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Side door of the cafe and now we believe there are ten still left inside. at this current time, they are huddled in one corner of the cafe below the window level possibly trying to get sleep right now. we saw before the light faded completely the gunman allowed food to be brought in and that was being distributed to the hostages. now it is in complete darkness. gunman turned the lights out inside the cafe. it's too dark from our position to see anything much at all in there now. the police are still gathering at the sides of the building and it's a watch and wait brief. >> all right. chris rea...

Watching. and that's how you get the leverage from the lone wolf acting out there and having a global effect. and i think we have to be careful of responding to the threat posed by one guy acting alone in a small cafe and letting it infuse us with terror that's the objective of attacks like this. >> joe scarborough, jump in. >> chris reason, let's go back to you. you go back and report for your own channel. we thank you so much for being with us. as you are right across the street from the hostage taking scene, for american viewers just waking up this morning, can you set the scene for us befo...

By doing that. but there's a little bit of detail about what can be seen at this time in the siege. >> that was before they evacuated the network and -- >> well, actually, what they have done is i think the timing on that is that they did evacuate the network and the police took over that building because it is line of sight directly across from the coffee shop. chris mentioned right at the end they did allow them back in to make that report. >> i see. >> but hundreds of people who work at channel 7 in that building. most of those people, pretty much all of them had in fact been evacuated. we ...

Happening inside the cafe where the five escaped. because you could see the gunman suddenly become very agitated. he started shouting at that time remaining hostages, we don't know what he was saying. he was telling them to stop still, not move. it was an extremely tense situation. at the end of the day the ceo of lindt chocolate had thought there were 50 people, 5-0, from where he would have been in this privileged position, we counted some 15 faces so far, five escaped, obviously. so we think there is only around ten left in there. there is a variety of demographic, old, young, some professi...

Bombs in the store and two in the banking district according to local media reports. that's coming from international business times. the hostage taker referring to himself as "the brother." mika, it's fascinating. obviously things work differently in australia than they do in the united states where they have the identity of the gunman and have information. chris reason reporting. doing remarkable work for channel 7 there in sidney. saying that when we find out details about the hostage taker, it will be fascinating information. i'm not exactly sure what that means. obviously the police know ...