the travel flows more than 1,000 french nationals going off to fight in syria and iraq, hundreds coming back. thousands of french citizens being radicalized inspired by isis. and this drum beat of calls from syria and iraq, from french isis fighters in videos which are released every week, every month it appears, calling for attacks exactly like this. gun and bomb attacks in paris. so is this what we re seeing play out on the streets of paris tonight? french authorities have not yet officially weighed in calling this a terrorist attack, but i know that french security analysts and others being briefed by their sources believe that is exactly what we re seeing at this point, wolf. i want you to standby as well, paul. we just got some video in a vine video. this is six seconds. this is at the football stadium. i ll play the video. you can hear the explosion. listen to this.
coordinated attacks against soft targets and the targets that we re seeing, wolf, it s a sports stadium, it s a theater, it s an area where there is a lot of shopping involved. it happened at the same time so what it s meant to do effectively is create like an warfare you have people fighting dividing the law enforcement because law enforcement is trained to respond but when you have multiple attacks at the same time, you re dividing the resources. clearly, this is something law enforcement around the globe prepares and trains for. again, they hit soft targets at the same time so instead of having sort of one mass response, you had to have teams going to the different locations to respond. that means dividing swat team, dividing police, it means dividing bomb techs, all of that. again, here in new york, that s
paris in multiple parts of the city. it looks coordinated near the stadium. elsewhere popular tourist area it s going up. paul cruickshank i know you re working your sources, you re getting your information as well. we ve gotten these initial stwe tweets from isis supporters applauding what s going on in paris right now. what are you learning? wolf, i m learning this from one of the top national security reporters in france. he says just moments ago france launched a terrorism investigation. that doesn t mean it was necessarily a terrorist attack, but they have launched a terrorism investigation. also sources now, other sources suggesting there were possible suicide bombing attacks outside the stade de france, a few moments ago you had the deputy mayor of paris tell you about unconfirmed reports. there appears to be more corroboration now those may have been suicide bombings, but
they are checking now with their french counterparts to get word of whether the french believe that this is a terrorist attack. but early indications we re hearing from french officials is they believe this is not criminal. they believe it has the hallmarks of terrorism. certainly looks like that. jim sciutto, standby. joining us on the phone is the deputy mayor of paris. mayor, thanks so much for joining us. what can you tell us? what s the latest information you re getting? well, the situation here in paris is pretty confused. we have information coming from all over about at least three sites that were attacked toni t tonight. there were explosions at the stadium, shootings in two shootings. in one separate in the area where charlie hebdo newspaper.
action is still continuing there. and i don t feel i don t think they feel they have freed all the hostages have taken place. one thing else i just add to what jim sciutto was saying and that is that according to a witness who was interviewed just a short while ago that as the gunman attacked the bataclan, they were heard to be saying allah akbar. this is something eyewitness reported. we don t have confirmation but something coming from the eyewitnesses that saw the attack take place. and our affiliate there saying six shootings have taken place, three separate explosions at the stadium right near the stadium over there. the death toll presumably is going up even as we speak. no official numbers coming in yet. paul cruickshank, you re working your sources in paris. what else are you hearing? well, wolf, no official confirmation yet from french authorities. they believe this is a terrorist attack, but obviously as we all