She says the fact that she left 30 minutes early may have saved her life. This morning she flew out of paris an landed in newark safely and she is on her way home to dc. The terror attack in brussels is raising serious concerns about soft targets or places with limited security. Tom fitzgerald is live at the gallery place metro station in northwest. We have that part of the story. Tom . Reporter good evening. We tried for the better part of today to get the metro police chief to talk to us about the extra security steps that we keep hearing about in regards to the response of the brussels attack. However we were told several times today that the chief was not available. So we did this. An experiment, if you will. We went down into the gallery place station ourselves. Take a look at this video we shot earlier today. Now, we walked throughout this station up and down the escalators from s street to h street. Its got the lines coming with tourists. Throughout our walking tour today we enc
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