It began just a few hours ago when shots rang out across the city. [ gunfire ] frances president was inside the soccer stadium where explosions broke up the game. [ speaking in Foreign Language ] the game kept playing as they tried to figure out what was happening. The president of france was evacuated to a safe location. Hes spoken to the people of france and the people of the world saying hes closing the french borders. President obama also speaking out tonight. Once again, weve seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. This is an attack not just on paris. Its an attack not just on the people of france but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share. Were going to do whatever it takes to work with the french people and with nations around the world to bring these terrorists to justice and to go after any terrorist networks that go after our people. Isis supporters on social media are praising isis but at this moment isis has not claimed responsibility. Our reporter pierre is on the ground outside of that concert hall where theres a hostage situation right now. They are storming the hall. P pierre, what do you know . Reporter i cant confirm that its ended but its a little less tense than half an hour ago when i heard rifle power as well as a few debt nations. What i can say is that what i can see right now is a response unit, firemen going in the building and trying to evacuate the hostages trapped inside the first floor of the building just above the nightclub. One man, i believe he suffered from a gunshot wound, was taken down using a rope. He and others are being evacuated through ladders. There is less action than there was half an hour or 45 minutes earlier so i guess so far the situation has ended or is close to being ended. And pierre, you talk about seeing a few hostages at this time. We know there could have been many, many people inside that theater. You have not seen very many people come out. Is there any sense that you can give us as to whether, from where you are standing right now, people have been able to survive and escape . Reporter yeah. Thankfully, i have seen about 100 to 150 hostages, civilian people being evacuated about half an hour ago and just a bit more than 15 minutes ago. So im hoping that most of the people that were inside this building are now outside of this building and what im seeing right now are the last of the civilian hostages being evacuated. I dont know how many are left inside. All i can say is there were a great number of them who have already been evacuated outside the building. Pierre, please stay with us. As pierre sees more as we said, this situation is developing so rapidly. Were going to go back to you, pierre. I want to go to the deputy mayor of paris. Thank you so much for being with us. Its a horrific evening. What can you tell us about this siege right now . Well, first, its an unknown situation to the population of paris. So far we have this state of emergency. The city is under siege, as we say. And we know that we dont have a moment to report the casualties of people dead or the people that were taken in to hostage there. We know so far that there were already 42 People Killed since the beginning of the evening but we know and we expect that this number may reach higher figures by tomorrow morning. So its really horrible what is happening in paris and its like all the places where people could attend on a friday night were aimed. The soccer game, the concert hall, restaurants. It was really like if it was coincided to hit people where they go to leave and enjoy on a friday evening in paris. So the city is really now under violence. Everyone is at home. Everyone is calling his friends, colleagues, family to know if everyone is fine, which is really a situation weve never faced, ever in paris. And so far we are far, far beyond the number of dead that were killed in january. So we are now truly facing an unknown situation in paris and we were like entering iraq of terror attacks but now we are experimenting that its never done and we still have to face it again and again. Deputy mayor, it is horrific and hard to imagine, the thoughts and feelings of people are with you as they were with the United States in 9 11 and i think many are moved to tears to imagine what is happening. I know you say that the siege now is over. But it does sound like you say that the death toll from these horrific acts is going to go significantly higher . Yes, we expect that there may be a lot of dead people tonight in paris. And also what we know is higher an weve ever had in paris. So its a terrible, terrible situation. Its really a tragedy that we are facing. And experimenting. So i dont know what more to say. Of course, tomorrow will be another day but we dont know if it will start again tomorrow or not. Nothing says that this sequence is over. We just know that at the bataclan its over and we dont have more information about who were inside, who were how many people were inside, how many people were how many people escaped. So a lot of confusion and sadness already. And i think we are preparing to face a very hard situation in paris. And deputy mayor, i know that youre talking about the frightening reality of what we dont know, that you as the deputy mayor, you know the siege is over. You dont know how many are alive. You dont know how many are dead. Its such a terrifying moment. Im sorry. Go ahead. Yes. As you know, there have been six to seven locations of attacks in the center of paris and outside of paris. So the information is really hard to get and to be very clear for all the citizens for information and population. Of course, by tomorrow, well know more. The security department, of course the military and Prime Minister and president but so far what we have is very confusing because it was spread over the paris territory, six to seven locations of attacks. Of course, inside and outside of the soccer game we received the attack at the soccer game. So its really too many information. Not an expected but never seen before. Do you, sir, think that you talk about six to seven attacks and how its impossible to know at this point how many are dead and what is happening. Do you have any speense that requires an incredible sense of coordination. Do you have any sense of who did this and also whether it is over or not . Well, again, there are many clues and evidence that shows that, of course, it is terror attacks. We have no official nobody trains for this so far. So this is the situation. And again, we have no information, of course, that this is over. It may start again tomorrow. So there is a very high level of consciousness and awareness from the security persons to the population to stay at home, to cancel any activity that is not strictly required and well see by tomorrow how it goes. But already we are under state of emergency, which is also quite an unknown situation. Since i think our war but this may be checked, for years we have not faced a state of emergency in paris. Deputy mayor, thank you so much very for taking the time to talk to us. Thank you. I know you sound very broken up, as im sure anyone listening to you feels. Thank you very much. Deputy mayor klugman. The concert hall, of course, is where this massive siege just occurred. You heard the deputy mayor say the siege is now over but hes unable to tell us how that ended, how many more people lost their lives. Obviously you can see a lot of people escaping. They do not know how many people were inside at this time, how many people lost their lives. What are you able to tell us . What did you see . So basically im a few minutes away from the concert was happening. Im on this little street which is just off this boulevard. Basically, i can see all of these emergency vehicles which are coming up to this cafe which is makeshift staging area where they are taking injured people inside this cafe so i can see people being carried out in stretchers into this cafe right now. Do you have any sense, from talking to people about what happened inside that hall . I mean, this siege had been going on for several hours. We actually cant speak none of the journalists can speak to the injured right now because they are carried on to the stretchers and inside the cafe right now so none of them are actually walking out of it. The emergency vehicles are being taken directly inside the cafe so we are not able to speak to them. But i could see them and they basically told me that they just heard what sounded like fireworks going off and then they started getting on the ground and tried to hide and made a run for it. Sruthi, were you able to tell from your reporting and i know the deputy mayor says this is almost impossible to do but youre talking about six to seven attacks across paris. At the concert hall where you were, there were hundreds inside that the terrorists were trying to kill. We dont yet know formally how many were killed or escaped. Do you know what they were saying about how many terrorists were inside that hall . No, i do not have that information at all. I dont know how many people were inside. Even the people who were inside the concert, i wasnt sure exactly what was happening. They just heard a lot of screaming and shouting and they thought they heard what was fireworks which was obviously gunfire. But i dont know i dont think they saw anyone. They just ran out. Many of these people actually ran to a bar which was next to the concert and from there fled down the street and thats where we saw them. Sruthi, thank you very much. I want to let our viewers know now, as this fluid situation develops, the siege is over in the club. One of those six or seven locations of attacks across paris. Were working to confirm right now an afp report from the Agency France press that 100 people about 100 people were killed inside that concert hall. As i said, we are working to confirm that number. We have 100 people, im sorry, total. Were looking to confirm that. As we get more information, well bring that to you. I want to go now to our chief International Correspondent christiane amanpour. You know so many people who are there tonight in paris. The deputy mayor saying he thinks the numbers can go up significantly from the 42 he knew of at that time. This is something that paris has never seen the likes of before. Thats right. Its a really catastrophic attack on a major metropolitan city in europe. Its worse if it is more than 50 or so, its worse than what happened in england on 7 7. It comes at a time when authorities in parts of europe, including paris and including london, have said publicly that they know that they are facing huge threats. The head of mi5 said there is blow back of ooiisis attacks in recent memory or at all. In paris, they had been on the alert for a while now because they are hosting this massive Climate Change conference which starts in just about two weeks from now. And they have started a huge amount of extra police, of secured roads, of securing borders and putting more border checks in place for that and to that end, we were in paris. I was in paris right near that bataclan area today and i was interviewing elsewhere in paris on the mayor and who is obviously taking, you know, a front and Center Leadership role in the crisis tonight. Earlier today, i was interviewing her about the threat around the climate meeting. But whats happened is that this is a whole new level of threat with isis, the idea that so many french have gone over there, americans, british people, people from north africa, people from all over europe who are able to come back with passports and are able to conduct these hitandrun attacks as now thats what isis threat is shaping up to be, these kalashnikov attacks, these hitandruns rather than something massive like 9 11. Yes. Christiane, thank you very much. I do want to let everyone know here, the incredible scale of coordination across paris, six to seven attacks, its hard to overstate the importance of this. And i want to, again, go with the numbers here that we are trying to confirm from afp that around 100, around 100 People Killed in that concert hall. Just that concert hall alone. Of course, the deputy mayor of paris just on this program said 42 others were dead. If that number is right, that would be well over 100 people slaughtered in this horrific terror attack. Jim bitterman is in paris tonight. What can you tell me . Im about 100 yards away from bataclan but its all been the area has been sealed off by the police and army troops that are here with assault rifles drawn. They are not going to let anyone any closer to confirm any of those reports that you have been hearing about and i think well just have to wait until the prosecutor or someone else from the paris facilities here come out and tell the press exactly what is going on. But it does appear that the attack, the concert theater is over now but the question is exactly what did happen inside and exactly how many people did lose their lives in there . And there is something that has come across the newspaper here, that there were seven separate and simultaneous attacks at different locations this evening. So something was completely and highly coordinated and i think thats something that the police found themselves a little bit overwhelmed with when they had all of these attacks going on at the same time. Erin . And jim, let me ask you about what we heard french president hollande speak to the french nation and to the world saying theres a state of emergency in france, saying that he is closing the french borders. What measures are the french authorities taking tonight and when is the last time or has france ever done anything like this in terms of closing the borders . Reporter i dont think france has ever done anything like this. They have sealed whole neighborhoods and weve certainly run into that already this evening and he said that there would be searches at will and when soldiers or police see someone that they think is suspicious, they are going to stop them and search them. So its extraordinary measures. The president , when he spoke, was vividly shaken by this. I think its something that is really just overwhelmed the officials here because its kind of a coordinated attack that theyve never had to deal with before. Jim, we have already reported that the attack at the stadium, at least our understanding as of now, there were at least three separate explosions at that soccer stadium. They are reporting that that was a suicide attack. Obviously the situation in the club where you are outside right now was a hostage situation. Do you know anything about these other attacks . Were they all suicide attacks . What can you tell us . Reporter the other attacks were with assault rifles and at least two restaurants that were attacked and im not sure exactly where that figure came up with but in any case, the other attacks appeared to not have involved explosions. The explosions heard at the soccer stadium, one was by a suicide bomb, they found parts of the suicide bombers body as well as explosive devices and a short while ago and here at the bataclan, the concert hall, in fact, we heard the police radio saying, you know, be careful for suicide be cautious of suicide belts, that some of the gunmen might have been armed and had explosive belt os on their bodies. So its a situation that i think is a little bit unclear at this time but im sure well know more as the evening wears on. Jim bittermann, thank you. Hes about 100 yards outside that club. The bataclan club. Afp reporting right now that the french president , francois hollande, is en route right now to that club and we are reporting around 100 people were killed inside that club. We do not know how many were inside altogether. We dont know the situation of how they died. The reporting right now, about 100 people lost their lives in that club alone. One of seven locations in attacks across paris. I want to show you the video right now that we have just coming in of the s. W. A. T. Team storming that club. Ill talk you through this. We dont have audio with this but this is the s. W. A. T. Team storming that club. Okay. So this is what exactly happened, as i said, we dont know how many people were inside. Hundreds perhaps. We know that many people were able to escape. Afp reporting 100 of them lost their lives inside that club. We do not know how. We do not know how many. We understand it was terrorists with assault rifles. I want to go to pamela brown in washington. Youve been working your sources. What are you learning . I can tell you, erin, just about every official ive spoke with in the intelligence community, they are alarmed by the methodology, the preplanning that went in to these coordinated attacks at six to seven locations, were now learning. And the concern, erin, among officials, this may not be over, though it does appear to be contained right now at those locations, were seen in other terrorist attacks, such as mumbai several years ago, attacks that happened over the course of several days. That is something that is in the minds right now of counterterrorism officials. That concern is very much there. There was an inner Agency Conference call, Video Conference call today led by the white house that is still ongoing. This is with all of the major agencies here in the u. S. , including the cia and the fbi to make sure that there is adequate information sharing and Situational Awareness and also make sure that there are no threats here and the United States, im told, that at this point there is no indication of any threats. But officials want to know, erin, if there are any u. S. Citizens that may have been targeted in paris involved with this in any way. And thats the information they are looking for. Is there any nexus for the United States, either through the potential terrorists or were there any victims, United States citizens that were victims. That is information that officials are still waiting on. Its been very hectic. The information coming in from the french has been slow, understandably, because its been such a chaotic situation and the hostage situation at that theater was just recently resolved. So they are waiting to get some more information but i can tell you, cities across the United States right now, erin, on heightened alert, specifically new york and l. A. , other major cities are boosting patrols at sensitive sites just as preparation. Though again, there are no Credible Threats at this hour. Everyone just wants to be extra cautious. Pam brown, thank you very much. I want to go to tom foreman. Tom, the deputy mayor of paris talking about six to seven attacks. The police were not, you know its messy. They were not prepared for so many simultaneous attacks. Who in a sense would be . Where can you tell about where these attacks happened