martha: we now have more details to add to the story coming out of mali. an al qaeda-affiliated group which has been active in northern africa, they are claiming responsibility for the attack in mali. the company that owns the hotel said 138 people are still being held hostage at this moment. americans were staying there. we do not know yet. we are working to clarify if they are among the hostages. the white house says the president is being briefed. armed gunmen storming that hotel and they are hold up on the 7th floor of that hotel. the 7th floor of the radisson blu in mali at this hour.
martha: terror gripping the seventh floor of a hotel in mali right now. a deadly terrorist attack is underway at a upscale hotel that often houses lots of westerners. that is clearly the case. we know at least three people are dead. that number could clearly rise. there were hundreds of people in the hotel. there are about 138, that is the best number we ve pot in terms of hostages currently being held. the group taking responsibility for this is an al qaeda-affiliated group. we re working to zero in on which group it might be. obviously a lot of islamic radical terrorist groups are active in northern africa. as we welcome you this morning to a very busy morning of america s newsroom. i m martha maccallum. gregg: i m gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer. authorities say 10 gunmen stormed that hotel this morning, yelling allahu akbar! in
with isis, boy they will have their hands full. that s definitely true and when you look at how we know about americans are going overseas to join jihadist groups in places like syria, there was a congressional terror report that i wrote about, 250 americans had gone to join jihadists in syria. dozens had come back into the united states after doing so. the ryan thank you. gregg: ryan mauro, thank you very much. with all of these attacks, jetliner, beirut bombing, paris attacks now in mali, may well as ryan pointed out trigger terrorist sympathizers to launch attacks as well, not at all affiliated with any particular group. so that is something else we have to worry about. a midwestern governor taking a very firm stand against arrival of syrian refugees in his state. we don t know who these people are. syria is a country that is not only torn asunder by war but
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