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Ships with special antimissile systems so they could intercept the rocket if it does go towards japan. back to you, jon. jon: david piper keeping an eye on north korea. thank you. jenna: well stay with overseas news and go straight to egypt. egypt plunging deeper into turmoil as the military acting on orders of the president there out in force and giving new power to arrest civilians ahead of this weeks vote on that draft constitution that is so controversial. this as thousands of protestors tak...

>> thanks so both of you. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. dramatic rescue. americans were kidnapped in afghanistan. they are freedly u.s. military coalition troops. they took him on wednesday in the district outside of kabul. six people were killed. two arrested during the dangerous mission. dr. joseph is seen here in this video posted on youtube. theres no word on his condition or if he was harmed in captivity. in egypt, a call for new protest against president morsi today. his attemp...

And is that at the heart of this and demonstration that is were seeing not only by the secularists and the moderates and christians, theyre concerned whats going to happen to their freedoms? >> exactly. this draft constitution thats supposed to be voted on still on december the 15th is sharia friendly and i think people are worried that mohammed morsi has in mind what turkeys prime minister once said, democracy is like a street car. you ride it to the stop you want and then you get off. thats a ...

But lets remember that when parliamentary elections were held some months ago, the muslim brotherhood and radical groups got three quarters of the seats and morsi himself in the run-off election won to be sure and both of those were characterized as free and fair, but its also clear that fighting in the streets isnt exactly a democratic process either and i think that the military does not want to get back in the business of government, but theyre not prepared to see the chaos continue. >> ambas...

Declaration and perhaps in light of that new constitutional declaration he would mitigate some of the new powers that he has assumed and perhaps meet the demands of the protesters on this one central issue, craig. >> and this presumably would be in direct response to the tens of thousands of protesters that we have seen behind you over the past ten days? >> reporter: absolutely. theres no doubt about it. the protesters have said that the presidential decree that was issued on november 22nd was a...

The military in this draft constitution that was rushed through last week has guaranteed a safe exit, no trial for human rights violations, has guaranteed no civilian oversight of his budget, and dont forget the military in egypt get $1.3 billion from washington, and washington currently supports our president. and washington, i have to add, is about to start supporting yet another dictator in egypt. hosni mubarak was supported by five u.s. presidents. we have a senior high-level brotherhood if ...

Egyptian state media, the government-controlled news media in cairo. >> in regards to the scene thats been behind you unfolding, what has that been like, you know, today versus a week ago today? >> reporter: well, today its relatively peaceful. it has been really since wednesday. tuesday and wednesday earlier this week those were the violent protests. what had happened was the protesters initially marched from tahrir square to the presidential pal latsz, camped out there. but supporters of presi...

World. that vote now has been delayed according to egypts electoral commission. the reason its so important is because it is an indication as to the insight perhaps of egypts president more hhamed m and whats taking place on the streets. protestors demand that president morsi rescind a decree that gave him absolute powers that he issued two weeks ago. also, they wanted to see president morsi delay the vote that was scheduled to take place on december 15th inside the country on this new draft con...

Temporary but the presidents political allies just past a draft constitution which could help present big power pull. steve harrigan live with us tonight. >> these are some the worse clashes we have seen in two weeks of protesting. they began with pushing and shoving. some protesters tearing up the tents from the other side. from there it went from rocks and sticks and then gasoline bombs hurled and then even some gunfire. at least 200 people wounded. as many as two dead. really for the first ti...

Wire and armored vehicles after protesters ignored a presidential order to vacate the area. president morsi is scheduled to address the nation later today. nbcs jim maceda is live in cairo. jim, what is the latest on what i know is a fast-moving story? >> reporter: hi there, chris. president morsi, as you say, was to broadcast a recorded statement on tv about 2 1/2 hours ago. that has not yet happened. hes expected to talk about and explain his moves over the past two weeks, starting with that c...