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Of manpower brought to this sen scene. in your experience, is there anything comparable? >> the north hollywood shooting in los angeles had something like this. but that was two men who were firing automatic weapons and knocking down 20-some people. but thats the closest ive seen temperatu temperature. >> that was back in 95, wasnt it? i remember that. >> these scenes looked exactly like that. >> those guys are holed up in a room. >> thats exactly right. this is an extraordinary scene. with what...

This is why these guys get the big bucks. they are in there and i can tell you from what i know of these people, they are not going to let him out. >> steve, thank you. stay with us. we want to recap. theres breaking news, heavily armed police in a northern suburb of paris, they raided a target suspected, the mastermind, rather of the paris attacks. abdelhamid abaaoud. our reporter is on the scene and heard these explosions. a number of police with masks arms. these are the investigative police....

It is ongoing, john. >> we appreciate it. do stand by, do make sure you are safe. weve been hearing these explosions go off. we bring you the latest from the st. denis. stand by for us, we will come back to you. you are watching cnns live breaking news coverage of the situation unholding in st. denis right now. theres reports that the mastermind of the paris attacks is holed up in an apartment building in st. denis. the scene is inundated with police, with counterterrorism, with military officia...

Gunfire and an explosion. lets take a look at the scene. as it happened. [ gun fire ] >> and lets go now live to the scene. that happened earlier, about three hours ago. the heavy exchange of gunfire. it is all relatively quiet no uh as they settle into what is essentially a standoff right now. this is whats happening at moment. in st. denis, this suburb not far from the stade de france, which was a target of the terrorists on friday night.

It looks to be controlling the situation around the area at this opponent. we havent heard any gunfire or any more explosions. residents are still being told to keep away by their side. theyre returning homes from night shift, to keep away from the area. still ongoing. although it does seem to be a little quieter at this moment, john. >> as we look at the pictures, were seeing a remarkable number of vehicles including ambulances on the scene. are we getting any word of casualties. >> we have not...

Long this has been going on, you have done dozens of these raids. what do you make of that? >> never have i been at a location for more than three hours unless we knew there was a hostage. what i make of this is extreme caution. they are not going to lose officers right now. they are not going to risk officers. the detonation, the concussions you heard earlier might have been them moving from room to room. i think right now, the smartest thing for them to do is to get one of the bomb robots and ...

A short time ago, we heard what was six explosions? >> at least six explosions. we were counting them off with atika on the scene there. and, of course, this is now been ongoing for roughly three hours. 4:30 a.m. local time there. lets go back to what the sounds of the exchange of unfire, as well as the explosions that we heard that the residents nearby recorded. we have that for you. lets listen to that exchange of gunfire where all of this began earlier today. lets listen. [ gun fire ]