Transcripts For WCBS CBS 2 News This Morning 20160322 : comp

Transcripts For WCBS CBS 2 News This Morning 20160322

Said two loud blasts were heard during the departure terminal we are hearing from Brussels Police one person is dead and there are several injuries. Smoke billowing from the airport, the airport under lock down. People were immediately evacuated, seen standing on the tarmac and ordered to get out. The International News organization, sky news, was inside the airport during the time of the blast. Checking in from flights back home, very, very loud explosions the building around was rocked, dust coming from the ceiling, people wanting shelter where they were. This point there is no terror related, they have been under high alert. Last week Salah Abdeslam was under attack, it is unclear if any of this is all related. Janelle burrell, cbs 2 news. Well get back to you shortly. Lets get to traffic and weather on the 2s. Good morning chris and mary, good morning everybody, look at that beautiful moonlit sky, full moon tomorrow. Well see nice conditions today, mostly sunny just a few clouds creeping in late today into your tuesday night. 36 in the city right now northwest wind not as strong today 9 to 17 a few flurries well to the north, but well see slightly warmer air in place today, thats definitely the case tomorrow with the southwest wind taking over your day hour by hour, it is chilly to start, still in the 30s out the door for many, by lunchtime still brisk in the mid40s. Were going to shoot for 54 for your high today. Mostly sunny skies clouds afternoon and into the evening. It is early in the morning right now, lets look at that moon, lets get you on your way. Skies are clear not too bad on the roads yet we have a little bit of construction to tell you about. Jersey city pacific avenue closed in both directions due to Fire Department activity. You want to stick with garfield avenue that will be your best bet. The goethals bridge is closed until 5 a. M. That is for construction so you want to use the bayon bridge as your alternate. Taking a look outside, no delays at the George Washington bridge, nice and clear at all three hudson river crossings just a reminder the inbound lower level is easy pass only until 6 a. M. , alternate side wide. Thank you. New developments in apples legal battle with the fbi a Court Hearing set for today has been delayed because they may phone without apples helm. The couple was inspired by isis. And farooks iphone may have possible information about collaborators. Apple has been fighting a court order to unlock the iphone. A director of a tennis tournament that women ride on the coattails of men. The same day defeating williams, both slammed the comments. And Police Commissioner bratton will discuss the plan of the knife attacks. Well have much more on this story in our next half hour. A costumed easter bunny character and parent face charges after getting in a brawl in a mall. Cell phone video captured the video after a 1yearold daughter apparently fell off the dad got angry with the man in the bunny suit some how they ended up wrestling on the floor in front of other kids and shoppers. You could see it throughout the entire mall the crowd was just crazy, he was just wacking at the guy. Happening today the man accused of killing a homeless shelter director in the bronx will face a judge. Wess will appear in court for a control hearing prosecutors say last april he tried to sexually assault anna charl and then shot her three times, moved out of the shelter in january of 2015. The next round of Water Testing begins this morning in newark schools high levels of led were detected at 30 schools, today theyll begin testing students for led poisening at 17,000 students in the district are eligible for testing. The mta is investigating a people hurt. The qm11 bus jumped a barrier and slammed into a pillar it jammed the bus door. Everything went flying. I was in the handicap seat, there was nothing that stopped me. The passenger complaining of chest pains was removed on a stretcher, no injuries were considered life threatening. New York City Council is one step closer to knocking chewing tobacco out of ballparks, yesterday the Health Committee voted in favor of a smokeless tobacco ban, if approved the city hopes to have a ban in place by opening day at Yankee Stadium and citi field. Before president obama wraps up his historic visit to cuba hell catch a baseball game between the Cuban National team and tampa bay rays. Yesterday mr. Obama and cuban havana. Castro says they place emphasis on other human rights. I discussed that we are ready to show to do more business. It stands as the most important obstacle for the Economic Development and well being of all people. To campaign 2016, voters head to the polls, yesterday donald trump raised eyebrows on the future of nato. Don champion reports. Reporter voting in the west could further lay the landscape for the republican president ial race. The big prize is the winner focused on Foreign Policy in washington, an idea he repeated on cnn last night. Paying disproportionately. It is too much, frankly, it is the a different world than when he originally conceived the idea and everybody got together. The rivals quickly responding. This is a dangerous world if America Withdraws we get what it produced. Trump tried rallying support, also spoke before apac. When i become president , the days of treating israel like a second class citizen will end. Hillary clinton targeting trump. We need steady hands, not a president who says he is neutral on monday, proisrael on tuesday, and who knows what on wednesday. Bernie sanders skipped the utah where he needs to pull off a win. Israel must continue to exist as an independent free state. If we are going to have lasting peace, we have to work with the palestinians. More than 200 delegates are up for grabs today. Don champion, cbs news. Updated on our breaking news this morning. Lets go to a special report from cbs news. Havent been able to find this guy, they are asking for the publics help, have you seen him . There are pictures distributed in media and other places looking for this man, thats how immediate a threat it is, and you find out there are three explosions at the airport, possibly one at a subway station, you can imagine that the belgium authorities are reeling with this problem. We are showing video of people running just running from the airport just to bring everyone up to speed like charlie said, we are looking at two explosions at the airport completely shut down all flights to belgium have been diverted elsewhere, the subway system, the metro system has been shut down completely as well here another report of an explosion at the metro station very close to eu buildings. That. Essentially the country has been shut down, a high state of alert and authorities are trying to sort of get a handle on what has been unfolding all morning long. Charlie, you are on your way to brussels. Im wondering what it is like on the roads . Can you tell something is occurring here in the country . Well we are racing here on a highway, we are between bruge and brussels itself, i havent got into the city center to get the reason we were here, this paris attacker arrested on friday, transferred to a high security prison, they dont have one of that nature in brussels, so they transferred to a high security prison to place high profile prisoners, furniture,equipment has been bolted to the floor, thats where he has been kept. It was after the arrest, if the place wasnt already on alert, they cranked it up even higher. Now it is at the highest threat level, that will means things like closing down the airport, closing down the public transport, mean obviously a huge increase presence of police in public areas. As you said, anne marie. The place after the arrest and public warnings, after asking the publics help in the search for at least two high profile essential. When we left brussels yesterday when we were traveling there, you see police everywhere. Certainly around the train stations. I imagine they were at the airport as well. Including a huge presence around that specific area. A bit rundown in places, a hot bed of islamic extremism. International terror attacks have been launched from brussels so were not just talking about belgium itself that has been attackedded were talking about the paris attack and others. We are learning now at least that there were several injuries at the explosion at the metro station near the eu. We are also hearing from americanairlines there had been some reports, cbs news has yet to confirm at least one of the occurred near or around the American Airlines desk. American airlines issued a statement saying all of their employees and contract to bees contractors are accounted for. Among those injured or killed, American Airlines is saying none of their employees are part of that but there have been injuries at the metro station as well. Can you remind us a little more about the suspects that brussels authorities have been searching for. They talked about this man who they believe was the primary bomb maker involved in the paris attacks. Can you tell us what we know about him. Yes well you know this announcement came out from belgium authorities that there is now a man hunt underway, public enemy number one, identified as a bomb maker in dna, they say, at several locations for the paris attacks where 130 people were killed. In addition to that this comes after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam because it turns out that abdeslam was in a vehicle with him as they were traveling through parts of europe. Notably hungary. Where this becomes connected this migrant crisis that happened last summer, well we saw so many people coming from syria, and i witnessed it myself. One of the choke points was hungary, if you Start Connecting the dots you did have one person that did survive the paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, in the same car as the suspected bomb maker. Headed down to hungary, it just gives you an idea the network this is a person, the reason they are interested in finding him not only is he the bomb maker but clearly directed by isis, thats what they suspect. He clearly had strong ties to he clearly had strong ties to the parisattackers. If he is a bomb maker he is clearly dangerous and he is on the run and also points out that he is the person they are looking for. Everyone of those explosive devices in paris work. And they dont always work, this man knows what he is doing. This has been a bit of a problem for authorities in the pour for people to coming them. This is one of the major concerns. And both the belgium and french prosecutors noted that in the press conference that you have thousands, 10s of thousands, unaccounted people, we know they come from syria, we interview them ourselves when into germany. Guys in. The people that dont want to register, they dont want to identify themselves wont and then you have the Smugglers Network and you have people that are making also passports and that again is part of this investigation the ones they are looking for including him is name, they are taking advantage of everything. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of unaccounted refugees a highway stretching from syria to europe well connected groups in places in brussels and in france where they can have people and weapons in and out of this area. I should report over the weekend they found crates full of cell phones, just disposable cell phones. They know how to communicate, they know how to disappear, they know how to move weapons back and fourth, work detonators, and use household i tells. The level of sophistication shocked officials. I can only imagine. Belgiums public broadcasters that one of the explosions at the airport was indeed a suicide attack. Someone walked in with explosives possibly strapped to them, wasnt a matter of away. Speed. What you are looking at now are images from Brussels Airport. There have been reports of two explosions there, one is the result of a suicide attack. Im sure well learn about the other one. It occurred in the departure lounge. There have been some reports that it happened at the American Airlines desk that has yet to be confirmed by cbs news, American Airlines issued a statement saying all of their employees and contractors are okay. Later on there was another explosion at the mullenbeck metro station there. The airport has been shut down the train station has been shut seeing right there is of the outside of the metro station. You can see there is smoke billowing out. The metro station is close to e u buildings, possibly eu headquarters there. This all is happening with the backdrop of a very high profile arrest of a terrorist connected to the paris terror attacks. There was a concern he as well as others were planning several other attacks when he was picked up on friday. He was now in custody, Salah Abdeslam, but they were searching for others a man known for his bombmaking skills. Charlie is on his way to brussels. They are talking ability the challenge that authorities are it seals like this neighborhood has become a hot bed for jihadist moving back and fourth across the borders in syria and make their way back, charlie, it has become very challenging for authorities to sort of break into this community. I think a lot of people would find it very surprising that this man, Salah Abdeslam, one of europes most wanted was able to cross back into belgium and go right back to his neighborhood. Exactly right under the noses of antiterrorist squads. This would one of the most spiedon areas of the world because of the number of terrorist attacks we spoke to the mayor, said you cant search every house and maybe 100,000 people in the area itself. Speaking to the home secretary, asking, what took solong . He said we dont understand the complexity of the network here, they are able to communicate without being surveilled. The neighborhood is very tight. We spoke to Georgetown Professor featured in last nights report, he said they do not snitch on their neighbors and the reason is these are brutal people that killed 130 people in paris. They are not about to pick up the phone and call the police and say yeah, found at the end of this street, i know where this person is. Now not only have an allegiant, a loyalty of people, but the level of fear. Still not only Salah Abdeslam made his way back into belgium, he was hiding out in an area five blocks from where he grew up. Belgium prosecutors said we are just assuming he was there the whole time. He has been on the run for a month. Maybe he just reappeared. Fingerprints showed up on a couple of residents in that area there is no date on fingerprints, bewe know there was a problem, that he wasnt in hiding but may have been planning further attacks and that triggered this national, International Man hunt in connection to the paris attacks. We need help finding this man today they are dealing with what they are dealing with. I guess the nightmare scenario he was out there making bombs, how many suicide vests are out there . Where are they . How are they moving . Speed what you are looking at here is the exterior of a metro station, in we are asking eu asked its employees to stay home, not col back to work. This is one explosion in brussels what started this whole thing off were reports of two explosions at the airport. We are learning there is one suicide bomber at the airport, this is video of people quite literally running for their lives at the airport. The airport is completely shut down, in terms of injuries and number of dead, we know one person is dead at the airport and there are several injuries. The ap is reporting that at seen with facial injuries at least one person removed on a stretcher, a lot going on in brussels. In terms of security, they are on high alert. The airport is completely locked down, the metro station is completely locked down, things are very, very tense. Two explosions at the airport, one explosion at a metro station close to the eu headquarters and a lot of very, very, very tense on edge people in brussels today. Charlie, when i think about Salah Abdeslam is now in prison yet now we dont know how coordinated these attacks are. We are still waiting to find out details, but i would think of him as he called the masterminds of the paris attack he would be a ringleader slow anything down if in fact these explosions are all connected which i would think would have authorities thinking, there are other people out there, other people who can pull the strings, other people who can takeover in terms of ordering a suicide bomber to move into place like it is believed a suicide bomber is at the airport for someone to plant a bomb. It shows you the level of sophistication with the isis network, the belgium prosecutor, this is ongoing, if you are talking about the one paris cell where 130 people were killed with the one remaining survivor, they are talking about multiterror cells. This became as a surprise to us and other people in belgium. Not only was this man in hiding in this neighborhood, Salah Abdeslam, but his fingerprints were found at a place where french prosecutor, lots of weapons, heavy weapons detonators. So this wasnt a man who just went to ground, if he was on the run from authorities you would imagine he would still be involved in isis operations, just be too hot too much attention on him. If that was the case certainly where he was hiding further operations were being planned thats what they believed. If you arrest somebody like Salah Abdeslam, a person identified thought to have got the detonators, shuttling the fighters back and fourth drove they will to france, prosecutors say he was supposed to blow himself up but the conversation that he had. So yes. You arrest somebody like that, high profile person from a known isis cell directed from isis headquarters in syria. What appears to be another active cell. People that have suicide vests in place and suicide bombers. They have suicide bombers who are ready to attack

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