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Aired March 23, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:00] MAX FOSTER, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Hello. I'm Max Foster in Brussels. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world as we continue CNN's special coverage of the terror attacks here in the Belgian capital.

It's just about 24 hours since the first bomb exploded at the city's airport, touching off a wave of terror across the city. A massive manhunt is under way at this hour for the prime suspect in that bombing.

Authorities say these men seen in airport surveillance video are behind the attack. The two on the left blew themselves up. The one on the right is believed to have planted a bomb at the airport but then left. Police raided the residence where a taxi driver says he picked the men up early on Tuesday.

They found a nail bomb, chemicals, and an ISIS flag. People have been lighting candles and laying flowers at a makeshift memorial. Authorities declared three days of national mourning.

Now, the U.S. State Department is warning Americans traveling to Europe to be extra vigilant, and the Netherlands is advising people not to travel to Brussels at all. Right now, we're getting reports that the airport in Toulouse in France is being evacuated.

We don't know yet if this is related to the attacks in the Belgian capital, but we'll bring you information as soon as we get it. It certainly does play into this sense of alert around Europe right now today.

Well, back here in Brussels, Belgian security sources tell CNN they believe Tuesday's bombings are tied to the same network that was behind the Paris attacks.

CNN's Anderson Cooper has more now on how things unfolded.

ANDERSON COOPER, AC360 SHOW HOST: Eight a.m. local time. A busy hour at Brussels airport. The attacks begin. An explosion near the ticket check-in area. Moments later, another explosion.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Then the second explosion went, and then everything is black. And I see -- when I go out, I see a lot of people with blood and I just go, I just run out of the airport. I feel like it's the end of the world.

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COOPER: At least 10 are killed, and 100 wounded.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We saw doors flying, glass, ceiling coming down, and smoke and everything.

COOPER: But it could have been even worse. A third device undetonated and left at the scene was later set off by authorities. This image was soon released. Three men believed responsible for the deadly airport attack. The two on the left most likely killed in the explosions. The one on the right, on the run and now one of the most wanted men in Europe.

The scene of chaos and carnage the terrorists wrought just the beginning. Within the hour, another explosion. This time in the heart of the city at the Maelbeek metro station. The blast turning the subway car into a twisted mess of hard metal.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It looked like war. I saw many injuries. I saw people that I saw everything broken. It's just terrible.

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COOPER: At least 20 killed here and 130 wounded. Those fortunate enough to evacuate on foot were forced to brave terror underground in the dark. Later in the day, ISIS claims responsibility for both attacks.

Brussels not just a symbol of the West as a European capital, but also a hub for the European Union and the headquarters of NATO. As night falls, a police helicopter with a sniper inside hovers over a Brussels neighborhood while raids are conducted below in connection to the investigation.

In one house, investigators find a nail bomb, chemical products, and an ISIS flag according to Belgium's federal prosecutor. Senior U.S. officials telling CNN they believe today's attacks are tied to the same network as the deadly Paris attacks in November last year.

And like Paris, another European city is now shaken to its core, its people defiant in the face of terror while a manhunt continues.

Anderson Cooper, CNN.

FOSTER: We're going to bring CNN's international correspondent Nima Elbagir live with us here in Brussels that you got some breaking news. [03:04:59] NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The

state broadcaster here, RTBF, is saying that they have a name for the two men believed to have carried out this attack, the el-Bakraoui brothers, and that they were -- and this is the really damning bit here.

They were already known to authorities but for petty crime rather than as part of an organized network. But this is a person that we're seeing again and again. Remember, Abdeslam brothers were known to police for petty crime, not for terror attacks.

And then they became part of a broader network. RTBF is also reporting that a house was rented in the name of one of the brothers in Prairie in the same district where Abdeslam was found hiding in that house -- in that house last week, Max.

FOSTER: So, it's likely they would have known each other, and it confirms the sense the two sets of attacks in Paris and Brussels here.

ELBAGIR: Yes. It reinforces the possibilities of that link. It reinforces that the authorities' working assumption that this is part of the broader network.

FOSTER: So, now that we know their names and we knew apparently where they were living because the taxi driver that took them to the airport told police where he picked them up from, they're getting pretty close, aren't they, to the trail of events?

ELBAGIR: Yes. Now that they have an actual identity, it helps them start looking at what they knew about those people, who they knew to be their associates, and then you start being able to put where they believe they could be. Who would be, who could be supporting them.

FOSTER: Who could be hiding them out in Brussels, probably, because that's what Abdeslam did. Everyone thought he had left and gone back to Syria.

ELBAGIR: Yes. And we saw a real search effort around the borders here because what they want to stop is what happened in Paris, where they attack, where Abdeslam was able to cross back into Belgium. So, even our colleagues coming through have reported cars being stopped and searched at every single Belgium border point.

FOSTER: In terms of what we know about the metro station, it happened an hour later, didn't it? Literally this time yesterday, the airport incident was being carried out. But the metro station incident, we know very little about that. What's your thinking around that?

ELBAGIR: Well, the sense is if that police were still searching for someone, if anyone, if any of the attackers had fled that scene or survived the attack, then police would be putting similar information into the public domain.

The consensus from those we've been speaking to is that the working theory at the moment is that nobody survived that attack. That there's no one sought directly linked to that attack in terms of having carried out it. But of course the broader network they believed that supported both of these attacks is the same.

FOSTER: OK. Nima, thank you. But if anything new that comes in it's coming in all the time. The Maelbeek metro station we're talking about there is still closed nearly 24 hours after the attack, which killed at least 20 people.

Terrorists exploded a bomb just before the end of the morning rush hour. Two metro lines have reopened, but only with a very limited service. It's pretty chaotic in terms of transport here still.

Journalist Chris Burns, a former CNN correspondent, is near Malbeek metro station. I mean, there's a real will, isn't there, to get things going again because they don't want to, you know, succumb to ISIS more than they need to.

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CHRIS BURNS, JOURNALIST: I'm sorry, Max...

FOSTER: All right, Chris, I'm just pointing out there's a real sense of defiance, isn't there in the city that they want to get things going again in the city, things like the metro line because they don't want ISIS to bring this one.

BURNS: Well, there is. Yes, Max. Yes, absolutely, Max. This is a country, a city in mourning, in shock, but also determined to get things back to normal. Though, we are seeing increasing stories here in the press. Like reporting war in the middle of Brussels. Pictures of some of the victims, those who died, those who were injured. Some of them who are missing.

Three days of mourning here. And over my shoulder, you can see the flags of the European Union outside the European commission at half- staff. This is the heart of the European Union, and this, just three blocks away is where that bomb went off in the metro station.

But if you can pan over and see this traffic over here, the city is trying to come back to normal. As you said, the two subway lines are partially reopened, and schools are staying open today. But it is a huge traffic snarl because there are a lot of streets and main avenues that are still shut down as police maintain certain controls and try to track down those who committed these attacks.

There are also we saw overnight, Max, that at the Maelbeek metro station, there were more forensics -- more forensics investigators arriving overnight to continue trying to pick through what was left of those -- of that bomb, to see the ingredients, who possibly could be linked to it.

[03:10:01] It's a painstaking operation, and it's going to take quite some time. But Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium saying, "We are united in pain, but we would like to get things back to normal as soon as we can." Max.

FOSTER: Absolutely, Chris. Thank you very much. I know that you live near the station yourself. A journalist Bojan Pancevski was on the scene right after the metro attack. He saw the aftermath firsthand. He's an E.U. correspondent for the British newspaper, the Sunday Times. He joins us live by Skype here in Brussels. What was it like?

BOJAN PANCEVSKI, THE SUNDAY TIMES E.U. CORRESPONDENT: Hello?

FOSTER: Describe what it was like. What was it like in the immediate aftermath of the attack on the metro?

PANCEVSKI: It was terrible. Basically I arrived a few minutes after the blast, and people were still pouring out, completely confused. Some of them were wounded, bleeding. There were already two -- it has to be said the emergency services reacted very promptly. So, there were already two ambulances at the scene, and one was there. One arrived as a I came in, and they have attended to the wounded, to the most seriously wounded people on the street, on the floor, on the pavement.

People were lying in a pool of blood. It was -- it was really a dreadful scene akin to a war zone, and the trouble -- the trouble was that so many people were wounded, seriously wounded. So, I think there were over 200 people who were wounded, and they had to bring in dozens and dozens of ambulances.

And of course, many people died as well. So, it was really remarkable and extremely, you know, to see it in this part of town, which is the seat of the European Union. As you know, the institutions of the European Union are all based just a stone's throw from that -- from that station. It was really awful.

FOSTER: Obviously your report on those European institutions here, seen as the capital of Europe. Yesterday, all the meetings were canceled. It was very limited access to the buildings at all. Is there a sense of defiance within the European Union institutions to try to get things back on track as soon as possible?

PANCEVSKI: Well, there certainly is. I mean, they declared yesterday that they would hold the daily press conference, something they call the midday briefing which takes every single day in a working week. And they held it yesterday. I don't know to what kind of attendance, but certainly it did happen, the event, and it was a symbol of, you know, defiance. Things should go on as usual. We should live as ever.

I don't know how much is working. I don't know about the spirit within the institutions, but I imagine many people are will have been affected because this metro station -- I think police have already assumed that it was targeted because it was the seat, this square that is home to the European institutions.

So, I imagine a lot of people would have been affected either by, you know, friends having been on the train. You know, this is a very busy metro. People take it to go to work. So, it's really very close to home. I think it's a very traumatic experience both for the international diplomatic staff in this city and of course for Belgium itself.

FOSTER: In terms of the backlash on the authorities here, there always is one, isn't there? You know, whether or not they should have acted sooner. We've just been hearing in the last few minutes, that the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack at the airport according to state media were known to police.

We often hear this certainly but for petty crimes. But there's so much pressure, isn't there on the authorities and the security services to monitor so many people, and they just can't afford to do it to the extent that they want to do it.

PANCEVSKI: Well, I suppose in this terrible hour it's too early to kind of criticize authorities, but I think that conversation must be had in the public domain. You said I have to correct you. They were not petty criminals. They were serious and hardened criminals.

One of them was in jail for shooting at police with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The other one was arrested. He was a carjacker, and he was arrested while carjacking, also armed with an assault rifle, AK- 47.

Their names are Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, and you know, they are serious hardened criminals, who are by the way, linked to Salah Abdeslam, because he was residing for a certain period of time in an apartment where they also lived for a while.

So, basically what happened last week, police went to that apartment looking for these two people, for the brothers, and then they found by accident -- they found Abdeslam.

[03:15:04] So, yes, you're quite right. I mean, questions will be asked. Questions are being asked. I mean, we knew, we all knew this would happen. Brussels was at the penultimate level of security, which is level three in this country.

You know, at the end of the day, we kind of all knew this would happen. Authorities were warned, and yet, you know, now, only now they discover that there was a whole network behind Abdeslam that they didn't know anything about.

And as you said, this is a network of criminals who have turned Jihadi, which in most cases in the cases of these terrorists from Belgium, is true also for Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect who was arrested last week. He was a petty criminal. He was indeed a petty criminal, not like these guys. And then he turned to Jihadism.

FOSTER: There are some questions being asked. We're asking them as well of the guests we're speaking to today. Thank you very much, Bojan for joining us. Much more from Brussels in just a moment.

But coming up, some breaking news out of the United States. And big win for a White House hopeful, trying to stop Trump from winning the republican nomination. Details just ahead.

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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headlines. The Belgian terror attacks have also impacted the sports world.

English Premier League Norwich City said their player Dieumerci Mbokani was at the airport at the time of Tuesday morning's deadly explosions in Brussels. Adding their striker was unharmed but shaken.

Meanwhile, the Belgian national team canceled a training session on Tuesday as they prepare to face Portugal in a friendly in Brussels next week. The team also tweeted out a message. "Our thoughts are with the victims. Football is not important today."

Elsewhere, the president of the United States attended a baseball game in Cuba on Tuesday between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National Team. President Obama and the First Family observed a moment of silence before the game in solidarity for the victims of the terror attacks.

It's the first exhibition game between a Major League team and the Cuban National Team for 17 years and another symbol of the warming relations between the U.S. and Cuba after decades of hostility.

And Raymond Moore has resigned from his role as CEO and tournament director of the Indian Wells Tennis Tournament just a day after making sexist comment about female tennis players. He later apologized for the conjecture remarks which drew harsh criticism from all corners of the tennis world.

And that's a look at all your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.

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JOHN BERMAN, EARLY START SHOW CO-HOST: We'll have much more on the terror attacks in Brussels in just a moment, including the possible identification on two of the suicide attackers.

But first, the latest from election results in the United States. Out west, Ted Cruz has won the republican caucuses in the state of Utah. And that's not all. CNN now projects they will win more than 50 percent of the vote there, which means he gets all 40 of the state's delegates. Essentially becoming a winner-take-all state. Forty delegates going to Ted Cruz in the State of Utah.

Donald Trump, though, he won in Arizona and won big. Arizona is a winner-take-all state. Donald Trump will win 58 delegates in Arizona.

For the democrats, Bernie Sanders wins in Utah, won big with over 70 percent of the vote there. He also won in Idaho with over 75 percent of the vote. He will win the lion's share of delegates in those states, but Hillary Clinton won in Arizona, won handily which means the delegate math could be essentially a wash for the democrats today.

Let's bring in senior politics correspondent for CNN digital, Chris Moody. He joins us from Washington. Chris, the latest news is CNN now projecting, even though they're still counting votes in Utah that Ted Cruz wins over 50 percent of the vote, which means he wins 100 percent of the delegates. CHRIS MOODY, CNN POLITICS.COM SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: John, there are

two things you can bet on tonight and have a pretty good chance of winning. And that was that Donald Trump was going to win Arizona, and that Ted Cruz was going to win Utah.

The question was, was it going to get that 50 percent threshold, and if he did, which he did, he will have, of course, the full amount of delegates from that state. That is excellent news for Ted Cruz. They can breathe a sigh of relief now that that is offer. And it means that Donald Trump only has netted 18 delegates for the night against Ted Cruz.

That's the good news for him, extraordinarily good news. The bad news is that the calendar is looking pretty good for Donald Trump in the future. Ted Cruz has done very well in caucus states, especially rural ones. The next contests are going to be primaries.

These are places where Donald Trump has traditionally done better. There's also the John Kasich factor. After John Kasich won Ohio, a number of republicans were calling for him ironically to drop out because he potentially could hurt Ted Cruz's chances of catching up with Donald Trump in the delegate race.

Tonight in Arizona actually, John Kasich came in fourth in a three-man race because Arizona allows early voting and lots and lots of people voted for Marco Rubio. So, Marco Rubio actually has come in third in front of John Kasich even though Marco Rubio dropped out of the race last week.

I think it will be very interesting to see if republicans continue to call for John Kasich to drop out to try to make this a two-man race.

BERMAN: I think there will be republicans absolutely who continue that call and make it even louder in some cases. But John Kasich thinks that his best states are ahead of him, well, best states besides Ohio which he won already.

Let's talk about the democrats quickly. Big win for Bernie Sanders in Utah and Idaho, big necessary but perhaps not sufficient, Chris.

MOODY: Perhaps not. It keeps him in the race. It shows he still has that kind of strength, but these were races that the Clinton campaign was expecting to lose. Now, they won big -- the Clinton campaign won big in Arizona. They obviously needed that. But they weren't actually telling anyone that they plan to win the other states.

So, that wasn't necessarily a huge test for Bernie and his supporters. The big test I think is going to come next in a state like California, which will be certainly something that he will need to win to prove that he can win in states that are not just rural and have caucuses.

He, in a way, he kind of has a similar problem that Ted Cruz has in that he does well just in these types of caucuses. So, you know, CNN spoke to Bernie Sanders' campaign manager earlier today, and he said that they still have a tough fight going into the nomination. But they said they've always had a tough fight. So to them, their spin is that nothing has really changed. What we know is that this race is going to continue on, but each night it does look better and better for the Clinton campaign.

BERMAN: All right, Chris moody for us in Washington. Thank you so much. Let's go back to Brussels now for more of the breaking news following the terror attacks there. Max Foster is there. Max.

FOSTER: John, the Belgian state media actually reporting that police have identified the airport suicide bombers, RTBF, quote, "Police sources saying the two brothers, Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui were known for organized crime but not acts of terror," we're told.

Bombings at the airport and the city metro station on Tuesday killed at least 30 people and wounded 230 others. So, this is a key development in that process, and they're clearly confident enough in their investigation to reveal the names of those two brothers.

[03:25:10] And progress is being made thankfully. Several countries advising meanwhile against any travel here to Brussels, so do check with your own government.

The Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is condemning (TECHNICAL PROBLEM).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (AUDIO GAP) going on between France and Belgium. Whether there's been enough cooperation, that sort of thing. But really the editorialists are at pains to try to figure out exactly what kind of suggestions they can make other than to say, you need better cooperation on a European level.

Well, people have been saying that for a long time. There is going to be, one thinks, one hears anyway, there's going to be a meeting perhaps tomorrow in Brussels of security chiefs from across Europe trying to tighten up this cooperation.

But still it's the kind of thing where people are frustrated. They feel like the intelligence services are the answer, but we're not seeing much in the way of cooperation amongst them. So, that's something that's going to be discussed at a very high level here, Max.

FOSTER: OK. Thank you very much indeed, Jim. Not just in Paris, either, Washington as well after the Brussels attacks. The U.S. is also on high alert.

Up next, how the country is stepping up its security measures, its so- called soft targets.

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FOSTER: Welcome to our viewers in the United States and across the globe. This is CNN's special coverage of the terror attacks here in Brussels, where it's about 8.30 in the morning. I'm Max Foster.

It has been just over 24 hours since the bombings rocked the European capital. A state broadcaster identified two brothers as the suicide bombers, the suspected one at least the airport. They are the men in black.

Police say they are Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui from Brussels. A massive manhunt is underway though, for the third suspect, the man wearing the light jacket. They said he planted the bomb but then he left.

At least 30 people were killed and another 230 people were wounded. The airport remains closed. And limited subway services have resumed. Investigators got help from the taxi driver who brought the attackers to the airport.

Based on his information, police raided a house in a Brussels neighborhood and found a nail bomb, chemicals, and an ISIS flag. Belgium is in a three-day period of national mourning as they try to make sense of what happened.

Afzal Ashraf joins us now from London, he's an expert in terrorist ideology and a consultant fellow leading the international diplomacy course at the RUSI United Services Institute.

And I know you and other academics and the security services are sitting there trying to work out how this latest attack plays into the pattern of attacks we've seen in recent years here in Europe. Do you think it's different, or do you think it's part of the process here of ISIS expanding the way it attacks Western ideology?

AFZAL ASHRAF, RUSI INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY CONSULTANT FELLOW: I don't think there's any huge difference. As we know, this is really the, as you suggest, a process that's evolving where these people are looking for soft targets whenever they can find them to try and create as much mayhem as possible.

[03:29:51] But primarily to try and capture the news agenda, to have people like you and me discuss this day after day to try and create this situation of fear and disruption in Europe, to try and make an impact in the lives of innocent Europeans. And indeed, Americans, whenever they get the opportunity.

FOSTER: There's also some crossover between the network that carried out the Paris attacks and the network that carried out the Brussels attacks. Are we finding that these networks are becoming more widespread, more established over time?

ASHRAF: It's hard to say until we get much more information on this particular network. These networks, the two that we are talking about or indeed one is much larger than most terrorist networks. The 77 bombers were only less than half the number we're talking about here.

So, there does appear to be a larger network, but I would caution against just drawing trends on these one or two instances. This may be just a unique characteristic of the particular attacks we're talking about, the link between the Paris and the Brussels attack.

FOSTER: One of the issues we seem to have here in Brussels, the concern that people feel slightly defenseless in the sense that we knew that Brussels was a potential target, and we knew that the transport system was a potential target. And they've gone for both and achieved both.

ASHRAF: Well, I think that is something that's a very important question you ask, and we should ask ourselves where does that feeling come from? That feeling comes from two sources. One is that the terrorists want people to feel defenseless. They want to have the initiative. They want to have the sort of ability to attack us and make us feel insecure.

The other reason, I think, is that our discussion and news agenda throughout almost every channel works on the assumption that somehow if we've got the intelligence right or we've got the surveillance right or if the policing action have been any better, we could have stopped this.

The point is, of course, lessons must be learned and we can and should do more. But bombers will always get through. Eventually somebody will be able to get through. And I think we shouldn't allow the agenda be driven by these people. We should think very carefully about what we can do to eliminate this problem and look at the source. And the source here in this case is not in Europe.

It's in Syria and in Iraq. The inspiration behind these actions is what we should be tackling so that we don't have to spend billions, we don't have to start blaming ourselves for failures and working on the assumption that somehow if we did things better, this problem will go away. It won't until it's tackled.

FOSTER: OK. Afzal, thank you very much indeed. An image you can see there, full screen, right behind me. The makeshift memorial, which is gradually growing as the day progresses. And you can see people standing there, just coming along and looking at it, trying to make sense of what happened yesterday.

A lot of people feeling very helpless, and somehow it makes sense to come here and look at the messages that you see there amongst the candles and in chalk on the road on which they stand.

Other countries have serious concerns in the wake of the Brussels attacks, and the U.S. authorities are deploying special teams to soft target areas and increasing already tight security at train stations and airports.

CNN aviation correspondent Rene Marsh has more on that.

RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: U.S. cities nationwide are on heightened alert. New York City is stepping up its police and National Guard presence. High visibility anti-terrorist patrols can be seen in the subway system where officers are checking bags for explosives.

Signs that New York's Penn station alert passengers about random checks, and the city's three major airports have heightened security as well.

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BILL DE BLASIO, NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: Expect to see extraordinary NYPD presence out over the coming days as a sign of our readiness to protect people at all times.

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MARSH: Airports in cities across the country, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles are also ramping up their security presence. Police chief Patrick Gannon oversees LAX, one of the busiest airports in the world.

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PATRICK GANNON, LOS ANGELES WORLD OF AIRPORTS CHIEF OF POLICE: We never want to be predictable. We always feel that if you're predictable, you're vulnerable.

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MARSH: So-called soft targets like train stations and U.S. airports have long been a security concern. Areas like passenger drop-off, airline ticket counters, baggage claim, and all other areas before the security checkpoint are potentially susceptible.

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GANNON: We employ our own Intel analysts that provide us with airport-specific and transportation system-specific information that helps us in our daily deployment of our officers.

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[03:40:10] MARSH: In the nation's capital, bomb-sniffing dogs and SWAT can be seen on patrol.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The K9s at our station here are trained. I think they're the best in the country.

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MARSH: Amtrak police are conducting random bag checks, an ongoing show of force around the country.

Rene Marsh, CNN.

FOSTER: Well, we're going to keep you updated here in Brussels. We're also going to keep you updated as well after the break from the United States and the race for the White House. Breaking news on that, coming up.

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BERMAN: Well, much more on the breaking news from Brussels, the aftermath of the terror attacks there in just a moment, including a possible identification of two of the suicide attackers.

But first the latest from the election results in the United States. They were voting out west, and Ted Cruz has won the republican caucuses in the state of Utah. Most importantly, he got over 50 percent of the vote there, which means he wins all of the delegates. Forty delegates in the column for Ted Cruz.

Now, Donald Trump earlier won Arizona. That state was winner-take-all, so Donald Trump wins 58 delegates from Arizona.

As for the democrats, Bernie Sanders picked up wins in Utah, the democratic caucuses there. He also won in Idaho. Big wins in both states, over 70 percent in both cases. But Hillary Clinton won in Arizona by a hefty margin.

Right now it looks like Bernie Sanders with the edge in the delegates from the voting that took place on Tuesday, but Hillary Clinton still the overall leader by a fairly wide margin.

Let's bring in CNN politics senior digital correspondent Chris Moody. He joins us from Washington. Let's start with the republicans, Chris, because that is the most recent result, and that result being that Ted Cruz got over 50 percent of the vote in Utah, which means he wins 100 percent of the delegates.

[03:45:04] MOODY: That's right, John. Donald Trump had a good night tonight, but he certainly did not have a great night. He would have if he was able to keep Ted Cruz under that 50 percent threshold, that, in Utah.

That allows Cruz a little bit of breathing room to room forward, to challenge him head to head in the delegate race. Of course John Kasich is still in the race as well. But because of that, Donald Trump needs to get just over 50 percent of the remaining delegates. There's about 500 that he'll need to get to that magic number of 1,237 in order to win.

So, keep watch of the delegate count in the future. If he continues to get over 50 percent, it's going to look better and better for him in the future.

BERMAN: And as for the democrats, Bernie Sanders, he had his best states since his home State of Vermont. Just huge wins in Idaho and also in Utah. But, partially, if not fully offset by Hillary Clinton's victory in Arizona.

MOODY: Massive wins tonight, but let's look at the numbers for the delegate race in general. The CNN estimate has Hillary Clinton with 1,229 pledged delegates and Bernie Sanders with 912. Both are striving to reach 2383.

Now, of course, there's the issue of the super delegates, which will appear to be in Clinton's corner for now. So, Bernie Sanders still has a lot of room to make up here. Hillary Clinton is still in the lead, but it's got to be said that for all that was said about Hillary Clinton being the inevitable nominee, someone who might be untouchable, who certainly would go into the democratic convention and just be able to take it, it hasn't necessarily been. So, Bernie Sanders has not been -- and he spoke about this in his

remarks last night. He has not been some kind of fringe candidate that just is off in the wilds. He has been nipping at her heels for this entire race, and we're heading right into the spring now, starting to get in crunch time.

I think Hillary Clinton wants to close the door on this race, but it doesn't look like she'll be able to at least in the immediate future. Bernie Sanders' campaign has vowed to take this all the way to the convention. He's going to have to start winning in states in order to do that, states that are larger, that have bigger populations and don't just have caucuses if he wants to accomplish that and see it all the way through to the democratic convention.

BERMAN: He's got to win big states by big margins.

MOODY: Right.

BERMAN: And that could prove to be a big difficulty for Bernie Sanders going forward.

Chris Moody for us in Washington, thanks so much. We're going to have more from Max Foster in Brussels. The breaking news there, including the identification possibly of two of the suicide attackers, that will be right after the break. And I'll be back at the top of the hour with much more on the terror attacks and from these Western primaries in the U.S. Stay with us.

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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Ski watch, friends. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri on CNN.

Right now, a pattern here across the Western U.S. that you're going to like if you like skiing because look what happens over the next seven days. We light it up across much of the western U.S.

In fact, the intermountain region takes on significant snow accumulations, upwards of at least a meter in a few spots. And notice the storms just continue barreling right in here across late March. So, certainly a pattern we like to see, especially late season as far as getting some moisture across some of the terrain.

Of course, the mountains as well not only for the skiers but also for the drought situation and the fire threat across this region of the United States later on into the season. But the forecast does want to favor some of the northern fringes of the cascades.

So, Mt. Baker takes on 7 inches over the next 24 to 36 hours. The trails variable to pretty much machine groomed across Whistler at this point. But all trails are considered open at least across that area.

[03:50:04] You notice the temps do manage to make it up to around 2 degrees. But snow showers in there too. So really for some peak even up for its pass into the morning hours as well. Take a look at what's happening out towards Squaw Valley. Three inches or so came down in the past 24 hours. Trails about half of them are open. And in California, one of the areas that is going to remain predominantly dry in the next couple of days we think later in the later in the week could tap into some moisture.

The temperatures just too mild here. About 12 degrees from Squaw Valley out towards Heavenly. About 22 as you work your way towards Mt. Shasta. Rockies, a different story, significant snow in the forecast.

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FOSTER: The scene behind me here in Brussels where it's just before 9 in the morning. State media here in Brussels are currently reporting that police say two brothers, Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui of Brussels were the airport suicide bombers in Tuesday's attack.

Ten people died. Meanwhile, it was about this time 24 hours ago that the bomb ripped through a metro station not far from where I'm standing right now. That explosion killed at least 20 people.

Now, people who were inside the Brussels airport where the bombs exploded described scenes of panic and horror. The ceiling was collapsing on top of them. Dozens were injured, and they were rushing for the exits of course. And at the metro station, one emergency responder says it looked like a war zone.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were in the elevator, we're going down for taking the train, I heard an explosion. That was the first bomb. When we came out of the elevator, on that moment the second bomb exploded, and then we saw doors flying, glass, ceiling coming down and smoke and everything.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just go under the sink, and then the second explosion went and then everything is black. And I see -- when I go out, I see all, a lot of people with blood, and I just go -- I just run out of the airport.

JEF VERSELE, WITNESS: Immediately they were standing, so people were shouting and running around, and shortly after that second explosion was there, which was in my eyes much more powerful than the first one, which blew out windows and a lot of smoke, and there was some panic. People were on the floor. People were injured. It was quite a mess.

JEFFREY EDISON, WITNESS: Two to 300 people went rushing away from the security checkpoint towards the gates. Obviously no one knew what was going on. It was only 20 or 25 minutes later that we got confirmation from the federal police of the bomb explosions and the deaths in the main airport building.

VERSELE: I was close to the exit door, so then the people started to run all over and running out of the building. And I at first was trying to help a few people who were injured in the building. And by the time that the security and the army was there, they request us to leave the building.

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FOSTER: A lot of the attacks here in Brussels, famous landmarks around the world were lit up in the Belgian colors of black, yellow, and red. It was a show of solidarity.

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FOSTER: Well, people trying to come to terms with what happened here in Brussels around the world, but also here the makeshift memorial which has become the focal point for so much of the grieving.

People standing, staring and flowers and at candles. We learned this hour that two brothers carried out the suicide attack at the airport, a major landmark in a major European city and sadly a pattern forming here in Europe of attacks. Something that the security services are grappling with, and then trying to understand.

That does it for me this hour. I'm Max Foster, reporting for you from Brussels. Our special coverage of the terror attacks in the Belgian capital and the latest also on the U.S. presidential election continues after the break with John Berman and Christine Romans live in New York.

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