Central brussels close to subway situations. As kelly was mentioned, a foreign minister did say art arrest of abdeslam the other day that there was evidence from that terror cell that he was to be hanging with was planning to restart something, that was their expression. And possibly, that may conclude what turns out to be the suspected attack today. A large amount of weapons were raids. There were kalashnikovs at a previous raid and isis flag found as well. So, clearly, authorities were aware that this terror cell has managed to accumulate a large amount of weapons and prepared to mount an attack that do place across several areas possibly as attack. Theres no indication that the attack on the Brussels Airport included any kind of warning or coordinated. Local time. Thats about 3 00 a. M. Eastern in the checkin area of the airport. The unsecured zone where people walk in from the curb. And it took place next to checkin 4 in departure hall 1. Thats a fairly small area used by a number
Two, one around the curbside area near the departures areas. That is said to be, or perhaps to have been a suicide bombing. And then another explosion just inside the departures area. Now, we should mention this would be an area, and youre looking at footage from the scene right now. This would be an area where you would not have had to have gone through security to get into that area. So, anyone arriving from a car or Mass Transportation could have gone into that area carrying a suitcase or a backpack and detonated it. And then a short time later, in separate bombings, there were several explosions in subway stops in and around the brussels area. Now, one of those was said to be in the molenbeek area. Its important to note that, because that is the area where, on friday, Salah Abdeslam who was the alleged mastermind of the paris terror attacks of november was arrested. Just four days ago, on friday, the alleged mastermind of those paris attacks. So the question is now, was this some s
We did have eyewitness accounts of what had happened. Apparently the explosions went off, glass was flying in the front area. It was a lot of panic as the people did not know what was going on. Obviously with two explosions emergency crews are on the scene. Fire department are on the scene. And the thousands of people have been taken outside of the airport. They have been evacuated. The airport has been shut down. The metro has also been shut down through brussels and the ministry has elevated the alert level to four which is the highest, the maximum alert level in brussels. And we have been having this continuing coverage, the updates obviously the death toll has been getting higher. Its now up to 13 people now confirmed dead with 35 people injured and what id like go back to alstair jamison, who is with nbc in london. If you can give us a little report of whats coming in to you there in the london office. Reporter absolutely. You mentioned there that already the airport has been clos
There in black. Each of whom had one glove on and they were believed to be hiding a detonator. Investigators, those two men you see there, they are brothers. That is also new according to Police Sources and confirmed by nbc news with our reporters on the ground in brussels this morning. Joining us, counterterrorism analyst, and former cia analyst jack rice. Starting with you. Weve been watch thing unfold right here, looking at the notes i just walked through, what is important for this manhunt about these new details . Its extremely important. Now we have some sort of picture. We have names. We have ages. We know that where possibly these individuals might have known each other. Of course, prior to planning this attack, but also this could be part of the Bigger Network of the paris attacks. We know that some of the paris attackers were belgian, some of them were french. And now that were putting the dots together four days after the capture of the most panted salah abdeslam, now this i
Brussels has been a very hightension area for the police and for these terrorists who have been hiding out in belgium, so we do not know yet if this is an act of terrorism. We do know there have been two explosions reported at the Brussels Airport. And right now youre seeing the live pictures of the people who have been taken out of the airport. Obviously, its daytime in brussels, a very, very busy time of the day. And police seem to have the people arranged. Theyre keeping it very, very calm and trying to not panic. They dont know if these were set explosions, if this was an accident. Of course theyre looking into it to make sure that they have an understanding of why these explosions happened and if it was an act of terrorism or not. We do know that one was an explosion at the curb departure area of the airport in brussels where they say there have been multiple casualties. Now there are reports saying there are several dead, but we do not have a count on how many people have actuall