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Concerned that the situation in egypt will only deteriorate. this is what has become of egypts revolution. once peaceful demonstrations now turned violent and deadly. on wednesday for the first time, pro-mubarak forces began showing up on tahrir square, the place thats become both the symbolic and physical center of the opposition. >> we are egyptian. we choose our leader. hosni mubarak is our leader. >> reporter: in an almost medieval scene, men on horseback and camels rushed the anti-governmen...

Clearly you knew this guy eventually was going to get into trouble. you knew he wasnt listening. >> now its spreading all across the middle east. >> lets set the scene here, five minutes past the top of the hour. egypts prime minister is now apologizing for attacks by pro-mubarak supporters on anti-government protesters in central cairo and vowing to investigate who was behind it. he told state tv this morning that the violence was a, quote, blatant mistake. right now army tanks and soldiers are...

Answering a phone call to confirm the number kill killed in this attack but earlier violence, three people died and 600 injured that. was yesterday their time. mubarak supporters charged the square on horses and on camel was whips and others were on roof tops and dropping fire bombs. now pro testers are now -- we have those pro testers but now what were see are reaction nairy groups, some supporters of mubarak others saying hey we dont love mubarak but at least we can live or lives. whats happen...

Demonstrators. well see the fire at the building there. it looks like -- were going to find out what exactly that building is. but you can see. every time you see a burst of flames, thats another molotov cocktail thats been thrown out there. it looks, fred, like theres no shortage of molotov cocktails. theyve come well supplied. >> reporter: yes, thats what we were just talking about here as well. were seeing sort of cars arrive on the scene here. theres a big main road with an overpass going pa...

Climbing up now. cars keep stopping. guys keep gathering around these cars and building new fire bombs and lodging them over there. the others, youll see those as well, wolf. theyve fortified the position here in front of us at the entrance of tahrir square. they set up the metal sheets, i guess they are. you can hear them pounding against the metal sheets. theyre sort of just waiting now, throwing the occasional molotov cocktail at the other side. its really a standoff here right now. it looks ...

The pro-mubarak agitators have been pushed out pretty much, and they are gathered on an overpass overlooking that side street. they are throwing molotov cocktails and fire bombs. they have set substantially a very large fire right in front of the barricades behind which are the anti-regime protesters but were not seeing clashes the way we were a few hours ago. theres a military helicopter surveying the scene overhead. im still seeing some smoke coming out of some sections of the street where mol...

>> let me interrupt for a moment, fred. this building thats on fire right now, do we know what this building is? >> reporter: im not sure what that building is, but it is one that was heavily contested throughout the day. and youre absolutely right. its just across from the egyptian museum, which is a very important building in its. and theres actually a little fire in front of that as well. were also hearing now what might be gunshots again into the city. theres also a fire in front of the muse...

And fire bombs that are being thrown. but you have the egyptian museum reportedly on fire, the repository of all those art facts from king tuts tom, that is the -- tomb, that is the main stop for visitors to egypt, tourists, et cetera, a big part of their economy based on tour im. if you lose something like the egyptian museum, and im not saying theyre going to lose it, we dont know how bad the fire is, but if theres damage to something like that, you have really disrupted that nations economy, ...

That this would be going nowhere and they would he not wouldnt be caught by surprise. where else in the region should we be looking, then? where do we think that its quiet but it may not be quiet? where could things bubble up and spiral out of control? >> and would that potentially lead to growing terrorism concerns that the united states needs to be critically worried about snm. >> absolutely. the number two of al qaeda, squ zawahiri is egyptian. you can just imagine now how some of these group...

Pro government demonstrators, those who support the government of hosni mubarak apparently broke into -- dash broke through the police lines in tahrir square earlier today, and have been battling by the thousands with antigovernment protestors who generally have made that square their own. you can see protesters on both sides are throwing seasons, fire bombs, swinging at each other with metal pipes and pieces of wood. it is absolute bedlam in cairo, egypt right now. fire bombs have been raining ...