of videos threatening exactly this, gun and bomb attacks in france. but the french have not yet made the official determination this is terrorism. and nor should we until they do. i want you to standby, paul, because we re getting more information. i just want to repeat what patrick klugman, the deputy of paris, just told us at the incident of the stadium could be, they haven t confirmed this, some sort of suicide bombing. three people dead there. and then these two separate shootings near the area where the charlie hebdo terrorist attack occurred back in january. 15 people dead there. jim bitterman is joining us from paris right now. jim, what are you learning? wolf, we ve got an assistant producer who was out at the scene at the bataclan. police are firing at a rooftop position around that theater. so apparently that hostage
could be the worst ever in paris. when you say they were explosions, mayor, at the stadium, at the football stadium there, what kind of explosions, big bombs, hand grenades, what kind of explosions were they? well, the information we have that explosions we don t have much. we know that president hollande was in the game at the house time break of the game. we don t have really details. we know that probably there were already three dead at the stadi stadium. 16 in the center of paris, which is the area of charlie hebdo where there could be also as i mention mentioned shooting going on of we re speaking. and the suspects, the people
and what we heard from the deputy mayor is that the city already even before these attacks, the gunfire, the explosions, perhaps suicide bombings at that football stadium, even before earlier there had been a heightened state of alert in paris, is that right? that s absolutely right. we heard from several of the american and other expatriate installations here that in fact security had been quietly but steadily stepped up in the last perhaps week or two weeks. so seems to me that the french had some kind of intelligence that something may be in the works. and as paul was reporting there there was the thwarted attack where the french said they picked up someone who was trying to attack french sailors. so there are clearly there was some kind of noise out there on the terrorist network that put people on alert, put the police on alert here.
least 60 people dead, although that number is expected to go up. on the phone is gabriel. i understand you were there at that football, at that soccer game where the suicide bombing, apparent suicide bombing occurred. tell us what happened. give us your account. caller: actually, i didn t see anything. we were inside the stadium and half an hour after the beginning of the game we heard four or five minutes two big explosions and had no idea but it was scary. you know, the game just kept on playing and then nobody said anything, but then unfortunately around halftime i had like ten miss called from my sister, girlfriend, parents, my grandparents asking me fif i wa okay. they said there were attacks all over paris including explosions
on in paris right now. deb is getting for information. increasing indications this could be a suicide attack. we re hearing the bombing at the stadium does appear to be a suicide bombing. there is a body in the location that is has wounds that is absolutely consistent with what would happen if it were a suicide bomber. so investigators paying particularly close attention to that as we re hearing. many borders have been closed. general security very, very tight at this point and speaking to one expert, one of the points that was raised is that look, isis, hit paris in january with the attack on charlie hebdo and jewish market and now it s essentially themselves we hit you once, we can hit you again, paris is not safe. so this is clearly terrifying to the people who are there.