After exchanging gunfire with Security Forces. According to isis, to the isis affiliated news agency, isis is claiming responsibility for the attack. That is not, however, an official statement out of isis. Our nbc producer based in pakistan joins me now. What do we know at this hour . Apparently we lost our connection. So lets go on to panaki. Can you hear me . Yes, i can hear you. What are you experiencing at this hour . Well, now, this incident happened in basically a diplomatic area. I was there, until an hour ago i was there. Now all the roads are blocked down there. People were rescued from the area if not exactly from the restaurant. Right now, all the roads to that area, it is blocked. So we cannot say whats going on down there, you know. At the restaurant there. Did you say an argnetinian national . I think we lost you completely now. Difficult communicating with bangladesh as you can imagine, the cell phone situation on a good day is not great over there. Lets see if we can g
We may never find out. Thank you, rachel. Thanks. Well, terror came to turkey today, invest store Wendy Sherman will join us with reaction on suicide bombers attack at the airport. Well get dan rathers reaction as to what donald trump had to say about todays attack. Major terrorist attack at the airpo airport. This was coordinated as well as a deadly assault on the third Busiest Airport in europe. It appears to be the lower level of the international terminal, tape not verified by nbc news. Its falling on two groups, isis and kurdish separatists. In another unverified video, an attack ir accused to be shot by police. This is the air were in now. We have to get it right 24 7. With the terrorist have struck again in the heart of one of our nato allies and all americans stand united with the people of turkey. Folks, theres something going on thats really, really bad insta bull. Its 5 00 a. M. In turkey now, where a terror attack has devastated instanbuls airport. Multiple suicide bombers
This was coordinated as well as a deadly assault on the third Busiest Airport in europe. It appears to be the lower level of the international terminal, tape not verified by nbc news. Its falling on two groups, isis and kurdish separatists. In another unverified video, an attack ir accused to be shot by police. This is the air were in now. We have to get it right 24 7. With the terrorist have struck again in the heart of one of our nato allies and all americans stand united with the people of turkey. Folks, theres something going on thats really, really bad insta bull. Its 5 00 a. M. In turkey now, where a terror attack has devastated instanbuls airport. Multiple suicide bombers blew themselves up at that airport. U. S. Authorities are working to determine if any american citizens are among the victim. New video appears to show the explosions. Nbc news has not yet independently verified these videos. They are shocking to watch. One video appears to be cell phone video of a security mon
Footage. We believe from inside the airport, again, the explosions taking place just about three hours ago. Theres that explosion. So again, the story that is emerging here is one potentially of heroic actions by the security forces. We understand from Richard Engel that one of the Police Officers literally threw himself on one of the bombers. We now have video footage that we believe shows the inside of the airport and the second suicide bomber falling from a shot fired from a security official before detonating his explosives. As you see him detonate, what we assume are some kind of body vest there, theres no one around. There are no civilians around him at that moment. That we believe could have potentially saved many, many lives. Im sorry. Can you hear me . Cal, walk us through where this video comes from. I know we go through a process here at nbc news before we put things on television, but is it social media . Yes. This is coming off twitter. Again, im using the word purportedly
Struggling germanys take on world champs france tonight in a match that could also decide the fate of the battle coach talking to. Me so much kind of good to have you with us u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei it was holding emergency meetings with the leaders of saudi arabia about the missing dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi the visits come as unconfirmed media reports from the u. S. Suggest saudi arabia may be about to say that kushal she was killed in their consulate in turkey during an interrogation that went wrong on monday turkish officials searched the consulate building for eight hours. After a long night of searching for clues on how Jamal Khashoggi vanished Turkish Police left the saudi consulate in istanbul taking evidence with them. The journalist was last seen walking into that same door nearly two weeks earlier turkish officials believe he was murdered and dismembered by his team. Living in selfimposed exile in the u. S. Because shoghi was a vocal critic of the saud