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And reports out of australian papers this morning reporting that the hostages are actually being allowed to keep their telephones. they are allowed to text the conditions. some texting that the situation is dire and they need to get out as soon as possible. but there is no doubt there's been a concerted effort to get information out from inside the chocolate store. the propaganda out of the situation in there and with the hostage reportedly -- or actually, the kidnapper reportedly telling one news anchor that he was in part doing this because the news coverage of isis has been unfair to date. ...

A chocolate store in sydney. prime minister abbott is not confirming in this is politically motivated. people were seen the windows holding a black flag with arabic text. more later as we have it. for now, "pot barons of colorado." for the pot barons the banking crisis is problem number one. whatever colorado might say, the feds say marijuana is illegal and the banks answer to them. so banks don't handle marijuana accounts. and that's not likely to change without an act of congress. >> that's the best you might ever encounter. >> all right. >> yesterday it was crazy.

We saw people bleeding. it was unlike anything i had ever seen before. >> how quick was the response? how quickly were those people cared for? >> that's something that i had the opposite reaction of those people. most people were running. i just for whatever reason, i just stayed exactly where i was. smast something that will stick with me more than anything else. >> jackie, you're seven months pregnant. you've been having a tough time. how close were you when the bombs went off? >> luckily i had been on the corner of boylston and i was being pushed. i was already scared. >> just because of th...

I don't know whether the australian leadership will not call this a terrorist attack. we saw the flag that this man was flying inside that chocolate store. it's pretty obvious to me it's terrorism. it's driven by radical islamic jihadism and it has come to our shores before and so even more proof that they're not going to stop, whether it's the united states or other countries that continue to fight against isis and radical islam. >> just a point about the flag, that is not of the islamic state, the isis grup but a flag that you see in many places. if you colored it green, you would see it in ...

>> he bought the chocolate store where he once worked. a move up the ladder that would surely please his mom. >> our on-campus reporter marlei martinez has the sweet story. >> reporter: ryan novak is far from your average college student. he wakes up at 5:30 every morning to get ready for class and work. on top of studying, going to classes and spending time with his girlfriend, novak owns and operates his own business, the chocolate pizza company. >> when i was very little, my mom and i would go across the street to the chocolate pizza company which then was located right next to our house. w...