good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. this is "newsnation." we begin with developing news. we're awaiting word from the pentagon on whether a u.s. air strike overnight succeeded in taking out this man. he's the top leader of al shabaab. dangerous al qaeda-linked group in libya. it's the game group that claimed responsibility for an attack on a shopping mall in kenya. joining me now with the latest on is chief pentagon correspondent jim. the timing here. why the strike on this individual now. >> well, tamron. it's often, as you know a target of opportunity. the opportunity presented itself. we were told there has been long-term surveillance over the leader of the terrorist group in somalia al shabaab. as you said responsible, accused at least, of being responsible

for the deadly terrorist attack on the shopping mall in nairobi, kenya a couple of years ago. here is the issue here. u.s. military and defense officials tell us they have a high degree of confidence that it was the leader who got into one of two suvs who was struck by hell fire missiles fired by a drone. both vehicles were disastered. the problem now is even though they had confidence he was in the vehicle, they don't have the concrete evidence to say yes he was killed. they say that might take two or three more days to eventually figure out could involve dna collected from the scene not by u.s. military, we're told, but perhaps by somali authorities. in any event, nobody here at the pentagon, nobody in dod or the white house, as we understand it, is willing yet to confirm that he was killed in this air strike. >> mick, we often hear

especially with social media and twitter the internet traffic that following after something of this kind. any indication on what happened from what authorities are officials at the pentagon say they're saying online? >> no. this is usual. normally after such an incident. if the al qaeda-lichked leader is killed, al qaeda itself will get up on the internet and declare the death of this individual as their brother martyr. it's a recruiting tool for the organizations. these terrorist organizations. in this case there's been no chatter to that end. but no chatter on the other side either. saying despite what you're hearing he's alive. this is one of the issues that has officials here at the pentagon somewhat perplexed and cautious about declaring him dead. >> mick, thank you very much for the details. and the air strikes in somali have become mounting pressure to take military action against

isis in syria. now in a few hours, the president heads to europe for key nato meetings on the isis threat as well as russia's growing military presence in the ukraine. that nato summit will take place in whales where isis fears lead the british government to raise its terror threat level. yesterday prime minister david cameron proposed tough new anti-terror measures for the u.k. >> passports are not an automatic right. we'll introduce specific and targeted legislation to fill this gap by providing the police with a power to seize a passport at the border that is abhorrent to the people that declare their allegiance elsewhere are able to return to the u.k. and pose a threat to national security. isis released a new propaganda control. peter alexander joining me live. the president and world leaders have made it clear on the type

of threat that isis poses to everyone. to be honest, but are we expecting a united front to come out of this nato summit? >> i think that's certainly the intention of president obama and members of his cabinet. he'll be joined on the trip to the nato summit by his secretary of defense chuck hagel as well as his secretary of state john kerry. what was underscored in the comments yesterday by the british prime minister david cameron. it's not just a u.s. issue. it's not just a threat to the united states but also a threat to many european nations among them the u.k., germany, and france where the numbers are far greater. the estimates, in terms of how many members citizens of those countries are believed to have joined isis or other extremist military groups. the president is hopeful that the other countries will help join him. 67 country and all that will be in attendance there will join him in whatever efforts and strategies are formed going forward. beyond that it needs to be formed through regional

cooperation as well. this administration has been actively involved in conversations with countries like the uae, saudi arabia, qatar as well recognizing it's not something that the western world, so to speak, can handle independently. be we might see a united message front when it comes to isis. we know the complexity when we look at the crisis in ukraine and what to do about russia. >> and that's exactly right. earlier today, actually, on the network, tamron, we heard from the former u.s. ambassador to russia mcfall who said the nato summit may be one of the most significant nato summits not just in years but decades given the magnitude of issues they're dealing now. when it relates to the issue of russia and some described it an invasion into ukraine. senior administration officials said the first stop to take place in estonia. the.heading there first when he leaves the white house late this afternoon was to send a clear

message to russia if they have any intentions to, in the words of the senior administration official to mess around in es ton estonia the same way they messed around in ukraine. they need to be aware. they want to put the russians on alert. they're watching them. the real question what the u.s. is willing to do going forward. it's likely that one of the heavy topics. does it mean more sanctions? what else does it mean the u.s. is willing to do? >> all right. live for us at the white house. thank you, peter. let me bring in colonel jack jacobs and senior former fellow at the brookings. michael, the president has to decide what the u.s. is going to do. he was referring to russia and the ongoing situation in ukraine. but, michael, i believe the same question can be posed when you're discussioning syria and

even know these new air strikes against al shabaab. i want to start with sir why here. as we've learned new information just today. >> because i have a conflicting set of messages. on the wund hand the president acknowledged a few days ago he had no strategy on syria. i appreciated his candor. i think the other way to look at is the previous policy of keeping his hands off and hoping the opposition would win on its own has failed. he needs a new strategy. he began to put together pieces of that new strategy for syria in june when he asked congress for a half billion dollars to help arm and train the syrian opposition. but that he seemed to throw doubt on that strategy a couple of weeks later when he got a little bit defensive and said said anybody who thinks you can carve a reasonable opposition out these different syrian groups was naive. i don't know where the president wants to direct his policy in regard to syria. i think he's been confusing on this issue it's not the first

time he's going to have to think it through. i think the iraq piece is looking a little better but the syria piece, i find very confusing. >> michael, regarding the comment from the president about the no strategy. i believe, i think you know it as well, the white house said the president -- if you look at the transcript, was referring to congress who appears to be presenting a confusing message as they are on their recess. and not urgently rushing back to washington to propose a strategy there. >> right. on this kind of an issue, congress does need to be helpful. the congress' role is important but secondary. congress cannot, as a group of 535 people, come up with a single unified policy. it can critique or fund or deny funding for an administration policy. >> which is critical. the funding is critical. colonel, let me bring you in

regarding the new air strikes in somalia news we woke up to this morning. so much attention with the last several weeks on isis, its leadership, and the threat that isis poses to the world. you and i have talked a lot about al shabaab and the danger that is coming from north africa. from somalia as well. here it is the front page news today. >> yeah. our problem is that the terrorist threat is really fragmented. there's iraq and syria and al shabaab. and a number of other problems inside africa. you know, i went to ja booty. we had about 400 marines sitting there. now we have americans in a wide variety of places in africa. special forces, we're training them to defend their countries. in is a real problem. not that we don't have the muscle to get it done. but that the opponents -- all of

o opponents are fragmented. it's difficult to hit one and expect everything else to fall in line. >> which brings me to the issue of focussing in on the leadership of some of the terror organizations. you know many people after the death of bin laden believe that al qaeda would disappear and certainly they've taken hits and the numbers have dwindled and flared up. depending on what region of the world. yet again we're focussed on one individual whether he was taken out or not. al shabaab has not been taken out. >> yeah. it's good to knock the guys off. it's not sufficient. what is sufficient is to do as we're doing but expand our capability. to train indigenous forces to do the things they need to do in order to reject the movement. at the end of the day, it's going take not just military action. it's going to take diplomatic and economic action. all of these movements and groups rely on money and unless and until we can stop the money,

keep them from using, getting and using the money unless we do that, we're still going to have to fight a rear guard action like now. >> thank you very much. we appreciate you joining us. and lawyers for jennifer lawrence and other high profile actors are vowing legal action after more than 100 celebrities had their phones hacked and private information released. including intimate photographs. and the question is are we leaving our heads in the clouds to think that data is protected in the clouds? we'll have more on that. also, ahead. >> i'm not asking for the moon. i just want a good deal for american workers! >> the president and vice president spent labor day pushing for higher minimum wage and sending a message to the gop. this is our first read for you today. and millions of americans are at risk for severe weather today after a stormy weekend. we'll get you updated. i'll talk with theo rossi

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kate upton, and hope solo. the hacker claims to have stolen the pictures from the apple iclouds. some of the victims are speaking out over these leaked photographs. y jennifer lawrence's publicist spoke out. joining me now is adam levin. thank you for joining me. >> let's start with the comment from mary. she said, you know, loon, these photographs were deleted long ago. and she could only imagine the kroepy effort that went into this. assuming for it's deleted for someone to find the pictures they had to work hard. is that the case? >> there's no question you're dealing with sophisticated people. when their eye on the ball. we are their day jobs.

celebrities are monotizeble commodi commodity. when you hit the delete button it may not be fully deleted. this has been a problem that has been talked about for years with computers, iphones, and the like. >> to your point, you know, the celebrity photographs. these people can make money. if they're in our cloud and get documents and credit information, you know, they can make money off us as well in a different way. >> to a hacker, everybody is a celebrity. we're all commodities at one level or another. they're looking to us to make money. >> apple released a statement and said we take user privacy very seriously and actively investigating this report. by actively investigating, what do they mean? surely they know if they have a flaw in the system. >> the problem is they may have a flaw. they may not. it may relate to the fact that so many people that have pass words that are easily

decipherab decipherable. they use passwords and user name and id universally. so if they get hacked in one site, they're basically exposed. >> you're not convinced it's about cloud and storing information. it could be an aggressive push to break passwords and user names. >> it could be an aggressive approach. it could -- no one said the cloud is foolproof. the problem is hacking and breaches have become certain in life. >> you know we assume it is. and again, i said earlier on the "today" show. most people don't have nude photographs, i think. maybe they do. whatever it is. it's your business. but you do use this device as if it is safe and secure. certainly we shouldn't but we do. >> we do. and the problem is that we

should be thinking about it differently than we do. we think of it as a digital friend with benefits. we don't realize that it has to be according the same respect as you would any computer. there has to be virus protection software. you have to long and strong passwords. you can't share them universally. if there are sights that have the opportunity for authentication you know you're dealing with the right sight you should be doing that. you should be prepared for the reality at some point every business will be hacked. every consumer will be a victim of identity theft. the critical becomes monitoring and damage control. now with naked photographs, i'm not quite sure what kind of damage control you can do. when it involvings your social security number, your personal identifying information, you need to have some program that some professional organization that helps you through the problem when you become a victim and monitoring to let you know

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legal reason for what he did as long as they had this agreement in essence, the bribery agreement. that's the first thing. secondly, you talked about the fact that during this trial that the lawyers for maureen talk about how dysfunctional the marriage is. here is the reason for that. she's not a public official. she can't be charged. she has no official function. she can't be accused of doing something wrong as a public official. but the prosecution's they are i have that she and her husband conspired to do these things. that's why the defense said look their marriage was so dysfunctional they couldn't conspire to do anything. the judge will be instructing the jury, i would guess, for another half hour or so. then lunch then deliberations. certainly a guess of about how long it would take. i would think it would take certainly a couple of days at least. there are 14 counts herewo defendants. >> all right, thank you so much

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wrap up their calls for increasing the minimum wage. they both rallied middle class and union workers yesterday to put the pressure on congress. back in february the president called on lawmakers to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. >> it's a good thing that corporate profits are high. i want american businesses to succeed. it's a good thing that the stock market is booming. i want to see the guy who is breaking his back on two eight-hour shifts so he has enough money to send his kids to college. i want to make sure that guy is getting a break. i want to make sure he's getting some help. and joining me live nbc news political editor mark murray. you point out the president's focus has been isis. now with the air strikes in somalia overnight. foreign policy issues have been front and center. but yesterday we saw a new push with minimum wage. is it going anywhere?

>> well, you know, it's certainly going to be what democrats want to talk about on the campaign trail. is it going anywhere in congress? congress only has a hand full of working days left. if there's anything that occurs in the lame duck session. we know why the democrats want to talk about it. it polls very well. it allows voters to say someone cares about me. we're seeing democrats make a very big push on this, tamron. just a question is we haven't heard a lot about this from the president or democrats. largely because the minimum wage and economic issues have been overshadowed by so many other things, particularly the foreign crises that president obama is dealing with. >> as i mentioned, we're expecting another huge turnout of workers throughout the country thursday. that helps to push this conversation back into some of the headlines. >> it does. and, you know, of course, labor day was a good of a time as any

for the president to mention raising the minimum wage you'll see the democrat s try to do as much as they can. what would take place with republicans in control of all the congress versus democrats being controlled congress. but this is clearly your contrast issues you're having. republicans are going to have theirs as well, tamron. but really this is the first time we've seen the president talking about the minimum wage and talking about the economy when it comes to a campaign message. thank you very much, mark. less than a week after the nfl rolled out its new tougher policy on domestic violence, another star player landed behind bars for an alleged incident involving his fiancè. defensive end ray mcdonald was arrested early sunday morning on felony domestic violence charges. mcdonald was hosting a party when police were called around 2:00 a.m. they said mcdonald appeared to

have an altercation with his fiancè who allegedly showed police bruises. as he was leaving a local jail. he spoke with cameras and maintained his innocence. >> i can't say too much. but the truth will come out. >> no official punishment has been announced the 449ers relea statement. joining me now the nation's sports editor dave dirin. thank you for joining us. >> great to be here, tamron. >> here is the first test. what do you think? >> it's a great question. let's remember first and foremost that the nfl domestic violence policy is very much about public relations. roger goodell said that as much. suspending ray rice for two games while suspending people like josh gordon, a wide

receiver, for a year for marijuana use was a terrible look for the league. the league depends on women for their future. this is very much aimed at women. that being said, roger goodell is faced with the idea that he -- what i hear he promised that he would wait until the cases were adjudicated before putting down suspensions. these cases are very difficult to adjudicate because if say there are settlements out of court, alleged abuses do not press charges, what does the nfl do then? >> well, in this case, authorities showed up at the home and she show bruises to police she said were result of this act of violence. but isn't it fair to let it play out. whatever the end or the

conclusion i would think it would be irresponsible for the nfl or any organization to launch in and level some type of punishment against the player without letting it run its course. >> absolutely. . the power roger goodell exercises other his players is disturbing. he's already said this falls under the nfl personal conduct policy. as he's done in the past, remember, ben rot-- even if it' not adjudicated in a court of law. how it will play out in this case given certain policies he's made will he change the promises and go after players no matter what if it tarnishes the image of the league. that's something we'll have to keep an eye on. >> absolutely. when goodell released the statement saying he got it wrong and the other situation was very personal. so you can see he's e vofled to the point or people around him have helped push him to realize

the seriousness of this when the nfl us is spends somebody for an entire year for marijuana and basically turns a blind eye when it comes to domestic violence in the past. let he talk to you about michael sand. it was a hot topic over the internet this weekend. let's look at his play during preseason games and where he stands now. was it the right call to cut him? >> yes. from the perspective of the st. louis rams, it was expected, to me, anyway, he would be released even though he lead the team in sacks, tackles, and snaps. they're stocked at defensive line. what is more disturbing, frankly, no other nfl team picked him up. a lot of nfl teams need edge rushers. he showed he can do that. it really does make you wonder about the way the nfl it market itself as being, you know, an organization that only cares about winning and the implication there's no homophobia here whatsoever. yet given some things that are

being said anonymously by executives about they don't want to bring the circus to town if michael sam comes there. that says to me that homophobia exists in the national football league. >> does goodell need to speak about this with so many people like yourself questioning -- understanding the rams releasing him but questioning other teams not picking this guy up. if the numbers match and he can't produce on the field. >> one wonders. roger goodell within as we know, is hardly allergic to a camera and microphone. especially when it comes to shaping the image of the league. at the same time, he would be running at lagger heads with a lot of people who pay his salary. who the owners and executives. he's quicker to crack down on players than ownership. >> thank you very much, dave zirin. the investigation is under underway how a 7-year-old was injured at the california shooting range. another incident. this is one of the stories we're following around the "newsnation" today.

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highlighting a company that is r revolutionizing the way we teach children with autism. it's being done with robots. these are no ordinary robots. in addition to recognizing people, and objects, they can e detect expressions, touch, and motion. making them even more special is their ability to interability with children on a personal level. motivating them to learn. the robots were developed by engineers with the row bow kind company who essentially innovated being called advanced social robotics who purposefully built them for autism intervention, special. joining me now is the ceo. let's talk about how this came to life given we're talking about a robot here. what is the back story? was there a personal connection? a desire to help children who

need the assistance? >> yes, my son was involved with pioneering facial technology in robots, and also the development of personality. and these were developed for research labs and universities. they were half million dollar robots. what we said is if we can cut the cost and keep the technology, it can have some incredible affects in the world of education. we were in the last three years, to create the robot at 1/100th of the cost. >> the robots initially $16,000. now you're looking at $3,000 without educational software. about $5,000 with. schools perhaps could have something like this so it can be shared among children. this is milo. tell me how it would work for a

child that has been diagnosed with autism >>well, what we've done is had some of the world experts from leading universities write courses in autism specifically courses that are universal to children with autism. in terms of understanding emotions and how to react in social situations. >> okay. >> and these courses can go on for up to a year or a year and a half. and the robot can deliver perfect courses. the big thing about autism that is so special with the robot is a lot of these children with autism need the same thing for it to work. 10, 15, 20 times. sometimes over six months and staff can't do that. >> can you show me how it can work? it's a social situation the child would see the video and would be described during the time the robot comments on the behavior and can sense when the

child is frustrated or agitated in the back and forth. let's see how it works. >> thank you, tamron. >> oh. >> i make learning fun and exciting while being your friend. as i talk, i share i cons on my chest, videos on tabloids and repeat lessons without getting tired or angry. my course for autism treatment are written by experts. i can also teach kids to be fluent in foreign languaging and help elders with dementia. doesn't that sound great? >> yes. [ laughter ] >> so it would interact with milo for the kids there. i love that obviously it turns into a fascinating thing when you're talking to a robot and exploration of science and technology. what has been the response from kids? >> this creates an unbelievable level of engagement. which is one of the keys to

learning. one quick story is we took them into the autism centers and children that would not talk to staff after ten minutes started talking to the robot. >> really? >> people were crying looking at the affect t-- effect the robot could have children. i don't know if you noticed. there was sim bomb ymbols on th. a lot of children with autism get auditory overload and the symbols can help them. and the third thing, the robot keeps an ipad going and can show pictures and things and give tests while it's talking. and it can record the sessions and send to experts all over the world. >> congratulations on this successful program and to your son, who is a part of this as well. we can't wait to see how it spreads! hopefully more children will be able to have milo in their home.

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what can you tell me? >> i can't tell you anything. >> come on. >> i wish i could. i could tell you that whatever you think, whatever you have planned, don't because it's -- it's never gone the way people think. just sit back and enjoy it because it is -- in my mind and i say this every year but this truly is the greatest season and kurt has outdone himself. >> giving me goose bumps with that. okay, all right. don't make predictions here. we are excited about the final season here and also excited about this boot campaign you're involved with. tell me about it. >> yeah. the boot campaign i've been an ambassador with since '09. you know, just promoting patr t patrioti patriotism, awareness for the veterans, providing assistance, you know, for them and their families and it's just something we're proud of. it is a really tangible way to show your support for our veterans and we have our fourth annual -- i'll be hosting this year, boot ride in san antonio, texas, with my partner in crime

tig and it will be -- it's really exciting. >> i love this and a shout-out. started by five women from texas, my home state to help out vets and their families and funded through the sale of boot campaigns signature combat boots and apparel and direct donations and corporate sponsorship. i love that it is career placement, housing, family support, urgent assistance and wellness. the total package, theo. >> yeah. it's really -- we just did the boot bash here and a bunch of purple heart vets, korean, world war ii vets there and such an honor and so close to me. i've been to iraq, kuwait, the bases across the united states and just something that i really hold dear to me because i can never do enough for the veterans. >> we thank you for what you're doing. what do you have next coming up? >> oh man. my production company first film bad hurt. we just finished. we're really excited about that.

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