the businesses. there are many people not going to work at all. they re sort of going to work for a couple of minutes, picking up their laptop and going home to work from there. the city is as you said in effect on lockdown. i want to show you how that unfolded. reporter: the eu s administrative capital on a de facto state of lockdown. cops and patrols go through empty streets as the subway systems, schools and many shops remain shut because of the terror alert. many parents keeping their children indoors. we re trying to go out in the morning and do the shopping in the morning. and after that, after the night arrives we will just stay at home. reporter: belgian authorities continue to conduct raids, hoping to catch salah abdeslam, believing to have fled here after participating in the paris attacks. but authorities are also trying to foil what the government believes could be an imminent
scare will end soon. and at least, isha, they have some more information as to when the scare could end, saying how long the terror threat will be in effect, at least until next monday. and also they will try to start to reopen the subway system as well as some of the schools come witness. of course, all of that depends on what they bring for with the security personnel, as well. yes, fred, and to that point do belgian authorities have any leads in the hunt for salah abdeslam, or what they said was potentially another group trying to conduct terror attacks there in belgium? reporter: if y watched the press conference by the belgium prime minister last night he said the threat is still imminent. that there could be attacks like the ones in paris. but they don t seem to have nailed down where the attacks
could come from. one issue is anybody who has anything to do with salah abdeslam, they look at people taken into custody in the last several days. all of them are relatives or at least friends of salah abdeslam. at least one of them has been charged with crimes in relation to the paris terror attacks. those are the areas they re looking at but still they have not nailed down where the attacks could have come from? could they be related to abdeslam? other sources in paris? they do believe it would be possible for him to remain on the run for such an extended period of time, he most likely would have had a support network here in belgium. and what the federal prosecutor says is they believe he may be somewhere here in the brussels area. however, all the raids that we ve seen so far here in brussels and the molenbeek area and brussels as well have not
we begin with analysts who retrieved a suicide vest. officers are not saying if the vests are related to last week s attacks. the report shows the vest contained the same type of explosive used in the rampage. the official reports that salah abdeslam s phone was tracked to the area where the vest was found soon after the attacks. abdeslam remains at large. cnn s max foster from paris joins us, major developments from paris with the latest. reporter: yes, the item in the bin, that is the interesting item so far. because everybody is wondering whether it was abdeslam s suicide belt. and bfm tv has more information on that, we re waiting for official confirmation on that. more information coming from
far, no sign of the paris attackers who is still believed to be at large in belgian. they have not found weapons or explosives in all of the raids which leaves the threat of a paris style attack intact. our cnn international correspondent fred pleitgen is there on the scene for paul right now in brussels. reporter: the eu s administrative capital under a de facto state the of lockdown. cops and soldiers patrolling in empty street ss as the subways d the the schools can and the shops will be shut because of the terror alert. many of the parents keeping their children indoors. we are trying to go out just in the mornings and do the shoppings in the mornings, and then after that, after of the night arrives, we stay home. reporter: authorities are hoping to catch salah abdeslam who is still on the loose after