Significant that it will be extremely difficult to stop all planned attacks. Rick leventhal joins us live in paris with the very latest. Tell us what you know about the new arrests that happened where you you are overnight. Reporter martha, this is a result of Ongoing Investigation and search for possible accomplices to the gunmen behind last weeks attacks in paris. The Paris Prosecutors Office says 12 people were arrested in antiterror raids overnight. What were now hearing these are people already known to police for other common crimes. There were eight men and four women arrested in the greater paris area and they were possibly providing Logistical Support to the gunman who attacked the kosher grocery, Amedy Coulibaly, who himself claimed allegiance to isis and may have bought his arsenal of weapons in belgium. Coulibaly had outside help with a Terror Organization as well as the kouachi brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdo newspaper. The france says they will not head back down. The
Alex witt witt. The issue of samesex marriage in the United States will be settled once and for all. The justices will take up the issue in april with a final decision by the end of june. Nbcs justice correspondent Pete Williams has the very latest. Pete. Alex hello to you. The Supreme Court tiptoed around this issue the last few years. Now it is taking it head on seeing if samesex marriage should be the law of the land. The court agreed to answer two questions, does the constitutional require states grant marriage license toss samesex marriage and do states have to recognize samesex marriages legally performed. There arent that many unchartered territories of whats fairness and equality in the country and how much will we will rely on tradition. Together eight years, each has adopted two special needs children. They want to be married so both can be parents of all the children. We saw something that was wrong. We decided to we needed to make it right. And, you know to anybody else wha
There is also dramatic new video that shows the cokouachi brothers immediately after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. It shows them calmly returning to their getaway car before celebrating their actions and then firing shots at police. [ shots ] meanwhile, the Worlds Largest intelligencesharing network will meet next week to discuss its efforts to fight terrorism. The u. S. Australia, canada britain and new zealand, collectively known as five eyes will take part. And french lawmakers have voted in favor of extending air strikes against Islamic State militants. Here at home the white house is responding to criticism that it is refusing to refer to the paris terror attacks as radical islam. White House Press Secretary josh earnest explained why the Obama Administration believes it would be wrong to do so. The first is accuracy. We want to describe exactly what happened. These are individuals who carried out an act of terrorism, and they later tried to justify that act of terrorism by invoking
Cops as possible. So the country here certainly is on edge. Theres a heightened alert, a terror alert has been set up. And out of precaution the jewish schools all over this country, like in some other countries by the way as well have been closed for the day. Chris . Fred that use of uniforms you and i have seen that with greenonblue attacks that have happened in iraq and afghanistan. Thank you for the reporting. Lets go to france where all the recent activity started. In paris we have new and troubling developments 12 people now in custody, suspected of helping in the recent attacks. Just this morning, a new attack many of frances media sites hacked. Taken offline. Lets get to john berman live in paris. John . Good morning, chris. Yes, 12 suspects in custody. These 12 individuals officials tell us are linked to amedy coulibaly, the man who attacked the kosher market killing four french jews. This is some kind of logistical network, a support group that perhaps helped him plan fund ca
This woman. Neil, her name is hayat boumediene. She is the common law wife of one of the people. Authorities broke in and killed her husband. She has algerian decent. She was radicalized by her husband coulibaly. In 2010 her husband inspired her to read books on religion and she was angered by killing of innocents or anyone americans sent bombers suggesting that the u. S. Was the terror network. French police were hunting for the couple in connection of the murder of french policewoman. They took control of the grocery in east paris with the goal of killing jews and helping the kouachi brothers escape. They carried out the massacre. Coulibaly said he would kill hostages unless they let the brothers go. Now, theres still no sign of the 26yearold boumediene who is unofficially frances most wanted woman. She is to be considered dangerous and armed. The terrorists have stopped and the bloodshed is over for now. Theres a wide belief that the worst may be yet to come and there could be more