attacks are in the pipeline. hiding that concern a new isis video asserting a direct threat on washington. translator: we say to the countries that are participating in the crusader came pain, i swear to god, you will have a similar day that france went through. i swear to god like we struck france and its stronghold paris, we will strike america in its own stronghold, washington. here in paris there s no mere threat, no abstraction, it is real and it has happened in this city. behind me in the place de la republique this memorial that s been here for days now people lighting candles, leaving flowers there 24 hours a day, wolf, because they want to be part. they want to share in this collective mourning. certainly do. john berman in paris for us. thank you, john. out of the manhunt there have been raids across france and
more than 100 people under house arrest. they found weapons including a rocket launcher. they found military clothing. and essentially they re really trying to canvass the entire country to make sure this doesn t happen again, to try to get a better concept of who this network is and how it was functioning. as president francois hollande said, it was executed here in france, but it was orchestrated elsewhere. a lot of doors to knock on, jake. clarissa, ward, thank you so much. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto joins me now in the place de la republique, a massive makeshift memorial to the 129 victims. jim, do police have a working theory as to how the terrorists put this nefarious plan into place last friday? they do. sadly one of the headlines the terrorists put this plan into
reporter: yes. and it happened right here in the plays de la republique, a place where a million people gathered in january after the charlie hebdo attacks. there is a mixture, brian, of nervousness, but at the same time people are out cheering. again, you can hear in the background sometimes people breaking flu the french national anthem. there is a sense that they want to show isis that they will not be defeated. one woman said to me yesterday i was shocked, and then i was sad, and i hope in a few hours time i will get angry because we need to be angry against isis. but at the same time, just a few hours ago i talk to some muslim leaders here and they had a message for isis. they said, you thought you could divide us. you will not divide us. you have only brought us closer together. so there is this curious
and, brian, the young man said, the loudest moments in their lives now is the silence. because when they don t hear what s going on outside, the pinpe piano is playing right behind me, people are singing, when there is no sound, they hear the sounds of those gunshots going off at the bataclan and their friends taking their last breaths. there is that weird kind of dichotomy between anger, resolve, but very, very deep felt fear as well. jose diaz-balart in the place de la republique. jose, while you were talking, we ve seen sporadically a camera shot of a man who appears to have a scarf wrapped around his head and his face and people are coming up in the crowd hugging him. absent having someone right there, this appears to be a kind
i m getting this as people are translating. i m listening to this woman talking to reporters. she s saying it started as a wave through this neighborhood here of people just panicking. we re trying to get to the source of what the trigger was. as you listen to this woman and try to get the translation, how far away are you from the place de la republique now and is that the location from which these the noise which was allegedly heard? yeah, we re probably ten minutes from there, but whatever happened, it happened in a chain reaction. police cars still going around. we re seeing the flashing lights. it appears to be a false alarm. false to the extent there was no terror activity, even though the police officer told us there was a person with a gun. but the reaction was very real.