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Little more serious. and considering that there was a bomb threat made on the germany national team hotel earlier in the day, people already were starting to get a little bit edgy. and this is before halftime. now, roundabout halftime that s when the reports started to filter through. that there had been an attack at stade de france. and over halftime reports started to come through with more details. first of all, we were led to believe that it was an explosion at a brasserie. then grenades were mentioned, a mail bomb was mentioned, and eventually a suicide attack was also mentioned. and during the halftime break that s when the news about what was going on elsewhere in paris also then started to filter through to us. the second half got under way, and it was a very eerie atmosphere because a lot of us in the press knew what was going on. some people in the stadium, the spectators, did know about it. some didn t return to their seats for the second half. ....
Approximately 20 minutes into the match, he d been evacuated from the stadium. like i said, it was sort of roundabout halftime, midway through the match, that we really began to start discovering the extent of the attack on stade de france. but it wasn t until much after that game had finished that we really discovered exactly, you know, how atrocious this attack on paris had been because of what happened. jonathan johnson, espn reporter who was at the stade de france when the explosion went off nearby, which was apparently the start of this multipronged attack. thanks for helping us understand what i saw tonight. i appreciate it, jonathan. thank you. one of the sort of remarkable moments tonight, and this happens when attacks aren t a single incident but they sprawl out over time and you don t know whether they re over, is that tonight while things were still under way we heard a live statement from president obama. ....