charlie daggett is near the brussels airport. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we've just learned that the search and rescue operation here at the airport has ended. police operations are still under way. earlier today, a bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion where the attacks first began. cbs news can confirm that they found an unexploded device, possibly a suicide vest at the scene. they also found a kalashnikov assault rifle next to the body of an alleged attacker. the terror began here at the airport. just around 8:00 in the morning. eyewitnesses said they heard somebody shouting in arabic, there was gunfire followed by two explosions. we have pictures of bodies sprawled on the ground, the dead and injured. and people trying to flee as fast as they could. they were told to drop everything and evacuate the airport as quickly as they could. one eyewitness saw a woman with a crushed leg. he told reporters belgium does not deserve this. less than a half hour later, during rush hour, came that second

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we have a team of correspondents covering the attacks and we begin with charlie daggett at brussels airport>> both brothers, one of them here at the airport, the other at the subway station. a third man is on the run. he left behind the biggest bomb, one that failed to detonate until the bomb squad arrived. one of the most heartbreaking things about yesterday's savage suicide attacks on the brussels airport and the bomb packed with nails that ripped through the crowded subway car at rush hour is the growing sense they could have and should have been stopped. after the airport attacks, police released this picture of the suspects casually pushing leggage thought to be carrying explosives. the man in the middle has been identified as ibrahim el bakraoui. e and his brother, khalid, were already known to belgian police as petty gangster. ibrahim is thought to have blown himself up at the airport, khalid is the key suspect in the train bombing. but the man in the hat has not been identified by police. belgian media has named him as najim laachraoui, the suspected bombmaker. investigators believe