yourself, stand up for the freedoms that we hold dear and value and treasure so much and cherish, hope still prevails. i m kelly wright. this has been a special fox news alert report. we take you to an early edition of fox & friends first. it is wednesday november 18th, 2015 and breaking news on the fox news channel. it continues now in an early edition of fox & friends first, terror standoff. gunshots, a suicide bomb and one person still holed up inside an apartment in france after a series of arrests. the question now, is it in fact the mastermind behind the attacks that left 129 people dead? we re going to get right to our amy kellogg, live in paris where she s been following the developments all night long. what can you tell us is happening right now?
and i had add, by the way, these are folks who sometimes suggested they ear so tough that just talking to putin or staring down isil or using some additional rhetoric somehow is going to solve the problems out there. but apparently they re scared of widow evens orphan comes into the united states of america as part of our tradition of compassion. at first, they were worried about the press being too tough on them. we are. [ break into the president s comments with more breaking news. we have two air france bomb threats called into air france flights from the united states, both of them now safely on the ground. one flight number 55 from dulles to paris. it has been diverted to halifax nova scotia. it is safely on the ground. the other, air france flight number 65 from los angeles international airport to paris.
is believed was the mastermind of the attacks here in paris friday night. the man we thought was holed up in raqqah, an isis capital of their open territory, a long ways way from here, if he is actually here this could be interesting. we were able to move closer, about oh i d say about a block if you were following up about 15 minutes ago you saw us standing with a lot of soldiers, the soldiers have left from this area, but as you can see, pierre, why don t you pan the situation, it s a very i would say nervous but careful police keeping us at bay. they said we could not go any further than this so we are absolutely at the edge of this operation. let s recap the numbers because they have shifted in the past half hour or so. it all started about 4:30 in the morning, paris time, right now we re looking at 10:35 in the
it has to be something the islamic state is happy to see. absolutely. when they conduct their attacks they re hoping to create panic. we absolutely need to have the highest level of security and be cautious, especially in the direct wake of events like occurred in paris. but on the other hand, we need to make sure we don t give the impegs that we re being shook or panicking over their actions. and i think it s evaluating this threat and seeing what goes on in the future, we can make sure that this doesn t become the new normal. we ve just gotten the word that the dulles flight that is on the ground in nova scotia has been cleared, or is going to be cleared and is expected now to take off within two hours. a couple of hours in nova scotia. so jay blackmon s time on that seems to be just about right. i m going to have to just thank everyone for this emergency coverage of this situation.
after a year and few months. this should have been done last year. across the fight in syria and eye wrack against isis, we don t see ourselves really active in mobilizing the populations against them. their response is in the west against our population. they know that two or three jihady individuals in the west can shutdown a city. five or six are doing that now to paris. my concern is that their numbers are growing in the west. by indock indoctrination and it is what is the reaction of the city. this is a very important test what is happening today. if the french can close that operation right now and make sure that this is not going to reach another cell and a third cell, it would be a good day.