in mali today. and breaking in just the last hour, the state department confirming to us that a u.s. civilian died during that motel attack. and now, an nbc news review of classified documents shows that u.s. special forces have been in mali for some time. they ve been helping with counterterrorism operations, and they helped with the hotel rescue today. the u.n. says, though, at least 23 people are dead at the scene, and that does include an american civilian. here in paris, there s a central element to the violence we saw one week ago friday. during the raids in saint-denis, bombs. the hunt is on now for whoever made the suicide vest and the belt the terrorists used. in paris, they detonated suicide bombs during each of the three coordinated attacks on friday and then earlier this week. we watched it all unfold over seven hours in the raid that killed the organizer of the attacks. another suicide vest. while investigators have not said who made the bombs, there