wow that s fast. personally, i prefer a slow internet. there is something about the sweet meditative glow of a loading website. don t listen to the naysayer. switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. leland: fox news alert out of sydney where a hostage crisis at a cafe has now ended a little bit past 3:00 in the morning in sydney. there was a hail of gunfire. we re told the hostage crisis is over. there have been a number of casualties at a very popular cafe in sydney. we know at virus times the hostage-taker was displaying islamic flags, islamic saying. he was known to the local police
fusillade of fire from the police. a blast. we believe that is one of the opening into the entryways into the calf fail. we saw five, six, maybe seven refugees running out. now we have total up to 12. then we understand police went inside. there was that 30-second long, life fire live fire of rounds into the cafe targeting we believe the shooter himself, the gunman himself. we watched what came out there. this is the sad part. we watched as many as five stretchers being brought out of that cafe. the reports and we do not have this confirmed with the police, but the reports there were two hostages killed, maybe as many as five injured in the final move by police. they weren t finished yet. they brought in a robot, remote-controlled device to check whether there was a bomb there. there had been threats coming from the individual that there
with a criminal record in australia was responsible for this. he walked into a cafe in the center of bustling sydney, the biggest city in australia, with a gun and took maybe around 20 people hostage in that cafe. he made them go up to the window. made them put their hands against the window. hold up a banner with islamic writing on it. at one point in the day five hostages were released but in fact probably fled, ran away. there was a tense, several hours following that. where the police were telling us that they wanted to negotiate. they wanted to make this end peaceably. they wanted to save lives. and then in the past 45 minutes, the climax. the best reporting we re getting, twice, is that he shot first. that the, that the iranian refugee shot first, either at the police or at a hostage. that triggered a fuse laud of
were bombs both in the cafe and in the central business district. they wanted to be sure. so far, we have not seen anything of that. we believe possibly there might be a few more hostages left inside. we don t have that confirmed. we have not, by our own visual take seen any, any proof that the gunman was taken out. just to wrap this up, isis was mentioned. he wanted an isis flag. there were some sort of believe there was some belief with some connection with terrorism in the mideast. there was some connection in twisted way. this man, man haron manness, sending letters to families of australian soldiers who went to afghanistan and were killed and these letters were nasty and ugly. he was brought into court on that.