revealed. that s usually how these things unfold. you get the initial reports and then oftentimes it gets worse. what about reaching these areas? we said that your organization is headed there. what do you know about the road conditions? will it be difficult to get in there? our reports said that although part of the roads are cut off due to the damage, but it has already been reopened. and i do think that a lot of our organizations have been also deploying to do the assessment. although it s not a very crucial problem, logistic wise because the location is quite near to the capital city of jakarta and it can be reached quite easily, but i do think that there will be congestion due to people also
studio. we ll start you off with the morning s top stories. the family of odin lloyd, the man nfl star aaron hernandez was convicted of murdering in 2015 says they are moving forward with a wrongful death lawsuit. the statement followed yesterday s news that the former patriot star hanged himself inside his jail cell. hernandez was just acquitted friday in a separate double murder case from 2012. the families of those two victims say they plan to move forward with civil suits. vice president pence is in indonesia, home to the largest muslim population in the world. this is video of the vice president moments ago touring the mosque in the capital city of jakarta. the vice president met with indonesia s president last night, where he praised him for his country s democracy and caused indonesia s modern muslim a inspiration to the world. senate commerce committee with answers about that infamous dragging incident this month. they want to know the company s policies for removing pass
that starbucks smack dab in the central business area and entertainment and shopping district, of course popular among foreigners. and that set in motion a series of other attacks. look at the people scrambling, running for their lives. at least two people were dead after this. 19 people were wounded. five terrorists were killed. and no surprise here, isis is now claiming responsibility. cnn s senior international correspondent ivan watson is live for us now in that capital city of jakarta. this just follows a couple of days after ten german tourists were killed in istanbul, another suicide blast, another isis claim of responsibility. it looks as though the m.o. is to go after where the foreigners congregate. is that what they re telling you there? that could be one interpretation of it. certainly it s the first time that jakarta has seen a major terror attack in some six years.
the multipronged attack in a tourist district in indonesia s capital city of jakarta left at least two people dead and about two dozen wounded. it also raises disturbing questions about the terror group s global reach. let s bring in a former cia official, the cnn counterterrorism analyst phillip mudd, along with our national security analyst peter bergen and former chair of the house intelligence committee cnn national security commentator mike rogers. phil, let s take a look at the map. there s been one isis attack after another over the past several months. what makes this paris style attack in indonesia different? i think there s a couple things you need to think about, wolf. number one, you look at the orchestraters of this attack. in this case it looks like an indonesian operating out of raqqah and syria. in the case of paris that was native born belgians in france emigrated from north africa. isis developing the capability to draw on people from oversea who is have familiarity
yet another deadly terrorist attack. this one by isis eerily similar to paris, massive bomb explosions and violent shootout rocked indonesia s capital city of jakarta this morning. it all began when one of the terrorists detonated a suicide bomb near a starbucks in a bustling shopping district in jakar jakarta. that s an area usually packed with tourists from around the world. and then in an alarmingly coordinated manner other terrorists launched a gun battle with police. at least two civilians died in this attack. 24 others were injured. let s now go to cnn senior international correspondent ivan watson who is in jakarta, indonesia, for us live. ivan, what s the latest information you re getting there on the scene? reporter: well, the police say that all of the attackers, there were five of them, they all died after the initial attack began here at this starbucks and then it kind of fanned out through this square.