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There are barricades. there are switch k bas. and there are guard posts at every place you might get inside this giant blast wall designed to protect it from any sort of attack. the man presiding over all of this is ambassador steven becroft. he lived inside here. there are half a dozen apartment buildings for staff. offices handle everything from trade deals to visas to agriculture. there are about 5,600 workers who labor each day behind these fortified walls, troops standing by to protect them...

Those tough calls and understand all the various confluences, and i think she does come off as someone who would be very tough, but very measured on foreign policy. >> you see her changing her tone on benghazi, what happened there? >> thats right. we saw before that she was talking about, you know, im not in charge of -- i cant look at blueprints and figure out where a blast wall should be. well, today she talked basically about kind of looking back, maybe sort of second guessing, but she didnt ...

>> that is another example of the potted plant view of things. no body said she is supposed to be experts on blast wall. but she should be an expert on how dangerous the situation in libya is. the environment we created. something that was the right thing to do. then we forgot about libya and didnt seem to be concerned about the terrorist buildup particularly in benghazi. this is an example of a lack of secretary leadership. it is not enough to say experts that handle this. a real secretary of s...

Carefully. in cairo thick blast walls are blocking roads against the u.s. embassy. first of all, theres a lot going on there. what do we know about the impact. the u.s. embassy now closed. >> reporter: at this point the impact seems minimal. we should point out the blast wall has been erected for a long time now. thats because the u.s. embassy is blocking the square, a place where we have seen so many demonstrations. that was has been erected a while ago. the embassy is closed. the neighborhood ...

Caught with its guard down. one point here, to make as we conclude. that this is the last week of ramadan, a time for prayer and reflection for muslims. the security officials suggest a moment for al qaeda to regroup and perhaps attack. and this is also weighing heavily on the minds of those who made the decision in washington. fredericka, back to you. >> thank you so much, john. moving to cairo where the u.s. embassy was also closed. arwa damon is there. >> reporter: fredericka, behind this bla...

Earlier. the officers asked us to back off because their concern was we were in an area where we could be in danger. theyve moved us back considerably from where we had been. we were right at the location where that gunfire that we were just listening to had taken place. the officers were very suspicious of two, what they called, devices they found in the street. they actually brought in an armored personnel carrier to, i believe, put there sort of as a blast wall just in case those devices were...

Brought in armored personnel carrier to build up a blast wall. when first light came in the bomb disposal unit came with their spell designed vehicle to take the bombs. they have a robot will place them in there. they will move cautiously on all of this. if a suspect is out there and able to trigger the bombs at a marathon with a cell phone, its likely these could be triggered with a cell phone. the authorities want to make sure the area is safe and to affect the arrest of the suspect and take h...

Megyn: new video a homicide bombing caught on tape. take a look at this. that was the moment a terrorist drove his truck into a blast wall outside of police headquarters. that blast sending flames into the building. at least 7 people died. 8. >, 80 morewere injured. within minutes two more bombs explode. some stunning new poll numbers showing huge numbers of americans want the healthcare law repealed.

Bunker, his toss is way off! it bounces off the wall and falls right at his feet. and the recruit says, at the moment his mind went blank as -- and his trainers mind did not and the commander grabbing him and dragging him behind the blast wall and three-and-a-half second to spare, saves his life. good to have a buddy out there. in china, that is... martha: sure is! all right, well, folks, there are new calls today for some tougher security along our border after a rancher was found shot to death...