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
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it doesn t sound how did it support itself? most of those newspapers were created by people who were really in another trade. that is they were, printers. and in order to keep their print shop busy in order to bring their customers into the shop to pick up the papers, so they could sell them some stationary on the side or sell them a book while they were there. they hit upon the idea of a newspaper as the perfect device, expires every week, and later every day once the pace picked up. and so most of those first enterprises were a sideline of someone what we would think of as a job printer. someone who was open to printing all kinds of stuff from anybody who had business. and then it s really in around that revolutionary period certainly the early federal period where you see that sideline disappears and the newspaper itself becomes the real focus. the first daily paper in the country is founded in 1783, and once the city s get to be a certain density. there s enough co