This is a recent insurgence of what weve been seeing of antiisis Bombing Campaign and isis militants in the philippines marking the terror groups first significant foot ho foothold outside the middle east. Again, no confirmation exactly who is involved in this attack. I want to bring in ivan watson who is joining us from singapore. Ivan, what are you seeing and learning . Reporter well, ana, this is still a very much developing situation and as you reported, as were hearing from our sister network, cnn philippines, theres multiple gunfire and explosions that have taken place at a Hotel Complex in manilla near the airport. Reports of people fleeing the scene. This complex has a number of hotels in it. It has a Shopping Mall and also a casino complex as well. Were getting reports of heavily Armed Security forces, s. W. A. T. Police officers moving to the area as well as fire trucks as well. We do not know who is behind this. No claims of responsibility. No confirmations of any casualties at this time. The context is important. We dont have any direct correlation here or claims of responsibility, but this comes about a week after theres been just a surge of violence on the southern philippines island of mindanao were isis militants took control of an island called mirawi there. Tens and hundreds have fled and the government has had to declare martial law on that island. This is the philippines capital very far from that island and its still an unfolding situation. Well bring you up to date as we learn more from the Philippines Security forces and from eyewitnesss on the ground around the resorts world complex there near the airport. Ana . Ivan, one of the eyewitnesss we heard from earlier here on cnn was describing the scene, talking about hearing explosions and gunfire but that its since stopped. Do you know it if this is still an active assault that has taken place or whether the perpetrators here have been captivated . Very havent gotten that information from philippine officials. Its only 2 00 in the morning right now in manila and its clearly created, at least among hotel employees, very much a sense of manic and concern. So were still trying to piece together what has happened there. Well just have to bring you up to date as we gather more information. I want to bring in colonel Cedric Leighton who has been to this area many times. What strikes you about what youre learning . The biggest thing is that this is an area where a lot of filipinos go for their vacation time, for their leisure time and attracts a lot of foreign tourists. So what youre finding is a soft target. This is a classic soft target for terrorists to go after and the fact that they are doing this indicates that whoever is behind this is ramping up their efforts against the regime of president duterte and the fact that they are doing it now shows that i think they believe they need to send a message to the filipino government and, unfortunately, a lot of innocent civilians will be caught in the cross fire. Were hearing this is an area where there are multiple hotels. Theres a casino, a shopping center. So its quite the complex. If youre Law Enforcement responding to this scene, whats your approach . Well, your basic approach is going to be one that you have to secure the perimeter and what you have to end up doing is you have to make sure that you contain any casualties, any damage that is there. The other thing that you have to do is you have to make sure that the terrorists dont escape. If you can catch them, that shortens your investigative time and it also makes it possible to find out more about the terrorist attacks, what their modus operandi is. Let me bring in peter better again. This is an unfolding situation, peter. We dont know exactly what is happening right now. We know there have been explosions and sounds of gunfire, people Wearing Masks reportedly on the second floor of this Hotel Complex. But again, its the context of the terror and the additional activity from groups like isis in parts of the philippines. Yes, lets start with the modus operandi. This looks like perhaps you want to try and capture these guys and i dont think thats going to be an option here. These guys, if it is an attack, are going in to die. And billion a decade ago they went in, took all the hotel guests hostage and fought to their death and it played out on cable tv for three days. We saw this in kenya with the West Gate Mall attack. Similarly, gunmen went in, took hostages and fought to their death and it lasted 48 hours. And then the context that you mentioned, ana, isis has called for attacks during ramadan. Weve seen attacks in iraq, one outside of an ice cream parlor killing mostly women and children in baghdad, a massive attack in the last 24 hours in kabul killing more than 90. Weve seen other attacks and for groups that if this is a terrorist group, as seems plausible, you have both a abu sayyef and then isis. This is particularly auspicious even though 99. 9 of the worlds muslims are opposed to this kind of attack during the holy month of ramadan. Were looking at images coming to us from the scene right now where you see people looking to be in fear, we see people on the ground, people looking around. Again, we dont know exactly the status of everybody who was in this area. No reports of casualties but, also, we dont have all of the information. I want to get to maria resa who is near the scene. Youve been hearing from witnesses there. What are they telling you . Reporter they heard gunshots. Some people are saying that they saw masked men and then others say they havent. Some people weve seen people being treated by paramedics outside and on the street and outside the ambulances and fire trucks. Some folks coming out dazed. This is an hour and a half after it happened and people are waiting for word. We have heard from the Philippine National police, a spokesman from the police has asked me to be careful about the coverage, to not compromise operations that are going on right now and to be aware because wrong information could be damaging as well. Its unclear what is happening. The smoke is still there and were waiting to hear more. You mentioned that people were being treated by ambulances. Any sense of the types of injuries or why they are being treated . Reporter thats unclear. Were seeing people being brought outside, a woman who looked like she was limping being held by two men helping her outside and then out on the sidewalk, paramedics who were just taking care of a person who couldnt walk and we also saw photos of an overturn car after some of the explosions. But again, its unclear exactly what is happening now. And in terms of Law Enforcement presence on the scene, we understand that there is a combination of police, s. W. A. T. Teams, also these emergency responders, like firefighters and ambulances that have responded. Set the scene a little bit for us in terms of what you can visibly see and are you seeing a strategy in terms of Law Enforcement responding . Reporter what we know is that s. W. A. T. Teams have gone into the building and theyve asked people to evacuate. There are two Hotel Complexes right on either side. The people who have evacuated, some of them actually hid. One man who identified himself as julio silva, told us he was on the third floor of the building and several more gunshots followed and big smoke and before he fled, he fled and got outside along with his companions. They went to the second floor where a security guided them out of the building. So its unclear exactly what operations are going on inside. But people outside are waiting to hear word about it. All right. Maria, stay with us. I want to go to ivan watson once again. You have new information reporting from the hotel. What are they saying . Thats right. The verified twitter world has said that resorts world manila is currently on lockdown following reports of begun fire from unidentified men. And a little bit of more context about this area, ive stayed in some of the hotels in this compound. Theres a Marriott Hotel there, for example, which where several years ago i saw them hosting a u. S. Marine ball at that location so that gives you a sense of kind of the foreign customers that would be coming to some of the hotels in that complex. Theres an adjoining Shopping Mall there and though there are some security measures, youll have, for example, dogs and guards that could be sniffing people coming in and out and its quite typical for there to be armed guards outside of hotels and Shopping Malls in manila, there are also limpnks between the Shopping Mall and marriott and other casinos in that area. You can walk across the streets between these various hotels and shopping areas and this is all, again, very close to manilas international airport. And, of course, reports are now verified now from the official account of resorts world manila and a hotel in lockdown as this situation is still unfolding, ana. And were hearing from those witnesses who are seeing smoke rising from the scene. Ivan watson, stay with us. 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The president is leaving everyone in suspense giving his decision on whether to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Well bring that announcement to you in less than an hour from now. Syria and nicaragua are the only countries that oppose it. This was put in place by former president obama. Listen. Were going to cancel the paris climate agreement and stop unbelievable. And stop all payments of the United States tax dollars to u. N. Global warming programs. Now, in recent days, the president says he has been listening to many voices, both inside and outside of his inner circle. Some still lobbying to stay. For more on the big announcement, lets go to cnns sara murray at the white house. Weve been reporting that hes been expected to withdraw. But is there a chance the president could pull something here . Reporter with donald trump, theres always a chance for things to change. With that said, were being told that the president will announce a withdraw in this rose garden ceremony. Remember, its a pledge he made on the campaign trail and hes certainly been sending signals, publicly and privately that this is his plan. Thats why weve seen so many european leaders leave him last week feeling disappointed by what they heard from the president. This is a monumental decision. As you pointed out, it really isolates america from the rest of the world if in fact the president comes out and announces that we expect, that the u. S. Is withdrawing from this decision. This could have massive implications. What is the political calculus here if he announces a withdraw . Reporter well, it will be very fascinating to see how the president explains his decision. 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