Targeting france, our oldest ally. We are hearing stories of innocents slaughtered on a friday night. If you are just waking up, a lot of changes. Isis has claimed responsibility. French president Francois Hollande says the attacks were carried out as an act of war. The overall death toll at least 127 people. The majority of the victims were inside the packed concert hall where a band from california was performing. Police on social media begged police to stop the carnage. French police are hunting for accomplices. We are covering this from all angles this morning around the world and at home. Lets start with todays erica hill. She made her way to paris erica, what can you tell us . Reporter matt and savannah, good morning. I can tell you when we landed we were surprised. They held us on the tarmac for 40 minutes saying there were no gates. When we got to the gate, we heard reports about long, long lines at security. We were able to sail through customs and came out and got a cab right away. The driver said it was quiet. One thing that surprised us, matt, are the number of people on the streets. We heard the security concerns. You set up the scene so well. You would imagine the sense of fear. I saw kids playing on rides outside. All of this is a surprise as we take you through how everything happened overnight. France is in a state of emergency. Its people in a state of shock. What started off as a typical friday night turned out to be the deadliest day in the Council Friday since world war ii. The enemy this time, according a night of terror left 128 dead and over 200 injured. 99 of them in critical condition. Eight attackers are dead, but they may have accomplices. The attackers described to be young, unmasked men with automatic weapons opened fire on the crowds and detonated suicide bombing. At 9 30 p. M. , explosions were found outside stade de france where the french president Francois Hollande was watching the International Football match. At the same time, coordinated attacks at several locations. Including bars and restaurants in a popular neighborhood. All not far from the Charlie Hedbo offices. Just after 9 30, several armed individuals entered apparent at 10 00 p. M. , hostages were taken. Between 80 and 100 people may have been killed at that location alone. This cell phone video shows concert goers escaping from the back door. Running past injured and dead in the streets. Over at the soccer stadium, two bombers blew themselves up, thousands of spectators were held on the field before evacuated. French police and military have been mobilized. Over ss flooding the city. Paris today is in lockdown. People have been advised to stay indoors. Schools and museums and government offices and disneyland all closed as investigators piece together. The hospitals fight to keep the injured alive and emergency workers continue to carry away the dead. And here we have seen a Police Presence. City living and working here. There is an increased Police Presence. We walked by the bataclan which is closed as people are getting a sense of what happened here overnight. Matt and savannah. Erica hill in paris. Thank you. Lets go to nbcs chief correspondent bill neely at the soccer stadium in the coordinated attacks. Bill, what is the situation there . Reporter good morning, savannah. This is one of the modern symbols of france. A carefully chosen target. National soccer stadium where two suicide bombers blew themselves up yards from where i am at gate j. 80,000 people in the stadium when at 19 32 into the game, there was an explosion. You can hear it on the audio. The announcer thought it was fireworks. People watching on television stadium. There it is by the president Francois Hollande. He was hastily evacuated from the stadium as two more explosions rang out. Unclear. Three others dead. They may be the suicide bombers, still unclear. Around 50 people injured. Some of them seriously. The game remarkably continued. The fans often most did not realize what happened. After the game, they were not allowed to leave. They spilled out to the pitch. When they were left to leave, they left the French National anthem. The players did not know what happened. One of them, a french player, his sister was inside the concert hall that was attacked. He only learned that after the game. She fled for her life. The german players were stuck here for 12 hours after the game. Some unanswered questions, matt and savannah, why did the suicide bombers strike when they did . Not earlier when 80,000 people were getting into the stadium, did they make any attempt to target the president of france . Clearly this was a high profile game. After leaving here, as we know, the french president went to the scene of the deadliest attack where he vowed revenge. He said isis was responsible. Jihadist terrorist group. He said france had to be merciless. A country with cold blood. He said france will triumph. This is the worst attack since world war ii. It is the first time we have seen suicide bombers on french soil. I cannot tell you how much this will once again shake this country. Charlie hebdo was bad enough. Not one massacre, but several. The scene of the theater is utterly horrific. This is a shaken city, but determined country in the words of president hollande. Back to you. A disturbing new day. Thank you, bill. Lets bring in sean henley. The former assistant director of the fbi and mike at leiter. Let me start with you. This is isis. Isis online claimed responsibility. If it is isis, what does this tell us about the capability . They are moving out of the area and moving into europe. There are concerns about the attacks. Law enforcement have been talking about these attacks. They are looking to move automatic weapons. Suicide vests, explosive devices. Increased capability and intent to do significant damage in that country and others. Mike, let me zero in on that with you. Obviously the lone wolf attack was one we have seen before where somebody isnt directed by isis, but inspired by isis. Maybe self radicalized. This seems like a game changer in the coordination and planning that would have to be involved. You are exactly right, savannah. I think this whole question of directed versus inspired is really so al qaeda and not about isis. Isis is about inspiring people wherever they are. That is their direction. The level of coordination to have the simultaneous attacks with the large group is really quite impressive and terrifying. Amount of soul searching among intelligence organizeations in paris and washington, about how this can go undetected. A single lone wolf is hard to find. Multiple people with suicide vests, this is one we have to reflect, if they take these tactics, how do we tackle this more effectively. Sean, when you look at what happened at the bataclan where the concert was going on. Four terrorists walk in with suicide vest, instead of detonating those vests, they took time to shoot people almost on an individual basis, reloading and shooting more. They only detonated the vests when confronted by police. An unusual tactic. Terrorism is about striking fear in the hearts of people. Thats what this looks like. Reporting said they sat people down systematically shooting them in the back of the head one after the other. Coming from inside. We heard people ask police to come storm the theater. This is the terror. This is the scene people hear about. The catastrophe in slow motion, almost. The systematic approach here that they utilized causes serious concern. Mike, i want to go back to something you said in terms of not being able to detect apparently the coordinated and planned attack like this was in the offing. Does that suggest to you that these terrorist cells or groups are somehow able to be on a different side of the internet . We hear about the dark internet and we talk about encryption. Have they advanced to where it is harr for authorities to pick up that chatter . The general matter, absolutely. The commercial encryption available around the world today makes it easier for bad people like these to communicate. What we dont know is if they we will see these individuals had deep ties to france. The selection of the targets, the understanding of how this would strike the french soul. These are not people who just showed up in paris. These are people who lived there, understand french culture and who knew exactly how to terrorize the population. Michael and sean, thank you very much for your input. We appreciate it. President Francois Hollande spoke by phone to president obama. He spoke about bringing the terrorists to justice. Lets get to nbcs Peter Alexander on duty at the white house this morning. Peter. Reporter good morning, savannah. President obama condemned the attacks calling them heart breaking to terrorize innocent civilians. I spoke with one of the top aides this morning. He says the white house is monitoring the developments from paris. The president is getting updates from his Homeland Security and during that call with french president hollande late yesterday, president obama reiterated the u. S. Support for the people of france. Americas oldest ally and punctuated the statement he delivered in the Briefing Room friday night. In is an attack not just on paris, but it is an attack not just on the people of france, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share. We stand prepared and ready to provide whatever assistance that the government and people of france need to respond. Reporter at the end of their call, president obama and president hollande pledged to Work Together. The two leaders spoken hours before yesterdays attack discussing this weekends g20 meeting of World Leaders taking place in turkey. Global terrorism will rise to the top of the agenda there. At this time, aides confirm president s plans to travel out this afternoon. Matt and savannah. Peter alexander, thanks. We are hearing harrowing stories of survival. She was eating at Le Petite Cambodge when the attacks took place. Charlotte, how are you . Im trying to get over this issue of shock. We were eating at the restaurant and heard huge explosions. We all hit the floor immediately. Shards of glass coming in. We lay on the floor for Something Like a minute while we heard what sounded like them reloading guns and another round of gunshots coming in to the restaurant. I lay on the floor and grab hold of a woman next to me. As i was holding her hand and asked if she was okay, i looked up and realized she was shot in the chest and dying. She had a pool of blood around her. I realized the scale and severity of the shooting. You know, normally when you are inside a building and something happening, your inn instinct is to run out and escape. That is the opposite of what you could do in this situation. Yes. I believe they targeted the people who were sitting outside the restaurant. A number sitting outside. There were 12 People Killed at that particular venue. We didnt want to go outside in case they were still on the streets. Be indeed when we gathered ourselves up to flee, we were checking to see whether or not if we were in danger. Charlotte, what races through your mind . What races through your heart not sure of whats coming next . I think the first thing is just a sense it is not really happening to you. It doesnt seem real. I felt like i was watching myself on a screen and wasnt really present in the moment. It felt so unfathomable because it was hard to relate to anything you experienced. The minute i hit the floor and heard more gun shots, the first thing that came to my head was the Charlie Hebdo attacks. I wanted it to be over soon. Thank god for that. And those people in the bataclan you talk about the Charlie Hedbo attacks in january. What does it do to your way of life and perspective on your way of life in paris . I think that in relation to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, in general or for myself, people were feeling that the dust settled a bit. People were feeling things were starting to get back to normal. The attacks happened in january and they shook the world. We had a very strong public outcry afterwards. Paris felt united. This has come as a crushing blow. A real dagger to the hard for people of paris. Something i dont feel totally comfortable with and something i dont feel well be able to fully recover from. For being so articulate and explaining what you went through. Were happy you are okay and appreciate your time this morning. Thank you. Wow. With isis now claiming responsibility for the attacks, the question is how the u. S. And rest of the world will be responding. Andrea mitchell will cover this for us. Andrea, it does feel like a new day in terms of what isis is capable of. It feels like a new day if indeed this is isis as the french say. And u. S. Officials are saying today they cant confirm that yet. They do point to the french having access to the intelligence and now the Associated Press is saying French Police say they did find a syrian passport on one of the bodies of the bomers. If this is isis as sean and michael said, this is a new ability as coordination. This is not the lone wolf as you talked about earlier. The issue is how do you defend . There is no credible threat to the homeland. That is what they briefed congress to. To our homeland. If they did not detect this or isis could take down an airliner or could do the beirut bombings and now this in paris, if it turns out to be isis. How do we protect against isis in we dont know what to look for. And another part of this and i almost hesitate to say this, if this is isis, and you combine this with the russian jetliner, and you think about them trying to reach out whether online or in person to all of these disenfranchised readytobe radicalized muslims around world, the terms of propaganda and recruiting, they had an incredible two weeks. Extraordinary. We thought only 24 hours ago which we believe did take place, was going to offset in part in terms of americans and our hostages, offset the propaganda value of the Russian Airliner. This is paris. It feels because it is paris, our earliest ally, it feels closer to home. Now i think there is real concern that american intelligence is not up to this. And you will be covering in the next days, what will happen in terms of response, but the question i return to is how do you defeat an ideology . How do you defeat an idea . Just today, john kerry invienna meeting with the leaders and trying to discuss how to end the civil war in syria. Andrea, thank you. And much more on the subject. We will take a turn and get a a chill in the air for the eastern half of the country. Windy behind the cold front that moved through. It will be sunny, but temperatures will be significantly below average. With the clear skies near tennessee and parts of the south, we have frost advisories and freeze warnings in effect. Nashville at 32 degrees this morning. As we go through the weekend, this dip in the jet stream thats producing temperatures about 5 degrees below average will start to lift as we go into tomorrow. We turn winds over to a southwesterly direction. Temperatures in the mid60s for cleveland. That is 12 degrees above average. Elsewhere, it is quiet thanks to the High Pressure system. We have a big storm producing and thats your latest forecast. Matt and savannah. Thank you, dylan. We will have a lot more on the terror attacks in paris. The harrowing stories on survivors and how people are uniting. We will talk to someone in the concert hall who tells a terrifying story. We will continue to follow the breaking news. This is today on nbc. We are just getting our arms we will have some of the we are back. Its a saturday morning, 14th of november, 2015. The day after a horrific day in paris. This morning, isis is claiming it is responsible and the french president has said they believe it was isis. Organized from abroad. At least 127 people were killed in the highly coordinated attacks on six separate sites. Those numbers are fluid. They have been changing throughout the night. They will probably continue to change. Targets from restaurants to a soccer stadium to a crowded concert hall. This morning, security in france has been raised to the highest level. President hollande has declared three days of national mourning. Lets go to our correspondent in paris, nbcs keir simmons. Reporter savannah, less than 24 hours ago, chaos. Witnesses telling me people fleeing along the street. There is video of people which is just along the street here. Witnesses say they saw these shooters arrive inside the music hall and begin firing indiscriminately. Picking people off one by one. One witness said it lasted 10 minutes or 15 minutes. He said they reloaded three or four times. It was one point they reloaded and he managed to escape the music hall. He saw people covered in blood in the streets. He managed to carry a girl to a cab and told the driver to get her to hospital. Then he got texted from his friends inside that they were trped. Another woman saying she hid underneath the body and the shooters shot her in the foot. Terrifying scene. There was just in the other direction, the restaurant and bar, shooters opened fire on the restaurant goers. Describing young men who came in seeming calm and methodical and using grenades. One of the shooters in the streets, we hear blew himself up and wearing suicide vests. Their final act was to kill themselves and more innocent people in paris. Keir simmons on the streets of paris this morning, thank you. He just showed a piece of video in his spot of the scene on the street behind him at the bataclan at the theater where the concert was taking place and the people streaming out. Its even more stirring if you listen to that video and the audio attached to it. Here it is. [ yelling and screaming ] obviously the sounds of screaming and panic and gunshots in the distance. Julian pierce was inside the i want to set this up for people. You are actually calling in from a Police Station where you are being questioned, is that correct . Yes, this is correct. They just want to know what i have seen and give a Short Description of the terrorists i have seen. You were inside that venue for an agonizingly long period of time. I heard you describe seeing the terrorists and hear them reload their