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Inches could come out of this easily acres long with winds 40 miles per hour. that is what creates a blizzard. we think the middle mississippi river valley, parts of the ohio river valley will have a major freezing rain event, a half an inch, maybe an inch of freezing rain will take down power lines and create power outage potentially for days w dough have one with storm system today we are dealing with, make you all aware of. across the gulf coast, getting heavy rain, isolated thunderstorms her...

With them. if the government was in control here, enforcing a curfew, the demonstration couldnt have taken place. the army, as we have seen is taking a step back and protecting government buildings. seeing this army armored personnel carrier this evening chasing through the streets that is the first time ive actually seen the army take a proactive position and its not clear what that proactive position is. is it chasing down the vehicle through the street or chasing down the demonstrators who ar...

It is you want to share about what is going on inside egypt and we will share some of those in the next hour. and before i go you know, we are also get a lot of help covering the protests taking place elsewhere inside -- the rest of the world. lets go to one of these videos right here that has come into us. i think the first one we are getting here, lets listen to this. >> hey, hey, ho, horks mubarak has to go. >> this is from the protest inside washington. people in support of the protesters th...

Point, as we just heard live bullets being fired there. >> the army vehicle has moved on. the cars that drove -- the vehicles that drove through the area moved on but there is a large group of young men in this direction and another group in this direction on the corner, clearly very agitated. i can hear them moving barricades into the road. they appear now to want to block the roads close to where we are, this hasnt been the case until now, very agitated, very excited. they are building barrica...

Revolvers, samurai swords, baseball bats, any sort of club people can find. people are staying out all night in the street, put out fires, bringing their dogs with them because their real fear is that despite all the excitement in the middle of town that on the outskirts, there are people who want to loot and steal and burn. so, lots of tens here. drew? >> ben, we just talked with mohammed sidky you an egyptian-american businessman who was noticing that the military was assisting civilians in ar...

>> there are almost too many voices to hear and to talk to and understand everything thats been said, but the one thing thats very, very clear from everyone here, the frustration, the frustration of the people seems to be growing and getting stronger and their demands are getting louder. the problem is they appear at this stage still not to be being heard by the president. nic robertson, cnn, alexandria, egypt. >> we are joined now by nic robertson live. nic, very eye-opening report. like you sa...

The volatility of the situation here that is the spark that could cause further outbreaks of violence here. thats -- thing an theyre we found on the streets here as well as that frustration hearing in the day there, drew. >> let me ask you in alexandria, does appear, nic, from your vantage point, that the military is doing anything to improve the secure outity or merely reactin? >> reporter: in a lot of cases it is, drew, simply standing to one side and letting the protesters condition. a demons...