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Spread across africa, where will it go to next. >> a short time ago, jonathan mann talked with that with andrew pierre, a senior fellow at the institute of peace. >> well, tunisia clearly sparked this, but its a combustible situation in many countries in the middle east and as far as the egyptians are concerned, i think they were shamed by the success in tunisia to undertake something similar, and it was, you know, coming in any case. >> how bad could this get in egypt and elsewhere before this ...

Their cell phone, propagating their message around the country. the voices here in alexandria are just getting louder and louder. there are people here like this gentleman who are helping control the crowds, the message now getting louder and perhaps a little more controlled. nic robertson, cnn, alexandria. >> as you can see there the density of these demonstrationing is very impressive. >> great report there from nic. were coming up to sunday and egypts sunday is the start of the working week. ...

On residents? any acts of violence so far by these looters? >> no, so far i havent heard of any acts of violence. >> so theyre just stealing whatever they can get. >> yes. >> this seems like a moment of opportunity. >> absolutely. theres a great deal of instability in the country at this moment. >> dena on the line for us in cairo. hes been there visiting her parents and obviously a harrowing night for her because of what appears to be a complete breakdown of security in cairo, in those outlying...

Looting going on simply for criminal purposes, that would be one place with valuables. the things there could be sold on the black market for an enormous amount of money. its not clear why were seeing what were seeing, but this part of the worlds heritage, hopefully the damage isnt too severe. >> of course we keep a eye on all the latest images coming in from the crisis that continues to unfold. egyptian american protesters are also converging outside the united nations, and many americans who h...

Mubarak administration and secretary of state hillary clinton, she gave a very important speech not so long ago calling for internet freedom and the freedom of information and how crucial it was. that was actually directed at china at the time. but now were seeing a u.s. ally cutting twitter, cutting cell phone, cutting down the internet. actually it was pretty simple in egypt. >> but after the fact. >> exactly. but they just pulled out the internet service providers, because theres only four of...

It also has a lot of leverage in terms of the messages that its sending about its support for mubarak. right now the message is were not going to cut you loose, but if you dont institute reforms, youll see how quickly we can soften our language in support of you, fred. >> all right, thanks so much. state department producer joining us from washington. >> egypt is the second largest recipient of u.s. aid, a long way behind israel, but that gives the u.s. at least some leverage over what happens a...

Them are speaking with their relatives back in egypt to keep an eye on them. were here at the rally now, expected to go on for another couple of hours as they continue to chant in support of what is happening throughout their native egypt. back to you, fred and jonathan. >> susan candiotti, thanks so much, outside of new york. just one of the many protests in solidarity of egypt that are taking place across the country. >> in fact, lets go to washington now where a call to protest was put out on...

Their own hands. >> this is extraordinary because weve seen tens of thousands of people in the streets celebrating the upheaval egypt is undergoing right now, but cairo is a city of 20 million. so when you discount the people who are out there and pushing hard for change, you still get a lot of people who are home, worrying about what change is going to bring. >> reporter: yes. its a very different situation when you get outside of downtown cairo. you mentioned it, cairo is a city of about 20 mi...

9% copic christian. the median age is 24 which means most egyptians werent even born when hosni mubarak became president in 1981. even though egypt is an ancient civilization, it was under foreign control for much of its history and it didnt become an independent republic until 1953. so according to u.n. figures, egypts per capita income is just $1800 a year. egypts official 2010 unemployment rate was 9.7%, but analysts think the true unemployment rate is substantially higher, and many believe t...

How has this actually worked. weve seen it in tunisia, where it worked successfully, didnt work so well in iran so here in egypt whats been happening. >> it depends on the results youre looking for. if youre looking for people trying to get information out, get their pictures and video out, get basic information out, you do find that they manage to do it and some people would say, hey, they managed to succeed even inside iran. clearly big picture is you can see there are times the government has...