French President Francois Hollande is expected to make a public statement in the next two hours.
ABC News' Alex Marquardt reports that life appears to be going back to normal in Dammartin-en-Goele, the scene of the first hostage situation. Traffic is now moving, and the school near the printing factory that was on lock down has now re-opened their shuttered windows.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told France 2, a local station, that Kouachi brothers did not know the owner of the printing factory was inside during the siege.
Cazeneuve said that the owner, Michel Catalano, was hiding when the suspected Charlie Hebdo attackers burst into the building.
Throughout the siege, the police knew the owner was in hiding but Said and Cherif Kouachi did not.
The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will be traveling to Paris with Attorney General Eric Holder to attend the an international security meeting with the French Interior Minister.
Holder and Mayorkas will travel to France on Sunday Jan. 11 and the meeting is set to cover "a range of shared security-related priorities," according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security.
The number of hostages that were killed in the grocery store standoff has now been revised and government officials confirm that four hostages were killed. With the dead suspect, that brings the total number of deaths at that site to five people.
Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet added that police did not initiate the raid, but responded when the Kouachi brothers came out of the building guns blazing.
A member of the branch of al Qaeda in Yemen has issued a statement to the Associated Press saying that the group directed the terror attack in France.
"The leadership of the AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully," the statement from the anonymous source read."
He told the wire service that Osama bin Laden had previously warned the Western world about "the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctities."
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued a joint intelligence bulletin today in the wake of the French terror attacks.
The documents says the "sophistication and timing of the attack indicates the attackers may have had military type training," according to a knowledgeable source.
The bulletin is going to be distributed to 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the U.S.
The Paris Public Prosecutor has revealed that the four dead hostages found in the kosher grocery store were killed before French police staged their assault.
