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President is an indication that the military has taken these steps notwithstanding hesitations that constitutes this provisional government right now. finally, most importantly, the question is where does egypt go with respect to the vast majority of egyptians who wanted to see the military take action against these encampments by the muslim brotherhood but probably is revolted by the sheer magnitude of the attacks and bloodshed taking place not only in cairo but across egypt. >> ambassador, you...

But these are members of the muslim brotherhood firing at the security forces. this refutes the muslim brotherhoods claims that their protests have been peaceful. its unclear in terms of how many people have died but also at whose hands did they die? were they shot by the muslim brotherhood gunmen you see here or by the army as they moved in? there were two protest camps the army says they control. the muslim brotherhood has been there for six or seven weeks camping out saying in the mohamed mor...

Muslim brotherhood members as well firing back at the army in the streets in cairo. so all of this continues to have a lot of question marks along with it. earlier, deputy white house press secretary john earnest was asked about how the administration is planning to react to all of this. >> over the course of the last several weeks, senior officials in the obama administration have been in touch with our counter-parts in egypt. we read out to you a couple of calls secretary kerry has made and ca...

A news corp colleague gunned down in this fighting early this morning in cairo. the violence and the bloodshed exploding across that country now erupting in nearly a dozen other cities including alexandria. no signs right now that any of this is letting up. covering this developing crisis from our bureau in jerusalem is leyland. what a difference the last 24 hours has made. >> reporter: incredible how much it changed in the last couple of hours. right now theres a state of emergency declared in ...

Syrian, and american nationals. in addition to the month-long state of emergency and tonights curfew, the military has expanded power to help local police say they will restore order. just 30 minutes ago, in fact, u.s. secretary of state john kerry said the promise of the arab spring itself in egypt has now been deeply damaged by todays violence. >> violence will not create a road map for egypts future. violence only impedes the transition to an inclusive, civilian government, a government chose...

Egyptian military and security forces to show restraint and for the government to respect the universal rights of its citizens, just as weve urged protesters to demonstrate peacefully. the violence will only make it more difficult to move egypt forward on a path to lasting stability and democracy and runs directly counter to the pledges by the interim government to pursue reconciliation. we also strongly oppose a return to emergency law and call on the government to respect basic human rights, s...

Throughout the course of the last 24 hours. heres a live look from cairo. things relatively quiet now that military leaders have declared a state of emergency. they have in stilled a curfew on the streets they say will be in place for a month all in reaction to deadly violence we saw playing out this morning. government forces began to clear out. we saw sit-ins part of the protests and we were told they would deal with those by peaceful means. it all changed dramatically in early morning hours t...

There is some sort of resolution on all of this imminent. steve harrigan joins us now streaming live from cairo with the latest. steve, do you think that we could see some kind of compromise today on this? >> reporter: martha, we are certainly hearing sound from the presidential teamsh to reace opposition in a push for a possible compromise. what were likely to see in the next 90 minutes here is a meeting between egypts president and some top judges here inside cairo. judges across the country h...

About 20 seconds from the time the vines go off to the time that there is an interception or things land here. right now we are hearing booms over head. those are most likely interceptions of flying out of gaza to other cities. currently on the border with gaza right now is some 30,000 reservists who have been called up a n israeli tanks armored personnel carriers and infantry soldiers waiting for the go for a ground defensive we are told could come anywhere in the next 24-48-hours. that would b...

9/11 on tuesday, yesterday was wednesday, today being thursday of the main protests here in cairo outside the u.s. embassy, and we are bracing for friday which is expected to be a major day of protest here inside cairo. still tonight 7 p.m. local time there are flames on the streets of cairo outside the u.s. embassy as now the egyptian police and military seem to have at least reinforced the compound from our position. you could count at least about a dozen armored vehicles that the police are u...