Brothers near Charles De Gaulle airport. Those two hostage situations played out in parallel for hours today in france with the entire nation watching, with global media watching. And then about two hours ago, around noon our time a little after that, as nightfall was happening youre seeing photos on the right of tape im sorry, tape of that moment, there were flash bangs and there was a raid by the gign forces of the French Special forces Tactical Unit into both sites. One after another separated by maybe four or five minutes at the most. The word we have is that the kouachi brothers who are in dammartinengoele near Charles De Gaulle airport. The one hostage was freed. In the case of the market Amedy Coulibaly was killed along with four hostages. Francois hollande moments ago expressing his condolences to the families of those four hostages. Those hostages remain at this moment unnamed. The number of hostages rescued also unknown at this moment although we have this striking dramatic photo that came from moments after that raid in which you see the French Forces hustling people out. That man there in the middle looks like a yelp of relief as he has just been rescued from an incredibly tense situation. Theres a fourth suspect, hayat boumeddiene, described by french authorities as armed and dangerous. She is as far as we know at the moment, at large. We know french authorities know quite a bit about the kouachi brothers. One of whom actually did time for terrorismrelated charges. He was stopped from going to iraq to join essentially the al qaeda in iraq in its efforts to kill americans in iraq. The other brother, it appears, had recently fairly recently the last few years had gone to yemen who we hear from u. S. Counterterrorism officials had trained with al qaeda in the arabian pen insue law, aqap. He returned. We saw some training it appears, in the way in which these two men methodically went about the slaughter they committed of the Charlie Hebdo offices, killing the journalists inside and then killing a Police Officer as he laid on the ground and begged for his life before hijacking a car. We know a little less about Amedy Coulibaly, although hes been described in the french press as a former juvenile delinquent. He is, it appears, a convert to islam. It appears in some initial reports that he and one of the kouachi brothers shared an imam they worshipped or coradicalized in that same environment. We heard from Francois Hollande. He has called for a march of National Unity on sunday moments ago, asking for unity. Saying its frances best weapon, a determination to fight against anything that divides us, fight against racism and antisemitism. Es police its condemning the antisemitic attack. Part of whats deeply upsetting about these attacks, when you talk about soft targets, its hard to think of softer targets than what we have here. This is not even this is not even some kind of major public area, right . Its not even the metro bombing. A random essentially random Grocery Store is about as soft a target as can you get. Youre seeing there live footage as president barack obama enters the stage, having been introduced by Vice President biden. Hes in tennessee to unveil a new proposal for Free Community college across the nation in knoxville, tennessee, modeled after a program they offered in this state. In advance of the state of the union, hes there to talk about that proposal. Hes been touring around the country, talking about his economic agenda in advance of the state of the union. Were expecting him, however, to address the events in france. Lets take a listen. Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. Well, it is good to be back in tennessee. Ive been coming around a lot lately. Because theres a lot of good stuff happening here. I want to begin by thanking jill and joe biden. Theyre not just good friends and good partners but they really believe in the power of education. And they really believe in creating those kinds of ladders to opportunity that gave all three of us and michelle the chances, the incredible opportunities weve had today. And then understand the promise of americas Community Colleges. Well, jill really understands it. And joe, he doesnt really have a choice. Before i get into the reason that im here today, i want to begin by saying just a few words about the tragic events weve watched unfold in france over the last several hours and days. Because events have been fast moving this morning, i want to make sure to comment on them. I just spoke to my counterterrorism adviser. We have been in close touch with the french government throughout this tragedy. The moment that the outrageous attack took place, we directed all of our Law Enforcement and counterintelligence operations to provide whatever support that our ally needs in confronting this challenge. Were hopeful that the immediate threat is now resolved. Thanks to the courage and professionalism of the french personnel on the ground. But the french government continues to face the threat of terrorism and has to remain vigilant. The situation is fluid. President hollande has made it clear theyre going to do whatever is necessary to protect their people. And i think its important for us to understand, france is our oldest ally. I want the people of france to know that the United States stands with you today, stands with you tomorrow. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who have been directly impacted. We grieve with you. We fight alongside you to uphold our values the values that we share, universal values, that bind us together as friends and as allies. And in the streets of paris, the world has seen once again what terrorists stand for. They have nothing to offer but hatred and human suffering. We stand for freedom hope and the dignity of all human beings. Thats what the city of paris represents to the world and that spirit will endure forever long after the scourge of terrorism is banished from this world. [ applause ] now, im a knoxville, not only because i like knoxville, but im here today because one of my resolutions is to make sure that folks across this great country feel like so that is the president in knoxville, tennessee, where as i said earlier, he is there to unveil a new proposal to make Community College free. Thats a proposal that well get more details on from him today and also in the runup to the state of the union. But you saw at the beginning there, he addressed the events in france pledged his solidarity with the french people quoting france as our oldest ally, which is true. And also talking about the fact that the ideals of democracy and pluralism will outlive any terrorists, strike similar notes to Francois Hollande. The agenda right now, evan for investigators, theres sort of two things that have to happen in france right now. Theres a political question about how this is going to be digested and dealt with politically. We saw some opening notes from Francois Hollande about how he wants to do that. The terms he wants to set. The tone he wants to strike. A National Unity march on sunday that pointedly excluding the right Wing National front. In terms of what investigators are doing right now, what is going on among investigators . Well, theres a number of different things. First, you saw obviously they raided the home of the kouachi brothers. Theyre going through there, seizing the computers. Seeing if theres evidence of communications, did they have other weapons, were they in touch with other people . The french government is also interfacing with other foreign governments, particularly here in the United States. The nsa and gxgq in the uk have the ability to suck in a vast amount of information. Weve seen this obviously in the nsa scandal that france doesnt have the capability to do. Ive seen personally how various european governments when dealing with threats from isis and aqap have had to rely he had heavily on information provided by the nsa and ghcq because of their more advanced capabilities in that regard. Hairs no doubt theres inferfacing in that regard. The number one thing is to make sure there isnt anybody left. To make sure there isnt a lady running around right now somewhere in paris carrying an ak47, looking for another policeman to shoot or looking for a school or a market to shoot up. Thats the number one priority. To make sure theres no other active shooters left. We dont have any great assurance on that. Again, as has been pointed out, french authorities didnt know for many many hours this initial shooting of the policeman was linked. Ive got to tell you i mean looking at it, when i first heard they same there was no link, at the minimum it looked like a copycat. At the minimum, it looked like someone who was copycatting. Now it looks like more than that. Also the context here is the homicide rate in france at large is quite low. The incidences of violent crime, of shooting murders of police is incredibly low. So, this is even its an extraordinary thing that happens or its an unusual thing that happens in the u. S. , but even more unusual in the context of france. Even more shocking, when the targets are a Jewish Museum a kosher marketplace, a school where children are being mowed down, this brings back horrors that have not been seen in europe since world war ii. And i think a lot of people for exactly that reason, they look at this and theyre concerned. Its true that there are a lot of jews in france right now that feel theyre under siege. They feel they are under direct threat. If you look at these various different incidents and look to the fact there hasnt been any major effort to try to stop this you can understand why they feel that way. Thats a live picture right now were looking at outside the supermarket where there appear to be medical personnel prooech presumably attending to hostages. We do not at this hour have confirmation on the total number of hostages. We have confirmation from the lips of the president of france himself, Francois Hollande, that four of those hostages died during the operation to free them. As well as the gunman Amedy Coulibaly, the blood of those four, of course, being on his hands ultimately. Well get details about what exactly happened there. I imagine as we learn more. I was going to pick up on what evan was saying. Its vital that through all of this Computer Network and files and Everything Else what theyre going to try and do is understand and build the spider network. I operated three years over baghdad hitting high asset value targets. We worked closely with the intelligence community. There are spider networks, huge networks, you have the head head of Logistics Communications chief of recruit recruitment recruitment, chief of training, you have to understand, is there something coming next . Is this just a symptom of a bigger problem that is growing within france . That will be critical but that takes time. Some intelligence we were working when we were doing these strikes in baghdad, it took years to compile. We have to expect that. Going through someones computer alone, going through skype conversations on someones computer number one, you dont get all the information. Just going through it could take hours, days, weeks just to go through it. Ive done this personally. Its not easy to do. And it takes a tremendous amount of expertise and an understanding of who the people are that are in those contact lists. If you dont recognize those names, it could be santa claus. I want to bring in laith alkhouri who is a terrorism analyst for us here at msnbc. Talk about aqap. Weve obviously weve been hearing a tremendous amount about the Islamic State last year during the summer particularly the gruesome beheadings of journalists that caught so much attention, u. S. Intervention against the Islamic State. It appears that one of the kouachi brothers traveled not to syria and iraq which has been the low cust of a lot of concern and the fly paper that has brought a lot of jihadis into the region but instead to yemen and trade with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. It is one of the, if not the most capable of al qaedas branches. Lets remember, they have demonstrated global ambitions to attack not only transnationally in saudi arabia and surrounding countries, but also in the west. They were behind the airliner plot in late 2009. They also were behind the postal packages explosive postal packages that were intercepted before reaching the United States. Of course they are behind the english language magazine inspire which we have about 13 issues that were released so far. And each issue contains a recipe to carry out unconventional attacks in the west. Their most recent issue actually included a very detailed recipe to make socalled undetectable bombs. Its a very capable bomb. It has mull any nationals, foreign fighters from all around the world and demonstrated capability and intent from carry out attacks in the west. I want to talk about the nature of these attacks for a second as weve seen them. It occurs to me that we saw a series of truly ghastly, massive, large mass casualty attacks. Of course, the most famous and deadly of 9 11. But we saw the bali bombing, the attacks in london and also in madrid, right . These were using explosives. There were cells of four, five, six people. In madrid it was six, i believe. A fair amount of logistical explosives, getting them to where you need them to pb in the last four or five years weve seen more attacks that appear to be either lone golf gun attacks, soft targets. The incident in canada of the car, driving a car into soldiers. Does that Say Something about in some ways the successes of counterterrorism in these places, pulling off these largescale, logistical mass casualty . Does that say about recruiting . Or is there no trend . This brings up a point laith and i were talking about yesterday. The idea aqap is putting out there how they can develop bombs, sneak through airline security, put in Peoples Clothing that is undetectable. If this is aqap why would they ratchet it down to this level . You get at one of the possible explanations, if this is something directedly aqap or by isis the requested of k. I. S. S. Keep it simple stupid. Weve seen a lot of very elaborate bomb plots, including the underwear bomb plot. We saw richard reid when he tried lighting his shoe on fire. They got a lot of headlines but werent successful. They were failed attacks. There is certain sense among al qaeda and particularly aqap if you make it a simpler mission, theres a greater likelihood for success. If you kill 20 people and not 200, youre still going to get that headline. And another reminder about the fact that this is this violence is done from a sort of political perspective with a media component as well. It was Charlie Hebdo is a target that massively well known in the french media. It ignited this massive amount of Global Coverage because of its significance as a kind of symbol, right . So that is also not accidental. Were going to take a quick commercial break and be right back with special live coverage of the events in france. woman caring for someone with alzheimers means i am a lot of things. I am his guardian. 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Written contributor for them and is working on the next issue of Charlie Hebdo. Are you there . Reporter zoo yes. Hole loe hello. How are you feeling today . Its obviously been a tense and terrifying day in france. How are you feeling . Well of course relieved that the killers most of the killers are now out of the vicinity of killing another generalist or another citizen. But still with sadne