welcome back. breaking news tonight in the nairobi terror attack. i said one of the kenya mall attackers had been identified but that s not the case. officials said it appeared to be a woman and she was killed early on in the siege. they said her ethnicity could not yet be determined. the president of kenya says the siege is over. back at the table my panel. i want to start with cnn s report in nairobi who s been covering the story from the beginning. what s the latest? is this siege over? reporter: well, it would seem that the active hostage taking part of the siege is over, anderson. but there s still a lot of questions that remain about where the other attackers have gone. initially we were told there were between 10 to 15 armed men in there holding these hostages. we have had five accounted for, including one of whom appears to
nairobi terror attack. i said one of the kenya mall attackers had been identified but that s not the case. officials said it appeared to be a woman and she was killed early on in the siege. they said her ethnicity could not yet be determined. the president of kenya says the siege is over. back at the table my panel. i want to start with cnn s report in nairobi who s been covering the story from the beginning. what s the latest? is this siege over? reporter: well, it would seem that the active hostage taking part of the siege is over, anderson. but there s still a lot of questions that remain about where the other attackers have gone. initially we were told there were between 10 to 15 armed men in there holding these hostages. we have had five accounted for, including one of whom appears to be the woman that you were talking about that senior kenyan
breaking news on the nairobi terror attack. the minster told pbs that two or three americans are among the gunmen. they saw things they will never forget. he lives in nairobi with his wife and a television journalist. they got inside shortly after the attack began. we will show you the pictures in the videos they shot. the images are disturbing. tyler hicks joined us. you were right next door when you noticed something was going on. explain what you 50 saw when you ran into the mall. the moment i got in, i could see lots of people running on
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watching this unfold can appreciate why. this is an extraordinarily painstaking operation. the gunmen have made it very clear from the very beginning that much like the mumbai attack they have no intention of being taken alive. we understand they are hiding behind the hostages, using them as human shield. so you can imagine trying to go into that situation to both disarm the gunmen and trying to rescue the remaining hostages, it is extraordinarily difficult and taking a long time. reporter: there are still 60 people unaccounted for. is there any kind of an update about that? because we have word about that a short time ago. reporter: well, the last few eyewitnesss that have been able to come out from within the hostage-taker s room, they re describing some pretty horrific