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Do we know if there is any american involvement in this? >> reporter: doesn't appear there is, leland. this all transpired in relative terms fairly quickly. the white house has been silent since the images of the security forces in sydney storming that cafe were beamed live. of course they don't want, officials here are not going to want to get out in front of the australian officials in announcing what has occurred and taking credit for the situation albeit from our own reporting and others without loss of life. the obama white house viewed this as terrorist incident clear from the get go as ...

Stay happy and healthy in their own home. ♪ heather: it is a very busy morning here and a very busy morning, evening overnight in sydney, australia, where an attack took place at sort of a cafe in the central business district, part of sydney, australia. this ending about an hour and 15

They are now also needing treatment. one block away though, this is where it all unfolding. there are ambulances on site. the riot squad, tactical police officers, it was an eerily calm night until about, oh, half an hour ago, when gunshots rang out across the city. we saw a male hostage run from the lindht cafe, 2:06 local time, one hour another group of hostages raced from the cafe shortly after. there was then the sound of gunshots, one after the other, a spray of bullets. police moved into, moved into the cafe and chocolate shop where multiple round of gunshots were fired. at least two hos...

Australia, is stuart cohen. can you confirm if some of the people inside have died and who they were? >> reporter: well at this point, heather, police are not obviously confirming. these are multiple media outlets reporting that a couple of people have died. reportedly the hostage-taker, man haron monis is one of the people dead. there are no names released and no official con firmmation from police. obviously in pictures from the siege, several people were being, seen being carried from the scene either on stretchers or in the harms of police and ambulance workers. at this point hard to say w...

Insane killer managed to get himself a, you know, a shotgun, my understanding that should have been banned. it pass part of the ban. leland: reporting has been it was a sawed off shotgun. after a couple massacres in australia, there was a massive gun control. a number of people turned in their weapons and didn't want them anymore. hailed by gun control advocates as the poster child for the way things should be. a number of folks said this is what should happen in the united states. ab, what does it say despite all the gun control they have in australia a guy with a sawed off shotgun walk into ...