>> and terry moran joins us live from brussels, as well, tonight. terry, it would appear the attackers might have been right under their nose in neighborhoods that had been investigated already. why has it been so difficult to get these guys before the attacks? >> reporter: you know, david, belgium has long been seen as a weak link in european counterterrorism. it's a divided country, divided by language, divided by politics, and immigrant communities are not well assimilated. every country has cracks and kref valss where criminals and terrorists can hide. here, those cracks are a mile wide. david? >> terry moran, thank you. >>> and the terror attacks there in brussels putting americans on edge here at home. especially at airports and train stations. the subways. this plane arriving in orlando today from brussels forced to stop far from the terminal. a line of police cars meeting there. it was all a precaution while they searched the luggage. and partal of the denver airport evacuated today after a security scare there. and in the subways and on tra

>> terry moran, thank you. >>> and to a new warning tonight for american families in turkey. the state department and the pentagon ordering pellives of u.s. diplomats and military personnel in the southern part of that country to return home. that area includes an air base, where american forces support the war against isis. the government saying there are increased threats from terror groups. it was just ten days ago, a suicide bomber striking in istanbul, killing five people, including two americans. >>> back here at home tonight, and to an investigation under way at this hour, after a fiery collision between a car and a commuter bus. authorities want to know if there was more at play here. a fireball erupting, and good samaritans rushing in to help. one of them jumping on top of a burning car. two people trapped inside. and tonight, major questions about what triggered it all. abc's clayton sandell in california. >> look, he's kicking in, there's someone in there! >> reporter: dramatic video, taken moments after a car and bus collide in los angeles. >> back up! back up! >>

>> terry moran in belgium for us. terry, thank you. >>> and the terror attacks there in brussels putting americans on edge here at home. especially at airports and train stations. the subways. this plane arriving in orlando today from brussels forced to stop far from the terminal. a line of police cars meeting them there. it was all a precaution, while they searched the luggage, because of where it was coming from. and part of the denver airport evacuated today after a security scare there. and in the subways and on trains across this country, hundreds more police now on duty. abc's linsey davis on the major show of force right here in new york city tonight. >> reporter: these images of the bombed-out subways in brussels striking fear into the hearts of american commuters. across the country tonight, a heightened state of vigilance. in new york city, thousands of additional officers at the ready. >> this is something we think about every minute of every day. >> reporter: beefed up security monitoring the subway, comple

abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran is in belgium for us tonight. >> it's okay. >> reporter: a routine morning became the scene of carnage. >> stay down. stay down. >> reporter: as brussels, known as the capital of europe, became the target of two separate terrorist attacks. >> what it was, a truck or bus. it was a terrorist. >> reporter: twin blasts hit brussels international airport, filling the terminal with smoke and shattered glass. >> big bang. everybody cried and came along here. you saw kind of smoke, you know. >> reporter: and then an hour later another explosion at the maalbeek metro station. isis has claimed responsibility for the deadly terror attacks that left at least 31 dead and at least 250 injured. tonight, 15 local hospitals are treating the victims. this nail was recovered from a victim's body, possibly indicating a nail bomb was cuesed in cues ed used in these attacks. the terror started at 8:00 a.m. in the departures terminal of brussels airport. >> there have been explosions in the terminal hall. >> reporter: two bombs exploding just minutes apart. one

>> all right, terry moran with us live from belgium tonight. terry, thank you. >>> and among the survivors i spoke with today, a pregnant woman in the airport. her husband lying on top of her, moments after the explosions. i spoke with her a short time ago. >> we heard an explosion, and we thought something was going on and the debris started falling on us. >> pieces of the ceiling were falling down on you? >> yeah, i mean, the debris was falling on us from the roof, we thought the roof was going to collapse. >> you're pregnant. and it was your husband's instinct to try to protect you from the falling debris? >> yeah, so, he immediately ran to me and he grabbed me and he kind of tried to cover me, because in his head, we discussed later, he thought that there's probably still gunmen around. >> can you describe for me the scene inside for the other passengers who were there? how terrifying this was? >> yeah, i'm -- i'm -- i was very, very shocked, because in a really strange way, i was extremely calm and alert, and, like, it was an out of body ex

we turn to chief foreign correspondent terry moran in brussels with tonight's developments. >> so you never saw your neighbors? >> never seen him. >> you didn't know they were making bombs? >> reporter: tonight in the heart of this city of fear, we're outside the apartment of brussels attackers made into a virtual bomb factory. the alleged bombmaker now believed to have blown himself up. the building scoured by investigators in protective gear as seen in this video captured by a neighbor, searching for clues and for the whereabouts of this man in the dark hat standing next to two suicide bombers who are still at large tonight. a bomb factory in the middle of this brussels neighborhood and people have a lot of questions. how could the landlord not know? how could the government, which it seems almost incredible that no one saw anything. it was an attack that shook this city to its core. two bombs detonated at the brussels airport. then another inside the molenbeek train station. at least 31 kill and the 300 injured in the attacks. the human cost seen everywhere. 150 people still in hos

here's abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran. >> it happened so quick. ceiling starts falling. you don't really know what's happening. >> reporter: tonight in a brussels hospital, sebastian bellin says he is lucky to be alive. he was hit by the bomb blasts during tuesday's terrorist attacks at the airport here. >> because i fell to the ground, when the second explosion went on, all the shrapnel missed me i think. but my leg was just complete lyly severs, i was in shock. i tried to move as quick as i could but i couldn't move anything. >> reporter: we visited the former oakland university basketball player. >> the whole -- the whole time i was just -- just trying to tell myself, i'm going to make it, i'm going to make it, i'm going to make it. when i got to the ambulance, i knew i was good. but until then -- no idea. >> reporter: brussels is wounded too. and the city is now trying to recover as well, following the and the molenbeek train station that killed at least 31 people and left at least 300 injured. day and night here now the raids, the searches, t

terry moran, abc news, the supreme court. >> it didn't take long for the political backlash against the nomination to start. senate republicans have said since the death of antonin scalia, that the next president should pick someone to replace mitch mcconnell made that position clear in a senate floor speech. >> it's the senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent. >> at least six of his republican colleagues including judiciary committee chairman chuck grassry say they're at least open to meeting with gar land. ted cruz is not one of them. in a statement about garland, cruz said he would undermine second amendment gun rights and legalize late term abortion stlooz let's talk about the republican presidential hopefuls. donald trump, ted cruz and john kasich who are now actually focusing on next tuesday's primaries in arizona and utah. they were supposed to debate in utah on monday. but when trump with drew, followed quickly by kasich, the event was cancelled. trump says given his big delegate lead, republicans should be rallying around him. he'

terry moran has more. >> reporter: that red circle identifying the man who would later allegedly hijack the egyptair flight. 6:36 a.m. the plane takes off from alexandria bound for an airbusa320. 55 passengers, 7 crew on board on a 45-minute flight but heads north over the mediterranean and passengers are quietly told they're hijacked. this woman was sitting near the front of the plane. what went through your mind? >> i thought we'll either end up in the sea and he will take the plane and crash it in the sea and die or he'll explode. >> reporter: about an hour and 20 minutes later the plane lands in cyprus and the standoff begins and the suspect, seif eldin mustafa, and he claims to be wearing a suicide belt packed with explosives. mustafa demands to see his ex-wife who lives in cyprus. but soon he releases most of the passengers and they board buses but he keeps four passengers and seven crew as hostages. as the morning drags on the president of cyprus briefs reporters on the hijacking even jokes about it. >> it's not something which has to do with terrorism. always there is a woman vo

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here's abc's terry moran. >> reporter: accused by kurdish authorities of fighting for isis, the young american, born in virginia, tells a very different story. it was all about a girl, he told kurdish tv in iraq. >> i made a bad decision to go because i wasn't thinking straight. >> where are you from? >> united states. >> reporter: mohamad jamal khweis, 26 years old, captured monday by kurdish peshmerga fighters near sinjar, iraq. he says he left the u.s. last december and made his way through europe to syria, and then mosul in iraq, his girlfriend's hometown. but he hated it there. >> it's not like the western countries. i found it hard for everyone there. >> reporter: and khweis has a message. >> the life in mosul, it's really, really bad. the people who are controlling mosul don't represent the religion -- isis is, isil. they don't represent the religion. >> reporter: u.s. officials say roughly 250 americans have traveled to the middle east to join extremist groups. khweis says that's not him, but he will surely face hard qu investigators about what exactly he was doing in isis ter

>> all right, our chief foreign correspondent terry moran tonight. terry, thank you, as as. >>> and to another headline tonight involving the fight against isis. secretary of state john kerry today accusing isis of committing genocide against christians and other muslim groups in iraq and syria. the terror group blamed for thousands of deaths, many forced to convert to islam or be killed. today's announcement is not expected, though, to change america's military strategy against isis. >>> back in this country now, and we move on to dangerous storms across parts of this country tonight. severe thunderstorms damaging homes and businesses in the dallas area tonight. hail pounding away at drivers on golfball-sized hails from texas all the way to florida, and of course, meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all for us. >> reporter: that's going to be the main threat tonight is hail. we've had reports of tornadoes, one in southern mississippi. this is the threat zone. this may be extended into the florida panhandle area. several ways of convection, really

>> terry moran here in brussels with me tonight. terry, thank you. >>> and next, to the heartbreak of the families of the americans hurt or still missing tonight. the state department saying they don't have names or an official list of the missing, but there are many families still waiting, still hoping. tonight here, the stories behind those faces, and the american survivors tonight, including the young man from washington, d.c. who was in the subway during the explosion, and who helped pry open that door so everyone could escape. tonight, we found him right here in brussels, taking us back into the subway, where they searched our coats. he told me he has never seen security like this here before. ashley running straight into her family's arms in new york, still wearing the same clothes she had airport. the powells from houston, texas, getting word that her 21-year-old stepson has been found. he woke up in a hotel lobby, turned triage center, with no memory of the subway attack. >> yes, it's over, it's like -- >> reporter: heroic s

terry moran live from our london bureau. thank you for that update >>> after the recent terror attacks many are wondering how a passenger got a plane possibly with a bomb. >> moments ago, we spoke with steven ganyard. >> you remember the recent downing of the russian airliner in the sinai. it points to how weak security actually is in egypt, so this certainly isn't surprising that a domestic flight where the security was probably quite poor allowed somebody to get on board with either a weapon or a bomb. >> and, steve, colonel, tell us about the security issues for flights in this particular part of the world. of course, you were mentioning the egyptair or the flight from sharm el sheikh a little earlier but security at this particular airport in this part of the world. >> it's -- egypt has had a problem with aviation security for a long time. we've seen it tragically pointed out recently. i think one of the things that's interesting here to me is that remember in the '70s and '80s there were lots of hijackings that were don

abc's chief foreign correspondent terry moran with the new video. authorities of fighting for isis, the young american, born in virginia, tells a very different story. it was all about a girl, he told kurdish tv in iraq. >> i made a bad decision to go with the girl, to go to mosul. because i wasn't thinking straight. >> where are you infrom? >> united states. >>. >> reporter: mohammed jamal kw khweis, 26 years old, captured monday by kurd ishish peshmerga fighters near sinjar, iraq. he says he left the u.s. last december and made his way then to mosul in iraq. >> it's not like the western you know, it's very strict, there's no smoking, and i found it hard for everyone there. >> reporter: and he k has a message. people is that the life in mosul is really, really bad. the people who control mosul don't represent the religion, isis, isil, they don't represent >> reporter: u.s. officials say upwards of 250 americans have traveled to the middle east to join extremist groups. khweis says that's not him, but he surely faces a lot of hard questions from u.s