Hotel in sevare and parts of the cocotry were occupiedy islamist f fhters linked to al qaeda. France has 1,000 peacekeeping troops even though they recently took over security operations. Again, special forces now surround that hotel. Possibly going in, trying to end this siege. Robin and george. Very fluid situation, martha, thanks. We have on the phone right now Olivia Salgado fromm the u. N. We know thehe took 170 hostage and 20 released including three u. N. Personnel . Yeah, thats correct. Ththree u. N. Personnel were extracted this morning. So, w what we we know about why the hostages were released . There werenconfirmed reports thathe gunmen were actually going and asking people to recite pieces o of the koran . Thats an information i don have right now. What i know is that three people from the hotel with ak47 around 7 00 a. M. Thi morning and, of course, immediately the Security Forces from mali were deployed araround the years and two years that the u. N. Is supporting mali as y know and, of course, we sent immediaialyn the site Quick Reaction force plus ambulances and many other means in case of emergency. This is where we are, but thats an ongoing situation as we speak. So you have the u. N. Peacekeeping forces joining the mali military . Yes, we are coordinating our efforts as we do, its been two years that we aree doing that and, of course, this morning we are have been on the ground. We j just got some imamas owing the militaryppearing do you have anything more on that, whether those forces have, indeed, gone into the hotel to go after the gunmen . Yes, that but its happening as we speak, so i dont have many more details. What i know is that around 20 and more were freed, so and maybe the situatiti is currely over. I need to check that and its an evolving situation. So, to be clear, we started out with 0 guestss in the hotel, 30 employees of the hotel. Thats 170 hostages in total but you believe 20 were released including 3 u. N. Personnel and that some sort of military operation is going on right now . Thats correct and you have to bear i mind that its a very Popular Hotel in bamako and many westerners are going over there. Mr. Salgado, thanks for your time. We want to go to a freelance journalist outsidebamako. What are you seeing katarina right now . Reporter they have been closed off byrmyy andpolice. Several vehicles and armed ldiers are on the ground. About an hour ago we heard hostages have been released. Around 10 or 15 managed to leave the hotels we heard 50 or 80 and among wereoreign guests. Hotel popular with westerners and also with many agencies working here, among the u. N. Peacekeeping mission who have ayed at the Hotel Regularly . Katarina, could you see the reporter we are too far we have not actuallyy been able to see any military going inside. They are there have been several cars driving back and forth on the street leading up to the hotel obviously a couple of ambulances leaving the hotel and the people, wenow theyre at least three People Killed and a couple injured among them, a Security Guard that was at the hotel when it was attacked this morning. Katarina, thank you very much. Please stay safe. Well bring in, george, abc news chief investigative correspondent brian ross and there are groups in this country tied to isis. Absoluly. One declared allegiance to isis this may and another ties to al qaeda. No claims of r rponsibility but, of course, either group has a and in france. Brian wl ce back in just a minute. The hotel siege is the fourth major terror attack in just t past three weeksks a started with that russian jet bombing on halloween followed by twin the paris attack, of course, last week. One week ago today. Abcs matt gutman is on the ene of that raid outside paris for us. Good morning, matt. Reporter good d morning, bin. Were learning just now a third body was found inside that building. Now, police are still going through it. You can see that White Forensics tent down the street and police said they put so much firepower into the building the only way to identify the suspeed assailants inside is from dna. This morning, investigators scrambling to identify tt unknown body. Apparently killed i wednesdays massive siege here. Gunfe blasting for hours and debris spewing out of that apartment building. Aseuropes first female suicide bomber detonated herdevice. Overnight, abc news obtaining this exclusive videoeo of 27yearold Hasna Aitboulahcens mother and brother being loaded into a police cruiser. Alleged mastermind of the paris attacks, abdelhamid abaaoud. D. Cordoninin off t t suburbb over 800 antiterror forces firing 5,000 bullets. Abaaoud kill in that shootout but not beforore planning the paris attacks including the shoong of this restaurant. Reants of that nightmare frozen in time. Glasses still filled with drinks Leftover Pizza on plates. Table answer chairs turned upside down. This video s sws this man, ralph, dashed throuou the door and hurd himself on the floor. At first he thought he was caught in a gang war. You basically bumumpeped t door and dove. Was he till firing at you . Yes, he was firing at me. Did you hear the bullets coming past . I heard the bullets and i hear the i saw i just saw that other things. Reporter his friend was protected by that bartender. The shooter seen in that video believed to be salah abdeslam, the attacker that autrities across europe are still searching for this morning. Now, salah abdeslam, a french national, is still the only attacker from friday night who has not been accounted for and police certainly hope that his is the body still in that building. Robin. All right, thank you. We have ban ross here again and learng more about this female suicide many boer, the first in rope. A terrrr threat unlike any before. Its the ultimate stealth weapon for isis. Her friendsay 26yearold Hasna Aitboulahcen led a life of drug, alcohol and sex. Until she found religion and then isis. This week she was caughtp in the police raid that would kill the mastermind of the paris attacks, her cousin. Where is your boyfriend . Hes not my boyfriend. Where is he . Es not my boriend. Reporter and then the blast. As she detonated what Authorities Say was a suicide vest. The fact that isis now has the first woman suicide bomber in euros history tells us that isis is willing to break any norm of war, any threshold of war in order to kill. Reporter the isis bomber comes from a town outside of paris where her mother and a brother we takennto c ctody by polole thursday. Befo boming devout she was known for wearing a big straw cowboy hat with lots of men and drugs in her life a common pattern according to experts. Theyy live this very lie sen shouse lifestyle and when they becocome a jihadi they completely reinvent themselves. Reporter they first emerged 30 years ago in lebanon and have sisie been used by a numbe of terror groups including the russians for series of deadly attacks. See more female suicide bombers from isis, a female suicide bomber i like a Health Precision weapon. A and this is a major change in strategy. W does isi justify it . They didnt allow it before . In the last few weeks they posted on internal chat rooms a justification for women. Theyre still not allowed to go to battle or be martyrs but if your family is threatened you may use a suicide vest. Is there a tactical reason for using them. They often dont fit the ofile and are often told to wear skimpy clothing and hav brassiere bombsnd prosthesis to look pregnant where they pack bombs in them. Isis releasing its third video since the attacks, this one threaning to turnn the white house blank with fire and the fbi director and attorney general holding a rare briefing on it. Pierre was there. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, robin. Attorney general lynch called this a challenging moment. The fbi director said there are more than900error inveigations under way with a small group thats getting an intense amount of attention. The fbis identified dozens of suspted islamic radicals believed too be at highisk of trying to conduct copycatt attacksike those in france. Those suspects have been radicalized through a a ongoing isis social Media Campaign which reaches 0 out to them every day. Fbi director james comey described the threat this way. The threat here focuses primarily onroled souls in america who are being inspired or enabled online to do something violent for isil. Together we are watching people of concern. We will keep watching them, and if we see something well work to disrupt it. Reporter robin and george theres a specific number of people, several dozen getting 24oururveillance covered as the fbi director said like a blanket. Well, pierre, those isis videos targeting new york and officials saying about these particular threats . S . Reporter robin, top Law Enforcement officialsay theyveontinued to identify no credit kabul threats tied to those video and say theyre engaging in a proroganda war to createear in the wake of the paris attacks. The fbi director and a. G. Are aware of the current threats and the Holiday Season and unusual meeting trying to help americans understand the nature of the threat and reassure the count at the same time. The director said he did not want americans to have disabling fears but turn their concerns into healthy awareness. We have to keep that in mind with the holidays. Theres a big question about whether sian refugees add to that threat and now the big defefe for presidede obama in order to keep the border open for syrian refugees. They want to pass a bill to suspend the progr until a. Tougher screening process is put in place and there were enough to override thehe president s promised veto. Good morning, jon. Reporter this was a major review for the president after days of making the case for his plan to bring in for syrian refugees, democrats a republicans in the house voted to put the program on hold. Ininhe end, it wasnt even close. T yeas are 28 and nayr is 37. The bill is passed. Reporteter it s ss no syrian or iraqi refugee can come into the United States until certify that he o or she is not a threat. 47 democrats joined repubublicans in voting yes. More than enough to overridede a president ial veto. This is urgent. We cannot and shouldd not w wt to act. Not when our National Security is at stake. Reporter secretary of state johnerry said there is n reason to fear syrn refugees. Its inappropriate for america of all countries in the world to panic and to somehow turn o our backs on our it will values. Reporter take a look at what voters say is their top issue for the 2016 campaign. More name isis thanny othth isise by far anderrorism is tied for second. Stokinmore fear, news that two syrian families including four Young Children showewed up at a u. S. Border crorossing in texas seekingasylum. That prompted this from donald trump via instagram. Theyre going to be pouring in. We dont know who they are. Could be isis. Reporter fellow republican fronrunner ben carson compared screening refugees to protecting children from rabid dogs. If theres a aabid dog running around your neighborhood, you probably are not going to assume something good about that dog. And youre probably going to put your children out of the way. Doesnt mean thaw hate all dogs by any stretch of the accused republicans of violatingeing funnial american values. Slamminin the door on them is not who wewe are. Reporter donald trump has gone so far as to propose creating a National Database of muslims in the United States. But, george and robin,he president has a lot of work here to convince the American People in a recent poll only 28 favored Going Forward with the Refugee Program as he h has outlined it. And youve got 31 states now saying they wont welcome the refugees. This is going to be a tough fight. Thank you very much. Going to remain a hot debate. A major winr storm threening to make a mess of early thasgiving travel. Seconds. Were back at 7 18 with millions of americans on alert for the first winter storm of the season. Just as so many of us begin to fly and hit the road for thanksgiving, ginger, you have more. Hit the road and the road looks like this in st. Cloud, minnesota. 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Heres the stormcast hd now where low pressure will move through central nebraska and impact the area with heavy snow primarily late this morning into the early afternoon. Tonight, the snow will taper off and well have gradually clearing skies. Expect a cold weekend with high temperatures getting into the 20s on saturday. Sunday, well tap into a more southerly flow and well expect a warming trend to occur into next week. Todays high is 34 with periods of heavy snowfall. Tonights low is 12 with clearing skies and snow tapering off. The high tomorrow is 26 with we welcome you back to gma andourre looking at the military storming that hotel in the west african nation ofmali. Looking to bring an end to the sie there. Heavily armed terrorists taking 170 people hostage. Many of the hostages have now been freed. Were learning. Details coming in as we come on the air. Also this morning authorities in france have now recoverered a third body from the rubble of that massive raid right outside paris a new video shows the moment the first female suicide bomber in europe sets off her vest as the police move in. The middle of the country bracing for its first maj winter storm of the season. Millions in its path. Up to a foot ofnow expectedn some areas and sole of us begin to travelor thanksgiving. A l out there. Im looking forward to thanksgivinghis year. I i cant wait. I cant wait. You got kind of big story about the packers losing streak. Someone blamed the quarterbacacks quarterback for it and t. J. Will have more. 53 men on the packers roster, 23 men on the Coaching Staff and someone blames a wom for the packers trouble. Give me a breaea olivia munn, youll hear her response coming up in the speed feed. Havent we heard this before . No, no, no. Well get into that but over to robin. All right,t, lara, thank you. We beg with donald trumpnd his five melania. In herfirst sitdn interview with her husband since he decided to run, our cameras going inside their palatial manhattan home as the two open up about everything from their maiage to the campaign trail and private conversations and Barbara Walters has a preview of her exclusive with the trumps airing on 20 20. Good morning.