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Shooting students and seizing hostages reportedly singling out non-muslims. close to 150 people are now dead in an attack by the al qaeda linked group al shabab. on a university campus in kenya, it's the same group that carried out a bloody mall attack in kenya and has called for similar attacks in the west. let's get the very latest from our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara? >> reporter: wolf, the assault went on for hours starting in the early morning when al shabab gunmen part of an al qaeda linked group in east africa attacked this university in southern kenya. kenyan authori...

We can. again, we have kenya developing with the hostage situation. and the situation in yemen where an al qaeda group broke into a prison released hundreds of prisoners, including a leader. senior fellow at the foundation of the defense of democracies, daveed gartenstein-ross and cnn global affairs analyst and retired delta force commander, lieutenant colonel james reese. al shabab the young branch recruiting young people we know them from the horrible mall attack in 2013 in nairobi. what do you think is behind what's going on here? >> since the mall attack they've actually significantly exte...

We saw that in 2013 in the west gate mall in nairobi. a similar kind of attack an attack that will certainly go on for days. the kenyan government responded to the west gate mall attack i think very incompetent. i think we'll see the same thing here. they don't really have kind of a u.s. style, special operations that can go in and kind of deal with this kind of thing in a timely manner. so unfortunately i think we'll see this operation drag out over several days carol. >> you heard what soni said. there are 500 hostages. that's a lot of hostages. what do they want? >> well they want exactly w...

Qaeda captives. not clear when this is going to go down. but the u.s. military said it's time to get out and do it now. >> mick, does this as all come as a surprise to you given how heated things have been there in yemen? >> reporter: those special ops guys have been relatively safe working with the yemeni military in remote parts of the country in training primarily. and then the navy s.e.a.l.s were involved in some intelligence-gathering. so u.s. military drone strikes could be launched against some of those militants. just a week ago a drone strike killed a top al shabaab leader who was the...

Terror group al shabab believed to have masterminded that deadly mall attack in nairobi, kenya. he was hit by a drone missile in southern somalia last week. pentagon officials believe he was, quote, a key person responsible for coordinating targets in the u.s. and other interests. 67 people you'll certainly recall, were killed in the attacks at west gate mall in september of 2013. and stunning new details into the investigation of millionaire murder suspect robert durst. police believe he was getting ready to run right before he was arrested last week withdrawing tens of thousands from his ban...