. >> nema on the scene where it all happened just hours ago. join meing me now to talk about this raid, its effects and salah abdeslam's capture, paul cruickshank, bob baer and michael weiss. paul, if i could begin with you, how this raid materialized. the manhunt in effect, the trail had gone cold. this was a bit of luck that led them to him, was it not? >> jim, that's absolutely right. the trail really had gone stone cold since he got back to brussels the night after the attacks and melted away inside brussels. if you go back to tuesday afternoon in brussels, police launched a search on a propert, on an apartment in brussels. they were not expecting to find anybody there at all, but they had some intelligence that that address was linked in some way to the paris attacks. when they went in to try and search that property, there was a massive firefight that the three terrorists inside opened up on the police. the police were forced to retreat. one of the terrorists inside carried on, providing covering fire. he was eventually killed by a belgia