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Immigrant visa candidates, people that supported the u.s. military and state department for two decades in afghanistan. if the push now is to get americans there, is there effort to get remaining afghans, potentially thousands of them, to the airport. will there even be time or ability to get them through the gates. we have seen this crush of people at the gates but because of the new effort, what theyre doing is sending americans in intervals to the gates. there actually has been less of a crow...

The population and the crowds down, or will something else? we had a video released last night. stephanie gosk standing by to talk to us about it. and stephanie, a lot has been said about the imagery in this isis video, whether its looking to recruit aspirational individuals, whether its just a taunt, a tweak, recruitment tool. bottom line, the crossroads of america there behind you has got to stay open, and theres got to be visible nypd presence there. >> reporter: yes. and there has been today...

>> reporter: thats certainly a good questions. the egyptian military has clearly over the last couple of hours not been trying to prevent any pro-mubarak protesters from getting into the square, and in the early hours before it escalated to this level of violence, when it was a smaller crowd, they were not seen doing anything to try to keep the two sides apart and when violence was breaking out early on, it was individuals punching out other individuals and reporters were being attacked, they di...

Government shutdown. this isnt like the protesters shutting down the rail. the national rail service will be shut down. ben was telling us that a few minutes ago. thats likely to be an effort to keep the crowds down. >> also anecdotally you talked to ben earlier and talked about his family. he doesnt just work out of there, he lives there, works there, his family. >> some of the correspondents, two, three, four, years. ben has lived there over 15 years with a couple of breaks elsewhere. this is ...

Correspondent mike to bein joins us. great to see you. dominic, lets start with you. what is the latest on this report of gunfire after what was mostly a peaceful day? >> it was a mostly peaceful day wex saw families returned to the square. the military is set up tanks and reinforced troop lines. the army has heavy mcguns. and weve seen it in the past few days when the military wants to calm the crowds down, particularly the pro-government supporter whos have been aggressive of the two sides ten...