14 people have been indicted on charges of providing money, personnel and services to the al-shabaab military group in somalia. our cnn homeland security correspondent is on this story for us. what can you tell us? they re accused of providing money, services and personnel to al-shabaab, a designated terrorist group, according to the u.s. these 12 individual, most of them came from minneapolis. there was one from california, and one who was born and raised in alabama. his name, omar hamami. he s risen to some prominence within the al-shabaab organization, even recording recruiting videotapes to try to lure other fighters to that cause. in addition, the u.s. attorney s excuse me, the
solicitation and telecom ferences in somali communities in minneapolis, rochester and other locations in the united states, as well as in canada. in some cases, these funds were raised you said the false pretense that they would be used to aid the needy and the poor. reporter: now, as part of this ongoing investigation, 19 people have been charged so far in minnesota alone. they re accused of trying to help al-shabaab, martha. martha: the one that caught my attention when i saw this coming out was omar hamami, an american-born mannow living in somalia, he was known as al enrique, there are pictures of him playing soccer as a kid i think in alabama. what are they saying about him today? they reported on him extensively but the justice department has had little to say about it. this is the first time the attorney general has publicly talked about hamami, he appeared in several al-shabaab recruiting tapes and holder
is still left. and naomi campbell, certainly no stranger to the courtroom. but this is a first, at least as far as we can tell. a supermodel on the witness stand out a war crimes trial. good morning, everyone, i m brooke baldwin in for tony harris. the story, the comments right here, right now in the cnn newsroom. highlighting the struggle for out-of-work americans they re facing in critical condition. i want to you take a look at the numbers. first time claims for unemployment jumped unexpectedly last week. economists had predicted a small drop but the labor department said 679,000 americans filed jobless claims for the week that ended july 31st. by the way, that s a jump of 19,000 from the previous weeks. folks, this is the highest level since the week that ended april 10th. and speaking of jobs where is the president today, this day after his 49th birthday? still in chicago, talking jobs. he s visit a ford plant that is adding jobs. right around 11:15 eastern, we wil
front wheel of the front bus, under there, that mangled mess is actually another vehicle. an suv is under there. again, we re told that two are dead, we don t know, yet, where those two were in which of these vehicles. whether they were in the suv. whether in fact possibly they were students that were on the bussings. either way, lives have been lost in the accident. another 50, we re told, 50 had to be treated in some way, form or fashion. we re trying to gather more information for you. the pictures are amazing, to give you a better idea of where this is, as you continue to look at the picture, this is gray summit, outside of st. louis. about 40 miles west-southwest of st. louis. these kids apparently were leaving the district and going on a trip to six flags. innocent enough, you see this happen all the time, all around the country with school districts taking these kinds of trips. we don t know how this happened. apparently all the vehicles were going in the same directio
this fox news alert. we are learning today of scathing evidence of a no confidence vote for the man in charge of protecting our borders. john morton is getting hammered by the union who represents his own front line agents in the field. a very interesting development today. that union is releasing a letter that says this, this action reflects the growing dissatisfaction and concern among ice employees and union leaders that director john morton and assistant director have abandoned the agency s core mission of enforcing united states immigration laws and that they have instead directed their attention to campaigning for programs and policies related to amnesty and the creation of a special detention system for foreign nationals. trace gallagher is in our west coast newsroom with that story for us and reaction from morton s office. reporter: i ve got to tell you the context of this is we are talking about the immigrations and customs immigration council. it s an aflcio affil