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At phoenix.edu. day six of the uprising in egypt there and is no end in sight. protesters filled the streets again today and tonight, demanding president mubarak resign. lets go live now to cairo and cnns senior international correspondent ben wedeman. ben what is the scene like there right now? >> reporter: okay. well, im not southern subbouvs cairo and its a lot different from the heart of the city. what were hearing now is sporadic gunfire for at least the last four or five hours. this is a...

>> they kill people? >> they kill people in kai row. >> we spoke yesterday, didnt we? you are the professor of the politics? >> yesterday in cairo, they killed people. this is what we are seeing that we havent seen before as well, foreign governments, stop hip pock crisis, stand for egyppings and freedom. people say they are getting frustrated. they want president obama, they want other leaders to come out in support of them. they feel the united states, european leaders are not coming out stron...

Hooligans. so, this is a sense of security to us and it is sort like a joint of working together, the military and the citizens. >> mohammad sidky, we wish you and your family the best and you have given us, even through all of the bad, a little grim over hope there in terms of security in cairo. thank you so much. >> thank you. there is a big warmup in had parts of the country on a late january day but not every where. a winter storm is threatening the nations midsection. jacqui jeras trackin...

Places like can cass city, st. louis, chicago, cleveland, possibly pennsylvania and upstate new york down the line. >> a heck of i wanter so far. >> this could be the worst storm for the plains maybe in ten years or so. >> jacqui jeras for that thank you for that. social media a galvanizing force in egypt for the protest and josh leaves has been collecting of the best i reports from the u.s. and egypt. josh? >> our i reporters on the scene have done a he tremendous amount to help cover this fr...

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...

Course is a critical ally of britain. it is also a popular destination for british tourists and travel advice has just gone out, warning british tourists to avoid certain areas in egypt. in the meantime, foreign secretary william haig has put out a statement saying he is "deeply concerned by the levels of violence in egypt." he also urged president mubarak to listen to the aspirations of the people saying that peaceful reform and not repression is the way forward. atika shubert, cnn, london. a...

Calling for the resignation of president hosni mubarak are repeating to me over and over again. >> im van watson live from cairo tonight. of course, not just cairo but alexandria and suez, where crowds of protesters, some angry, some jubilant, all frustrated with what they say is a government and a president in charge far too long. to alexandria now, where senior international correspondent nic robertson found himself in the middle of a very tense public gathering. this is earlier today. >> repo...

Squares but by and large, the army isnt really actively patrolling in this neighborhood. they are here, they have a presence, but by and large, the responsibility the for local security has simply fallen to resident he is. now, having said that, i did see that downtown, right behind our bureau, in the center of cairo that what people were doing was just these neighborhood patrols are catching looters and suspicious people and essentially dragging them and beating them along the way and taking th...

Minister called for, saying please adhere to a curfew supposed to go from moments ago until 8:00 in the morning. ivan watson, cnn, cairo. >> so many images out of egypt go to josh leaves watching it all on the web plugged into several social media outlets. josh? >> you know part of what i have been reporting on is the fact that even with the internet disappearing there for a really important block of time, people were still managing to get out videos, photos, stories, information. some people we...

Protesters almost make it across the bridge. lets let this video play for a moment here. and this is an example of the kind of thing we have been getting, people on the scene, whether they have phone cameras whether they have any kind of camera, have been managing in some cases to get us ireports. go to the next one now, someone pretty prolific for us, a christian johnson says, yes, go ahead and report this name, bringing us from cairo. he shot this video before and during a cab ride and he poin...