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anyone to come to this country that we cannot vet to make sure that they are not radical islamic terrorism. >> the last thing we need, my friends, are leaders who incite more fear. and terror becomes the focus on the campaign trail, as voters in three states head to the polls. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, the latest announcement from isis following the brussels bombings is a dire threat, promising what is coming is worse and more bitter. yesterday's deadly bombings rattled europe and shut down the belgian capital. two men believed to have been suicide bombers. they were brothers known to police. police are looking for the third man wearing the hat who was being sought before yesterday's
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last year's paris attacks. three bombs killed at least 31 people and injured about 250 others. the first victim to be identified is ruiz of peru. she was at the airport with her husband and her twin daughters. johnathan vigliotti begins our coverage from brussels. >> reporter: brussels airport remains closed for the second day in a row. the city of brussels, though, is slowly coming back to life. we have been garbage trucks taking their daily routes and we have seen cars on the streets and people walking on the sidewalks and buses packed with people heading to work. much different scenario what unfolded yesterday where a block away from the train station that came under attack. you can see it is still closed, but police here on the scene, as they continue their investigation. all of this unfolding, of course, as police continue their search for at least one suspect that remains at large.
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>> reporter: passengers ran in panic after a bomb exploded in the departures area of brussels international airport tuesday morning. a second blast followed. >> it was very loud. it was not something that sat on the ground or something. it was -- you felt kind of shocked. >> reporter: belgian police say these are the suspects. investigators believe the two men in black blew themselves up. they wore gloves that may have hid detonators and a hundred for the man in white wearing a hat. an hour later, a bomb tore through a subway station that serves the european parliament. >> we received a big blast of air and the train stopped. >> reporter: people scrambled through the dark tunnels to safety. belgian security forces have been conducting raids here in brussels and one of them, investigators say they found an explosive device with nails, chemicals, and an isis flag. americans are among the injured. one of the blasts at the airport
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bellin to the ground. the belgian businessman played basketball in michigan. his father spoke to his son on the phone. >> he saw people dead and people dying, so that -- i'm sure that will stay with him for the rest of his life. >> reporter: belgian's prime minister warned more attacks could be coming. he has called for three days of official mourning. the u.s. state department has issued a travel advisory for all of europe, warning u.s. citizens to be vigilant. in brussels, johnathan vigliotti, cbs news. the attack in brussels came just days after the arrest of salah abdeslam, the suspected chief planner of those events. during the raid that netted abdeslam, authorities announced they were looking for another man, najim laachroui. we know he is linked to tuesday's attacks.
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allen, authorities are aware of the three men they found on surveillance building they knew about the two men and the bomb maker. what can you tell us about these three men? >> reporter: well, the two men who were seen in the video believed to be the suicide bombers were known to the belgian police but the police said no link to terrorism. however, laachroui is another case altogether. apparently, his dna was found in an apartment used by the paris attackers. he is directly linked to that. they think he may well be the master bombmaker. he traveled to hungary last year with salah abdeslam to paris for the terrorist attacks there. authorities are arriving here to work with their european counterparts, specifically to look at the bomb and how it was made, because the more they found out about the specifics of
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went into it, the more clues it gives them as to who id it and they can trace back perhaps to where he got the bits' pieces but it's a long, slow process. >> since friday, belgium has been on high alert but they weren't able to stop what happened yesterday. i'm wondering if the people of brussels are beginning to lose faith in the fact that authorities may or may not be able to protect them? >> i think that would be a natural thing, although people here do realize also this is a very difficult thing to do. you simply can't find everybody all the time. it's interesting. i was here after the paris bombings and this city was on a stage iv alert level and streets were closed and no public transportation was available here. and today behind there is lots of traffic and kid are going to school and public transport, with the exception of the line that was bombed, is open and running.
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cautious and they, obviously, want their political and security people to get a handle on this, but i think europe is becoming attuned to the idea it's going to happen. you're not going to be able to stop it all and it can take all of the sensible precaution they can and get on with life and that is the way that you kind of hit back at them. now there will be a minute of silence here today, later on in the morning, to honor those who were killed but then people will get right back to business. they are nervous, but they are not running scared. >> we saw that in paris and i guess we're seeing it now in brussels. allen pizzey, thank you very much. dozens of americans were caught in the chaos of tuesday's attacks. it's unclear whether any u.s. citizens were killed or how many were hurt. but some who survived the attacks are sharing their stories, while others are waiting word from their loved ones. >> i was in line to check in and she was sitting in the seat with her husband waiting for me to finish. [ inaudible question ]
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>> reporter: the family of justin and stephanie schultz haven't heard from the couple since the attack in the brussels they were dropping off stephanie's mother at the airport when the terrorists struck. justin's brother says the state department told his family, the tennessee couple is not on a casualty list. >> this is a picture of them running through the airport after the blast. >> reporter: quinnipiac university students here were in the airport for about ten minutes before the blast went off. after flagging down a car outside the airport, the students spent the night at a u.s. embassy worker's home and say they are continuing their trip through europe. >> she is telling us she is planning on continuing her trip because if she doesn't, they win! so she's going. >> reporter: three american mormon missionaries were hurt in the airport explosions. it was not the first brush of
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19-year-old mason wells was a block away from the finish line at the 2013 boston marathon when a bomb went off and he was at his home mission at paris when last year's attacks happened. missionaries joseph empey says he is in good spirits. >> we love him a lot and excited to see him again and hope he gets all the way better. >> the defense department says an air force family of six were some some were hurt at the the unidentified air force service member is stationed at a base in the netherlands. homeland security chief jey johnson says no incredible intelligence pointing to an attack in the u.s. but the brussels bombings stepped up security in this country. extra security was deployed at major airports and transit hubs across the u.s. security officials are considering additional screening for air travelers coming from belgium into the u.s. president obama is in argentina this morning and arrived in buenos aires
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after ending his historic trip to cuba. before leaving, havana, he attended a baseball game between the tampa bay rays and the cuban national team. the president was asked if he would skip the game, given the attacks in belgium. >> they can't defeat the world. they can't produce anything. they don't have a message that appeals to the vast majority of muslims or the vast majority of people around the world. what they can do is scare and make people afraid. and disrupt our daily lives and divide us. and as long as we don't allow that to happen, we are going to be okay. >> mr. obama said the brussels attack is the latest example of why the entire world must unite to fight terrorism. cbs news coverage of the attacks in brussels continues on "cbs this morning." we have a team of correspondents in europe. plus a look at the security status in the u.s.
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white house, where, this morning, both front-runners maintain comfortable lead but they failed to dominate yesterday's race. donald trump easily won the republican primary in arizona. and all of its 58 delegates. but ted cruz scored a key victory winning utah's gop caucus and appears to be on track to take all 40 of its delegates, slowing trump's efforts to get enough delegates to clench the nomination. on the democratic side, bernie sanders won the idaho and utah caucuses where there was such a huge turnout that voters had to photo copy fresh ballots but hillary clinton easily won the arizona primary. talk of the attack in brussels and how to respond to isis dominated the campaign trail. don champion has that part of the story. >> anywhere where there is a local of radicalization and
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terrorism, we need law enforcement resources directed there and national security resources directed there. the object to is to keep everybody safe. >> reporter: ted cruz the united states needs a president to stand up to its enemies and donald trump agreed. trump insisted the u.s. should scale back its commitment to nato and suggested that the belgium attack could have been prevented if torture was used on last year's paris attack. >> he'll talk a lot faster with torture. if he would of talked, you might not have had to blow up all of these people dead and all of these people horribly wounded. >> reporter: last night, hillary clinton said now is not the time to panic. >> we can't throw out everything we know about what works and what doesn't and start torturing people. what donald trump, ted cruz, and others are suggesting is not only wrong, it's dangerous. >> reporter: and bernie sanders said america should not isolate
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>> we will destroy isis through a coalition in the middle east, led by the muslim nations themselves. >> reporter: this morning the nation's largest muslim civil rights condemned cruz's call for surveillance, saying it sends an alarming message to muslims. hillary clinton will give a speech on counterterrorism later today in california. >> thank you, don. coming up on the "morning news." presidential politics gets personal. gop front-runner donald trump threatens to spill the beans on the wife of ted cruz. plus the unusual effort to get a man hurling pine cones down from a tree. this is the "cbs morning news."
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the country. dry woodlands are posing a challenge for firefighters this morning in northwest oklahoma. they are battling a grass fire that stretches for 20 miles. the flames have jumped across the state border into kansas. the brussels attack sent airline and travel-related stocks lower in u.s. markets. the airport bombs highlight concerns about security at airports. americanairlines and delta both fell in trading tuesday. cruise operators royal caribbean and carnival were both down, and so were travel websites, priceline and speedia. cities are paying tribute to brussels bombings. eiffel tower was lit up in the belgium flag on tuesday in .
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new york's union square. >> we are here to show that even if we are far away from belgium, we think about belgian people and we are with them for this event. >> the empire state building went dark and the spire of one world trade center turned black, yellow, and red. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," republican candidate ted cruz. this is the "cbs morning news." flonase controls six. and six is greater than one. flonase changes everything. our clothes can stretch out in the wash, ruining them forever. protect your clothes from stretching, fading, and fuzz. ...with downy fabric conditioner... it helps protect clothes from the damage of the wash. so your favorite clothes stay your favorite clothes. downy fabric conditioner.
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from miami-dade, broward and the keys this is cbs 4 news . thank you for joining us. we also have john gerard here with our weather. it was about 10 degrees warmer this morning are -- than yesterday. >> if you walk out the door this morning, you don't need a sweater or the jacket.
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we did have a few sprinkles. as the wind has now switched to the east. nothing really measurable in terms of rain that would slow you down and look at the difference. low to mid 50s and today, we start off at 71 in miami and 70 in fort lauderdale. 80 at 2 o'clock and 78 80 at 2 o'clock and 78 x 6. that's a quick check of your weather. it's not bad around dade county. all is clear. no problems, no headaches. we do have some difficulties in broward county. you may want to use i-95 at griffin road as opposed to the turnpike. we have a crash on the turnpike just before hollywood boulevard. a couple of left lanes are blocked and on the south side,

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