Attacks was arrested in brussels. Authorities announced that they were searching for another suspect identified as a bomb maker were keeping tabs on whats happening. Obama on that trip to cuba right now has been briefed. U. S. Officials in close contact with the counterparts in belgium. We go back now to our headquarters in doha for our continued live coverage of the attacks its just after 11 g. M. F. Noon in brussels. Im taking over from jane dutton as we continue our rolling coverage of the attacks in brussels. This is what we know so far. Belgiums Prosecutor Says a blast at Brussels Airport was a suicide attack. Two explosions went off at the airport and there has been one explosion on the brussels metro network. According to the civil defense, at least 21 people have been killed, many more injured. The threat level has been raised to 4. Thats the highest level. The capital is in lock down and people are told to stay where they are. Neighboring countries and the European Commission,
And law firm assigned to watch over the pontiff, as well as the millions that want to see him. Security planners studied every attempt on a popes life in the last 40 years. The breed is the concern on the attack of a lone wolf. You can never 100 stop everything. Reporter in planning for the big visit the secret service even went to the vatican to study the popes movements. He will go to the Vatican Embassy where he will be staying and there is a fema struck parked outside in case trucked outside in case of a emergency. Weijia jiang, live in washington, d. C. Cbs2 news. Thank you, weijia. The popes arrival on thursday will be the first for the head of the Roman Catholic church there. Are concerns about mixing politics and religion. I think we will see a different reaction on both sides of the aisle. The republicans will be of the things he said while better. And the other, democrats enthusiastic on some of the things he said while the republicans are sitting on their hands. Please anybo
Renewed tensions in the streets of paris but crude continues to rally with brent 2 higher. In m a news monsanto plants the seed for a new syngenta bid. Shares trade sharply higher after the u. S. Firm says its still on the hunt for a takeover. All right. Lets get to our top story this hour. The disturbing scenes on the streets of paris. The northern suburb of the city. A Police Operation is still underway in the french capital. More than five hours after it first started in the Early Morning hours. French Police Concerned theres still one terrorist left inside the apartment at the center of this raid. One woman in the flat has been killed. She killed herself at the beginning of the assault by blowing herself up. Three men have been arrested from inside the part and reports are that one civilian who is passing by at the time of the operation has been injured as well. These are disturbing scenes that were keeping a close eye on and theyre after a high value target. The mastermind behind
Brothers were normal guys. He didnt even know they were radicalized. He said they wore jeans and sweaters and only sporadically went to the mosque. He called on them to turn themselves in, to let justice take care of itself. He said that his family feels for all the victims but he also wanted people to note that his mother has been suffering as well. Youre actually in france. We know across the border in belgium it was believed at one point that onef those militants who escapap the raid may have actually crosseded the border. And we were in a similar situation j jt a couple dayay ago outside of a home where we thought he was inside. Can you tell us about that and what happened . Reporter theres been this helterskelter search for these now two suspects that are believed not to have detonated their explosives devices on friday night. Most of those attackers, the eight that we knew of until we knew of a ninth about yesterday, they detonated their suicide vests. So a number of them are dea
Could be considered a suspect. No reports on who was arrested or the exact target. But as alex just mentioned, clearly the number one target right now in the french crosshairs, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is someone whos suspected to have been in this location. And thats why we noticed police being so jittery. Weve been here for a few days, and it has been clear that france is on high alert and that theyre extremelyly eager and keen on finding the suspects in this case and having the mastermind right here in northern paris of both of these attacks, as alex said, is not only an embarrassment, it also speaks to what has happened with french intelligence. What seems to be an entire collapse in the ability to discern whether or not their top target is in fact right beneath their noses. What we can say is thaha still hundreds and hundreds of Police Officers, heavily armed, wearing body armor around their their chests with automatic weapons have b bn spread out around this perimeter ordering people