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Hostage Crisis Continues In Kenya

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Heavy smoke rises from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya Monday Sept. 23 2013. Multiple large blasts have rocked the mall where a hostage siege is in its third day. (Jerome Delay/AP)
Heavy smoke rises from the Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya Monday Sept. 23 2013. Multiple large blasts have rocked the mall where a hostage siege is in its third day. (Jerome Delay/AP)

It's day three of the siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 62 people have died since militants stormed the shopping center on Saturday.

The militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it retribution for Kenyan military involvement in neighboring Somalia.

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This segment aired on September 23, 2013.

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