about the attackers who carry ds out this massacre, including the fact that three allegedly lived in the united states. evan, what can you tell us about this information that we're learning that according to some alshabab sources, they're saying that three of the alleged attackers had lived in the united states in minnesota as well as mor mor. >> this is something that's of slir a very big concern for u.s. law enforcement. it's something that they've been looking at nor some years now, which is a concern about recruitment of young somalis, moegsly from minnesota, but also in other communities in the united states. there have been several plos cushions of these commuters. these people learn -- they joined al shabab. they learn how to commit terrorist acts and come back to the united states and do that here. so far, there's been no sign of that. now, they're still looking at the situation. there's no confirmation yet. they're increasingly concerned that it might be true. but at in point, they're still very much monitoring the situation. >> there is already a high concentration of somali americans

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have learned that three of the alleged attackers in that deadly mall shooting in kenya have lived in the unitedthe terror group, al shabaab. two lived in minnesota and one in missouri and they are all in their 20s. a senior u.s. state department official says they are still trying to match the names, but they are becoming more confident that american citizens may have been involved. right now, about 30 people are still being held hostage at that shopping mall in nairobi. 68 people were killed in that attack yesterday. >>> number two, another story crossing our news desk. three people were killed, four others hurt in a shooting outside of an elk's lodge in michigan. witnesses say the gunfire started just after 2:00 a.m. at the hall in muskegon, about 40 miles west of grand rapids, according to our affiliates. police aren't sure how many shooters were involved and have not identified any suspects. >>> and a huge storm is bearing down on china's coast today. at least 50,000 relief workers are standing by as typhoon usagi gets ready to make landfall. the storm has been downgraded from a super typho

they may be able to live as a united people. in patients grows. ows.tience he has had enough for what he calls a live. he wants to take his family home. >> personally, i am confident i can go back because i know my neighbors. we are no stranger to one another. we all know what has happened. thei am sure the governor, army's own commander, and the police can be trusted when they will say that we will live together. >> but for all of the desire to return, the instability remains. the peace agreement is one thing. this is another. news, mauritania. refugees ofof the mali. and it was big news when the leaders of the u.s. and iran spoke on the phone. with that his store call, another american had had a rare handshake with the new iranian leader, the assistant coach of the national football team, and tonight, he talks about the pride of what happens on the pitch. >> that is my life, football, and this is the video of a song for us qualifying for the world cup. the streets of tehran after that win, you would see what they put us through an hour comp titia

they may be able to live as a united people. in patients grows. ows.tience he has had enough for what he calls a live. he wants to take his family home. >> personally, i am confident i can go back because i know my neighbors. we are no stranger to one another. we all know what has happened. thei am sure the governor, army's own commander, and the police can be trusted when they will say that we will live together. >> but for all of the desire to return, the instability remains. the peace agreement is one thing. this is another. news, mauritania. refugees ofof the mali. and it was big news when the leaders of the u.s. and iran spoke on the phone. with that his store call, another american had had a rare handshake with the new iranian leader, the assistant coach of the national football team, and tonight, he talks about the pride of what happens on the pitch. >> that is my life, football, and this is the video of a song for us qualifying for the world cup. the streets of tehran after that win, you would see what they put us through an hour comp titia

live. united. join your favorite nfl players. take the pledge. go to unitedway.org. >>> it is being called get their hands on the latest lim. this is the west hollywood target. there were similar scenes across the country. the hot item? the purses. the bags sold out on-line shortly after they went on sale at midnight and most gone right as target opened up. a lot of you watched the miss america pageant and miss california came close to taking the crown. >> your new miss america is miss new york. >> 24-year-old nina, the first miss america of indian dissent was named the winner. miss california, crystal lee, was first runner up. friends of crystal were watching the pageant at a house in santa clara. they said no matter what, crystal will always be a winner to them. >> i find it really inspiring because crystal is such a great person and smart and ambitious and a good people person. it inspires me to be like her. >> knowing crystal so well for me personally it is like been myhas always perm -- my personal miss america. it makes you feel like you ha

and the 2 1/2-year-old child on the top floor and they found the father in the basement, in the live unitor. the mother was able to get out the back door. she was transported to the hospital. she is in good condition. >> the investigators on the scene are still trying to figure out what caused the fire. they have ruled out arson. that is the process they are going through now trying to rule out different possibilities. they have not uncovered the cause. they have determined that there were working smoke detectors inside the home. firefighters say it is very unusual to find smoke detectors and have such a tragic outcome. any another breaking news story fire crews from at least five cities are on the scene of a hay fire along interstate 505. the four alarm fire is burning 20 miles from vacaville with crews from the area all coming out to help fight the fire. officials say they will let the fire burn itself out. it could burn for a day or more. no word on the cause. we will bring you updates throughout the morning here on abc7 morning news. >> we will see how the winds are, mike? >> there ar

a us citizen born and raised in hawthorne california with a limited mental capacity, having lived in the united states, living with his mother and 3 other kids. got arrested on a small trespass. he entered what i can call a criminal factory known as the main jail in los angeles where they process and you can almost feel bad for them but not quite. they process thousands of people. people with hispanic names are called out to be interviewed. he did not have the capacity to explain what i just told you was his background. he was on a bus. he went to immigration service. he was on a bus. he was taken to tijuana and released. no lawyer in that process. every religion that i'm familiar with teaches that things like that are not the right way to go and we do have public officials who are happy to mention their own religion and i get a kick out of it and check their voting record because on this issue and on your issue, they are part of the problem. who are they? they are your friends. they are the people you like. they like environmental things, other things. these things i tried to talk to them and

we are live at the united nations. what about the buzz around this handshake that could take place between president obama and president rouhani? could today be the first time in 34 years that the president's of both countries actually shake hands? >> it's a tantalizing prospect. everyone is excited about this happening, but we just don't know. if this happens at all, we think it's going to happen in passing. the two will just bump into each other. there will be no sweeping gesture. president obama is not going to come down off the podium and find president rouhani in front of the cameras. if it happens at all, it will be in the corridors, they pass each other, a fleeting handshake and there may or may not be a camera there. we're just going to have to wait and see. you're absolutely right to be excited about it, because everybody is here is excited because of the new tone president rouhani is bringing. gone is the rhetoric of ahmadinejad, his predecessor, replaced by the op ed in the washington post last friday. peopl

i'm part of both cultures now, and fairly soon i will have lived actually in the united states about the same years i lived in sierra leone. and it's wonderful for my life, for my thinking, for my writing. >> how has "a long way gone" changed you, changed your family, because of its success? >> guest: changed my life completely. the first book -- when the book came out, all cautious, because of the content, people may not read it and then it just had a life of its own. on what i -- beyond what i expected. i really did not understand what it meant to be a public person so i had a few mistakes. just a regular kid so i was -- and i just got here from college so when the book came out, friend of mine, college buddy and i moved into an apartment and set up a telephone and i gave them my name, and the private number, and all of a sudden we started getting these calls, literally, 20, 30, 40 calls a day. we're like, oh, how are they doing that? and realize, because your famous. and realizing what does that really mean, and when "the new york times" magazine had a photograph of me on the front

the prison sits on 320 acres and houses inmates in 6 different living units. >> the type of offendershat we have at limon are violent offenders. we have 64% violent. 244 of our offenders are serving a life sentence. limon has had a reputation of being a violent prison amongst the offender population. they do tend to send the majority of violent offenders to limon. >> it's crazy how cold it is. >> i'm too damn skinny for this. >> oh, my god. last time i was on tv, they were chasing me. >> put your arms up. put your hands behind your penis. >> all right, ears. hair. armpits. >> as a level 4 facility, limon houses many of colorado's most dangerous inmates. while some of today's arrivals are new to prison, others have been through the process numerous times before. one in particular comes with a reputation that precedes him. >> we have one coming off the bus going straight to segregation. that would be inmate timothy schreiber. >> timothy schreiber has transferred here from another state prison. unlike most new arrivals, he is sent immediately to administrative segregation, a 23-hour a da

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they come here, basically, due to the actions of out on the yard or in a living unit they've somehow broken the rules and misbehave and they're brought up here for corrective management to try to improve their behavior. >>> anamosa has a zero tolerance policy for rule infractions, so it doesn't take much for an inmate to end up here. but some inmates complain that the prison is infested with rats. inmates who trump up charges against another inmate to try to gain favor with guards or simply as a form of revenge. >> so many people want to tell you on and this place a full of snitches running around thinking they're cool. >> inmates often rat out others by writing an anonymous complaint called a kite. >> say i want to get him off the yard because i'm mad at him. all i have to do is drop a kite, saying, okay, he's thinking about escaping. i drop it in the mailbox. the next thing you know, he gets locked up and investigated because that's a serious offense. >> when an inmate is suspected of any violation, he's allowed to defend himself at a disciplinary hearing. >> they appear before the

there's in my district on this list there are scores of in law units where you have whole families living in a single in law unit. we know that realty is there are people living there and the reeled in my district there are people who can't afford to pay their mortuary. it's not permitted. i think the city needs to figure out how we can understand how to create flexibility in our districts so we can maintain housing that's affordable for the property owners and other folks who couldn't pay their mortuaries. it's not always abo

a live look at the united nations' general assembly, and ththe liberia's president. and next iran's hassan rouhani. >>> in a matter of days a new report on climate change willing released. mariano sÁnchez takes us to costa rica on where farmers are working on becoming carbon neutral in ten years. >> reporter: this is not just any pig farm. pigs and cattle are major contributers of gasses that contribute to carbon gasses. >> it is used to cook or produce heat for the animals. for others its used for lighting. >> reporter: the solids left are turned into organic fertilizer in one month. they improve the quality of the soil. this is one of four experimental farms founded by the costa rican government. >> we absorb 120,000 tons. we have an ex-possess of emissioemissions. >> reporter: these are small projects. corporations like the joined standard food companies are the one who is contaminate the most. they're now taking small steps of recycling the bags that protect the fruit. >> the bag transforms for the pallets that would hold the bo boxes to transport the fruit. >> r

there's in my district on this list there are scores of in law units where you have whole families living in a single in law unit. we know that realty is there are people living there and the reeled in my district there are people who can't afford to pay their

lives. the united states was what do you think? >> top 20. >> 17th. it's behind our neighbor to the north, canada which was sixth, mexico is one up on us at 16th. >> i'm all about the be happy but here in america i'm very happy. 17th, low as far as i'm concerned. >> speaking of good vibrations let's check in with anthony slaughter. >> things look good now so real good vibrations on a tuesday. looking at heavy traffic yesterday and plenty of accidents. today a different story. it's early. you can see we're looking across the bay bridge. this shot, it's so fogged in. i want to give you a heads up. that's what you're going to deal with as you head into san francisco. even if you come in from the north bay, you can see some of the sheets of mist hitting the camera. we have a pretty steady marine layer moving through. we'll continue to track your traffic. you can see the san mateo bridge, the same there. fogged in with lots of low drizzle and cloud cover. so heads up for that. even 101 southbound or in the south bay on northbound side direction, you can se

there's in my district on this list there are scores of in law units where you have whole families living in a single in law unit. we know that realty is there are people living there and the reeled in my district there are people who can't afford to pay their mortuary. it's not permitted. i think the city needs to figure out how we can understand how to create flexibility in our districts so we can maintain housing that's affordable for the property owners and other folks who couldn't pay their mortuaries. it's not always about making extra money. so i know it's not just this district this property we're looking at taking a fee from its the other properties as well. i'm kind of hard-pressed to figure out which ones in my district are having the problems here. we have to have this item approved by the end of this year? how does that work >> supervisor avalos to the president i would have the staff from the department of building inspection answer the question. >> well, this was in 2008 i was the inspector. wife been working with ms. roberts and it's difficult for her to legalize those. we

the findings of an investigation from syria made public, we're live at the united nations. >>> at least seven people are dead after a shooting at a naval complex in washington, d.c. people work and living in the area are told to stay indoors. >> and we hear pop pop pop pop pop and i said oh that doesn't sound good, somebody's shooting, it stopped for three seconds and after that it was pop pop pop pop pop. >> in london with the latest from europe including so far, so good. engineers happy with their progress as they slowly lift the costa concordia from its rocky resting place. >>> war crime aimed and counter vengs of international law. that's how secretary o seark gen ki-moon has characterized, chemical weapons were used on a relative large scale, also said serin gas was used. james, we have this report and we've heard from the u.n. secretary general. tell us more what is in the report and what ban ki-moon has to say. >> it's a very testify words from ban ki-moon today talking about this report, a very detailed report into what happened on the 21st of august. saying that serin was used

. ♪ >>> you are looking live now at the scene at the united nations, that is where more than 100 headsf state and various government leaders have descended upon the city of new york. among those addressing the assembly right now, president obama, this is though, the brazilian president who has been speaking. she will precede the president, and our own john therett has been standing by. john she has not been kind to the u.s. >> that's absolutely right. welcome to the united nations on this day. president obama will sweep past us any moment now. but you are absolutely right, the brazilian president has been pulling no punches when it comes

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underg

be controlling we want to be putting in more explicit controls so we're not serving people living in those units. we want to work with the businesses we want to work with the neighborhoods and planning to make sure, you know, there is full participation. so when we have those mixed areas we're sensitive to the neighbors. we're not turning this into a big boulevard like la for example, >> any additional public comment on this item isn't it so. okay public comment is closed >> nonetheless to say i'm disappointed this has not come along further. when we refused this project we were actually at that time, considering to continue it until the sicken age was taking care of. given the construction schedule if i recall correctly we supported the approval with the specific instructions that the sicken age i made a comment about the bear sorry about that one really need to be in keeping with the objectives for the upper market street market corridor. and the fact we have a large number of new buildings coming on line where we'll have to revisit the formula of branch banks. we we were all feeling there wou

syria will also be a topic here at the united nations asking them to turn over their chemical weapons stockpiles. reporting live at the united nations, vinita nair. back to you. >>> well, a 4-year-old cherokee girl at the center of a high profile custody battle has been returned to the south carolina couple who are trying to adopt her. veronica was handed over to matt and melanie kopo bianco last night. she had lived with them for the first two years of her life. her father had regained custody that went all the way to the supreme court in a law concerning the adoption of native-american children. >>> coming up on the "cbs morning news," a wildfire in southern california forces evacuations. >>> plus, the end of a long strong trip. the beloved vw bus is riding off into history. this is the "cbs morning news." [ male announcer ] campbell's homestyle. mmm! this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. ♪ [ male announcer ] for those who willingly take on the d

thank you for being with us this morning. >> aljazeera will have special live coverage of president obama's speech at the united nations. we will begun our live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> kenyan security forces are making their final push to remove those gunman from a my robey shopping mall. gunfire could still be heard as the standoff between the military and sow may fighters is into its fourth day. all the hostages are free, but attackers say they are still holding people captive. 62 people have been killed in that standoff since it began. aljazeera is live from nairobi. peter, can you clarify this discrepancy as to whether or not hostages are still in that mall? >> before we deal with that question, i want to bring you up to date. the past few minutes, we have heard very powerful explosions, the kind that you feel deep in your stomach rather than hear through the air. it clearly indicates something is going on. we don't know who set them off or what caused them. clearly there is still an ongoing crisis at the moment. it does seem as if some of those gunman of still alive. as far as the discrepancy is

the rest of the residents in the unit say they heard a banging on their doors as they were sleeping to get out. one woman who lives below the third floor unit says the man has passed away and she also often smelled smoke coming from that unit. >> he is a smoker and he likes to burn candles, so we're thinking something happened, might have happened. and last night at about 11:30 i was in my living room i could smell smoke. i wasn't sure what it was. i thought it was mt. diablo. i thought it cannot be all the way here. i detected the smell of smoke i know. >> reporter: firefighters say that there are protocol and notification issues that often go with calling the coroner, so they are still dealing with that. again, still trying to find a cause. the fire investigator is still here on scene. firefighters tell us that they will be here for quite some time. reporting live in berkeley, christie smith, "today in the bay." >> thank you. it's 6:03. a developing story in contra costa county with smoke billowing as a wild fire continues to burn through thousands of dry brush on mt. diablo. air quality is a concern as firefigh

united nations today. the five permanent security council members have reportedly agreed on a resolution requiring syria to get rid of its chemical weapons stock pile. we're live from the united nations. what can we possibly expect the resolution olanguage of this re? >> well, we have to get one first. i got tweets on my blackberry, and posts, we all did, saying that they've made an agreement on syria. we've made some calls but they haven't come to an agreement just yet but they're very close, they're tantalizingly close. the resolution, when it comes, it's going to be very different than the one drafted by the british and the french. the russians have won a lot of concessions. it's not going to be a chapter 7 resolution which is the device the u.n. uses when there is an attack in the offing of a country. that's gone. there is no mention of the icc criminal court of whoever carried out that criminal attack once it's proved. and there is no condemnation of the assad government. and there is a bottom line that talks about the use of force or some kind of action if syria does not keep up with its promise to remove its chemical weapon stock pile. that's where we'r

now live to the united nations where a spokesman is briefing reporters. >> strictly adhering to the highest established standards of verification recognized by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. in light of the horrendous magnitude of the 21st of august incident in the area of do m damascus, the -- information it had obtained without jeopardizing the scientific time lines required for accurate analysis and to report results to him as soon as possible. and they dis cussed ways to further ak sexccelerate p proce. the secretary general personally thanked inspector selstrom. i just wanted to update you a little on the humanitarian picture in syria. the u.n. is continuing its critical humanitarian work in syria where and when possible as well as in neighboring countries. for example, the world food program talked to 3 million people with food aid -- last week 10,000 people -- in aleppo where fighting and the spike in prices are leading to food short shortages, the program sought to feed more than 350,000 people in august. the world health organization has coordinated the p