>> 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

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.

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

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. >> 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

there have been raids going on across belgium today, and that's where we begin with nbc's keir simmons. he has new information just coming in. 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

>> 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 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

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

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

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

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, 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

nbc's keir simmons has >> reporter: stunning images of the moment when europe's most wanted terrorist was captured. abdeslam. the dramatic video shows his safehouse surrounded by police. he bursts out and runs down the street. officers open fire. shot in the leg, he is led away. and tonight police launching a new manhunt for another suspect, najim nashwari, described as dangerous, his dna found at reising locations housing explosives. belgian officials say despite arresting abdeslam who drove suicide bombers to the stadium they are far from solving the puzzle of how isis carried off the massacre. abdeslam telling investigators he was preparing more attacks. filmed from a rooftop the arrest of abdeslam fleeing from this the sidewalk raises multiple questions. why did it take four months to find him and how many others are planning attacks? intelligence failures before the paris attacks include allowing known isis operatives to return to europe, buy guns and prepare explosives. the agencies that fail to track him now scrambling to find other isis recruits. >> to my mind this does strike

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

. >> nbc's keir simmons joins us now. what can you tell us? >> matt, across europe, people have been braced for something like this. the belgium prime minister saying this morning, what we feared would happen has happened. nbc news confirming so far, 26 fatalities. matt, this was a clearly accord nay -- coordinated and terrifying series of attacks in europe. brussels airport rocked by the explosions around 8:00 a.m. then the metro, close to the european government. the city is in lockdown. transportation shutdown. images emerging that tells a story of substantial blasts, causing extensive damage. there you can see terrified passengers fleeing from metro cars, heading down what must be get away from the explosion that has taken place in another carriage, in another part of that metro station. meanwhile, at the airport, the pictures we are seeing of windows blown out, of debris strewn around, tell a story of a bstantial explosive device. you have to simply look at this to see that this was a serious blast. two blasts, we're being told by belgium

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 dif

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, no one was hurt. >>> let's get down to business with cnbc's landon dowdy. good morning. >> hey betty. long time, no see. good to see you. prices at the pump are moving higher and the average price of regular unleaded rising nearly 25 cents in the past month to $2.02 a gallon. that reflects higher oil prices due mainly to the weaker dollar. gas could rise even further as refiners switch to the more expensive blend of fuel for the summer. >>> meanwhile apple holds its annual spring product event today and the company is expected to unveil a new version of its smallest iphone the 5s with a faster chip, better camera, and the