have two big hours coming your way. first primary in the road to the white house now underway. polls are open in new hampshire where a potential curveball from supporters of president biden loom. it s a bit of drama on that side and see how it shakes down. it s tuesday morning and good morning, everybody. bill hemmer, how are you doing? dana: great, how are you? i love the band at 5:00 a.m. and my friend, johnny, who has his roof up above there. he is loving the band. he loves it so much. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. great to be here. at this hour voters are making voices heard. former president trump is looking for a decisive blow following his win in the iowa caucuses last week. bill: standing in his way is nikki haley. she received all six votes from the small town of dicksville, notch. it votes at midnight. she is at a high school with governor sununu and they re trying to pull a big upset here today. i m not going anywhere. what i will tell you
exist and metastasize in africa and that is why we are working in international community to find back groups like this. nbc news can t verify the claim but the group has attacked werners in mali before and fought the french-backed government of mali, a former french colony. this might not have been isis but now islamic militant groups are flying the flag of global jihad. reporter: u.s. officials say the american killed worked for a nongovernmental organization. lester, a peace conference was about to begin at the hotel which is why diplomats and military personnel was in the area. that high-profile event could have been the target and would explain the timing. all right, richard. it was one week ago tonight we came on the air with news of a series of violent attacks in paris. what we didn t know is the full extent of the horror unfolding. the ring lead ser now dead and as the manhunt for others possibly involved continues there are new developments in the investigati
walked out of prison amid a heating debate over the damage he s done. nightly news begins right now. good evening. the deafening drum beat of terror struck in mali, in west africa today, and the state department has confirmed an american is is a mong the dead. 20 people were killed after a gunman burst into a hotel firing at all directions. at one point more than 100 people were held hostage, freed after a assault by government forces. it comes on the heels of several major terror attacks blames on isis, from the plane bombing in egypt to the attacks in paris. but this may bare the marks of an older foe. richard engel has the latest. reporter: just a week after paris, another terrorist attack. in mali, targeting the capital s most luxurious hotel. an al qaeda linked group, not isis, claiming responsibility. mali swat teams cautiously approach the hotel. inside, at least three gunman armed with grenades and assault rifles holding some 170 hostages, including about a doze
caught selling america s top secrets to israel. jonathan pollard walked out of prison amid a heating debate over the damage he s done. nightly news begins right now. good evening. the deafening drum beat of terror struck in mali, in west africa today, and the state department has confirmed an american is is a mong the dead. 20 people were killed after a gunman burst into a hotel firing at all directions. at one point more than 100 people were held hostage, freed after a assault by government forces. it comes on the heels of several major terror attacks blames on isis, from the plane bombing in egypt to the attacks in paris. but this may bare the marks of an older foe. richard engel has the latest. reporter: just a week after paris, another terrorist attack. in mali, targeting the capital s most luxurious hotel. an al qaeda linked group, not isis, claiming responsibility. mali swat teams cautiously approach the hotel. inside, at least three gunman armed with grenades and
confirmed an american is is a mong the dead. 20 people were killed after a gunman burst into a hotel firing at all directions. at one point more than 100 people were held hostage, freed after a assault by government forces. it comes on the heels of several major terror attacks blames on isis, from the plane bombing in egypt to the attacks in paris. but this may bare the marks of an older foe. richard engel has the latest. reporter: just a week after paris, another terrorist attack. in mali, targeting the capital s most luxurious hotel. an al qaeda linked group, not isis, claiming responsibility. mali swat teams cautiously approach the hotel. inside, at least three gunman armed with grenades and assault rifles holding some 170 hostages, including about a dozen americans. the terrorists released those who could reprove prove they were muslims. a body under a blanket shows what they did to those who can t. they killed anyone, anyone who was moving, said the hotel staff. up