mywife has been on the phone with family members there in belgium as well. the explosion, the images, the explosion near the metro system at eu headquarters, those are the images right there. the brandweer that is the department. belgium is the flemish, french and also german, a trilingual country. and the flemish and the french city. it is a very peculiar city in that regard. people think of belgium as the french city. but the truth is there are more area than french. >> and we should mention our ordered a shelter in place for all citizens in brussels. and let's not forget this is among other things the capital of europe. so it is a strategic target. also a symbolic target and as we've been talking this morning, brussels itself, particularly this neighborhood known as molembeek has been in recentise a hot bed of islamic radicalism and something that's been very difficult for the belgian authorities to get ahold of. you mentioned the laws. i read in the newspaper this morning that in the search for abdeslam that paris terror suspect just recently arrested, a