4:30 a.m. prayers. they don t know if he s dead or alive now. 11:46 a.m., a government spokeswoman announces that the raid is over. two suspected terrorists are dead. eight detained. translator: i m not in a position, therefore, to give you precise, definite answers and identities of the people who died. reporter: officials say the raid happened right on time. saying the terrorists were about to launch another major attack in paris. i ran in to former mayor of saint-denis outside of the location today and said he s not surprised that the terrorists sought refuge in his town. translator: unfortunatelily, we have at the center of this town a number of buildings, of dwellings and they are owned by people who are not necessarily attentive to who their apartments are rented to and it s possible that one of the renters may have participated closely or loosely to what
all right. obviously we re having ben, if you can hear me, we re having a little bit of trouble with your signal there. and it s not a great signal. we re going to try to get it fixed and see if we can get ben back on the phone with a better sfal. b signal. you re looking at live pictures of saint-denis outside of the apartment building where police had conducted these early-morning raids. it all started at about 4:20 this morning. the alleged target was a man named abdelhamid abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the attacks from friday. this is a guy authorities had been searching for since friday, and they believed was potentially inside this apartment building in saint-denis, france. this is just a hop, skip and a juch jump away from the stade de france where the france/germany soccer game was going on on friday night when those attacks began. so not too far from that area,