Welcome to your world this morning. U. S. Officials confirming that at least two americans were killed in the attacks in brussels and there are no specifics on where they died and right now the manhunt is still on going for this man and one other unidentified person believed to have been involved in the bombings. And secretary of state john kerry is in belgium in a show of solidarity and holding Counter Terrorism talks with eu authorities and secretary kerry expressed condolence for the at least 31 people killed. We will not be intimated. We will not be deterred. And we will come back with greater resolve, with greater strength and we will not rest until we have eliminated your neolistic beliefs and cowardess from the face of this earth. Ahead of kerrys visit belgium security alert level was lowered a notch from the highest level saying threat of attack is less imminent but looking for more suspects in connection to attacks. At least 7 people arrested in a series of rates overnight and into this morning. Al jazeeras paul brennan has the latest on the on going investigation. Reporter yes, weve had as you know six raids or six arrests which took place last night, that is thursday night into friday. A series of raids across a wide area of brussels and surrounding suburbs, plaques like sky beck and yeti and three arrests in brussels outside the federal Prosecutors Office and two arrested in yeta and a house search in the burrow of brussels itself. There will be more information which is going to be released by the federal prosecutor at some point during this morning on those. Then this morning we heard of yet more arrests and yet more raids in a district called forest. The prosecutors so far only saying that several raids and several arrests without being specific about the numbers were promising more details when they are able to clarify the situation. As far as the people who were arrested yesterday they will now have to go before an investigative magistrate who will rule on whether or not there is sufficient evidence to press charges or continue with their detention and that will be sorted out during the course of the next couple of hours. Al jazeeras paul brennan reporting from brussels and coming up, later this hour we will look at what belgium and europe could do better to uncover plots among groups that feel marginilzed and they arrested a man suspected of another plot and say he was part of a group preparing the final stages of attack and have not released details but say so far it does not appear to be connected to brels or paris. And secretary of state after marathon meetings in moscow and the attacks point out the need for political stability in syria and meeting with Vladimir Putin and Sergei Fedorov and kerry says they have reached an understanding on just how fragile the truce in syria can be strengthened but russian war planes still hitting targets in syria including palmyra and mohamed has more. Reporter these pictures broadcast on Syrian State Television are said to show a significant advance, Syrian Government forces fighting to recapture the historic city of palmyra from i. S. I. L. , state media also showed planes and helicopters flying overhead and soldiers on the crime and human rights said many fled palmyra after aisles told them via loudspeakers fighting was nearing and they are losing palmyra and releasing the video that shows fighters driving around parts of the city as Syrian Government troops advance. Some analysts believe the Syrian Government advance will be a morale booster. Given all the bad news coming out of europe and focus on i. S. I. S. As a terrorist organization this focuses att d attention on i. S. I. S. As a failed state and u. S. And russia are working closely together in terms of air strikes and diplomatic channels in geneva, this is a pretty significant setback for i. S. I. S. , not the end yet but it seems to me to be the beginning of the end. Reporter palmyra has a unesco world site and i. S. I. L. Captured the historic city in may and began a campaign of mass executions and destroying ancient sites and its on a desert highway in central syria strategically between damascus and the i. S. I. L. Stronghold and government control of palymra would help court off a supply route and significantly reduced violence but agreement excludes el nusra front and i. S. I. L. Considered terrorist groups by the Syrian Government and they withdrew most forces from syria after launching air strikes for six months. But this is evidence that the government of syrian president Bashar Alassad is still making advances, mohamed with al jazeera. And u. S. Marines appeared to have expanded their role in fighting i. S. I. L. Inside iraq, a group of marines operating for a small out post firing rounds and help finding targets part of operation to retake mosul and officials long insisted 200 marines are there to provide security for iraqi soldiers and u. S. Advisors. Justice department blaming iran for a cyber attack that hit the u. S. And they say they knocked dozens of webbisites of line and 46 major banks and Financial Institutions and hackers got in the Computer System of a dam in new york state and al jazeera science and Technology Correspondent jacob ward reports. Reporter hackers are of course everywhere these days but the seven men chart in this indictment are normally a rare breed. They are charged with having worked directly for a foreign government. The events that took place under this indictment happened between 2011 and 2013 when supposedly these men attacked various civilian targets in the United States. Now the teaming of this unsealing of the indictment is sending a signal and how the Justice Department described it. Today let this indictment reenforce the days of perceived are gone and we can remove the cloak and we will and the announcement proves there is no free pass for those who conduct nation state affiliated intrusions. Reporter attacks mostly denial of service attacks in which you simply bottom barred your targets with so much data they cant handle it and they shut down but one of the attackers got into what is called a command and control system for a dam in a suburb of new york city called the bowman dam in new york and he didnt take control but he accessed the system from across the world is very unsettling especially when you consider there are at least 57,000 Industrial Control Systems in the United States that are connected to the internet in some way. In fact, a hacker that we interviewed last year someone operating above board as a consultant showed us an instance which he could manipulate Traffic Signals at major cities across the United States, these sorts of systems are typically brought on line haphazard and dont have what you expect from your phone at home. Now this timing and the fact that these were nation state actors as they were described by john carlin you heard there makes this a very unusual case. Most hackers do not affiliate themselves directly with a nation state and its no longer a world which you have to have the resources of a country to make this happen. We spoke to a security researcher from hp who described to us how the landscape is changing here. So if you see south korea or north korea you see russia you see a lot of the middle Eastern Countries will invest more in this because its a capability that helps to give them more political influence, gives them more military might if you will and so i think that you will see a lot of the same kinds of skill sets being grown up even in countries that dont have the financial where with all to compete in a physical military. Reporter what we are going to see in the future is its not a question of needing to be affiliated with a nation to pull this kind of attack off. Instead its just anyone with a laptop and enough time and patience who can theoretically do damage to a target a world away. Jacob ward reporting, all 7 suspects believed to be currently liven in iran, iran government has not commented on the allegations. Indiana governor signing a bill advocates say will reduce a womans access to abortions and provisions challenged in the Supreme Court and also requires the mother to pay for the burial or re cremation of her fetus and bans them for disabilities and with the Indiana Coalition for reproductive rights say the bill is going to hurt indiana families. It will raise maternal mortality. It will incur suffering of babies. There will be more competition for the scarce services that there are for people with disabilities and these are such a stress on families and it disrupts families and bankrupts families and disrupts parenting of existing children. Announcer that bill also requires doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, those oppose to the law promise a legal challenge and there is a new law in the books in North Carolina being called discriminatory against gay, lesbian and transgender people. John henry smith big corporations are denouncing the law. Reporter overnight protesters camped out in the street outside the mansion of North Carolina governor pat mccory and a backlash over a new law that excludes day, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination protections and bars local officials from creating their own protections. This legislation is literally the most antilgbt legislation in the country. Reporter also expressing outrage corporate america, many of the states largest employers from American Airlines and pay pal all denounced the law and ncaa is monitoring the situation, deciding whether or not it will still hold scheduled championship basketball games there in 2017 and 2018. Nba expressed concern about hosting the 2017 allstar game in charlotte. Its that citys ordinance allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their choosing that inspired the new law. This bill is simply about protecting the families and the children of a cross North Carolina. Reporter now all Public Institutions in North Carolina must insist that people use the bathroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate. Its common sense that boys should go to the boys room and girls should go to the girls room. I believe that god got it right in genesis 5 and 2 when he said he created the male and female. Reporter the governor called the charlotte law an over reach but lbgt advocates say the new rules put them at risk. Pat literally affirmed to our nation yesterday that North Carolina is not a friendly place for lgbt people. I wont go back to the mens room, its unsafe and people like me die there everyday. Reporter if the safety message doesnt provoke change an economic one will. I think its something we would worry more about when you get an organization like the nfl or the nba or the ncaa behind it and its much harder to coordinate individual businesses. Reporter now this situation has gotten the attention of politicians in washington, several democrats proposed amending the federal Civil Rights Act to include lgbt people but with republicans in charge of congress its unlikely that it will come to a vote any time soon. So john are those people opposed to this law planning a legal challenge to it at this point . Well the state and the National Branches of the aclu are quote exploring legal challenges to the discriminatory law and legal experts say this luna be in violation of federal title nine antidiscrimination law so that could cost the state in a lawsuit and certainly could cost the state similar funding. And in georgia it could cost 1 billion and John Henry Smith thank you very much. Easier day to get around in parts of the midwest after a powerful spring snowstorm blanketed wisconsin and left at least two people dead. Some areas of the state got up wards of a foot of snow and left roads slick and leading to lots of accidents and Officials Say the roads are clear for this mornings commute. Spreading wet weather all up and down the east coast, good morning Nicole Mitchell and supposed to be a Holiday Weekend. Yes so we have a couple changes in store as we head to the holiday and a look at the forecast and the same system up and down the east coast, not just wisconsin but that had brought the snow to colorado, minnesota through the great lakes and, in fact, if we look at the northern side of this seeing snow with us this morning in the very northern tip of maine. There is enough warm up up the coastline we will see through the course of the day is rain with this system now but a little bit of a freezing mix through Northern New England and the snow extreme northward and have different advisories that go up mostly for this afternoon before this finally clears up. Otherwise if we look at the south rn end of this end we had warm air and instability and today still that warm air and most is rain up the coastline and temperatures almost as warm as 70 in new york city with rain and the front comes through dropping the temperatures slight will i slightly in the day tomorrow and wind we looked at and a tornado report out of louisiana from yesterday and dealing with some of the rain and this will linger, the southern end will go stationary so for the next couple of days the rain will be stagnant to the southeast and the rest clears out for today. Through the course of the weekend we see rain and snow possibly colorado tonight and through the course of the weekend this really all starts, these two areas coming together just in time as you said for that holiday so not only could it be wet but it could be stormy as well for sunday, more on details of that forecast coming up, in just about a half hour, back to you guys. Nicole mitchell thank you. Intelligence lapses in the lead up to the brussels attacks. Europe examples the central mistakes we look at how Police Tactics here could close those gaps. Fighting for political survival, the strategy this one state is Bernie Sanders hopes could pave his way to the nomination. Missouri. Brick by brick, i will open it. It will take more than a few rocks to stop me from doin what i have to do. Suddenly heroin seems to be everywhere. Theres no way i am willing to give up my family for a drug ever again. I know you all have strong opinions about the border. I dont believe in borders. 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Molenbe, k has poverty, unemployment and a young population but no means that Salah Abdeslam would be tempted by a message of mass violence, there are more than 20 mosques and informal prayer rooms in molenbeek and a concentration in one neighborhood but not many clues why many young people are being radicalized. They are not welcome in the mosque and if you say you want your son to go to syria for jihad they say go away, mosques have nothing to do with this. Reporter these days young people are more likely to be approached away from the mosque, maybe on the football picture in a cafe. Sarah runs a Youth Program at molenbeek town hall and say young people are most vulnerable to i. S. I. L. Mess mess j aing in their 20s. Translator they are under the radar and not from here but come into the area where young people hang out and they spot the ones who look the most angry or fragile and they approach them very carefully pretending to be friendly and eventually Start Talking about syria and draw them in. Reporter the revelation that some of the paris and brussels bombers lived here is hurting a whole community. The negative stereotypes that many people have about molenbeek are part of the problem. Imagine you are a young person who just finished school and maybe got good grades but then an employer sees the word molenbeek on your cv and that is the end of your chances. But here is one local man who decided to go against that trend and opened an organic cafe with a difference offering salami and other meats to his muslim and nonmuslim clientele. Translator because im from molenbeek a priority is to help people work their way out of poverty and get ahead and improve their lives. Reporter its an alternative vision to the one pushed by i. S. I. L. Recruiters, the idea that you can be a full european citizen while still being proud of your own culture and heritage. Jackie roland, al jazeera, molenbeek. Columbo is a Security Consultant about and former Police Officer in Nassau County new york and is from orlando and thanks for being with us and