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Heard upwards of 600 plus. whats going to happen tomorrow? because still the egyptian military, as far as we know, has not moved in in any way to separate the two sides. >> it appears that the pro mubarak people have pulled back to some extend. we could expect a repetition of what we saw today. >> theres nothing to stop it? >> no, nothing at all. nobody is stopping it. >> were hearing more gunfire. ivan watson, you are in the square where the anti-mubarak supporters have been for this entire per...

The gravity of whats happening here. we want to keep as many people informed as possible. im joined by ben wedeman, ivan watson is with us in the square tonight and faoud ajami and john king. i want to show you some of ivan watsons reporting from earlier today. this is some of the triage places that sprang up to take care of the wounded. lets take a look. >> we will die for our freedom! >> every few minutes, somebody comes in with a great big gash on his head from a rock.

Were seeing serious injuries coming through again and again and again. mostly head injuries. weve seen people wrapping sweatshirts and jackets around their heads to protect themselves from the flying stones. underneath the balcony im standing on right now, there is a makeshift triage center with at least eight bleeding men and women treating them. >> thats the scene from ivan watson, some of his remarkable reporting. along with his photographer and producer. in the scene right now in the square ...

>> how were you able to get out? >> we left about an hour after the sun went down, maybe an hour and a half. and we ended up walking down a street just to the left of -- of the square. and we went through several different checkpoints. three different military checkpoints, which were a lot more intense than they have been in the past few days. we were being patted down and searched through our things, but they let us through, no problem. >> so, were there pro-mubarak demonstrators at the place w...

Sponsored effort to rout the pro democracy demonstrators. >> you have no doubt this was state sponsored? >> its been going on 15 hours. imagine if you had two gangs fighting together for 15 hours in times square and the government didnt intervene. theres no other explanation. when demonstrators come out on the streets in normal times, youll have 500 riot police around them. the army stands by, and these men are allowed to come and go, and ive seen them walking up and down on their way to and fro...

Pictures. can you talk us through whats happening right now in the square? >> reporter: yeah, this is one of two ambulances that are side by side that were seeing from our vantage point. ambulances have been rotating through here pretty much non-stop throughout the night, carrying away the wounded, and i would just assume that there have been fresh casualties and thats why theyve been called in here. there are two more ambulances on their way from the south end of the square right now, and at so...

At the top of the hour, i want to read you a tweet from the u.s. state department, an advisory to americans in cairo or in egypt. it says, "u.s. citizens wishing to depart egypt on u.s. government flights should proceed to airport as soon as possible after the morning end of curfew." they are telling americans who want to get out of egypt to proceed to the airport as soon as possible after curfew, which is in one hour, to try to get on u.s. government flights. the u.s. government started offerin...

So we heard some protestors, anti-mubarak protestors talk about new anti-mubarak protestors coming to join their comrades, but what youre saying they would not be allowed in the square. >> no the army was out there with tanks and everybody who tried to approach it. we lost one of our reporters in the square, and we were trying just to retrieve him. and as much as i tried and pleaded with the army, they said no way. theres no way you can go back in. >> and your reporter -- >> we found him. >> im ...

Clearly someone or a group of people have brought a large amount of incendiary devices. weve only seen occasional molotov cocktails, but this is one after the other. people in the crowd, people inside the square are the anti-mubarak protestors. im not seeing any molotov cocktails thrown back. i think they are trapped in the square. >> i think what were seeing is sort of a government sanctioned lynch mob in tahrir square. >> some of the most remarkable moments from a day in which it just seemed e...

Back and forth, machetes, clubs. but this does seem to be an escalation in the use of force here. and theyve been calling in ambulances from the southern end of the square to carry away some of the fresh wounded as were hearing gunshots before the sun has come up over the egyptian capital, anderson. >> ivan, to your knowledge, are these gunshots directly into people in liberation square? we have heard gunshots throughout the day that seemed to be troops firing in the air, although we could never...