a manhunt is under way for the alleged mastermind behind the bloody rampage at a university in kenya. officials are offering as $215,000 reward for information about muhammed muhammed. thursday s attack by al shabab terrorists left 147 people dead most of them students. joining me is the chief africa correspondent for the african news channel inca. robin creel who covered thursday s terror attack. i want you to bring us the latest on the manhunt for the alleged mastermind. we understand the four attackers were killed in the siege yesterday. what do we know about this individual? well we know that he s from that area. he is from garissa town. he s well known to have led certain factions of al shabab al qaeda-linked militant group. al shabab especially in the
it. what s going on in kenya as michaela was telling you, there s still bodies on the ground it s a very fluid situation. we still don t know exactly what the numbers were involved. either for the victims or on the attackers. as soon as we get our communications up there and get better reporting, we ll be back to it. we have breaking news for you in the investigation into the crash of germanwings flight 9525. the second black box has been found. and has been downloaded and it does seem to confirm that the co-pilot purposely accelerated the plane s descent, slamming it into a mountain in the french alps. as investigators make a disturbing find as well on andreas lubitz tablet device cnn s will ripley zwroinsjoins us live from dusseldorf germany. it s intriguing understanding the planning that went into this horrible situation, will. the information on the tablet crucial for investigators. because european official is telling us it essentially proves the theory that this is pre
strategic case. and instead, he seems to be going down the path potentially of president carter where he s dependant on a congress to okay an arms control agreement which they may, there may not be any arms control agreement with iran that would be good enough for them. well if the president is dependant on congress, history of his presidency shows the prospects are not good, we ll keep a close eye on it hilary mann leverett thank you as always. in kenya, a massive search is on for a key suspect in thursday s horrifying massacre. at a university in kenya. al shabab terrorists raiding the campus targeting nonmuslims and executing them. 147 students are dead. we re told there are still bodies on the school ground. we re going to have more for you coming up on that. we have a live reporter on the ground. we ll talk to him about the scene today. we understand the university has been closed indefinitely. we ll talk to him. we re going to take a short break. this morning it s been just
taking them hostage. they started jumping up and down running foyer their lives. but it s unfortunate that where they are going to is where the gunshots were coming from. the gunmen then going dormitory to dormitory. before kenyan forces eventually corner them. the standoff lasting for hours, finally, at around 9:00 p.m. official the announced the end of the operation. garissa university college, some 90 miles west of the somali border. a region caught up in the ongoing battle with the somali-based terror group al shabab. kenya has been the primary driving force behind operations against al shabab in the region. the very same islamist extremists responsible for the 2013 westgate mall massacre in nairobi, kenya. according to reports, students had heard warning of an impending attack on their campus just this past week.
just another normal day. now michaela we re standing here just on the other side of the fence of that university which is now in lockdown. we ve seen military trucks ambulances all sorts of security forces coming by. but to be honest it really is even here a sense of detachment about the mass murder and horror that must have gone on behind those gates. here s what we know so far. this morning, it s been just over 24 hours. [ screaming ] since al shabab gunmen terrorized this university in kenya. now with at least 147 dead and nearly 600 evacuated, the community of garissa in complete agony. the mag kerr beginning just before dawn on thursday. the terrorists descending on early morning prayers, reportedly separating muslims from christians. and killing the christians or