jean-francois flechet/beglium native"in belgium there is almost no topic that is too serious to make fun of or laugh about it, it's kind of an escape.so there's been a lot of characatures online by different belgian artists, characaturing the suicide bombers and basically capturing the reaction of belian people and at the end will prevail and not them." flechet's love for his home country goes deep.deep enough that he encourages others to go visit when the get a chance. jean-francois flechet/beglium native"make sure that you go there and visit the city don't listen to the nay sayers in the media, it's a beautiful city and on average its very safe. what happened today is an isolated incident and it's really really sad."for now, flechet get's back to work, and waits for justice.tony mirones 9 on your side, over-the-rhine in a show of support -- the taste of belgium's rookwood location will show an animated version of one of the political cartoons tonight. and stay with nine on your side and wcpo-dot-com for the very latest on these attacks. tonight at six -- we check in with tri-state

reporter: the owner of taste of belgium, jean-francois flechet has a network of family and friends who are hurting back home in belgium. >> i talked to a few people, those i know seem to be fine, but they have not released the list of who got injured and who is deceased, so i don' t know really. reporter: after visiting brussels last month for 5 days jean-francois noticed a few changes to the city, in light of the recent paris attacks and >> there were more measures of security, the belgium military was present in brussels when i was there. that was the first time there was a military presence in the city, so that was a little strange. reporter: according to jean francois, brussels is country that embraces many cultures, and he hopes that continues there -- that continues. >> there are people from all over the place but really there is not much tension at the personal level. and i just hope that it remains that way. reporter: the casual and welcoming demeanor he describes in brussels, is what many customers love most about the restaurants he' s built around town. business today seemed

to you, john. for some this traj gedy in belgium certainly hits close to home. happening with jean francois. he immediately called his parents who were headed on vacation. he was relieved to find out their flight is scheduled for tomorrow, not today. they are safe at home and not at the airport at the time. now concerned for his friends who still live in belgium. some have posted on facebook easing those concerns. he says he's been to the airport in brussels dozens of times in his life, including a trip home a couple of months ago and he always felt safe. >> obviously it could happen in paris, london and spain. not totally unexpected but shocking that people are dying for no reason. >> and definitely a whole new world for the folks in brussels who are trying to get through this. now i did talk to traveller at the cincinnati northern kentucky this morning. at the time he told me that things were running smoothly. quickly and there were very few delays. now experts say though that this could have a ripple effect across the country at airports just because of those delays that some flights may

jean-francois didn't express his opinon... but both of those ladies that i spoke with today said the upcoming presidental election in determine how we move forward as a country and our fight against isis. reporting live from clifton...mike schell...fox19 now.. if you didn't know... p-and-g employs more than 11- hundred people in brussels at an innovation center. the company says it's been working to make sure all the employees are safe... and are encouraging workers to stay home for the time being. information is changing every hour.... the death toll actually just rose to 34 in the last few minutes... we'll have complete coverage throughout the evening on air, online and on the fox19 now mobile app. and as u-s security officials monitor the situation in belgium... vice president joe biden has left cincinnati. we were there as his motorcade arrived at the westin hotel downtown today for a private fundraiser for senate hopeful ted strickland. the event was closed to the public and the media. a little after three... biden's mort

jean-francois, what about plans around mergers and acquisitions. doing deals?ength of your balance sheet was a key competitive advantage. it will allow you to pursue external growth opportunities. very tantalizing. what kind of opportunities are you looking for? jean: we are looking at a lot of company's around the world. mostly, bulk acquisitions like the one we announced a few weeks ago. with the ex-cbs outdoor assets in latin america, which would comment what we purchased from last year. and we also acquired a business in peru. and in france, we are looking at buying metro bus, which is owned by two businesses. both, and many acquisitions are subject to regulations and antitrust approvals, for the medium-sized companies can no longer invest in digitization. which is the name of the game. so we have a very strong balance sheet. we have almost no debt. we have been very disciplined, and terms of mergers and acquisitions. in buying companies that are multiple, but buying when they make sense. and i think we have a very strong track record. being family-owned, 6