terrorists inside. we want to show you exclusive video that i obtained from a man who lives near the scene of the raid this morning. we ll see much more in a couple of moments. 5,000 explosives taking out an entire floor. two terrorists killed including a woman who killed herself up and eight suspects arrested. i was in saint-denis where the raid took places and spoke to some people who said they saw the mastermind abdelhamid abaaoud in the area as early as this morning. let s get to jim sciutto with the latest. let s start with this new isis threat coming out today. and what are your sources telling you? we ve taken a close look at the video and talked to the new york police department. you look at some of these images and they are not new. they previously aired in an isis rap video that showed this man putting a bomb under his jacket and then had he added pictures
trained by isis. when a video like this surfaces, isis sympathizers here in the united states, what are you saying, could be inspired to go ahead, do something on their own? sure. in a way, this is crowd sourcing jihad. just send a message out to your sympathizers. you re not necessarily in touch with them. and you say this is what we hope to achieve. to go after targets like monuments in washington or the white house. in this video they say they re going to make the white house black, they re going to burn it. or new york city, or choose your city. yesterday, that video that was sort of recycled from april that was a rap video that came out. they issue add new video saying they were going after new york city. they showed manhattan scenes. they showed the video obviously of potential suicide bomber wearing a leather jacket with a vest underneath. yes, let s go back to this. it s easy to mick a video. it s hard to execute. for people watching this show and concerned about tr
there s a lot of focus now on refugees when frankly the issue ought to be the visa waiver program. we ought to look at how the terrorists are communicating and some of the questions around encryption. these are going to require some thoughtful responses not some of the sound bites we ve heard over the last couple days. so they mention though in these videos one released yesterday sort of a remix of an earlier rap video they put out in april, but with some new material on it. another video today, yesterday they were going after specific locations, times square, herald square in manhattan. today they re going they say they want to burn the white house and destroy monuments in washington, d.c. would that justify from all the briefings you ve received, senator, heightened state of alert in new york and washington? well, i think you re seeing local law enforcement increase their level of readiness. but we ve also seen the fbi director say that they don t have credible information abou
as you referenced, wolf, on monday a video threatened washington d.c., isis calling it the stronghold of america and said they would attack here after they carried out the stronghold in france. now a threat to new york. to be clear, we reached out to the new york police department. they say there is no credible or specific threat. they note as we noted ourselves when we looked at this video that not all images are now. some are repurposed from a rap video published several months ago but updated with resent comments from the french president. they know u.s. terror officials told me this, as well, counter terror officials that new york is certainly an aspiration target of isis. i ll tell you speaking to french security officials here this week, i ve asked them that same question. as you look at their capabilities here in france, what is your assessment of their
the mayor told us he was radicalized slowly and left town in 2012. when we went to the mosque, the place where he supposedly met people who brought him down this path of radicalization director told us he didn t know anything about mostefai. he wasn t hiding, had a criminal record and wasn t always this devout muslim. you see him here in this youtube rap video. investigators who had been looking at this very closely over the last several days, obviously, know a deal more about mostefai more about the other attackers, in fact. in 2007, he started spending more time with islam radicals, then in 2013 nbc news learned he traveled to turkey but he never legally left turkey, which strongly suggests he slipped then into syria and somehow managed to get back into france to carry out the attack.