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Up to this attack, what was the trigger moment that basically led him to walk into a chocolate shop armed with a gun. those are questions that still remain to be answered. >> atika shubert live in london, thank you so much. australian officials had tried to negotiate the release of the hostages with the gunman before storming the cafe. daniel o shea was a member of the hostage working group in iraq from 2004 to 2006 and joins us live from tampa, florida. what do you think made them decide to l...

Certainly someone is in grave danger just outside the cafe being treated at the moment and yet again more ambulances are leaving to head to the cafe to see what they can do. >> sean, its been interesting with the revelations of the identity of this man and his history of violence and we know he was before the courts only last week and hes on bail for being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. maybe that knowledge of the violence of the gunman was something that provoked them into action al...

>> in the secret service we have an advance counter sniper division and what they tell you is first thing they look for is open not closed windows. even a thin piece of glass can deflect a bullet significantly enough especially from a distance so that you miss the target. now you have a situation where the target knows you engaged him and you shot at him and you missed. it grows the danger of the situation. thats why. >> we know according to this news conference, new south wales they said they h...

It looks like mission accomplished. >> well, i think the gunman is down. i think we can accept that. and there is no sense of danger. right now their priority will be to work on those injured, the hostages, obviously. and that job, obviously, befalls the paramedics that have been on standby now for 16, 17 hours since this began. >> a mammoth effort. thanks very much. well cross back to sean berry now. sean is on the street. sean, tell us what youre seeing from your angle. >> the five brigade off...

Surroundings, to make sure they take their own personal security in mind, dont go anywhere where you might -- where something bad can happen. a final question to you, fofo floria. we only hear about the lone wolfes that are quote/unquote successful. but tell us about the ones that they have been able to stop. >> theyve been taking a lot of measures to get dangerous people off the streets so theres lot of cooperation between the fbi and other police forces across the world. so worldwide we try ...

So so this came to a sad end. tell us what the past 16 hours have been like. >> i spent the day at martin place just before the cafe. it was early calm despite the situation. people were gathered around almost like watching a spectacle rather than treating it as a hostage crisis. i spoke to a few residents who were evacuated due to the situation and i got the sense that this is just something australians arent programmed to respond to. theyre removed from terrorist attacks and so it was very sur...

Grenades. they also seem to have night vision goggles on so perhaps the fact that the cafe has been in darkness all this time, theyve been managing to plan their attack much more carefully and without the gunman knowing quite so much and they seem to have really stunned him at this point. >> well, thats right. there have been police squads here today that ive never seen before in my time as a reporter. we havent been able to report on their presence a lot but -- and thats -- the police have aske...

Am standing. quick fire, loud nices and a police car has just driven past me. theres a lot of movement happening here. we are seeing that more hostages have come out of the building and as soon as we got those reports the next thing we heard were very, very loud bangs coming from the direction of the lindt cafe. just behind she where this is unfolding. where we are seeing more hostages coming out of the cafe and hearing these loud bangs. >> what do the loud bangs sound like to you, kathy? >> of ...

How do the police deal with that situation to make sure that there is no loss of life that can be possibly avoided? >> well, theyre trying their best not to lose any hostages lives, clearly, toure. but its a very difficult situation for them because the hostage taker has the power over the people hes holding. he has the power to kill them. thats basically all the power he has. hes trying to grab other power like, you know, news media, get out his word or through the internet. his real power and ...

Become mrs. and more tired especially since theres only one individual, as it appears to us. so time and making sure that every hostage can come out safely, those are very important things and controlling what the hostage taker receives in terms of other information, obviously there are some tactics that can be used? >> just going back to the social media aspect of this. efrlier there were four videos posted on youtube, one of them depicted -- one of the hostages actually communicating demands t...