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Winning powerball will expire in eight days. it is worth a million dollars. and those are your fast five headlines. now to the developing situation in egypt where the muslim brotherhood has called for a week of protests as the number of dead from this weeks violence is expected to rise. i want to talk about some video were seeing. this came out of cairo yesterday. people actually jumping off that bridge on to a street below. it seems like they were terrified. they wanted to get away from the g...

Government and country now. in term, of the money theyre pouring into the system. there is some concern about the level of conflict, if you will, now, between the two militaries. you get a sense that the calls between defense secretary hagel and the defense minister, now head of the government, at least temporarily, assisi, there in cairo, while hagel lays down the law, and sets down parameters, it appears that the assisi-led government, right now, is pretty much ignoring those admonitions from ...

[ inaudible ] >> louisa loveluck, thank you very much for your reporting. well keep watching developments out of cairo. well be right back. first, a few program notes. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern, msnbc will premiere "the politics of power" hosted by chris hayes. this sunday on nbcs "meet the press," new york police commissioner ray kelly on new york citys controversial stop and frisk policy. and of course it wouldnt be "the daily rundown " if we didnt have the white house soup of the day. seaf...

These are live pictures from a bridge in cairo close to ramses square. thousands of pro-morsi supporters are headed there to protest the recent government shutdown. she was caught in the middle of the fighting. abigail, first of all, your piece was amazing. you said the fighting was stunning in its ferocity. you wrote government forces unleashing fire that seemed indiscriminate. tell us about those moments. >> it was a very frightening experience. my team and i found ourselves sort of trapped be...

Really been rallying their group to not let this pass without a fight. and i say the word fight more in the symbolic sense. they dont want this to be taken away from them. on one side you have that building up, that momentum growing. on the other side you have the government that is expressing its frustration, saying it is going to have a zero tolerance approach to demonstrations that are disrupting public life. even right behind us here in downtown cairo, central cairo, weve seen the military d...

Over the place. police opening fire very heavily on protesters and on the camp and we sort of got locked down for a bit in the middle of it. now, outside in the streets, were seeing the clashes continuing actually at this very moment. >> and i just want to ask you, you mentioned the clashes continuing, can you get a sense, and im not sure exactly where you are right now, but can you get a sense of violence, peaceful? where are we at the moment? >> well, im overlooking a major bridge in central c...

Mink meadows golf course. come on. at least get a better name for a golf course. bring in right now nbc correspondent -- >> he cant control that. >> there are more than one -- theres more than one golf course on marthas vineyard. >> ayman mohyeldin from cairo. not only you in egypt, a lot of american policymakers, it seems a lot of leaders across the world, holding their breath that we dont have another day of violence, another week of violence. but looks like, amman, that may be where were head...

At 20 past ten or so local time in cairo, it is a very warm welcome back to this special program here on cnn. im becky anderson for you. all the political and economic uncertainty in egypt now prevails. what the future holds is unclear at this point. what we do know is it is a new day and a new dawn. the transitional president has been sworn in. the military intervening some 13 hours ago and ousting the former president, morsi. rounding out and arresting members of the muslim brotherhood overnig...

Party, though the president of that party has been arrested last night. so, you know, that could be a tactic to pressure the muslim brothers to compromise and come to the negotiating table and try and actually partake in this new transition. i hope that thats the case and not the beginning of a crackdown that could only spell further violence, further bloodshed and further instability for egypt at a time that can ill afford it especially economically and for the cause of social peace. >> sure. t...

Hearing through this very loud public address system. >> ben, we hear on occasion gunshots in the background from where you are. is that part of the demonstration? or is there anything more sinister going on? >> reporter: no, i think what were seeing is this is fireworkses this is not gunfire. if its occurring, its about 500 yards from hoar what you are hearing is fortunately simply fireworks. >> ben wedeman with pro-morsi supporters in cairo. right now im going to go to reza sayah. reza, how ...