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You realize you are getting to the crowd and everyone is running out. security are telling you shots fired. what was your reaction? what did you do? >> just started running towards the door. >> when you got outside what happened? >> then all the police started showing up. it was within seconds. the emergency lights going on. and we just -- they just ushered us around the mall. >> the mall security, did they tell you anything? >> they didn't tell us anything. >> from what you could see as you were running out could you see were there people still in stores? >> some of them locked themselves ins...

The kenyan security force that says they need to be overhauled. >> under their noses. you know what though, if you think about a mall though, the way malls work, they work anything like they work here in the united states, such easy targets. mall security is not armed. there are no metal detectors in a mall. even if you have the cameras, you go in there with one gun you can take over the entire operation and that's it. all the guys that are in there, out the door. you now have control of the entire mall. you can see every nook and cranny. >> no doubt. constant warnings about soft targets lik...

Says that needs to be overhauled. when you think they were there for a month in plain sight. >> under their noses. you know what though, if you think about a mall though, if the malls work anything like they do in the united states, such easy targets. mall security, they're not armed. there are no metal detectors in a mall. even if you have the cameras, did you in there with one gun. you can take over the entire operation and that's it. all the guys in there, out the door. you have control of the entire mall. you can see every nook and cranny. >> no doubt. constant warning about soft targets...

Here. thanks, reza. on the ground in tehran. terrorists kill dozens of people in an upscale mall in kenya. what's preventing a similar horror from happening in the united states? we are taking a closer look at mall security. [ male announcer ] campbell's angus beef & dumplings. hearty cheeseburger. creamy thai style chicken with rice. mexican-style chicken tortilla. if you think campbell's 26 new soups sound good, imagine how they taste. m'm! m'm! good! imagine how they taste. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient...

Home. >> reporter: it may be more than 7,000 miles from kenya to the united states, but the mall massacre couldn't bring a tragedy any closer to home. this washington, d.c. resident was in the mall. >> i just waited in the stairwell for an hour and a half. there were two individuals with me that had superficial gunshot wounds. individuals in the stairwell with me. they were not with me. but there was about probably, i don't know, 60 of us. there were a few floors worth of people. >> reporter: the attacks on the soft targets raises questions about mall security on u.s. soil. could what happen o...