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Viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im George Howell. Youre watching our special cnn coverage of the paris terror attacks. Police confirm the man who organized fridays attacks is dead. Abdelhamid abaaoud was killed in that massive predawn raid in saintdenis on wednesday. Meanwhile, authorities are searching for salah abdeslam. He is the first national, often called the eighth suspect, possibly the only one who survived fridays attacks. Jim sciutto has that story. Reporter an urgent manhunt is under way across europe as Police Continue to search for at least one suspected attacker, still at large and still dangerous. Salah abdeslam briefly stopped by French Police hours after the attacks, but then let go before authorities knew of his role in fridays deadly rampage. Six new raids in belgium overnight, and hundreds more in france in recent days have failed to catch it. Translator the republic is doing everything it can to destroy terrorism. Reporter French Security service have netted perhaps their most dangerous suspects, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind, confirmed killed in a furious gun battle with police wednesday. Translator in the operation in saintdenis, there was a target and it was reached. Reporter tonight were seeing chilling new video of the saintdenis raid just moments before Police Killed abaaoud. France is now working feverishly to prevent scenes like this one captured on cctv at the height of fridays attacks, obtained by dailymail. Com. One woman saved here in front of the restaurant only because the terrorists Assault Rifle appears to jam. Today french lawmakers voted nearly unanimously to extend the countrys state of emergency, giving police broad new powers to detain suspects. Translator we are at war. And for us to remain ourselves, because that is what is in question, france must not lose itself to win this war. France must respond to hatred with fraternity. France will response to fanaticism with the hope of life itself. That was cnns jim sciutto reporting. Now i want to show you some disturbing security video. It shows in agonizing detail one of the attacks as a gunman riddled a cafe with bullets. Our Anderson Cooper has this story. Reporter its just after 10 34 p. M. Bullets fired into a cafe this the 11th district in paris. Three angles of the cafes security cameras captured the mayhem. This video was obtained by dailymail. Com. Patrons scramble as bullets riddle the small restaurant. A woman dashes in and takes refuge behind the bar. Another huddles under tables. Behind the bar two workers dodge bullets. Another patron from outside soon joins here, and both stay as close to the floor as possible. Within seconds, one terrorist is visible. He is seen on the upper left side of the screen. He approaches the cafe, continuing to fire. Small wisps of smoke seen coming off his rifle. But its this moment that stands out. The gunman runs towards the cafe, seemingly ready to enter, and then stops and looks down to his right. Its obvious something has caught his eye. He points his rifle straight down, but the gun doesnt fire. Maybe it jams. Maybe he sought of ammunition. He then moves away off camera. Seconds later, we learn what he was aiming at. He was aim agent a woman. She was miraculously spared. She stands up, then runs. Her wouldbe shooter is still somewhere nearby. Then another patron, another likely victim stands and runs as well. The attack ends as quickly as a it began. All told, the video lasts less than a minute. Anderson cooper, cnn, paris. The attacks in paris have only further complicated the refugee crisis that is engulfing europe. On thursday, the french Prime Minister spoke about the terrorists using the crisis to slip into france. Listen. Translator i think these individuals took advantage of the refugee crisis, notably of this chaos, maybe for some of them to slide through. Others were already in belgium. Others i remind you were in france. They organized this. The Prime Minister also had very strong words for other European Countries as well. Saying they must do better and take more responsibility when it comes to protecting their own borders. In the United States, some lawmakers have successfully put a pause on more Syrian Refugees entering this country. The how many times says no refugee may enter without certification by homeland security. And now that bill heads to the senate. Meanwhile, u. S. President ial candidate donald trump, he is weighing in, suggesting that a database be used to keep track of muslim immigrants in the United States. Listen. That tracks the muslims here in this country . There. Should be a lot of systems beyond a database. There we should have a lot of systems. And today you can do it. Is that something your white house would like the do . Oh, i would certainly implement that. Absolutely. Specifically, how do you get them registered into a base . Its Good Management. But you to do Good Management procedures. And can do that. Would you go to a mosque and sign the people up . Different places. But its all about management. Donald trump there talking about management. Migration from south america is also fueling some fears and concerns in the u. S. Honduras is expected to five syrian men detained for traveling with fake greek passports. But the men have not been linked to terrorism. Cnns rosa flores has the story. Reporter five syrian men thrusting a small Central America country into the international spotlight when their greek passports didnt pass the smell test. The men arrived here at tegucigalpa airport. Authorities say interpol alerted them about a group of syrians traveling with false documents. And sure enough, the syrian five flew in tuesday night. Arriving with the stolen and altered greek passports, say officials. The pictures updated with their personal photographs and used to hop from syria to lebanon, turkey, brazil, argentina and costa rica before arriving to honduras. The finding alarming, given intelligence that one of the paris attackers had a doctored greek passport belonging to a syrian refugee. The worry nexus to terrorism. The destination of the five syrians the Officials Say the United States. This human rights worker says at least two of them wanted to go to guatemala. Regardless, the journey would require crossing territories belonging to the ruthless ms13 gang and the vicious mexican cartels. And thats a risk these men were probably ready to take. Right now theyre being held in this small jail cell by national police. But hear this. Immigration Authorities Say they found no nexus to terrorism, that instead these men were simply fleeing persecution. Two of the syrians are fairly sick, vomiting and with fever. The other three are depressed buzz of the news associating them with terror, says human rights officials. Theyve told you weve been trying to escape isis. The violence. Theyre trying get away from that. Thats why theyre here. Reporter a honduran immigration official says they are not linked to terror, and four were students. And while syria is thousands of miles away from latin america, their case is not an isolated one, according to authorities. In paraguay, one Syrian National was arrested with a fake greek passport last week. Three others were arrested in st. Martin this week. And in laredo, texas, two syrian families turned themselves into immigration authorities. Turning the spotlight of the war theyre escaping a world away to the front steps of the United States. Rosa flores, cnn tegucigalpa, paris. Now become to the reaction in paris where there is a great deal of reaction after the raid that took place in saintdenis. Lets bring in Fred Pleitgen who is live on the french streets of the french capital. Fred, so what more do we know about this raid that took place . Well, there is certainly a lot of new information that is coming out. And a lot of it, george, has to do with the intelligence that actually led to this raid. One of the interesting things, of course, was the u. S. Intelligence services, but also the french, which is even more important, thought that actually Abdelhamid Abaaoud was of course the ringleader, apparently of the plot that took place here last friday, and is also one of the ones who was killed in saintdenis. They believe he was either in syria or iraq. But it turns out of course he was inside france, he was in saintdenis inside that apartment. Now the intelligence that led to that came apparently from the Moroccan Intelligence Service who have been tracking abaaoud. And they are the ones who tipped off the french. Apparently the french found out that he was indeed in france, that he was in paris, and that he was in that northern suburb of paris, saintdenis around november 16th. So three days after the actual attacks happened. Weve been reporting since the raid that the apartment that these terrorists were in was under surveillance for about 24 hours. Thats a pretty short time for them to make a move. But that is because they feared the police, that a Second Attack could be imminent by this terrorist cell. And they say they believe they got there just in time. The raid itself, of course, george, as weve been seeing, a very violent affair with that female suicide bomber who allegedly was the cousin of abaaoud, blowing herself up before the police then moved in with some pretty heavy ordnance, george. And in that video you hear her before that explosion. It is disturbing video, no doubt. Fred, what is the reaction among people there in paris, among french citizens about the fact that this raid took place. Well, first of all, theyre absolutely shocked at the intensity of the raid. I was down in saintdenis in the past couple of day, sort of assessing the situation there. And you could really feel that the folks there on the ground, it is a working class neighborhood. Quite a rough neighborhood in some places. But of course most people there are absolutely shocked that they would have had terrorists in their midst. And especially then also that you would have had an operation going on that was as violent as the one that we saw there. I mean, you heard on that video from the scene, her saying he is not my boyfriend. And then blowing herself up. And then that massive firefight occurring after that happened that is something that has shocked many people here on the ground. But then of course you also have the debates that are going on afterwards. There are many people who are, of course, very relieved that the ringleader has been killed. That Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been killed in that raid. But of course there is also the questions, could there have been more that could have been done in the way of intelligence to find out that this man was here, to track some of the other cell members. Remember, there is a lot of cross border activity that happened between france and belgium. Many asking is that something we could have stopped . And then of course there is the reaction as far as the legislative branch is concerned. And today a very key day as the upper house of parliament will vote on a measure that could put in place these emergency measures for another three months. Everybody believes that is indeed what is going to happen. And thats something that really is going to change the gym for a lot of Security Services here in the country. It will make them easier here for them to detain people. It will make it easier for them to conduct wiretapping. And those emergency measures in the past couple of days have already led to well over 100 raids in this country, and have led to the police and the Security Forces getting their hands on everything from drugs to weapons to even a Rocket Launcher in one place. And those measures, most people here believe will be extend. And that certainly is something that is of course to be seen in the wider context of those attacks that happened exactly one week ago here in paris, george. Our Senior International correspondent Fred Pleitgen live in paris, france. Fred, thank you so much for your reporting there. Now lets turn to belgium, where authorities have been conducting multiple raids around brussels. They are searching for more information about bill hafti. Ivan watson now joins us from brussels. What more do we know about these raids . Well, they took place throughout the day on thorough. We havent gotten updates since then. Since at least nine people were detained for questioning. What is happening in brussels is an extraordinary session of interior and justice ministers in response to the paris attacks. To discuss strengthening security measures. And lets just give you an example that is right near us. One of the measures that belgium has taken, george, is deploying soldiers in the streets of the capital. And in some other cities. Its a measure that they have adopted in the past last january when another isis plot was foiled by Belgian Security force that was linked to belgiums most notorious isis militant and extremist, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Who was of course killed in the raid in saintdenis on the outskirts of paris. Now the ministers of interior in paris are gathering a number of things on the table, trying to improve communication, trying to strengthen europes external borders. And also trying to push forward this plan for a passenger name record which would help presumably to get identities checked as people fly and travel on trains within the internal borders of the European Union. One of the interior ministers of belgium complaining to journalists just moments ago that this measure has been blocked in the European Parliament in the past. And, of course, opening up the debate about personal Civil Liberties versus security within the European Union. George . Talk us to just a bit more, though, if you could, ivan, about this eu meeting that is happening of eu ministers, talking about tightening border security. Do you get a sense that that will be the main topic that is discussed . And what are the reactions to that . Well, of course, because as belgian investigators have explained to me, there were a number of people that they were searching for of belgian origin, suspects in the paris attacks who they had International Arrest warrants for, but they were believed to have traveled to syria. And they only discovered that these suspects were back in the European Union after the paris attacks took place. So the raids that took place on thursday here, one of the suspects, bilal hafdi, he blew himself up in the paris attacks. They didnt know he was in the European Union. He smuggled himself across a European Union border and then presumably was able to move around within the European Union without having to submit his passport. He was able to evade until he was part of this deadly conspiracy that killed so many people. So one of these discussion points. How do you protect within the European Union. And how do you strengthen borders that tens of thousands of people have been flowing across over past months. Thats a real discussion point here. Meanwhile, its important to note, george, that there are mixed opinions, particularly in some of the communities where some of the militants were recruited from, where they were radicalized. In the neighborhood of molenbeek, its a brussels neighborhood. Even though were here in the heart of the European Union, there were some voices that came out after the death of abaaoud saying they were saddened by his death. And it shows you where some of the pools of recruitment are coming from jihad dis, though others came out condemning him. Take a listen to some of these different opinions. Translator leave islam alone. Leave the prophet alone. Each with his own religion. Christian vass their own religion. Muslims have their own religion. And stop talking in a bad way of mohamud. Stop killing people in the middle east, and there wont be any terrorists anymore. And if you keep going, the terrorists wont stop. I dont have any feeling about his death. I think so it was the kind of person who looks for these things. They terrible things. And thats it. But i am not going to cry about his death. Thats for sure. Translator i grew up in islam. I never saw a single verse in the koran that said you could go blow yourself up in front of innocent people and kill them like that. We were all emotional. We were all shocked. And i hope this wont happen again. Belgium a small country. Its still struggling with radicalization and the fact that it has more volunteers per capita joining the ranks of groups like isis in syria than any other western country. George . Ivan watson live for us. Ivan, thank you so much for your reporting there. Youre watching special coverage here on cnn of the paris terror attacks. Be right back after the break. 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