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28 inches of rain and tidal wave surges along the northeast coast. 10,000 people are taking refuge in shelters. and all of it is hitting as australians are struggling to recover from the worst flooding in decades. remember, that was the story out of australia about a week or two ago. breaking news in egypt. rocks, bottles and firebombs raining down in central cairo. the situation there getting more precarious by the moment. these are live pictures coming in. protests turning into a violent face-...

Interfere with another government. >> correct. its easy for a president to spout rhetoric, but the rubber meets the road when you have a crisis like this and you have to live up to the words. megyn: the phone rang at 3:00 a.m. and it wound up being a confusing, esoteric discussion. >> it wound up being, huh? i dont mean to make light of it. its very dangerous right now. megyn: im looking forward to hearing from dan gillerman. weve wanted to hear from him. israels been so quiet. well hear from hi...

I got a good life. but no, the life which is good at all, its relative. a good life in our country but our country is very bad life here. the most important thing i -- now i have a hope. i think that my voice is really important, and my voice is going to be heard after today. >> youre watching "world one" live from london. >> thank you for joining us. we want the give you another look at tahrir square in central cairo. >> protesters have called for a march of millions today. theyre demanding pre...

Of the transport routes into central cairo had had been shut down by the government. are people talking about that? >> yeah, and that was frustrating but people were coming by tax circumstance coming by private minibuses, a bunch of people were carpooling, they were walking, they were coming every possible way and real feeling this is a part of history, that they wanted to be part of it albeit with a little bit of anxiety. >> sure, nick what about the rumors of marching toward a presidential pal...

And joins us from new york. its great to see you. there are many americans who have been evacuated. do we have a sense of how many have left so far? >> we have numbers weve been getting in this morning. we do know that 42 americans were evacuated from cairo. they landed in sigh pres. that happened this morning. we know that some 177 americans did depart from cairo. they are bound for athens. so we have some numbers there and also a state department spokeswoman telling us the u.s. will have enoug...

Friday. right now theres no police present. i was going around cairo, and we went back seveno eight police stations, which all of them had been abandoned, looted and burned down. there is an air of lawlessness where a lot of people are defending their own homes with everything they can find. right now there isnt much in the way of law enforcement authority. the ones trying to keep order is the military. s. >> the u.s. is evacuating citizens who want to escape the chaos. the first flight has take...

Because are not carrying signs that say, i am with this faction or that faction. people here are for the most part, volunteers who have come from all walks of life. there has been a wave of lawlessness, especially at night in recent nights and there have been groups of volunteers from neighborhoods that have organized to protect their neighborhoods from people who would seek to take advantage of the power vacuum right now. and they among themselves, these self-defense groups, have actually organ...

Government is providing. 13 hours and just really unsafe. so, theres a -- im sorry. theres a large number of us here. >> i know that must be frustrating to you. i lived in egypt, in cairo. i know when everybodys trying to get in or out, it is a huge hassle. so many people that are jam packed in that area. i had a chance to talk to laura murphy earlier today and she said she was afraid, because she said, look, there are some who are decent people, but there are also these people going after ameri...

The military is respected by the people. >> one of the things that we saw back in june of 2009, president obama went to cairo. he promised pressing the reset button, if you will of. some polls indicates that egyptians theyre disappointed by u.s. policy in the middle east. ive spoken with people on the ground, who saying they dont believe that washington and this president have done enough to put pressure on the mubarak government to really bring about some social and democratic change. do you th...

Andrea mitchell here on americo get out. several hundred are camped out at the airport in cairo. jeff joins me on the phone along with his wife, linda. they flew on saturday, arriving in cairo. and since then have largely been holed up in their hotel. jeff, good morning. i understand you finally made it to the cairo airport, but what has the weekend been like for you and for your wife? >> basically, weve been in the hotel. we havent left the hotel since we arrived here until this morning when we...