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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 ...

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 remai...

For an interview on wednesday. on thursday, my interview with chelsea clinton. that's all for us tonight. "ac360 later" starts right now.. at this hour the deadly standoff continues. it has now been four days since people shopping, eating and spending time with their families in an upscale mall in kenya walked into violence. the situation is unresolved and reports about who was in control of the west gate shopping mall in nairobi and how many hostages remain alive inside. some reports saying that all the hostages have been released and according to the red cross, 65 people are still unaccounte...

Hour new details are surfacing and tonight we have a much clearer picture of how the attack unfolded over the weekend. saturday afternoon, shots and explosions are heard in the busy upscale shopping mall in nairobi, kenya. >> they are want aredly being held at siege. they are held by gunmen and reports indicate that several people have been shot. >> witnesses say an unknown number of gunmen burst into the mall. firing shots at the ceiling and tossing grenades. panicked shoppers assume it's a robbery, but eyewitnesss say the gunmen tell all muslims to leave. according to some reports, asking th...

And there was a second explosion which knocked us on the ground. >> reporter: as the kenyan military takes control over more of the building, survivors start to come out. >> you're fine. >> reporter: late saturday afternoon, the terrorist group, al-shabaab, comes forward, complaining responsibility for the attack in a series of tweets, also indicating one or more of the gunmen may be american. sunday, and the siege continues. by mid-day, the kenyan government announces 59 are dead, more than 175 wounded. among them, 26-year-old american elaine dane, who spoke by phone. >> i am okay. >> reporte...