keir simmons is in london. let's keep in mind as we come to you, keir, where we have a situation where all air traffic in and out of belgium has now@ been closed and metro traffic in the city of brussels have been brought to a standstill. keir? >> reporter: that's right, matt. when you look at the pictures from the airport, it appears from them that a significant explosion has taken place. windows blown out, debrbr strewn around. you're just struck when you lk at those photos without knowing the details of exactly what took place, matt, by the force of the kind of an impact, and then we have the reports as kelly cobiella was mentioning at the metro stations. one eport saying smoke coming from mole lamb beak where they have been looking for a number of jihadists and where salah abdeslam was friday. there are pictures there of that particular metro station. if there were othehe metro stations hit, too, then clearly are talking about a number of attacks in a number of different places carried out by a number of di

let's go to keir simmons, i believe keir has information. i should mention that the belgian prosecutor has said at least in the wake of the airport attack this does appear to be a suicide attack. keir, what can you add? >> reporter: that's right, savannah, with the sweeping fear across brussels u.s. embassy is telling u.s. citizens to avoid public transport. belgium's prime minister is urging people to stay within their area. holding an emergency council to see how they will react in france. all of this gives you a picture, savannah, of authorities scrambling whether this is it, or whether there are others out there, more attacked d s planned. we've been snag aying in our reports since friday when abdeslam was arrested are there more he jihadists out there. there are reports that salah abdeslam was telling authorities that more attacks are planned. question is going to be are there others who still have explosives, still have wednesday, still intend to attack other places. perhaps in belgium, perhaps in other parts of europe. that will be th

keir, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, good evening, lester. tonight nbc news has learned that authorities believe they have located a bomb-making factory and have found additional suitcase bombs, one at a house near the airport, where this day of horror began. tonight police are hunting this man, as yet unnamed, seen in the airport with two others. those men officials believe blew themselves up moments later. the check-in area filled with smoke. >> stay down, stay down. >> reporter: baggage and children's strollers abandoned. a woman in shock holding her child, cowering in the corner. >> lots of people whose hands were covered with blood, and everyone is crying, and, yes, it's the first time i saw such a thing in my life. >> reporter: many injured, bleeding and many dead. killed by bombs packed with nailed, isis claiming responsibility for the horror. outside shattered windows and fractured nerves. >> all the luggage stays here! all the luggage stays here! >> reporter: hundreds fleeing on to the tarmac, smoke billowing from the airport buildin

let's get to keir simmons following this along with us. we just heard from the prime minister of b b bum what we feared all along. yes, indeed, this is a terror attack. >> that's right, savannah. brussels is in lock down now. rail stations, the airport, rams, buses, all shutting down for fear of a further attack around just aftft 8:00 a.m. local time. we first heard reports o some kind of an explosion at the airport and then we began to get the pictures of windows blown out and debris around. it was becoming clear quickly

>> keir simmons, stay there. we'll go back to you as we follow these developments. >> let's bring in our chief justice correspondent, pete williams, who talked to his sources this morning. pete, anything new you can add to this? >> a couple of points. one is we're expecting a statement shortly that, apparently, will come out of the white house. noting that the government is well aware of this. they're assessing and trying to decide what to do. there's been no formal guidance to airports or subway stations or train stations in the united states from the u.s. government. there have been internal messages from the usual places that keep these operations informed of attacks. these messages have been flowing for the past several hours, to let the operators of airports, train stations, subway stations in the u.s. know what happened, give the best information they have and urge them to take appropriate precautions. the security of all those facilities is not a federal matter. it's in the hands of local authorities. we o

keir, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, good evening, lester. tonight nbc news has learned that authorities believe they have located a bomb-making factory and have found additional suitcase bombs, one at a house near the airport, where this day of horror began. tonight police are hunting this man, as yet unnamed, seen in the airport with two others. believe blew themselves up moments later. the check-in area filled with smoke. >> stay down, stay down. and children's strollers abandoned. a woman in shock holding her child, cowering in the >> lots of people whose hands were covered with blood, and everyone is crying, and, yes, it's the first time i saw such a thing in my life. >> reporter: many injured, bleeding and many dead. killed by bombs packed with nailed, isis claiming horror. outside shattered windows and fractured nerves. >> all the luggage stays here! all the luggage stays here! >> reporter: hundreds fleeing on to the tarmac, smoke billowing from the airport building. >> you just feel like a wave, a wave go through your body. >> reporte

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let's go to keir simmons. keir has some information and i should menenon that the belgian prosecutor now said at least in theease of the airport attack this does appear to be a suicide attack. keir what more can you add? >> that's right. and sensing the fear sweeping electrical bass-- u.s. embassy to avoid belgian transport. the leader of trans, hollande is holding an emergency defense council to establish how they will react in france. all of t ts gives you a picture of whether there's others out this or more attacks are planned. we have been saying this in our reporting over the last few days, back to friday, are there more isis affiliated jihadists out there and to they have plans for another attack. there were repts that salah salah salah salah a salah abdeslam himself that more attacks were planned. will be are there others that still have explosives and weapons and still intend to attack other places. perhaps in belgium and other parts of europe and that will be the fear and part of that will be because

>> keir simmons, stay there. we'll go back to you as we >> let's bring our chief justice correspondent, pete williams, who talked to his sources this morning. pete, anything new you can add to this? >> a couple of points. one is we're expecting a statement shortly that, apparently, will come out of the white house. noting that the government is well aware of this. they're assessing and trying to decide what to do. there's been no formal guidance to airports or subway stations or train stations in the united states from the u.s. government. there have been internal messages from the usual places that keep these operations informed of attacks. these messages have been flowing for the past several hours, to let the operators of airports, train stations, subway stations in the u.s. know what happened, give the best information they have and urge them to take appropriate precautions. the security of all those facilities is not a federal matter. it's in the hands of local authorities. we only know of one specific plan

nbc's keir simmons is joining us with the latest on that.eir, you've been hearing about some of these on going operations. what do you know about what is unfolding right now? >> yeah, there is a police operation not far from here. we are simply hearing from witnesses that police have sealed off streets. there are helicopters in the air. we don't know how important that operation is. breaking news, too, ayman, we are hearing of the nine people who were arrested in recent days, three have been charged. those charges in connection with terrorism. we are getting more details. meanwhi meanwhile, the everything from president hollande saying they are in the process of annihilating terrorist cells but the threats still weigh on us. look at the dramatic pictures of one of the arrests. le armed officers pull away a little girl from a suspect. then they send in a bomb disposal robot, clearly fear that he may be a suicide bomber. finally when they convince that it's safe, they take the suspect away. so a picture of the kind of dramatic scenes that we h

keir, thank you. eamon is also here in brussels, he has been digging into a little bit more of the past when it comes to the suspects and people believe to have had carried out these attacks. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there is no doubt about it that belgium is continuing to try to piece together the pieces of the puzzle that led to this terrorist attack. a lot of that has to focus on various communities, partly because four of those suspects that were involved in the paris attacks plus these two brothers had ties to the district of maalbeek in brussels, but more important outside of brussels where we have come today, we have come to this neighborhood, this it is a success story but also a story of failure for the belgian government. they actually had one of the highest numbers per capita of foreign fighters that went to syria. i came here today to talk to the community about their fears, about their concerns and why this phenomena has taken hold in belgium and the answers are surprising

one is follow-up on what keir just talked about. the possibility that this change of events we have seen in brussels was pre planned, the other that it was accelerated because of the arrest of salah abdeslam. the other question and this is a question we talked about after paris and around the holiday time, is why belgium? why brussels? why has it become such a hot bed of terrorist activity. >> reporter: well there are reports now that the entire e.u., eu. officials are being so that would be a shut down of the pan-european government. at least temporarily. right after the arrest of abdeslam, the last known fugitive of the paris attack, we talked on air about what is going to happen. and i remember brian williams asked does this mean there are going to be more attacks or less? and at the time i said well there are one or two ways this could play out. one is that after they know, his colleagues and associates and conspirators know that a key person has been grabbed, they can either go underground or they can decide that their cover is

nbc's keir simmons remains in brussels. keir, good morning. >> reporter: craig, good morning.e suspects arrested has been charged and involved in that terrorism operation. meanwhile, we're hearing about another police operation in the schaerbeek area. president hollande of france saying we are annihilating the terrorists cells. the threat still weighs on us. take a look at the heart stopping images of one of the arrests yesterday. a child is taken away by armed officers who send inspect the guy. clearly suspected of being a e suicide bomber. meanwhile, mariah carey cancelling a concert. on twitter, she says for the safety of her fans and crew and band and everyone. the airport hoped to reopen in the days after the attacks. it will open tomorrow, but now they say it won't open until tuesday. they are struggling to get back to normal. >>> keir, thank you. >> the obama administration saying the war on isis and taking out the top number two in command. the pentagon says the u.s. special forces killed haji imam, in charge of the finances for isis. the u.s. successfully targeted oth

keir simmons joins me with the story of one radicalized young man. keir, what did you learn?, alex. like everyone around the world, people here in brussels have been left confused questioning why some young people from here would go to join isis and talking to young people themselves, parents, you get a picture of poverty, young naivete. some young people who have been involved in criminality leading them from the streets of brussels to syria. olivier holds up a picture of his son. >> my son shawn. >> he's good looking. >> good looking boy. >> he was 24 years old. >> used to break dance on the street and listen to music. >> three years ago olivier's son shawn was recruited to go to syria to help, shawn said, to fight against the syrian government. >> they promised them a future there, and they say to them, you can be a hero. you can change the world. >> he didn't make it home. >> so my son die in few months after. >> reporter: and syria itself was dying. in the civil war there, isis was born, recruiting more westerners in poor neighborhoods. those who join consider it like fa

our keir simmons reports from brussels. >> reporter: salah abdeslam arrested made gunfire and explosions. may have been planning another attack. >> he was ready to restart something from brussels. it maze in theis maybe the reality. we have found weapons. heavy weapons. >> reporter: his knowledge of the paris massacre last november that may be crucial. since salah abdeslam was discovered in this building in there are many questions surrounding the attacks in paris that he could answer. the explosives used in the paris attacks, tatp, require an experienced bomb maker. who was he? where is he? according to "the new york times," which says it has seen a police report, french investigators describe salah abdeslam as the logistics guy. so can he detail the original plan? while reports confirmed by nbc news reveal the suspected ringleader, adbelhamid abaaoud hid in bushes three nights after the attacks. had something gone wrong? ultimately he died during a paris police raid, leaving abdeslam as the only known living member of the paris cell. how much does he know? >> >> extremely proficient at

keir simmons tonight, thank you. >>> back in the u.s., to an investigation at los angeles international airport where a person thought attendant took off running after being selected for a random secondary screening. it happened on friday, and investigators say today she left behind her shoes and a bag with 60 pounds of cocaine. nbc etom costello has details. >> reporter: in plus custody at l.a.x. neatly wrapped and stacked bricks of cocaine, 60 pounds of it confiscated after a flight attendant allegedly tried to get a security checkpoint in terminal four. police say the suspect not in uniform flashed a jetblue i.d. but was randomly selected for a secondary screening. that's when she grabbed her bags and began running from the checkpoint and quickly dropped the bags and kicked off her gucci shoes and ran down an up escalator. last seen running towards terminal five. experts saying the fact that she got away and cocaine nearly got through are big red flags. >> today it's employee smuggling drugs. tomorrow it could be be a employee smuggling guns. the day after tomorrow smuggling a bomb.

let's go to keir simmons. keir has some information and i should mention that the belgian prosecutor now said at least in the case of the airport attack this does appear to be a suicide attack. keir what more can you add? >> that's right. and sensing the fear sweeping across brussels the u.s. electrical bass -- u.s. embassy to the leader of trans, hollande is holding an emergency defense council to establish how they will react in france. all of this gives you a picture of whether there's others out this or more attacks are planned. we have been saying this in our reporting over the last few days, back to friday, are there more isis affiliated jihadists out there and to they have plans for another attack. there were reports that salah salah salah salah a salah abdeslam himself that more attacks were planned. the question now for officials will be are there others that still have explosives and attack other places. perhaps in belgium and other parts of europe and that will be the fear and part of that will be b

keir simmons, nbc news, brussels. >>> now to a bizarre chase in southern minnesota. police were after an 11-year-old boy who stole a cement truck and took it on a joy ride. the police say he swiped it from a local contractor and led the police. it went an hour and a half. eventually the boy was stop and aid rested and taken to the juvenile detention center. luckily no one was hurt flank. >>> today is the first full day of spring. the northeast. brr. some snow fell in some places already. >> boston has no school. snow day on this first monday of spring. you notice the spring is most heaviest in eastern portions of new england, the snow is over around delaware, d.c., wilmington. new york city has about an hour or two. but it's not thickening. all the roads, no issues. northward, that's where it's accumulating. east ward is where it's steady and then 95 up to bangor eventually is where the snow will be. fall. the plows will be out here with up to 8 to 10 inches of snow. bangor to portland, anywhere from 4 to 5 inches. boston, 2 to 4 on top of the 2 you already have and

keir simmons, nbc news, brussels. >> turning to the race for president and ted cruz unleashing on donald trump after the republican front-runner fanned the flames in the war over their wives on social media. this as the polls show that trump may have a serious problem with women voters. nbc's hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: a single retweet reigniting the fight between the front-runners. donald trump showing this photo to his 7 million followers. his wife side by side with ted cruz's, with the phrase, the images are worth a thousand words. >> donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave heidi the hell alone. >> will you support him as the nominee? >> i'm going to beat him for the nomination. >> he's leading right now. you just looked in that camera and said he's a coward. >> donald trump will not be the nominee because donald trump is a train wreck. >> reporter: cruz cr taking his tough entone yet. >> trump's campaign manager dismissive, saying of cruz this is his effort to gain attention to try and stay relevant in a race that he has lost and insisting trump has great relationsh

keir simmons is in brussels tonight with the very latest. >> reporter: jose, good evening. tonight police are standing guard outside the apartment why abdeslam was captured along the street there. they spent the day questioning him. and officials say he is providing answers. charged with participating in terrorist murder, salah abdeslam was transferred in a convoy, escorted by a police chopper to a high security prison today. shot in the leg in last night's raid, abdeslam is now cooperating, his lawyer says, admitting driving some attackers to paris, according a french prosecutor, claiming he planned to blow himself up, then backtracked. victims of the attack taking it in tonight. >> i wouldn't say it's a relief that he's been arrested. to be honest, the first thing i felt when i heard the news was numb. >> reporter: they want to see him back in france for trial. abdeslam is preparing a legal fight. >> he's refusing extradition to france. >> reporter: his capture stunning. nbc news has new details. tuesday, a routine house raid led to a shootout. one was killed. abdeslam es

nbc's keir simmons has late details from brussels. >> reporter: gunfire on a sidewalk special forces aim at a suspect. they drag him to a police car. he's falled and then bundled into the back and a crowded street close by people flee as more gunfire belgian television an explosion. the dramatic police raids capturing europe's most wanted terrorist, 26-year-old salam abdeslam on the run since the paris massacre which killed 130 people. tonight president obama called to congratulate belgium's prime minister who appeared with the french president announcing the news. abdeslam, one of ten isis members identified by investigators as taking part in the paris attacks, all now either died carrying them out, were killed or captured. he had been on the run from police for four months. the morning after the attacks he's seen on surveillance video in northern france at a gas station. he caught a ride with friends and then making it through a border checkpoint and into belgium. the manhunt accelerating when his suspected suicide vest was found abandoned in paris later that month. twice since, on

nbc's keir simmons has late details from brussels. >> reporter: gunfire forces aim at a suspect. they drag him to a police car. he's falled and then bundled into the back and a crowded street close by people flee as more gunfire erupts, and live onbelgian television an explosion. the dramatic police raids capturing europe's most wanted t, 26-year-old salam abdeslam on the run since the paris massacre which killed 130 people.night president obama called to congratulate belgium's prime minister who appeared with the french president cing the news. abdeslam, one of ten isis members identified by investigators as taking part in the paris attacks, all either died carrying them out, were killed or captured. he had been on the run from police for four months. th attacks he's seen on surveillance video in northern france at a gas station. friends and then t through a border checkpoint and into belgium. the manhunt accelerating when his was found abandoned in paris later that month. twice since, once in december and again prosecutors said his fingerprints had been found in raids in brusse

keir simmons, nbc news, brussels. >>> back at home, the race for president becoming for personal. a nasty turn into a war over wives. this as new polls show donald trump have the trouble with female voters. nbc's hallie jackson reports. >> reporter: a single retweet re-igniting the fight between the front-runners. donald trump showing this photo to his 7 million followers. his wife side by side with ted cruz with the phrase, the images are worth 1,000 words. >> donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave headey the hell alone. >> donald trump will not be the nominee because donald trump is is a train wreck. >> reporter: cruz taking husband tough is tone yet. >> donald doesn't like strong women. strong women scare donald. >> reporter: and the campaign manager, dismissing it. he insists trump has great relationships with women. megyn kelly whom trump attacked repeatedly asking about the tweet, simply, "seriously?" half the voters couldn't imagine picking trump more than other of his rivals and among women, seven in ten have a negative view of trump. >> nobody respects women more tha

so, ayman, you did hear from keir that it was a fairly swift and fairly peaceful end. a few people injured, a few arrests. talk about the atmosphere now in that square where you seem to have something very different going on, a lot more peaceful and a lot more positive. >> absolutely. i would safely say that the atmosphere has returned to what it has been all week long. it is actually a beautiful day here, by belgian standards. the sun is out, it's a clear sky. cool temperatures, but more importantly, the high temperatures of anxiety that we saw earlier today seem to now have dissipated. in fact, a short while ago, there was a peruvian band playing here. folks gave them a huge round of applause. we saw families coming back out after the square cleared, relatively quickly with the arrival of the far right wing group and the presence of police which quickly escalated, if you will, but as the particular right-wing group was pushed out, the crowds filters back in. and in fact, a short while ago, they unfurled all of the flags that had been tied together that had been hung

. >> nbc's keir simmons is joining us now from brussels. keir, welcome to you. what new details have you learned? >> reporter: good morning, alex. let's take you through the charges against various people in this long and complex release from the belgian prosecutors' office. faycal c. is charged with terrorist assassinations. from that charge you can read into that that he is clearly thought to be very much involved. perhaps you could translate terrorist assassinations as effectively terrorist murder. that is potentially the charge that the prosecutor's office says they're laying against someone they are describing as faycal c., they just release his first name in these charges. to talk about two others, there is a man they're describing as rabba m., charged with terrorist group, and another man, participating in terrorist activities. meanwhile they're extending the time they're going to hold a man seen in dramatic video where he is on the ground, shot in the leg, armed officers approach him and appear to try to coax what looks like a child away from him. very t

lester. >> keir simmons tonight in belgium, thanks. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has covered this manhunt from paris to brussels and beyond. richard, what do you make of this takedown? >> reporter: lester, i think the most revealing aspect of all of this is location. why did he go back to his home neighborhood? and i think it reveals how isolated he was. you see, from isis' perspective, abdeslam was a failure. the other attackers all died in the attack, and if you're an isis suicide commando, the group does not expect you to survive. he couldn't go to syria now having failed in this attack. he couldn't slip away back into isis-held territory. so he went back home, where he still had a network of friends and supporters who were able to shelter him. perhaps belgian authorities should have been looking in the most obvious place all along. >> the question of course what can he tell authorities? richard, thank you. >>> let's turn now to a late-breaking political development at home. just two weeks after his scathing public

nbc's keir simmons reports from brussels on the raid that captured him. >>> gunfire on a sidewalk. special forces aim at a suspect. they drag him to a police car. he falls. people flee as more gunfire erupts. and live on belgium television, an explosion. the dramatic police raid capturing europe's most wanted terrorist, 26-year-old salah abdel salaam. president obama called to congratulate belgium's prime minister who appeared with the french president announcing the news. he's one of ten isis members identified by investigators as taking part in the paris attacks. all now either died carrying them out, were killed or captured. he has been on the run from the police for four months. finally police closed in on him. the top terror suspect who was able to avoid capture for so long even in a major european capital. now potentially providing investigators with an intelligence gold mine. >> this case is all about intelligence. the ability to look and see if there are other pending attacks or those that are in place right now. additionally, they'll be looking at other co-con spiritors. w

tomorrow morning, lester, will mark a week since the attacks. >> all right, keir.russels not alone in its grief. the death toll rising in another unthinkable massacre overseas. at least 72 people are dead. half of them are children, and at least 320 others injured after a taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy park right near a playground, targeting christians as they celebrated easter in pakistan. nbc's bill neely is there. >> reporter: tonight the unbearable mourning has begun. a 16-year-old laid to rest, and she is far from even the youngest victim of the easter sunday horror. the bomb was felt by thousands. packed with shrapnel, it tore through a crowded park, killing scores. most of them and young children. they were taking rides when the bomb exploded, he says. tiny shoes were blown off. tiny bodies shattered. 10-year-old sahad ali was badly injured, but he's lost his parents, sister, cousins, ten from his family. what can be more painful, asks his uncle, than this? the park has always been popular, packed during holidays. it would have been just li

as keir simmons reports, some never make it back. >> reporter: olivier holds up a picture of his son. >> that was my son sean. he's a really good boy. >> reporter: he was 24 years old. >> he used to break dance on the street and listen to music. >> reporter: three years ago, olivier's son sean was recruited to go to syria to help, sean said, to fight against the syrian government. >> they promised them a future there. and they said to them, you can be a hero, you can change the world. >> reporter: he didn't make it home. >> so my son died a few months after. >> reporter: and syria itself was dying in the civil war there. isis was born, recruiting more westerners in poor neighborhoods like molenbeek, brussels. those who joined consider it like family, this young man from molenbeek told me, too terrified to be identified. for them, it's the only family they have. others who joined had criminal records. like the men who blew themselves up at brussels airport. europe's intelligence agencies now fear hundreds have returned to their european neighborhoods to die launching attacks like bruss

keir simmons in belgium, keir, thank you. he first day of spring there is snow in the forecast. millions in new england set to say snow today. say it ain't so. >> i'm sorry, but yes.his morning, we're going to see heavier snow around 12:30 tonight. we're looking at our best chance of snow across southeastern massachusetts, though you see the yellow in jersey, we have a winter weather advisory. we are still going to see some snow. it is not going to be all that much. across southeastern ack to rhode island higher snow totals. here is the storm as we go into this afternoon. you see a few spotty showers. into tonight, through central and southern new jersey. as we continue through the overnight, we see the snow fill in, especially across eastern long island, rhode island andmassachusetts. now, this storm backs a little further to the west, we'll see higher totals in boston and across long island. the storm itself looks like it is going to stay far enough ttheast of nantucket. that is where we see our heaviest snow. so close to cape cod andat will help cause a little more mixing. we

keir simmons, nbc news, brussels. >>> now to a bizarre chase in southern minnesota. police were after an 11-year-old boy who stole a cement truck and took it on a joy ride. cops say the boy swiped the truck from a local contractor and later hit two police vehicles. the chase lasted for about an hour and a half, long enough to draw spectators. eventually the truck stopped and the boy was arrested and taken to a juvenile detention center. fortunately nobody was hurt. >> bill karins is here. >> one storm exiting new england and another moving onshore in the northwest. for two days we'll watch the storm move through. rains north of the san francisco area. as fares what we're going to deal with, it's this area in northern california that will get heaviest rain. as we go to the north, a batch of rain that's hard heading down i-5. this storm system will be with us today for the morning commute. snow at the highest of elevations. even passes will be questionable. above 7,000 to 8,000 feet will be the worst of it. tomorrow this storm moves into the northern rockies with some

>> keir simmons, thank you. >>> a new report, the first of its kind, is rating the safety of headlights on some of the most popular cars on the road with some surprising results. many of the most expensive cars did the worst and all but one failed to be rated good. nbc's miguel almaguer shed some light on results all drivers should hear. >> reporter: with nearly half of all traffic accidents occurring in the dark, tonight a study about headlights by the insurance institute for highway safety, shining a new light on a dark danger, raising concern for allen and nancy hinabush. >> i haven't thought that much about headlights. >> reporter: the institute studied 31 2016 mid-sized vehicles. the toyota prius v with l.e.d. lights and high-beam assist were the only car to rank good and 20 other vehicles are acceptable or marginal, one-third ranked poor. the most expensive doing the worst. >> the worst vehicle only lights up the road about 130 feet down the road compared to the best performing vehicle which can see 400 feet down the road. >> reporter: the study found many headlights are for style

keir simmons, nbc news, >>> officials in indiana are investigating whether a distraction caused a woman to drive her car into a school bus carrying a high school basketball team this weekend. the bus rolled over, but remarkably everyone survived. steve patterson has details. >> reporter: a startling scene that seemed tragic. >> oh, sweet jesus. >> reporter: a school bus on its back half crushed. on board, 27 passengers, members of the griffith high school basketball team, heading to the big state tournament. their hoop dreams side swiped by a seemingly distracted driver. police say in the next lane, a 23-year-old driver lost the lid on her drink, spilling it losing control of her car swerving it into the side of the bus. >> my buddies on the ground, can't move, can't walk. it really hurt. >> reporter: a surgeon from north carolina who happened to be driving by stopped to help. >> honestly, even as a trained health professional, you see every parent's worst nightmare. and you fear goes through you, horror. >> reporter: police are investigating the crash and no one has been charged. remar