0 no feelings of remorse or sympathy or regret or anything for any of his victims. they were all soldiers of the technological society as far as he was concerned. he had a higher purpose, and they were immaterial to him. dozens killed and 200 injured. entering its third day, hostages are still held inside. >> will she or won't she? the new changing and developing response. hillary clinton giving her most revealing answer yet on whether she plans to run for president. television's best honored last night at the emmy awards. we will bring you that. >> a lot of things going on television. >> while we were sleeping. >> good morning. no dancing here as far as you know. >> not yet, any way. i'm zoraida sambolin. it's monday, september 23rd, 5:00 a.m. in the east. in kenya, situation developing by the second. security forces are still engaged with islamic terrorists after weekend attacks in a upscale shopping mall in nairobi. al shabaab has claimed responsibility and three of the attackers are set to be americans. kenya's military says there are about ten hostages still being held. most of the mall has been secured, but the standoff is not over. cnn's arwa damon will join us live from nairobi in a minute. first. al shabaab is on the attack. nic robertson has a closer look. >> reporter: inside somalia, al shabaab fighters attack kenyan troops, the al qaeda jihadists wants control of somalia. a wounded kenyan soldier is captured. he is one of 4,000 deployed to somalia in 2011. cnn cannot independently verifyive this video but one in recent years. at their peak a few years ago, they controlled parts of the capital on condition, but not any more. today a multinational african force of 15,000 soldiers controls the capital of the al shabaab when they were forced out. now they control swaths of southern somalia to the kenya border and vow attacks inside kenya. al shabaab's kenyan ally, the muslim youth have, known as myc echo shabaab's threats. >> translator: raise your swared against the enemy. >> reporter: it's not an idle threat. myc recruits young kenyans to fight for al shabaab. this mother's son radicalized in a kenyan moss. >> translator: somalia. why should he leave here and go fight in something he doesn't even understand? >> reporter: perhaps shabaab well recognized recruit is this man from alabama. known by his [ speaking in foreign language ] >> the only reason we are staying here, away from our families and away from the cities and away from ice, candy bars and all of these kind of things. >> reporter: he was kill recentlily in infighting but as al shabaab boasts, it has plenty of other american recruits. >> if this first to the path of paradise, we will look at the lives of some of the young muslim men traded for their comforts of the lives in the united states for the battle. >> reporter: like the american suicide bomber who blew himself up in an attack in magdishcuu. they say only a matter of time before we see terrorism in our streets inspired along those fighting alongside al shabaab, the attack on the nairobi mall have heightened those concerns. nic robertson, cnn, london. >> our thanks to nic. the standoff at the shopping mall in its third day, arwa damon is standing by there live. what is the latest? >> reporter: the corner there are security forces spanned out all over really trying to navigate this really delicate situation and that is getting the remaining hostages out alive. just to set the scene a bit for our viewers, this is an upscale shopping mall, it's where people go to meet and where a lot of kids this vtheir birthday parties. the day that this hostage taking took place, a cooking show, a radio cooking show was being hosted specifically for children, so the entire rooftop of the shopping mall itself was packed with kids with their families. we are hearing stories of utter heroism with people disregarding their own security to protect the children and many of them being killed in that effort. and those who survived were coming out telling so many of those in total shock over what has taken place because even though this threat existed for quite some time now, people were not expecting this type of a hostage taking, a situation they were expecting anything like that. the nation has brought it together in an unprecedented way. >> arwa, we will come back in a little bit. she is in nairobi where the standoff in its third day and appear to be other hostages still held. it could be a historic week in u.s. foreign policy. in hours, the united nations assembly will take place in new york. raised eyebrows around the world with conciliatory tweets and signals that his country is ready to negotiate over its nuclear program. the very real question will the two leaders meet face-to-face? >> reporter: perhaps the biggest question for the united nations general assembly will obama meet with rouhani? no meeting has been scheduled but jay carney, the white house spokesman said, obama has held out diplomacy. it's about trying to stop iran's nuclear program and saying they want to build a nuclear bomb. rouhani has sent friendly messages by twitter which suggest a softening in iran's hard tone in the past few years. the no recently message on sunday he said it was possible with the west and the ones preconditioned. the stage is set but it's a high stakes for president obama who a year ago rouhani's predecessor ahmadinejad was against israel and we will see if obama gets something concrete out of this or simply say iran's friendlier tone is about dating time and that time is what they need to continue on behalf of making a nuclear weapon. in a russian tv interview, lavrov says the americans are interested in improving their superiority. a senior state department official says the u.s. wants the strongest possible enforcement mechl mechanism. the assad regime took the first step over the weekend delivering an inventory. the senate after house republicans passed a bill to fund the government, but eliminate funding for the health care reform law known by everyone now as obamacare. the measure, as it stands, really has no chance of passing in the senate. congress must reach a budget deal before october 1st to avoid a shutdown. new questions raised about the independent panel chosen by president obama to investigate the nsa surveillance panel. the group is scheduled to issue its report to the white house in just a few weeks from now. president obama honoring the 12 victims of last week's massacre at the washington navy yard. the president spoke at a memorial service on sunday. he noted this was the fifth mass shooting since he was president and he expressed concern about the gun violence being seen as a new normal. >> we can't accept this. as americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work. >> the president called for tougher gun laws, saying the change the country needs will come from washington, he says it will come from the american people. it didn't turn out to be that bad weather wise over the weekend but it rained overnight on saturday. >> i didn't think it was bad at all. thank you. >> many thanks to indra petersons. bring us more good stuff here. >> you wake up and what a big difference yesterday than what we saw saturday. then there is today. our first full day of fall. we are seeing that huge change. we are talking about frost and freeze warnings, especially in the northeast as we are waking up this morning. why? because it's chilly out there. we are talking about temperatures in the 40s in many places and jascranton 49 and it will be cool throughout the afternoon. high pressure bringing in the cold air from canada. look at these temperatures. new york from 69 to 68. boston higher up you are, you are talking about cool temperatures. down to 64 today even though you thought it was nice yesterday at 73. don't worry, it feels cool and not stay that way. we are going to be rebounding and seeing the temperatures go up to 70s and even a few 80s out there a couple of days. so hang on tight. >> we are hanging on. thanks. so it is 11 minutes past the hour. on emmy night, breaking bad. guess what? it finally broke through. the acclaimed tv series winning the award for outstanding drama series after being nominated three previous times. breaking bad has its series finale next week. the show took home another top award with anna gunn winning first emmy for her role as schuyler white. here are the other awards that were issued. jeff daniels won for lead actor in a drama series for "newsroom." on the comedy side, "modern family" named best series for the fourth straight year. jim parsons won for outstanding actor and julia louie dreyfus also won. the first ever emmy for the netflix series "house of cards "owe won for best directing award for a drama series and an episode directed by david fincher. one other notable win, colbert report beating "the daily show" which dominated the best variety series competition for the past decade. >> making note of all of these shows they are talking about and i will watch many of them once my kids grow up. once i can watch tv again, i fully intend to watch some of these shows. >> have you ever watched "modern family"? 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