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Identification of an individual who they now know, a french national who was radicalized in 2010 and has a criminal record, they are trying to find out who he knew, what the links are there. so thats another thing, forensics being done on the devices, on the devices themselves, because investigators really want to know who not only built these suicide vests, but who may have designed these vests. and thats crucial, because we have seen plots where you have a single bomb maker who is able to make...

More potential attackers, terrorists tied in this web on the loose. as formerly with the department of homeland security, if youre looking at this from their perspective as they deployed 1500 troops here across paris, what are you doing at this hour with that information? >> i would do the same thing the paris officials are doing, you have to assume that something more is happening. at least until youre able to begin and the investigation and figure out how an attack of this magnitude peter was ...

To a "act of war." right now police are scrambling to track down possible accomplices and not just here in france. there have been a series of raids, we have seen a number of arrests in belgium this afternoon that are connected were told by authorities to the attacks in paris last night. in the meantime, some 1,500 french soldiers deployed across this country, across this city, trying to prevent any future attacks. earlier today i spoke with people here in paris on the streets right around us, p...

They are going to be vicious, and i think what he means is and i hope what he means is they are going to put more pressure on isis in their homeland in syria and iraq. we have already heard that the french have increased their air air strikes. theyve expanded their operations into syria, prieror that they were only in iraq. we heard isis elude to this, french expanding resources would be a source of retaliation and thats what were seeing. the solution is to go after the root cause, isis in rakka...

Officials believe there may still be potential attackers on the loose. but again, you see the people of france gathered showing their support for one another and for the city that they love so much. attacks like what we witnessed in paris threaten fuels and a phobia in many people on edge right now. earlier today i spoke with a 43-year-old man, he immigrated here from west africa eight years ago. his 25-year-old niece ava is one of the victims of this horrific attack. did she tell you anything a...

A judgment call. in two cases you have a bad judgment call. lets talk again about the as y assailants here. one was french but also a syrian and egyptian passport near the bodies of the other. the syrian passport was a national who entered the country via greece, so says the greece government. we dont know that passport could have been stolen, theres a huge black market, but still thats one clue. we do know there were international ties because you now have raids in belgium and an arrest in germ...

Jim to you first, the fact we have been here as the hours progressed today, the magnitude of this is one thing, right, belgium, paris, six coordinated attacks pulled off and not a trace was noticed by the authorities. how does this go unknown, untracked when you have something so coordinated? >> thats a very good question because we were here in january for the "charlie hebdo" attacks right down the street from here. at the time they were talked about raising the alert and god knows they were lo...