australia, is stuart cohen. can you confirm if some of the people inside have died and who they were? reporter: well at this point, heather, police are not obviously confirming. these are multiple media outlets reporting that a couple of people have died. reportedly the hostage-taker, man haron monis is one of the people dead. there are no names released and no official con firmmation from police. obviously in pictures from the siege, several people were being, seen being carried from the scene either on stretchers or in the harms of police and ambulance workers. at this point hard to say who the fatalities are until we get confirmation from police. just still speculation at this point. heather: stuart, overnight, it was reported that the hostage-taker claimed he had planted bombs. apparently one he claimed in that cafe and possibly one in another part of town. do we know anything about the