restaurants of 60 or 70 locals and tourists fleeing from their lives, some climbing through the windows to escape. another restaurant, a group of tourists lying on the ground for three hours as they waited for what appeared to be a situation where there were suspected terrorists with explosives around their waist lying on the ground. the bomb disposal teams were brought in and again as i mentioned the police here now believe that those were not real suicide belts bup it all goes, chris, towards this picture of what appears to have been a terrorist cell that perhaps were planning something far worse and that as things unraveled in the past few days they have carried out these more if you like amateur-like attacks. keir, thank you. i know you have more reporting to d. we ll get back to you in the course of this hour. in the meantime, president trump wasted almost no time responding to the attacks in spain. nbc s kristen welker is in bridgewater, new jersey, with more on that. kristen,
hi, paul. we understand that air france officials are asking the french national prosecutor to investigate today s bomb scare. so many questions. among the questions, which need answering, is what is just a stupid prank or was security procedures being tested by terrorists. air france flight 463, a boeing 777, was several hours into a flight overnight from mauritius to paris, france, when a passenger reported seeing a suspicious package in one of the airplane s bathrooms. the pilots requested an immediate landing at mombasa, in kenya, on africa s east coast. 459 passengers and 14 crew used the plane s emergency chutes to leave the aircraft as quickly as possible. no one was injured. bomb disposal teams removed the suspicious package. six passengers are still being questioned about the package. i ve seen a picture of this dummy bomb. and it looks real. there is a large digital clock on the top and some wires going from that to what looks like several sticks of explosives,