As martyrs. Meantime, there is a second standoff, this is happening at a Kosher Grocery market in paris. It appears the person responsible for this is linked in some way to the brothers responsible for the wednesday attack. Five people are reportedly being held hostage by the gun moon inside that score who as we said appears to know the brothers accused in wednesdays massacre. A lot of moving pieces this morning. In a moment were going to Richard Engel. He has some on the situation with the brothers north of paris near the airport. But well start in paris with lester holt and the scene at that Grocery Store. Good morning. Bring us up to date. Reporter savannah, a lot going on. A few hours after we heard of the hostage taking outside this city that word came of this hostage taking and shooting at a Kosher Grocery store on the eastern edge of paris itself. There are some unconfirmed reports of casualties. The person who is believed to have taken these hostages is a man identified as ahead coulibaly, said to be a friend and associate of said and Cherif Kouachi who are accused in the attack on wednesday, the offices of the newspaper. There is a linkage. Prosecutors are drawing. We dont know the extent of communications that antiterror forces had in either of these cases with the hostage takers. You can imagine the scene. There are schools that have been locked down in the area. The wail of sirens filled the streets all day long, ratcheting up unsrnty, a day after the Prime Minister here warned that the fear of future attacks. Again it sounds they have two suspects in wednesdays attack cornered outside the city, and then another man, apparently linked to them, also is a suspect in the killing of a Police Officer, a southern suburb yesterday, that person also holed up, again Holding Hostages right now. Lester, stand by as i turn to Richard Engel. He is at the scene north of the paris airport outside the city there where the brothers suspected of wednesdays massacre have been surrounded, cornered by police. Richard, good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning, savannah. Behind me right now Security Forces have been brought in to evacuate around 100 students who barricaded themselves in their school. That evacuation is take place right now. Things developed here just as children were going to school around 9 00 this morning. Police who had set up a drag net all across the country in this village which is not far from the Charles De GaulleInternational Airport, spotted the brothers, quickly there was a gun fight, reports that one of the Police Officers was injured in that gun fight. And as it was unfolding, the two brothers decided to barricade themselves in a local business. This is taking place about a mile from here in an industrial section of this village. As the two brothers barricaded themselves in this business they took the Business Owner hostage and potentially some of its employees and some of his family members. Were told at least one hostage is still inside. There is now a massive security cordon set up around this village and the surrounding village. Helicopters have been brought in and it is possible once these children are evacuated that we could see military activity. But all french officials are saying for now its that they are trying to contain the situation and protect the lives of the villagers and the hostages. Stand by. This is coming to a conclusion after housetohouse search in some of the suburbs and woodsy areas outside of paris. We have a former senior fbi official here with me in new york and weve got Michael Sheehan sheehan, associate secretary of defense for special operations both are nbc news analysts. Good morning to you. Where to begin, don, i guess lets talk about the brothers holed up in this Printing Press with at least one hostage. Telling negotiators were willing to die as martyrs. How do you see this ending and what are the authorities there doing now to make sure its peaceful . So many things going on. We heard reports of a hostage was released. If thats true thats a good thing because that hostage can provide valuable intelligence to the officers that may be trying to plan an attack, figure out how many could be holed up in there, what the layout is, what the mindset is of these attackers. At the same time youve got the volatile situation in the market that appears to be tied together. And then the other thing thats going on right now thats extremely important that is outside of the tactical operation, is the intelligence operation. To try to figure out are there more people affiliated with these guys . Is there a support network . I mean, so many things are going on. Lets turn to michael on that. The kouachi brothers were known to french authorities, french authorities, known that they were with jihadi organizations, one of them served time in prison, the other we learned trained in with al qaeda in yemen, one of the most operational branches of al qaeda. How do you take those pieces together and look at what were seeing now happening in paris . Savannah, clearly these two individuals that in fact the newspaper are very well trained and well thought through this attack. They had contact with al qaeda in yemen, which specifically designated the newspaper and editor there as targets because of their attacks against the prophet muhammad. They had clear connections with al qaeda, conducted a very professional terrorist operation against that site, the newspaper. The other Grocery Store operation, there are linkages, personal linkages between the two brothers and the perpetrator there. Whether or not this was a spontaneous reaction to the initial attack or was part of a preplanned multiple attack scenario we dont know. Now we do have multiple scenarios which has been a nightmare scenario for counterterrorism officials in europe and the United States since 9 11, and now wey see it unfolding in front of our eyes. By the way, the french president said that recently in recent weeks that the french authorities had stopped and thwarted other plots and here we are having these two plots unfold including the soft target, this kosher market being attacked right now. If the authorities are talking to the two brothers inside that factory, what would that negotiation be like . What are the authorities trying to do in a situation like this . They are obviously trying to end this peacefully, get them to release the hostages and give up. It appears thats probably not in the mindset of these guys. What is more likely happening they want to string this thing along to attract more media attention, because thats one of the goals of the terrorist operation is get the media. For every minute this is on the air and they are getting attention its a mini victory. True. Michael, of course, terrorism is as much about publicity as it is bullets and bombs. We mentioned these are at least as far as the kouachi brothers known to the french authorities, a lot of people are going to look hard saying why werent they under better surveillance, why wasnt there notice that this might be planned. Clearly, the french will have their own internal investigation what broke down and enabled this to happen. Similar to what we did after 9 11. And there will be time to make that analysis. I think the french Security Forces are going to be embarrassed. Right now, they need to try to contain this and see if there are other people either linked to these folks or copy cats that may be inspired to take action. So in france right now they want to bring this to a close as soon as they can without jeopardizing the safety of those innocents at both locations. They need to get this under control because as don said, minute by minute they are getting tremendous publicity out of this and energizing their base of other radicals around the world. If both of you will stand by i want to go back to bill neely who also is at the scene north of the paris airport where the two brothers are holed up. What do you have for us . Reporter good morning, were six or seven hours into the siege here, and the situation remains the same in that these two brothers are completely surrounded by french Antiterror Police and we still believe that they are holding one hostage. What is am withing clear is that the two incidents really are linked, both right now and in the past. It appears that the three gunmen that we know about were part of one radical cell ten years ago. They were trying to recruit people to go to iraq ten years ago. The man who is in the jewish supermarket at the minute, 33 years old, he was a friend of Cherif Kouachi, one of the two brothers who is in the factory very close to me. They were committed followers of another terrorist, so this is if you like, the reawakening of a terror cell from ten years ago. And its an absolutely extraordinary situation after an unprecedented massacre. We now have two unprecedented and simultaneous hostage situations involving three gunmen and remember, one other named woman who the French Police say is probably armed and dangerous, who is we dont know where and the French Police dont know where she is either. Quite extraordinary. Released pictures, actually of coulibaly and this woman to be on the lookout for these. As you mentioned its believed that amedy is inside the market now and some Authorities Say he also is likely the person behind the killing of a French Police woman yesterday. There are a lot of moving piece this is morning. Our correspondents will stand by on the scene. Stay with nbc news and nbcnews. Com for the latest on this still unfolding situation. On the west coast rejoining the today show as we continue our coverage. Very, very busy morning overseas as well. Another fast moving snowstorm is adding misery felt by millions this morning. Still in the grip of that dangerous weather. Lets get a look at the weather. The good news is here in new york area, we have seen the end of the snow. Take a look. Weve got a shot of our plaza and about two hours ago it was snowing to beat the band. But the good news is that has moved out, moved into the northeast. New england as well. No problems there. Look at whats going on now in the pacific northwest. We have got some very dense fog in seattle. About a quarter mile visibility at the airports, fog this morning, probably slowing down both road and air travel. Starts to clear off later in the day. We look at the rest of the west, some fog, also down in northern california, central idaho were looking at fog, you get down in South Phoenix going to be gorgeous, sunshine. 76. Los angeles, 71. 50 in medford. Here is the other story, once this clipper moves through much colder air comes in. 5 in minneapolis today, 6 in chicago, 18 degrees in st. Louis. Weve also got a developing ice storm down through southern texas thats going to be pushing to the north and that ice storm is going to make its way into the midwest and then the northeast by monday, causing a major, major commuter nightmare for air and roads from washington, d. C. All the way back to chicago. Winter. Thanks for that. Following breaking news on the airasia investigation. Developments in the search for the wreckage of 8501, pinging signals possibly from the black boxes have now been detected in the java sea. Kelly is in indonesia. She has the latest on this developing story. Reporter good morning. The pings were detected six miles from where the tail section was found, that tail section is in about 100 feet of murky water. Its upside down, its partly buried in silt and it may be largely intact. In fact, searchers are trying to lift it out of the water, thinking that possibly the black boxes are still inside. They are using a system of straps, flotation balloons and cranes. Now with the pings detected a half mile away they are also going to send divers in to that location to see potentially if the black boxes broke loose and are on the sea floor in silt and mud. We could know a lot more in several hours. Thank you, kelly. Jury selection just under way in boston in the murder trial of former new england patriot star aaron hernandez. Hernandez accused of killing semiprofessional Football Player odin lloyd in 2013 and among those who could be called as witnesses, patriots coach Bill Belichick and robert kraft. If convicted hernandez faces life without parole. Community college for free . President obama made the proposal thursday night in a facebook video shot aboard air force one, the president said he would like to see first two years of Community College free for everybody who is willing to work for it. Its something we can accomplish, and its something that will train our workforce so we can compete with anybody in the world. The Administration Officials didnt provide many details where the money would come from except it would be paid for by the government and participating states, a formal announcement is expected later today at a Community College. A maryland man is charged with attempted murder after police say he intentionally rammed his dump truck into two patrol cars. Wednesday this caught on camera, two of the officers walking away from their cruisers, then seconds later a dump truck comes around the corner and barrels right into the cars. The officers got out just in the nick of time, police say the suspect has a history of mental illness. A basketball fan got too close to the action during a professional game in monta nag ro. The home team, with only a couple minutes left in the game a fan runs out on the court, pushes that turkish player in the back, one of the teammates took exception and knocked the fan to the ground. A scuffle then ensued. The game was dlied for 15 minutes. And video this morning that will melt your heart. Some injured koalas on the road to recovery after their paws were burned in a wildfire. They need mittens to help so an Animal Welfare agency is urging volunteers to dust auer their sewing machines and get to work and thousands have responded and have come to good use with those little mittens. Poor thing. I know what im doing this weekend. Im going to be sewing koala mittens. You take the baby mittens. Donate them. There we go. Thanks. Her little jumpers. Cute. Whats the weather for the Golden Globes . Spectacular. Take a look. Well show you what was going on. Out west in fact, 71 degrees in l. A. , 61 in San Francisco. 50 in portland, oregon. Look for after the fog lifts in seattle, temperature about 49 degrees. 30 in denver with light snow. The Volkswagen Golf was just named motor trends 2015 car of the year. So was the 100 electric egolf, and the 45 highway mpg tdi clean diesel. And last but not least the High Performance gti. Looks like were gonna need a bigger podium. The Volkswagen Golf family. Motor trends 2015 cars of the year. Hey there. Good friday morning to you. Im meteorologist anthony slaughter. Shower activity today, if youre doing traveling in that direction, heads up. Here at home a cooler day on the way, better air quality for this weekend. But today still a spare the air day. 63 in San Francisco, mid to upper 60s elsewhere. Weather. With carson here weve got the u. S. Last time since 2002, that was the winter games in salt lake city. All of you guys were there. Then 1996 the summer games in atlantic. Boston joins rome as the only other city to officially bid. Others considering are france, hungry and germany. Following the decision social media lit up. This is one of the tweets that came out from dear old chuck who said that 2024 boston olympics is going to be so awesome. Showing a picture of the potential tragic the traffic gridlock, excuse me. But of course we know thats one aspect. The games often bring wonderful moments and a great crowd and the white house pretty excited. They said in a statement that the city thought all of us what it means to be boston strong. The president and first lady could not be prouder of this accomplishment and of all of our nations athletes. And i love this. I think this brings home the spirit of boston and what were rooting for. Jay put out this picture of his little boy at boston 2024. When will we hear . 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