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
Shops. As the police and the army were moving through, they would either discover people or they would sense help had arrived and they would flood out oh. You would get moments of silence and moments of big streams of people they were trying to get out as quickly as possible. Everywhere we went, more people came out of the woodwork. In one sense it seemed abandoned. The music that plays in the Shopping Mall was still playing on the intercom. It was this eerie silence with music interrupted occasionally by gunfire. Terrified people were crying, screaming, running for their lives. I never thought i would encounter this kind of tragedy in a public place like this where completely innocent civilians were just gunned down and murdered. It is not like a conventional war where you would expect combatants to get hurt or expect there to be Collateral Damage in those situations. This is just a Suicide Mission and murder. Prizewinning New York Times photographer tyler hicks in his own words for u
Celebration. The champagne is flowing inside the as locker room with the players clinching the American League west title its oh so sweet. This is why we play baseball, for moments like this. And im so happy for everyone. So excited. Any time you clinch a seasons worth of games, its sometimes one game that makes a deference, but when youre able to do it at home in front of your own fans, its even better. As for the fans, their enthuse yach wiasm was off the. Its a great day to be an oakland a. A great turnout. Considering there is nfl football on, but these fans are loyal. And good for the as, they deserve it. Up with fan drove all the way from phoenix with his kids. The last time they won the world series i was 16 and my daughter is turning 16. Ticketing for the playoffs are now on sale, and theyre selling the champagne bottled used in todays celebration. As fans are sending out their celebration photos, this was taken just before the 7th inning. We want to see your pride. You can ema
Meeting we will also hear from former secretary of state Henry Kissinger on syria, and americas place in the world. Plus we will get analysis from the new managing editor of time, nancy gibbs. Time International Editor bobby born, sanger of the New York Times and our own john dickerson, we are everywhere because this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, face the nation with bob schieffer. And good morning, again, there is breaking news this morning, in Nairobi Kenya as more troops have been brought in as a hostage standoff continues with an Islamic Militant group in an upscale shopping mall, at last count 59 have been killed, 175 have been wounded, four of the wound ready americans. These images were taken by new york New York Times photographer tyler hicks. We will continue to monitor this situation and bring you more news on it as it happens. In washington, the attention is back where it has been before in recent years, another congressional sh
Early this morning black smoke pours from the Shopping Mall, the start of another day of violence. Soldiers surrounding the mall opened fire from multiple positions. Firefights so intense journalists and onlookers hundreds of yards away ducked for cover. Today, kenyas leaders claim the situation is under control. But an audio message from the militants threatened more bloodshed saying we have given orders to our fighters that they are free to kill the hostages. Claiming to be behind the attack al shabaab, a somalia based militant group linked to al qaeda. It is at war with somalias government which is backed by kenya. The onslaugt began saturday just after noon. The up scale westgate mall, crowded with families enjoying an afternoon out. These pictures show the first moments of terror. Witnesses say that heavily armed masked gunmen killed dozens of men, women and children. Bullets were over my head but god protected me. Reporter this picture purports to show two of the g gunmen. Among