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Special forces launched an assault on that theater to free the hostages. speaking at the site of the attack shortly thereafter, french president francois hollande said some of the attackers were killed. late tonight there have been some further unconfirmed reports that suggested that the attackers at that music venue in addition to having guns may also themselves have been equipped as suicide bombers and they may have used suicide belts or vests to kill themselves at the end of that siege. it is at that venue, at the bataclan music hall from which we are expecting the bulk of the death toll. and the estimated death toll right now is considered to be approximately 120 people. the estimate is that approximately 100 of that number will be people who died at that music venue. right now the whole nation of france remains in a state of emergency, which was declared live on television while the siege was still under way by the french president. the french president also announced that the cou ....
Still be live activity and dangers that are taking place as we speak. close all the french borders, we need to make sure that no one can enter france to commit any act whatsoever. then an attack on the music venue. attackers first sprayed caves outside of the bataclan concert. machine gunfire, then went inside the concert hall killing more people and taking hostages. it was in the middle of the concert. and the people arrived by the back entrance. and then they began to fire. received reports of people sheltering under other people s bodies. gunmens reaching out and shooting at people at random. terrorized, and you, you, you think you re going to die. the attackers at the bataclan rock venue, they blew themselves up with suicide belts as police closed in. you re hitting people when they re at their most vulnerable, when they re trying ....
All these weapons and coordinating these locations. but they chose the venue because it holds a big number of people and with high-caliber automatic rifles you can take down as they did well over 100 people in a short period of time. we don t have a confirmation on the death toll there, but it is believed to be over 100. laith alkhouri, msnbc terror analyst. thank you. we have new information. this is not directly confirmed by nbc news. i m going to source the a.p. on this. the a.p. is quoting a paris police official. this is important. as saying that all of the attackers are believed to be dead. again, this is one of the key issues tonight, that there were definitely multiple attack hereers here. it s not clear whether any of them or a number of them died in suicide bombings as part of these attacks. that remains to be confirmed. but again, a paris police ....
Although it s not totally clear what that means at this point. but at one point tonight there were arriving planes at charles de gaulle airport being held on the tarmac there. there have been varying reports since then then about what the closing of the borders means and what exactly flans is doing to stop peeve leaving or coming into the country. no group has taken responsibility for the attack. no one has described anything that be described as a warning before this event took place. this is a very fluid situation. details are still coming to light by the minute. i want to go now to a witness. i m jound now on the phone by jonathan johnson. jonathan johnson is an espn reporter. he was at the stadium tonight when the explosions went off nearby and they could be heard inside the venue. jonathan, thank you very much for being with us tonight. i m glad to have you here. no problem. thanks for having me on. can you describe where you were when this happened and what happened when thre ....
Officials tonight. they re now giving us a little bit more information, i should say giving the associated press more information about exactly what happened inside the music venue. the paris police official telling the a.p. that the attackers at the bataclan rock venue, they did blow themselves up with suicide belts as police closed in. according to this parisian police official the gunmen first shot into cafes outside the music venue using their rifles. then they went inside the concert hall and killed more people there. and then there was the assault by security forces at which point they blew themselves up with suicide belts. i want to put the issue of suicide attacks to you specifically, richard. one of the things we re hearing tonight from french reporters is that it seems important to them to note that this was the first time there have ever been suicide bombings specifically in france, this is a tactic that has never been used in the country of france even though ....