in and out. the wonder here is whether there is a primary the research and work that we have done is the primary common link appears to attacks were had to hit large gatherings of people and kill as many people as possible. for enough to we death toll stands at 158. that will certainly change. french authorities have warned us we should expect that number to go up. it could go up significantly. authorities are also confirmed that six different locations have now been attacked. we talked aboutt÷ this many times. beginning with that cambodian street side cafe in the tenth district. witnesses in nearby bar says it appeared a drive by shooting. at first it sounded like fire crackers pow pow pow. and then they saw the suspects in the cars firing high volume, high powered weapons. at least is 11, maybe a dozen people thought to have
want to see but to understand the middle school story you have to and i m about to show that picture. if you have little kids around the television right now, it s time for them to turn around and if you don t have the stomach for, this then you shouldn t look either. we re about to put it on the screen and it s a picture of the reality outside that cafe where as far as we know, all of this began just before 10:00 p.m. paris time. think of how this was described to us. we cannot be for certain what happened. we won t know until all of the authorities have completed their work. but can i can only report to you what has been reported to us by eyewitnesses and authorities. and that is that this cafe was packed. you heard the description like greenwich village or the east village in new york city with 12 bars on a block as our witness described it. and gunmenk:÷ inside with masks on standing and firing from all directions as it was
for us all. this one began in a cafe as it was described to us. and these facts may change. but they have held to this moment. and it s been many hours. the first reports were masked men stood up and firing in all directions, more than a dozen dead. at the same time, the explosions heard for the first time in stadiums. authorities now confirmed two of these were suicide bombers. one found in pieces and parts on the street and confirmed to be the other unknown. and the bomb and the other location. that was the beginning. as security services went running towards that place. and the frent we spoke to went running from that place at the same time at this theater where the american band was playing. a lot of americans in the audience. at first, is it part of a show? and they fired more and more
those three gigantic explosions we know two suicide bombers and another planted bomb according to authorities. after that and this wild shooting inside the cafe described to us just a short time ago by sean o hare, series of weapons, gunfire after gunfire. we know they were mass now from the people who were in there at the time or out on the street. we know that the shooting went on and on and that more than a dozen people were killed there as all of this happened and before the explosions inside bataclan, inside that concert venue, the president of france came to the microphones before the meeting with his had cabinet to tell the country it s ongoing, we re closing the borders. the french president francois hollande as it happened. state of emergency has been called will be called. some places will be closed. roads will be closed.
look scared. things died down. came out of that cafe we were in. walked along the canal which we thought. as we walk down to the next avenue, there were police that there were fire trucks down there in the riot gear with machine guns and they said in french they said get the hell out of this area. so we went further down. more police down at the next avenue and then we cut in the opposite direction and about 10, 15 minutes later why ran into somebody who had a news report and at that point the report was that 18 people were dead and we said oh, no, something bad is happening. we decided we are going to try to make our way to metro to get out of there. all the metros were shut down. we walked about a mile or so. we found a taxi driver that took us to another neighborhood and that s when we got to a bar that was still open that had the tv on. obama came on the tv. hollande came on the tv said martial law and we realized we were in a serious