actually joined americans to join in their cause. there are reports americans were involved in this. keep an ear to see what peter king says about this. the smoke coming up behind that building. you just heard reporters say it s a four-story building. it s extensive. it s large. to get this area contained is not an easy thing. it s day three and as he suggested it could move towards day four tomorrow. a countdown to a very different deadline at home. a showdown not every republic can in the senate has jumped on depending the band wagon yet. we ll talk about that. martha: look at incredible pick usin dr incredible picturee
anti-terrorism efforts and part after peacekeeping force from somalia from the african union. this is a way obviously to get act at them, pure terror, pure and simple. and they won t succeed. reporter: this attack is outside the normal scope of operations by the al qaeda affiliate al-shabaab which claimed responsibility for the attack though it has not been independently confirmed. this group al-shabaab is more known for suicide bombings at the border of somalia. martha. martha: the questions who is involved and where do attackers come from and potentially from the united states. reporter: federal law enforcement sources that the fbi and intelligence community are aggressive drilling down on alleged shabaab members and whether they are american citizens this includes a scrubbing of travel records. the group released on the twitter page a list of alleged attackers. half came from western countries including the u.s., canada and
meager recovery for the last five years. we tried stimulus. it has not worked. the when president obama was a senator in 2006 he railed against george bush raising the debt ceiling to $9 trillion. today he wants to raise it to over $16.7 trillion. that s adding 60% to our date since he was president. he has had a total change of mind because he realizeds it s hard he realized it s hard to make these decisions and he punts them constantly. martha: we all remember the brand bargaining which came down to a conversation between john boehner and president obama in which ithey were going to reach some sort of deal and it ended up falling apart at
foundation and steven yates is former deputy assistant for vice president of national security affairs and ceo of national security visor. both have a lot of background in terrorism and concerns we now have here at home. gentlemen, we have never seen video like the video we ve seen coming out of this shooting. we covered all the school shootings. we covered the washington naval yard. the sense of panic as they re darting behind supermarket shelves here. they have no idea where gunfire is coming from. they don t know if they re safe to hunger down or try to make a run for it. it is truly chilling. this is western environment we re looking at here. no reason why this couldn t happen here at home, peter brookes. absolutely, martha, and we need to be very concerned about that. complacency is a killer. the al qaeda threat still exists. this group al-shabaab recruited here in the united states. there may be americans among the militants we re seeing in this.
[gunfire] martha: see the person with the cell phone runs in to barricade themselves inside that store. people calling out for people shopping with, figuring out where they were. at least 68 people were killed in this. ones more hurt and unknown number of people are still being held hostage at this hour and that s where we start this morning. i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. smoke continues to pour out of the shopping center, a place where kenyans, werners, tourists they all shop there. as the military conduct as raid the operation continues. we talked to a reporter on the ground in nairobi last hour. people inside were asked questions before the attack happened. we understand that the gunmen were demanding that people reveal information about whether or not they are muslim and if they said they were muslim, they