the fate of the hostages, still unaccounted for in terms of what happened to them. the bottom line, the government seems convinced the situation here is now over. brian? >> what an unbelievable scene there. ron allen live for us tonight in nairobi. some of the most harrowing images of the attack seen by the outside world came from the "new york times" photographer tyler hicks who lives in nairobi. he ran to the scene, slipped inside with responding police officers, documenting everything he saw with his camera along the way. today he spoke with us about what he saw inside. >> once i got inside the mall i could see how tense everyone was. the army and police, how carefully they were moving, dashing across open areas, taking extreme care with their cover. it seemed like anywhere you looked there would be another body. people were still hiding in

shops. as the police and the army were moving through, they would either discover people or they would sense help had arrived and they would flood out oh. you would get moments of silence and moments of big streams of people they were trying to get out as quickly as possible. everywhere we went, more people came out of the woodwork. in one sense it seemed abandoned. the music that plays in the shopping mall was still playing on the intercom. it was this eerie silence with music interrupted occasionally by gunfire. terrified people were crying, screaming, running for their lives. i never thought i would encounter this kind of tragedy in a public place like this where completely innocent civilians were just gunned down and murdered. it is not like a conventional war where you would expect combatants to get hurt or expect there to be collateral damage in those situations. this is just a suicide mission and murder. >> prize-winning "new york

times" photographer tyler hicks in his own words for us tonight. this mall was filled with upscale shops and familiar brand names frequented by customers from all over the world who now call nairobi home. as kenya has done well the city became something of an international hub in africa. a lot of big fortune 500 companies, big american names have regional headquarters there. companies like citigroup, coca-cola, g, google, ibm, mastercard, visa. that along with the big u.n. presence there means a lot of americans live there. many of them under heavy protection. tonight, as we mentioned, law enforcement officials in this country are looking into claims that americans were involved in committing this attack in kenya. the terrorist group al shabaab made it a pirariority to recrui americans. pete joins us from the d.c.

newsroom. >> reporter: two internet postings claim to be from al shabaab. they named six americans they claim were among the mall attackers but officials say those names don't appear on any terror watch lists. al shabaab has pushed hard to get american peoples into its ranks. until he was killed this month he was the face of the terror group al shabaab, omar hamami. president of his sophomore class in high school. he went to somalia seven years ago to join up. >> the only reason we are staying here, away from our families, away from the cities, away from, you know, ice, candy bars, other things is because we are waiting to meet with the enemy. >> reporter: reports from somalia say he was kill bid a rival al shabaab faction two weeks ago, one of roughly 50 americans, most with somali connections officials say have joined in the past seven years. three died as suicide bombers.

many were recruited from the community in minneapolis where al shabaab considered americans a prize. >> it would be a perfect place to lure people. >> reporter: the group produced videos to entice more americans and other westerners to join. >> you are with the best of the brothers and sisters who came here for the sake of allah. >> reporter: the number of americans leaving here to join has fallen off thanks in part to effort s by somalis in the u.s. >> the somali-american community has been instrumental tall in clamping down on the flow of both people and funds to al shabaab. >> reporter: they have concentrated attacks against the government in somalia but was blamed for two the bombings two years ago that killed 75 people in uganda. no americans have been involved in attacks outside somalia. in minneapolis today at a mosque

islamic leaders condemned the attack. >> the safety and security of the united states is of utmost importance to the soma somali-american community and we will be at the forefront of defeating extremism. >> reporter: police in new york stepped up security at some locations but they say that's not the only answer. >> the united states has the ability to gather intelligence information that i think protects us to even a greater extent than having uniformed police officers. >> reporter: as for whether any americans were involved in the mall shooting u.s. officials say they won't know until it is all over and the kenyan authorities have positive ohly identified the attackers, brian. >> pete williams in our d.c. newsroom. thanks. much of the city of new york looks like a fortress, a modern police state. barricades, streets shut down, automatic weapons out and viz able. that's because on top of the security concerns after this

kenya attack, this is the week each year of the u.n. general assembly. president obama is in town and so is the new president of iran, among h other leaders. and there is a lot of speculation that the two might meet. our chief foreign i affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has our report. >> reporter: iran's new president rouhani arrived tonight tweeting out a picture. his first trip to address the u.n. uh. he turned his departure from tehran into an event . a big send-off with fanfather. he said he would try to show the real face of the iranian nation to the world as a nation who loves culture and peace. he's already had a warm exchange of letters with president obama telling ann curry -- >> translator: from my point of view, the tone of the letter was positive and constructive uh.

>> reporter: the presidents will speak ott t at the u.n. tomorrow but will they meet? if they do it would be the first meeting between the u.s. and iran since the iranian revolution. the choreography would be delicate. president obama gives his speech to the u.n. in the morning. they could meet at lunch if rouhani shows up. if so, would it be a casual chat, a handshake? even that would be symbolic. it could be risky for mr. obama. rohani speaks in the afternoon. president obama has no idea what he'll say and there are warnings that iran could be setting a trip. >> rohni will continue to smile, appease and smile all the way to the boom. >> reporter: bill clinton said on the cbs n srks -- pbs news h >> this is positive. the new president seems to want a reproachment with the united states.

we have to make sure if we do this it's real. >> reporter: they do not expect rohani to attend after all. there could be an encounter between the leaders. if that happens it would be historic. that is if either president can get to the u.n. given the traffic they have created. >> thank you. in other news we mentioned this at the top of the broadcast, potential changes coming for all of us who fly. specifically what devices we might be allowed to use or at least leave on in case where is we can't right now. we are about to hear from an f.a.a. advisory panel. tom costello follows aif uh united natio -- aviation for us. he's at re gan national outside d.c. tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. this f.a.a. advisory panel is looking at whether it is safe to use laptops tablets, e-read ers, cell phones below 10,000 feet. there are handfuls of reports

from pilots that say they thought individual devices interfere bud it's never been tied to any aviation mishap. so the f.a.a. is preparing to recommend that airlines allow a select number of devices to remain on during takeoff and landing. they would allow e-readers, video players or ipod-type devices for listening to music. but no using wifi below 10,000 feet and no using cell phones or anything that can transmit or send text messages. your phone or tablet will need to be in airplane mode. the f.a.a. re mains concerned that some communication and navigation equipment could be vulnerable. a final decision expected soon. probably would not be implemented by the airlines until next year. brian. >> every little bit counts. tom costello in d.c. for us tonight. tom, thanks. still ahead on our broadcast the medical and scientific confirmation of what a lot of

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our final story here tonight is about the friendship between u.s. senator mark kirk of illinois, recovering from a debilitating stroke, and a boy who knows something about what he's going through. the senator's left side was paralyzed. he can now stand and walk with the help of a cane. he's done it all with the help of an unlikely inspiration. our story tonight from john yang. >> reporter: at first glance they may seem unlikely buddies. an 11-year-old down state illinois 6th grader and a 54-year-old senate freshman but take a closer look and you can see what draws them together. both suffered serious strokes

that initially paralyzed their left sides. jackson's was triggered by a blood clot when he was 8 years old. last year when h heard about kirk's stroke -- >> dear senator kirk, my name is jackson cunningham. >> reporter: he wrote him about his own recovery. >> all the therapy paid off. >> reporter: he tried to boost s spirits. >> do not give up on yourself. all the hard work is worth it. >> reporter: a small gesture that meant so much. >> it was, by far, the best letter that i got. >> reporter: what did it mean to you to have that encurrentliment? >> it meant a lot to me. i felt that i had to meet jackson. >> reporter: it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. it stretched from the reh rehabilitation institute of chicago to the u.s. capitol. kirk found out jackson likes video games with zombies. >> it's just fun wasting them. >> reporter: you gave him a book about zombies. >> yes.

it's a good riff that we have. >> reporter: so good it took over this therapy session. >> i need fresh brains. >> reporter: that playful competition spurs them. jackson recently started running and now that's kirk's next re habitation goal. look at that. some day is there going to be a footrace between the two of you? >> i hope. i'll going to crush you. >> reporter: the senator and the kid, separated by age, but bound by the determination to rebuild their lives. >> let me just give you a quick hug. >> reporter: john yang, nbc news, chicago. >> here's to friends and perseverance and physical therapists everywhere. that's our broadcast on a monday night as we start off a new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. right back here tomorrow evening. good night.

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>> congratulations. >> thank you. >> what you didn't see on tv. >> edie, chris, dina, connie. >> i'm here with jeff daniels. >> all the backstage action. >> "inside edition." >> baby talk with claire danes. >> we're inside the hottest emmy after parties with all the winiers. >> selfies. the best emmy coverage with deborah norville, jim moret and victoria racagno. then, mall shooting. can it happen here? what you need to know just in case. >> what would you do if we heard gunshots ringing out right now here in the mall? and, can this man be saved? the desperate race against time to bring him back from the brink. plus, you may not videotape

the bride! >> please, sirs, please move. now, "inside edition," with deborah norville. hello, everybody. thank you for joining us. we're high above l.a.'s nokia theater going one on one on television's biggest night. >> congratulations. >> we caught up with all the big winners, on the red carpet. >> congratulations. >> thank you! >> it was celebrity gridlock, there's homeland's claire danes with lena dunham and claire danes. sophia vergara got tripped up on her gown. was that a dirty look? and there's another sexy star, mad men's kristina henrik. >> we're happy to see each other, we've been away a while. >> i'm with jeff daniels, star

of the newsroom. you must be so excited people embraced the show. >> yeah, the show, it matters. it counts. it says something. people talk about it for days afterwards, good and bad. love and hate. which we love. >> and the emmy goes to -- jeff daniels! >> daniels took home his first emmy, beating out bryan cranston. >> breaking bad. >> but breaking bad won big with the award for best dramatic series. >> it's the end of the line? >> it is the end of the line. >> what would you like to say to the viewers? >> without the viewers, our little show about a depressed man who has terminal lung cancer and cooks crystal meth and becomes a horrible person, who would follow that if it wasn't for you fans? we never would have made it this far, so thank you. >> michael douglas. >> best actor winner michael douglas acknowledged his wife catherine zeta-jones, despite their separation. >> i want to thank my wife,

katherine, for her support. my kids and a shout out for my oldest son cameron, hoping i'll be able and they will allow me to see him soon. >> cameron douglas has been in solitary confinement for almost two years, serving ten years in federal penitentiary on drug charges. >> julia louis-dreyfus. >> julia won for best comedy actress after 14 nominations, beating the record of 13 set by lucille ball. >> my family is here tonight. oh really? yeah, i brought my boys, my husband of course, both boys came. i'm excited to have them here. >> julia earned laughs for her speech thanks to backup from tony hale who played her ever present assistant. >> i'd like to thank our -- my family. >> she's normal, family is her first priority, it's not just business. she's a team player,