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Phone. and then it just continued to keep going and going and going. but nobody was doing anything at the mandalay bay. everybody was just keep of standing there. the taxi in front of me, they weren't doing much of anything. and they -- you know, nobody was doing anything. i decided to get out and go check it out and the doorman wasn't doing anything. and then if i fellow taxi drivers on our dispatch radio started saying, hey, they're shooting at the mandalay bay. everybody get out of there. and i looked at the mandalay bay and i looked at the val a and there wasn't anything going on. everybod...

They can. below, of course, is the las vegas strip. we are on one end of the strip. if you know mandalay bay is on one end and the strip moves forward. for hours now, the only cars you will see on these streets are police cars or ambulances. maybe the occasional fire truck down below right now. we do see some metro buss and do know that buses have been used to try to move people out of this area. mika? >> joe fryer, thank you very much. lot of reporters in place there, covering o.j., the release of o.j. simpson from prison. we're awaiting an update from the las vegas police department from a...

Since nearly the beginning. can you give us a sense sofr what's going on? >> reporter: that's right. right now it does appear more relaxed. having said that, we just saw, for example, several soldiers walking past here. it's completely surreal for many of the residents here. no public transportation. then to see soldiers walking down, patrolling down your street in paris. now, in terms of what happened, 4:30 in the morning is when the operation appears to have started. residents woke up to the sound of automatic gunfire and an explosion. two sustained vollies of automatic gunfire. we arrived s...

And they have been waiting, certainly, many of the citizens of france, to know that this current danger is over and under control because there have been these terrorists at large ever since friday. the mastermind and the chief operators of this cell. so, do you know, have the police said anything, about some kind of explosion that went off inside the apartment, as it was under siege? there are obviously reports of what it may be, that a woman may have killed herself. do you know anymore? >> reporter: police have not given us any details, specifically about that initial operation, how it start...

Detonating a suicide vest, another we believe was killed by a police sniper. there have been reports unconfirmed of a passer-by killed, too. on the other side, five, five policemen were injured. remember, what happened is abhour long storming of the apartment where it is believed possibly the mastermind of the paris attacks had been hold up, led to a lot of firing and explosions, ak-47 fire, automatic gunfire from the police, woke up the whole town here. since then it has been relatively quiet since we've been here, about 5 minutes, the only sound that we heard was one eye rehn about five minu...