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Sometimes these things are going to succeed and we as societies are going to have to figure out how to cope. we cant turn every situation into a society stopping crisis. >> we have new information from nbc news correspondent sara james live from sidney, australia. you have some information about contact with the gunman right now? >> reporter: yes. whats basically happening right now -- im about 200 yards away from the cafe. although the lights went out a short time ago, the conversation is conti...

Which is equivalent of our federal reserve went into lockdown. what that means is that people were there at their desks, we spoke to them and said all of a sudden there was a message and it said everybody stay at your desk. theres a situation. they were told to stay there and they stayed there for hours. and then they were allowed to leave this afternoon. that tells you a little bit about whats been going on today. >> i would love to have you come back if you can. stay there and update us. we wa...

He was behaving menacingly and at one point he put that gun into the ribs of one of the hostages. as i mentioned five hostages managed to escape and from our position here as they went out the side door, we can see the gunman from here getting very agitated. shouting and screaming at the remaining hostages. very tense situation as those five managed to get out of the side door of the cafe. as i said, it hate to think wha theyre going through inside this small cafe. >> absolutely terrifying. what...

Think there will be questions as to whether or not this is a threat beyond a lone wolf. if authorities know this guy and they know that he has affiliations and hes traveled before, there could be some tough questions. why wasnt this person stopped if he traveled back into the count country? why was he released? identity can be an important part. there could be critical questions. it may not be the right time. were in the early hours. this is where i say from a media perspective its a fine line. ...

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Growing against australia. >> this is more broadly this is the question. tony abbott, australian prime ministers stance on isis is quite clear. "weve made a strong commitment to degrading the isil group and we talk to partners about how this is best achieved." this played out in terms of military activity. 600 troops committed to the war on terror in september and eight hornets were authorized on air strikes in iraq only and my question now is how does this play out in terms of that growing foot...

Or anything violent. >> it seems to be different than the canada attack we saw recently where it was an instant kill situation. he wants dialogue. he wants to have his story put out. who knows whats behind this person if hes really motivated by isis or if there are other deep seeded issues on a combination of both. >> how does he think it ends? what do you think is in this guys mind on how this ends? >> this cannot end well for him. you saw it on the news all of these tactical officers ready to ...

Without that coordinated effort, its not going to happen. you then have to look at through the intelligence services the radicalization threat and were seeing that grow in the u.k. specifically. the u.k. have gone hard on a strategy called prevent which targets the mosques and looks at the imams and what rhetoric the imams are putting out there which is encouraging this process of disenfranchisement of people coming in and we need to look at that in the u.s., australia and also europe. >> talk t...

We want to bring you up to date on the story in belgium in just a moment. to bring you up to date on whats happening in australia. up to 30 people being held in the lindt cafe in sidney. there are several different signs as to why this points to terrorism which were following as well. we have guests coming up on that. first, theres also a situation developing in belgium where police have confirmed a certain hostage situation or something else happening there that looked similar but thomas, you h...

Us, were in the 13th hour of a siege at a chocolate cafe in sidney. >> to follow-up on what joe is saying, there are two kpoents to this. australia is involved in these ongoing military operations. australia has a sizable muslim possible la population. they make the video in english to target these individuals in countries where it can recruit them with its magnetic appeal. we dont know who this individual is and its important to emphasize he may be trying to seize on an opportunity but just giv...