he had been given orders to the paris attackers during the paris attacks, including to him. significant moments indeed, wolf. >> let's not forget 130 people were killed in the november 13th attack in paris. hundreds were injured. salah abdeslam has been often described least as one of the ring leaders in all of this. remind our viewers how he managed to escape. >> for whatever reason, following the attacks, and again, there was that suicide vest found near the site of one of the attacks that had his dna on it. late in the night after the attacks finished, he called friends in belgium asking to be picked up to help him and bring him back from paris. to some accounts he was in tears. it's not clear if that is correct but as he fled back they drove down from belgium. they picked him up on the outskirts of paris and headed back to belgium. border police stopped them at the border, but at that stage, french police did not have the knowledge that salah abdeslam was connected to the attacks. so they let them go on the way back to belgium. authorities were able to track the vehicle.

victor. >> jim in paris. thank you. >>> belgian authorities admitting mistakes were probably made leading up to the deadly terror bombings. questions about how airport suicide bomber ibrahim el bakraoui managed to slip through the cracks. he was deported by turkey which warned european officials he was a militant. after el bakraoui arrived in the netherlands, he was set free. turkey is saying this is not the first time european officials were warned, but ignored. let's go to senior correspondent arwa damon. it is like he drove through the cracks. a casym here with turkish failures. >> reporter: a lot of failures. in the case of el bakraoui, he was picked up in gaziantep. it is home to a number of non-profits, but it is one of the main transit hubs for people crossing into the war zone who include those who want to go and join isis. turkey has a list of names that have been provided to it. upward of 38,000 individuals on the list. el bakraoui was not one of them. he is someone who the turks identified as being

holly williams is in paris tonight. holly, what are the connections between paris and brussels? >> reporter: well, scott, there is suspicion, but at this point no confirmation, that the two are closely linked. just four days ago salah abdeslam, the alleged logistical planner behind the paris attacks, was finally captured in belgium, and when the belgian police raided an apartment last week in brussels, they found ammunition an isis flag and abdeslam's fingerprints. that raised suspicions that another attack could be imminent. >> pelley: but all of europe has been on alert since the paris attacks. how could this happen today? >> well, scott, we don't know if there were any intelligence failures, but certainly one is that they don't share enough information because they don't trust each other. and that's a very big problem. because within europe you have open borders and visa-free travel between countries. some of the men involved in the paris attacks were able to go to syria, fight or receive training from isis and then return home, traveling through europe apparently unnoticed.

paris attacks of november 13. they've also acknowledged that the network of people involved in preparing the paris attacks was much bigger than originally believed, and that the investigation was far from over and there might have an by temptation to think that the arrest of salah abdeslam well that was it, the paris picture had finished but not that was not it. another man, who is accused of travelling through the night after the paris attacks, to go from brussels to paris, pick up salah abdeslam and drive him back to brussels. another man, being actively searched by police, was named only on monday. he is accused of being involved in coordinating the attacks from brussels. there is telecommunications, fronk intelligence, suggesting that telephone calls were made constantly between paris and brussels during that night from telephones that were used once and then thrown away. another sign. long and careful preparation that was put into place before the attacks happened. bear in mind you have to named suspects plus

these are people that killed 130 people in paris. they're not about to pick up the phone and call the police and say, yeah, he's down at the end of my street. i know where this person is. so you not only have an allegiance, a loyalty to the people in that neighborhood, but you also have a level of fear. but still, people here in that this person is the only one to get away from the attacks in paris, salah abdeslam, not only made his way back into belgium, but he was hiding out in an area that is five blocks from where he grew up. now, i have to stress that the belgian prosecutor said we are just assuming that he was there the whole time. you know, he's been on the run for four months. maybe he just reappeared. his fingerprints have shown up on a couple of residences in that area. but we don't know. as he said yesterday in his words, there's no gate on dna and fingerprints. we don't know when he was there or if he had been there for four months. but they think that he wasn't just in hiding, but he may have been planning further attack

they have rounded up a dozen people with the paris attacks. they're going, in some cases, on a house to house search looking for salah and other conspirators. they will say this was a great accomplishment. yes, it took four months, but that ultimately, they got the man they were looking for alive. >> richard, do authorities believe that there are potentially more attackers out there? more people who were involved in the official french attacks who might be able to lead them to? >> reporter: yes. they don't know exactly how wide of a net necessarily needs to be cast. this was an isis cell. an isis cell that diamond was just talking about that went back with the direct connections to the isis caliphate as it likes to call it in syria and iraq. so there was an operational cell. it sounds like the key members of the operational cell are being rounded up or have been rounded up but this had operations directly connected to isis. how many more people are involved? how many people within isis knew about this operation? how many of them might be in sy

biggest soccer stadium and elsewhere around paris. it's still early yet but they're >> that would be a headliner right now. we had rep@rts of two explosion explosions.. you can see the damage at the airport and roughly about an hour and a half ago, about 9:30 local time in brussels and now alex, you're reporting that some local immediatemedia reporting a ather explosion near the heart of brussels at this hour. of course, we haven't con firmed that but would go toward the sort of attacks that we've had befo 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 subway stations in brussels, they are call maalbeek and schuman which is near the seat of the europopn union. if these are confirmed then i remind you th

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 in paris. that

we know he was able to escape from paris the night -- the day after the paris attacks and so for the past four months we understand he's been moving around brussels. now how is that possible? that's simply because the belgian authorities have no penetration into the neighborhood almost. there's a lot of solidarity. there's a lot of animosity towards the police. we felt some of the animosity towards the media. >> tell me about that. describe what the streets are like, who's there? you say you felt some animosi when you were there. how is that expressed? >> reporter: george, just anecdotally you know i lived in the middle east and i felt like i was back in the middle east. all of the shopkeepers are arabs, a lot of them north africansrom algeria or morocco, a very quiet working class neighborhood. there was animosity towards the journalists because there were so many of us but other than that there were a lot of friendly people, as well. it's many of the residents there are a conservative muslims and security experts have talked about this becoming -- that area being a breeding ground

that's what we saw in paris. that's what we just saw and that's what we have to be prepared for obviously. >> pelley: what did you learn from the tactics that were used today? >> i think we learned once again that you have rudimentary tactics. we're talking about fairly large bombs when you look at the damage and assess the casualties, but basically terrorism as we see it here, explosives, or as we saw in paris, explosives with active shooters is a low-tech, low-cost, but extraordinarily high-impact venture. >> pelley: since paris over these 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 happen with that much scrutiny? >> well, a couple ways. one, there's an opposite argument that the intelligence was pretty good, they managed to find their way just a few days ago a secret safe house, hit that location, actually come up just a mastermind of planned attacks in western europe and brussels, b

a paris suburb on lockdown. police arrest a high level militant who was in the advanced stage of planning an attack. new details coming in by the minute. for latest, i want to bring in senior correspondent jim bittermann in paris. jim, what can you tell us about this imminent attack? >> reporter: good morning, christine. the arrest took place yesterday morning in fact. a gentleman who was searched for since january of this year. he was convicted in abstetia in july. because he wasn't in custody at that point in time, he had been on the loose since. police searched for him and found him in the southwest suburb of paris. after interrogation, he said he was using an apartment in the northwest suburb of paris. the raid started yesterday at 5:30 local time with the police going in gingerly because they believe there could be explosives or arms inside. they sent in the bomb squad. according to reports, they found a weapon and perhaps some small amounts of explosives. the interior minister here did an unusual thing of

in paris, the prime minister said, "we are at war," a direct quote. paris asut around well. we have emergency response committee meetings going on across europe. david cameron is holding one. and the european parliamentary meetings may be suspended, no travel in or out of rustles right now. -- in or out of brussels right now. to richardtraight ashworth, a member of the european parliament, also a member of the conservatives. the u.k. great to have you on the line. you are in brussels, inside the parliament. the european parliament was meeting, and then i guess the news came out of these terror attacks and you are now on lockdown. is that right? richard: the metro station bombing was just around the corner from the parliament buildings, so this is the closest that these terrorism events have ever come to the european institutions. attack, whichan is designed to take the fight straight to the heart of the european institutions. and all the more dangerous if you are looking at the referendum in the u.k. how much will this affect whether the u.k. stays or leaves the e.u.? richar

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 situation there today. this all started last tuesday when another raid was carried out in another district. they went in not expecting to try anyone. a fire came back at t

biggest soccer stadium and elsewhere around paris. it's still early yet but they're subway station. >> that would be a headliner right now. we had reports of two explosion explosions. you can see the damage at the airport and roughly about an hour and a half ago, about 9:30 local time in brussels and now alex, you're reporting that some local immediatemedia reporting another explosion near the heart of john: breaking news two explosions rocking brussels airport killing at least one and details still developing. several other hurt according to airport authorities. broken glass near the american smoke rising from a terminal. barbara: the airport evacuated thousands of travellers roads to the airport are shut down. all flights canceled. john: this comes at a sensitive time a few days ago the prime suspect in the paris attacks was arrested in the bell john capital. -- belgian capital. we will update this story and bring details all morning. barbara: all breakinged about crash now a flood of broken hearts and prayers. what we learn about a

once from paris and today he was caught. there are helicopters overhead and the police are not taking any chances and it is still a fluid situation. we are getting live information as it gets through. he is caught, wounded and in police custody. the district is in the center of brussels. and long been the focus of paris. abdeslam's brother who blew himself up came from there. we spoke to people that they would be hiding him. friends and family would be hiding him. it seems that the story that started with 130 people murdered may be coming to an conclusion. it may put to rest the horrors that happen to the families there. this is the biggest police surge and helicopters and it is a fluid situation and we'll let you you know what we hear as time goes past. this is a conclusion of a massive manhunt which is focus of so many people. >> benjamin, we have a question, on tuesday his finger prints were found in another apartment. can you tell us where that one was located and this one? >> reporter: that was the direct of forest, it

the same cell that was responsible for the paris attack. the paris attack was planned, coordinated, staged from belgium, the plot gathered in several safe houses before those attacks. and belgian authorities in the months since have arrested more than ten people in connection with the paris attacks. but they haven't rounded up the whole cell. they got lucky last week, in getting salah abdeslam and killing a nigerian terror with a role in the paris attacks. but the bomb maker being an individual called najim lau laachraoui, he was in the very same district of where they found the explosives just a few hours ago. >> so bob baer, let me show you this picture again. they have so little information. they have these three men, two of them they believe suicide bombers dressed in dark colors. and then you have the one man on the other side of the screen in white. let's talk about the men in black, though. they each have a glove on. they each have on one glove each. i know that's something you think could be very significant. why? >> well, they coul

wanted since november paris attacks. this was the scene as heavily armed police raided the apartment in mollenbeck. reporters say white smoke was seen rising from the rooftop of the apartment area. >>> human rights activist and a spokesperson for the collective against islamophobia in france. joins me now. can you give me your reactions to these happenings today? >> at least i would like to highlight the difference between the belgian police and the french police, at least they will be able to get some answers to so many of our questions. the french police they killed every single one of them. we have so many answers for them that nobody can answer them and we have only speculation about that. so this time we have someone who's alive and let's see where we go from here. >> and what are some of the things that you want to know the answers to? what would you like in terms of getting more clarity around what took place in november? what are you watching for now? >> the why, how they got there, who hired them, who gave them

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last year's paris attack. a u.s. air force lieutenant colonel, wife and four kids were also injured. we're told some were seriously hurt. this man, seb bellin is a belgian businessman who once played college basketball for oakland university in michigan. his father spoke to his son in the hospital. >> well, he saw people dying. he saw people dead. and people dying. so, that's -- i'm sure that will stay with him for the rest of his life. >> reporter: and then there are the near misses. the three students from quinnipiac university in connecticut are studying abroad. they were at the airport traveling for spring break. kate duffy spoke to us by phone. >> a huge ball of fire and it was like 50 feet from us. it was absolutely insane. >> professional basketball fans will be relieved to hear while former nba all star dikembe mutuombo was in the airport at the time of the bombing he reporting on his facebook page he was not >>> well here at home, law enforcement went on high alert. and michelle miller has that. >>> just bef

from paris toward brussels. they drove him from paris to brussels. in that drive they passed through at least two checkpoints. at that time, police had not established that he was a suspect in the paris attacks. they let him go on his way. just three days ago, there was another raid on another brussels apartment. authorities found abdeslam's fingerprints and dna in that apartment. but he had slipped away there. belgian sniper shot and killed another operative who was said to have helped him. that particular operative was said to have directed the paris attacks from a remote phone on the night of the paris attacks from belgium. so very significant operations this week to get abdeslam tonight and to kill that other operative on tuesday night. >> 26 years old. a true isis believer. will he now talk to law enforcement or will he remain silent? >> that's going to be a key thing. there is evidence that there are other plotters out there who were involved in the paris attacks and that they have a wider network througho

paris was a particular target of paris last year in january, of november. other continents have been affected. i'm thinking of africa. but we are faced with a global threat which requires us to respond globally. france and belgium are united by the horror, that once again we have shared. i have assured the belgian government that my support will be essential to bring about the necessary means. but the war against terrorism has to be led in the whole of europe and with means yesterday in terms of intelligence and, again, we have to ensure that our decisions are effectively established, put in place. we have to act on the international scale. that is what each one of the most aware countries must do on an international scale. we have to lead this war against terrorism with all the necessary vigilance. that is the reason why today the french government has taken measures to reinforce the provisions of border security and the presence of military in the transport infrastructures, airports, ports. but this war against terrorism has to be carried out with a cool

this comes four months after coordinate attacks in paris in

we almost have to retread what we went through in november in paris and january in paris. >> it feels like it is a repetition. we had the tragic events in to increasinged support for the outvoted, if you look at the polls. we saw a favor in the leave vote. that was reflected in a sustained selloff of the pound against the euro. a repetition of that seems likely, at least in the near term. that said, some of the negatives are already in the price. significante a change in the polls, the pound downsized. scarlet: with geopolitical risks increasing, what was this due to the quiddity and positioning? mark b.: what will this do to positioning liquidity with geopolitical risk increasing? be eroded,lihood to as a layer of geopolitical risk and uncertainty to the overall outlook, which is inherently negative, putting on sizable bets. guess -- on the day, your previous remark about why the euro is not underperforming as much as the pound, that goes precisely to that, the lack of confidence, the lack of paid toy, being trade money. you need certain bets. happening, of this and we have a precede

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 confidentia

just as they did in paris, u.s. intelligence officials are cooperating with the brussels investigation. they're also ramping up their vigilance in the united states. joining me now is cnn terrorism analyst paul cruickshank here, also cnn national security analyst, juliet kaayem. and former chair of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers. paul cruickshank, you're from brussels, you're the city very well. what are you hearing the latest on on these investigations? >> well, they're working around the clock. they worry there are more attacks in the works from this wider terrorist cell, this broader network which was the network they believe also carried out the paris attacks. >> so that is the operating hypothesis that they are connected? >> that is the operating hypothesis that they are connected because remember, a week ago they went into this hiding place, salah abdeslam. there were three terrorists there. when they went into that residence eventually they found an isis flag, found detonators, found a kalashni

it is the sort of cell that was responsible for the paris attacks. because a lot of the planning for the paris attacks happened in belgium. >> pete, let me pause you right there. i do want to go to keir simmons who's following this from overseas. whether can can you say for us? >> reporter: a senior european counterterrorism official confirmed through nbc news that islamic state, isis, is attack or multiple attacks. as you have been seeing through the morning we have seen substantial damage at brussels airport. the kind of damage that is difficult to believe that one explosion would cause. if it was, it would have to be a sizable bomb. and damage too at the metro station. so that appears as if we are talking about a multiple attacks. something coordinated. and of course savannah as you have been talking with pete about. this comes after european authorities were warning that they feared that another attack was planned. so sa la abdeslam, who was arrested on friday in connection with the paris attacks telling authorities, according to the french prose

he is based in paris. world news editor for the daily beast these days, and we haven't spoken to chris dickey since the last time news brought us to paris. that sad, sad episode, chris, and of course, this is a direct outgrowth of that. and paris, and belgium, are both plunged into some very familiar feelings here. >> well, yes, they are. i mean, there's a horrible feeling here, and here in brussels, as i was driving into town this morning, the train station is closed. there are armed not only police but troops all around it. it's all cordoned off. you have really a sense in various parts of the city, critical strategic parts of the city, that this is a place under siege. in a neighborhood like this, the metro station isn't very far away where the horrible bombing took place. there is a sort of normalcy here behind the camera, but the truth is this is a city that is very much on edge. and in fact, a continent that is increasingly on edge. >> and chris, for people who don't know brussels, it's routi routine

biggest soccer stadium and elsewhere around paris. it's still early yet but they're reporting a third explosion at a subway station. >> that would be a headliner right now. we had reports of two explosi explosions. you can see the damage at the airport and roughly about an hour and a half ago, about 9:30 local time in brussels and now alex, you're reporting that some local immediamedia reporting an explosion near the heart of brussels at this hour. of course, we haven't con firmed that but would go toward the sort of attacks that we've had before with these coordinated terror attacks in paris. >> well, it looks like it's bigger than that. i am looking at the belgium public television station like the bbc and they are confirming three explosions at three different subway explosions, and that would bring it to a total of five at four different locations, the three subway stations in brussels, and one is near the seat of the belgium government and one near the seat of the european union. i remind you, this is coming from the belgium publ

last time we talked about what was happening in paris, we were standing in paris. i remember the breaking news that the suicide vest had been found in a trash can in a parisian suburb which apparently was sal law abdeslam's suicide vest. tell me more about his role back on friday night in november and the fact he didn't stray far from home that he stayed -- >> this is what has always perplexed people because usually in these situation, as jim says, everyone commits suicide at the end of these operations so you don't get a chance for justice, you don't get a chance to interrogate, to find someone, to get more information on what happened. but salah abdeslam who's 26 years old, belgium born, but french citizen, he was a different case. we know or we believe he drove the car, with three suicide bombers to the stade de france. one of them was his brother who detonated his vest and killed himself. we know this vest was found in a traj can. it's not clear what happened. did abdeslam have a change of heart. so authorities have been absolutely fixated on finding him becaus

ring leader in paris with the team that was sent to paris. this attack was planned from belgium. they had multiple safe houses. they built the bombs there. they had several addresses across the country, some in brussels where they planned this thing for weeks and weeks and weeks, only moving to paris just before the attacks. they have now got one of the ten attackers that night, ibrahim abdeslam played a key role. he was meant to be -- his own brother. >> his own brother, ibrahim abdeslam who blew himself up in the cafe. he walked in and blew himself up. his brother was killed but he wasn't killed in that attack. one of though thoughts is was he persona nongrata in isis. i think the fact he was with several isis operatives in the safe house suggests he was very much part of the isis set up. that ratcheted up international attack planning. they were heavily armed and engaged police on tuesday afternoon. >> if it was him, on tuesday if it was him. they are trying to fit 0 all the pieces together. connecting all of the dots, that seems likely wi

now let's go to jacky rowland in paris. jacky any official reaction from france to this at this point? >> reporter: well there has been confirmation from the french police as well of the apprehension of saleh abdeslam. there was a joint operation on tuesday on a different neighborhood. and we discovered only a few hours ago today, friday that dna and a fingerprint has been found on the premise of that flat. we know one person was killed on tuesday, and that two people escaped, and belgian media are saying it's believed that one of those who escaped from that raid on tuesday was perhaps saleh abdeslam. he was of course europe's most wanted fugitive. >> jacky just remind us what was his role or what is he meant to have done as part of those attacks in paris. >> reporter: he was driving one of the three vehicles used in those attacks against restaurants, the football stadium and concert hall on november the 13th. we escaped. we know he abandoned the car he was driving in the north of paris we all know on the same night he boug

these are people that killed 130 people in paris. they're not about to pick up the phone and call the police and say, yeah, he's down at the end of my street. i know where this person is. so you not only have an allegiance, a loyalty to the people in that neighborhood, but you also have a level of fear. but still, people here in belgium are outraged to find that this person is the only one to get away from the attacks in paris, salah abdeslam, not only made his way back into belgium, but he was hiding out in an area that is five blocks from where he grew up. now, i have to stress that the belgian prosecutor said we are just assuming that he was there the whole time. you know, he's been on the run for four months. maybe he just reappeared. his fingerprints have shown up on a couple of residences in that area. but we don't know. as he said yesterday in his words, there's no gate on dna and fingerprints. we don't know when he was there or if he had been there for four months. but they think that he wasn't just in hiding, but he may have

in paris. in syria. >> we didn't change the strategy but intensified it significantly after sir. i can't we have to look again and say we're still not degrading these guys to the point where they're not able to conduct attacks. at the end of the day the way you have to measure whether you're defeating them or not is their ability to take and hold terrorist and their ability to conduct attacks in the west. >> rose: and the measure how we're doing by our ability to take the territory and prevent attacks. >> that's how we've got to measure it, right? and, so, when there is four attacks in four and a half months, you say, jeez, how well are we doing here? >> rose: and what's amazing to me is that these people are all coming back from syria. i mean, what they're learning in syria and how tough that makes them in terms of understanding the elements to conduct an attack. >> there is no better training for somebody to be a terrorist than training -- military training on the battlefield by actually figh

it's the area where many of the paris bombers were from. salah abdeslam was captured just a few days ago, just a few meters from his house. thehe arrests at his house is alsoo not very far from where he and the original mastermind met as childhood friends. it is an area in brussels where there are many immigrants, particularly from morocco and other north african countries. it is considered in the country to be something of -- an area where they have sympathy, an area where police have struggled to deal with radicalism. there are other neighborhoods in europe. per cap tax belgium has had the highest number of people going -- of its nationals going abroad and joining isis. many of theke people have gone to and returned to this area. >> richard, )t highlights the challenges and perhaps the shortcomings of some of the counterterrorism efforts in belgium in the wake of the paris attacks, the fact that you just mentioned that abdeslam ultimately was found not far from his childhood home in the very neighborhood from whence he had come. it spiels

that is the new pattern post paris, right? the one-two punch multiple explosions to really cripple a city. >> reporter: military style operations like paris, attackers working together with a plan. one went along with the attacks as it was unfolding. could this be one of those? up until paris, they were looking at lone wolf attacks like sydney with someone radicalized online. perhaps with no links to terror groups. now, they are looking at people who had been trained by isis or terror groups, and planning attacks in a coordinated military style fashion. that is a new threat. this plays into that. they are looking at more attacks as they unfold. >> you keep up with the u.k. authorities and london with the 7/11 attacks with buses in coordinated fashion. some 13 or 14 years ago at this point. they have been very aware of attacks like this. certainly "charlie hebdo" and paris attacks four months ago put this on the radar. what is your sense of the level of coordination? one thing the belgian authorities have been criticized on is

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 where -- apartment reda kriket was renting in the paris suburbs. chemical weapons, handguns, fake documents, id -- all of that for an imminent attack on french oil -- soil. he explained this was the result of investigation that started in november, 2015. it uncovered a proper terrorist cell, that started with a man in turkey, who then gave the name of a man in netherlands, who then led to the arrest of reda kriket. they have not been able to find out more. despite six days of questioning, reda kriket has not had much about what he planned for exactly. for the time being, all we know is he has been placed in preventive detention, at least until the rest of the case continues.

who is deeply involved in the paris attacks, one of his lo jis tigisticians. he may have been wounded and holed up inside this building and the reason people are focused on him at the moment, earlier today, there was a report, a release from belgian prosecutor saying his fingerprints had been found in a raid been in that other neighborhood. >> he potentially ran off to this other location and the possibility has not been confirmed, all we know is that a raid is under way. and is he the fugitive from the paris attacks inside wounded, in custody, but that's the focus right now. >> thanks for that clarification. the belgian police at the time were widely criticized for having led him get away in the first place. is american intelligence and french intelligence and others all involves in the manhunt? >> reporter: this goes back to the paris attacks. 130 people in the bataclan theater, several others. he managed to escape, described as the most important fugitive but officials around the world including french officials, american, knew there were other people invol

same with paris. same with leo. the repercussions are huge. >> let's talk about the bomb maker for a second. they say he's a belgian citizen who's apparently very, very skilled. all the bombs they believe he's response for, they say, have worked and have worked very well. >> he is skilled, and proof of that is these bombs are made of things you can buy over the counter, nail polish remover and peroxide and that's inherently an unstable compound. and he's managed to make bombs were supposed to and did go off when they're supposed to. it's an extraordinary feat really. he knows what he's doing chchlt makes him extremely dangerous. >> the border between france and belgium and france has been closed today. what can you tell us about that? >> when they closed what they call the border between france and belgium after the paris attacks, we know that the young salah abdeslam got through. so wi know there are police checks on the roads. but it's a rural border. so they'll have police on the highways, enough manpower out to