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Incredible the scenes that we saw of the troops fanning out, the egyptian army and special forces riot police fanning out in parts of central cairo in the two hours that led up to this momentous announcement by the head of the egyptian military. also, if you put 2 into context, i mean, the military was running the show here more than a year ago, and the demonstrators were gathering in this square, were actually attacked on multiple occasions by the military police action and those times you had ...

Military in some kind of sure force. because if that happens the military will have to decide whether theyre going to clear the streets of cairo using force. and thats not going to be pretty. the brotherhood, i know somebody who belongs to the brotherhood who said to me, we are going out there with our shrouds. in other words, we are ready for death. >> and if that happens, this situation, we have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people on one side versus hundreds of thousands on another sid...

Know how long this period will last nor how long it would be until new presidential and parliamentary elections, but certainly tonight here, the hundreds of thousands in tahrir square absolutely delight ed. becky, well come back in a minute. ben wedeman is standing by in a different part of cairo with supporters of the muslim brotherhood and president morsi. ben, how aprilry are the demonstrators there? >> reporter: very, jake. when they heard this announcement that president morsi has been of...

Around barracks where mohamed morsi is currently. were awaiting a statement from the military. what will they say? what is the road map for egypt as we look ahead? well take you live to cairo here momentarily. in the meantime, back to sanford, florida. back to this crime scene technician talking specifically dna and blood at this crime scene from february of last year. here you go. >> its somewhere in between. i cant include them in the mixture. i cant exclude them based on what im seeing. so im...

Extensive discussions. the president, president obama, on monday spoke with president morsi. we know chuck hagel, the defense secretary, spoke with general asisi, head of the egyptian military over the past 24 hours. how the u.s. reacts to what has just been announced in cairo is going to be very significant. what do you anticipate? >> you put it exactly right, wolf. the crucial question is, is this described as a coup or not? you notice that the military is trying very hard to make the case tha...

Welcome back. were bringing you live coverage from cairo. these are supporters of president morsi and the muslim brotherhood demonstrating. they are distressed, outraged, upset after the egyptian military ousted the democratically elected president morsi in a coup, though the military is not calling it a coup, saying theyre setting the stage for parliamentary and presidential elections. call it dpa gentleman have you, egypt tired of another someone who led the country and did not share the highe...

Well take you back to sanford, florida, in just a moment. take a look at these pictures. i have to show you this. left hand of your screen, hundreds of thousands of people protesting against the democratically elected president of egypt, mohamed morsi. that is tahrir square. that was the heart and soul of the revolution some 2 1/2 years ago that ultimately ousted the then leader, hosni mubarak. on the right side of your screen, just a couple miles away, folks with quite a different perspective. ...

Wiggle room. each government, each parliament will make those decisions based on how they see fit and what they see the facts are. i think this is a double-edged sword for the west. the egyptians are saying look, we are the people and we have put our voice on the streets, marched with our feet and said no confidence to our president of one year. well see if it can actually bring egypt off this failure of governance into some kind of more rational set of politics. as you know, in this emerging de...

Dan lothian is getting more reaction from the obama administration. ivan watson is still watching whats going on. ivan, this looks like new years eve in cairo. >> reporter: it does. i mean, and its not just here. i was traveling throughout central cairo just about a half an hour ago and i saw these pockets of egyptians celebrating what many of them felt was the imminent overthrow, you could call it, of egypts first ever democratically elected president, mohamed morsi who was elected just a year ...

Im wolf blitzer in washington. were following huge breaking news out of cairo. we expect momentarily the opposition leadership in egypt, the opposition to the egyptian president mohammed morsi to be making a statement. whats being described as a road map to new elections in egypt. it looks like the egyptian military has dramatically stepped in. mohamed morsi, unclear where he is, what his status is right now. he is the democratically elected president of egypt. but clearly the egyptian military ...