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Breaking news in paris where police have a number of suspects pinned down in a building in a suburb known as st. denis. this raid has been on going for about two hours. as well as explosions, also reports of a helicopter is in the air. the area has been cordoned off, public transport has been cut off as well. these are live pictures, too, coming to us from bfmtv, our affiliate there. you can see the police in full riot gear as they cordon off this area a. >> right there in st. denis, the equivalent of a s.w.a.t. team

Whether or not if indied it turns out to be any of those involved in the attack, whether or not there was some kind of safe house there, whether or not they might have been operating from that area. at this point in time, still in the early stages, that raid still going on. and apparently gun fire still going on. so quite early to tell at this point in time. it appears as though the manhunt part of the investigation appears to be going back here to paris. and we're going to wait and see how this unfolds over the next minutes and the next hours, john. >> okay, fred, thank you for that. while yo...

We have to improve our interagency system to get better detect of jihadists. that's the problem. >> reporter: i'm told that u.s. law enforcement here in france is cooperating very closely with french intelligence providing any help that they ask for but also a focus of u.s. law enforcement here and certainly back in the u.s. is a threat of isis to the u.s. homeland and i'm told that threat is not only aspirational but u.s. counterterrorism officials believe there is plotting under way for attacks on the u.s. it's a threat, wolf, that they are taking very seriously. >> i know that for a fact my...

Police say mostefai had a criminal record, radicalized. but had never been accuse of terrorism. amimour was the subject of an international arrest warrant and placed under supervision after traveling to yemen in 2012. the second suspect detonated his bomb. the paris prosecutors office has identified the attacker as a 31-year-old french citizen but hasn't disclosed his name. sources tell cnn it was 31-year-old ibrahim,abdeslam. according to multiple sources abdeslam rented a black car authorities say was used in a string of deadly attacks on rest rans and bars on friday. that car was later foun...

Information about the terrorists. tell us what you've learned. >> reporter: well, wolf, we heard from eyewitnesss of the attacks of how some of the gunmen seemed to act in a professional military trained manner, the way they changed magazines and fired into the crowd indicated a level of military training. some information we're uncovering now about some attackers show according to some sources that as many as six of them may have been to syria, may have got their training there. this is what we're learning. eight suspects, seven of them now dead, according to cnn's french affiliate bfm tv. si...