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>> rich rard who happens to be with us in a rare break in this country. covering the events over in belgium. we mentioned cell service can be hard to come by. steve clemens had made phone contact with us. we lost it, and now we have regained it. steve, its been a good while since we spoke. tell our viewers where you were and what happened. >> i was arriving at the brussels airport this morning, around 8:00. and just after the bombs had gone off. and as all of the action began to unfold, i was pl...

Names, heavy weapons, and kind of added to the sense of foreboding that there was a lot out there yet. >> indeed, and that debate is continuing both in belgium and in france. much as we saw the debate in the u.s. as well. the searches also are continuing. >> angela charlton, thank you very much for being with us. from brussels. richard engle is still with us, our chief foreign correspondent. richard, what have you been able to find? >> i was told a short while ago that, by a senior u.s. intellig...

Police, calling him a hero, et cetera. the bottom line is there is growing circles of influence outside of the terror cells. there are supporting networks. once they catch one, the other networks will become operationalized. before they get caught, they want to go out and on their way to heaven commit a radical act of terrorism so they can say they were operationally. is as jihadis. >> what do we do about that? we sit back and watch this happening? how do we go into these communities and fight w...

Can you explain exactly what happens in the first 48 hours after an attack like this. >> well, the first 48 hours after an attack, what you want to do is, first you want to make sure that the country is secure for what we call restrike. so that, if another group that is out there that is planning to attack the response forces or the security forces or to take advantage of the chaos that goes on right now, the national security of belgium and france, as youve seen right now, are going to flood th...

Implements of terror were found. the search continues, bill. >> greg, there was a significant arrest just four days ago. what more do we know about the role that arrest may have played in todays carnage, if at all? >> reporter: this is a very interesting question, bill. the prime minister of belgium just an hour ago says he still was not able to make a connection between that arrest and this terror, but you got to believe that there was a connection. four days ago, the prime suspect, remaining s...

Considered to be kind of like their media hub. we know isis has claimed responsibility in the past for many attacks, including the paris attacks. in the wake of this attack in brussels, it seems what we feared all along, that this was an isis attack, now the group is actually claiming responsibility for it. it seems as well, brian, as we have been reporting, the coordination of this attack had all the hallmarks of an isis directed operation. we is seen in the past lone wolf type of attacks or is...

Diverted there, chris. >> also remember in this fluid situation numbers are going to change. there is no question that they are still doing triage on a lot of people fighting for their lives. belgium raising terror level threats to the highest level. we have cnns coverage live at the brussels airport. you have been on this from the beginning. this happened about 8:00 in the morning local time. an hour of that at the metro. what do we know now? >> reporter: well have a little more detail about th...

These guys are part of the same network that carried out the paris attacks, tell us a little bit about the neighborhood and fact they get away with having a safe space as you said to handle this type of material and how difficult it is for law enforcement to get in there considering they have been clamping down on them and watching them for months on end? reporter: i dont want to suspect too much how they may have operated but what i can tell you based on our reporting one of the priorities toda...

On the force of the explosion. but we also saw these scenes of good samaritans, volunteers, helping people out. trying to keep things orderly in the scary confines of an underground subway tunnel. some of the first pictures we saw after the attack from underground. someone had the presence of mind to take these pictures. our foreign correspondent, amen mohuh teen has been following all of this from the overnight hours into morning. >> im struck by a comment that was made earlier in the day by th...

Eastern belgium which thwarted that attack. then fast forward to the summer there was a fast speed train traveling from amsterdam through brussels on the way to paris just near the belgium french border. a gunman, al khazzani, tried to kill as many people as he could on that train but it was the heroic intervention of three americans which stopped terribly blood shed on the train that day. and the paris attacks that day. they were the work of a base in belgium and even more recently we had a max...