in our favor, but it only takes a few individuals, a lone wolf or a small cell to do something like this, particularly if you re just talking about using firearms and not a highly sophisticated or coordinated, you know, multilocation attack. so, i think over the holiday season you ll see law enforcement in cities like new york and washington ramping up security and telling people to remain vigilant because it is a concern. but not to panic. we re not in a state of, you know, lockdown. there s no direct, specific imminent threat just a general warning which law enforcement has been worried about to be quite frank for a while. a lot of people when i was in paris when i got back last night the prime minister said there s a real threat of a chem scal or biological attack, that took a lot of people by surprise. does it surprise you? well, you know, i m not sure what intelligence that is based on. it s something that for years intelligence officials are worried about different types of t
now learning in turkey. in france alone hundreds of raids. there have been arrests across the board and then these three arrests we re learning about in turkey. in terms of a connection and just how widespread this net is, how does that add to the difficulty of this task? because we re seeing these parts play out literally across the globe. i think you re right. i think the fact that we are seeing this investigation unfold not just in france, where the attacks happened, but in brussels in lockdown right now. over in turkey we have u.s. law enforcement on alert, you know, in cities like new york and d.c. and probably share intelligence. this does make it more difficult because no matter how and between the united states and our allies overseas in order to make sure we can connect the dots because just because the intelligence may be there to prevent a particular attack it doesn t mean the steps will happen to coordinate and stop it
to continue these bombings that are taking place. and, erika, as we know, this is a conventional war method going up against a very unconventional target in their way of operations, and some people are saying that this will just be a continued cycle in france potentially for attack, revenge, attack, revenge. but the defiant way for certain parisians is just to go back to their way of life and get back to going out onto the streets here in paris. thomas, we certainly heard a lot of that, that they didn t want to let the terrorists win, so they needed to continue on with life as they live it every day. thomas roberts live in paris tonight, thank you. as terrorism analysts from the u.s. and around the globe try to piece together what they know at this point, one week after the attacks, brussels, belgium, waits. that city is on lockdown tonight as we heard from claudio, amid the highest possible threat warnings in that country. it s a scenario that has even stunned some veteran terrori
good afternoon, here s what we know new at this hour. brussels on lockdown. the belgian government raising the capital city s terror alert to its highest level citing a serious and immediate threat. there is another new video from isis. this one claiming the group has additional terror attacks planned for europe and that people are in place to carry them out. and a state of emergency in mali in the wake of friday s attack that killed at least 20 including one american. the ap reporting the hunt is on for at least three suspects. we want to bring in now nbc reporter from brussels tracking the security situation there. claudio, what s the latest? reporter: well, erika, the security alert has taken its toll here on the city. now outside of the city, though, i can see clearly the main boulevard in front of the city center the building over there behind me is the old stock exchange. this is the real lively, usually
mali, a former peace corps volunteer who was described by hillary clinton who knew her as representing the, quote, best of america s generous spirit. meantime, the hunt is on for at least three suspects in that attack that killed 19 others. and in turkey three alleged isis terrorists arrested. in belgium, that country s prime minister said authorities will reassess the terrorist threats tomorrow. those threats have the city on lockdown tonight. for the latest from paris we turn now to paris. we know the raising of the terror threat in belgium has had an impact there as we heard earlier from claudio. what about in paris? reporter: no direct effect here in paris, erika, as you know the city is already on a heightened state of alert. the state of emergency extended until february. and there s a ban on any sort of demonstrations at least until the end of this month. but nothing further than that from french police today.