mogadis mogadishu. civilians and soldiers are dead. al shabaab has claimed responsibility. in the u.s. state of hawaii, crews have resumed operations in the coming hours after a helicopter crashed there on thursday. seven people were on board the helicopter. the remains of six have been recovered. authorities believe that weather may have been a factor in the t friday s rocket attack on a military base in iraq. and others believed to be carried out by iranian-backed militias. an american civilian contractor was killed in an attack in kirkuk. several u.s. troops and at least one iraqi security official were wounded. the u.s. president acted on twitter spending most of his holiday brooding about being the third ever u.s. president impeached. most of the focus was on house speaker nancy pelosi. he s especially aggravated that she s played sending the articles of impeachment to the
suicide bomb car attack in the city of mogadishu has left at least 65 people dead. let s go to kenya, our farai sevenzo has the story. farai, what more are you tell us? reporter: good morning, morning. with the attack and responsibility has happened again. it s just a government spokesman told cnn that the death toll is now 65. of course, we expect that to fluctuate over the hour. what we know, the search for a suicide car bomber, a well-known somalia s mogadishu. i m afraid we may have to step of out of farai sevenzo s phone interview with us. again, he s on the ground there in neighboring kenya, telling us again that the death toll, now at least 65 dead. we also understand a claim of
classical sense, biblical sense, almost, and the economic populism that is now so generalized in the country. 75% of the somali youth at least do not have jobs. mogadis mogadishu, the capital city, 50% of its population are internally displaced people. the largest refugee camp in the world is in kenya populated by somalis. 650,000 of them. this gives you an insight into into the country s economic vulnerability. then there s the decay of politics and the somali political leader has become predatory and they cannot, cannot end the difference, really get the country out of this mess. so the state is almost nothing, really. let me add one more point. than the cultural component, the dehydration which has taken place, when you add the cultural, economic, and political problems, then it opens up for an ability of the somali people, including invasion from forces outside.
inside a hospital in somalia to remind us that they aren t statistics, they are people in pain. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . after weeks of blatant political flirting, the texas governor rick perry is now ready to commit. cnn has learned he will major a formal campaign announce mementd our new poll, jim, shows he will be very competitive. that s right. he comes in the top tier, wolf, you re right, rick perry, according to a source close to the governor has told cnn that the texas governor will be announcing he s running for president on saturday. he will be doing this, not in iowa where most of the republican kaechbts are right now. he will be at a red state.com, conservative blog conference that s occurring in charleston, south carolina. now we understand that the texas governor is going to put aside any doubts. he is running for president. you mentioned that cnn poll, wolf he is as close as the republican parties gets to an un-romney. rudy giuliani, w