refugee camp right now on the entire planet. as is almost always the case, this is by and large a manmade disaster. a bad drought, the worst drought in 60 years made worst by extremist muslim terrorists who control much of southern somalia where the worst famine is. as is also the kargs it is the children who are dying. 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in somalia in the last 90 days. none of them had to die. tonight we ll take you inside this human catastrophe and show you the people trying to end it. we begin elsewhere the breaking news. today s market meltdown in the united states. and we re watching what happens to markets coming up. we re looking live at the tokyo stock exchange just now, open for tuesday s trading. what happens here, both a preview of wall street tomorrow and reaction to what happened on wall street today. as you know, the dow industrial average plummeting down 634 points. below 11,000 for the first time since last october. down 5.5%. it wa
fast. the worst hit zain are the children. we ve seen children here hungry, desperately in need of food aid and we ve even seen children dieing here. one father told me they just came here to find help. they didn t get what they wanted, hi buried his child sarah in the ground near us yesterday morning, zain. how difficult is it, david, because of the fighting going on in somalia as well for aid agencies to operate? reporter: el shabaab controls parts of southern somalia. they kicked out the un some time ago t. world food program and the un refugee agency is asking for assistance, asking for access to those areas. they need to give them assurance they will have the corridors to bring in aid safely and effectively. this islam lick militant group in some areas is holding the key to whether these people live or die and if aid can get in in the coming days. cnn s david mckenzie reporti reporting. that s our major story right now. i m zain verjee in london. world busine wor
hot enough for you? 105 in little rock. 104 in dallas. a deadly heat wave leads to warnings in 18 states. we have the latest forecast early this friday morning, august 6th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs very good friday morning to you. i m erica hill. the heat in the headlines this morning. relief here. but bad in much of the rest of the country. we will get to that, too. wyclef jean, music superstar, announced this week he s running for president of haiti. we have an exclusive interview this morning. our betty nguyen sat down with wyclef and talked to him about what his plans are. looking forward to that. we want to get you to this. supreme court justice elena kagan. sworn in tomorrow after the senate voted yesterday to confirm president obama s nomination. cbs news chief legal correspondent jan crawford joins thus morning from washington. the confirmation was pretty much expected but very divisive at the same time. well, that s exactly right, erica. it was basica
doing in somalia if anything against these terrorists. well, this is one of the most lily classified secretive efforts by the u.s. military. they have gone into somalia several times before going after al qaeda targets, but now it is home-grown somali terrorist groups. the big concern is the foreign fighters that are there. the intelligence community estimates up to 200 from iraq, from pakistan, from afghanistan, yemen, saudi arabia, and they are able to go into somalia where there is no functioning government, and set up training camps, work with the el shabaab and teach them how to do the suicide bombers and possibly export their terrorist activities even back to the united states. that is why there is concern for the united states, and that is why this matters. we all know that the u.s. now has 100,000 troops in afghanistan going after al qaeda and taliban insurgents and al qaeda terrorists and is the u.s.
that americans see glimmers of themselves with. reporter: born and raised in alabama he was raised a baptist, but converted to islam as a young man. the mother tells cnn that she has not talked to him since 2007 and she doesn t know if he is guilty as accused. also unsealed was group of ten men from minnesota s somali group, all believed to be overseas fighting with al shabab, and they hope that the indictments send a message. if you choose this group, you can expect to find yourselves in the united states jail cell or to be a casualty on a somali batt battlefield. reporter: but the indictments don t reflect the breadth of the home grown terror program. recently men from virginia and other states have been arrested. also today, arrest in minnesota of two women who the government allegeded raised money for el shabaab, and in some instances