square and in this neighborhood to stay indoors and lock the windows. 4:20 this morning paris time families here jolted from their beds. a hail of bullet, gunfire, explosions in the street. laser lights pointing into windows. police shouting to witnesses to get away from their windows to hide in their apartments. all of this as french police stormed is housing complex in sain, a suburb north of paris about one mile from france s national soccer staid couple where those terror attacks began to unfold friday night. sources confirming to abc news is operation all part of the hunt for the so-called ermind of the coordinated and deadly attacks he in paris, aelhamid abaaoud, the belgian militant and major isis recruiter. a prosecutor suggesting that cell phones found led them too this neighborhood. givingng them rson to believe that abaaoud could be in one of the apartments here. fresh sources telling abc news a woman killed herself during the all of the attackers who killed themse
begins right now. we do say good morning, america, and we are following the fast-breaking developments this morning. you are looking at the scene of that major raid this morning. sustained explosions, gunfire heard in that neighborhood just outside of paris, actually less than one mile away from the soccer stadium that was attacked. authorities thought they might have cornered the mastermind, that man rht there, abdelhamid abaaoud. here s what we know right now about the raid. o people are dead,ncluding that woman who detonated a suicide bomb. seven people arrested. five officers injured and a police dog was killed and you also see that photo of one of ththe suspects dragged a ay by police. his clothes partially torn off. what we don t know right now was this another cell actually getting ready to strike right away. what happened to both abaaoud, the mastermind, and that eighth attacker from friday that fled to belgium. world news anchor david muir on the scene since
step ahead of law enforcement. early today starts right now. good morning everyone. i m alex witt. we start with the breaking news. russia has announced that traces of explosives have been found in the debris of the downed metro joet plane. a bomb equivalent to 2.2 pounds of tnt exploded on board the aircraft. russia is offering a $15 million we regard for who brought down the jet. they will hunt the perpetrators and fine those responsible. obama talking trade but also ways to coordinate with china a ice. the president spoke yesterday backing up his plan to defeat isis. we have always understood that there will be a long-term campaign. there will be setbacks and there will be discusses. the terrible events in paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback. even as we grieve with our french friends however we can t lose sight that there has been progress being made. isis also released a new propaganda video threatening a paris style attack on the united states
has ended. overnight french police and special forces raided an apartment in a planned operation in connection with last week s attacks in paris. this is the scene earlier. [ gunshots ] shortly after multiple explosions. nbc s chief foreign correspondent and his team were able to capture this video, as police with weapons drawn searched cars. two suspects are dead. including a woman who debt nato a suicide vest in the apartment. officials say the target was ab del hamid abboud, the alegend master mind behind last week s attacks. this all happened after two air france flights had to be diverted after both received bomb threats. more on that in a moment. and first or correspondent in the area. what is the latest? reporter: the raid is over. the operation is over. however there is still activity ongoing. special services now securing the area. just in the past few minutes we ve heard from the french prosecutor and the interior minister who talked a little more about this rai
reporter: as you said, we believe thise is an ongoing investigation. one of the ais spects, a woman who apparently killed rself, blew herself up at the beginning of the assaults. this happened at 4:30 a.m. local time. by 6:30 a.m., there were more explosions about two hours after it began. this is in an apartment building and there are apartment buildings and stores and all arnd. it sar a densely populated area. neighbors are staying in their apartments in their homes. they have are hearing gun fire and explosions throughout the early morning hours and understandably very frightened. policeceave told people in thth neighborhood beforehand, this is not an attack, this is going to been an unexpectedly violent operation, according to some policeo sources and that is what people are reacting to now. asas w w said, still ongoing, we can t confirm the number of dead suspects or injured police according to a police spokes person. they saype this is still ongoing and they don t w