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Mike? >> reporter: here in the second city we can hear a little gunfire but for the most part there is an eerie calm of alexandria. we are seeing groups of armed gunmen setting up check points. they are only hundred yards away from an army position. foreigners and journalistsists have been under attack and even more have been clubbed and beaten and hit with mace. part of the blame is directed is directed to omar suleiman, the worst of the violence is still in tahrir square where the demonstratio...

And it seems to be also attempts perhaps to sort of get the media off the streets. get the media out of the high floors of hotel rooms overlooking the square. get cameras out of those rooms. weve had restrictions put on cameras on the upper floors in our hotel and in another hotel nearby. both of which overlook this square. which has become the heart of the act here. >> greta: charles, thank you. >> reporter: my pleasure, thank you. >> greta: mike tobin joins us live from egypt. how is it differ...

A high price for that. and it seems to be also attempts perhaps to sort of get the media off the streets. get the media out of the high floors of hotel rooms overlooking the square. get cameras out of those rooms. weve had restrictions put on cameras on the upper floors in our hotel and in another hotel nearby. both of which overlook this square. which has become the heart of the act here. >> greta: charles, thank you. >> reporter: my pleasure, thank you. >> greta: mike tobin joins us live from ...

Nile, there are a lot of what seems to be anti-mubarak protesters making their way toward tahrir square right now. ive seen hundreds if not thousands come across that bridge and that shows no sign of abating at this point in time. whats also going on is there seems to be held up at one of the entrapss to ta year square because one of the things that are going on is theres a lot of check points at the anti-mubarak protesters have put in place. i went into that area yesterday, and you had to go th...

Some that required much more medical attention than we could offer. a lot of it was, you know, many needed stitches. a lot of them came two or three times. they could come back minutes later with another head injury. >> the anti-mubarak demonstrators managed to push the pro-mubarak demonstrators out of tahrir square. they have largely taken over the roads leading in and out of the square as well. >> were right in tahrir square. were in between two makeshift check points or barricades f you will.

Have to realize that pretty much every block of cairo has its own local security force. people have set up with improvised weapons, samurai swords, pieces of metal and sticks. and at variety times during the da day, theyll have check points ready. if you hit the wrong one, and people have the wrong attitude, they may very well pick you up. thats what happened to me. they flipped through my passport and found some iranian stamps. they thought from that i was an iranian spy. the next thing i knew ...

Doing it. now it appears according to the pictures we are seeing that the military is now moving on its own people. and one thing we have not seen at least in the early goings on is a lot of guns. we saw a lot of rocks and bottles, but i dont remember seeing a lot of people firing on each other through the day. is that right? >>reporter: thats right. we have not seen that, either. they were, there were check points initially where the military was trying to check people for weapons but they gave...

Evans involved with the muslim brotherhood in the gaza flotilla. ayers and dorran organized an effort to bring political pressure to bear on the mubarak regime and israel. to allow for the aid from hamas, which is the muslim brotherhood to be delivered through egyptian check points. ayers and dorran participated in the weather underground, 1969 days of rage in chicago. last fridays rioting in egypt was dubbed by the muslim brotherhood "days of rage." what a coincidence. remember when we talked a...

Evans involved with the muslim brotherhood in the gaza flotilla. ayers and dorran organized an effort to bring political pressure to bear on the mubarak regime and israel. to allow for the aid from hamas, which is the muslim brotherhood to be delivered through egyptian check points. ayers and dorran participated in the weather underground, 1969 days of rage in chicago. last fridays rioting in egypt was dubbed by the muslim brotherhood "days of rage." what a coincidence. remember when we talked a...

We do like check points in the street. like all the side streets are closed off. and we take shifts like i guess doing like check points. >> obviously, its good to be home and everything like that, but living in the country, its not something you like to see. >> well, internet interruptions in egypt are making it extremely difficult for americans there to get information about evacuations, but the state department spokeswoman told us that the word is still getting out. the u.s. is considering se...