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someone could blow up at any time. so it was a horrible feeling. with me now cnn international anchor hala gorani. hala, how did french police know about these apartments in saint-denis? over the last few days we know they found a car that they believed one of the attackers used. they also found a cell phone at the bat la can site, the site of the worst of the massacres friday evening. all of this intelligence led them to these apartments in san da knee. it s a suburb of paris. a major military operation, 5,000 rounds of ammunition in the space of several hours were used. we know there are seven individuals under arrest being questioned right now, two at least dead. but the scene we understand inside is going to take a very long time to process. it s not just that the bodies in some cases are in a space that
a simple detonator. a bomb expert said it contains a blasting cap, wires and toggle switch attached to a battery. isis claims these items were all hidden inside that can. is that true? is that reasonable? let s talk to cnn safety analysis david soucie, author of why planes crash. we also have cnn political analyst josh rogen who writes about national security and foreign affairs. david, from what you can see in this picture, we were told this was a one kill low gram, 2.2 pound, explosive that took down the plane. now they re saying it s a soda can. is what you see compelling? well, it s not a 2.2 pound explosive. that s for certain if this is what it was. and it would take about that to take down an airplane. so i m a little xepskeptical, c
police and prosecutors are saying this is a major attack that was thwarted. did you know what they were up to? and help clear something up for us. we also heard there was a raid on a church nearby whaxt was that about? reporter: that was a false alarm in the end but dramatic pictures nonetheless. saint-denis basilica, the church is an extremely old gothic building. i m sure our viewers saw throughout the day if they ve been following reporters they ended up busting a door, thought there was a weapons cache inside. there were report that s a photographer had gone up to the roof, perhaps he was confused with a gunman. in the end it yielded nothing but a broken door and dramatic pictures. glad nothing was there. hala, thanks so much. brooke, back to you in washington, d.c. thank you sto much. we are learning more about the terror ringleader s tie syria specifically. cnn is live on the ground there in country. we will take you there after this quick break. also thed aheahead, eig
to take down that russian passenger jet as they say leading to the deaths of 219 russians and 5 crusaders. we ll talk to an explosives expert coming up live. plus, as the global manhunt escalates, cnn is live inside syria where authorities at one point believe the ringleader could be. and you will see how the raid unfolded live on cnn in the overnight hours there in paris. the moments of explosions, the gun fire. do not miss this. this is cnn s special live coverage. very unusual that they re moving in the crowd here looking for something and now have moved down the street. you can still see one of them here still operating. they re showing their photo to oh, and an explosion has just gone off. this is still very much an ongoing operation. that was quite a large explosion in that dreshgs. direction.