The church where police were banging away at that door, trying to wedge it open for fight some time. When they finally succeeded in doing that, we saw them filing in there. Its not clear what the source of the threat or the intelligence that led them to this church is. Were about 500 meters or so away from the Apartment Building that was the source of the raids overnight. Police filed into that church, you can see from their posture they appear to be pretty calm now. Certainly this has been a pretty chaotic, ongoing scene on the ground since about 4 30 local this morning. As a series of raids trying to, they believe, drill down on the believed mastermind of fridays attacks. A 27yearold belgian of moroccan origin. His name is Abdelhamid Abaaoud. He was thought to lead a plot in january that was thwarted. Everybody thought he had gone back to syria or iraq. French and coalition authorities. Reporter tarretting him in syria and iraq. Now it appears, again, i say it appears, this situation
team. three headlines. it was just in the nick of time. they believe by getting in there at the time they did they prevented another deadly attack on the streets of paris. two, as you heard the french police just saying right there, they believe the mastermind of these attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud was going to be in that apartment. as it turned out he was not. third, something we ve been talking about for the last hour or so, you heard kaznov there, the several phones they foned in effect that led them to another cell. that was a remarkable lead in this investigation. made a real different today. four people have been detained in this apartment raiding, including the owner, the renter, the person who the apartment belonged to. cnn producer, scott brownstein has confirmed that the raids focused on two separate apartments on the same street.
all right. cnn managed to get a hold of court documents, detailing horrible, violent domestic abuse at the hand of ariel castrol our senior producer, scott brownstein on the phone. i read through some of this earlier, awful. pretty disturbing. the allegations of abuse detailed detailed in the documents, quite serious. these are from the domestic relations county court. from 2005, and the wife of ariel castro clearly outlines in the documents, she was allegedly given by mr. castro, two broken noses, several broken ribs, a tooth knocked out, a blood clot to her brain.
and it was at least upheld for a time, a court order for protection. i m sure you will be on the case all day long, scott brownstein, thank you so much. thank you. more on special coverage from ohio in just a minute. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that s true. .but you still have to go to the gym. the one and only, cheerios
0 rescued women. cnn newsroom with carol costello begins right now. happening now in the newsroom, escape from captivity. this is the tip of the iceberg. this investigation will take a long time. three women, amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michele knight, enduring a decade of terror. their families stunned and shocked. amanda. yeah, grandma. yeah, how are you? i thought you were gone. reporter: exclusive new details on what happened on cleveland s seymour street. you saw the tarps from where? from my bedroom window. neighbors telling cnn what he saw in the suspect s backyard. and a cnn exclusive. you moved in about a year ago, you had seen ariel castro around. the hero neighbor, charles ram ramsey one-on-one. a minute by minute account. i told her, go across the street and use their phone. now we both calling 911. this morning, cleveland attempts to heal. yellow ribbons and a heavy heart. newsroom starts now. and good morning. thank you so much for be