slowly meander its way across the southeastern tier of the u.s. here is a look at the system in question. you can already see a lot of that moisture bringing some pretty heavy thunderstorms to portions of northern texas, areas of oklahoma now starting to see some of that rain move into portions of arkansas as well as louisiana. you still have some rain in arizona and new mexico as well. but a lot of that is really going to begin to shift off to the east in the coming days. we do still have flood watches in effect for new mexico and texas and oklahoma and some into louisiana and southern arkansas as well. you also have some of that tropical moisture still surging from that potential tropical cyclone we had yesterday. it moved inland, but it is still pushing, that flow is still pushing the moisture from the gulf into the southeastern region. as that stationary front gradually starts to shift off to the east, you re going to see the water go with it. here is a look at where we f
threat of this terrorist group is still looming large in the country and in the region. amara, boris? and, larry, you noted al shabaab one of, if not the biggest, al qaeda subsidiaries. what is it exactly that they were hoping to accomplish through this attack? reporter: they are hoping to send a message to the new administration there that promised to try to neutralize them, but, too, they want to make sure they re sending a message to the wider world, the u.s. troops fighting there, they remain potent. even though they have been kicked out of the somali capital mogadishu for more than a decade, they control large parts of central and southern somalia and they continue to even expand the territory that they have been carrying on attacks on the somalia border. so this is truly another strong message from this group that they re not quite done yet, don t count them out, and warning to the administration in somalia that they will kind of fight back if they re attacked. the big al sha