Shops. As the police and the army were moving through, they would either discover people or they would sense help had arrived and they would flood out oh. You would get moments of silence and moments of big streams of people they were trying to get out as quickly as possible. Everywhere we went, more people came out of the woodwork. In one sense it seemed abandoned. The music that plays in the Shopping Mall was still playing on the intercom. It was this eerie silence with music interrupted occasionally by gunfire. Terrified people were crying, screaming, running for their lives. I never thought i would encounter this kind of tragedy in a public place like this where completely innocent civilians were just gunned down and murdered. It is not like a conventional war where you would expect combatants to get hurt or expect there to be Collateral Damage in those situations. This is just a Suicide Mission and murder. Prizewinning New York Times photographer tyler hicks in his own words for u
Ron, so tough to see the pictures, especially of the children, ron allen, starting our broadcast off tonight. And one person was inside the mall, meeting a friend for lunch when the attack began. She is now back home safely in this country, and described to nbc tom costello about her harrowing ordeal, and how she lived to tell about it. Nice to see it. You survived. How do you feel . At Dulles Airport this afternoon, this american was finally back home. Its okay, its okay. Its okay. Reporter a harvardtrained lawyer with the world bank, bendita was in kenya having lunch with a friend when terrorists ran in. And then all of a sudden there was this explosion, and everybody like hits the floor. And we hear machine guns. And it was maybe ten seconds later, still trying to crawl out. It was a second explosion. But when they first came in, they were just shooting. I mean, they were not asking any questions, they were just shooting. Reporter crawling away from the gunfire, bendita and her frie
What do they all have in common in acts of terror . Its their radical islam. Congrats, monsters. You own the title. What if that mall attack happened here in the United States . It would be on. But few freak out now because its only africa. Poor kenya. One of the few african nations that works and in a running battle with muslim nuts. They have enough problems. Islamists in north africa had slave trade raiding nonislamic villages or women and kids and selling them in sudan. Religion of peace . My ass. Like bob said. The first thing is admit theres a problem. The administration wont. Meanwhile, yesterday, a white house roundtable discussion held in honor of bisexual visibility day. Theres a problem the Obama Administration tackles. A lack of bisexual visibility. Why close doors . Kind of hampers the visibility thing. The one visibility problem we dont have, sadly, is with terror. We see it. Obama sees it. He just wont speak its name. Reading that i got a little stuck on a few words ther
Nine other parents. Overseas tonight in syria, after the president pulled u. S. Troops from a key part of syria, Vladimir Putin and turkeys president erdogan meeting today. And what theyve now decided to do. The case that caused outrage here ahome. The officer who handcuffed a father, detaining the mother, too, after their 4yearold was accused of taking a doll at a store. Whats happened now. News coming in tonight on that west point cadet. They are concerned and asking for the publics help tonight. And diane sawyer with Michael Douglas and his son, cameron. Tonight, Michael Douglas describing to diane the emotion am breaking point with his struggling son. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a very busy tuesday night. And we begin with what the democrats tonight are calling the most damaging testimony yet in the impeachment inquiry. Some republicans concerned tonight, too. What the top u. S. Diplomat to ukraine said today about President Trump and about that money wit