the emmy goes to modern family. inside the surprise wins. the sizzling moments. take your pants off. and twerk it. and red-hot red carpet style. the emmys afterparty starts right here, right now on good morning, america. and good morning, america. what a night it was in the emmys. we ll get to that. but right now for how viewers in the west. we have brand-new pictures coming in right now. almost all of the hostages, from the scenes of the mal. massive plumes of smoke coming out of that mall in nairobi. the death toll at 62. 175 injured. we know americans were among the injured. big questions whether americans were involved as terrorists. look at this photo. a chilling photo of a little girl running across the mall. linsey davis is on the scene right now. reporter: good morning, george. minutes ago for a period of several minute, more rapid gunfire. meanwhile smoke continued for hours. smoke so thick you can smell it through the air. there s some report
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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
and honoring the best of the small screen on television s biggest night. we ll have the winners at last night s emmy awards. the emmy awards are three hours long now there are three minutes fewer to go captioning funded by cbs s morning news formond, september 23 this is the cbs morning news for monday, september 23rd, 2013. good morning. thank you for joining us. i m susan mcginnis. a gunfight continues in kenya where al qaeda-linked gunmen have killed 68 people. more than 175 others were injured. it launched a major assault against the militants who attacked the upscale nairobi mall saturday afternoon. they rescued most of the hostages. ko im is in washington. ko, good morning. good morning, susan. they say the remaining hostages will be killed. they say this is payback for when kenyan forces entered somalia back in 2011. gunfire could be heard coming from the westgate mall in nairobi, kenya, earlier this morning. a al shah bob has claimed responsibility for t
learn more. caltrain service is being restored on the peninsula. trains were stopped last night after a gas line break in san bruno. construction workers cut the 2 line near san bruno avenue about 8:20 last night. it took several hours to stop the flow. san bruno avenue was closed at the time of the accident for construction work. work will continue at the scene all day today but it should not be a problem for commuters. the neighborhood was definitely nervous though. last night s leak was about 4 miles away from the san bruno gas line explosion that killed 8 people three months ago three years ago this month. the 9ers are coming off a 27-7 loss to the colts yesterday. now they are losing one of their superstars for the foreseeable future. kpix 5 reporter christin ayers reports aldon smith is headed to rehab. i want to apologize, you know, to the team, the organization, my family. reporter: two days after he wrecked his truck in san jose, superstar linebacker ald