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
has been exploited by criminal networks. at the same time. groups like isis. you often see the criminal enterprise collaborates with the terrorist groups. which did not allow trans transfer of personnel and. that turned the strategic hub. a lot of plots from that, spread into neighboring countries. the paris atrocities. and the worries also that belgium has been a center for so many europeans. going over two iraq and syria to think with nice. the tap hasn t been turned off. reporter: issue seems bigger than belgium. you have european union, administrative bodies there. based in brussel. with lack of leadership. if so how do you reverse that? you have the european union. and you have nato as well. what s important is that to be
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
the rest of the european union to kind of crackdown on the illegal firearms trade to push forward a system to allow all european governments to track the passengers on the trains and flights, and something that the european parliament has blocked, but something that france and britain have been wanting to have happen so that nobody could slip through as happened in france. and also, to do with the britain parliament to do what has not happened so far, to launch air strike against the isis targets, themselves. ivan, we will be back to, you and we want to turn to the white house. tomorrow, president obama will be welcoming the french president francois hollande about the terrorist attacks, and the white house briefing by the way is ready to start any moment, and we will have live coverage of that, but first, to