know the statistics, and likely, and that's no solis to a parent whose child is studying in brussels or belgium >> we'll have more on the interview including the battle of the supreme court nominee. you could watch all of it on local12.com. >> many people are wondering, why brussels, why belgium. the concerns on the terrorist in brussel. while u.s. leaders frantically worked the phones trying to assess the situation, neighborhood leaders say the problem began due to the disconnect with the city interview. >> life is something empty. they know, there's no future for them. >> the highly diversified region and subsequent unemployment crisis in his neighborhood has been mismanaged, contributing to radicalization >> worst symbols and emblems on what may happen. >> also demonstrated by the pairgs attacks. many of the suspects were from brussels. the deputy mayor says, there are 110 nationality. and he says, 50 percent of the population was foreign born. it discriminates in the labor market. we cannot stop the plague. as disen chanted explains, they are easily recruited by terror cells. as how it happ

what makes brussels or belgium an unique target or unique place for these attacks? >> well, brussels--brussels is the capital of europe. it is also the seat where nato headquarters is based. and it's a small country with a lot of connections as well as germany, london, france, paris. and you have this--this amount of jihadi fighters who came from the areas, the suburbs of brussels. you have all the elements for a jihadi storm. >> when you were talking with these people, did you get a sense that these disaffected youth where the work class, there is high unemployment, some may have been in prison for petty crimes. how do you make the connection with that and the breeding ground for potential european-born terrorists. >> the problem is wider than that. because when you make the profile of a lot of these jiha jihadis who left, you have this small criminals, the problem of no jobs, education failed, but at the same time you have quite a lot of jihadi kids who are from well middle class, so it is not only that. it looks like we've lost--a small part, but a part of a gener

. >> explain to us exactly why it is that brussels or belgium specifically is like that. because you know, you could argue that there are neighborhoods like that in any european or world city. >> exactly. there is political structure in the country, and especially in the city of brussels. the police force in brussels just start to explain why brussels is a good spot for people who want to hide and who want to prepare for attacks. >> there is a line that is very interesting that has come out of turkey. that's president erdogan has effectively said that one of the brussels attackser was deported by turkish authorities i in{^l" ^} 2015. there is another source who said it was ibrahim ablrakawi. belgium was criticized for not sharing it's intelligence and information well enough or in a way that would hint that belgium has not learned its lesson when it comes to try to avoid attacks like this. >> i think it's a mistake to put the blame only on belgium. there are european police, euro pole, which has been around for years up is t up to this day only five member states cooperate

we don't know if these individual suspects were born in brussels, or belgium.ere from some other country. we don't know. but it feeds into this dialogue that's been part of the political landscape for the last two decades. and growing. especially following the paris attacks about whether there needs to be more police presence. and more of a, of a sharp eye on individuals who may have ulterior motives. there's a sizeable muslim population within belgium. and they are generally very much welcomed and they are very great contributors to the so you can see this constant pull of trying to figure out how this country adopts to all of this. that has been going on for the last 20 years. >> that's nbc's tom costello. >> stay with nbc, coming up on "nightly news" with lester holt, we'll present a special one-hour extended coverage edition on the brussels investigation that begins at 7:00 after news4 at 6:00. >>> in our area, a teenager is dead after a stabbing at a bus stop in the district and the suspect in this case? a teenaged girl. let's get to news4's pat collins on

again, it's not just brussels or belgium, but they have, clearly, a very ineffective law enforcement and intelligence services, and their ability to control their internal population is nonexistent. you can find something similar in paris and something similar in the outskirts of london, birmingham and madrid. it's a huge problem. when you add in a million refugees who are absolute h humanitarian refugees, you end up in this situation where the europeans are at great risk -- there is cautions, border protection, the fbi, pretty well and coordinated intelligence from the cia back to law enforcement euro is in trouble, and hundreds of people being killed and wounded tells me you simply have to allow better signals intelligence and better coordination of human intelligence. >> as you mentioned, you're seven years in brussels with nato. you have a unique perspective warned, based on your time there and your work there. when you look at the current situation for the european union, is it your sense that we will, in fact, begin to see more changes? could those borders start to go more clos

we don't know if these suspects were born if brussels or belgium. if they are from another country, we simply don't know. but it feeds into this dialogue very much a part of the political landscape for decades and growing, especially following the paris attacks about whether there needs to be more police presence and more of a sharp eye on individuals who may have ulterior motives. there is a sizable muslim population within belgium. and they are generally very much welcomed and they are very great contributors to the society. and so you could see this constant pull of trying to figure out how this country adopts to all of this that has been going on for the last 20 years. and i would stress again, a country that has really tried to welcome refugees and welcome people from all over the world who are in need of help. >> in fact, that has always been the reputation of belgium going all the way back to world war ii and the way they treated the people trying to escape from persecution. this is a real crisis of conscience and of culture. in europe and in

belgium's response? ryan: look, this is something that has never happened before. in brussels or in belgium.t's the largest terrorist act in this country. there has been lots of threats of terrorism, including last week as they apprehended the last of what they believed to be the suspects in the paris attacks. there were concerns that could be reprisal attacks. on here, i was in brussels friday and people were patting themselves on the back, that operation to detain the final suspect from the paris attacks went off without a hitch. known was injured and there were no real reprisal attacks. fast forward to today. many people drawing the line. but we aren't hearing too many government officials saying that just yet. certainlyhe king, and this is what we've been hearing from the prime minister of belgium, to be reassuring the people here that they are trying to control the situation. much of the city is in lockdown. but you know how it is, matt. that's pockets of the city, where these attacks didn't take place, where there aren't man hunts going on, because there are manhunts going on right now

all of this is airlines around the world are waving booking fees for passengers flying to or from brussel's belgium and they're allowing change to itineraries without paying a penalty fee. and check with your airlines if you are heading to brasesems, belgium. >>> and -- brussels, belgium. >>> and an unattended bag at -- was hit from an ak-9 explosive team and that bag was later cleared since the attacks in brussels, belgium, yesterday and officials around the world have been on high alert. >>> and new at the noon hour, owner. the cleveland cavaliers owner and his bed rock real estate company purchased the avenue shops for more than $56 million this allows more and includes more than retailers and the deal would include more than 3,000 parking space. the avenue shops provide a unique opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind urban shopping, dining, and entertainment destination in cleveland. >>> also in the news, a portage county school district cancelled classes the rest of a severe illness. windham schools said that there are two confirmed cases and five pending cases of district. it's anb testinal di

brussels yesterday. confirmed that the border force controls by britain have been intensified, as have border controls in belgium. in brussels, where the euro star arrives. in france, whether land, air, or eurostar check-ins. increased officers present at ports and airports. these measures are destined to not only help foil any kind of plot or attack. british police and intelligence services work day and night, like their european counterparts, to stop those, but also to reassure the public. they are also in the transport networks and across the country. what's also important to underline is that may said that these were precautionary measures. they were not in the light of specific new information. she also underlined that the threat from international terrorism remained severe. in other words, the threat level has not been changed. what that means concretely is that an attack is actually highly likely. the very highest level, the next level, is actually that an attack is imminent. that is not the case. what she also underlined and told people in parliament was, in the last 18 months, police and security services in the united kingdom have disrupted seven terror plots to attack the uni

horrendous terrorist attacks in paris four months ago, who we all kind of new or surmised fled to the molenbeek area of brussels, belgiums you that there is some sort of safe harbor being give on the a fugitive or fugitives and that goes back to my main worry about a movement like isis. it's hard to bomb an idea out of existence. it's hard to you havsnuff an id. i know you've had a life of expertise. what do you make of the isis problem and how would you go about combatting it? >> indeed, the rat's nest that is the suburbs of brussels is of deep concern to those of us who understand that isis' recruits largely from french-speaking tunisia, french speaking algeria, french-speaking morocco at least are able to find the safe haven to establish the base of operations that they need in a country and particularly a capital where the multitiered levels of governance make it almost impossible, particularly before the bataclan parisian attacks to have coordination of intelligence authorities and here we are again almost four months since the attack where most likely in a series of raids it was almost by happenstance that the fre

prevent communication between other terrorists or whether those are just going down for some other reason. but now consider yourself a citizen of belgium or brussels and your airport travel has been suspended by these bombings at the airport. your subway travel has been shut down because of bombings in the subway. now you find your cell phone is not of use which obviously we all know on a daily basis we have come to incredibly depend on and imagine the isolated feeling of the people of belgium this morning as they try and deal with what is an unfolding terrorist situation in their mix. >> the very definition and goal of terror. in fact, crisis center belgium tweeted out to its followers, don't call. the network is getting saturated. they're asking people to use facebook, whatsapp, twitter. it sounds like this is something the authorities have tried to do and attempted to do perhaps to save the cellular technology for emergency personnel. as you mentioned, can you imagine being a citizen of the capital, of the eu today with the airport, the subway and now the cell phones suspended. >> those people have become used to living under a high level of al

resources to try and avoid an osability of another attack happening in central brussels or elsewhere. of course in belgium and i imagine the same will apply to the authorities in france and other european cities. because since the arrest of salah-abdeslam on friday both brussels prosecutors said this is on going investigation and the intelligence they glean in the early stage of questioning of salah-abdeslam authorities say it has given leads and intelligence and they have warned of the possibility of more imminent attacks. it had prompted already a heightening of security at the borders and beefed up security between several european borders over the course of the weekend but of course what we are seeing now here though despite that level of security and despite that level of concern and the increase in the number of investigators on the ground trying to piece together new leads and act upon new intel agains incidents like this have still happened. >> authorities are warning everybody in brussels or keying with them to remain where they are after the explosions at the airport. i guess and confirming what

ben and juliet. >> breaking news out of brussels, belgium two at airport in that city and hour or so later a third explosions at a subway station. reports of myriad of injuries robert moses trying to recall information for us this morning. robert. >> the belgium prime minister is speaking at a press conference right now and he said we were hit by blind attacks. first of all, at 8:00 thissing morning local time welcome those twin attacks at the bros l's carnage there according to the bell belgium prosecutor one caused by a suicide bomber so you have twin blasts around 8:00 morning. an hour later an attack, explosion at a metro station in heart of downtown brussels near head of the eu headquarters, and according to the belgium transport operator, 15 people were killed in that metro attack alone. again that is unconfirmed. but from prime minister many injured but they have no death toll. that has fluctuated throughout the morning. one important note of timing here, these attacks kale just four days after the capture of salah abdeslam who was taken he's believed to be the only surviving m

tell you that the world is small, that we are all in it, and that not just the people of brussels of belgium or europe, but i think the world is in it, and i think that we now have a determination that is even greater than it was any time to attack frontally this extremely dangerous development which we call terrorism. also i would like to stress that the resilience of the belgian people should not be underestimated. we will stand up again. >> indeed, this is now a global issue. we heard the french president say the whole of europe was hit. do you believe what happened today was connected to the arrests on friday, the apprehension of salah abdeslam? >> well, i prefer not to speculate on that direct connection with the arrest last week of mr. abdeslam. there may be connections, and some people have already given some part of that, but let me stress one particular fact. that is for the last month, indeed, our investigators and security people, intention community has been working very hard, particularly for the last two weeks. there have been a lot of hard searches being contactducted la week, an

we've been told by brussels authorities or belgium authorities that these were suicide bombers. one outside the departures terminal. one inside the great hall. those are the scenes from inside the departure terminal, where just after 8:00 this morning, thousands of people would have been waiting, lining up to check in for flights. everybody in the area would have had a suitcase with them or some sort of package. impossible to know who got what into that terminal. they were inside and created devastation. >> this is a city, a country, whole region that has been on edge since the paris attacks of late last year. the prime minister of belgium, charles michel, saying our worst confirming it was a terror attack. indeed, in the case of the airport, the chief prosecutor in belgium saying it's believed to be a suicide attack. we don't know what nature yet. >> you bring up the paris attacks of november 13th. there's already an image making its way around social media this morning of the french people comforting the belgium people with the dates of these two terror attacks underneath. the

belgium, in the brussels area are going down now. we don't know whether law enforcement has decided to take those cell phone networks down to prevent communication between other terrorists or whether those are just going down for some other reason. citizen of belgium or brussels and your airport travel, your travel in and out of country has been basically suspended by these bombings at the airport. your subway travel has been shut down because of bombings in the subway. and now you find that your cell phone is not of use, which obviously we all know on a daily basis we have come to incredibly depend on. and imagine the isolated feeling of the people of belgium this morning as they try to deal with what anz unfolding terror situation in their midst. >> this is the very goal of terror. in the crisis center in belgium just tweeted out don't call, use texting or social media. the network is getting saturated. so use facebook, whatsapp, twitter to avoid calls. sounds like based on that, this is something the authorities have tried to do and attempted to do perhaps to save the emergency personnel who are needed right now to potentially stop some other kind of attack or coordinat

attack their country so far they found no links to the november paris attacks, or the brussels bombings. investigators in belgium say they've arrested six people in raids, in connection with the brussels attack. cbs news has learned, two brothers, suspected in the attacks, were on an us terrorism watch list. police believe eastbound ham blew himself in the airport bombing and his younger brother, kale i had likely died at the subway station. officials say interpole had issued a red level arrest warrant for khalid in december when belgium police connected him to one of the hide-out apartment used to plan the paris attacks. turn i shall security offices and he is dollars abraham, when he was caught trying to sneak into syria. new video shows the chaos that immediately followed tuesday's bombings at the airport. pro-basketball player, sebastian, who lives in michigan, was seriously wounded. >> remember just fixate g on a feeling, just be like, okay, now, you know, they're not going to get me. >> belgium officials lowered the terror threat level one notch on thursday, but warned another attack is possible and likely

is there a new directive for americans who would travel in brussels, in belgium generally or in europeeral? >> so we put out a travel alert right after this attack, but that actually was in the works even before the brussels attack. unfortunately because we had seen a pattern from ankara it paris in december that isil and other terrorist groups are intent on carrying out these kind of attacks on innocent civilians in europe. so we sent out a travel alert, and that travel alert basically said there may be future events like this. there may be future attacks. we all need to be vigilant. we don't want to keep americans hope. we want them to travel and do business and we want them to see europe and travel. but they need to be vigilant. frankly, it's just a reality in the world we live if told that all americans need to have that kind of street sense and have the awareness andness the information. that's where we come in, that we provide them with assessments. when'd and when weÑ have credibe threats we are obliged to inform americans so we encourage any american who is traveling to europe

certainly people in brussels, belgium, today or in paris a few weeks ago or christmastime in san bernardino didn't feel like we were winning but the fact is the m-o for these radical islamic terror groups is always the same. attack soft targets, inflict maximum cashing walts on unarmed women and children if you can. rely on low can cells to target, gather info and do recon. go after mass transit, airports ticket counters just like they did this morning in brussels but if you look at target last few years, they're getting softer and softer. it is more difficult to get a bomb on an airplane. we do things in the united states and most countries to protect against those things. you look at they go after, it is soft targets. hardening shopping malls in kenya or nigeria orphanages where abu sayf went after a elementary school or london metro and bus attacks, all the attacks were against soft targets where they didn't have adequate information. now the bottom line of it is, if you are going to protect the american people, these countries can do the same, realize signals intelligence no longer work

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worrying for security forces and above all worrying for ordinary people be they belgium or foreigners working in brussels but despite the heightinglied state of alert it is still possible for this kind of sophisticated series of attacks to take place. >> thank you for that, jackie. we just had confirmation about the explosion at the malbik station and the fall out from that and while there have been many injuries apparently no one has been killed so many injuries at the station at heart of the city, many injuries but no one killed. let's go over to istanbul in turkey. let's not forget that turkey has seen a string of attacks over last couple of weeks, dozens of people killed, also soft targets attacked right in the heart of the cities will to harry faucet how is this hnews going down an how has it been viewed? >> i think people here in turkey are still very shaken up by what happened a couple days ago. on saturday a suicide bombing not far here near the square right in the town of this largest city in turkey, the man who is believed to have carried out that suicide attack according to the turkish governm

belgium. explosions have gone off through the city, two confirmed that the brussels airport and metro reports of 13 or 14 people at developing, doesn't have been injured. belgium but home of nato, home of the european union. a lot of government responsibility in that city. ben: international european presence and a couple days after the capture of salah abdeslam, the chief suspect in the paris terror attacks from november. let's go to robert moses who is following the situation in the newsroom. >> reporter: there are unconfirmed reports that ten people have died in the explosion in the subway. that was an hour after the twin explosions at the airport in brussels. let's take a live look at sky news. coming out of the airport. to recap what happened, at 8:00 this morning twin explosions ripped through the brussels airport, the departures call by the american airlines check-in desk. this is an airport that serves 23.5 million passengers every single year. that gives you a sense how busy this airport must have been when the explosions took place. there are reports that people could be heard shouting in ar

continued follow breaking news or read a terrorist attack in the city of brussels and the airport and metro station. >>mark: we're following the breaking news out of belgium or court antiterrorist attack the three explosions of off to the airport one at a subway station in brussels the death toll has now gone up to 20 and dozens more are injured when a new video coming in and out to women injured here at the airport at least 13 people were killed at the airport where a suicide bomber detonated best fire shot it is now at its highest level in this cross in the wire facebook activated dissected check system to help people checking on friends and loved one. >>anny hong: the storm tractor if you're in the south bay you may want to grab the umbrella this one we are tracking a little bit of shower activity most of the bay area not the can at any rate of return clouding will see a couple scatters showers right now the south of san jose is 5:00 and generally live in a crowded conditions will keep the shower chance in there but the showers will continue to the minister of the next few hours by lunchtime expect reason conditions all across the bay area at 5:00 toni

belgium in the brussels area are going down now. we don't whether law enforcement has decided to take those cell phone networks down to prevent communication between other terrorists. or whether those are just going now consider yourself a citizen of belgium or brussels, and your airport travel, your travel in and out of the country has been basically suspended by the bombings at the airport. your subway travel has been shut down because of bombings in the subway. and now you find that your cell phone is not of use, which obviously, we all know on a daily basis we have come to incredibly depend on. imagine the isolated feeling of the people of belgium this morning as they try to deal with what is an unfolding terrorist situation in their midst. >> that's the very definition and goal of terror. in fact, the crisis center in belgium i'm just told tweeted out to its followers don't call, network is getting saturated. they're asking people to use social media rather than to call. so it sounds like this is have done to save the technology for the emergency personnel that's needed right now, as, matt, you pointed out to stop if there's a coordinated attack in the offing. bu

brussels or paris. richelle. >> jamie how are the attacks in belgium -- how are they effecting the pentagon's strategy against isil>> reporter: the first thing that secretary carter said today was that these second quarters under score that the defeat of isil needs to be hastened wherever it exists, and there is a limit to what the u.s. military can do. obviously it can attack what carter likes to call the parent tumor of isil in iraq and syria, but not in these other countries. that's a function that law enforce and intelligence is going to have to do. he made that point, but he also talked about the fact that the u.s. is pushing to accelerate the fight against isil, in particular it has made requests for new capabilities to assist the iraqis in retaking the city of mosul, and it was also revealed that some of the u.s. marines on the ground are now providing artillery fire to help those iraqi forces that are beginning to do the shaping operations around mosul. >> all right. jamie thank you so much. >>> a sgroup of marines operating from a small outpost fired illumination and artillery rounds to help iraqi forces

or already there. >> they were not traveling to brussels tuesday or at all they were dropping off their granddaughter. after hearing the news in belgium they decided to make sure their granddaughter made it to their flight. >> we are waiting here to just get word from her. >> with security ramped up throughout the country and taking longer to get through the lines. >> it may slow down the process but it's worth it to be safe. >> they spent much of their wait joining airport security in monitoring their surroundings. >> it makes you think harder about where are you going. >> scary to think this can happen. i travel out of the country, i try to keep my eyes open. >> despite his worries, he made it on to a flight to liberia. and after the canine units he did not have any doubt he would get to his destination safely. >> i did not have second thoughts about it. >> just looking around when i left the airport security had not loosened up. before coming to the airport look at the website to get the latest on security measures. christian flores, wbtv on your side. >> american airlines released this statement after the brussels attacks extendin

guns also easier to get in belgium, either in brussels or in other cities. so it is a hub. and i guarranty you, it will get even more attention but i also got to tell you, just in brief chatting with people since we've been here oh, so briefly, the feeling is, oh, no, here we go again. in fact there is already prayers for brussels like we heard prayers for france, for paris. we're also seeing twitter hashtags talking about paris, showing solidarity as other law enforcement and officials have said. the people, i think there is a big grown and a big sadness, here we go again, harris. harris: all over the world. real quickly before we continue with our guests here on "outnumbered," the brussels airport authority is saying that after this dead nation of a third bomb and everything that happened today, the airport ceo also chiming in they will keep that facility closed, the main airport will remain closed at least through tomorrow. and we'll report the updates on that but right now it is shut down. the non-movement you were reporting before right behind you that your cameraman p

belgium set off one day after the release of his sketch. the sketch of that man hasn'tt been officially connected to brussels or what happened tuesday night. and scar beg of brusel suburb. it's where that manhunt charges on. and belgium's interio minister says that while authorities knew many kind of extremist act was being planned for europe. they were opportunitied bit scale of today's attacks in brusel. we're live in the plex. sheldon fox. 7 news. >>> >> all right sheldon and following the attack in brussels, the airport has been evacuated for hours now. smelled something suspicious. denver international tweeting out that the west side was evacuated. cars being turned way from that terminal. the airport warning people that flight delay are possible because the woman squad is inspecting the erin tire build. meanwhile airports across south florida are steppin up security tomorrow night in light of terror attack. miami international@ airport filled with federal agent and k # unit. officersrslso performing random searches at the aish poart. atd at hollywood fort lauderdale airport and train snaitionz broward county they are also increase the

republican presidential candidates have either released statements, or tweeted about the attacks in belgium. belgium.from donald trump: "brussels was a beautiful city, a beautiful place with zero crime. and now it's a disaster city."ohio governor john kasich says "we must utterly reject the use of deadly acts of terror."and senator ted cruz says "radical 9 on your side will continue to bring you the details on this story as they break.we have just learned there's a group of 19 university of cincinnati students and two faculty members who are in antwerp, belgium, right now. they are safe.watch here, and wcpo dot com as this story develops. here's a first check of your nine first warning forecast. winds have picked up across the tri-state and will continue to gust around 30-35 mph for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening rush. we'll see a few hit or temperatures will surge into the mid to low 60s. "normal" highs come in around 560f this the mom who admitted she injected something into her son's feeding tube at children's hospital learns her fate.where that boy is now. thousands of dollars in cincinnati police overtime,

belgium. i love brussels. reporter: no flights are expected in or out of brussels airport tomorrow. live in the studio, dana jay, andrea: thank you. social media has been flooded with messages of support for the victims in the brussels attacks. the hashtag pray for the world is trending. tweet number one prayers for brussels and to those innocent people affected by isis attacks. another tweet pray for the world and find love. our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to the world for l.a. those who care. for latest news and info you can bob: officials identified the teenager who was shot and killed in apopka in broad daylight yesterday. he name is kanandra bryant. he was 18 years old. reporter: deputies have been handing out fliers hoping to get leads. county residents are encouraged to call in with information. deputies tried to track down the person who shot and killed bryant. the children left a half hour before the shooting occurred yesterday. thaw are praying for the safety of the community. >> you don't like feel safe for your community out here. they just rebuilt this community

brussels. i want to go to tom costello in washington. tom spent many years living in belgium. also tom, we have come to think of brussels in the last year or so as ground zero in the war on terror in europe. tell us about your experience and the general experience of the area. >> well, i think it is at this hour, anyway, and it has been ever since the paris attacks because we know these attackers who are connected to the paris attacks, in fact, came from that molenbeek neighborhood a we have it in schaerbeek and hala and explosives and tactical raids, explosions rather and tactical raids have been heard and seen throughout the city tonight. this is very much a city on edge. it has been increasingly on edge ever since paris as we have been looking and hearing about the search for the suspect who's been on the loose and now bell belgians are seeing exactly what they feared, all-out major terrorist attack on their capital. >> i want to show you the scene at the white house. president obama has ordered flags flown at half-staff. we'll have all the latest developments this evening in a special one-our edition of "nbc nightly news." one hour in

if you're in belgium or go brussels and look in the hospitals and help me find my boyfriend. now, sadly, it's clear that their bodies had been almost immediately collected by officials and the delay was in identification. the story is, heartbreaking. they were, as kris reported, on the phone with their mom to say, mom, we arrived here in brussels safe. when the mom reports there was a loud noise and the phone cut off. now, we know what that was all about. and, so, the pinczowskis have been accounted for leaving one more couple of americans. perhaps more the reports vary accounted for still here in brussels. so, kris and sam. good news and terrible news from here in the brussels and the belgian capital. back to you. >> steve, the thoughts running through their parents' minds when that phone call broke up. as you said, send chills down spine and all of our hearts are heavy this morning. steve handelsman reporting for us live from belgium. thank you. >>> still waiting on word of these two americans. that couple from kentucky were living and traveling in europe. >>> a live look r

brussels. right now, the belgium have not yet found evidence linking him or his group. and an american couple still missing. justin and stephanie shults were dropping off stephanie's mother that airport when it happened. she is reportedly safe. claudia, tell us what the atmosphere is like over there. >> reporter: a resident of brussels are waking up to a city still trying to cope with the horrific horrific, shocking events that shook europe to its core yesterday. the airport where two exploeshsive devices went off and we don't know when it will reopen but miles away from here, right in the center of brussels, life is meant to go on as normal. at least this is what the belgium authorities want. they opened all the schools. leans. only two subway lines will remain closed. but it's remain to be seen how many will dare to get on the subway because they're aware that the authorities are on the hunt of at least one terrorist part of the command that carried out the attacks yesterday. they have released city tv footage and still in the airport of three men pushing each a troll

following some "breaking news" right now out of belgium or police say 13 people are dead following 2 explosions at an airport in the metro station in brussels >> belgium authorities are now attacks. the city is now locked down, airport authorities say the passengers were led out of the airport to a tarmac for their safety. about an hour ago elgin media reported an explosion at a metro station, as well, we know 35 people are hurt. the explosions come days after the prime suspect in the deadly paris terrace attacks salah abdeslam was arrested. all flights have been canceled, some are being diverted. the metro system also close there, the city essentially has shut down. we will continue to monitor the story and regular updates throughout the morning. we are starting to get more and more images coming out of there now , and it's pretty unnerving to see some of the damage that was cause. >> a lot of details that are investigators, on the scene, the last two hours or so. this was prime rush hour in brussels there. this is all part of the morning commute for them. a very busy time, as well, there were some preliminary reports that there may have f

brussels airport at belgium and reports of multiple casualties p. casualties. the number of dead and wounded is unknown at this hour. terrorism or an accident. but we understand that the brussels airport did tweet out that the building is being evacuated and flights have been canceled. confirming that two explosions did occur and they're asking people to not to come to the airport. we're hearing word of explosions at the curb departure at the belgium airport there in brussels and we are following this story and will continue to bring more information as it becomes available to us. >>> and want to tell you about a big announcement on the hotly contested iphone case. apple 's help may not be needed afterall. they said an outside party demonstrated a possible method for opening the phone that belonged to syed farook. the fbi can determine if the work around might damage the phone's data. this comes as a surprise. insisted only apple could help unlock the phone. if the case dropped, apple might not learn what vulnerability was used. >>> and president obama is scheduled to attend a baes ball team, the first major league baseball club to play in cu

brussels and paris, we know that they're on the run. reporter: since thursday, authorities have arrested nine people in belgium, two more arrested in germany. 31 people died in the attack. still, no flights in or out of the brussels airport. it will remain closed until at least tuesday. investigators say they need to check the structural safety of the building. information technology systems were damaged. they have wrapped up their analysis of the crime scene. the airport representatives say they are studying a temporary solution to resume flights. >>> stay with eyewitness news and abc news for the very latest on the terror attacks in brussels. you can also find updates and information around the clock at abc 7 ny. >>> dramatic video out of a rack showing the -- iraq showing the moments after a suicide bombing at a soccer stadium. you can hear the chaos once the bomb goes off at the stadium. isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. u.n. secretary general is offering his condolences to the victims. >>> now to the race for president. bernie sanders may be trailing hillary clinton in his campaign opened an office in brooklyn got to work trying to sway voters. as for clinton's team, they're

belgium were set off one day after the relieves his diseanch. the sketch of that man hasn't officially been connected to brussels or what happened tuesy night in cop heavy scar beck of brilsz suburur it's where that manhunt charges on. and we take you live to brilsz belgium right now. you can see these people getting tired of having to see these images month after month after month, another image of a european city dealing with absolute grief and horror and shock. thief got the memorial there with the candles going there that section of the city for those lives lost and for those people who were injured at the airport and oand around the area of that train. belgium's interior minister says that while authorities knew some kind of extremist act wassing with plabd for europe. they were opportunitied by the scale of today's attack in brution brusel. we're live in the plex. sheldon fcx. 7 news. have many wondering if south florida is prepared to for something similar. rosh lowe is live at mia with that story. rosh. >> reporter: and when many people in south florida saw those images, the first question they asked is, could this h hpen here? and what ca

brussels. that's where they were planned. that's the real organizing base. we still don't know where the explosives were made. or who made them. but it's very likely that they were made somewhere in belgiumso if you look at the relationship between paris and brussels in the november attacks, and you see this again today, you see the arrest of abdeslam, who has been on the run since november, found just four days ago in brussels, you can see this is another group of people who clearly did not decide after that arrest four days ago to carry out this attack, they were in planning. they clearly had a plan. they had acquired the means to carry out the plan. whether this was the full magnitude of the plan or this was everything that they intended or the date we don't yet know, but what we do know is that there is some how some linkage. >> what kinds of things do investigators look for at this point? >> here's the problem . there was what they knew and what they didn't know before the attack in paris. they had dozens of e-mails, burner phones that what were used once, dumped. they do know that during that time of france, that people were on the phone constantly. they knew that there was a real

. >> reporter: if you have friends and family in belgium or at the center of the attack in brussels. at&t and verizon are of onerring free international calls tonight and tomorrow. live at hopkins airport, cleveland 19. >> this hit close to home for some ohio ans. we talked with one man who travels to belgium often and he was in the country during the paris terrorist uhing tays. >> reporter: he is the vice president of operations for the winking lizard tavern. he travels to belgium once or twice a year to meet with partner breweries, and he has seen firsthand how terrorism is affecting this european country. winking lizard taverns is there from the start. >> it is humbling because we started out very small. >> reporter: there is a great selection of belgium beers. they bestowed john with the highest honor for pro eke iting their beer -- protecting their beer wul tour. >> i was knighted and so the country of belgium has a special place in my heart. >> reporter: john was shocked to hear of tuesday's attacks. >> it is very upsetting because that country is very much like us. it was a me

brussels belgium to be exact. multiple explosions have been recorded at the airport and subway stops or metro stops around that city. starting at the airport. shortly after 8:00 a.m. brussels, 2:00 a.m. here on the east coast. one around the curbside area near departure, that is said to have been a suicide bombing and then another explosion just inside the departures area. this would be an area we should mention, where you would not have to have gone through security to get into that area. so anyone arriving from a car or mass transportation could have gone into that area carrying a suitcase or a backpack and detonated it. and then a short time later in separate bombings there were several explosions in and around the brussels area. was one said to be in moleem beak. that is the area on friday are where salah abdeslam who was the alleged master mind in paris was arrested. the question is was this retribution for his arrest? or perhaps were there accomplices already in brussels planning something else with devices in their possession who then felt because of his arrest their locations and identities might have been

or at the metro station. those two sites of the twin bombing in brussels, belgium. we are getting confirmation that u.s. service member and his family or her family, we're not clear either one, also caught up in this tragedy. we will continue to follow that. by the way, the fbi in this country has boosted its surveillance of current members that are suspicious in this country who have been under surveillance up until now. they have boosted the surveillance of suspected extremist. a lot of frenetic activity following the pictures on the screen. what happened earlier this morning in brussels, belgium. both the airport and a metro station, as we mentioned, were bombed. me metro station in the heart of brussels. perhaps, a signifying message from isis because there's a very important strategic building close by. and that is the european union. we're also after the break going to speak to the secretary general of nato. the member nations of nato themselves all belong to a coalition fighting isis. nato itself as an entity does not. i will ask the secretary general if anything is about to change after these hor