impacting traffic right now but just a heads up southbound 680 approaching the 242 interchange. also, we go out towards the peninsula, 101 still moving at the speed limit and it s cruising all the way down towards san jose. westbound 580 they finally picked up that roadwork through livermore. it was actually in the eastbound direction and westbound is friday light. it is lighter than normal for this time of the morning. only 14 minutes right now and no sign of any brake lights yet coming out of tracy. here s a live look closer towards the dublin interchange. headlights move westbound. bay bridge still no delay, there is no bart strike this morning. so traffic is pretty typical heading towards the pay gates. no metering lights and no big delays getting into san francisco. we ll have more kcbs traffic coming up. in the meantime, back to you guys. if there is no agreement by sunday at 12:01, that there would be a strike. it s official. bart union leaders issued a 72- hou
fans. the as could take the nl west title. champagne on ice at the colsealum and starts at coliseum and starts at 1:00. first, we start with breaking news from kenya. the barrage of gun fire heard at the shopping mall. the scene of a continuing hostage standoff this morning. the country s interior cabinet secretary said at least 59 people have been killed since the siege began yesterday. a sops mali militant group with links to al qaeda is claiming responsibility. we shall hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run to. we shall get them. and we shall punish them for this heinous crime. about 175 people are injured, including several americans. one is a uc berkeley graduate named elaine dang. this is a picture she tweeted out today. she s a general manager at a restaurant inside the mall and being treated at a hospital room for cuts and bruises. cnn is reporting 30 hostages are inside still right now and police believe there are 10 to 15 attackers. eight days and
2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today. with lester holt, and erica hill. live, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on this sunday morning. i m erica hill. i m lester holt. we have a lot to get to. we want to start with the breaking news in kenya. the siege is now in its second day. overnight the number of dead from 39 to at least 59. the militant terrorist group al shibab has claimed responsibility. we ll ask a terrorism expert how vulnerable we may be here in the u.s. because of past statements by this terrorist group. but first, the latest from ron allen who is on scene in nairobi. reporter: it was a brazen attack in broad daylight, as one of the most popular places for families to spend a saturday afternoon, the elegant westgate shopping mall, erupted into a battlefield. gunmen burst in throwing grenades, then firing a hail of bullets. hundreds of people, including many children there for a special event, hid wherever they could. s
the driver of the suv that ran over this body. in other words, they might determine that this was, as you mentioned, just a horrible accident. this happened a little bit before 8:00 this morning on byron highway. this is right in front of excelsior middle school. a mother driving a black gmc yukon had just dropped off her children who attended excelsior. he was making a right-hand turn out of the school s driveway when she ran over what she thought was a ball. she drove another 50 feet or so, pulled over to the side of the road to find out what was under her vehicle, and to her horror, she realized she had hit, run over, and dragged a 12-year-old boy who had been riding his bicycle. chp says he was pronounced dead at the scene, that he was still wearing his bicycle helmet with a sheriff s sticker affixed to the side. the driver is cooperating with investigators. the boy s parents were called out to the scene, obviously distraught. grief counselors with not only weiner unified
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie alongside tamron hall who is in for natalie this morning. we ll get to today s top story, the deadly mall attack in kenya where militants are still holding an unknown number of hostages in a two-day standoff that has already left at least 68 people dead. we go right to nbc s ron allen in nairobi with the lat est. good morning, ron. what can you tell us? good morning, savannah. we re 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