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Officials say this mornings raid in the paris suburb of saint-denis came just in time. they say the terror suspects were about to move on some kind of operations. lets go there. lets go to cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen in saint-denis with the very latest. fred, we just saw clarissa ward on a rooftop where this raid went down. youre on ground level. what are you hearing from your van tatage point? what kind of neighborhood are we talking about here? >> reporter: well, its s...

Its like having a 2-year-old. >> one of his favorite fixations? >> hes always liked to climb. right over the backyard fence, there was 120-foot power tower. there was a green belt behind the house with a series of electrical towers and john had started to climb them. >> so far, john has only managed to get at the scaffolds and ground level before his family coaxed him down but that day with both parents away at work he ventures higher. >> john had recently discovered the spikes on the side of th...

Is just to see any incoming threats. in our country, that means over the washington metropolitan area where raytheon has been marketing this as a homeland security tool. they, indeed, say that it hovers up to 10,000 feet up and require the need for a cable almost two miles long. theres pictures of it as the story goes on. well search our archives more and more. these have been displayed, defense shows. they have been brought to different communities, mostly on the east coast. so there are a lot ...

Their website which i have seen before. they sell this thing as kind of eyes in the sky to protect the nations capital, to protect entire countries as you said. it can detect a terrain following cruise missile at or near the speed of sound at or need ground level and it can relay to ground stations instructions to blow up an incoming missile. they also have optics on them. theyre said to have some very keen photography capabilities parked over a major city. as i said earlier, there are people wh...

You have seen one raid in syria and this recent one in northeastern iraq. a feeling they need those options because barack obama wants to take this slightly up a notch. >> as they do so, more from secretary of defense today that he said was three rs. raqqa, ramani and heavier air campaigns. on nicks point, would we see more intimate fighting here as in raid in northern iraq on the ground level. >> nick is right. ash carter has left things very mu murky. senators who were in that meeting complain...

More security, going, you know, ahead of the attack on benghazi. thats something shes said repeatedly, in hearings, as she noted in the clip, in hearings that she has, she knew nothing about. it would have gone to the sort of cone in the state department that does embassy security, embassy operations. so the idea that she might have known about this, i dont know if they have a smoking gun, but they basically -- they seem to indicate that they might have some evidence that she might have personal...

The finale begins. >> this is the finale. this is the song they always play on the 4th of july. >> but no one is prepared for what happens next. >> oh, my god. >> fireworks started going off at ground level. they just started shooting side ways. they were coming out towards the crowds and towards the people. >> they started going off quickly in all kinds of direction and towards us. >> the crowd begins to panic. >> it happened so quickly that there was really not time to react or even realize wh...

Became very active around the dream act and around the administrative action and that is carried forth, and then you add in the incendiary comments that donald trump has made over the last several months and what thats adding up to is at the ground level, at the grassroots level like ive never heard before in the latino community, everyday folks are realizing hey, somethings going on here and im going to go out and vote this time. >> interesting. secretary julian castro, a pleasure. thank you, s...

Folks in the latino community, folks who are new immigrants, a lot of folks like my family that have been here for a couple generations, and some even longer. san antonios a good microcosm of that. its 63% latino, and it runs the gamut. so i dont think their involvement is new but what youre picking up on, that theres a new energy to this and probably a more effective organizing effort than ever before. im very proud of the folks who became very active around the dream act and around the adminis...

But are we seeing something new in terms of the electoral and political role latinos are playing as a sort of voting group? >> well, youre very right, chris. as you know, you have a range of folks in the latino community, folks who are new immigrants, a lot of folks like my family that have been here for a couple generations, and some even longer. san antonios a good microcosm of that. its 63% latino, and it runs the gamut. so i dont think their involvement is new but what youre picking up on, t...