the mayor had a list of names and quite possible how she could not progress with that list of names to going in and tracking these people down. it would have required more information, more precise information to know that it was necessary to go into a community that was going to be openly hostile to large numbers of police. and to make it worthwhile. nic, stay with us for a moment. i want to bring in our counterterrorism analyst phil mudd, former cia official. also joining us julia yaffi and cnn contributor michael weiss senior editor of the daily beast, co-author of isis inside the army of terror. phil, it s almost two weeks. abdelsalam is still missing, still at large. what does that say there s a huge manhunt underway in france, belgium, elsewhere, this guy is still at large. tells me a couple things. first, you get two questions when you start acquiring information. that information is all these people being brought in for questioning and all the digital information, cell ph
the city here remains on heightened alert and in nearby belgium authorities say they re looking for at least ten people. and as the united states prepares to head into the thanksgiving holiday, we heard from president obama earlier this afternoon saying there was no specific threat against america but warned travelers to of course be aware, be vigilant. cnn s tim lister is joining me now here in paris with a little bit more. you have some new information on what happened with one of these men who is still on the run as far as what happened that night, two fridays ago. yes. salah abdelsalam, the man they re looking for who they think is in belgium. on friday night, according to phone records, they detected where his phone was at a particular time. he spent five hours in a southern suburb of paris supposedly in a parking lot. but was he in a house nearby? is there a safehouse? we know he abandoned the car he had.
a show of force, in europe police are out in force. belgium authorities say they are searching for ten people suspected of being a, quote, terror threat. key among them, this man, mohamed abrini. he was last seen in a car two days before the paris attacks. abrini was spotted with alleged paris attacker salah abdelsalam. cnn has now learned counterterrorism authorities in europe knew abrini was in syria last year but lost track of him. tonight, cnn has learned paris police are now focused on that city s transit system after learning one of the terrorists who attacked the bataclan theater had been a bus driver until 2012. for the past two years the french have been investigating transportation employees who may have been radicalized. cnn has learned just since january 50 employees at paris main airports have been denied access to the tarmac and aircraft allegedly after accusations they had become too radicalized. security s only as good as the people doing security.
for, salah abdelsalam. and saw them on this footage just two days before the attacks. so i can tell you an international arrest warrant is now out for abrini. another huge concern for investigators here in france, watching for signs of radicalization among airport and public transit workers. a french counterterrorism source says the monitoring actually had been going on for a number of years. this is not new. this did not just start. but that is continuing as well. there apparently also had been some complaints among some of the union that s that had been happening, the radicalization had been going on. it so happens one of the men that attacked the bataclan theater two friday nights ago in paris had been a bus driver here in the city of paris until three years ago. france is also stepping up its attacks against isis even more in iraq and syria. they have now carried out hundreds of air strikes since the attacks here in paris. french prime minister says there
officials are investigating the possible radicalization of transportation employees at airports and train stations in france. and authorities are now seeking another suspect they say was connected to the night of deadly violence in paris, mohamed abrini, his fingerprints discovered on a car used in the attacks, he is now on the run. martin savidge reporting from paris tonight. martin, cnn has new information about abrini s travel plans in the leadup to these attacks. reporter: yes, indeed. you know, the more that investigators dig in the aftermath of this terrible attack, the more uncomfortable they must feel because they re finding again that these attackers were able to travel to syria then come back to europe in many cases apparently undetected. and now the new fear, the transportation system of paris, the question, has it been infiltrated? mohamed abrini, last seen here at a gas station in france with salah abdelsalam shortly before