And we start tonight with breaking news reports are coming in of a navy seal operation in somalia, citing officials saying that the raid targeted a Senior Leader of alshabab the group behind the killing of more than 60 people in a mall in kenya. The raid happened this morning on the somali coast, south of mogadishu. There are conflicting reports of whether the target of the attack was killed or captured. Jim walsh joins us from boston, a researcher at the mit securities studys program. What do you make of the attack . Its a little surprising. Obviously an attack aimed at foreigners took place at that mall in kenya and so this is an opportunity for the u. S. Or others to, first, try to degrade the capability of alshabab, and, second, to send a message that if you carry out attacks therell be a price to pay. Im surprised because they went into a terror stronghold, they took a lot of fire and put themselves at risk. They didnt use a drone. So this was a major operation for the u. S. I wan
Captions paid for by Nbcuniversal Television and welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im cain for lester holt. Just when you thought it was safe to go out, another storm is hitting the east coast. There wont be as bad as the storm that spun off tornadoes and dumped heavy snow across the northeast and the east this week. It could certainly impact holiday travel. Well have the latest coming up in a moment. Also ahead, in the wake of the Sandy Hook School tragedy, a new plan from the controversial sheriff in arizona. He wants armed volunteers to patrol the schools there. Well get into that debate. Then, well share with you a romance story 20 years in the making. It began with a simple love letter in Elementary School. Plus, did you get the gift for the holidays that, well, just wasnt you . A Record Number of returns are expected this year. But did you ever wonder what happens next . Well take you inside a warehouse where many of these items go and actually wind up get
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With the Winter Weather. A snowy day is on tap for us. Lets get right to lou mowser to tell us all about it. Some folks were expecting to see some snow when they woke up this morning. We were expecting it. Some areas are seeing flurries right now. Most are not. I think this is going to start a little bit later on them than what we anticipated. Starting to show up on radar. Lets show hd doppler right now. Currently, the areas that you see in darker blue, thats where snow is falling. But, the whiter areas thats snow is coming down, but its not hitting the ground. When you can see areas south of the dc area around annapolis. Were seeing a rain snow mix that is starting to fall there. Whats interesting is you see this area, this open area start to hagers town and comes down around winchester. That area is moving in here and will actually pass by our area in the next several hours. So im thinking that were really not gonna start to see any of the hard stuff for probably the next several hou