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Phone. and then it just continued to keep going and going and going. but nobody was doing anything at the mandalay bay. everybody was just keep of standing there. the taxi in front of me, they werent doing much of anything. and they -- you know, nobody was doing anything. i decided to get out and go check it out and the doorman wasnt doing anything. and then if i fellow taxi drivers on our dispatch radio started saying, hey, theyre shooting at the mandalay bay. everybody get out of there. and i ...

They can. below, of course, is the las vegas strip. we are on one end of the strip. if you know mandalay bay is on one end and the strip moves forward. for hours now, the only cars you will see on these streets are police cars or ambulances. maybe the occasional fire truck down below right now. we do see some metro buss and do know that buses have been used to try to move people out of this area. mika? >> joe fryer, thank you very much. lot of reporters in place there, covering o.j., the relea...

Since nearly the beginning. can you give us a sense sofr whats going on? >> reporter: thats right. right now it does appear more relaxed. having said that, we just saw, for example, several soldiers walking past here. its completely surreal for many of the residents here. no public transportation. then to see soldiers walking down, patrolling down your street in paris. now, in terms of what happened, 4:30 in the morning is when the operation appears to have started. residents woke up to the soun...

And they have been waiting, certainly, many of the citizens of france, to know that this current danger is over and under control because there have been these terrorists at large ever since friday. the mastermind and the chief operators of this cell. so, do you know, have the police said anything, about some kind of explosion that went off inside the apartment, as it was under siege? there are obviously reports of what it may be, that a woman may have killed herself. do you know anymore? >> rep...

Detonating a suicide vest, another we believe was killed by a police sniper. there have been reports unconfirmed of a passer-by killed, too. on the other side, five, five policemen were injured. remember, what happened is abhour long storming of the apartment where it is believed possibly the mastermind of the paris attacks had been hold up, led to a lot of firing and explosions, ak-47 fire, automatic gunfire from the police, woke up the whole town here. since then it has been relatively quiet s...

Morning paris time, for an hour, there was a massive fuselage of ak-47 explosions, machine gunfire, automatic gunfire. it went on and on and on for about an hour, local residents said. it sounded like a war was happening in their town p town, its an urban setting just outside of paris. after that, silence. since weve been here about an hour and 15 minutes, we have heard no gunfire, no shooting but again, the word is there is at least one person remaining inside this apartment building that the p...

As a rough neighborhood. so when initial gun the shos were heard, people were a bit wary given the ongoing situation, but werent sure what was mapping, whether or not this was another petty kram. when they heard the volley of what appeared to be automatic gun fire, it appeared to be more serious. when police told residents to get inside they alerted people this is something much more involved. now, this is also the area again where one of the attackers -- where the attack hit. the st. denis foot...

The neighborhood of st. denis. this is one of the northern neighborhoods of paris. its actually where the stadium attack occurred. now what we understand is around 4:30 in the morning, residents reported hearing automatic gun fire and at least one explosion. police have now confirmed to us that an operation is under way in connection to the hunt for those suspects of the paris attacks. now, we have not confirmed this ourself, however, our local affiliate is also reporting that one police officer...

Is tied to that, but that is the background that french security forces face. you know, really on any given day. as you make the point, sounds of explosions, sounds of automatic gunfire that at least is an indication that thats a possibility. >> just for those of you tuning in right now, were reporting on some very, very initial reports from paris, france, of a shootout. several people were killed. seven others injured. a shooting at a restaurant in central paris late on friday. this is accordin...

Could have a real tactical significance and be a much more serious setback to isis. >> lets talk about sinjar right now. stay right there, congressman, we want to talk specifically about how this key city where kurdish forces claimed to have liberated an isis stronghold after just two days of intense fighting. this morning kurdish peshmerga troops proudly raising their flag over that city, sinjar, which had been held by the terrorist group for more than a year. cnn senior international correspon...