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Flack jackets, helmets, and armed with machine guns. we've just become used to it. we've let -- we've let it become the norm. and it's not the norm. we have to get -- we have to back up and realize this is not normal. >> eric, music heals. how do we move forward? how can music help with this? >> first of all, open-air concerts you're asking for trouble. any guy who has ill feelings in his heart towards gatherings of people, the open-air concert is just handing him a shooter's gallery on a platter. and a lot of damage can be done.

To wonder, do you think this will affect the music world? people actually going to concerts? >> well, it's certainly affected many since my last gig in paris when i was backstage and confronted by a troop of military in flack jackets and machine guns, plus 20 police and then later on, after the show, i was talking to the promoteer, and he said i love you and music is my life, but i can't keep on doing this because i have to pay for all this security and that amount of security doesn't come cheap. so obviously i have to look at that and think, wow. it's just going to be the last this happens, n...

What do we know they netted out of the raids? >> well, flack jackets, military clothing, rocket-propelled launchers, and they are taking dozens of people into custody for questioning, but no indication that these people have been charged or arrested. but it does seem to being something that the french president indicates is going the go forward and in fact, a new amendment under the french constitution to make this process more easier for the security services to do. he talked a tb possibility -- he talked about the possibility of something used in britain, control orders. when you have a terr...

Masked, but wearing flack jackets and carrying semiautomatic weapons. the words that i told you about what they were screaming remain and one of them somehow@@ was incapacitated during all of this. i don't know how that person was incapacitated or killed but by the time the authorities stormed the place they were down to two of them. young men carrying automatic weapons. wearing flack jackets reloading repeatedly. and we still have this report of somebody with a pump shotgun action which that's from earlier. could that have been this third person? i do not know. i can tell you that the reports...

With our lives. they are happy to defend themselves with their life. >> reporter: after there, that's the yemeni border post. here with the border guards a few months ago, we doesn't quit to wear the flack jackets and helmets. now they say the situation has changed. it's a lot more dangerous. army tanks have been brought in to back them up. >> one of the units belongs to the army. one tank. it's in case of any mortars from the other side. >> reporter: this is a half mile to the border. >> yeah. >> reporter: they're very close here. no sign here of an impending saudi ground force invasion. but ...