kira simmons is in mali for us. al kira, what can you tell us?> reporter: i'm standing outside the hotel and now chris, it is very quiet, to the hotel, as you would expect has been cleared out. there's smashed glass. i have a fair degree of mali security forces here, investigating. i can't see any here now, but i did meet one north american man, who tells me chris, to get his luggage back, he was wheeling his bag down the street, along the street, having gone to get it. he told us that he hid in his room. his shooters hung in the hotel. while two of them have been killed, three they say they are on the loose. that makes potentially five shooters into the hotel, inge discriminantly witnesses say, and shouting fw ining god is gr moved from room to room killing people as they went along. some people say they asked them to recite verses from the koran and those who would not were killed. and they do appear to have been quite effective. more than 20 people kill canned, but that's a lot less than the some 170 who were in the hotel. they were held by th