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France. so you had two or three explosions outside the stadium, and then 15 minutes later four or five shootings with the hostage situation in the center of paris. >> in terms of what you said about there being a vehicle involved for the shootings that happened, what you described as the equivalent of new yorks broadway, this restaurant attack, do we believe that the attackers left that scene in a vehicle after they arrived in a vehicle, or do we know what happened to them after those shootings?...

Special forces launched an assault on that theater to free the hostages. speaking at the site of the attack shortly thereafter, french president francois hollande said some of the attackers were killed. late tonight there have been some further unconfirmed reports that suggested that the attackers at that music venue in addition to having guns may also themselves have been equipped as suicide bombers and they may have used suicide belts or vests to kill themselves at the end of that siege. it is...

Stadium in the paris suburbs, about five miles away in central paris, the second phase of the attack began. again, this was within moments of those explosions at the stadium. there are multiple reports that a gunman or more likely gunmen armed with automatic ak-47 style rifles made an attack on restaurants and/or cafes in central paris. there have been mixed reports as to how many restaurants or cafes were attacked. a lot of different news sources have many different lists about how many differe...

When we look at that level of coordination, the type of weapons that they had, the number of people who appear to have been involved here, the only thing that says to me as a lay observer is that this isnt a coffee klatch, this isnt a casual group of people, this is a group of people that must have at least trained among themselves if not gotten trained by somebody whos got military tactical experience. does it say anything to you about which kind of group might have been involved? >> look, this...

>> one of the things ive heard you talk about tonight is youve seen a lot of if not claims of responsibility certainly celebration. >> indeed. >> of these attacks. >> theres been a lot of people rejoicing these attacks. indeed, actually some isis hard-line jihadists whose accounts on twitter has been suspended 300 times, thats how active he is, he said this is a planned attack. of course this is unsubstantiated. but the mere fact that you have isis guys actually are saying -- if they have any kn...

This is an area crammed with cafes and restaurants including a lot of them with outside tables. but again, reports suggest it may have been multiple gunmen unleashing this part of the attack. what appears to have been a second part of the attack just moments after those explosions rocked the stadium about five miles away in the paris suburbs. that close coordination and the distance between the two attacks, that is part of why this is being seen not just as a coordinated attack but as a fairly s...

With the steves -- excuse me, with the bands manager. and there is news, at least that were getting through our producer in nbc tonight, that one member of this band, which again is a band based in california, has been killed. one band member died tonight in this attack. again, thats very preliminary information were getting from our producer in paris. well update you more on that as we learn more. i want to go now to washington, to pete williams, nbc news justice correspondent. pete, thanks ver...

All these weapons and coordinating these locations. but they chose the venue because it holds a big number of people and with high-caliber automatic rifles you can take down as they did well over 100 people in a short period of time. >> we dont have a confirmation on the death toll there, but it is believed to be over 100. laith alkhouri, msnbc terror analyst. thank you. we have new information. this is not directly confirmed by nbc news. im going to source the a.p. on this. the a.p. is quoting ...

Attack. you keep talking and everyone keeps talking about the apparent attacks. this was one military-style assault. the first bombings, suicide bombings or roadside bombings because there was some talk about a canister bombing by the stadium where the french president was inside, thats a come-on attack. thats going to draw a lot of attention. its going to draw first responders. and then 15 minutes later or so you saw the much more deadly phase where you have the opened fire in the restaurants a...

What is going to happen. we cannot believe the kids have been killed because in the musical you had a lot of young people. it was friday night. they wanted to listen to concert. they wanted to have fun. and they faced death. >> in terms of the first issue that you raised there, the prospect that these attackers may still be at large, that there either may be other people who are waiting to be activated who are part of this initial plan who have not yet participated in any of the attacks tonight ...