Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside tamron hall who is in for natalie this morning. Well get to todays top story, the deadly mall attack in kenya where militants are Still Holding an unknown number of hostages in a twoday standoff that has already left at least 68 people dead. We go right to nbcs ron allen in nairobi with the lat est. Good morning, ron. What can you tell us . Good morning, savannah. Were behind security from the mall where you can see smoke billowing out of the building. The morning began with five or six loud explosions and sustained gun fire that went on for some time, and also firefight firefights spilling out outside of the mall, and you can see the kenyan soldiers firing at places around the mall. Unknown at this point is the fate of the hostages and the gunmen inside. And we believe
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this saturday. Im lester holt. And im erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dillon drier. Calling the threat that prompted it real and serious says the u. S. Cannot let its guard down. U. S. Embassies around the globe are preparing to shut down tomorrow and possibly for even longer as the latest threat is investigated. Kristen welker is live at the white house with the latest for us. Good morning. Erica, good morning to you. U. S. Officials say the Embassy Closures the travel alert really coming out of an abundance of caution. But lawmakers who have been briefed on the situation say this is really the most serious threat they have seen in years. So heres what we know. 22 embassies will be closed down in 17 countries. Mostly in the middle east and north africa. Now, officials wont go into a whole lot of detail about the nature of the
Power just enough that the Syrian Rebels will be able to finish the mission and actually drive him from power. And in order to do that, the leader of the Free Syrian Army told us in conjunction with a western military action that the rebels will launch their own offensive. They have already begun to stockpile ammunition, some new ammunition has been arriving. They have confirmed to us the question now is what will that leave the United States and what will it leave syria, if Bashar Al Assad is toppled. There are many different rebel factions who are operating in syria, only a few of them are friendly to the United States. Richard engel, nbc news, in southern turkey. U. N. Inspectors left their hotel today, headed to an unknown destination. We should note the u. S. Stocks sold off big time yesterday. You see what happened there. Dow was off over 1 . In asia overnight, take a look at what happened on this news. We have red arrows across the board, the hang seng off 1. 5 . And the nikkei
Facing opposition from both sides of the aisle, Larry Summers pulling out of the race for fed chairman. The onetime Clinton Administration secretary called the president to notify him. In a letter following the call, he wrote, i have reluctantly concluded that any possible confirmation for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the federal reserve, the administration or ultimately the interests of the nations john gog economic recovery. Janet yellen seen as a leading candidate, seen by the markets as less likely to scale back the Stimulus Program as aggressively as summers would have had he become fed chairman. Is this all about summers or Something Else . Summers is a patriot. He knew this was going to tear the country up. I know he wanted the jobs. It is kind of a big thing for him to do. He did not press it. I dont know why the president would pick yellen, because she is everything he doesnt seem to want. Total dark horse, probably doesnt get it. Stanley fisher,
CISA's directive comes after Russian hackers broke into Microsoft's corporate email accounts and stole messages with customers, including federal agencies.