i want to bring in isa soares. she is at our paris bureau. de investigation at this point, isa. >> reporter: good morning, john. europeans waking up to the fact there could be as many as 20 sleeper cells active within europe. they are already on edge and now high alert. western intelligence source telling cnn there could be 20 sleeper cells active within the continent. between 120 and 180 people. they are ready to strike from germany to the netherlands, belgium and indeed france. the source saying the imminent threat is in belgium. men have gone to syria and fight for isis and come back and preparing for any sort of attack across the continent. we heard in the last 12 hours, there are believed to be 3,000 europeans who have left to go to syria and fight there and return. 500 reportedly we have been told have returned. 250 going to the u.k. 200 to belgium. 70 to france. in light of this and everything that has happened in belgium and indeed in paris, authorities chasing any lead possible and chasing links to any of the terror cells. let me brea

we want to go now to our isa isa soares live there from paris. she's following the latest developments on the manhunt. it does appear that police do seem to be closing in on these suspects. >> yeah. good morning, zain and errol. police have indeed like you said descended on this rural area in the region in northern france. in what is a massive manhunt. this is the area they think the two brothers may be on the run. now, what we have seen in the last 24 hours, helicopters flying overhead, using special night vision equipment as they really scour that heavily wooded area for the two suspects. now police say they may have spotted them on foot there on thursday but that's as much as we know regarding that sighting. now, early in the day, if i take you back to early thursday morning, a gas station attendant in town said the brothers came into the gas station and threatened him. he says they were armed and they stole food and gas before driving away. all of this has led police to set up roadblocks in the area. so far, there is noind case, however, that

i want to bring in isa soares in our paris bureau tracking the developments an across the continent. good morning, isa. >> reporter: good morning, john. europe was already on edge. now it is on high alert. europeans waking up to the fact that they could possibly up to 20 terror cells active within europe. this coming from a western intelligence source telling cnn overnight. this cell can consist up to 120 to 140 people. ready to strike across germany, france, belgium and the thethe the netherlands. the same source telling us the imminent threat is in belgium and netherlands. these are mostly europeans, we have been told that have gone to syria and radicalized and coming back to strike here in europe. we know about 3,000 or so europeans have left to syria and we have learn ed about 500 have returned in recent years. those 500 breakdown as much. 250 going to the u.k. 200 to belgium and 70 to france. given the attacks here in france and latest activity in belgium. we have seen intelligence sources stepping up the raids across europe. breaking in the last hour paris prosecutor telling cnn

let's go to isa soares. are outside of the market where hostages were held and many were released. some did not make it out. others were injured. so were some s.w.a.t. team members that tried to free them. the french president said this was an anti-semitic attack. it's a kosher market. we're also told that many muslims shopped there as well to fill their own specific religious dietary needs. what have you heard there about how this is perceived and whether or not it was a specific targeting attack of jews? >> reporter: hi chris. people i've been speaking to they're not really saying it was specifically attacking jews. this is not a jewish area in the east of paris. this is middle class area. it's lots of different stores. not just jewish stores. muslim stores as well. a variety of shops here. people would not expect to see much police activity in this area. it's a very ordinary part of the east of paris really. it came as a surprise to many here today what we saw unfolding throughout the day. we were standin

isa soares and jim bitterman braving horrible weather out there. we'll see you guys shortly.ry much. >> and we are starting to learn a little bit more about the suspects in this paris attack. a bit earlier, i spoke to senior international correspondent ni k robertson about their travels the last few years and why one's ties to yemen are such a concern. >> one was arrested, turned into police. he was named hamyd mourad, 18 years old. his friends have been saying he was at school when all of this happened. how could he be involved? we don't know what his involvement is. and other people, we don't know who they are at this stage. are they people that have been connected to these two brothers on the run in the past? are they people who the police think these two brothers might get help from now that they're on the run, that they might go to so they're rounding them up, you know, sort of to get ahead of the curve here? or are these people they think might actually have been connect to this operation from the beginning? >> and in terms of claiming responsibility for this attack, we

isa soares, live for us in paris. we'll continue to check in with you over the next few hours as this story progresses. natalie 1234. >> thank you. and as we mentioned, as police moved in there to that grocery store, they were also moving in in to an area, an industrial area near charles de gaulle airport where they brought down these two brothers. our senior national correspondent jim bitterman is covering that part of the story for us. and he joins us now from the very area where this happened. and jim, it's really unreal that they brought this man down in the grocery store and they brought these two very dangerous men down as well. what can you tell us about how they did it? >> absolutely. natalie, the streets are quiet this morning unlike yesterday morning just about this time. a little later than this. the two brothers got into a gun fight just outside of town with police. one of them was slightly injured and they abandoned their car and ran into this printing plant, which is on the outskirts of town. and holed u

i want to turn to isa soares right now to talk about the investigation. the leads they are following in this case. isa, number one on the list developments overnight. we learned of an arrest in belgium. someone who may be connected at least financially or when it comes to weapons with amedy coulibaly. >> reporter: indeed. good morning john. if you are just joining us we have new leads that developed in the last hour on cnn. belgium authorities telling cnn that basically they have arrested a man in belgium. the man suspected in connection with arms trafficking. we have been told by the belgium federal prosecutors this man actually turned himself in to authorities. now it is believed that this man, we do not know if he is belgium or french recently bought a car from hayat boumeddiene. if you remember this is the woman that is on the run. she is the partner of coulibaly. she is believed to be in syria. belgium federal authorities telling cnn in the last hour that they raided this man's house last weekend. there, they found paper work that linked him with cou

for more let's turn to cnn isa soares. she is live in the french capital has you have been for several hours setting up what we expect today and it is not just people taking to the streets but many world leaders have come as well to show their unity. isa? >>. >> absolutely. it is a show of force and unity and also a show of defiance. in less than five hours from now more than a million people are expected to take to the streets to protest what has happened here. in the last week or so both "charlie hebdo" and also at the store, incident we saw on friday. french police are not taking any chances. they are not taking any risks. they have got every aspect covered. on my way in this morning it was still very dark i could tell you i saw already a lot of police on the street. i saw a lot of security. so clearly, we know they are taking it seriously. we know 1900 police officers are deployed. that number came from the french interior minister. we know there will be snipers on the roof. in fact you are looking at some of those pic

i want to bring in isa soares following the threads of the investigation. orning, isa. >> reporter: good morning, john. let me bring you up to date of the developments we got in the last 40 minutes from federal authorities telling cnn that the man has been arrested in connection to arms trafficking. what we are hearing is this man handed himself over and turned himself in to authorities. he recently bought a car from hayat boumeddiene. hayat boumeddiene is the woman on the run. she is the one believed to have gone into syria. you remember she went from here to madrid and madrid and believed to go to istanbul and then over to syria. she is also the partner of coulibaly. belgium authorities telling cnn that they raided the man's house last week the belgium man's house. they found a stash of papers that connected him to coulibaly and when it comes to arms trafficking. we also learned in the last 24 hours, a french newspaper, that perhaps authorities here are looking for a fourth accomplice. we heard from the prime minister there had been more than the ones we h

let's go to isa soares in paris. this seems to be the end-game with the french law enforcement moving in. the suspects apparently holding one or more hostages isa. >> reporter: oh, absolutely. this is something we have seen intensify in the last 24 hours or so. if you remember yesterday, john you saw the police really almost like a military operation in that north area of the country. really trying to hone in on them. they also spent hours in the gas station that atika shubert was reporting on. trying to close in on them. it seems that the area has expanded. the helicopter overnight caught them very briefly. we never heard anything else. you know one thing is clear. they were adding pressure. as long as these two men were out there, they were not going to stop. overnight, we saw them making mistakes. in the car, they left containers and some petrol as well. the fears were that they could make some molotov cocktails. as the pressure is put on them clearly they are making mistakes. they are desperate. that is the concer

let's bring in isa soares.y had been released? >> reporter: hi, jake, yes, we're starting to get a sense of what happened yesterday in those three, four hours, pretty dramatic and dangerous hours that were all witnessed on cnn yesterday. we're getting a feel for what not only the attackers said, in an interview, and also what the hostages went through during those hours. three, four, hours waiting for the police. once they got in there, it took a minute and a half to get the hostages out. what we heard from one of the hostages, she tried to escape, tried to get out through a freight lift within the kosher shop behind me. tried to convince a couple hostages to join as well. they were just too scared. they didn't want to take the risk. they knew that man was very serious and dangerous. what i've heard this morning, before i went in, he was already shooting. he was already threatening people. this gentleman said, look, no one would get in the lift. i said let's all get inside the fridge. that's what they did. a ve

. >> we want to go back to isa soares outside of that kosher market in paris. know you've been talking to a lot of people there about the day after mood. and we heard this guest you had earlier talk be the collective trauma that parisians are going through. >> reporter: yeah, indeed michael. you know people are starting to come here to tell us what they heard. what they saw. but it's very defiant in the way they have been talking about this. what happened. they will not let this stop them leading a normal life. we also are starting to hear accounts of what happened on wednesday. at the offices of charlie hebdo. i'm joined now by karolina. you worked at the offices of charlie hebdo. when exactly did you hear what happened on that tragic day? >> i was on the phone planning to go to the tv show that night where we were supposed to go to. we always meet there. the girl was crying on the phone, she learned that it was all shut. i run to the office of hebdo, the police was already there. it was difficult to do i met with my friend the partner cabu she said i she was

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we want to turn to isa soares now. good morning. >>. good morning, john, the pieces of this jigsaw are come inging together. as they come together, painting a very complex picture that takes you all the way from yemen to turkey. some reports of syria and also africa africa. so it just goes to show how far this web of terror reaches how much work the police here have still ahead. let me tell you what we have learned. in the last five or six hours, cnn sources have found out that the younger of the two brothers is 32 years of age and used his brother's pass poort to travel to yemen in 2011. both the brothers had previously said they pledged allegiance to al qaeda. now we're hearing that he trained with al qaeda in the iranian peninsula. he had a conviction back in 2008 where his passport was revoked. spent three years in prison for jihadist recruitment ring. that's what we know. many people are saying and what we're reading and heard from one of our affiliates is that he said he trained in yemen and also had met with al awlaki before he w

isa soares is here and brian stelter is here as well. i want to start with the investigation, isa. we have heard all morning there was this frenchman arrested in bulgaria right about the first of the year. it's unclear what kind of contacts he may or may not have had with the kouachi brothers. at a minimum you had someone that knew the kouachis arrested trying to get to syria and his girlfriend seen crossing into syria. a lot going on here. >> the web of terror has seen links now coming to light day by day we get this. the frenchman of haitian descent. 29 years of age. he was picked up in bulgaria. he was arrested on the first of the month. he actually had been there for a while. it's incredible. there was an arrest warrant for him but not for terror related charges but allegations that he took his child from the wife. that's separate. nevertheless this apparently what we're hearing right now is the fact that he's wanted for terror links for the brothers. this is what we're getting. that's one side of the investigation. the other side obviously that we're hearing is the question of

. >> thank you, isa soares thank you. >>> that individualvideo is a chilling piece of evidence for investigateors the and combined with the brazen attackers who seem calm and fearless carrying out the attack as we can see there. and here is tom foreman. >> hi don. if you look at the original video that we have of "charlie hebdo" capturing the gunmen coming out of the office ss and shooting down this way, this is the first glimpse we had of them, and it looked fairly chaotic, chaotic, but this new video are from the new direction, the opposite direction showing a different circumstance. here we see the gunmen coming out into the street and really quite taking their time, and at least five times the driver takes out that they have avenged the slight to the prophet muhammad and then the other passenger comes around and he has something wrong with the handgun, because the driver who is superior of the handling of the guns because you can see the magazine to the handgun is lying on the top of the car, and it seems to be one of the 30-round clips a that they use tonka lish na kovs and then they calmly

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