Historic syrian city. We are live breaking down the developments. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik. Nice to see you. Im christine romans. It is monday, march 28th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. New terror arrests across europe connected to the brussels and paris attacks. Suggesting the network is bigger and widespread and more cities than we knew. The manhunt expanding for brussels bombing suspects still on the run. Far right protesters stormed the memorial site for the brussels victims and clashing with riot police who pushed them back with water cannons. We are learning more about the americans killed in the attacks. Including justin and stephanie shults. Families received condolence calls from president obama on sunday. Cnns Michael Holmes has the latest on the investigation and who was arrested where and what led authorities to them. Bring us up to speed, michael. Reporter i will by bringing you new information, christine. Authorities have raised the death toll now from 31 to 34. We understand that does include the three suicide bombers we know about. The death toll was 28 plus the three suicide bombers. Now it is 31 plus the three suicide bombers. New information there. You mentioned the raids. Many over the last 24 hours. 13 in brussels alone on sunday. More people taken into custody as part of the investigation into the attacks. We know after a tipoff from french investigators, 32yearold french citizen was arrested in the netherlands on sunday. That arrest tied to the arrest of another man picked up last week described as being in the advance stages of planning an attack on french soil. We saw the algerian picked up accused of making false documents. This points to the breadth and complexity of the web of isis sympathizers. We saw the ugly scenes in the square behind me. The place de la borst. The memorial site. This group marching and chanting this is our home as they confronted women in head scarves. We saw some nazi salutes there. Many of them were soccer hooligans or skinheads. As i say, skinheads, troublemakers, but emblematic of w what we have seen growing throughout europe. Supported by those who are opposing sometimes fiercely, the migrant and refugee populations in their communities. Lets remember, we saw similar protests after the paris attacks last year. Christine. We did. Ugly turn, no question. Micha Michael Holmes, thank you. Cnn takes you inside the paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam and his brother ibrahim. New video showing them partying at a nightclub months before the attack. We have that for you at 5 30. A Splinter Group of the taliban claiming responsibility for a suicide blast that killed at least 69 people. Many women and children. A spokesman for the group says it intentionally targeted christians in a park in the city of lahore gathered to celebrate easter. Lets bring in cnns ravi agrawal with the latest from new delhi. Reporter the attack took place sunday evening in the park in lahore in pakistan. This happened at 6 45 for easter celebrations. We expect people at the park were christians. Worst of all, there was a playground nearby and Amusement Park nearby. Many Young Children and women were killed. Lahori and pakistanis waking up to realize the cost of the attack. The accla claimants of the atta a group splintered away from the taliban two years ago. Theyre seen as Extremist Group that does not flinch to attack minorities or flinch the attacking women and children. It openly declared its target was christians and the government today on monday has said that it is doing everything it can to combat this group. It has already run operations in five pakistani cities. What a horrific attack on a holy holiday. Ravi, thank you. The ancient city of palmyra is back under control of the Syrian Government. Isis occupied palmyra and the priceless ruins for last year, but now they have been driven out. A triumph for president Bashar Al Assad. We have cnns arwa damon with the latest. It is the russians credit who have helped Bashar Al Assad. Reporter it is, christine. Russian air strikes up in the hundreds which then allowed for Regime Forces along with any number of militias that fight alongside them to get into palmyra. Not much in terms of confrontation when it comes to fighting that took place with isis. Although some battles did emerge. All in all, a fairly easy and relatively easy victory. One that Bashar Al Assad is using to make a very clear point. That is his and the russian strategy is one that is clearly proving to be working, especially when compared to that of the u. S. And the coalition that it does lead. Palmyra, one of the countrys most historic cities along with, of course, the unesco declared ruins that are nearby it. They damaged by isis. That reportedly bombed a number of temples as well as shrines and other areas they occupied. In the initial days, isis took over, beheading an elderly gentleman, one of the leading archaeologists on the site. This is not just a strategic victory, but symbolic one for the regime. Arwa damon, thank you. Republican president ial frontrunners blaming each other for a nasty tabloid story. The race getting dirtier next. G pilot talking to tower on radio once you get out here. Theres just one direction. Forward. One time now. And theres just one sound. You and us. Together. Telling the world. Were coming for you. Ricky Gervais vei know what youre thinking, they all claim stuff like that. Yeah, but some of them stretch the truth a little bit. Like this. Faster, more reliable and better coverage than ever. And it shows the coverage there. Uh, oh, hold on. Oh map is not a depiction of coverage well, then whats the point . Im speechless. Only verizon has the largest 4g lte network in america. 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Besides from the wives being brought into the story, trump denying the claim of the National Enquirer story put into the fray. Joining us to break down the mud fight is chris moody. Good morning, chris. Just really ugly and muddy and bad. It is dominating the republican field. Listen to donald trump talking about the tabloid story and ted cruzs reaction. I dont care. The National Enquirer did a story. I have no idea if it was right or not. They actually have a very good record of being right. I have absolutely no idea. Frankly, i said i hope its not right. He hasnt campaigned for a week. He is hiding in trump tower. He is sending tweets attacking my wife. It is disgusting to see a candidate attacking the spouse of another. It is a sign of just how scared donald is. He doesnt want to discuss the substance. Is there an offramp from the scandal . Will this consume the oxygen for the next day or two . When you thought it could not get dirtier, it gets muddy real fast. Donald trump is an expert in talking out of two sides of his mouth. One hand, i hope its not true, but then winks and nods. Then his ally, roger stone, was quoted by name in the National Enquirer story. I dont know how you take that into policy debate. It will shift into next week as the candidates focus on wisconsin. This started a couple weeks ago with a super pac ad in utah that showed Donald Trumps wife of a picture when she was a model. Then a side by side photo of his wife and ted cruzs wife. Hopefully we can find that onramp. It doesnt look like this story is going away. We saw campaign folks tweeting about it over the weekend suggesting ted cruz was lying. It is not necessarily going to get better if you are looking for a clean policy debate. Chris, lets go back to the calendar of whats to come. We know Bernie Sanders had a huge weekend. Gained a lot of momentum. Theres reality of the math. Math doesnt lie. Is Bernie Sanders expected to really carry this through to the convention . Bernie sanders had probably the best night of his campaign on saturday. He won the Pacific Northwest states and hawaii. It wasnt just that he won, it was by the margin of which he won. By scores and scores of percentages. Ahead of Hillary Clinton. Really sending a message to the clinton campaign. Lots of people eager to get out and vote that are liberal. You raise a good point. Can he pull this off nationally . Thats where it gets more difficult. We head to wisconsin. A huge Battle Ground for the republicans and democrats. Bernie sanders is looking to take that huge massive lead he had over the weekend. He will make the argument saying im coming up. He will try to pull away super delegates, more than 400 for Hillary Clinton. He will have to repeat what he did on the weekend over in the next contest. For Bernie Sanders, after wisconsin, we are heading east into Hillary Clinton territory. Were talking new york. Bernie sanders is originally from new york. Her adopted state. She should be strong there. Pennsylvania, maryland, hundreds of delegates at stake there. Thats where Hillary Clinton needs to shut this thing down if she is going to. If sanders beats her in new york, can make a case. It will be questionable if he can keep that momentum up with that pressure. Chris, we will come back to you later in the show to talk about more politics. On tuesday night, the final three republican candidates in milwaukee for a cnn town hall moderated by anderson cooper. Thats live at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cnn. 17 minutes past the hour. Perfect time for an early start on your money. Dow futures checking they are higher. A long holiday weekend. Oil is up as well. Stocks in asia mixed. Markets in europe are closed for easter holiday. No way to predict where the stock market will go over the next four years, but investors think Hillary Clinton would be better for stocks than donald trump. 25 say clinton would be best for investments. This is a survey by td ameritrade. 19 say they dont know which nominee will be best for stocks. The rest were split with the candidates. Experts say clinton may have the edge because she is more predictable. Think trade war with china. Historically, democrats are better for the stock market. Experts say that is more luck than policy. The s p 500 has gained an average of 9. 7 annually under democrats since 1945. Compared with 6. 7 for republicans. Four teams left in the ncaa tournament. Only one top seed advancing to the final four with the tenth seed making it for the first time ever. Coy wire has the Bleacher Report coming up next. Ants you. Es warns you about incoming crosstraffic. Cameras and radar detect dangers you dont. And it can even stop by itself. 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Five threepointers in the first half and syracuse was down by 16 points at one point. In the second half, on Easter Sunday, they resurrected themselves. They put virginia in the Pressure Cooker situation and it worked. Virginia had six turnovers in the second half. The orange turning the turnovers into points. Richardson led the way. Orange get the win. 6862. Syracuse the first ten seed to make the final four. They take on north carolina. The tar heels trading threepointers with notre dame in the game in the first half. They come back and win this one 8874. Led by senior brice johnson. He had a huge game. 25 points and 12 rebounds. Unc heads to the final four for a ncaa record 19th time. You can catch the action saturday night on tbs. The First National semifinal is villanova and oklahoma. A pair of two seeds who knocked off number ones to get there. In the late game, acc rematch. These winners play for all the marbles on monday night april 4th on tbs. 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Im christine romans. Im alison kosik. It is 30 minutes past the hour. New terror arrests across europe. Many of them connected to the brussels and paris attacks suggesting the network is bigger and more widespread and more cities than we knew. The manhunt expanding for two bombing suspects still on the run. And tension is rising in belgium. Far right protesters storming the memorial site for brussels victims clashing with rio