crowd of cheering protesters in central cairo, this just a few hours ago. elbaradei told cnn today that egypt was in his words, falling apart and he called for president hosni mubarak to leave today and save the country. one fear held by many egyptians today did come to fruition, that in the chaos, prisoner does escape from jails while the police were occupied elsewhere or just went away. that did happen in cairo and several other cities. cnn s frederik pleitgen and his group haved story. reporter: when we got here, a gun battle was raging inside. inmate also escaped and stolen many when from the building s arsenal. the problem not just that the prisoners got out this man told us, the problem is the prize earns got out and took all the weapons with them. the townspeople told us looters