agent protecting the current president of the united states as well as former president george w. bush and thank you for your valued insight and we want to thank waleen perez, all three brought great insights into the ideology of isis and what we must do to combat that as well as the military strategy. i want to bring in greg calcott as we begin to, as i begin to wrap this up. also bringing you an early edition of fox & friends first a few moments from now, they ll have a special early edition to talk about the very issue we have been discussing. greg, you have lived in paris before. you were actually living there for quite a time, and you know this area. you know paris, france. it s like the back of your hand. did you ever in your wildest
was the target, one of the targets friday night so it s ironic if it happens to be true that the mastermind of these attacks is hold up in a building three blocks from us and about a half mile from what he tried to blow up. and also remarkable if salah abdeslam is inside, one of the initial reports came out. he is the one we believe has crossed the border into belgium and initially had been stopped immediately follow at tacks. lot of information still to unfold here absolutely. greg we ll come back to you, stand boy so thank you for your coverage and stay safe. america is on edge and two air air france flights diverted. these threats come the same day russian officials confirm terrorists bombed a passenger plane in egypt s sinai peninsula two weeks ago. flight were diverted after
anybody walking in the streets unless they have a reason to be here. we have been told the immediate buildings have been evacuated and all other residents told to stay inside. authorities are waiting for something that once again could really cause problems for anybody that could be caught in the cross-fire. greg, that s one of the goals of the islamic extremists as we ve seep not just to cause as much carnage as possible but to inflict fear and change the way we go about your daily lives. you mentioned the people in the building immediately surrounding that apartment building have been evacuated. where are they right now? are they in a safe place? they have brought to, excuse me, we re being told to just move to the side, i think here. i think they just want us to step aside.
paris, just beyond the ring road that circled paris? that will be a question that will be very much on the forefront of people s minds and also if salah abdeslam managed to get back into france after fleeing to belgium unstopped. in the meantime we wait for this to wind down. back to you. amy, thank you so much for that. and our greg calcott is following the story as well. you re about a mile outside the city center where all of the action is going on, the police cordonned off that area around the apartment. what can you tell us, what is the latest? reporter: we re maybe about two and a half blocks where one man remains hold up t might be a very important man. the target of the raid police have been telling sources abdelhamid abaaoud, the man it
injuring policemen. they don t want to lose any policemen or get any policemen injured. i m going to turn around now, we re watching soldiers move down the street, and i think we re going to probably do the same if we can get closer, find out what is going on. it could be a sign that something is calming down. kelly, i want to throw it back to you, we ll try to make our way down there and see what s going on for our viewers. greg, do you that, we ll keep our camera on it as well to follow it. greg, thank you for your excellent reporting and one thing i to want to thank greg for is what he did in one of our earlier reports. he actually, we actually saw a family walking out now, this is an area that s under police intervention, families were told to stay in, yet we saw a young family walking out and juxtapose that against those who are in military gear and a young baby, young toddler and his father, and the wife walking towards