developing now on news nation, is it really over? despite gunfire being heard most of the day, the past hour kenya s president declares victory over the terrorists in that mall attack saying 11 of the terrorists are now in custody and what he said about the possibility that are americans amongst the terrorists. the year long custody battle over the little girl known as baby veronica comes to an emotional end. parents outrage offensive and racial text messages about students sent by a veteran member of the city s school board. but first the news nation is following developing news out of the united nations of what could be an historic day in american relations with iran. all eyes it s on president obama
wanting to say that kenya is actually a friendly, kind nation. but at this junction, there are so many challenges lying ahead with the situation here, still unresolved and so many unanswered questions, kate. arwa, thank you so much. we re only now beginning with your piece to understand the terror that these folks lived through. thanks so much, arwa damon in kenya for us. is there a u.s. connection to this deadly mall attack in nairo nairobi? kenyan s foreign minister says some of the al shabaab gunmen are originally from the united states but so far, u.s. intelligence has not confirmed that claim. let s go live to cnn s martin savidge in minneapolis looking into this. how is the community reacting this morning. reporter: it s difficult. as soon as they heard the news coming out of kenya, there was an emergency meeting of civic as well as religious leaders in the american-somali community here.
in there. it s not going to be as tough as some of the western powers would like, soaking up slightly more of russia s desires here. so much on the plate of those two men in their meeting, fredricka. looking forward to hearing the result of that. nick paton walsh, thank you so much. we ll bring you all the details right here on cnn. it will be a fascinating day in new york at the u.n. so many different branches of diplomacy being reached out. the stories of survival continue from that mall attack in kenya. people running for their lives, one man taking cover in a flower bed outside the mall, just hoping he would make it through after getting shot. his story, coming up next. [ cheering ]
two law enforcement sources tell cnn that analysts are trying to verify the terror groups claims. we ve been waiting for this all morning, actually, expecting him to talk to his nation today about this deadly mall attack. while security forces say they are doing their final sweep of the site, troops are also dealing with a partial roof collapse there. yeah. let s find out what s happening right now. our zain verjee is in nairobi, a place she used to call home. her family still lives there. zain, we ve been hearing it all wrap up for a couple of days now. what signs are there really that this could be coming to an end? reporter: well, it ain t over till it s over, right? sources here have been saying for a while now that they are in full control of westgate mall. then they said, well, we ve got to do some sweeps still. we ve got to clear it. what we saw today, they said they were defusing explosives.
especially among friendly nations. chuck, if we didn t have the possible breakthrough with iran and continued negotiations with syria, that might have been the head line there. what s interesting about this, the administration thought last week just simply the brazilian canceling the state dinner, a hot place to invest, a lot of people excited about rousseff coming. i think this one they can t chalk this up to she was simply placating domestic politics. this is a snub on the world stage, right before he went to speak, just proves this nsa thing has been a big, by complicating factor for the president, not justal domesticay but internationally. developing in the past hour, kenya s president declared victory over the terrorists in the deadly mall attack saying quote, we have shamed and defeated our attackers.