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Minds. >> interesting. its still shocking. christiane amanpour, thank you, christiane. more on the attack in sydney. set your dvrs. watch 360 whenever you like. more on the sydney drama. the police got the best possible picture of the situation and where police are trained for the standoffs like in sydney where the ammunition is live. ♪ just look at those two. happy. in love. and saving so much money on their car insurance by switching to geico...

In their line of work, time isnt money. its quite possibly the difference between life and death. >> martin savidge joins us now from north carolina. its incredible when you think about the response by law enforcement in sydney, australia. they had six seconds. they basically went in six seconds after the shot was heard, and that was after, you know, more than 12 hours, 14 hours. they were standing around, basically, on a hair and trigger ready to go in on a matter of seconds. the guys are using...

Her family. >> a sister of one of channel 7s -- >> sandra dawson who i know and i have friends, a mother of three, john. >> reporter: as flowers replaced on one of the thoroughfares, the process of healing begins, one embrace at a time. anna karin, cnn, sydney. >> in the meantime, more come to light. greg park gave a view of the cafe that made their life-saving job that much easier. hes a camera man for 7 news in aus tail ya that looks out on to the lintd cafe. he monitored with a sniper in posi...

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Sidney and peshawar, as the administration tries to navigate dangerous foreign policy matters. ed henry has the story tonight. >> reporter: a gruesome terror attack, at least 141 people murdered in cold blood as a taliban in pakistan stormed a military run school. most of the victims were children, in the tragic business of funerals for the young students got under way almost immediately. >> the images are absolutely gut wrenching. young children carried away in ambulances, a teacher burned aliv...

Are still individuals out there who have not only the ability to do that but the intent of using that on a flight to the u.s. >> reporter: thats why procedures implemented in july require passengers to turn on their phone and computers remain in place. as the holiday travel season begins, tsa officials say they arent expecting any changes at the checkpoints, but if there are changes they will be driven by new and specific intelligence. the tsa administrator describes classified procedures to tra...

Lets check out the headlines. this was the scene a short time ago as the prime minister paid his respects at the site of the deadly hostage standoff. well-wishers and mourners have been leaving flowers. the prime minister is set to have a news conference. we will bring that to you as soon as it happens. police in pennsylvania are hunting a man accused of killing his wife and family members. the former marine reservist had been in a custody battle with his ex-wife. hong kongs chief executiv...

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...

Clearly for propaganda purposes realizing these scene wos be playing all around the world he wanted isis flag to show that he was doing this in isis name on behalf of this entity he views as an islamic state over there. >> this was 16, 17 or so hours that this went on there in sidney and i think of other times, you know, you and i have talked on television, other attacks. im reminded what happened in canada, it was just days later when you had the hatchet attack here in new york. there have to b...

Australia, the countrys biggest city in the busiest area of sidney near the government buildings and a major shopping district. up to 30 people are being held inside the lindt cafe in sidney happening around 9:45 a.m. people were shopping and getting coffee and going to work. five people did escape. they rushed out of the cafe at different times. it will be interest to hear from them. als also, hostages inside were forced to put a flag in the window and the hostage taker is being said to be aski...