Disembarking from a bus. And as you can imagine, it sent everybody in the area into a panic. You can see those pictures there of people inside the museum that were trapped there, trying to escape. Security there was also trying to usher tourists out of the area. The gunmen also then went into the museum and took a number of people hostage. The standoff went on for about two hours. Ultimately though however, Security Officials ended up killing two gunmen and say the operation is over in the area. But up to three attackers may still be at large. So there is a manhunt ongoing in the city of tunis. These were terrorists militant islamists as theyre being described by the tunisian government. Do we know if they were directly affiliated with isis or al qaeda or some other terror group . Reporter no group has claimed responsibility. All we have is that description from the spokesman of the interior ministry saying theyre islamists. And there are a number of groups this could be. Ansar al shar
Turns to recovery. The search embraces a dual mission both equally important, respectfully recovering the bodies of the passengers and crew and retrieving the wresage to explain what too many it had flight. Cnns Paula Hancocks boarded a boat with local civilians who desperately wanted to help in the search efforts. It was a little choppy but the visibility was quite significant. There was only a little rain nothing to talk about so visibility would have been good as well from the air and clearly as you can see the aircraft did spot parts of the debris. So it was the weather did hold and that was conducive to the searchandrescue operations certainly. As soon as we did hear the reports that in fact, the location had been identified, the fishing boat we were on turned around and came back to harbor. It was just a local fishing boat who had offered to help just showing the community here wanting to be part of this and wanting to do everything that they could. As you can imagine, the mood c
10 00 a. M. Here in paris. Breaking overnight. New information of a Terror Threat spans four countries. Western intelligence source tells cnn it involves 20 sleeper cells. Police in belgium shattered a cell thursday night in a raid. You see Police Walking by here. Secretary of state john kerry has just come to this location. He is now leaving. Well talk about that in a bit. A raid in the city of verviers. Belgium Officials Say that was one of several raids. In this raid foiled a major attack. Authorities will not say, they do not confirm any link with the raids in belgium and what happened here last week the attacks in paris. The paris attacks did lead to information that perhaps sped up the timing of the antiterror operation in belgium. I want to get the latest from belgium. Journalist chris burnes joins us. Chris, whats the latest. Reporter john you can see over my shoulder how officials have been reacting to this. They accepted up security measures here. Here is a newspaper that say
30 bodies have been pulled from the java sea. Technicians onland have identified four of the bodky kyyies and the search is roughly the size of the state of delaware. Lets get the latest from surabaya indonesia, where many families are gathered awaiting news. Andrew stevens is there, hi andrew. Hi carol. The line here today is that search frustrations continue just because the weather remains very very bad. Its slightly better than yesterday, i should add, but conditions are described as challenging so the actual visual part of this search has just basically proved to be impossible. Where theyre focusing now in that smaller area you mentioned there, just 2,000 square miles now, is going to be on the underwater sonar, looking at sonar readings looking at very very faint whatever they can get on acoustic readings anything thats a pinging underwater. They havent found anything they havent told us that anything has turned up yet so theyre still looking. Weve got warships on site and pretty
We are following two major breaking stories. Despite rough seas and dangerous weather conditions searchers now have recovered 30 bodies from the wreckage of that airasia jet that crashed. Crews also discovered more parts of the airliner including what appears to be one of the window panels. However, whats become of the black boxes, that is still a mystery. Also breaking president obama is punishing north korea including top individuals in kim jonguns government for the cyber attack on Sony Pictures. We have correspondents and analysts standing by. Here in the situation room and around the globe. Lets begin now with cnns senior white house correspondent, jim acosta whos traveling with the president in hawaii. Tell us about these sanctions and just how much of an impact theyll have. Reporter brianna, taking care of a serious piece of business at the end of his vacation here in hawaii president obama is turning up the heat on north korea in response to the cyber attack on sony. The Obama