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America. Good morning, we are live all across the country and all time zones for the latest on those terror attacks unfolded in brussels, belgium, at 3 00 a. M. Eastern time during their morning rush hour. This is the scene as it unfolded, terrified passengers airport. Damage. At least two different attacks across the city this morning. Now. It is changing. At least two explosions hit that airport. Another rocked a metro station at least 28 people now killed. Dozens injured. All airport and Public Transportation in brussels now shut down and the terror level there raised to maximum. The u. S. Embassy advising americans in brussels to shelter there in place. Alert levels raised here in new york as well and other american cities, we have full coverage right now. Well begin with Alex Marquardt, he is on the scene at the latest. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning, george. Dramatic scenes here at the brussels zaventem airport. The edge of the Police Perimeter told to stop here, passengers talking about scenes of utter pandemonium inside. These two explosions now one of which we understand was from a suicide bomber coming just after 8 00 at the peak of travel time. You can see here there have been thousands of people streaming out from this airport just now a new wave of people with their bags, some clutching those Airline Blankets that weve all used. They have their bags with them. This is a calm scene here. But you can see their faces are drawn, very serious. Theres a lot of confusion, people trying to figure out how to get away from the airport. There are buses lined up taking people away. But the people we spoke to inside describe much more dramatic scenes and spoke to an eyewitness checking into the American Airlines counter when off about 30 yards away from him. He thought that it took place closer to the delta counter and thats going to be one of the things experts look into now is whether anything specifically was targeted in the airport but eyewitnesses talking about scenes of utter carnage, bodies on the floor of debris everywhere and Ceiling Tiles on the floor. Absolute chaos. Okay, alex. The first explosion occurred at 8 a. M. Witnesses describe the ceiling caving in water mixing with blood from the victims. It drop down on top of my girl and there was a second explosion. An American Girl next to me. The number of injured still being counted. Witnesses described it as a war zone. Circles in the air, the airplanes. Thereby explosions in the terminal hall. Thats why we dont allow anyone anymore. Reporter an explosion at the maelbeek subway station. A loud boom heard and First Responders ran through the street with people on stretchers. Their clothes badly torn. I just stood off the metro when we heard a loud muffled thud. More panic set it. Reporter as the belgian capital has been on high alert following the arrest of Salah Abdeslam last week. You can see these buses pull ago way with people inside. Those travelers being taken away from the airport. Station the entire brussels metro system shut down. We understand 15 People Killed in that attack in addition to 1 here. The entire Public Transit system across brussels including the airport, metro buses and trains has been shut down. European intelligence officials have been telling us more fronts it was not a question of if but when the next terrorist attack george. Okay, alex, thanks very much. Alex marquardt at the Brussels Airport. Want to turn to an eyewitness to the attack on the in et tree. Zoa, i understand you ran towards the metro when you heard about the explosion. What did you see . I saw a scene of probably around about a dozen to 15 people carried out of the metro lying outside the metro entrance an rue de la roi. The actual station itself, meters from the main scene of eu activity, the European Commission and the european council. Its around about 200 meters away from my office. So i was already basically there when i heard there had been attacks on maelbeek and i was running towards it to see what was going on. And a scene of chaos and you were able to see the wounded and casualties being taken out. Tell us more about this neighborhood. What is around this neighborhood. Around maelbeek its really just the heart of the european quarter. The European Commission and council nearby, very close within a few hundred meters, its up fro the shuman metrotation for the european quarter and coast to the parliament. Probably around a five to sevenminute walk. Those are the three main ones in brussels and close to the around there. Several embassies in that artsloi area and one stop in the opposite direction from maelbeek from schu uchltschuman. Zoya sheftolovich, thanks for that report. Well talk to christian pore the latest on security. Youre most familiar with what happened in the metro station. What is the latest that you can tell us, sir . Well, the information that i could gather is the fact that we had an explosion in the metro station called maelbeek. Several casualties, we have several people deceased, several people injured. But i dont have exact figures about the casualties yet now. Rapidly Fire Department and medical service and police were there is a large security perimeter installed now so that all those services can work on the scene. And the airport as well and what exactly are the services doing there right now, the police force doing right now at this hour . Well, for the Police Forces we have the past two protect the medical services working there and also to prevent people from entering the security perimeter so that there is no danger for the medical service and the Fire Departments to work. And, sir, there was no indication about an imminent attack of any sort . Well, normally terrorist attack, they dont prevent or they dont say on the forehand of course. And the heightened alert that you are under now, can you tell well, all public transport is shut down in brussels. There are no buses, no trams, no metro and the taken stations are also closed in brussels and the people are off to remain inside so that we, the police and Security Forces can work on the scene. All right, mr. Deconick, please know our thoughts are with everyone there. Thank you for joining us. Thanks. Want to go to our chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz in washington. Martha, we just heard the Brussels Police spokesman said they had no indication that this was coming. No specific intelligence but there was a great concern after the takedown of Salah Abdeslam in brussels earlier this week that that could trigger this kind of a followon attack . Thats exactly right, george. They feared that there was an attack that was planned and when he was arrested that they might do that attack early because they might have feared that something, tell them where it might happen so by all appearances, this terror attack was carried out quickly, they coordinated very quickly to get this going today. Whether airport it was or whether or not it was planned for several months from now we dont know. Theres certainly terror cells operating in europe. Belgium by the way is the largest supplier of European Countries of foreign fighters in syria and, of course, the fear is always that they will go into syria, they will fight with isis, they will get trained and they will come back out and head for europe to carry out these kinds of attacks. Martha, one of the biggest concerns this attack was able to be carried out in brussels despite the fact there had been such a heavy Police Presence, heavy intelligence presence especially in that molenbeek neighborhood where Salah Abdeslam was found for the four months since these terror attacks in paris. Completely focused on this, george. As you know back in november i was standing in that neighborhood and we were talking about the focus on that neighborhood right after those paris attacks, the city was virtually shut down in lockdown. Armored personnel carriers were everywhere on the street. You really couldnt go anywhere without seeing that Police Presence. Now, perhaps there was an attack planned for that time and perhaps they didnt carry it out because of that Police Presence but what happens is they then go dark. They go under ground and dont communicate with one another in the typical ways by cell phone or by internet. They can go on encrypted devices and can figure out a way to coordinate an attack like this where it will be, go after as we saw in this one those soft targets, i know people dont think of an airport as a soft target but that part of an airport is indeed a soft target. Im sure as we all know when we go into airports there is security. Some sort of security on the outside. In your car but you can get things inside, clearly you can get things inside. If there was a suicide bomber as is being reported at least one suicide bomber, they will find out how he got in there, where the car was, how they got there, and trace back do the forensics on trying to figure out who this person was, who else carried it out, we dont know whether or how many suspects there were, how many people may have carried this out. Whether it was on the tracks there in the subway system, how they got on to those tracks. There are going to be security video coming out and im sure well get a lot of questions answered. Its very hard to prevent Something Like this if they want to carry out an attack bomber. Thanks very much. Of course, joining us is ray kelly, the former Police Commissioner here in new york city and also Pierre Thomas and officials are monitoring whats happening so closely. What are you hearing from the government . Top Law Enforcement officials have been briefed includingeing Loretta Lynch and james comey. No threat to the United States they know of. They dont believe we have the sophisticated terror cells, networks that they have in europe but what theyre mosted concern about today is copycats, people who could be inspired by what theyre seeing and the fbi monitoring rough lyly 24 people. People who have been radicalized online through social media. That is the big concern someone here will react to it here. Ray kelly in new york city, a lot are waking up, just after 7 7 00 eastern time. What is going on in the city. I think what youre seeing now is deployment of uniformed officers, the officers that started work at midnight, they and see that particularly in the subway system. New york has the busiest subway system arguably in the world, 6 million travel that system every day so you want to increase the uniformed presence. What you probably wont see but may happen is a door knocking campaign. What do you mean. Concerned about they want them to know that, hey, were watching you. How are you doing . That sort of thing. Now, that may happen, may not happen. It depends on what the estimate is of fbi and nypd as to whether or not theres anybody with a tendency to be a copycat. And new york city always on high alert. Were always very vigilant and dill cent and whats going on. You had two major attacks here. Right. You had at least 20 terrorist attempts here in new york city. And new york city has responded well and has the unique capacity to put out a lot of uniformed officers on the street. Overlay of Police Officers so thats what youll see deployed in uniform obviously lots of things going on that you wont be able to see. We see more activity here in times square and as you were saying, pierre, what youre alluding to when we see whats going on in europe in recent months and the last year or so, as youre alluding to there has to be a concern why we would not think that that could possibly happen here in the u. S. Recent history is a guide. Think about paris attacks last november. For weeks the United States said, no specific credible threat then San Bernardino. That is the concern that you would have, that people would be inspired and then take action then thats hard to determine you have to have the intelligence beforehand. Thats why you have extend tiff campaign by the fbi looking at social media, looking at people who might be inspired by isis and one thing thats happened in the last six months or so, the were simply trying to travel to syria and join isis and planning to do things here they believe they stopped. Okay, pierre, thanks very much. To jon karl now. Traveling with the president in cuba and the president now has been briefed . Reporter thats right. The president was briefed well before dawn and, has his National Security team with him including National Security advisers susan rice, secretary of state john kerry. The state department is also issued a warning through the embassy in brussels to american citizens there thats quite stark, george. It says that american citizens should shelter in place and remind americans in belgium that there was a level 4 threat, a level 4 threat which means a serious and imminent danger a danger of a serious and imminent attack so clearly u. S. Officials were watching what was happening in belgium and well aware of the danger. Now the president has been briefed and has a packed schedule here for the rest of the day including later this nationally in cuba to the cuban people and then hes attending a baseball game. No indication from the white house that there will be any change to the president s schedule. In fact hes leaving from here to go on to argentina but, of course, as you well know, george, when the president travels on these trips he has his full National Security apparatus with him communications and all that. Full expectation hell continue the trip, complete the trip hes on right now. One thing we heard from the president in recent months is that this expectation that Martha Raddatz was talking about that we cannot have perfect security against this kind of threat when people are willing to take matters into their own hands and die in order to kill. Reporter the president has been walking a fine line here talking about taking a tough line against this terrorist threat, against isis but also trying to put it in context and saying, that the threat is something that must be looking at the threat as something that many people frankly in the view of the president have exaggerated. A very tough argument to make when you have another attack in the heart of europe with dozens more killed but the president s view is that there is no such thing as perfect security that yo contain this threat and deal with it i possible but put it i very much. Well go back to Alex Marquardt. You have been on the scene there in the Brussels Airport from the very beginning of all this. What is the latest youre hearing now, alex. Reporter people continue to stream out of here. There have been travelers coming out for the past four hours. There were thousands of people in that departure hall when the explosions went off. Just to give the viewers a sense of where this happened when we say departure hall the area before security before you would go through the xray machines and take off your shoes where there have been convoys of buses watching them now over here that keep going past, packed to the brim with people who were either landed. Its worth reiterating that all stopped. No planes going out or coming back in. People are in various states. Weve seen lots of emotion, lots of people crying, lots of people hugging. Around them. Others just confused by whats going on because they werent able to actually get inside the airport. But whats clear is now these the passengers from inside the terminal are being taken away from the airport. We understand that a makeshift hospital has been set up nearby. The latest figure from the belgian prosecutor is that 13 people were killed inside the airport, there are wounded. We dont have the figure on that. At least one of the two explosions was carried out by a 13 there and were hearing 15 in the metro owe overall at least 28 dead there. Many injured. Well going to take a short break. For some of you that is your local news and weather next and Team Coverage of these deadly terror attacks returns in just a moment here on good morning america. Multiple sclerosis . This is tecfidera. Tecfidera is not an injection. Its a pill for relapsing ms that has the power to cut relapses in half. Imagine what you could do with fewer relapses. Tecfidera may cause serious side effects, such as allergic reactions, pml, which is a rare brain infection that usually leads to death or severe disability, and decreases in your white blood cells. The most common side effects are flushing and stomach problems. Tell your doctor about infections, any other medical conditions, or if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. 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But we are just learning in the last few minutes that frourt will step up security at its three major airports, jfk, laguardia and newark. They will also have heavy weapons and highvisibility, antiterrorist patrols at the path as well as the world trade center. Now, there are a handful of direct flights to brussels do leave from jfk. We hav have all been canceled. All other though, here are on time for now. Righknow that np nppenitoring the situation cothm the situation as well as any further developments. Were told to expect increased Law Enforcement presence at many ewporcity locations, subways, major transit sgtsurialso told this is of an abundance of caution. Beefing beefing up security. Heathrow says they are beefing up police to present high visibility presence there. Back out here, passengers do tell us there is some anxiety when it comes toin g today and they say their hearts outsid jfostumeyewitness nealwslory, thanwe come back, 7 27. We check our commute with debbie duhaime. Reporter thanks a lot, ken. Well start off on the subways. Over on the f train seeing delays downtown with signal problems over in brooklyn. Lirr, metro north, new Jersey Transit on time right now. Slowdowns on the Grand Central west at 168th. Accident just cleared away. And still seeing delays on the sag to coast near pine air drive in brentwood with a collision. Alternate side parking rules are in effect. Back to you, ken. Debbie, thank you. Meteorologist amy freeze in for bill with the ken, its a chilly start out there, 35 degrees with a wind chill of 29, so gusty winds throughout the day coming out of the west, could go up to 20 miles an hour. Over the next seven hours we do crank up the temperatures, though, low to mid40s by noon, and were going for a forecast high of 52 degrees. Nothing on the radar. So some sunshine will look real nice today. Remember the breeze, thats colder. 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So we want to go straight to abcs Alex Marquardt on the scene there at the Brussels Airport. Good morning, again, to you, alex. Reporter good morning, robin. Thats right. Three confirmed explosions by the belgian authorities and belgian Prime Minister said this morning the country was struck in a cowardly way as we understand it right now the current death toll, 13 here during the from the double explosion this morning at the airport. In the center of brussels, the entire metro system has been shut down along with the rest of the belgian Transit System including buses, trams, trains and the airport also shut down, the only way in or out of this country right now is by car, in fact, we are just trying to hire a taxi and we are told they are all booked because people from here, from across belgium are trying to across brussels, rather, are trying to get out of the country. So theres a lot of confusion here at the airport. You can see theres a lot of movement. People streaming out by the hundreds, by the thousands from that departure hall where that took place, weve spoken with eyewitnesses who talked about scenes of pandemonium, scenes of carnage, one eyewitness due to fly to the states this morning on American Airlines said they saw debris all over the place and saw bodies, roof tiles that scenes of absolute chaos, i should say this is an attack that was expected. This was something that intelligence officials here in belgium and across europe go to sleep every night expecting to wake up to. Especially in the last few days because after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, who is known as eighth paris attacker, only surviving terrorist from those paris attacks that killed 130 people, after he was arrested on friday in a very dramatic raid after a fourmonth manhunt we were told by the interior ministry that could likely trigger a new terrorist attack and appears that is what has happened. It does appear that was the case. The arrest taking place about four days ago and then the attacks this morning. Okay, thanks to alex for that as well. I spoke withage eyewitness at the airport moments ago and asked him what he saw and heard, tao wongbae. To liberia. And i just passed the security when we saw where the bombing took place and we were being rushed and pushed away to the exit so we can evacuate. What did you see and what did you hear . Well, i didnt hear there was a shattered window. Some damages to the front. And Police Officers and other officers with guns. Just making sure everyone is okay and pushing people to the exit. How extensive was the damage you could see . It was extensive but we thought it was construction at at the time because they had changed some of the airport. I typically fly to this airport so i know where the security checkpoints should typically but onstruction but it was pretty badly damage. That. All transportation shut down, what about the airports here in the u. S. . Kerley. He covers aviation for us at abc news and, david, you have news on where the tsome a administratornow. He is in brussels, in fact, robin, he actually landed in brussels around the time of these explosion, its unclear before or after, we are told he was with a detail taken to a secure place in brussels and he is fine but great irony in the fact the man that runs security at our airports was actually landing in brussels at about the time. U. S. Carriers brussels. And we have heard from American Airlines that none of its employees at the ticket counter were injured. We have not heard from united on its employees one way or the other but both airlines had planes land, one from washington, one from newark land area to take the passengers off. One american flight had to divert to amsterdam as it stayed away from the Brussels Airport. Youre at reagan airport in d. C. Right now. What is the situation there and other airports across the country . Reporter the washington airports basically said theyre continuing their vigilance. The new york area airports, laguardia, jfk and newark stepped up inquiries and another paige airport tells me that they are adding Police Officers and canine units today. And you will see this across the board at mass transit according to federal officials, additional presence. A canine working at dca but behind me people going to the ticket counters heading down to the gates to head out on their flights knowing what has happened in brussels. Thats right, thank you. Robin, more now from dick we heard Alex Marquardt say this was expected especially after the takedown of Salah Abdeslam. Yet it could not be prevented. Well, george, lets looks chronology, the attack in paris was four months ago and that attack was directly linked to a cell in brussels. Then last week, a week ago today Belgian Police raided what they thought was an empty apartment but they found it filled with people who shot at them, wounded French Police and Belgian Police a week ago today. That raid gave them clues that led last friday to the arrest of the mastermind of the paris attack. When they raided his apartment, when they captured him, they said two things, one, they now knew that there was a much bigger cell network than they had previously known and, two, that further attacks were planned. That was friday. The attacks came today. They were unable during all of that four months to find the leader of the paris attacks and of the weekend and through monday to stop this new cell that they knew was out there. How do you explain that . Its very troubling, what it suggests is two thing, one, that this isis cell had very Good Communications capability that probably they were not using phones or internet, probably they were using curriers and all knew and trusted each other, the other thing they were living in this neighborhood outside of brussels, maelbeek which is frankly filled with isis sympathizers, the belgian Authorities Say theyre tracking 800 people in that neighborhood who may be isissympathizers. Matt olsen, walk us through what would be happening right now sign theyd center to forestall another attack in europe or here at home. The main thing, george, thats happen something that the analysts at the national fbi, across the u. S. Intelligence community are working with their european colleagues in particular, of course, the belgians but the french, the british, the germans to try to understand what intelligence everyone has about whats going on in europe in particular whats going on in brussels. The real goal right now is are there followon attacks has to be the primary concern. Is there anything in the works do we expect any more attacks, any more coordinated attacks in brussels or paris . Moving forward, of course, theres going to be an investigation that will start with the individuals, the suicide bombers, once those individuals are identified that will provide links to who else may have been involved because certainly these suicide bombers as dick clarke suggests, these guys arent acting alone, they are part of a cell in brussels and probably part of a Broader Network linking back to syria. Okay, matt olsen, dick clark, thanks very much. Well take a short break and back with our live Team Coverage in brussels and the threat level here in the u. S. Well talk about that as well. 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This of course critical the fbi says for them to try to learn the operations of terrorists. Wanted terrorists, people that theyre trying to investigate to see what their plans might be, the encryption on the iphone making it so difficult, Law Enforcement says for them to get in, they had said they needed apples help, now the federal government saying they believe they can hack in on their own, robin. May not need it after all their help. All right. Lets bring in both Pierre Thomas, our chief justice correspondent and legal analyst dan abrams. What a significant break it could be. Weve seen james comey putting so much pressure on apple. They want to know whats inside the phone associated with one of the San Bernardino aing thatters. Now clearly they have an outside group that could possibly help them get inside the phone. Thats preferable and want to get in there as soon as possible rather than go through the protracted legal battle but Law Enforcement is keeping that group nonpublic at the moment so pressure or potential threats. Meantime, dan abrams, in the midst of all this you had these attacks in brussels as well. How does that factor into the legal case. These legal fight also continue no matter whether the government has a workaround in this particular case broadly these legal battles between Companies Like apple and the government are going to continue. And theres just no question that when you have an environment where the public is feeling the pressure of terror attacks, legislators feel that pressure, judges feel that pressure. Supposed to feel that, right. In theory theyre supposed to be interpreting the law. Theyre human beings and do respond to whats happening in the world. Let me ask pierre another question. After all this time, getting into the phone, what could they possibly have in there that point . Did they have any support . Are there other attacks being plannedy a potential theyre concerned about and why its critical. Okay, pierre and dan, thanks a short break and back with all the latest on the debtly terror attacks in belgium. Thats charmin ultra strong, dude. Cleans so well, it keeps your underwear cleaner. So clean. You could wear them a second day. Charmin ultra strong. Its 4 times stronger, and you can use up to 4 times less. Enjoy the go with charmin. I am never getting married. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life, state farm is there. Lets go. What . You didnt even move your hands another game ive got a table ready at 6 00 oclock. Alexa, hows the traffic . Female voice the fastest route is 45 minutes to downtown. 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Embassy has sent out a warning to citizens to shelter this place meaning they believe there could be a serious and imminent attack. So the fear of another attack is not yet over. Robin. All right, alex. Right back with all the latest on the terror attacks and security measures in the u. S. Oh look creepy gloves for my feet. See when i was a kid there was a handle. And a face. This is nice. And does it come in a california king . Getting roid rage. Hemorrhoid. These are the worst, right . Im gonna buy them. Boom. Ill take them. Impulse buy. Ommmmmmmmmmm. American express presents the blue cash everyday card with no annual fee. Its all happening. Cash back on purchases. Here we go backed by the service and security of american express. Soup and sandwich and clean and real and inside jokes and school night. Good, clean food pairs well with anything. Try the clean pairings menu. 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The nypd is beefing up its presence on the streets and on the subways after the terror attacks in belgium. At least 28 people were killed when suicide bombers blew themselves up at the International Airport and on a metro train near brussels. Counterterrorism officials are also monitoring the situation ouz the belgian consulate in manhattan, although there is no apparent threat here in new york. The attacks have had a Ripple Effect at airports all around the world. This is a live look at Newark Liberty international. All flights into brussels have been canceled. Port Authority Police are increasing security at all our three major airports with heavy weapons on display. Officers are also increasing antiterrorism patrols at path stations and at the world trade center. Heres debbie duhaime. Reporter thank you so much, ken. Were going to start off with the subways right now. Downtown delays on the f train with ongoing signal problems in brooklyn. Lirr, metro north, new Jersey Transit on time. Garden state parkway south of 148 in bloomfield accident. 78 eastbound exit 18 accident over in hunterdon county. George upper accident reported, 40 in at the george, lincoln 30, holland 30. Sag to coast north pine air drive in brentwood. And going into the deegan, deegan southbound moving slowly into fordham, willis avenue a stalled car. Alternate sides in effect. Back to you, ken. All right, debbie, thank you. Meteorologist amy freeze in for bill with the whether forecast ken, we start with beautiful skies, no showers around today. Temperatures currently at 35 degrees. The next seven hours well be climbing into the mid40s for lunch and low to mid50s for the afternoon high. It is breezy at times, though. That southwest wind up to 25 miles an hour. Those gusts will make it feel even colder. Tomorrow its all about the warmth. Thursday well have 70s inland, low 60s elsewhere, and then friday, saturday and sunday looking good. In fact, the early call for easter is mi 50s with showers at night. Ken thank you very much, amy. That is the news for now. Good morning america continues after the break here on channel 7. Have hey, have you heard . Heard what . Before School Starts in september, all kids going into 7th and 12th grade have to get the meningococcal vaccine. That can be serious, even deadly. Yeah, thats why they cant start School Without it. Something to share . giggling actually, yes talk to your health care provider. Even kids whove had one shot its 8 00 a. M. Brussels rocked by deadly terror attacks. Explosions ripping through the airport and a subway station. Scenes of sheer panic. Many more injured. All of europe on high alert. The threat level being raised now here in the u. S. The latest live on the ground right now. Announcer live in times america. And good morning, america. We are live across the country right now in all time zones with the latest on those deadly terror attacks in belgium. Three explosion, two at an airport one at a train station during their morning rush hour and were going to see there lives across the european capital. With we know right now is that at least 28 people are dead, dozens more injured. Americans told to shelter in place in belgium and here in the u. S. , police are ramping up security as you can imagine. We have Team Coverage of the latest and right now we are going to turn to abcs Alex Marquardt who has been there virtually from the very beginning there at the scene at the airport in brussels. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning, robin. Can you see behind me the heavy Police Presence still around the perimeter around zaventem airport, one of the biggest in europe and buses like this ferrying passengers away. There have been thousands of people coming out describing scenes of chaos inside, debris everywhere. Bloodshed, pandemonium with people running across the tarmac running for their lives, smoke billowing out of the terminal. We smelled it ourselves acrid. Smelled like burring tires. As you noted the terror alert liest level in brussels. The American Embassy telling its sit tens to shelter in place, alert level 4 means there is the possibility of a serious and imminent attack on top of the two attacks weve seen today, double bombing here at the airport, one of which was at least a suicide bomber and another bombing at a metro station downtown that claimed the lives of 15 people. Now, intelligence offs have been dreading this moment. They have been expecting more attacks to happen ever since those paris attacks that claimed the lives of 130 people. Intelligence offs going to bed every night fearing they would be woken up by a call about more terrorist attacks and it appears that is exactly what has happened in morning. It does appear that way, all right, alex, thank you. To an eyewitness. David crunell was in the Brussels Airport when he heard the first explosion. Tell us what you saw and heard. Off my luggage near the International Departure terminal and i heard the first explosion with a lot of dust and the fake ceiling started to collapse. About two or three seconds after that the second explosion on the other side of the terminal, same smoke, same noise, same people screaming everywhere so in just about a few seconds everybody run out and we quickly saw injured people and a few people laying on the ground near the entrance and we saw a lot of people really badly injured with a lot of blood and we know it was even worse inside but we could not see anything because of the smoke. The second explosion was on the other side of the terminal. How far separated from what you could tell were the explosions . Its not that far. Its maybe like 30 or 40 meters so basically in the same big saw the smoke right next to me on my left and two seconds on my right so really close to each other. How far were you from the explosions y s explosions . Less than 20 meters. Thats why one of my ears is a bit damaged and i cant very well on one side but its okay. Im very lucky. That. Describe the extent of the damage you saw in the terminal. Terminal, the ceiling was really collapsing and a lot of glass around so i saw a lot of people injured because of the glass explosion and there was a lot of blood on their hands, face and on their clothes, of course. I saw about 40 people injured around me right next to me but i could not see everybody from the other side of the terminal. But we quickly heard that people were dead inside. The police told us that maybe 20 minutes after it happened. After the attack were seeing some of the video right now. What did they tell you to do . Where did you go . Nobody told us anything. Its like when the first explosion happened, i quickly saw the face i immediately saw the face of everyone like they were ready for Something Like that to happen and they were like, oh, my god, now its happening so lets go out, everybody went out. There was no panic, movement or whatever. Everybody was really taking care of each other but people were reallying showed, of course. I can imagine. And thank goodness, though, daniel that you werent more seriously hurt and thank you for morning. We want to turn to wabc mallory hoff at jfk airport right now and mallory, what are you seeing at the airport this morning . Security . Reporter well, george, just in the last few minutes were actually seeing additional Police Officers here but before as usual. Folks coming and going this morning. Port Authority Police say theyll be stepping up security at jfk, laguardia and newark, theyll have heavy weapons and also high visibility antiterrorist patrols at the world trade center. There are a handful of direct flights to brussels that do leave out of jfk, were told those flights have all been canceled. All other flights, though, this morning are on time. Right now we do know that the nypd is monitoring the situation developments. Were told we can expect an increased Law Enforcement presence at major new york city locations, subways, major transit spots, were told this is all out of an abundance of caution and i have spoken with a number of passengers here this morning. They tell me there is certainly some level of anxiety when it comes to traveling here today but they say right now their hears are with the people in brussels. George. Back to you. Mallory, thanks very much. Ours too and joining us is the former Police Commissioner and hearing that report is what you would expect here in the city, taking the precautions. Precisely, youre going to see a lot more uniformed officers at key locations in new york city, obviously in the subway and at the airport, Port Authority police, very Competent Agency in charge of the airport. Theyll beef it up. But, you know, you can only do so much. And i think, you know, the real test is whether or not theres intelligence certainly any intelligence coming from europe that will affect us so a lot of things that you wont see have been put into motion. Exactly what we wont see which is so key. Exactly. And thats good. We should. You know, sometimes we try and say too much and its good to know that the things are taking place without us knowing about it. Yeah, there are people who they want to talk to and will be talking to. And knocking on the door in informants and knock on the door that let them know theyre being watched. That theyre aware of them. Pierre, ive been emailing she had a good point hearing the video from the metro and you hear those screams and the darkness and the panic and she brought up a really good point. She said, you know, this is what terror is all about. The places where were supposed to feel safe they want us to panic like this. Exactly and they know they will get, you know, a lot of coverage, coverage over and over, moos those images will be seen part of the terror theyre trying to enact. The top Law Enforcement officials have been briefed. The attorney general, fbi director, Homeland Security director jeh johnson, secretary jeh johnson in the Office Working im being told and no specific credible threat tied to this here in the United States but the concern Going Forward is copycats. Going to see stepped up security at mass transit throughout the country particularly in major cities today. All right. Okay, pierre, thanks very much. Lets bring in our chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz. Well have an increased security Terror Threat levels being raised across europe. Reporter they have been, george and will remain that way for awhile im sure until they have caught all members of this terror cell and that certainly is a long way off. What they struck in the middle of an investigation, in the middle of a terror alert when they feared that athe arrest of abdeslam, the surviving paris attacker, after they arrested him they feared that would trigger an attack and, yet, those attackers went to such a high profile place, an airport. They clearly wanted to instill terror in everyone to say you are safe nowhere. That is the idea of these terrorist attacks but particularly when you look at an airport. We are so concerned about security at an airport. Were so concerned about terrorists getting on an airplane, so that terrorists go after the area where you dont even really think about it. Board that airplane and theres really own so much they can do and how far back to you move that perimeter and start securing an airport without it interrupting international, domestic, all the commerce we do every single day. Meantime, Martha Raddatz, belgium right now. The question is what can we learn from him. Reporter im sure over the past several days theyve been trying to learn everything they possibly can. Im sure the interrogation is ongoing. Exactly what he may have known about this. We dont know what theyre getting from him. But we know there was a fear that his arrest could trigger a terror attack, could say to the terrorist cell out there, this is the time to do it because theyre going to start looking for anyone in this terror cell, but, of course, george, as you know theyve been looking for looking for abdeslam since november when we were there and locked down the city of brussels because they were so fearful that something would happen then and that likely delayed a terrorist attack with the clearly it didn people out on the streets, a lot of confusion, some running, some crying, some standing and staring in disbelief and you know in these situations you try to make sense of it by looking at the reaction of the people nobody really knows whats going on so that was the main sort of scene at the time and since then weve just been trying to piece together what actually happened. How would you describe the feeling in brussels right now . Right now after what is potential terrorist attacks obviously a high degree of concern and consternation. You know, we have in this area here the european quarter, all the buildings are closed. People have been advised to stay in. Initially they were advised to stay away from windows so there is a sense of kind of lockdown right now. I mean the most important thing for all of us was to get to friends, family and loved ones to make sure everyone is okay and obviously very upsetting to hear about the tragic loss of life that happened this morning, as well. We all are. I can only imagine what youre going through right now. Thanks for joining us and sharing your story. Glad hes doing okay. Now we got to turn to abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross who covers isis for us. Brian, tell us coming on the heels of the terror arrest in belgium . Well, what it tells us this is a terror cell that was directed, supported and organized by isis Central Command in syria. A part of the training if one person is captured alive they are told to assume that the cell is compromised and that they will soon be arrested themselves which of course would trigger kind of attack we saw this morning, the fact that abdeslam was taken alive and they would assume he would begin to talk and reveal their whereabouts. We were talking to Pierre Thomas about this, you know, we talk about how isis has infiltrated there and in europe and people want to know what about ear in the u. S. . What are the chances of Something Like that happening here on our soil . Reporter well, i think theres less of a chance because its harder for these groups to get in and what weve seen for the most part in the u. S. Is that the attacks that are linked to isis are essentially selfmotivated selfradicalized with a less a much less of the indications of a direct connection to the central cant of isis. That is true. All right, brian, thank you. Well take a short break right now and well continue with this live kochlg of though deadly terror attacks across belgium, one at the airport, one of the metro and theres the scene in brussels. Latest in just a moment. Tt2watu m4 bt`n, tt2watu m4 a`n leave from jfk. Those flights have all been canceled. All other flights, though, are on time for now. Right now we know that the nypd is monitoring the situation and any further developments. We are told to expect an increased Law Enforcement presence at major new york city locations, subways, major transit spots. This is, of course, out of an abundance of caution. Now, the nypd has released a statement saying at this time there is no known indication that the attack has any nexus to new york city. We will continue to follow the situation in belgium closely with the joint Terrorism Task force and the fbi and adjust the departments deployments accordingly. Now, a lot of folks coming and going this morning, many of them saying that theres, of course, some anxiety when it comes to traveling today. But their hearts are, of course, with the people in brussels. Live outside of jfk, mallory hoff, channel 7 eyewitness news. Check on your morning commute with debbie duhaime. Debbie. Reporter good morning, lori. Thanks a lot. The a train still seeing delays with ongoing switching problems. New Jersey Transit, metro north, lirr on time. George 45, lincoln 45, holland 30. Watch for delays 78 eastbound exit 18, a collision. Alternate side in effect. Back to you, lori all right, debbie, thank you. Your accuweather forecast with amy freeze right now its cold, 35 degrees, lori, but temperatures will increase throughout the day. Gusty winds are also with us, so a high of 54 will feel colder because of those winds. Thursday 62, warmer inland. Easter well see temperatures in the mid50s. Lori. All right, amy, thanks so much. Its 8 29. Thatll do welcome back to gma. We are live across the country with the latest on that breaking news this morning. There you see new images inside the airport in brussels when explosions set off by a suicide bomber. Two explosions went off at 8 a. M. Their time several hours ago. Another explosion in the metro of brussels, belgium, as well. Right now 26 are dead from those blasts, dozens injured. U. S. Citizens in belgium have been told to shelter in place this morning as the terror alert in belgium raises to the highest level 4. There is concern about possibly more attacks to follow. Thats right. We want to go right to Alex Marquardt on the scene at the Brussels Airport. Been there in the moments after the explosions this morning. Reporter good morning, george. Thats right. Just revised their death toll saying that 11 people were killed here at zaventem airport in that double explosion this morning. At least one of those explosions caused by a suicide bomber so as you mentioned the overall death toll, 26 including 15 at that metro station downtown but with around 90 people wounded that death toll is expected to rise. This is a city that has been paralyzed. Not just by panic but physically. The entire Transit System of the city has been shut down. After that attack on the metro, the entire metro system, the entire tram system, the entire train station. Now, train system, this is not just a european city. This is the capital of europe and thats no exaggeration, a city that is home to some of the biggest institutions, the european union, nato and, of course, all of the embassies, america has three different ambassadors here so this is an absolutely crucial country in the way that europe funks and now, the u. S. Embassy has put out a warning to its citizens to shelter in place. That comes in light of the raising of the terror alert level to 4 and until this morning it had been a 3 which was the second highest. It is now at its highest level calling belgian authorities still fear what theyre calling a serious and imminent attack. Thank you. We want to talk to now another eyewitness. She was at the airport and saw the bomb itself and the explosion. Can you tell us, first of all, how are you and what did you see . Ketevan, can you hear me . Can you hear me. Yes, i can here you. Now im still in the airport with thousands of passengers after the explosion we were told to be here and no one knows how i came in the airport in the morning at 7 00 and i saw a lot of police and armed soldiers. Much more than usual, you know, that after the paris attacks and imminent threats about the government members were making statements, there were so many soldiers in the street and in the airport but today it was something more. You know, and i was standing in the departure hall on the first floor in front of the Brussels Airlines Ticket Office and buying my tickets to geneva and next to me less than a meter in less than a meter it was a Delta Air Lines Ticket Office and first explosion was there, i saw, you know, what you remember because everyone were in a state of shock. Item. I dont know, it was a bag, suitcase or something, i dont know what it was, but it has a flame and in a second everything was in smoke and it was shock and we were standing on the right side and left side and crying and old people were on the floor and in three seconds there was second explosion and each was such terrible, you know, such terrible sound and we didnt see anything around us. And we were waiting for the third one, you know and dont know what to do. And was there anybody helping you, anybody there . No. Anybody . No, no, no, no one was there. We were alone there and you know looking at each other speechless and cant do anything, anything. And then, then this explosion was in front of the armed soldier because we saw them because they were patrolling the hall area and then at approximately 15 minutes, someone came and told us to leave and we left the place and we are still in the airport since then back here and nobody knows how long we can be here. Hopefully that youll get some help soon and they can tell you where to go but can you explain again youre saying you saw a flame coming out of a suitcase. Yes. Did it explode. Did you see it explode . Yes, yes, i saw the explosion the sound and this then nothing because everything was in the smoke and cant see. Youre okay. Youre not injured. Yes, yes, no, no. And everyone is doing the are . Yes, we were together, some 20 people around us there were many dozens and blood and injuries, im a journalist walking here working here for eight years and first what i did when i realized that im alive i took pictures and put on the facebook and by my photo, even my colleagues find out what was going on in brussels. And people know as best you can. Thats how social media, thats how were able to determine so much thats going on. So youre still there in the airport. Yes. Other people are there. Yes. Youre not being told when you can leave or how you can leave. No, no, no, its something very big hole near this airplanes where airplanes landing. There are a lot of crowd and they came out here with food and blankets and water and coffee and they telling us that we dont know. The threat is imminent still. Well, ketevan, thank you for sharing what you went through today and just please know that we here in the u. S. And around the world we are thinking of you and thank you so much. Thank you so much. You take care. Thank you. Possibly some new information there. About the black bag because we heard one of the explosions was caused by a suicide bomber happening in the middle of a president ial campaign. Tom llamas covering that and already have some candidates thats right, good morning. With these attacks still so fresh, donald trump is saying those types of attacks reinforce some of his most popular and some of his most controversial policy proposals, namely stronger borders that we need to be tougher on immigration in this country and need to be careful when it comes to syrian immigrants, now he has put out a tweet this morning posting on twitter, earlier this morning, do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place brussels was . Not anymore. It is far from a different world. U. S. Must be vigilant and smart. Now, hes also calls brussels a total mess even before these attacks, he says its a total mess because of the immigration problems there. The paris attacker now in custody when asked if he would be open to torture. If he were to be president , what he would do to abdeslam in custody right now says whatever needs to be done to get information out of him which would include waterboarding, obviously within the laws but says at alike this when you have a prisoner like abdeslam you have to do whatever you can to get information out of him. Not the first time donald trump has used terror attacks overseas to connect him to his policies in the u. S. After the paris attacks he says that proves that more people need guns when those gunmen shot and killed those innocent people at the cafes and restaurants in paris, he said if more people were armed they could have fought back. Hes also rye fused to use the term mastermind when you talk about terror attacks. He calls these people cowards. Governor john kasich has weighed in saying we need to redouble our efforts in europe with our allies to take the war on terror closer into the communities george, you know, we need to remind viewers today is a voting day in arizona and utah on the republican side. And democrats voting in idaho, as well. Tom, thanks very much. Quick break and come back with all the latest on terror attacks in belgium. Finding colon cancer early gives me the best chance for treatment. We got screened because i know colon cancer doesnt always come with symptoms. I was worried about the cost but got screened when i learned there are options. We got screened when we turned 50 and were so glad we did. If youre 50 or older talk with your healthcare provider. Theres more than one way to screen for colon cancer and its easier than ever. If youre 50 or older tt2w`t3n stopped and the power turned off, engine turned off and heard announcements over the intercome saying there had been some kind of disruption on the line, on the metro line working to resolve it. And about two or three minutes later someone came from the front of the metro to the back of the metro. I was in the last car and they opened the door and installed a ladder and had us evacuate on to the tracks where we walked back towards the artsloi metro station where we had come from and eventually up on to the street and evacuated out of the area. You said explosions so did you hear more than one thud . After the metro stopped we could hear some thudding in the distance. It wasnt really clear to us what it was. It wasnt immediately clear that this was an attack, we just kind of felt this little burst of wind and heard some what might sound like thunder in the distance. How far were you from the occurred . So, i was on the metro in between the next station and the one where the explosions occurred. So i was on one metro away from the one if i had taken one metro earlier i would have been on the metro that had the explosions. How did people react when all this was going down . Pretty calm . Well, i think there was a lot of nervousness in the beginning. There was an attack this morning at the Brussels Airport and a lot of people, myself included were reading about that on our phones as we were commuting to work. So immediately when the metro stopped i think there was some tenseness and nervousness inside of the metro, people started whispering and talking about the fact that there had been an explosion at the airport and then as we started evacuating it was clear that there was something that was really wrong. That being said everyone stayed pretty calm. There was one person who was jumping over metro seats to get ahead of other people to evacuate. But for the rest there were passengers helping other ladder. There were passengers helping other passengers to carry their kids, their strollers, and everyone just kind of calmly and quickly walked towards the exit. This was about an hour after an hour or so after the explosions at the airport . I believe so. Im not entirely clear when the explosions happened at the airport. This was a little bit after 9 00 in the morning. Yeah, that would be about an hour. We were told the explosions in the airport occurred around 8 a. M. Apartment now . Im at my office so im im working for a Media Organization here in brussels and im in the International Press center here in brussels commission. And whats the scene like you . I havent been out for the last few hours, but the Immediate Reaction after i was evacuated at first no one really knew what to do. This is an area where theres a lot of office workers. There were a lot of people and then once it was clear that there was something really wrong, people were trying to figure out what was happening and what they should do. Whether they should try to make their way to their office or whether they should go home so it was kind of city at a standstill not city at panic but standstill then the Police Quickly locked the area down and evacuated people even fourther away. Stay safe, evan. Thanks for joining us this morning. Thanks very much. I cant imagine being on the metro and then getting a message about the bombing at the airport. Were going to turn back to abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz with the latest of what we know about the terror activity there in europe. Martha . Well, theyre still trying to figure out they have gone after what they say are suspects in looking for them in brussels, whether they were people that they have since learned were involved in this because of either capturing another suspect or if they identified the suicide bomber we dont know but imagine, robin, that scene at you imagine how many people had large suitcases there . In many ways thats a perfect target for isis because you can roll in those bags, any of those bags youre looking at could have contained a bomb so, indeed, if it turns out to be a suitcase it wouldnt have been at all hard to get that into that departure area in the airport, i have been to that very place several times and most recently in november right after the city was in lockdown but the destruction you see from that bomb or two bombs that we know of is an indication that that was a very, very powerful bomb if it takes down those cement barriers, if it has and im sure thats not right next to where the bomb exploded but that smoke a very powerful bomb can at this point. You referred to the suitcases and when we talked to an eyewitness a short time ago talking about seeing what appeared to be a suit. A part of the he can explosion could have come from that. All right. Martha, thank you very much. Well take another short break and were back now with the latest on those deadly terror attacks in europe this morning in belgium. Two attacks one at the airport and one at a metro station, at least 26 people dead right now. Dozens more injured. That is the scene of people evacuating the airport. They happened just after 8 a. M. Local time in brussels. About 3 a. M. Here on the east coast, want to bring in our terror expert richard clarke, former white house count counterterrorism adviser and matt olsen. Dick, let me pick up on something i was talking to martha about. We have Salah Abdeslam in custody right now. The europeans have him in what more can they be doing to get more information from him about these attacks and the connection he may or may not have had to them . Well, george, i think its highly likely he was arrested he knew these attacks were being planned and certainly knew the identities probably of the cell because after he was arrested, the Belgian Police and interior minister said two things, one, were anticipating attacks coming in the very near future and, two, the cell network is much bigger than we thought it was. So he said something or they found materials in the apartment something. They, of course, like us on to the Obama Administration theyre not going to use torture and torture in my opinion at least doesnt work anyway. The information you get from it is unreliable. But they are going to try to can that he needs to cooperate more because as clearly a much bigger cell network. They need to find it so theres not another round of these attacks in the very near future. We knew that was planned and see what we know about the attack so far, two attacks, different locations, similar method, very much like the paris attacks. Exactly. Almost exactly like the paris attacks, orchestrated, coordinated. This is the concern that weve had for the last several years of a fallout out of syria that these kind of attacks are quite possible given the flow of fighters and the threat we face. Okay. Matt olsen, dick clarke, thanks very much. Our coverage will continue staying on. And well be right back. Ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for shady brook farms. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. My name is glenn, and im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer shady brook farms. No growthpromoting antibiotics, hey, have you heard . Heard what . Before School Starts in september, all kids going into 7th and 12th grade have to get the meningococcal vaccine. It protects against diseases like meningitis. That can be serious, even deadly. Yeah, thats why they cant start School Without it. Something to share . giggling actually, yes talk to your health care provider. Even kids whove had one shot we have been live all morning long with coverage of this deadly terror attacks in europe. 8 56 right now on the east. Well stay live across the country to cover this story. Yes, well be back at the top of the hour continuing our coverage live here on gma and abc news. Well be right back. March 22nd. Im lori stokes. Looking at the latest headlines, nypd is beefing up its presence on the streets and in the subways after the terror attacks in belgium. At least 26 people are confirmed dead now at the International Airport an on a metro train near brussels. Been canceled. Port Authority Police are now increasing security at all three major airports in the display. Officers are also increasing antiterrorism patrols at path center. Counterterrorism officials also monitoring the situation outside the belgian consulate in manhattan, although there is no threat to new york. Its 8 57. Lets check in on your morning debbie. Reporter thanks, lori. Going outside to the Staten Island expressway eastbound moving slowly by bradley avenue with an accident being cleared. Going over to the a trains, delays in both directions with ongoing switching problems on the a train, also the 1, service sus pended 145 to 168, 30. Watch for volume on the hutch north getting into mount vernon. Avenue. Traffic really busy there. Alternate side in effect. Back over to you, lori. Thank you, debbie. Lets check in with amy freeze and your accuweather forecast. Well, lori, temperatures right now are in the mid30s. Well is have a gusty win throughout the day, but turns out well hit a high of 54 degrees. While we warm up, expect those winds to stay strong. A chill. So breeze is with us right through the afternoon. Tomorrow a big warmup, mild, sunshine an 67 degrees for the high. A little bit cooler on thursday. Morning showers on friday, 61, and then temperatures in the 50s will take us right through the holiday weekend. Thatll do it for now. Amy, thank you. Thatll do it for us. More abc news special coverage its live with kelly michael. Today, from the drama, mr. Selfridge, jeremy piven. Plus, film, television, and broadway star jane krakowski. And the latest green cars as we continue our new York Auto Show week. Also, actress Rebecca Romijn joins michael at the cohost desk. All next on live. [captioning made possible by disneyabc domestic television] and now, here are suspect in the paris terror attacks is arrested. Americans in europe told to shelter in place. Nypd set to ramp up security here in new york