AGAIN STRUCK BY A WAVE OF SHOOTINGS, EXPLOSIONS AS WELL.

OF COURSE THE INFORMATION IS COMING OUT AS WE ARE RECORDING

THIS, THE INFORMATION WE HAVE IS PATCHY AND CHAOTIC BUT WE WILL

GIVE YOU AS MUCH AS WE CAN. WE ALSO HAVE SOME INITIAL

PHOTOGRAPHS FROM PARIS WHICH WE WILL SHOW YOU AS WELL.

TRAGICALLY, UP TO 60 ARE ALREADY DEAD ACCORDING TO A CNN

AFFILIATE IN THE REGION. THERE ARE REPORTS OF UP TO SIX

DISTINCT SHOOTING LOCATIONS, ALTHOUGH THERE IS A POSSIBILITY

THAT CERTAIN SHOOTERS MOVED FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER. SOME

ARE SAYING TWO SHOOTING LOCATIONS. ONE OF THE SITUATIONS

AS AT THE BATACLAN THEATER, AT LEAST 15 HAVE BEEN KILLED

ACCORDING TO THE AP. ANYWHERE FROM 70 TO 100 PEOPLE ARE BEING

HELD HOSTAGE BY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SIX TO EIGHT SHOOTERS.

THERE WERE ALSO THREE

EXPLOSIONS NEAR THE STADE DE FRANCE, THERE HAVE BEEN VINES

DURING THE SOCCER MATCH WHERE YOU CAN HEAR EXPLOSIONS IN THE

BACKGROUND. THE PRESIDENT WAS AT THE MATCH, HE HAS BEEN TAKEN

AWAY, AND THERE ARE SCATTERED REPORTS OF POLICE FIRING AT

CERTAIN ROOFTOPS IN THE 10TH DISTRICT, NEAR THE THEATER. AT

THIS POINT WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY SHOOTERS ARE OUT THERE, HOW

MANY MIGHT HAVE BEEN KILLED, INFORMATION IS PATCHY. THERE ARE

CONTRADICTORY REPORTS COMING IN FROM MULTIPLE MEDIA OUTLETS.

CONSIDERING THE RECENT HISTORY OF TERRORIST ATTACKS IN FRANCE,

THIS IS DISHEARTENING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN.

>>CNN'S JIM BITTERMANN, HE IS BASED IN PARIS, HE SAYS POLICE

ARE SHOOTING AT A ROOFTOP NEAR THE THEATER, THAT IS WHERE

HOSTAGES ARE BEING HELD.

>>I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER ñ- FIRST OF ALL, WE DON'T KNOW WHO

THE CULPRITS ARE YET AS WE RECORD TODAY. WHEN YOU ARE

WATCHING THIS YOU MIGHT ALREADY KNOW. UNDERSTAND THAT WE

RECORDED THIS ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN LOS ANGELES. OF

COURSE WHO IT IS MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE AS TO HOW YOU REACT,

I THINK -- BUT WE WANT TO BE TOUGH, I HEAR 60 DEAD IN PARIS,

I AM SHOCKED BY IT. THAT IS A BIG NUMBER, IT IS HORRIFIC.

JOHN EXPLAINED THE SHOOTINGS, BUT WHAT HAVE WE BEEN DOING? WE

WANT TO GET TOUGH, AFTER 9/11 AMERICA GOT TOUGH AND

OPENED UP A PANDORA'S BOX,

THAT CREATED ISIS. LET'S SAY THEY ARE

FUNDAMENTALIST MUSLIMS, WE ARE GOING TO GET TOUGH WITH THEM,

WHAT DO WE DO? OR THEY ARE CRAZY RIGHT WING SKINHEADS LIKE THE

GUY FROM NORWAY. WHICHEVER. PICK YOUR POISON. HOW DO WE GET

TOUGH WITH THEM? WHAT DO WE DO? DO WE KILL MORE OF THEM, DO WE

BOMB THEM? THE BOMBING HAS LED TO THIS. I'M NOT SAYING IT IS

OUR FAULT, I AM JUST SAYING THAT WHAT WE HAVE DONE HAS NOT

WORKED. IT IS NOT LIKE THERE IS LESS VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD, IT

IS NOT LIKE WE ARE SAFE. THERE ARE ATTACKS IN LONDON AND PARIS

AND THE U.S., EVERYWHERE. WHAT DO WE DO? I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE

GREAT ANSWERS. I THINK THE IDEA IS TO BE SMART, ATTACK THE

PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY DID IT, WHOEVER IT HAPPENS TO BE, AND

NOT ANY MORE THAN THAT, BECAUSE THAT CREATES BIGGER PROBLEMS.

BUT IT IS NOT AN EASY TASK.

>>I IMAGINE THAT IF THE WORLD WERE RUN SANELY THAT THE

RESPONSE WOULD BE THE WORLD COMING TOGETHER. AND IT WOULDN'T

BE VLADIMIR PUTIN RANDOMLY BOMBING ISIS EXCEPT PROBABLY NOT

ISIS, AND THAT THIS WOULD, AGAIN WITH SANE LEADERS, CAUSE THE

WORLD POWERS IN ADDITION TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BEARING THE BRUNT

OF ISIS'S ATTACKS, MUSLIM COUNTRIES, THAT THERE WAS A REAL

COALITION THAT WOULD COME TOGETHER AND DEAL WITH IT AS

ONE, INSTEAD OF WHAT I IMAGINE WILL BE SOMETHING ELSE,

SOMETHING MORE RANDOM AND HAPHAZARD.

>>BUT EVEN IN THAT INSTANCE OF THAT COALITION AND THAT COMING

TOGETHER, THE NATURE OF ISIL AND THE THREAT WE ARE SPECULATING

ABOUT IS SO FRAGMENTED AND FRACTURED THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE

TO ERADICATE. IT WOULD NECESSITATE SOMEONE ñ- IT

BECOMES A QUESTION OF, TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU ENGAGE WITH THESE

PEOPLE?

WE DON'T TALK TO TERRORISTS -- TO WHAT EXTENT IS IT

LEGITIMATE TO OPEN A DIALOGUE WITH TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS?

>>I DIDN'T MEAN, LIKE, A COALITION OF FORCES THAT GO

AND BOMB, I MEANT THAT THERE WAS A CLEAR INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS.

>>BUT MY QUESTION WOULD THEN BE, TO DO WHAT? AT THE MOMENT THERE

IS A CONSENSUS TO OBLITERATE, AND TO YOUR POINT IT IS NOT

MAKING A DIFFERENCE, IT IS JUST EXACERBATING.

>>THIS IS AN INTERESTING MOMENT IN TIME.

>>YOU ARE JUST PROTECTED BY THE RELATIVE DIFFICULTY IN

MAKING THE LINK.

>>A PIECE OF BREAKING NEWS HERE, FRAN«OIS HOLLANDE HAS CLOSED

FRANCE'S BORDERS.

>>STATE OF EMERGENCY.

>>DO WE HAVE ANY EVIDENCE THAT THEY CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE BORDERS?

>>THAT MIGHT BE JUST FROM STOPPING THEM FLEEING. BUT THAT

COULD BE A REACTION THAT FURTHER RADICALIZES MUSLIMS LIVING IN

FRANCE.