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France has confirmed that three hostages have been killed. one of them a french citizen. the whole incident started when a group of gunmen, its undetermined at the moment, whether it was two or twelve, quite a lot of gunmen walked into or ran into the radisson blu hotel in the center of bamako, thats the capital of mali, they were firing automatic weapons, and heres the thing. they were shouting allah akbar as they ran into the hotel, firing indiscriminately. they went up the floors of the hotel...

Vests. >> and then also what accessthy still have to weaponry because i mean, in every single instance weve reported from friday to what some of these 400 raids have found, high caliber automatic weapons to apparently this shootout that happened overnight in northern paris, all of these things have included high powerful automatic weaponry. and of course explosives. >> youve been reporting that the question, how could this amount of weaponry get amassed in a city like paris thats already under s...

Its still going on. and we dont have all the results of the arrests so far. >> so you dont yet know if any of them were planning anything, doing anything. youre not sure. we know there was at least one place that police went that had bulletproof vests, automatic weapons, a rocket launcher. >> yes. >> a rocket launcher. >> of course. and you know that in the car they found other kalashnikov guns. but you know, in every attacks weve had so far in the past, we find a lot of heavy war material not u...

Just overnight here in the paris area and the seat, the spanish-built car the terrorists used on friday night that was found on saturday morning, they found two ak-47 automatic weapons, these terrorists used automatic weapons in the bataclan nightclub where 89 people were killed, and this is not a country where weapons are available. forget readily available. theyre not available to anyone. so people are saying well, wait, just overnight, they got 31 weapons and we have seen these terrorists as ...

To new york. its an easier target. and its a very big infrastructure. were seeing with the january attacks and also the belgium arrests that prevented an i tack, and the infrastructure is there, in a way that it really isnt here. yes, there are 50 investigations, but the investigations in the united states, you know, a lot of these people dont have automatic weapons, theyre not building bombs. its a different atmosphere here in terms of these jihadi crimes. coming up, a father and a son who we...

The united states and around the world. im pamela brown in washington. this is "cnn special coverage." paris is in a state of emergency. police remain on the lookout, and frances borders remain shuttered. thats because last night islamist terrorists brought life in paris to a deadly standstill. this video im about to show you is very disturbing, we want to warn you. it shows people trying to run for their lives, dragging friends away from gunfire. [ gunfire ] [ screams ] >> thats exactly the kin...

Running around shooting other people but i mean, again, youre hearing rumors and things whispered among people who are in the middle of a highly chaotic situation. what the actual truth was impossible to say. >> right, obviously multiple eyewitness accounts can differ and word of mouth is like a game of telephone. the weapons that the police had who were on the scene, you said a group of police were behind a vehicle, were they long rifles? automatic weapons or were they pistols? >> at first, i s...

Not a fancy restaurant. and she saw two men with no mask on their face coming out of their car, going quietly with automatic weapons to the people who were eating at the roof. she said one of the attacker put the gun on the face of the person who was eating and without any word killed him. she witnessed that. and then after she witnessed the other guy going with the killer inside the restaurant, and they began to fire very quickly. she said there was a lot of noise of guns. and apparently accord...

>> the place had a capacity of 1,500 peep. we know it was overcrowded. we dont know how many people were injured and the nature of those injuries we continue to ask questions about that. >> sk o, injuries sustained by automatic weapons can be horrific. how did these events unfold at the epicenter of the terrorist attacks. >> these assault rifles, these ak-47s are also shouting allah akbar, which means god is great.

Belgium. those gunman, themselves, actually came from brussels, from the molenbeek area. one of those people is believed to be connected with the attacks here in paris. theres talk about a vehicle, its registration plate being recognized. thats not information that is fully reliable and fully firmed up. we are understanding that those arrests that are underway, the operations underway in the molenbeek neighborhood of brussels, this is a neighborhood that has a large immigrant population in it, t...