For their lives after gunshots rang out. And early status update. A big announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about what he will do when his little girl arrives. A lot of likes for the daddytobe. Today, november 21st, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. Good to have you home. Nice to be home. We will talk to you about your time in paris in a moment. The top stories, terror attacks worldwide. We have correspondents across the globe. The headline, belgium under the highest terror alert today. Subways in brussels are closed. Armed police and soldiers in the streets. The belgian Prime Minister saying they have quote quite precise information that several people with arms and explosives could launch multiple attacks. Nbcs carlio is here with us. Reporter craig, brussels, the home of european institutions woke up to a military zone. We see soldiers everywhere. They are patrolling the streets and guarding Shopping Centers and hotels. There are enough assault military vehicles parked outside the Old Stock Exchange behind me. We spoke to residents and they are concerned and angry because this measure, this security measure is affecting their way of life. The entire subway system has been shutdown for the weekend. Concerts and events closed. Movie theaters and Exhibition Centers closed this weekend. They are not used to this. This is only the third time in the history of belgium, of the country, the alert has been raised to level four, the highest. Authorities of course are saying they would not have done that if they did not think the threat is serious, credible and real. You said the Prime Minister feared coordinated attacks similar to paris. The fact that salah abdeslam, the only terrorist linked to the paris attacks still at large, was born, raised and radicalized and may be hiding here. Craig. Claudio, thank you. The hunt for those involved in the paris attacks is going wider with a key arrest in turkey. Nbcs global correspondent bill neely is here with the latest for us. Bill, good morning. Reporter good morning, erica. The investigation here and the crackdown on isis supporters continues. More than 800 raids across france so far. Almost 200 gun seized. Nearly 100 people arrested. As you have seen in brussels, the effort across europe by police forces, it is not just in france. We had arrests in turkey this morning. The net is widening right across europe. Under arrest this morning in turkey, three men suspected of ties to isis. Including a belgian thought to have scouted locations of the paris massacres. Across europe, police are hunting for the killers and their gang. French police are still trying to identify this suicide bomber who detonated in the apartment they stormed. They found a third body in the rubble. This woman killed in the raid was not the bomber as they previously thought. I met the man who led the raid. The terror group they faced, he told me, were well trained. They shot just enough to be dangerous. We didnt see them. It was very difficult to know where they were. They knew what they were doing . Reporter he said the woman shouted im scared, im scared. Suddenly the suicide bomber detonates. The flash of lights and the building shook. Reporter the shields they used are bullet ridden. You can see here. Reporter the terrorists fired to the head. The bullets come by this way. You can see the exit. Reporter the death toll from the massacres a week ago has risen to 130. But for danny plaugee, targeted by the gunman at the concert, everything has changed. My life wont be the same. There will be a before and after as it was for you people in new york city. There was a before and after in september. Reporter early this morning, paris was trying to begin a new normal weekend, but exactly a week after the massacres, it was hard to forget the victims to have courage amid the terror. And overnight at the United Nations, the Security Council adopted its first resolution against isis calling on countries to take all necessary means to confront isis which it called a global threat. Remember, all five permanent members, including the u. S. , have had citizens killed by isis. China, russia in the plane bombing and here in france. Erica. Bill neely, thank you. Today, president obama is condemning the terror attack in the african nation of mali that left at least 20 people dead, including one american. Nbcs keir simmons is there for us. Good morning. Reporter craig, good morning. The jihadists who carried out the attack on the luxury hotel behind me may still be on the loose. Three are being hunted. Ma malian president is urging a state of emergency and limiting the movements around the capital. The search for killers in the Radisson Hotel was assisted by security agents. It is not clear this morning how many armed gunmen it took to terrorize guests. Two jihadists were killed. Glass shattered where the men burst in as breakfast was under way shooting at everything that moved. These jihadists, they killed everyone, said a hotel employee. They went room to room, releasing those who could prove they were muslim by reciting passages from the koran. Killing those who couldnt. Mali Security Forces rushed to the attack to aid. Our Diplomatic Security agents rushed in to pull people to safety. French troops and American Forces in the country for Training Missions provided support as did the United Nations forces. Thanks to the swift action and skill of all involved, many people escaped. Reporter by then, at least 20 people killed. Including american aid worker anita from maryland. Her family spokesperson. We are devastated by the loss. Reporter the group claiming responsibility is the Jihadist Organization potentially linked to al qaeda, not isis, renewing their threat of global jihad. This attack claimed by the al qaeda affiliate so soon after the an tattack on paris, people are worried that isis and al qaeda are worried. Keir simmons, thank you. We have a senior partner here about us. Evan, nice to have you. Thank you. The unprecedented terror warning for belgium for the ale alert. And the precise coordinated attacks. What more do you know . We dont know much because the police in belgium are not saying much. They seem to have similar concerns to what happened in paris. If you look at what is going on in brussels, you get an idea. You have the one individual running right now from authorities. Supposedly some are angry with him because he did not detonate a weapon. Obviously if you are looking at the targets they are selecting or targets they are worried about, metro, shops, malls, hotels, the same targets we saw in paris. I think it is fair to say it comes from the same source. Isis or isis supporters. I want to pick up what keir said on the end there. The idea there may be some sort of rivalry brewing with the two. The al qaeda connected group that has taken credit for mali and isis in paris. We have to be careful. We have a communication. We are not sure it is authentic. Lets just say it is. Lets say it is al qaeda. The operation in mali could have been prepared for months or years. We dont know. This is something it wasnt and organized as paris. There were not suicide bomb vests. These guys had a plan. This is possibly a symptom of the competition with al qaeda and isis. It is not necessarily linked to what happened in paris. These folks have been Planning Operations for a while. It is to be said one potential targets, mokhtar belmokhtar, was targeting the u. S. With the air strike in libya. It is fair to say the impetus for this did not come up last week or the week before. This could be many months old. Evan coleman, thank you. The terror scares around the world have put the issue of immigration front and center in the president ial campaign. Gop frontrunner donald trump is facing Harsh Criticism for calling for a muslim tracking database. He seems to be walking it back a bit. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is in a very snowy des moines, iowa this morning. Reporter good morning, craig. The first real snowfall of the season. Some Campaign Stops are canceled in iowa, but the snow does not stop more than 1,000 people attending a faith and family forum attended by several candidates. Donald trump is weathering his own storm about the comments on a muslim database. Donald trump is clarifying. There was music blaring in the background. Reporter back tracking. Blaming background noise for mishearing an exchange with nbc news in which he did not rule out a database for tracking muslims in the United States. I would implement that. Absolutely. Reporter later . Mr. Trump, why would that not be the same thing as requiring jews to register in nazi, germany . Is there a difference . Who are you with . Im with nbc news. Is there a difference . You tell me. Reporter now trump says . I want a database for the Syrian Refugees that obama wants to let in. Reporter trump looking to fend off more fallout as more groups denounce his remarks. So did democrats. I dont think we should be engaging in the kind of inflammatory rhetoric i have been hearing from some of the republican candidates. Reporter republican rivals. You talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people. Thats just wrong. Im a big fan of donald trumps, but not a fan of government registries of american citizens. Reporter trump still the frontrunner of the survey monkey poll. Interrupted by protesters early, the loudest voices were saved for slamming promiesident obama. We had a president spending more time attacking republicans than more time than attacking isis. Reporter president obama visited refugee children in kuala lumpur overnight as the debate over Syrian Refugees entering the u. S. Continues here at home. The president promising as long as he is in office, america is a place where people face violence and discrimination can find safe haven. Hallie, thank you. A big scare at a High School Football game in miami. Sheinelle has more on that. Good morning. That game in miami, that Football Game ends in chaos. You can see the players and fans racing out of the stadium in the video where miami central was playing carroll city high school. The gunshots were heard in the distance. The shots were fired outside the stadium and so far, police have no reports of injuries. They are still investigating. Officials at San Diego State university are investigating allegations of a hate crime against a muslim student. The young woman says she was battered and pushed and abused by a man who confronted her in the University Parking lot. The man grabbed her by her head scarf and began making threats. A daring robbery. Thieves used a car to smash into the shop in hendersonville, tennessee. The rest of the crime was caught by surveillance cameras. They made out with 16 guns and automatic weapons. Scary moments as a truck smash no smashes into a house. The dump truck crashed into a telephone pole before it hit the house. It took the emergency crews more than an hour to cut the driver from the wreck. And there is word of an escape from the sequoia park zoo. The concern is for the animal that is on the run. The red panda that got out of her enclosure. She is perfect prey for larger predators and her diet is bamboo, which she is not likely to find. Finally, a creative proposal with something of a food focus. Take a look. A canadian man decided to pop the question using potatoes on his front lawn. More than 200, in fact. I dont know if she is a potato lover. Apparently she liked the gesture. As you can see, the hug means she said yes. A man proposes to you using potatoes, you better say yes. Why . I dont know. Its hard to find all of the potatoes in the same size to lay them out evenly. There you go. It is thoughtful and took planning. Dylan, how about the weather . I should stay away from the potato talk. A lot of snow in parts of the midwest. South dakota picked up 18 inches of snow. In iowa, near des moines, we saw roads very slippery. We had cars sliding off the roads. You see this on the side of the road. The streets are covered. Parts of Northern Iowa picked up nearly 12 inches of snow. And where we only saw 3 to 6 inches closer to chicago, roads are slippery. That whole getting used to driving in the snow again. We are seeing the rain changing over to snow in chicago. Northwest of chicago, rockford picked up 3 inches. We have Winter Weather advisories. That includes chicago. We will see it taper off as we go through the next couple hours as it peels away from the western great lakes and to the north. As it does, it pumps in warmer temperatures. We will not see snow along the east coast. As the colder air wraps around, lake ontario and lake erie, is when the snow machine picks up and we could see lakeeffect snow tomorrow and monday morning. Today, over the course of the next 24 hours, chicago could end up with 3 to 5 inches of snow once the colder air wraps in. South bend, indiana,inches of snow. Toledo, ohio, 1 inch. Northwestern pennsylvania and western new york could end up with several inches of lakeeffect snow. Today is the midwest and behind it very chilly tempera good morning, im first alert meteorologist Brittney Shipp. As we kick off the weekend, capitol hilly day on tap. Mix of sun, clouds, temperatures today will be close to average. Ranging between 1and 4 degrees. Winds from the east, and 510 miles per hour. Pick up and temperatures drop as we head into sunday. Sundays a windy and cold day with a high of 50 degrees. As we take a closer look at the seven day forecast expect warmer temperatures just in time for thanksgiving on thursday. And thats your latest forecast. Dylan, thank you. Up next, catching you up on the week in news. Stunning developments in the wake of the paris terror attack. A shocking revelation from Charlie Sheen and a Sweet Surprise in our studio from one of our colleagues. It is all in the download. But first this is today on nbc. Back now with the download. A look at the weeks busy stories. Here is a look at the headlines you may have missed in the morning rush. A week after the paris terror attacks, a new strike. This time in africa. The least 150 people taken hostage in malis capital bamako. And in france, authorities take down the alleged ringleader of the assaults. Riddled with bullets identified by fingerprints. Could this be the homemade bomb that brought down the russian jetliner . Isis claims in the online magazi magazine, this is it. It appears the can was cut off and packed with plastic explosives and put back together. Small, but enough to blow up a plane as this test shows. While back home, fear on the rise about the spread of isis leading to a backlash against refugees and migrants. If they are coming here, they are going back. We cant take a chance on isis. A bipartisan majority in the house approving the bill to restrict the number of syrian and iraqi refugees entering the United States. In a today, exclusive, a stunning admission from Charlie Sheen. I am here to admit i am in fact hivpositive. Im here to better myself and help a lot of other people. Sheen says he was honest about his health with his sexual partners. Some say thats not true. I could literally be dead right now because he did not tell me that. Severe weather across the nation this week. Three people have been killed in the Pacific Northwest by falling trees. Lots of flooding as well. We move to denver where they are dealing with blizzard like conditions. The winds are moving east. Look at memphis, tennessee. All the damage caused by falling trees and downed power lines. And the mommy shorts blog head a Chubby Cheeks playoff. And elliot and kora and elliot versus callie. The winner is the second baby elliot. We all might look like baby elliot after thanksgiving, but not after feasting on Patti Labelles sweet potato pies. Come on, pattie. Thanks to James Wrights serena serenade, walmart sold out. Lucky for us, she stopped by to give us a slice. On my own and it would not be the holidays without cheer. Leann rimes wrote a song for us at today. It is called today its christmas. Come on. Thats a bad sitcom. I want to go back to paris. A lot of our viewers may not know. You spent a year in high school. Your sister lives there. When we were watching you this week, it was not like watching a reporter. It was watching someone talk about a place that meant a great deal to them. It is a place i know well. The french people have a special place in my are heart. One of the things, it was an interesting story. We all cover the stories and we are there for a long time and you see things change day by day. What we were floored by on the ground is how quickly the story was moving. In paris one moment and then saintdenis and then back there. Until it was a constant flow of information that was fascinat g fascinating. You watch people in paris and watch their attitude. Resilience is a big thing. The love of liberty and freedom. Those are really important values. Deep in the french soul. Watching that was fascinating. Attitudes changed at the memorials. This is the one outside the bataclan theater. Once they opened it up and people could get there, by far, the most emotional memorial we would go to. People would stand with their hands over their mouths looking at theater and hugging. They were there to show they were not going anywhere and supporting one another. It is with heavy hearts. Rainy and cold yesterday. It almost felt appropriate. One week after. Your perspective was very much appreciated. Thanks. Still ahead, a good morning, im Rosemary C