and i approve this message. ♪ it is thursday, march 24th. coming up on "early today," more connections between the paris and brussels attacks as the man hunt continues for the hat man in white. president obama speaking out against isis as the candidates attack the commander and chief. and the spouses of donald trump and ted cruz are dragged into the the mudslinging. with over 10 million people in the path of winter. and incredible news on women's salaries. and a rare tango with president obama. "early today" starts right now. good morning everybody and thanks for joining us today. the intense man huntn

continues to focus on the missing suspect. seen here wearing a hat and light colored coat. he was originally thought to be a bomb maker but he's been confirmed as the man on the lee suicide attackers that airport. and in the middle, ibruham and his brother khaled was the suicide attacker on the metro. bru brussels is the work of the same cell in the paris attacks. and what are you hearing there? >> reporter: good morning. the investigators are trying to figure out who that third person at the airport was and his face was dark, a dark blue hat with big glasses. he's still on the loose and of course, war -- the authorities and the

o nevertheless defiant of a new terror attack. and you can see behind me there's some kind of shrine that the people built yesterday. they gather here to improvise some vigil memory of the victims and they drew a lot of messages on the pavement and they were in memory, in solidarity with the victims families and in defiance of the face of terror. there was a big writing in the center of the square saying life here continues. saying that they are not being put away from the fear of a new terror attack. they're just continuing as normal. you can see them walking past me. the shops are open and they say this is the only way to show they're defiant in the face of this terror threat. >>

they're trying to do. thank you so much for that report. and the head of the center of hate and extremism. thanks for joining us bright and early there. the brothers, they were crimina. how did they slip through the cracks? >> when you have a turkey and the president there talking about this, it says that there's a problem, not with intelligence but with the sharing of intelligence and one of the problems with respect to belgium is it's a divided country. different languages, the french speaking and the dutch speaking and you have a lot of local administrative regions. in addition, they are overwhelmed. belgium

proportion of foreign fighters who go off to syria, iraq and then come back. >> why is belgium becoming such a breeding ground for these extremists? >> great question. just with respect to the other question. i think there's a problem with prioritizing investigations. even if you're overwhelmed, you can prioritize and if other governments tell you suspected terrorists are backing your country, you should make them on the top echelon of who you're looking at. about 40/50 years ago, many immigrants came to work in the mining industry. when that collapsed, they were quite poor and disenfranchised and that enabled folks to do was to go in and radicalize them. there was a group called sharia for bum

of a british model and they radicalized quite a few people and they were perhaps the biggest feeders to isis. they weren't isis but they radicalized thoem and the leade, a 32-year-old belgium was just convicted last year and sentenced to 12 years in prison. >> thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate your insight. >> the belgium terror attacks have the presidential candidates saying the president is not doing enough. and president obama defended his strategy. andrea mitchell reports. >> reporter: the president called isis vicious killers but not a threat to the u.s. >> they don't produce anything. they're not an egzu stengsal threat to us. >> reporter: campaign a leading wedge issue. a majority of rub

one concern. and donald trump renewing his call to ban muslims and torture terror suspects. ted cruz calling for surveillance of muslim neighborhoods in the u.s. the president taking that on a day after leaving cuba. >> i just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of senator cruz escaped for america. >> reporter: cruz, lashing back. >> and we have seen president obama's weakness and appeasement give rise to radical islamic terrorism. >> reporter: hillary clinton trying to portray herself as the grown up. >> when republican candidates like ted cruz call for treating american muslims like criminals, it's wrong, counterproductive, it's dangerous. >> in this political season, it seems nothing is

bars between the two top rivals dives deeper into the personal. and ted cruz and donald trump each crying foul on the other. and here more on the increasingly nasty rivalry. >> reporter: this racy antitrump ad meant to turn off utah mormons now turning attention to the tone of the gop race. meet milania trump, it says, your next first lady or you could support ted cruz on tuesday. >> that was completely inappropriate. >> reporter: the image was created by an outside stop trump group but that didn't stop trump himself that he would quote spill the beans about wife heidi. >> there are a lot of things that donald trump and his campaign say that have no basis in reality. >> reporter: and cruz tweeting back with the #classless. >>

league. >> reporter: trump accusing cruz of lifting lines. >> because sidney ellen wade is way out of your league. >> reporter: is anything off limits anymore? >> i think it's always nasty but this year is extraordinarily nasty. >> reporter: liz mayor created the ad featuring the former model. >> reporter: i'm there are line shouldn't cross. >> we shouldn't attack each other's spouses, or children. >> reporter: hoping to set the rules in a race that doesn't seem to have any. and in the there's this. move over kim kardashian. president obama just broke the internet by dancing the tango last night. during a state visit in

he's northwestitwisting and twi dance partner and michelle obama was also twisting a tango. a dramatic scene in florida to show you in a car and a ceptic tanker truck crash under to each other wednesday morning. >> can you hear me? can you crawl this way? crawl this way. >> deputies frantically tried to rescue a woman in a burning car. it took them nearly three minutes, yelling several times and suffering minor burns, they were heroically pilling that woman to safety. across the country we're seeing wild weather in colorado. at least a thousand flights were canceled at denver international airport.

officials say some areas could see up to 18 inches of snow. so much for spring. and in northwest missouri, snow expected to hit overnight and texas experiencing the storm with hail plummeting into this pool. i don't know if we want to see anymore. >> that storm is now located over iowa. we have heavy snow, drifting snow. from raw chester to lacrosse to green bay, that's who is in that heavy snow ban into northern michigan over the day. and as far as additional snowfall, we could ad up to a foot of snow northern michigan, only another three to six inches in green bay, oshkosh,

anothtather inch or two. we did see storms go through dallas. overnight the storms heading towards houston this moing. and areas round little rock. we're going to reenergize the storms pm about 10 million people at risk in the yellow. that's where the isolated chance of a tornado too. wind damage is the greatest threat from nashville down to mobile. and warm air from d.c., northern new england is rainy and temperatures chilly in the 30s and 40s. now a closer look at your day ahead. so you can see beautiful weather throughout richland and pennsylvania. even thunderstorms as far north as detroit and cleveland. and chance of veer storms and damaging winds. typical

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it's been a busy morning. two breaking stories. one in fairfax county where a barricade situation has just ended and then also police are investigating a homicide. good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm erika gonzalez. first we want to check in with amelia segal. >> most of us in the activities rig 50s right now. we're in for another spectacular day. temperatures running about 20 degrees above normal. we will start off with pe

by about 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. back up near 60 especially in the district. and 11:00 a.m., we're up to a mild 66 as you head out the door this morning. make sure to grab your sunglasses and short sleeves for the kids. now, very dry air over the area leading to some brush fire concerns. that was the case yesterday. take, as well. and you're seeing that cause some issues on marc. big problem on marc last night for a lot of folks. took a lot of folks to get home because of problems on the cka camden line. so taoday camden only lanes tha will run is 845, 846. 395 south after seminary, two left lanes getting by the work zone. big look at the beltway, you can see everything is rolling along just fine. 270 at falls road, also

problems. i'm kristen wright at the live desk. breaking news first, some sort of situation involving police, a standoff in northern virginia, we have video in from overnight to show you. it happened in springfield. a lot of police activity. police serving a warrant apparently when a vehicle came toward an officer and hit one of their cruisers. this information coming from twitter from the fairfax county police department. police say they found two people in a car that had been shot. so a lot of questions to be answered. meagan fitzgerald is on her way there and we'll have more coming up. and another breaking story this time in prince george's county. police found a man dead near the intersection of iverson street and 28th avenue last night. this is off of branch avenue in hillcrest heights. officers tell us that shall be shot the victim. they're asking for tips and offering a reward for help solving this case. now to the latest

terror attacks in brussels. right now counterterrorism agents are in the middle of a manhunt for at least one more suspect in the attacks that killed at least 31 people and hurt hundreds on tuesday. evidence is building that these attacks are connected to the terrorist bombings in paris last fall. intelligence officials say one of the suicide bombers this this week made the bombs that were used in paris' november attack. and turkey flagged one of the tuesday attackers ibrahim el bakraoui at rests months ago. belgium officials found he had an extensive criminal history, but did not have any ties to can extremism. belgium officials facing criticism after el bakraoui was identified. according to the associated press, isis has september at least 400 militants to europe with orders to find right time,

terror attacks. >> and salah abdeslam is expected in court today to face charges for his role as the suspected mastermind of last year's pairs are attacks where more than 10 people were killed in november. u.s. intelligence officials say abdeslam escaped paris and was in brussels planning future attacks and trying to revive an isis cell in that will city. officials also say abdeslam's arrest friday may have pushed the terrorists in brussels to attacks sooner than planned. out of fear that authorities were closing in on them. and ahead we'll take you live to brussels for an update on the investigation plus we're learning more about the american couple and the confusion about their safety on social media. brush fires along the marc tracks may cause problems for your commute this morning. service on the camden line severely limited today. three rains, 6:10 and 8:00 a.m.