A foot of snow falls in the midwest and stranding travelers trying to get an early jump on thanksgiving. How bad will it get . Dylan has the forecast. Scare on the football field. High School Players, coaches, officials and fans forced to run for their lives after gunshots rang out. And early status update. A big announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about what he will do when his little girl arrives. A lot of likes for the daddytobe. Today, november 21st, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan eyer. Good to have you home. Nice to be home. We will talk to you about the top stories, terror attacks worldwide. We have correspondents across the globe. The headline, belgium under the highest terror alert today. Subways in brussels are closed. Armed police and soldiers in the streets. E belgian Prime Minister saying they have quote quite precise information that several people with arms and explosives cokeuld launch multiple attacks. Nbcs carlio is here with us. Reporter craig, brussels, the home of european stitutions woke up to a military zone. We see soldiers everywhere. They are patrolling the streets and guarding Shopping Centers and hotels. There are enough assault military vehicles parked outside the old stock e hange behind mewi. We spoke to residents and they are concerned and angry because this measure, this security measure is affecting their way of life. The entire subway system has been shutdown for the weekend. Concerts and events closed. Movie theaters and Exhibition Centers closed this weekend. They are not used to this. This is only the third time in the history of belgium, of the country, the alert has beeh n raised to level four, the highest. Authorities of course are sayingey would not have done that if they did not think the threat is serious, credible and real. You said the Prime Minister feared coordinated attacks similar to paris. The fact that salah abdeslam, the only terrorist linked to the paris attacks still at large, wa s born, raised and radicalized and may be hiding here. Craig. Claudio, thank you. The hunt for those involved in the paris attacks is going wider with a key arrest in turkey. Nbhecs global correspondent bill ely i here with the latest for us. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning, erica. The investigation here and the crackdown on isis supporters continues. More than 800 raids across france so far. Almost 200 gun seized. Nearly 10h people arrested as you have seen in brussels, the effort across europe by police forces, it is not just in france. We had arrests in turkey this morning. Thupe net is widening right across europe. Under arrest this morning in turkey, three men suspected of ties to isis. Including a belgian thoug a to have scouted locations of the paris massacres. Across europe, police are hunting for the killers and their gang. French police are still trying identify th suicide bomber who detonated in the apartment they stormed. They found a third body in the rubble. This woman killed in the raid was not the bomber as they previously thought. I met the man who led the raid. The terror group they faced, he told me, were well trained. They shot just enough to be dangerous. We didnt see them. It was very difficult to know where they were. They knew what they were doing . Reporter he said the woman shouted im scared, im ared. Suddenly the suicide bomber detonates. The flash of lights and the building shook. Reporter the shields they used are bullet ridden. E you can see here. Reporter the terrorists fired to the head. The bullets come by this way. You can see the exit. Reporter the death toll from the massacres a week ago has risen to 130. But for danny plaugee, targeted by the gunman at the concert, everything has changed. There will be a before and after as it was for you people in new york city. There was a before and after in september. Reporter early this morning, paris was trying to begin a new normal weekend, but exactly a week after the massacres, it was rd to forget the victims to have courage amid the terror. And overnight at the United Nations, the Security Council adopted its first resolution against isis calling on countries to take all necessary means to confront isis which it called a global threat. Remember, all five permanent members, including the u. S. , u. Have had citizens killed by isis. China, russia in the plane bombing and here in france. Erica. Bill reely, thank you. Today, president obama is condemning the terror attack in the african nation of mali that left at least 20 people dead, including one au rican. Hnbcs keir simmons is there for us. Good morning. Reporter craig, good morning. The jihadists who carried out the attack on the luxury hotel behind me may still be on the loose. Three are being hunted. Mali malian president is urging a state of emergency and limiting the movements around the capital. The search forillers tn the Radisson Hotel was assisted by security agents. It is not clear this morning how many armed gunmen it took to terrorize guests. Two jihadists ere killed. Glass shatteredhihe are the men burst in as breakfast was under way shooting at everything that moved. These jihadists, they killed everyone, said a hotel employee. Rathey went room to room, releasing those they were muslim by reciting passages from the koran. Killinmathose who couldnt. Mali Security Forces rushed to the attack to aid. Our Diplomatic Security agents rushed in to pull people to safety. French tros,s and American Forces in the country for Training Mission provided support as did the United Nations forces. Thanks to the swift action and skill of all involved, many people escaped. Reporter byrthen, at least people killed. Including american aid worker anita from maryland. Her family spokesperson. We are devastated by the loss. Reporter the group claiming responsibility is the jihadist orocganization potentially linked to al qaeda, not isis, renewing their threat of global jihad. Th itis aitack claimedery the al qaeda affiliate so soon after e an tar tack on paris, people are worried that isis and al qaeda are worried. Keir simmons, thank you. We have a senior partner here about us. Evan, nice to have you. Thank you. The unprecedented terror wae rning for belgium for the an w alert alert. And the precise coordinated attacks. What more do you know . In we dont know much because the police in belgium are not saying much. They seem to havsae similar concerns to what happened in paris. If you look at what is going on in brussels, you get an idea. You have the one individual running right now from authorities. Supposedly some are angry with him because he did not detonate a weapon. Obviously if you are looking at the targets they are selecting or targets they are worried about, metro, shops, malls, hotels, the same targets we saw in paris. I think it is fair to say it comes from the same source. Isis or isis supporters. I want to pick up what keir said on the end there. The idea there may be some sort of rivalry brewing with the two. The al qaeda connected group that has taken credit for mali d isis in paris. I we have to be careful. We have a communication. Wein are not sure it is authentic. Lee. Ts just say it is. Lets say it is al qaeda. The operation in mali could have been prepared for months or years. We dont know. This is something it wasnt and organized as paris there were not suicide bomb vests. These guys had a plan. This is possibly a symptom of the competition with al qaeda and isis. Itgo to. Is not necessarily linked to what happened in paris. These folks have been Planning Operations for a while. Itja is to be said one potential targets, mokhtar belmokhtar, was targeting the u. S. With the air strike in libya. It is fair to say the impetus for this did not come up last week or the week before. This could be many months old. Evan coleman, thank you. The terror scares around the world have put the issue of immigration front and center in the president ial campaign. Gop frontrunner donald trump is facing Harsh Criticism for delling for a muslim tracking database. He seems to be walking i back a bit. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is in a very snowy des moines, iowa this morn g. Reporter good morning, craig. The first real snowfall of the season. Some Campaign Stops are canceled in iowa, but the snow does not stop more than 1,000u eople attending a faith and family forum attended by several candidates. Donald trump is weathering his own storm about the comments on a muslim database. Donald trump is clarifying. There was music blaring in the background. Reporter b k srking. Blaming background noise for mishearing an exchange with nbc ws in which he did not rule out a database for tracking muslims in the United States. I would implement that. Absolutely. Reporter later . Mr. Trump, why would that not be the same thig as requiring jews to register in nazi, germany . Is there a difference . Who are you with . Im with nbc news. Is there a difference . You tell me. Reporter now trump says . I want a database for the Syrian Refugees that obama wants to let in. Reporter trump looking to fend off more falloutss, aore groups denounce his remarks. So did democrats. Ou i dont think we should be engaging in the kind of inflammatory rhetoric i have been hearing from some of the republican candidates. Eporter republican rivals. You talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people. Thats just wrong. Im a big fan of donald trumps, but not a fan of government reg ytries of american citizens. Reporter trump still the frontrunner of the survey monkey poll. Interrupted by protesters eaaly, the loudest voices were saved for slamming promise esident obama. We had a president spending more time attacking republicans than more time than attacking isis. Reporter president obama visited refugee children in kuala lumpur overnight as the debate over Syrian Refugees entering the u. S. Continues here at home. The president promising as long as he is in office, america is a plpiace where people face violence and discrimination can find safe haven. Hallie, thank you. A big scare at a High School Football game in miami. Sheinelle has more on that. Good morning. That game in miami, that Football Game ends in chaos. You can see the players and fans racing out of the stadium in the video where miami central was playing carroll city high school. The gunshots were heard in the distance. The shots were fired outside the stadium and so far, police have no reports of injuries. They are still investigating. Officials at San Diego State university are investigating allegations of a hate crime against a muslim student. Battered and pusheq d anr abused by a man who confronted her in the University Parking lot. The man grabbed her by h head scarf and began making thres. A dar ening robbery. Thieves used a car to smash into the shop ia hendersonville, nnessee. The rest of the crime was caught by surveillaece cameras. They made out with 16 guns and automatic weapons. Scary moments as a truck smash noos smashes into a house. The dump truck crashed into a telephone pole before it hit the house. It took the emergency crews more than an hour to cut the driver from the wreck. And there is word of an escape from the sequoia park zoo. The concern is for the animal that is on the run. The red panda that got out of her enclosure. She is perfect prey for larger predators and her diet is bamboo, which she is not likely to find. Finally, a creative pro sal with something of a food focus. Take a look. A canadian man decided to pop e question using potatoes on his front lawn. More than 200, in fact. I dont know if she is a potato lover. Apparently she liked the gesture. You can see, the hug means she said yes. A man proposes to you using potatoes, you better say te why . I dont know. Its hard to find all of the tatoes in the si size to lay them out evenly. There you go. It is thoughtful and took planning. Ewlan, how about the weather . I should stay away from the potato talk. A lot of s an in parts of the dwest. South dakota picked up 18 inches in iowa, near des moines, we saw roads very slippery. C we had cars sliding off the roads. You see this on the side of the road. The streets are covered. Parts of Northern Iowa picked up nearly 12 inches of snow. And where we only saw 3 to 6 inches closer to chicago, roads are slippery. That whole getting used to driving in the snow again. We are seeing the rain changing over to snow in chicago. Northwest of chicago, rockford picked up 3 inches. We have Winter Weather advisories. That includes chicago. We will see it taper off as we go through the next couple hours as it peels away from the western great lakes and to the north. As it does, it pumps in warmer temperatures. We will not see snow along the east coast. As the colder air wraps around, lake ontario and lake erie, is whi tren the sno machine picks up and we could see lakeeffect snow tomorrow and monday morning. Next 24 hours, chicago could end up with 3 to 5 inches of snow once the colder air wraps in. South bend, indiana,inches of snow. Toledo, ohio, 1 inch. Northw antern pennsowvania and western new york could end up with several inches of lakeeffect snow. Today is the midwest and behind it very chilly temperature. Chilly start to your weekend out there. Temperatures in the 30s and 20s. Its a cool mix of sunshine and clouds throughout the day. Now, the clouds build later on and we have some showers overnight tonight. Not any heavy rain. Temperatures are in the mid 40s. Toenmorrow, breezy and blustery. A cool feel for tomorrow. Beautiful weather continues as we head into the holidays. Cool to start, milder day by day. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. Up next, catching you up on the week in news. Stunning developments in the wake of the paris terror attack. A shocking revelation from charli sheen and a Sweet Surprise in our studio from one of our colleagues. It is all in the download. Back now with the download. A look at the weeks busy stories. Here is a look at the headlines you may have missed in the morning rush. A week atofter the paris terror attacks, a new strike. This time in africa. The least 150 people taken hostage in malis capital bamako. And in france, authorities take down the alleged ringleader of the assaults. Riddled with bullets identified by fingerprints. Could this be the homemade bomb that brought down the russian jetliner . Isis claims in the online magazine magazine, this is it. It appears the can was cut off and packed with plastic explosives and put back together. Small, but enough to blow up a plane as this test shows. While back home, fear on the rise about he spread of isis leading to a backlash against refu gees and migrants. If they are coming here, they are going back. We cant take a chance on isis. A bipartisan majority in the house approving the bill to restrict the number of syrian and iraqi refugees entering the United States. In a today, exclusive, a stunning admission from charlie sheen. I am here to admit i am in fact hivpositive. Im here to better myself and help a lot of other people. Sheen says he was honest about his health with his sexual partners. Some say thats not true. I could literally be dead right now because he did not tell me that. Severe weather across the nation this week. Three people have been killed in the Pacific Northwest by falling trees. Lots of flooding as well. Move to denver where they are aling with blizzard like conditions. The winds are moving east. Look a mehis, tennessee. All the damage caused by falling trees and downed power lines. And i the mommy shorts blog he ad a Chubby Cheeks playoff. And elliot and kora and elliot versus sllie. The winnerge is the second baby elliot. We all might look like baby elliot after thanksgiving, but not after feasting on Patti Labelles sweet potato pies. Come on, pattie. Thanks to James Wrights serenade serenade, walmart sold out. Lucky for us, she stopped by to give us a slice. On my own and it would not be the holidayn without cheer. Leanne nees wrote a song for us at today. It is called today ir s chniristmas. Come on. Qu thats a bad sitcom. I want to go back to paris. A lot of our viewers may not know. You spent a year in high school. Your sister lives there. When we were watching you this week, it was not like watching a reporter. It was watching someone talk about a placeehau meant a great deal to them. T it is a place i know well. The french people have a special one of the things, it was an interesting story. We all cover the stories and we are there for a long time and you see things change day by day. What we were floored by on the ground is how quickly the story was moving. In paris one moment and then saintdenis and then back there. Until it was a constant flow of information that was fascinating fascinating. You watch people in paris and watch their attitude. Resilience is a big thing. The love ofll liberty and freedom. Those are really imporrstant values. Ep in the french crul. Watching that was fascinating. Attitudes changed athe memorials. This is the one outside the bataclan theater. Once they oesned it up and people could get there, by far, the most emotional memorial we would go to. People would stand with their hands over their mouths looking at theater and hugging. They were there to show they were not going anywhere and supporting one another. It is with heavy hearts. Rainy and cold yesterday. It almost felt appropriate. One week after. Your perspective was very much appreciated. Thanks. Still ahead, a popular 26 minutes after 7 00. 42 degrees. The sun gleaming off the World Trade Center on a saturday morning. Its the 21st of november. 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