CHAOS IN FRANCE – AT 8:58 A.M. ET:  There is chaos in Paris this morning.  There are two hostage situations.  This is incomplete, from CNN:

Dammartin-en-Goele, France (CNN)Two intense standoffs with gunmen were underway in and around Paris early Friday afternoon -- one involving the two brothers wanted in the Charlie Hebdo massacre and the other a hostage situation at a kosher grocery store near eastern Paris' Porte de Vincennes.

It was not immediately known if the two situations were related, but both underscored France's nightmare and anti-terrorism fight.

UPDATE:  It is now believed the two are related.  The two perps in the grocery store are believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of a policewoman yesterday, and, in turn, to be linked with the perpetrators of the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

The hostage situation spurred police anti-terror units and the French internal security directorate, known as the DGSI, to race to the scene in eastern Paris, the city's prosecutor's office said. Hostages were taken after a shooting there or nearby.

CNN affiliate France 2 aired live video of police tactical teams getting into position at the scene of the standoff.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officers had also surrounded a building about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast in the town Dammartin-en-Goele.

Authorities have expressed a high degree of certainty that they have surrounded the Kouachi brothers -- the suspects in Wednesday's killing of 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo -- in Dammartin-en-Goele, which is northeast of Paris and a few miles from Charles de Gaulle Airport. Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre Henri Brandet tweeted that it's not confirmed whether or not the brothers are holding anyone hostage.

COMMENT:  This is developing.  Both Fox and CNN are covering live, continuous.

January 9,  2015