reporting live from aman, jordan, thank you very much. officials say that saturday s terror attacks in mogadishu are the deadliest the country has seen in years. twin truck bombings left at least 277 people dead, hundred morse wounded. and that number is expected to rise. and no one has claimed responsibility. let s go to farai seven-zo in nairobi, kenya. the number of dead may very well rise. it s already risen in the last hour since i last spoke to you, natalie. it s gone up by one. one person has succumbed to his injuries since we last spoke. and the number of dead in mogadishu in saturday afternoon s blast is now standing at 277. obviously that number is expected to rise. remember, that junction, k-5 junction where this truck, the first truck exploded was busy. and the foreign minister told me yesterday that you cannot walk in a straight line at that time of day on a saturday. it would have been full of
off. and he should be convicted on all eight counts. now the jury has agreed. he s trying to make the argument he didn t fully arm it? i m sorry, sir. your bomb didn t go off. right. apparently the way the jury saw it, too. pete williams, thank you very much. we ll continue to follow developments there. standby. we have the latest on a deadly attack in somalia, where a pair of truck bombings killed close to 300 people. rescuers are scrambling to find survivors among the killed. a minnesota man may be one of them. you re watching velshi & ruhle live on mississipsnbmsnbc. was for langoustine ravioli. a langoustine is a tiny kind of lobster. a slight shellfish allergy rules that out, plus my wife ordered the langoustine. i will have chicken tenders and tater tots. if you re a ref, you way over-explain things. it s what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. sir, we don t have tater tots. it s what you do.
which is why i m hoping we ll get clarification today. an important point here is this is also happening just as the barack obama justice department unveiled its findings days before he left office, when loretta lynch came to chicago to give a press conference and to meet with community activists to talk about the very harsh criticisms of the chicago police department they made. they had a lot of remedies. one of the other issues, by the way, which ryan mentioned and which is sometimes written about, is that these prosecutions are lagging in court and do need to be stepped up. this is a longstanding request that chicago has had. plus there is a slew of recommendations to address longstanding issues of racial bias and police misconduct. we ll see what happens later today. ryan young, lynn sweet, thanks so much. still to come, deadly truck bombings in the somali capital
news. the united states condemning the isis attack in iraq. the associated press says 67 people were killed when a truck bomb ripped through a food market in baghdad. the group says it targeted a gathering place of shiites. following developments from is stan bull is richard angle. reporter: baghdad has seen its share of truck bombings, but this one was particularly horrific. isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. the truck was driven right into the heart of a fruit and vegetable market, blowing up civilians buying their produce for the day. a terrible death toll with estimates ranging from 60 to other 75 people killed. this is part of the isis
navigating the battlefield is going to be incredibly difficult. the battle for ramadi is going to be nothing like the battle for tikrit. this is something that has the to materialize very quickly. because isis has proven that it is capable of adapting to the dynamics on the ground. the concern is that, by trying to push towards bag chdad it wi bog down the fighting force along various front lines and potentially leave it vulnerable elsewhere. arwa damon, cnn, baghdad. the u.s. will deliver a new shipment of anti-tank weapons to iraq next month. a state department official tells reuters the shoulder fired missiles are meant to prevent bombings like isis used to capture ramadi. the unnamed source says the terror group carried out at least 30 car and truck bombings, some as big as the truck bomb that killed 168 people in oklahoma city back in 1995.