Cops as possible. So the country here certainly is on edge. Theres a heightened alert, a terror alert has been set up. And out of precaution the jewish schools all over this country, like in some other countries by the way as well have been closed for the day. Chris . Fred that use of uniforms you and i have seen that with greenonblue attacks that have happened in iraq and afghanistan. Thank you for the reporting. Lets go to france where all the recent activity started. In paris we have new and troubling developments 12 people now in custody, suspected of helping in the recent attacks. Just this morning, a new attack many of frances media sites hacked. Taken offline. Lets get to john berman live in paris. John . Good morning, chris. Yes, 12 suspects in custody. These 12 individuals officials tell us are linked to amedy coulibaly, the man who attacked the kosher market killing four french jews. This is some kind of logistical network, a support group that perhaps helped him plan fund carry out this attack. These suspects now in custody. A Security Source here in france tells me the number 12 makes sense. That could be the size of a cell the right size to plan this type of attack. And that information comes, chris, as you mentioned, were learning most of the major media french websites are down this morning. Now a lot of these sources do share one server that server a company that runs it tells cnn they are investigating what caused this crash. But it comes as news of some 19,000 cyberhacks in france over just the last week. This is a greater number than this country has ever seen. An enormous amount of concern, that its not just the physical that something targeted here in france right now. But remember terror is an attack on ideas as well. When you go after Media Companies, when you go after publications you are making an attack against thought and ideas as well. That is being investigated as we speak. And of course the u. S. Secretary of state, john kerry, he is in france today. Meeting with french leader Francois Hollande and the foreign minister here, he came to the site a few moments ago, about an hour and a half ago, laid a wreath at the memorial of those killed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo. We expect to hear from the secretary of state within the hour. Alisyn . John thanks for that background. Al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claiming responsibility for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in paris. They said this attack was years in planning. But still, one big unknown did the kouachi brothers actually meet the terror groups lead anywhere yemen . Was al awlaki the mastermind of that massacre . Cnn is the only tv network in yemen, lets get to our Nick Paton Walsh on the ground whats the latest . It is absolutely key to work out awlaki was involved in meeting these brothers. And of course after his death at the hands of a u. S. Drone in 2011 shortly afterwards said by u. S. Intelligence theyre said to have left yemen, potentially carrying tens of thousands of dollars to assist operations in europe. Thats key, theyre hunting jihad cells, do those jihad cells lead back here to yemen . So now very quiet right now, friday prayer under way. Real fears of protest on the street. Anger against the cartoons that appeared again in Charlie Hebdo magazine. Satirical image to the prophet mohammed and an angry government who in a bid to try to divert attention from western mention around the world and blame yemen for this. This is a failed or failing state. So much trouble here so much window for al qaeda to have a presence. An awful lot of questions that need answers here in yemen. Back to you, michaela. Thanks for that nick. Breaking overnight, the pentagon confirming that the u. S. Will send 400 troops to train and equip moderate Syrian Rebels in the ongoing fight against isis. Barbara starr joins us live from the pentagon. Of course syria, ground zero for the isis threat and the question has been how to get to it. So now the next step about 400 u. S. Troops and potentially hundreds of additional military personnel will deploy to turkey. Saudi arabia and qatar to help train vetted moderate Syrian Rebels. Train and equip them. This has been the next step in the program. The u. S. Needs boots on the ground inside syria. Not american boots, but moderate Syrian Rebels that will be able to fight isis. Big problem how do you know the people will really do it . How do you know youre just handing a weapon and they go back in and join a militant group . This has been very slow going. The next step to be taken, they want to train some 5,000 moderate Syrian Rebels. If it all works, if it does it will give the United States for the first time eyes and ears on the ground inside syria. Give them more intelligence about what is going on where isis is how its moving around. Its leadership its communications and how to fight it. Alisyn . Barbara, thank you so much for that reporting. Lets bring in now cnns National Security analyst, Juliette Kayyem and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. So much to get to. There are developing stories across europe. Tom, lets talk about the belgium raid and what it produced. They found Police Uniforms when they went to the lair of these terrorists. Do we know what they were planning tom . They havent announced what theyre planning. Maybe the authorities know we dont know that yet. The thing about the Police Uniforms is thats been done particularly in iraq over the years, where they used Police Uniforms. It wasnt necessarily bad Police Officers or radicalized Police Officers. But people imitating impersonating Police Officers to do an attack. Which enable thems to get very close to an academy. Were seeing in france and other European Countries, a large deployment of military and police to guard facilities. That means theres a lot of Police Officers that wont know each other. So if they see another officer in uniform that they dont recognize, it wont be that unusual. Because theyll be so many that will be coming from different parts of the country. So you know thats also a difficult thing to try to defeat. Thats chilling juliette. That you have to work with people you dont know them they could be terrorists disguised as Police Officers. The authorities are calling the attack that they broke the plot the plot they broke up in belgium, imminent. Do we know details . We dont know imminent it could mean they were ready to go underground into hiding and then attack even a month or two months or three months. What imminent means in this instance is the moment it could have been disruption the window was closing. So you go in as Law Enforcement as counterterrorism officials and shut it down. And what was amazing about last night was how simultaneous the attacks were in different places that takes a lot of coordination. The raids were. Yes, how the raids were just consistent and at the same time. Because if they had been missed if things had been offkey, or offtiming one of the cells, two of the cells, you know ten people could have gone into hiding. So this is good news. And look theres people who were involved with these attacks who are missing now. And so not everything is perfect yet. There are going to be continuing i think i saw numbers of about 100 or 200 people that were involved. What youre referring to is the developing story this morning, that investigators say that there could be this new wave of attacks across europe. Because they believe that there are these 20 sleeper cells that involve 120 to 180 people. Now tom, help us understand this. By definition sleeper cells are these shadowy groups that live among us. And pretend to be sort of part of the community until theyre activated. How could investigators know that there are 20 sleeper cells . I think its a misuse of terminology here. Because the cell that was investigated where the shootout occurred was not sleeping it was not a sleeper cell it was an active getting ready to go operational cell. As evidenced by as soon as the Police Showed up they opened fire with largecaliber weapons, had explosives on hand. Had all of the equipment on hand ready to go. So the Belgium Police were already looking at that group. That group wasnt asleep. I think the other cells, many them would have already been under alert. Also in these type of investigations while youre investigating a group and youre trying to identify all of the other members, the structure and scope of the enterprise you also have contingency plans that if something bad happens, you can take it down right now. Start rounding up everybody immediately. So this is not something that would have been spur of the moment. It might have been a spurofthemoment decision to execute the plan but not spurofthemoment plan itself. This kind of raid does not happen when you wake up in the morning. These guys have been followed they had been followed for several months the french attack the week before had given them more evidence. So it seemed like okay well were going to go in and get them. But this is a long investigation. And it will continue. People shouldnt think that owe, we got these guys its all done. There are going to be circles of activity that occur in different cells and different terrorist organizations, will continue. Thats the challenge for European Countries. Its kind of like whackamole. You get a group here another group will appear here and in a different country. Yes, it is like whackamole. But somehow, tom, today feels different. It feels as though things are cropping up. Ever since the paris terror attacks, is this just the media, our atenia is up and more sensitive . Or are things happening in europe at a much quicker, more frightening pace . Well i think both. You have more media attention, obviously, especially after the attack in paris. But these cells have been active. Particularly in belgium. We go back to before 2001 original al qaeda, before there was aqap in yemen. Before there was isis in syria and in iraq this goes back to bin laden days where they were planning the attack in paris, september of 2001. To attack our embassy. And nato facilities in belgium and a couple of other european facilities. And i think thats why brussels is such a key city because its also the headquarters of the european union. And the eu is seen as an enemy of isis and al qaeda. And nato which is the Principal Alliance of the u. S. And all European Military partners. Juliette what do you make of the cyberattacks now on Media Outlets in paris . Disruption of services attempts of disruptions at services are happening all the time. The attempt to bring down the french internet is much larger. And it is its in the atmosphere that were in right now, its very disconcerting. It is another form that people whether theyre related to isis or al qaeda, or some other organization they give people citizens of france and europe a sense of unease. And thats essentially whats going on right . I mean it may not be terror but it is just the sense that things arent right in 2015. And thats sort of how weve been living since the year began. People are feeling it across europe this morning. Tom fuentes, jeweluliette kay millennium thank you for being here. Police have clashed at police at an antiCharlie Hebdo protest in karachi. A reuters analyst reported that protesters threw stones at police. The protesters are holding rallies against the depiction of the prophet mohammed by the french magazine. Cuba will see new rules easing travel and trade restrictions and they go into effect today. For the first time in decades, u. S. Airlines can now fly scheduled routes to the island. Americans will be able to travel there as long as its for religious, educational or some other approved purpose. And more money will be allowed into cuba. Up to 8,000 a year to any cuban national. A developing story in the world of sports josh mcnary, the Indianapolis Colts player accused of rape is out of sundays afc championship game against the patriots. Hes been placed on the nfl commissioners exempt list. While the league investigate the allegations. Mcnary is facing charges of felony rape battery and criminal confinement, stemming from an alleged incident with a woman he met at a bar in november. January thaw i use that word lightly, is moving in just in time for the weekend. Lets get to meteorologist chad myers, keeping track of the latest forecast for us. Chad this is not a tropical proportions . No im glad you said briefly. Because it is going to be a small warmup. But 42 in the city, 45 or 46 in d. C. Is going to feel like spring. Compared to where weve been and where were going. This is going to be pretty decent. Now its still cold today and still cool tomorrow. But abovenormal air moves in. Above normal temperatures move in before the next storm system moves in that will spread more snow to the poconos, the alleghanys the catskills, probably brings rain for new york city. This is now a change in the forecast where weve been below normal. For a few days we go above normal and then next outlook. This is the next 14 days all below normal in the east above normal in the west. Big trough in the jet stream right through there. Expect the chances of snow to go up in the city. And even the chances of snow in the south to go up as well. Watch out if youre driving around the deep south, theres a lot of ice on the roadways lots of crashes around atlanta right now and the roads around the area too. So enjoy the brief warmup, guys it will be 48 hours and back to the cold. A lovely 48. Chad everett, i find your colors deceptive. I think purple and whatever other color that is that exceeds my man palette there, i think youre trying to do a faky. Its roy gbiv. Theres a method to your madness. Roy g biv, that was strong chad wins. There are thousands of fighters from all over the world training with isis. And then allegedly planning attacks back in their homelands, can anything be done to stop these coldblooded killers . So saudi arabia condemned the french attacks of Charlie Hebdo. But today, they will publicly flog a blogger for the second time. The crime . Insulting islam. And by flog i mean beat him with a stick. Wait until you hear his friend describe his situation. [container door opening] what makes it an suv is what you can get into it. [container door closing] what makes it an nx is what you can get out of it. Introducing the firstever lexus nx turbo and hybrid. Once you go beyond utility theres no going back. At least 20 sleeper cells uncovered ready to strike across europe. This as a major terror plot has been thwarted in belgium, proving that thousands of fighters from all over the world are traveling to syria to train and they are ready to unleash attacks when they get home. Joining us to discuss it cnn Global Affairs analyst, retired Commander Lieutenant colonel, james reece and bobby ghosh, managing editor of quartz, lets look at the hotbed areas on the ground. You have the obvious, you have iraq you have syria. Militarily why do we need to be there . Whats the criticism with these cells popping up everywhere . Are we focused in the wrong places . Do we need to be here . We do chris, this is a safe haven right now for insurgents and everyone to come in and they go back to europe and strike against europe. What are we seeing as a growing commentary bobby . Youre distracted by isis and thats why al qaeda in yemen is the one. The aqap Arabian Peninsula are taking credit for this the u. S. The west you messed up. Is that fair . Its a little unfair. Its not like were not in yemen. We are, usually with drone strikes and cruise missiles. We are present there and were working with the what remains of the Yemeni Government. The trouble is that the socalled rivalry between these two groups the rivalry is political and taking place at a High Altitude between the top leaders. The biggest lesson from paris is what . At the foot soldier level, the rivalry doesnt matter. Coulibaly is isis the kouachi brothers are aqap. Theyre able to Work Together so for Law Enforcement, having these two different sources of inspiration, of money, of training is a problem. But for the guys who are carrying out the terrorist attacks, they dont care. Were going to break down the numbers of who is going where and why in just a second. Lets close the circle on this ltc. A little bit of this maybe media stink, its about our focus shifts quickly. But it doesnt mean that the coalition is shifting its focus. Fair point . A very fair point. The coalition, the problem is we never hear what the coalition focuses back here. Were always focused on the u. S. Systems. Lets look at what were seeing as the emerging problem. People leaving the European Countries and maybe the United States and others and going into those hotbed areas, getting the Training Like these killer brothers and the guy who targeted jews and the kosher grocery. Coming back home. There are your numbers, france 700, the biggest, okay. The numbers are all obvious for you. Now its how many do we believe have gone back home to do exactly what we saw in paris, show those . Now first of all, we said that youre retired, but you are so active in this area. Youre in theater all the time. Do those numbers sound right . Is it something you think we can accurately calcula