Transcript for ARCHIVAL VIDEO: Terror attacks strike Brussels in 2016

This country and the world now reacts to another series of deadly terror attacks. Tonight the urgent manhunt right now after the city of Brussels is swapped with multiple explosions at the airport than in the subway. Americans among the injured among those trapped and you'll hear from them tonight. Authorities now putting out this image three suspects at the airport two of them believed to be the suicide bombers the third man on the right they believe is on the run at this hour. We will analyze what else is in that photo. The first blasts at the airport afterward smoke and dust the injured crying for help. And then on the subway in the center of the city the next explosion but subway car incinerated at rush hour you can hear the cries passengers running in the dark. Tonight at least 31 killed more than 200 injured. We have team coverage here and we begin with ABC's else more court on the scene taking us through the terrifying moments and the investigation now. Tonight terror striking in the heart of Europe. Belgium's main airport a smoky war zone the city paralyzed. The attackers hit at the height of rush hour. Those three men police believe. Walking into the busy airport. Around 8 AM to blasts suicide bombers into departure hall outside the security checkpoint. If terminal filled with smoke and the sound it's me. Travelers lying on top of each other on the floor. This man holding a little girl. People huddled in fear and then the questions. What they tell us. Picked up call. Bosses and terrorists this man picked his small baby up off the floor before running to safety. The bombs so powerful it ceilings collapsed. The wounded treated amid the rubble. Airport security scanning for victims. Ordering people to evacuate they rushed out of the terminal glass crunching underfoot. Outside smoke pouring out of shattered windows as people raced away. So. A lot of people who leading. Badly injured another blowout and we know that it was doing work in fact that we could not see anything because of smoke. At least ten dead here more than 100 injured including nine Americans Mormon missionaries Richard nor beat Joseph MP and Mason wells from you talk. And an American air force lieutenant colonel traveling back home with his Stanley but the horror was still unfolding. 9/11 AM just an hour after the airport explosions seven miles away another bomb goes off near the offices of the European Union. This time in a packed metro car as it was leaving the station. In the dark tunnel passengers climbed out of cars tariff free child. The top safety downed the dimly lit tracks. This man still clutching a bouquet of flowers. In other metro cars people waited to confuse. More ironic that in some people's are running so did the circling. Some people just. Stood still in disbelief and tried to make sense of what a boom whatever was going on. The car where the bomb went off a twisted mass of metal. Outside for smoke as the sidewalk becomes a makeshift triage center first responders paring some of the victims other sitting dazed as animal. Scene and at least 21 people dead. More than 100 wounded here too and it 4:19 PM eight hours after the terror began crisis claimed responsibility. Brussels tonight. This is normally one of the busiest avenues in Brussels just outside the European Commission here you can see those blogs back there are now flying at half staff. This road should be full of cars now at rush hour instead as you can see. It's eerily empty shot down by police. The threat level here raise to the highest level police now looking for this man third suspected bomber. Police choppers in the air residents told to stay inside watching from windows as officers patrolled rooftops. Just horrific day Alex Moore worked with us now live from Brussels near the site of the metro bombing. Alex the US embassy tonight now telling Americans in Brussels to shelter in place. That's our data that warning going out this afternoon. Indicating that Belgian authorities fear what they call a serious. An imminent attack most of the public transportation system here in Brussels. Is still shut down so so much of this city tonight emotionally and physically paralyzed David and the world stands with that city tonight Alex thank you.

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