emergency is declared in paris, the french capital. it under scores the severity of what is going on right now. well, it s pretty unprecedented according to my memory and this is a major, major issue obviously and i think we have to put it in context. again, we do not know who these people are but if the worst fears and suspicions play out, this is another mega attack alongside other mega attacks that have been going on around the world in the last few days alone claimed by isis and at a time when the face of this kind of terror that we are faced with is changing to a much more nimble as you heard phil mud and mike rogers say, much different to al qaeda, much less centrally organized and freelance. maybe people they groomed here online, maybe people who they have sent in some low. the worst of the worse isis said in communications over the past
president at that stadium and apparently being evacuated after that explosion and this is really close, i mean, to set off a bomb near the president of a country is really, really staggering. requires coordination, as well. if in fact, this is isis, it would seem to represent a new chapter right now. isis until now basically has been very active in syria and iraq but now if isis is expanding to sinai, beirut, to baghdad and paris, who knows where they might be going next. let me reset for our viewers here in the united states and around the world what s going on. the breaking news we re following, an unprecedented series of deadly coordinated terror attacks in paris. we re told at least 60 people reportedly are dead. that number expected to go higher. hostage crisis still understand folding at that concert hall in
counterterrorism community. we hear from new york city, counterterrorism experts, new york city police, they are going on a higher state of alert right now. once again out of an abundance of caution but presumably are afraid if this is going on in paris, it could go on elsewhere. every field office of the fbi there is some investigation to an individual with an affiliation with isis. you saw this was clearly planed for a multiple location attack. that s not easy to do. the attacks were coincided within a brief time which tells you there was some effort to get those things to happen near the same time. they do that, by the way, and did it in the charlie hebdo case to confuse law enforcement and create a little chaos with the reaction teams as well as what is going on on the ground. this should be a wakeup call to everyone. when france closed the borders thanks is an unprecedented event
eyewitness account. julien pearce a radio journalist. christiane amanpour is joining us right now. christiane, what are you hearing? pretty much the same as all of you. listening to various media outlets in the last hour or more, i heard the deputy mayor of paris talk and you heard what he said, as well, that this is obviously a massive shock for them. they had known, they had terrible premonitions that after charlie hebdo less than a year ago it might happen again, every city believes that right now with the isis threat and the blow back and yet, he said how could we have thought if it is this, it could have happened so soon and so violently? this far outweighs anything that happened in january at charlie hebdo last january, this past january. it s bigger than 7/7 and it has
on in paris right now. deb is getting for information. increasing indications this could be a suicide attack. we re hearing the bombing at the stadium does appear to be a suicide bombing. there is a body in the location that is has wounds that is absolutely consistent with what would happen if it were a suicide bomber. so investigators paying particularly close attention to that as we re hearing. many borders have been closed. general security very, very tight at this point and speaking to one expert, one of the points that was raised is that look, isis, hit paris in january with the attack on charlie hebdo and jewish market and now it s essentially themselves we hit you once, we can hit you again, paris is not safe. so this is clearly terrifying to the people who are there.