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>> reporter: the department of homeland security tested first responders and nypd's response to a terror attack on mass transit. the results of the training will be shared with law enforcement nationwide. nearly 47 million americans are expected to travel by car this thanksgiving, and an additional 25 million will fly on u.s. carriers. as the volume of people on the move increases, more officers and canines have deployed to potentially vulnerable sites, at train and bus stations there are increased patrols. in major cities like new york and washington, riders should expect random bag checks, b...

Most recently in paris. i thought it was most appropriate to introduce that. >> reporter: the department of homeland security tested first responders and nypd's response to a terror attack on mass transit. the results of the training will be shared with law enforcement nationwide. nearly 47 million americans are expected to travel by car this thanksgiving and an additional 25 million will fly on u.s. carriers. as the volume of people on the move increases, more officers and canines have deployed to vulnerable sites at train and bush stations, there are increased patrols. in mayor cities like n...

In stores doing their shopping and walking in the streets, and coming to the memorial sites and paying their respects. you can hear the sirens behind me is a typical sound here in paris and it is not related to the security situation here. but you will see more bag checks at the stores, and more security at the hotels and cafes, and here on the corner of the plaza de la publique, you saw the military officials with weapons. and so you are seeing the parisians moving on and trying to the act like a normal saturday, but it is a constant reminder that it is a different world than say two weeks ag...

With the raids going on, how tight has security been on the streets in brussels? >> caller: honestly, other than the presence, there's not been a lot of stopping of -- nobody's being checked. there's not any bag checks like you might be getting on and off of public transportation. just a heavy presence of walking patrols, heavily armed walking patrols. we did see one interesting thing yesterday when we went to a little french border town as people were coming back from france into belgium, there were police checks taking place, like a border check back in the old days, but that was the only th...

Could there be bag checks and metal dedetectors? >> they might not have known the president was there. >> sure, there would have been standard security measures. >> it's not easy to get your hands on this kind of weaponry in europe. >> it's extremely hard to get in afghanistan. we're going to take a support network. that's where we're going to start looking. who supported this. they're going to find cars possibly in the vicinity of the attacks that aren't picked up by anybody. and they're going to start finding the trail for these people. >> seven out of eight died as suicide bombers.