unable to verify that claim. meanwhile, french media r

photographs of hayat boumediene show her transformation from the daughter of a french delivery driver to an armed islamic extremist. turkish authorities believe after arriving in istanbul boumediene stayed two nights in this hotel. turkish officials say after she left istanbul, hayat boumediene spent four days in another city close to the syrian border before crossing into the war zone on thursday, the same day her partner, coulabli, shot and killed a french policewoman. [gunfire] he attacked at the kosher grocery store took place the following day. french authorities announced they were searching for boumediene, but by then it was too late. phone records confirm that the woman who may have vital information about terror networks in europe was already in syria. one turkish official told us today that his government is furious that the french did not flag boumediene as a possible extremist, but u.s. officials have told us it is normal to scale back close surveillance of suspects who are deemed less important, and, scott, they say that is always a difficult judgment call. >> pelley: hol

the hunt is not over yet for hayat boumediene. but not like this one in modern times. how do you feel they're handling it, the citizens there and officials? >> reporter: yes, good morning, alex from a city very much on edge. as you say, it's a city braced for more attacks. i'll give you one example of that. just in the last few minutes, we heard police heard reports of an armed man leaving a shop near where the two brothers abandoned their car after the massacre. locals chased this man. half a dozen police vans with armed police rushed to the scene. they sealed the street off. they searched for this man. they have now declared that a false alarm. but that's just one of many such incidents of a city reeling with nerves jangling. they are waiting for the next attack. so the deadly sieges may be over, but the crisis france faces is not. the gunmen may be dead but their accomplice is not. she is still on the run. she is a terrorist on the loose, photographed here with her partner, the man authorities say killed four hostages in the pa

at this hour authorities are still trying to track down the fourth suspect, hayat boumedien. e of the attacker who seized hostages at the kosher grocery store in paris. he was later killed by police. police believe boumedien is armed. and world leaders will all gather in central paris for a unity rally scheduled for tomorrow. let's go to paris. nbc's ron allen is standing by for us on a wet, dreary night there. ron, another welcome to you, let's go to this meeting held by france's interior minister today. what more came out of that? >> reporter: well the other thing that i want to tell you about first, alex is boumedien may have left the country. there are reports in the french media here saying that she got on a plane a few days ago, arrived in turkey and was seen crossing the border into syria, the same day that her alleged boyfriend was allegely killing that policewoman a couple of days ago here in paris. so the search has been on now since the sieges yesterday at the grocery store and the industrial park. the latest reporting here from the french media suggests that she le

it was first thought that hayat boumediene was in paris, but apparently her last known location was in turkey, apparently, near the syrian border. authorities say she did not take a return flight to madrid on friday. she had flown from there to istanbul at the beginning of the year. atikka schubert reports more on the hunt for answers to her mystery. >> when amedy coulibaly gunned down four people and took hostages, police immediately issued this arrest warrant for him and his partner, hayat boumediene. suggesting she had been alongside husband for the attack. police said she was armed and dangerous. france's public prosecutor linked the couple to the attackers at "charlie hebdo." >> translator: it appears from the investigation, especially from phone taps, that cherif kouachi's spouse had called more than 500 times to hayat boumediene, which shows permanent and strong links between the couples. >> this is where amedy coulibaly and hayat boumediene were living, about a ten minute drive to where coulibaly is believed to have gunned down that police officer and 20 minutes from the kosher

clarissa ward with more information about the missing suspect hayat boumediene and her ties to terror. >> reporter: for french authorities, hayat boumediene may hold the key to figuring out if her late partner supermarket shooter amady coulibaly and the kouachi brothers responsible for wednesday's massacre at a satirical magazine were part of a bigger terrorist cell in france. it is not yet known whether the men coordinated their attacks with each other, but hayat boumediene exchanged 500 phone calls with kouachi in 2014. she has no criminal record, but she has previously been questioned over her association with known islamic radicals, among them convicted terrorist jim al beghal. photos show them together posing with weapons in a forested area of central france. but neighbors at their paris apartment building said they seemed normal. >> they weren't mean people, they said hello, good-bye and hold the door, i bumped into them many times.cr >> reporter: said and cherif kouachi were also described as unremarkable by people in their communities. we met a 24-year-old who told us he knew

and that is this 26-year-old hayat boumediene. so what are officials saying about her and is she the reason that they worry about future attacks or is it a broader base than that ron? >> it's a broader concern, but the woman, yeah she's an accomplice. she is considered armed and extremely dangerous. she is on the run. we don't know. and it's a big question mark hanging over this entire situation. there is some speculation that she was in the market the supermarket, that was attacked at some point, but that's not clear. there are reports that she may have escaped there are reports that she may have been killed. it's hard to imagine that someone in that market who's a suspect, could have escaped. the police were there, the security forces were there relatively quickly. there were a lot of people in the market, however, a lot of employees, a lot of shoppers, because this is a time when the markets would be filled with shoppers gathering food and other supplies for the weekend and so forth and for the jewish holy day, the next day. so

it is not yet known whether the men coordinated their attacks with each other but hayat boumediene. >> exchanged 500 phone calls in 2014. >> she has no criminal record was but she has previously been questioned over her association with known islamic radicals, among them convicted terrorist jim al beghal photos show them together posing with weapons in a forested area of central france. >> but neighbors at their paris apartment building said they seemed normal. >> they weren't mean people they said hello good-bye and hold the door, i bumped into them many times. >> said and cherif kouachi were also described as unremarkable by people in their communities. >> we met 24-year-old who told us he knew said from his mosque in rimes. >> he was pretty quiet, didn't talk very much i saw him from time to time with his family, he said. on the outside he seemed like a good guy someone who stayed out of trouble. >> but his brother cherif kouachi was well-known to french authorities, imprisoned in 2005 for trying to join jihadis fighting against american troops in iraq, braving questions about why

with women. >> reporter: we learned from the paris prosecutor more solid information connecting hayat boumediene and her boyfriend to the brothers who killed the people at the magazine. prosecutors are aware of more than 500 phone calls made between boumediene and the wife of suspect cherif kouachi. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> i want to bring in my colleague brianna keilar in new york. she's got a panel of experts to talk over these latest developments. brianna? >> thanks jim. joining me we have global affairs analyst bobby gauche the managing editor of courts. we have political commentator buck sexton a former cia counterterrorism analyst and interrogation and terrorism expert robert mcfadden. he's a former special agent in charge at ncis now with the sufan group. bobby bobby, something we've been talking a little bit about, the girlfriend hayat boumediene this is the girlfriend of the shooter in the kosher market in paris. she -- we think she took part in some of the planning here. i mean do we necessarily think that she did take part even if she had left days before? >> well the plot itse

so who is hayat boumediene and was she in france during the attacks? to get into the developments we learned today and more after this break. [container door opening] ♪ what makes it an suv is what you can get into it. ♪ [container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. ♪ introducing the first-ever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. once you go beyond utility there's no going back. >>> even as hunt for the paris attack suspects was still under way, social media was already buzzing with pictures and words of support for the "charlie hebdo" victims. many changed their facebook profile pictures to this image, je suis charlie or "i am charlie." >> people around the world have been expressing their shock and horror over what happened. they have also been showing their solidarity. the hash tag that has been used and a rallying call around the world is je suis charlie, and we are charlie being tweeted in french newspapers. also being tweeted along with that hash tag, are cartoons from very well-known cartoonist from chile and barcelona who p

we are getting new reports about hayat boumediene.been inside the grocery store during friday's attack. now french media is reporting police sources believe she flew to turkey on january 2nd, and then crossed over to syria. the associated press quotes a turkish official

kellogg live in paris, thank you. >>> intelligence officials in turkey say if female suspect, hayat boumediene, flew to istanbul just day before the attack but investigators say she disappeared earlier this week near the syrian border. bub boumediene is the common lu wife of . >> they need to find her and either stop her just luke they did a good job of eliminating the threat yesterday but they can also get her interrogate her, and find out what other links they may have. >> senior correspondent is live in paris with more details. rick? >> kelly really a strange turn of events here. french authorities seem convinced that hayat boumediene is an accomplice of two terror attacks this past week. the murder of the french woman on thursday and the seernlg oniege on the kosher grocery store. as you mentioned, her common law husband, amedi coubali, was killed in the grocery late yesterday after he killed four hostages at the beginning of that siege. and french officials say they thought boumediene was with him and slipped away in the confusion as surviving hostages ran out. now we're hearing she may n

if according to these turkish officials who spoke to cnn, hayat boumediene the terror suspect who's being sought by authorities, is in fact in turkey and may have made her way to syria. now, let's go to fred pleitgen. fred you are outside that kosher supermarket where the men believed to have been the boyfriend or the partner of boumediene is suspected of having killed four hostages in a hostage crisis on friday, yesterday, that ended in his death. how does this change the situation for investigators, the fact that this woman they thought may have been involved operationally during the events may not even be in the country? >> reporter: well certainly changes a lot of things for investigators because remember that the beginning, they believed that she might have been involved in the killing of that police officer, that female police officer, here in paris on thursday that she might have been an accomplice in that. remember that also there was speculation that possibly she might have been inside that kosher grocery store that was hit here just across the street from here. and that she migh

we are getting new reports about hayat boumediene. she was believed to have been inside the grocery store during friday's attack. now french media is reporting police sources believe she flew to turkey on january 2nd, and then crossed over to syria. the associated press quotes a turkish official who says they believe that the suspect passed through that country. nbc news has not yet confirmed this. >>> meanwhile, president hollande held a security meeting with officials to thwart off any repeat attacks. a rally is planned for tomorrow. several world leaders are said to attend, including the britain prime minister and german chancellor. several cities saw a massive show of unity ahead of the rally. many people marching in solidarity of the victims. one siege in paris where coulibaly was killed. the brothers, said and cherif kouachi were killed in a gun battle with police. 17 people were killed in the attacks. you want to get to ron allen. tell me more about these reports of hiayat about how manboumedie. >> reporter: french authorities

i imagine that hayat boumediene has a few friends someplace who will help hide her out. >> now, thesened of her in some kind of training. and she's shown in these photos with her boyfriend, amedy coulibaly, who is now dead and who did do the grocery store attack and had hostages and has a record of violence. let me ask you, aky, whether you feel after seeing and hearing what's going on today that we're dealing with an extensive cell or whether this is pretty much winding down. >> well, that's the million dollar question or the million euro question. are there other people? obviously there are all kinds of -- when you carry out an attack like this, you have all kinds of friends and confederates who can help you out. so where is miss boumediene? nobody knows. had she been caught we would have heard about it in the press by now. so that means she has friends, people trying to help her out, perhaps cars et cetera, et cetera. so the fact is that the police think that she might be armed and dangerous, means that she is a real threat to society at this juncture. so who is actually out there

hayat boumediene. there are reports she may have fled to syria. they believe she was an accomplice to yesterday's kosher grocery standoff. she is considered dangerous and a possible key to helping authorities dismantle what could be a terrorist network. amy kellogg is live in paris with the latest. amy? >> reporter: hi, arthel. we don't know exactly where these reports are coming from. they have been sort of vaguely attached to police sources but we do know arthel, that the police have spent an awful lot of time interviewing the wives of the other two terrorists. the kouachi brothers who were killed yesterday and one of them was very close to hayat boumediene. it is possible that information was gleaned from that interviews if it's true. again, the reports are that hayat boumediene the wife and presumed accomplice of coulibaly one of the terrorists fled for syria january 2nd. that would have been a week before the wave of terror here in france began. now, the 26-year-old boumediene who claims to have found religion when she met coulibaly was known

french police described hayat boumediene armed and dangerous. and the partner of the supermarket killer, amedy coulibaly. these, their own photographs. he and the other gunmen may be dead, she is not. french intelligence knew the men were linked, two are brothers, two prisoners together. coulibaly released just months ago. they had recruited men to fight u.s. troops in iraq ten years ago. this week their sleeper cell re-awoke and they became assassins. but did they act on their own, and are there others ready to strike? if they were part of a bigger network, french authorities have a bigger challenge. they know more than 300 french nationals are currently fighting for isis in iraq or syria. the risk of blowback of militants returning to kill is enormous. [ speaking french ] >> reporter: tonight, french president francois hollande called for unity. we've tightened security, he said, so we won't face risks and threats. but the threats are clear. the kouachi brothers told negotiators they wanted to die as martyrs. the attack on the kosher supermark

and hayat boumedien was implicated in that as well. interesting thing is even before the siege happened today on the kosher supermarket, the police in paris was putting out wanted signs of both him and her. obviously she is his girlfriend and apparently they've been together for a couple of years. some people even claim that she is his wife and that she obviously went through this whole radicalization process with him as well. there are pictures that showed up in a french magazine today that show him and her apparently shooting something like crossbows somewhere in the french countryside. so this radicalization process is something apparently these two went through together. now, of course after all these other suspects have been killed the police is putting extra effort into trying to find her because right now, she is the only link the only person who is still alive from this greater plot who could shed some sort of light as to what these people were trying to achieve, who the people behind this are and how this all came to be and wh

french officials say hayat boumediene is armed and dangerous.ntly with amedi coulibaly when he stormed the kosher grocery store. in paris. he was connected to the kouachi brothers behind the "charlie hebdo" massacre. coulibaly and the brothers were killed by police during friday's raids. >>> and snow is making for extreme driving conditions in some nearly 200 cars and trucks involved in a massive pileup, shutting down i-94 in kalamazoo, michigan, on friday. >>> a wild crash on dash cam. a bus in albuquerque, new mexico. watch the van slam into the bus. knocking the bus into a house. passengers were thrown from their seats. you see in another video there. >> wow. >> amazingly, the bus was not injured, neither were people, seriously. police say the driver of the van ran through a red light. >>> and finally, this doggie has expensive taste when it comes to treats. the owner said -- she put her $23,000 rings on a table. that's when sierra, the dog, swooped in and swallowed them. the engagement ring and wedding band had to be surgically removed from

paul i wonder if i can ask you, because the other major development today is word that hayat boumediene a lot of theories yesterday, was she in that kosher market with her partner, as it was underway. was she still in the country. was there a manhunt. now we find that she is in turkey in fact and was last identified by the turkish authorities as on her way to the syrian border. how important is finding her, not only to investigating the past attacks, but to preventing more attacks going forward. >> well jim, it may simply be too late. she might have already crossed into syria. this group of extremists in france which she was part of have friends who have gone off to fight in syria. we know that from the paris prosecutor. they're likely to have a network over there. she may have some help in terms of getting across the border. and i think it's quite plausible that she left france so she wouldn't be arrested she didn't want to participate in this attack but has some foreknowledge. it appears that she was approaching the syria border or even crossing over it on the 8th of january, the same

police are still on the hunt for hayat boumediene.minister says they are deploying hundreds of troops to ensure there are no further attacks. ronan, the big story of the day right now is this hunt for this woman, armed and dangerous, potentially in a very desperate situation. what can you tell us the latest is on that right now? >> reporter: exactly. hayat boumediene, she's the partner of the assailant in the supermarket, married in a religious ceremony but not recognized by the state as husband and wife. the authorities are remaining tight lipped about her. the chief of police here actually gave his very first interview and still said we're not revealing any leads any intelligence, we don't have a status update where the investigation is this moment. we do know from the chief prosecutor that she called one of the kouachi brothers wives up to 500 time. all of this uncertainty about the search is leading up to the major unity rally tomorrow. there's irony there because although there are certainly many standing shoulder to shoulder in

hayat boumediene. friends with the brother who slaughtered 12 people in that newspaper office wednesday. authorities say the couple was responsible for the murder of a french policewoman thursday while the brother was on the run and then friday when those brothers were surrounded in that printing plant near the airport. that's when boumediene's husband killed four people in that kosher grocery in east paris and took several others hostages. police think boumediene was in the kosher grocery with her hearse and think she may have escape pd in the confusion when they killed the man and freed the other hostages. the terrorist, by the way, also that they were influenced by al qaeda in yemen also known at al qaeda and the arabian peninsula. al qaeda and yemen threatened more attacks neil, against other western targets. so there is a very, very real sense of danger here in france and across the region but again the search continues for that woman. they are questioning the kouachi brothers' wives because they'

he and his 26-year-old girlfriend hayat, boumediene were wanted for killing a policewoman the day earlier. the brothers began the slaughter on wednesday. the offices of charlie hebdo felt the urge to stalk. >> translator: we are telling you we are the defenders of the profit moehammedmohammed. >> reporter: it unfolded not far from the main airport t. brothers entered a small print shop. the police chased them down. after 8:00 a.m. a salesman told a french radio station, he saw one of the terrorists dressed in black and heavily armed. he didn't realize it was the charlie hebdo gunman. >> i took him as an armed policeman. >> reporter: french policemen took him by phone and they said they were ready to die as martyrs. soon the brothers were dead. several minutes later, outside the kosher police department. >> multiple shots, automatic fire is continuing. another explosion. >> they demanded the kouachi brothers leave. they said their mission was synchronized. they said -- he was killed in the assault. sources say four bodies were found inside. at a speech in tennessee, president obama talked

this cell happens to be the two brothers coulibaly and his wife hayat boumediene. so just like politics war makes strange bed fellows. it was a tactical alliance to get an operation done. we have seen isis and al qaeda elements working together tactically in syria, but only for a short period of time. >> of course as we reported police in the united states and other countries across the globe, are on alert. the worry here of course we watch these attacks play out in paris, the worry is these soft targets. this appears to be the new approach that these terrorist organizations are taking. it's very difficult to guard against those sorts of attacks. what do you do in those instances? >> that's the problem. you're absolutely right, because these cells are so small and they conduct themselves very very quietly. so they're below the radar. you don't really know they're there until they conduct an operation and then it's too late. look how much damage look how many people just three people were able to kill in the space of two days. this is really the wave of the future.

>>> france on high alert as a nationwide as much as intensifies for this woman hayat boumediene the commontner with a man believed to have killed a french police officer before being killed at the kosher grocery store in eastern paris. welcome to "america's news headquarters". >> i'm pat ti ann brown. france is asking residents to remain vigilant. france ramping up its security as the country reels from the terrorist attacks. greg is live in paris with the latest for us. hi, greg. >> reporter: hi, patti ann. after this long week of terror and police operations the police job is not over. that search is on for the partner of ahmedy coulibaly. it's thought she's a accomplice to his deadly acts first the killing of a french policewoman on thursday and killing of hostages on friday in the kosher supermarket. the latest word we're getting in various media reports quoting police sources is that she's not here anymore, left more than a week ago from france through spain to turkey and then into syria. if that's the case, then it might be she got word that something terrible was going to go down he

amedy coulibaly and hayat boumediene said they would start killing hostages they had. they were suspects in the killing of a police woman they had taken on thursday. the police raided the grocery store killing coulibaly. boumediene is on the loose. she escaped. government officials say four hostages were killed in the standoff. traveling in tennessee today, president obama delivered brief remarks. >> we are hopeful that the immediate threat is now resolved thanks to the french personnel on the ground. but the french government continues to face the threat of terrorism and has to remain vigilant. the situation is fluid. president hollande made it clear they will do whatever it is to protect their people. france is our oldest ally. i want the people of france to know that the united states stands with you today, stands with you tomorrow. our thoughts and prayers are with the families who have directly been impacted. we grieve with you and fight alongside you to uphold our values, the values that we share, universal values that bind us together as friends and as allies. >

. >> there are reports that the female suspect hayat boumediene left france and traveled via turkey to syria. we have not confirmed those reports. >>> thousands gathering in solidarity with france. massive crowds gathering in new york, philadelphia and north carolina expressing their outrage over shootings and the week of terror that left 17 people dead. some had signs of blow-ups of cartoons for which the journalists were killed. >> so it's made me feel like i really need to come out today and show solidarity. >> president obama offered his condolences as well as his support for france, which is the united states oldest ally. more than a million people expected to take part in a rally in paris tomorrow. >>> it took crews two hours today to lift the tail off the ocean floor. divers are scouring the seabed for the plane's black boxes. they did detect ping sounds. 48 bodies have been recovered since the plane crashed with 162 people on board. >>> coming up next, close but no cigar. how the mission fell short of expectations. >>> it is a travel destination for some home for others. still

french officials pulling out all stops to learn everything they can about hayat boumediene.ould hold the key to dismantling a terrorist network. brian has more on what we know about her so far. >> uma, the 26-year-old is now the most wanted person in france for her possible connection to the terror attacks in paris. boumediene has been on the run since her husband stormed the grocery store yesterday murdering four hostages before he was gunned down in a intense standoff. authorities believe boumediene was in the grocery store with her husband but managed to escape during the confusion as freed hostages were running for their lives. now a manhunt is under way and police believe boumediene is the key to linking coulibaly and the kouachi brothers. boumediene exchanged more than 500 phone calls in 2014 with the wife of cherif kouachi. french officials want to know about the calls and why they are made. the wives of the kouachi brothers are being questioned by police in hopes they'll lead them to boumediene. she is believed to be radicalized by coulibaly as they married in a cere

hayat boumediene is the only person suspected to the terrorists in paris that is still alive. a source tells cnn that boumediene entered france from turkey. >>> meanwhile, hezbollah's leader is condemning the terrorists who slaughtered 12 people at "charlie hedbo," a satirical magazine. listen to what he had to say -- >> translator: and those through their actions, words and shameful heinous, violent, inhuman and brutal practices, offended the messenger of god. the religion of god, prophets of god, the book of allah and the muslim nation more than his enemies did. even those who have attacked the messenger of god through books, depicting the prophet or making films depicting the prophet or drawing cartoons of the prophet. >> in paris today crowds gathered outside "charlie hedbo's" offices to honor the victims. the magazine plans to issue a million copies of its next issue. one terror suspect remains on the loose today from the terrifying and deadly events in and around the city this week. this is that suspect, a woman, one of few pictures we have of her that shows her face dur

neil, her name is hayat boumediene. she is the common law wife of one of the people. authorities broke in and killed her husband. she has algerian decent. she was radicalized by her husband coulibaly. in 2010 her husband inspired her to read books on religion and she was angered by killing of innocents or anyone americans sent bombers suggesting that the u.s. was the terror network. french police were hunting for the couple in connection of the murder of french policewoman. they took control of the grocery in east paris with the goal of killing jews and helping the kouachi brothers escape. they carried out the massacre. coulibaly said he would kill hostages unless they let the brothers go. now, there's still no sign of the 26-year-old boumediene who is unofficially france's most wanted woman. she is to be considered dangerous and armed. the terrorists have stopped and the bloodshed is over for now. there's a wide belief that the worst may be yet to come and there could be more attacks ahead. >> rim thank you. rick is in paris. al qaeda in yemen we are going to get to

. >> reporter: her name is hayat boumediene. she is the common law wife of the man who authorities say killed four hostages inside that grocery store in paris yesterday. they believe she may have been there with him and may have escaped in the confusion when authorities broke in and killed her husband and freed the remaining hostages. she has algerian descent. she was radicalized according to authorities by her husband, amedy coulibaly. she said her husband inspired her to read a lot of books on religion and she was angered by what she called the massacre of innocents in palestine chechnyia, or as she put it anywhere the americans sent their bombers suggesting the u.s. was the actual terror network. french police were already hunting for the couple in connection with the murder of a french policewoman on thursday and then the pair apparently took control of that kosher grocery in east paris yesterday morning with the goal of killing jews and possibly helping the kouachi brothers escape. of course, the kouachis are the ones who c

hayat boumediene might have information about an islamic extremist cell. it is thought she traveled to syria by way of turkey. nbc news has not confirmed these reports. a crowd gathered outside the kosher supermarket earlier today. that's where four people were killed yesterday. a huge rally is scheduled for tomorrow. hundreds of thousands are expected to attend that. 17 people plus three gunmen, were killed over three days. >>> a hazy day out there across the south bay and other parts of the bay. another spare the air alert has been issued for tomorrow. that makes it 11 in a row. >> we're seeing it too especially if you look at the mountain tops. you can see all the smoke and dust out there, but what we have is high pressure on top acting like a lid. that smoke has nowhere to go. we have the dry weather in addition to the poor air quality. moving into some of the east bay valleys. tomorrow another spare the air alert. the other headline we're watching now we're on pace to match last january which was the driest on record. no measurable rainfall just yet,

in it he pledged allegiance to isis although there is no evidence that he and his girlfriend hayat boumediene ever fought in syria or iraq. the two weren't always extremists. that is boumeddiene in a bikini, they think coulibaly, a convicted armed robber was radicalized in jail. he posed in video and photos shown by lemoned newspaper with various guns. last night, french media say they found his hideout, a rented apartment in the suburbs, inside there were several automatic weapons, explosives, money and an isis flag. the feel good factor of today's huge and peaceful march has eased tensions in france somewhat, but the country is now facing hard questions about homegrown violent extremism and how the french state proposes to keep its citizens safe. one big challenged, jeff, is the sheer number of potentially radicalized individuals that the french security services have to watch. one official told me yesterday there are now more than 1,000.in >> glor: liz palmer, thank you very much. >> a german newspaper that reprinted the charlie hebdo cartoons has been attacked by arsonists, mark phillips

. >> reporter: it is this woman, hayat boumediene -- young radical, armed and dangerous -- who police are urgently searching for tonight. her accomplice, and boyfriend, amedy coulibaly, the hostage taker killed by police in the kosher grocery store. coulibaly and the 26-year-old woman believed to be connected with the gunning down of a female police officer yesterday. the four terrorists, part of an al qaeda cell, not the loan wolves, we have seen in the past, radicalized muslims seeking revenge against the west, views that likely grew more extreme during time some spent in prison. >> you have somebody who is in prison for committing a crime. they're often going to be exposed to other bad individuals. >> reporter: at least one of the attackers traveled to yemen for training in 2011 and in that phone call to a french television station this morning, before being killed by police, cherif kouachi said they were financed by anwar awlaki, the american-born al qaeda leader in yemen who was killed by a u.s. drone strike in september 2011. the gunman refused to answer questions about whether

her name is hayat boumediene the partner of amedy koulibaly.lice suspect killed a french policewoman on thursday. and she knows a lot of stuff. there are records of her connections and linkages with the terrorists in their circle, and at the very least she has information. at the most, she could be an accomplice to both crimes. this as we find out more about those incidents that we have been tracking for the past three days, particularly the bloody incidents yesterday that ended in a shoot-out at both locations that we had talked about. we're supposed to talk about the print business ho tahjhostage taking. that involved the two brothers it turns out they had proclaimed their allegiance to al qaeda in the arab peninsula, aqap, that chapter that exists in yemen said kouachi had spent time in yemen getting trained up. that's why he looked so professional, he and his brother, in their actions. on the other side there was the kosher supermarket involving the koul koulibaly fellow. he was trying to get a convicted terrorist sprung from prison so he h

hayat boumediene had been sought in connection with the fatal shooting of a policewoman and the capture and shooting of hostages at a kosher store in the french capital. her boyfriend, amedy coulibaly, was killed by french police who stormed the store last night. meanwhile, in the small town north of paris residents were celebrating the killing of the two terrorists who shot up the offices of charlie hebdo, a satirical magazine, and later fled to dammartin en goele, where the siege ended yesterday. i.t.n.'s jonathan rugman is there. >> reporter: in dammartin en goel's main street, no sign of the trauma which gripped this town yesterday. shoppers nursing their baguettes as usual, yet the taste of freedom so much sweeter now that the two brothers who terrorized france and killed 12 people are now dead. french police filmed their own account of the fierce gun battle which ended this siege. the brothers cornered in a print company on the town's industrial estate. one man was hiding beneath a sink upstairs and secretly texting the police messages this photo shows him, a graphic designer bein

french authorities confirming 26-year-old hayat boumediene has a key member of the murderous sleeper cell which terrorized paris, massacring 12 people at a newspaper, charlie hebdo, and seizing this jewish supermarket, has fled the country. u.s. and french officials tell abc news, she fled france last week, traveling to turkey via spain and then crossing into syria the day after the attack on the magazine. it was the very same day her partner gunned down a policewoman in paris. >> the reason she may have wanted to go to syria is really just to have sanctuary there. syria is awash in extremists. >> reporter: police describe boumediene as the body to the murderous collide of amedi coulibaly. both arm and dangerous. her boyfriend killed yesterday as commandos stormed the supermarket where he'd taken hostages and killed four. police suspect she served as the communications link between coulibaly and the other members of the terror cell behind the charlie hebdo massacre the brothers cherif and said kouachi, killed yesterday when police stormed the printing press where they holed up. boume

french police say hayat boumediene is armed and dangerous. she knew all three gunmen well. hundreds of their phone calls intercepted by anti-terrorist police. two of the men had been prisoner prisonersprisoner prisoners together. her partner released months ago. they were all well known extremists. once recruiting men to kill u.s. troops in iraq. were they on their own? are others ready to strike? >> the french will try to find out how far this network extends. we know for a fact these individuals have connections to al qaeda. >> al qaeda yemen. >> reporter: cherif kouachi said he was commissioned in yemen. his brother trained there for years ago. the supermarket killer said he was with isis and chosen a jewish target deliberately. this horror was the work of one cell. is this cell bigger? police and intelligence officers have a challenge ahead. french president francois holland called for unity. we tightened security he said so we won't face risk and threat. but the french jewish community is under imminent stress. an attack on the cabsabbath. this city is on edge. extra a

hayat boumediene. can you share any efforts to track this woman down?> i don't have any public information on the track of this woman. of course we know that the track is going on. we all know as you do that she was connected with the wife of the kouachi brothers. so there's a clear link between the two -- the two -- the two -- i don't know how to say -- >> brothers. >> -- but i don't have any details on the woman. >> all right. we appreciate you joining us at this difficult time in paris. our thoughts and prayers are with the french at this time. deputy mayor patrick klugman, thanks for joining us. >> many have condemned the attacks. one leader's reaction might surprise you. >> we'll talk about it live with the professor of middle east studies. that's head. >>> plus the latest search for airasia flight 8501. stay with cnn. >>> there's another breaking news story we're keeping an eye on here at cnn. the tail section of flight 8501 has been pulled to the surface in the java sea. you can see it being pulled underneath that vessel. divers discovered wednes

there's a woman there hayat boumediene. are there concerns about any additional threats now because apparently she's still on the run, correct? >> she's still on the run. i think the greater concern right now for french authorities is that it is clear that, first of all these suspects were linked. police sources have told various local media that they all belong to the same islamist ring here. they were involved in sending jihadis off to iraq, syria. there's a late report that the individual at the supermarket hostage taking had informed the public that he was coordinating his action with the other two. so it was a coordinated attack and it is the kind of attack that the officials here fear they can see again. >> great reporting today. thanks so much. >>> for more on this let's go to our chief intelligence correspondent in washington. what are we learning about the background of the terrorists? >> the more we learn about the men, the more the picture builds up that they had direct ties to al qaeda and it is likely or probab

new video captures hayat boumediene with an unknown man at an airport in istanbul five days before the paris attacks. unconfirmed reports say boumediene is in syria tails of heroism emerge from three days of terror. this man, a store clerk, hid hostages including a 2-year-old child in the freezer during a siege on the kosher market. possibly saving their lives. and the magazine "charlie hebdo," its surviving cartoonists undeterred will publish at least one million copies of a brand-new issue, hitting stands a week after their editorial meeting was so viciously attacked. and just a few moments ago here in paris, there was a very poignant memorial service for the three police officers the men and women who were killed in the days of terror here in paris. french leader francois who will pd hollande he said they died so we all may live in freedom. >> you've got jim bitterman next to you, let's check off some of the big open questions. the a.p. report that some french police said they're looking for six, john. our sources are saying the numbers probably a little bit getting out over the ski