Our thank you Anderson, I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

It's 3 a.m. in Paris where Notre Dame de Paris, our lady of Paris, sits ravaged by fire.

13 million a year come to her, one of the most recognizable symbols of Christianity and aspirational

symbol really that with stood centuries. This may be her biggest test. We have new info on what

happened and when and how. But the story is really about what happens next and I think it matters

more than anything else that we're waiting on later this week or arguing about in the moment.

There's much to be said, understood and done. So what do you say? Let's get out.

It's in Paris obviously, with those aren't just parisians. It's a Catholic

place of worship obviously, but those aren't just Catholics singing. This is something that

affects people the world over. 856 years of history and so much more up in flames. All over the

world, hearts are broken, lovers of the arts and architecture, people with memories of all inspiring

images and of course there are the believers, Christians especially Catholics starting the most

important week of the year. Rebirth and renewal, the ritual of loss and redemption are now literally

being tried by fire. This is the image, the spire of this magnificent cathedral consumed by what

looked like hellfire, a powerful, painful image, one so many will never forget. And yet it could

have been worse. One firefighter was seriously hurt. We're told that 400 were battling. These are

very difficult conditions. We're going to learn more about that tonight. How hard this challenge

was, thank God more people weren't hurt. Thank God we're not talking about this measuring it in

terms of human cost. That place is a crucible of stone acting as an oven really for all inside.

Would lucky it wasn't Palm Sunday, that there wasn't a mass or a massive tour going on at the same

time. So here's where things stand. The source of the inferno is unknown. It could be linked to

renovation work to fix the cathedral's historic stone walls and buttresses. That would not be

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