wanted fugitive from the paris attacks. he was caught after a shootout with police in brussels, and is reported to have suffered a leg injury. this comes four months after coordinate attacks in paris in which 130 people were killed. ♪ >>> the most wanted fugitive from the paris attacks salah abdeslam has been arrested. he has been on the run since november's attacks in paris in which 130 were killed. he was reportedly wounded in this afternoon's operations. the local deputy mayor says he was shot in the leg. again, this was the scene earlier as heavily armed police raided the apartment in musselbeck, witnesses say they heard several exchanges of gunfire as police surrounded the apartment block. and then there was white smoke seen rising from the roof top. let's go straight to brussels and speak to natasha butler. tell us a little bit about what is going on there right now. >> reporter: as far as we know this police operation is ongoing, but just a few moments ago, just behiepgd me, a long line of police cars with their sirens came through this cordon. i'm just next to a cordon here.

belgium, where a raid is under way. we believe it's in connection with the paris terror attacks and possibly connected to one of the most wanted men in the world. officials in the country say they have found evidence that sala ab de salaam have been in an apartment raided by police on tuesday. his older brother among the suicide bombers who killed themselves during those attacks that of course, left 130 people dead in paris. ab de salaam is believed to have fled paris since the attacks and been on the run since then. nbc's richard engel is live in istanbul. >> reporter: it appears the raid in molenbeck is winding down. officials there say a police spokesman said that two suspects have been taken alive. we do not know, however, and do not have confirmation of who those suspects are. there are multiple reports that one of them at least was sala ab de slem. there are other reports ab de slem was holed up and involved in a standoff. but with the indication that the operation is winding down, that scenario that he's holed up inside is less and less likely. the police is saying two people

. abdeslam a key suspect in the terror attack in paris. he he had been on the for 126 days. is streak of freedom just ended. belgium officials say cops hot and wound him during a raid and took him into custody. this all happened in an area of when the raid went down. look. [gunshots] >> the same neighborhood where police arrested several people in days after the attack. abdeslam evaded police self self -- several times. you can see video of police taking someone from the scene, and the most wanted escapee was likely on tuesday. that's when police shot into -- got into a shootout with terror suspects while raiding an apartment in a different brussels neighborhood. investigators say they found fingerprints matching those of abdeslam in that apartment. it took them three days to connect the dots and track him down. a man wanted for those bloody attacks across thek'hfrench capital lahyÑ november. when islamic state militants carried out a night of terror, punch waited by suicide bombs and gunshots they've killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more and shredded so many families. but europe

ten paris attackers, abdeslam was the only one to survive the police dragnet and evade capture for four months. after his arrest, abdeslam had promised new attacks, heightening fears among security forces that the militants' reach into europe is deeper and larger than they knew. now counter-terror police are conducting further raids tonight, scott. they've launched massive manhunt to find that missing third suspect. after raids in brussels uncovered two more bombs today, police fear militants may have been planning even further attacks. >> pelley: charlie d'agata at the airport for us tonight. charlie, thank you. so why brussels? well, there are several possible reasons. it's home to the nato alliance, and it has its own population of islamist extremists. today at least 20 of the dead were killed in the subway station that serves the european parliament, and becca becca pizzi -- allen pizzey is there. >> reporter: minutes after an explosion ripped apart a rush hour subway train in central brussels, passengers scrambled to safety in near pitch dark. smoke billowed from the station e

of intel on the paris attacks. >> i guess there are two ways of looking at this, it could be a break through and cue for both belgian and french police, or you could argue how could it take them four months or more to find a man that might have been in brussels the whole time. >> well, these people that commit these atrocities have a plan b. and i think probably what has happened is that that plan b has come into operation. and therefore, the police not initially fining him, have sort of lost the -- lost the track, and then obviously being able to flee paris, flee france, get back into belgium where he is obviously comfortable, that means that that is two police forces in cahoots with each other, discussing intelligence, discussing what kind of locations this person may be at, and they were waiting for the needle in the haystack and by all accounts they have got it. difficult for the police to explain how they lost the suspect, but i imagine in the confusion of the actual attacks he slipped through the net, simple as that. >> steve park, thank you. >>> and let's go back to paul brenn

people, families, young men from these districts in paris and in brussels, nor whatever reason, attracted by the ideology of i.s.i.l., in the case of some who go there to fight and in the cases of others that don't go there to fight but bring the fight to their home cubs. this is a phenomenon that police are worried about and it is very difficult to control. there have been criticisms of the police. people asking questions, why did the take the belgian police four months to find salah abdeslam, he was under their nose, he was hiding only half a kilometer away from his family home. the response by security experts to that is this, the threat, is so widespread you would almost need several police officers follow each potential suspect and there could be thousands, in order to unveil the problem and that is not possible. police officers are having to make judgments and officials making judgments on can what to pursue and what not to pursue. it is an inexact science >>> the shots were fired before the explosions, and arabic was shouted as well before the two explosions. we don't kn

learned about connections between the two men and salah abdeslam. you'll remember him as the paris suspect who was arrested on friday. an apartment in a brussels suburb that was raided by police last week uncovered abdeslam's fingerprints as well as an isis flag. we now know that apartment had been rented by khalid el bakraoui, the younger brother blamed for yesterday's metro bombing. yesterday, police launched a series of new raids, detaining at least one person and covering what they described as a bomb making factory. we're going to go there later. here's how the belgian prosecutor described what they found there. >> we discovered five kyleoes of explosives. 150 liters of acetone, 30 liters of oxide peroxide, detonators and nails and screws, as well as material to manufacture bombs. >> and this is a live picture of vice president joe biden paying his respects at the belgian embassy in washington, d.c. right now. you may recall yesterday we saw jeh johnson, the homeland security chief and dr. jill biden who is with vice president biden, unfortunately, this is something we have se

on. look at brussels, look at paris, look at so many cities that were great cities. paris is almost as bad if you look at -- paris is no longer the beautiful city. paris has lot of problems in it. all you have to do is speak to the people that live there and look at other places where the same thing has happened. they're in fear. the city is in fear. we have to be smart in the united states. and when people come in, i mean, we're taking in -- we're taking in people without real documentation. we don't know where they're coming from. we don't know what they're -- you know, we don't know where they're from, who they are. you look at them and look at them from any standpoint, they could be isis, they could be isis related. and, you know, we just don't learn. we don't learn. i mean, brussels is an amazing example. brussels was absolutely a crime free city, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. and now you look at it, it's a disaster. >> but we're talking with donald trump, obviously. donald, you know, we just talked to walid phares and talked to dr. zuhdi jasser. the key is the

believe najim laachraoui is the one who made the bombs in the brussel attacks and in paris in november. tim lister has more on that. >> reporter: this man has become the most wanted in europe, najim laachraoui. now officials say he was the second bomber killed in brussels airport, the day after he was named as wanted in connection with the paris attacks. he had been caught on video in brussels back in november. he and another man sent money to the cousin of ababdays before they were killed in a raid in an apartment in paris where they were hiding and planning other attack. but then he was named by an allis. he's emerged as a key figure in the paris plot. traces of his dna were found on clo clo explosives. his dna was found at an apartment where bomb making equipment was found in december. and in another property used by the paris attackers in the belgian town which he rented under a false name in october. investigators believe he was a key figure in the paris attacks, not only as the likely bomb maker but coordinating the attacks in november. >> he was born in belgium and studied engin

fugitive suspect in the paris terror attacks captured alive in bell aai flooif belgium. he's reported to be injured but he is alive. let's bring in our chief national correspondent jim sciutto. our cnn terrorism analyst paul from new york. and cnn contributor and author of isis inside the army of terror michael weiss. tell us about the raid. what do we know that just happened? >> wolf, really minutes ago, as part of an armed police operation in brussels, they captured two suspected terrorists alive. those two suspected terrorists received injuries as a result of the operation but they have now confirmed the identity of one of those individuals is salah abdeslam, the so-called tenth paris attacker who participated in the paris attacks, dropped off the stadium bombers that night but his suicide device, he didn't carry through with that. he didn't become a suicide bomber that night and managed himself back to brussels. the trail had gone cold until tuesday when police went to an address in brussels that they believe was linked to the paris attacks. they had no idea that salah ab

to the paris massacres is arrested after being wounded in a shootout in belgium. will he be the key to unlocking a terror network in europe? how many others are out there? >>> romney repulsed. former republican nominee mitt romney says he's revolted by donald trump's statements. romney announces he's backing ted cruz and calls for an open convention to stop trump's march to the nomination. >>> unconventional threat. as the stop trump movement intensifie intensifies, the trump campaign is warning of serious consequences if the front-runner is denied the nomination. >>> and anonymous target. the hacker group known as anonymous declares total war on donald trump, calls on its followers to take down his campaign and begins releasing what it says is trump's most personal information. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we have two major breaking stories tonight. in an extraordinary announcement, 2012 republican presidential nominee mitt romney openly now joining the stop trump movement, saying tru

the paris attacks most recently, the idea that you have synchronized cells, synchronized teams that mix a different type of attack methodology, small arms or grenades with suicide vests, this is typical jihadi methodology. >> sure. >> the idea that you create as much chaos as possible by having synchronized attacks. >> they certainly did it today. we should point out that brussels has been on threat-level four, the maximum threat level, ever since the arrest of, you mentioned the paris attacks, salah abdeslam, was scooped up not long ago, doctor. the worry was that essentially there would be revenge attacks if that ever happened. it looks like the takedown of the trigger for this, doesn't i it? >> potentially. let's be careful here. we have a new book out on jihad, and i discuss in detail the way terrorists prepare for attacks. jihadis aren't spontaneous. their not extra capricious. they prepare for months or years, the 9/11 attacks took years to plan. here the idea that they were just doing a revenge attack is unlikely. they were probably planning to attack the airport or subway. m

>> a fox news alert. media reports out of belgium who say the main fugitive with the paris attack was captured alive. i am jon scott. >> i am heather childers in for jennaly. officials found abdeslam who was captured in a terror raid today. it would signal the end of a massive manhunt after the november attacks that killed 130 people. benjamin has the latest from london. >> reporter: hi, heather, the massive manhunt is underway at the moment. police sources are telling us that women are wounded. one of them appears to be abdeslam. one man is holed up in the apartment. two days ago there was a raid in brussels which police thought would be regular. there was a massive shootout. two men escaped on the rooftops. they found abdeslam's dna. he is tracked down to it another part of brussels. if he is caught it would bring to an end the largest manhunt in history. abdeslam has been caught alive. and now this will be a gold mine of intelligence. he can hopefully shed light on sleeper cells and how other attacks are held in the future. he escaped police twice. once from paris and today he

eighth paris attacker salah abdeslam, the only surviving member of that terrorist group that carried out that attack was arrested. we said the fear now is that arrest could trigger more attacks and said either more attacks could take place or of people on the ground and wait for the pressure to ease up. so, of course, right now the immediate fear is this is a terrorist attack. >> we were looking at some really gripping images coming on screen of the terminal. you can see many blown out windows and you also saw something fascinating. you saw hundreds of passengers, i would say, out there on the tarmac of that airport right now. obviously those folks are -- appear to not be injured but it is an interesting scene to see them out there. i'm told the airport has been evacuated and all the flights have so far no flights are going in or out of the brussels airport. and, alex, i know you've been in brussels for the last few days, at least, what do you know of this airport? i imagine it's fairly popular because this is a capital for >> reporter: absolutely. this is a very important european c

catherine n.: it's 9:00 p.m. in the french capital. you are watching "live from paris" on "france 24." our headlines this hour. for terrortigation offenses, including planning an imminent attack on french soil. reda kriket arrested last week, now facing a string of charges. more details, coming up. it's an embarrassing u-turn for the french president. francois hollande abandoning a plan to strip convicted terrorists of their french nationality. we will be looking at why. a new era begins today for burma. the country possibly leader now sworn into office -- the country's leader now sworn into office. thanks for being with us. a frenchman suspected of plotting an imminent attack is now under formal investigation. reda kriket was arrested in a paris suburb last thursday. the paris prosecutor has cited a, quote, "enormous arsenal of und in his apartment. give a pressns conference. -- gave a press conference. >> a major terrorist attack was prevented on french soil. that's what prosecutor franÇois molins explained at the press conference. he explained they found a proper in theenal wh

hunting for the two surviving brussels bombers as the advance terror plot thwarted in paris. a lot going on. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm victor blackwell. 5:00 a.m. in the east. breaking news on the battle front against terror in europe. overnight and this morning, new raids in belgium leading to at least six new arrests. this is happening as investigators now know of several additional isis plots in europe. possibly linked to the brussels and paris terror networks. the manhunt is still ongoing. one for the man who dropped off a bomb and ran at the airport and one who participated in the metro bombing. we learn of new intelligence failures. top belgian officials admitting mistakes were made. we are covering the story the way cnn can with correspondents around the world. let's start with senior correspondent frederik pleitgen in brussels. you report raids have happened across belgium in the last few hours. >> reporter: absolutely, victor. a flurry of activity by the belgian authorities. the recent one in the early morning hours of today. police say

figures in the paris terror attacks. can you tell us about what happened on friday and how that all went down? >> reporter: yes. well, we got news that there was a major police operation taking place in the neighborhood of molenbeek in brussels. and there has been a four-month search for the last key surviving member of the paris attacks in november that killed 130 people. salah abdeslam. he was the only one to get away. and there's been a manhunt that has been going on from this isis-directed attack, one that and that's an important thing to mention there. this is the only one that got away. they've been sevening for him for four months. they arrested him on friday. he tried to run out of the building. the anti-terror police right there, he was shot in the leg. he was dragged into a car. and then he was taken to a high-security prison in bruge. that's where we were last night reporting on that story. the concern after that arrest, and belgian authorities and french authorities put that warning out that this man has information on major isis players, key isis players. and there is a conc

the network that carried out the paris attacks. the reason the source is differentiating between the two sources at this point is because on sunday, belgium's foreign minister was telling us that they believe abdeslam, in addition to his ties to the paris attacks, was also part of a growing network building up around him that was planning new attacks. it is this evidence that -- that investigators -- the evidentiary leads that investigators are following. that's the picture that's emerging. this is part of that broader network that was working towards new attacks. we all saw those events as they unfolded yesterday. >> all right. thank you. >>> let's get more on the identity of these two suicide attackers and their possible ties to salah abdeslam, the man arrested just last friday, taken into custody, has been questioned all weekend long. we're joined now by max foster, who is also in brussels. max, you know, we hear the phrase these two brothers, the el bakroui brothers, common criminals, linked to organized crime that also fits the profile of folks connected to isis over the last 18

slaughter in paris. it follows the arrest on friday of one paris suspect who eluded authorities for months. it sparked a series of raids and a search that so far has uncovered another bomb and the makings of more, say authorities. it's once again shaken intelligence and security services around the world and has become a central focus of the american presidential campaign. we've got correspondents around belgium and the world getting the latest information as well as some of the best security experts we know. we want to start with justice correspondent pamela brown who has new information on the state department alert as well as the three in the security camera image. pame pamela? >> well, anderson, the state department just sent out this alert to u.s. citizens warning them of the potential risks of travel to and throughout europe in the wake of the attacks in brussels this morning. this alert says that terrorist groups continue to plan near-term attacks throughout europe, targeting sporting ev t events, tourist sites, restaurants and transportation which of course are soft tark tar

rise and rally by 20%. in the paris killings in november we saw a decline that followed, but then the gauge hit a record high. the stocks index rose 11% earlier. it is now up 3%. this is the fear index. it is nowhere near the high in august following the chinese valuation. the pound is falling. the currencies are rising against sterling, because the feeling is that this might give ammunitionpaigners as we come tour the referendum. let's go to our top stories. belgium is on their highest terror alert after three bombings in brussels. at least 31 are dead and 180 injured. the city is at a stand still as the police searched for more bombs. let's go to where ryan chilcote is near where one of the subway stations were hit. what do you see? you can see the subway station 150 meters behind me. it is beyond these barricades. this is where many of the 31 people were killed in the two attacks that took place in brussels. you had one attack at the subway station. to put things into context geographically, we are in the , the of the european union european commission. we are surrounded by bui

network spreads. and if we have learned anything from the paris attacks there really is almost a lattice work of interconnecting networks that work together. and some of these plots break apart for others and that is where the belgian authorities are faced with here. the prosecutors are just a day or two ago talking about the salah abdeslam case saying we have 216 active files and even to salah abdeslam t last remaining active attack ner paris still alive is now in custody here. even he was believed to have two separate networks, the paris attack conspiracy and another network the belgian foreign minister was warning just on sunday they believe was plotting to carry out attacks here this belgian. so they are faced with a myriad of possibilities and one of the first things the belgian prime minister said was that we have been blindsided by that. and that gives you a sense of the enormity of what they are dealing with as they are trying to track out who else might -- >> and the other possibility is the capture of abdeslam, as you said the tenth terrorist involved in the paris attac

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 we're putting the dots together four days after the capture of the most panted salah abdeslam, now this is becoming more of an active terror network that is transnational. much less like a sleeper cell. >> and we're get thing information just in. again, bear with us as we approach the 9:00 hour local time in brussels, as investigators overnight now releasing new information. including this, we know the two men in black are brothers, known to police. >> ibrihim, sentenced to nine years in prison by a brussels criminal court for shooting at police during a robbery. and in early 2011, khalid el bakraoui arrested for possession of kalashnikovs. how does that play in? >> this confirms the trend that many of the radical elements have had run-ins with the law, some of them violent run-ins. of course, they had access to weapons and bomb making materiel. they might have gotten into individuals in the armed undergr

suicide bombers in the airport and revealing their ties to the paris attacks. these two brothers who were involved in these attacks that killed dozens, wounded hundreds, bringing a city to a standstill. >> and breaking news in the race for president in the united states. four separate candidates winning in different states on western tuesday what does that mean for the election ahead and how the candidates are discussing the brussels terror attack. welcome to "early start," i'm john bermenman, i'm christine romans. let's begin with the breaking news this morning. a manhunt underway for a surviving suspect on the attacks at an airport and the subway in belgium. these two brothers, police across the country say responsible for the two bombings at the airport. they have been identified as khalid and brahim el bakraoui. the man in gray put his bomb down and left the airport alive. a series of raids uncovering the terrorist bomb factory. investigators found a nail bomb, chemicals, isis flag. isis claimed responsibility for the attack which killed at least 20 people at maalbeek metro station, t

do it." what we haven't seen is directed attacks. that's what we saw in paris. that's what just saw in brussels. and that's what we have to be prepared for obviously. >> what did you learn from the tactics that were used today? >> i think we learned once again that you have rudimentary tactics. we are talking about fairly large bombs when you look at the damage, and assess the casualties. basically terrorism as we see it here explosives we saw in paris, explosives with active shooters. is a low-tech low-cost extraordinarily high impact venture. >> since paris over the last four months islamic extremists in brussels have been under withering scrutiny. intelligence officers have been raiding their homes, tapping their phones how can this a happen with that much scrutiny? >> couple of ways. one there is an opposite argument that intelligence was pretty good. managed to find their way just a few days again to a secret safe house. hit that location. actually come up with a mastermind who was not just a mastermind, planned attacks in western europe and brussels but attacks that happened i

attacks that we've had before with these coordinated terror attacks in paris. >> reporter: it looks like it's bigger than that. i'm looking at reporting from rtf, the belgian public television station. it's like the bbc and they are confirming three explosions at three different subway stations in brussels so that would be in addition to the two at the airport this morning bring it up to a total of five at four different locations, the three subway stations in brussels, they are call maalbeek and schuman which is near the seat of the european union. if these are confirmed then i remind you this is coming from the belgian public tv broadcaster so fairly reliable source that there are -- that would be four different locations. where these locations are throughout the city. give us a sense of the geography. >> reporter: brussels is not large. certainly a lot more concentrated than the paris attacks in november which from spread out. all relatively close together, the main airport for the city is just ten miles outside. none far away from each other. the importance you're striking one of the

massacres in brussels and paris. the same isis bomb maker is tied to both attacks and there's now new concern that the plotters tried to obtain material for a dirty bomb. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> let's get to the breaking news. there's new concern right now that multiple isis plots may be in the planning stage right now with dozens of isis operatives at large. counterterrorism officials say isis picked out possible targets after last november's paris attacks and information found in a raided apartment includes maps of potential sites to be attacked. an urgent manhunt is stepped up as authorities now fear that two suspects may have escaped the bloody attacks on the airport and a subway station in brussels. investigators had thought one suicide bomber was responsible for the catastrophic subway blast at brussels, but surveillance video has now surfaced showing another man standing near the bomber holding a large bag. authorities are desperately trying to track him down. the other suspect being hunted is the man seen wearing a hat in this airport surveillance

the run since paris attacks. the third man who dropped the bomb off at the brussels airport, left. he is unidentified and on the run. police conducting raids across brussels raising the questions did the men act alone or could there be other members of the terror cell out there? we have fred pleitgen with the latest from brussels. good morning, fred. >> reporter: good morning, christine. one of the things that is a probl problem, if you go back four months ago to paris attacks, the cell there was limited in scale. there were more people involved than they thought. of course, they are investigating the brussels attacks, they are looking into that. they identified two potential people unaccounted for. on the pictures from the airport. the man in the light clothing and now they say as far as the metro attack is concerned, they may have identified someone else. someone appeared to be holding a large bag. it is unclear if that person was killed in the bombing or if that person is at large. there are more raids in the brussels area. we did see a few raids yesterday when they went to one

fugitive from the vicious november paris attacks that took the lives of 130 people is surrounded and wounded in brus ls. the sites and sounds of that raid as it was underway in brussels. this is the same neighborhood where the dramatic postinitial paris raids went out. for four months the search has been out. we can now confirm he's been taken into custody alive. the news comes hours after police revealed a trace of his dna was dpoufound inside an apartment belgian police raided earlier this week. they were hot on his trail during that course of the investigation. benjamin joins us from london. you have been on the story since the beginning and spent time investigating this story. big development today. >> this has been the largest man hunt in modern european history and today salah abdeslam has been found. they went in the apartment and knew he was in there and shouted out to him come out with your hands up. he refused and they carried out with gun fire. the situation is continuing and on going. there's helicopters over the country and city as two others are still held up. fluent si

raids of fire fights, apparently related to the search for the paris terror suspect. we are joined with the latest. you have been not be just shots fired but may be more to this. >> as a result of an armed police operation moments ago in brussels, belgium police have taken two suspected terrorists in to custody. they are trying to establish whether one of those suspected terrorists is one of the on the run paris attackers. they do not know that for sure. at this moment it just happened. we are breaking the news first on cnn before any other news network in the world that they have got two people in custody as a result of an armed police operation in brussels. those two suspected terrorists were both wounded in this operation. >> oh, really? >> but they are still alive. they are trying to establish whether one of them wsalem. they do not know for sure yesterday. there was a raid brussels on tuesday in which they suspected after finding fingerprints and other things that he may have been there and escaped that raid. this feels very much he is on the run if it is him. >> absolutely. f

paris terror attacks arrested. he told prosecutors over the weekend that he was planning another attack on brussels, that he had created another network. what were these attacks all about? were they simply revenge attacks for the arrest, or as others are speculating, were the terrorists going out and committing the attacks that had been planned before abdeslam revealed the attack? that's the big question. one of many police are looking at right now as they try to sort out yet another scene of terror and carnage right in the heart of europe. back to you, bill. >> thank you, greg. good work. the feds here at home say there is no evidence of any specific threat to the u.s., but they are keeping an eye out for the possibility of a copycat. team fox coverage continues now. our chief intelligence correspondent is live in d.c. you've been working your sources all day. what are you finding in terms of where the focus for investigators is right now, katherine? >> thank you, bill. sources tell fox news the highest priority is identifying the suicide bombers, likely through dna to determine

master mind in paris was arrested. the question is was this retribution for his arrest? or perhaps were there accomplices already in brussels planning something else with devices in their possession who then felt because of his arrest their locations and identities might have been compromised so they decided to carry out some attack prior to what they have been planning. we've got several conflicting reports but at the moment we can confirm that one person has opinion been killed in that airport bombing. there were reports earlier of the injured being carried out on stretchers o awaiting balances. some people have said that some of the injured were carried on luggage carts out of the airport. there are some reports circulating that as many as 20 people may have been killed in these explosions. throughout the area. i want to start with kelly, good morning. >> reporter: i'm on a train on my way into brussels about to minute. all traffic into airports has been halted. air traffic isn't getting in. road traffic. train traffic is not getting in. the area has been completely shuttle of y

intelligence and other evidence that went into it. the assessment, paris wasn't the first. brussels won't be the last attack isis might have some store. might have broader and bigger plans which is why in the search for answers and fugitive suspects in the killing of 31 people yesterday and the wounding of 270 more we'll focus heavily on that. reporting on that, pamela brown. you are getting new information that there may be more attacks in europe. what are you learning? >> that's right, john. counterterrorism officials are very concerned about imminent attacks in europe. this is based on a combination of electronic intercepts, human sources and database tracking that indicates several possible targets have been pick eed out isis operatives since the paris attacks. and the officials say there was chatter before the brussels attacks indicating something was about to happen but nothing specific enough to indicate where and when these attacks were going to take place. but we know that abdelhamid abaaoud involved in the paris attacks boasted about 90 operatives to a confidential witness inter

brussels was focused on the prime paris attack suspect. so no confirmation out of paris officially yet. no confirmation out of brussels. we are getting reports from the media, but nothing firm just yet. tell us what the past couple of days have been like in brussels, natasha and also a little bit about this neighborhood which has been linked to the paris attacks. >> indeed. i'll tell you a little bit about this area, but i should pick you up on the president hollande, he was speaking when he came out of an e.u. summit. because today there is this huge e.u. summit right here in brussels at the council building, turkey e.u. migration deal has just been struck, and just as that was happening, news was happening of this raid in another part of the city. we new something was perhaps a foot, when the belgium prime minister dashed out of the summit and jumped into his car. we now know he was needed outside of the summit because of thissin' go -- this ongoing investigation. president hollande said he cannot confirm that it is this respect, but he will be meeting with the belgium prime mini

in sao paulo. >> now, the most wanted fugitive from the paris attacks, sala abdu salaam has been arrested in mollenbeck. tweeted, "we got him." 130 people were killed. his fingerprints were found in an apartment that was raided earlier this week. let's bring you the latest pictures coming to you from brussels. they show a man being arrested. and dragged into a car by sple police. these are pictures, from, earlier. white sweatshirt many scarf, being drakd by police into the car. dragged by police into a car. he was shot in the leg during this afternoon's police operation. so there you can see some of the latest conspires which could be abdeslam, heavily armed police raided the apartment in mollenbeck. heard several exchanges of gun five surrounding the apartment block. reporters say white smoke was seen rising from the rooftop. natasha butler is in the area, natasha, a lot of activity in the area, police and sniffer-dogs around. >> reporter: that's right, i mean there's still a very heavy police presence. there are several police vehicles, police cars and behind me you could proba

normal lives but if you're in paris or brussels, you will see large numbers of police, security forces have been stepped up by the thousands since those attacks in november at the main tourist sites and sensitive targets like jewish facilities, jewish schools, jewish museums you will see the army out in the street so even if you're a tourist and having fun and taking pictures lurking in the background there is a heightened security presence that does remind you that this is -- these are countries, this is a continent that is still reeling from those nova tacks and is still very muchen edge. >> you know, as we speak there is a manhunt for a suspect linked to that terrorist attack. can you tell us a little about that and about just kind of what the sense is of where things stand with that manhunt investigation? >> reporter: right, so everyone has been trumpeting the arrest of salah abdeslam who was captured on friday but there is a very important suspect who is still out there. he was just named yesterday by the belgian authorities. his name is najim laachraoui. he was going by a pseudon