In the paris terror attacks is americans in europe told to shelter in place. Nypd set to ramp up security here in new york. The hunt is on right now forlasts. Announcer live in times square, this is good morning america. We are live all across the country and all time zones for the latest on those terror attacks unfolded in brussels, belgium, at 3 00 time during their morning rush hour. This is the scene as it unfolded, terrified passengers running for their lives at the s photo here shows the damage. At least two different attacks across the city this morning. Heres what we know right now. It is changing. At hit that airport. Another rocked a metro station at least 28 people now killed. Dozens injured. All Airport Transportation in brussels now there raised to maximum. The u. S. Embassy advisings to shelter there in place. Alert levels raised here in new york as well and other american cities, we have full coverage right now. Well begin withhe is on the scene at the Brussels Airport with the latest. Good morning, alex. Reporter good morning, george. Dramatic scenes here at the Brussels Airport. The edge of the Police Perimeter told to stop here, passengers talking about scenes of utter pandemonium inside. These twof which we understand was from a suicide bomber coming just after 8 00 at the peak of travel time. You can see here therends of people streaming out from this airport just now a new wave of people with their bags, some clutching those airlinell used. They have their bags with them. This is a calm scene here. But you can see their faces are theres a lot of le trying to figure out how to get away from the airport. There are buses lined up taking people away. But the people we spoke toh more dramatic scenes and spoke to an eyewitness checking into the American Airlines counter when the first he can explosion went off about 30 yards away fromhought that it took place closer to the delta counter and thats going to be one of the things experts look into now anything specifically was targeted in the airport but eyewitnesses talking about scenes of utter carnage, bodies on the floor of debris Ceiling Tiles on the floor. Absolute chaos. Okay, alex. The first explosion occurred witnesses describe the ceiling blood from the victims. N on top of my girl and there was a second explosion. An American Girl next to me. 13 dead. The number of injured still being counted. Witnesses described it as a war les in the air, the airplanes. Thereby explosions in the terminal hall. Thats why we dont allow anyone reporter an explosion at the maelbeek subway station. A loud boom heard and first the street with people on stretchers. Their clothes badly torn. I just stood off the metro when we heard thud. More panic set it. Capital has been on highg the arrest of Salah Abdeslam last week. You can see these buses pull ago way with people inside. Elers being taken away from the airport. After that attack at the metro station the entire brussels down. We understand 15 People Killed in that attack in addition to 1 here. C Transit System across brussels including the airport, metro buses and trains has been shut down. Icials have been telling us more fronts it was not a question of if but when the next terrorist attack would happen. George. Okay, alex, thanks very much. T the Brussels Airport. Want to turn to an eyewitness to the attack on the in et tree. Zoa, i understand you ran towards the metro when you heard about the did you see . Around about a dozen to 15 people carried out of theing outside the metro entrance an rue de la roi. On itself, maelbeek is just a few hundred meters from the main scene of eu activity, the European Commission and the european council. 200 meters away from my office. So i was already basically there when i heard there had been attacks on maelbeek and i was to see what was going on. And a scene of chaos and you were able to see the wounded and casualties being taken out. Tell us more about thishood. What is around this neighborhood. Around maelbeek its really just the heart of the european quarter. N and council nearby, very close within a few hundred meters, quarter and coast to the parliament. Probably around a five to te walk. Those are the three main ones in brussels and close to the Russian Embassy around there. Several embassies in that artsloi area and one stop in the opposite direction from schu uchlt schuman. Zoya hanks for that report. Well talk to christian pore the latest on security. Iliar with what happened in the metro station. What is the latest that you can tell us, sir . Well, the information that i could gather is the facthad an explosion in the metro station called maelbeek. Several people deceas injured. But i dont have exact figures about the casualties yet now. Epartment and medical service and police were deployed on the scene. There is a large security ow so that all those services can work on the scene. Nd what exactly are the services doing there right now, the police force doing right now at this hour . Well, for the policee the past two protect the medical services working there and also to prevent people from entering the securityso that there is no danger for the medical service and the Fire Departments to work. And, sir, there was no imminent well, normally terrorist attack, they dont they dont say on the forehand that they will commit an attack, of course. And the heightened alert that you are under now, can you tell us what taken . Well, all public transport is shut down in brussels. Buses, no trams, no metro and the taken stations are also closed in brussels and the people are off to remain inside so, the police and Security Forces can work on the scene. All right, mr. Deconick, please know our thoughts are with everyone there. Us. Thanks. Want to go to our chief Global Affairs anchor Martha Raddatz in washington. Martha, we just heard the Brussels Police spokesman saidndication that this was coming. No specific intelligence but there was a great concern after the takedown of Salah Abdeslam that that couldkind of a followon attack . Thats exactly right, george. They feared that there was an attack that was planned and when that they might do that attack early because they might have feared that abdeslam would tell authorities something, tell them where it might happen so by allarances, this terror attack was carried out quickly, they coordinated very quickly to get this going today. S planned for today or whether or not it was planned for several months from now we dont know. Theres certainly terror cells operating inm by the way is the largest supplier of European Countries of foreign fighters in syria and, of course, the fear is always go into syria, they will fight with isis, they will get trained and they will come back out and head for europe to carry out these kinds of martha, one of the biggest be carried out in brussels despite the fact there had been such a heavy Police Presence, ce presence especially in that molenbeek neighborhood where Salah Abdeslam was found for the four months since these terror attacks in paris. Reporter theyve beenused on this, george. As you know back in november i was standing in that neighborhood and we were talking about the focus onight after those paris attacks, the city was virtually shut down in lockdown. Armored personnel carriers werestreet. You really couldnt go anywhere without seeing that Police Presence. Now, perhaps there was an attack planned for that time andnt carry it out because of that Police Presence but what happens is they then go dark. They go under ground and dont nother in the typical ways by cell phone or by internet. They can go on encrypted devices and can figure out a way to attack like this saw in this one those soft targets, i know people dont think of an airport as aut that part of an airport is indeed a soft target. Im sure as we all know when we go into airports there is security. Y on the outside. Dont want you to stop out front in your car but you can get things inside, clearly you can get things inside. If there was a suicide being reported at least one suicide bomber, they will find out how he got in there, where the car was, how they got there, do the forensics on trying to figure out who this person was, who else carried it out, we dont know whether or suspects there were, how many people may have carried this out. Whether it was on the tracks there in the subway system, how they got on to thosethere are going to be security video coming out and im sure well get a lot of questions its very hard to prevent f they want to carry out an attack especially if youre a suicide bomber. Thanks very much. Of course, joining us is ray r Police Commissioner here in new york city and also Pierre Thomas and you know of course, law officials are monitoring whats closely. What are you hearing from the government . Top Law Enforcement officials have been briefed Loretta Lynch and james comey. No threat to the United States they know of. They dont believe we have the sophisticated terror cells, they have in europe but what theyre mosted concern about today is copycats, people who could be inspired by what theyre seeing andring rough ly ly 24 people. People who have been radicalized online through social media. That is the big here will react to it here. Lot are waking up, just after 7 7 00 eastern time. The city. I think what youre seeing now is deployment of uniformed officers, the officers that started work at be held into the day tour and see that particularly in thenew york has the busiest subway system arguably in the world, 6 million travel that system every day so you want to increase the what you probably wont see but may happen is a door knocking campaign. What do you mean. Concerned about to know that, hey, were watching you. How are you doing . That sort of thing. Now, that may happen, may not happen. It depends on what thef fbi and nypd as to whether or not theres anybody with a tendency to be a copycat. And always on high alert. Were always very vigilant and you had two major attacksight. You had at least 20 terrorist attempts here in new york city. And new york city has responded well and has the unique a lot of uniformed officers on the street. Critical response command and overlay of Police Officers so thats what youll see deployed in uniform obviously lots o on that you wont be able to see. We see more activity here in times square and as you were saying, pierre, what youre alluding to when we seen europe in recent months and the last year or so, as youre alluding to there has to be a concern whyink that that could possibly happen here in the u. S. Recent history is a guide. Think about paris attacks last november. For weeks the United States c credible threat then San Bernardino. That is the concern that you would have, that people would be inspired and then take action theno determine intelligence beforehand. Thats why you have extend tiff campaign by the fbi looking at social media, who might be inspired by isis and one thing thats happened in the last six months or so, the fbi went from seeing people who were simply trying too syria and join isis and planning to do things here they believe they stopped. Okay, pierre, thanks very much. To jon karl now. Traveling with the and the president now has been briefed . Reporter thats right. The president was briefed well before dawn and, hasecurity team with him including National Security advisers susan rice, secretary of state john kerry. The state department is also issued a warning through therussels to american citizens there thats quite stark, george. It says that american citizens should shelter in place and in belgium that there was a level 4 threat, a level 4 threat which means a danger of aent attack so clearly u. S. Officials were watching what was happening in belgium and well aware of the danger. Now the president has been briefed and has ale here for the rest of the day including later this morning an address televised nationally in cuba to the cuban people and then hes attending. No indication from the white house that there will be any change to the president s schedule. In fact hes leaving from here to go on to argentina but, you well know, george, when the president travels on these trips he has his full National Security apparatus with him and all that. Full expectation hell continue the trip, complete the trip hes on right now. One thing we heard from the president in recent months is that Martha Raddatz was talking about that we cannot have perfect security against this kind of threat when people are willing to takewn hands and die in order to kill. Been walking a fine line here talking about taking a tough lineerrorist threat, against isis but also trying to put it in context and saying, that the threat is something that must be contained, must be dealt with, at the threat as something that many people frankly in the view of the president have exaggerated. A very tough argument to make when you in the heart of europe with dozens more killed but the president s view is that there is no such thing as perfect securust contain this threat and deal with it in every way possible but put it in context. Jon karl, thanks very much. Well go back to alex ave been on the scene there in the Brussels Airport from the very beginning of all this. What is the latest youre hearing now, alex. People continue to stream out of here. There have been travelers coming in that departure hall when the explosions went off. Just to give the viewers a sense of where this happened when we say departure hall theecurity before you would go through the xray machines and take off your shoes where everybody was checking in. Convoys of buses watching them now over here that keep going past, packed to the brim with people who were either trying to take off or had just its worth reiterating that all of the air travel has been stopped. No planes going out or coming back in. People are in various seen lots of emotion, lots of people crying, lots of people hugging. Some with blankets wrapped around them. Others just confused by whats going on able to actually get inside the airport. But whats clear is now these the passengers from inside the terminal are being taken away hospital has been set up nearby. The latest figure from the is that 13 people were killed inside the airport, there are wounded. We dont have the figure on that. Wo explosions was carried out by a suicide bomber. 13 there and were hearing 15 in the metro owe overall dead there. Many injured. Well going to take a short break. For some of you that is your local news and weather next and Team Coverage of these deadly eturns in just a moment here on good morning america. This is tecfidera. Tecfidera is not an injection. A pill for relapsing ms that has the power to cut relapses in half. At you could do with fewer relapses. 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