from charles de gaulle in paris to germany's frankfurt mein. terrorists have repeatedly demonstrated aviation remains an attractive target from the shoe bomb attack, to the underwear bomb, the multi-atlantic transatlantic bomb plot and the printer cartridge bomb plot. 250,000 people fly into the u.s. from foreign airports every day. former tsa chief john >> the evidence has always been as evidenced by the christmas day bomber and richard reid, the shoe bomber and other plots that foreign airports are perhaps not as security as u.s. airports. >> reporter: u.s. veteran security experts say the vulnerable between curbside check-in and the tsa checkpoint, exactly where the brussels airport bombers struck. >> you just don't have enough military or police in these areas to really show -- to force on a 24/7 basis. >> reporter: by a strange coincidence, the current tsa chief admiral peter nepinger was in brussels meeting with the european counterparts when the attack happened. homeland security is once again today reminding everyone at the airport who

heathrow, of course, in london, charles de gaulle, of course in paris, many of these airports are beefing up security understandably after this morning's incident. >> reporter: we're -- the belgian prime minister put out a statement confirming the morning. in the departure hall saying right now it's the possibility of a terror attack that is being investigated. in mention of possible attacks in downtown brussels but has been raised to 4, its highest alert level with an emphasis on transport hubs and nuclear confirmation at least one -- there was an explosion at one metro stop and there are reports from belgian media there were two others, as well. >> we'll give him a quick break and on the phone abc's consultant john cullen who is our terrorism consultant. john, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you. >> it would appear to be a worst nightmare playing out in belgium. >> yes, it appears things are not going in the right direction. if one explosion possibly could have been something that was un unrelated to terrorism but if the reports are true, that there are multiple explosions, taking p

heathrow, of course, in london, charles de gaulle, of course in paris, many of these airports are beefing up security understandably after this morning's incident. >> reporter: we're -- the belgian prime minister put out a statement confirming the explosions at the airport this morning. in the departure hall saying right now it's the possibility of a terror attack that is being investigated. in mention of possible attacks in downtown brussels but has been raised to 4, its highest alert level with an emphasis on plants as you just mentioned. confirmation at least one -- there was an explosion at one metro stop and there are reports from belgian media there were two others, as well. >> we'll give him a quick break and on the phone abc's consultant john cullen who is our terrorism consultant. john, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you. >> it would appear to be a worst nightmare playing out in belgium. >> yes, it appears things are not going in the right direction. if one explosion possibly could have been something that was un unrelated to terrorism but if the reports are true, that there

heathrow, of course, in london, charles de gaulle, of course in paris, many of these airports are beefing up security understandably after this morning's incident. >> reporter: we're -- the belgian prime minister put out a statement confirming the explosions at the airport this morning. in the departure hall saying right nowt's the possibility of a terror attack that is being investigated. in downtown brussels but has been raised to 4, its higigst alert level with an emphasis on transport hubs and nuclear plants as you just mentioned. confirmation at least one -- there was an explosion at one mqtro stop and there are reports from belgian media there were two others, as well. >> we'll give him a quick break and on the phone abc's consultant john cullen who is r terrorism consultant. john, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you. >> it would appear to be a worst nightmare playing out in belgium. >> yes, it appears things are not going in the ribht direction. if one explosion possibly could have been something that w un the reports are true, that there areultiple explosions, taking place in

i was chock -- talking with charles de gaulle this morning. it is not unusual. did hear that. it is not unusual, something we are hearing right now. ago, we started hearing more and more asset manager saying they were keeping and i'll gold. eye on gold. i sorry before the break that we saw the s&p turned slightly positive, but european stocks were firmly in the red following the tax in brussels. it appears -- the attacks in brussels. people heard a few mentioned reasons for buying gold. central-bank action around the world is ongoing. volatility is also another reason people mentioned. at least in equities, volatility has really calmed down. joe: in the gold side, would people have been looking at is what has been going on in the equities. you have had a lot volatility. things haven't it's a great. people are saying, you know what, maybe it is time to turn to gold. sure, the fed raised rates in december. but we see negative rates are in -- rates in the rest of the world. it's been a who say couple of years. it's been pretty better gold. maybe there is something

the delta flight arrived safely at charles de gaulle airport at 6:00 a.m. paris time. certainly, very satisfied to see the cincinnati connection to europe operated very safely. again, from the international airport, there is a heightened sense of security around this president airforce two parked outside, you see that big c5 galaxy, you know there is a heavy preference -- presents. mark: thank you. we continue to follow our breaking news coverage free from brussels. the brussels network news is reporting 13 people are dead, 30 five wanted. lisa: we are continuing to keep you updated with live coverage that has been going on for some time. richard chiles just reported the vice president is in town. the height security concerning the vice president. there is some speculation will he even stay here for the meeting with ted strickland, try to promote strickland, but also our president is in cuba right now. mark: vice president biden would be in charge, so he may have to go back and terms of diplomatic efforts that may need to be worked out in regard to what is happening ri

french terrorism officials said they increased security. charles de gaulle, there is no security that i saw. albeit 5:00 in the morning. we saw no police. we saw no soldiers. we saw no security. i thought that was unusual, coming here obviously there is security presence in wake of these attacks but getting out, getting in and out you can drive. transportation, you're not going to fly, rosanna and greg. we're not sure when the airport will reopen. the trains, metro service is very limited. a lot of main stops that are shut down at this point. guys, back to you. lou: john huddy, good to see you begin. sorry under these circumstances. john huddy for us. >> used to report on streets of new york. >> if it is tuesday you would find him in the bronx. >> reporter: that's right. >> stay safe. believe when he got to paris airport there was not a lot of security presence. i don't care if it is 5:00 in the morning. >> right. himself. anyway, interesting. mikey, what's up? supposed to be a nice day weatherwise at least? >> it is. warmer than normal temperatures. january and february were well abo

this was an airbus a320 and can carry 150 people on final approach to charles de gaulle airport when the co-pilot sees5,000 feet 15 feet below his wing and takes evasive action.f the drone they put the autopilot back on and landed safely. this report just out from french authorities from this incident a month ago, very concerning, aircraft. what is the danger of the drones with the u.s. planes?hese kind of reports are alarming for u.s. officials. every week there are about a dozen sightings by pilots of drones in their airspace and the worry is what happens these drones hits an aircraft, hits the engine, what happens to that aircraft and everybody on board, robin. >> we don't want to find that you. >>> coming up u.s. soccer legend brandi chastain with a big announcement. what's she's doing for science to protect youngn injury. >>> a big health headline about aspirin and how it could help reduce your risk of cancer. morning. how to find the peo perfect together. it's like they were made for each other. they were, by the experts at hgtv. right. mer in one starting at $23.96, at lowe's.

we flew in to charles de gaulle this morning. as you can see, there's a check point here where they've been stopping every large car, every ki kind of jitney or large truck and asking who's in the vehicles as they go by. this is not typical. this is because of that massive manhunt you were talking about. this is an absolute story about terrorism, but it's also a story about the threat to the european union that's proposed by terrorism. now because of what's happening first in paris and now in brussels, there are growing questions about whether or not countries want to have open borders. already many members of the far right and various countries in western europe are saying open borders which are normally typical. you see those cars just passing along on the other side, they don't want that to happen anymore. that would have a dramatic impact on people moving throughout western europe. we've seen thousands and thousands of trucks transporting goods as we've driven this morning. so there's a lot at stake here when it comes to the

now, like you said, michael, because that airport was closed, we had to fly to paris and at charles de gaulle we drove about three hours out here to brussels. that's the latest from brussels. back to you. >> pei-sze, before i let you go, when you crossed the french belgium border, was there enhanced stops or more passport control? >> typically the european union -- >> reporter: it's really interesting, michael. as we were leaving paris to go to belgium, there didn't appear to be anyone stopping and checking. but on other side, people coming in from belgium or elsewhere into paris, there was a little bit of a police blockade and they were sort of checking, looking into cars. but it wasn't causing a honestly, it didn't look anything more than the sort of police activity than we see into the midtown or battery tunnel which is something we're already used to on a daily basis. that surprised me a little bit. >> absolutely. pei-sze, thank you very much. you have a full day of reporting from brussels. we'll see you throughout the day on news 4. thanks so much. >>> we'll check nbcnews.com for her rep

heathrow, of course, in london, charles de gaulle, of course in paris, many of these airports understandably after this morning's incident. >> reporter: we're -- the belgian prime minister put out a statement confirming the explosions at the airport this morning. in the departure hall saying right now it's the possibility of a terror attack that is being investigated. in mention of possible attacks in downtown brussels but has been raised to 4, its highest alert level with an emphasis on transport hubs and nuclear plants as you just mentioned. confirmation at least one -- metro stop and there are reports from belgian media there were two others, as well. >> we'll give him a quick break and on the phone abc's consultant john cullen who is our terrorism consultant. john, can you hear us? >> yes, i can hear you. >> it would appear to be a worst nightmare playing out in belgium. >> yes, it appears things are not going in the right direction. if one explosion possibly could have been something that was un unrelated to terrorism but if the reports are true, that there are multiple explosions, taki

but when you boil that down i mean charles de gaulle airpo that means about 150 more people.eem to be a whole lot more than what's already out there. the fact is we're under a state of emergency here which allows the police all sorts of draconian measures like stop and search without reason. like sequestering people in their houses. there is all sorts of measures they can already take and the question have they taking them? and one of the things our panel was just talking about there that's so interesting is the coordination between the various european authority. president hollande was on television just a little bit ago saying this was an attack on belgium but really an attack on europe. and the fact it's paralyzed today that all european union offices in brussels are closed has got to be a dramatic thing for various authorities across europe to confront on a european-wide basis. we've got a commission here a parliamentary commission in france that after the november 13th attacks are starting to look at what went wrong and what the police did right and wrong but none of tha