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Transportation. now not letting anyone leave there with their luggage and actual suitcases. that will be transported on a separate plane. thats a pretty significant step for the british government to take. now for president obama himself to say this likely was a bomb you have to believe they were holding on to intelligence that is extremely significant. >> thanks as always. i want to bring in nbc foreign correspondent in cairo for us. we should note he has probably spent more time in egypt than ...

Happening now in egypt, the countrys new cabinet held its first meeting today. protesters are maintaining a human chain in cairos tahrir square, many insisting theyre no going to budge until hosni mubarak steps down. the city is showing signs of returning to normal. in arizona the state senate judiciary committee is considering legislation aimed at denying u.s. citizenship or its citizenship to u.s. born babies of illegal immigrants. that legislation would challenge the 14th amendment which gu...

Your barricades. >> yes. >> reporter: why? >> to face the tanks. >> reporter: why do you have to face the tanks? >> to stop them. >> reporter: the men of the barricades fear egyptian soldiers may use force to kill their revolution. to prevent that, they say theyre ready to pay the ultimate price. ivan watson, cnn, cairo. >> great story. what if i told you that we have the power to change the human species into whatever we want it to be? im not daydreaming here. after the break, ill talk to a m...

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Ago, thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators are jammed into cairos at that require square. their vow? the same but louder and clearer than ever before. theyll remain in the square for as long as it takes to force president mubarak to step down. joining me now michael holmes. he and i have spent a lot of time in very bad places. >> i was going to say, was it baghdad? >> a lot of nasty places. >> good to be with you and not in a bad place. well kick off with egypt today. probably the main thing ...

Health care and labor issues, and we will, again, if we have to. >> no question, there are areas of common ground between the chamber and the president. you heard the president refer to this in his speech talking about cutting corporate taxes. he also said that in the state of the union. he spoke in the speech today about expanding free trade and also spending more on infrastructure. when it comes to job creation, what the chamber of commerce says is, look, it all comes down to reducing regulati...

The creators of lovely faces.com say its really not a dating site but an experiment to show how easy it is to steal peoples identities from facebook. if anybody is upset about being part of the experiment they say theyll remove your photograph, but you have to ask. in egypt, cairo is seeing some calming today with the number of anti-government provide testers in tahrir square shri shrinking. they are not backing down on their demands that president must bark leave immediately. and president mu...

Narcotics and get that plane prepared for its outbound trip. >> reporter: some 200 corrupt airline workers have been arrested since 2003. >> with our investigations, the goal is to stop it. >> reporter: deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. 21 minutes past the hour. time to check developments in our top stories. cairo is seeing some calming today with the number of anti-government protestors in tahrir square shrinking. but those remaining arent backing down on their demand that president hosni ho...

That is one option. is that good newspaper for the anti-mubarak regime? back room deals and negotiations are going on now. in the meantime, cairo and the country of egypt coming to a grinding halt and the economic situation is certainly becoming desperate. banks are supposed to open on sunday. egyptegypts central bank said y will prevent runs on the money. people are not getting access to money, are not getting paid and a lot percentage of the population is fed up with the situation and wants it...

But he is not. this really is another hour to go with the demand that he do so, and no indication that he is going to do so, and joining me is assistant secretary of state under george w. bush. secretary, is there an urgency to hosni mubarak leaving? he has said himself that it would be worse if he stepped down right now because he is saying it is a vacuum. what do you make of that? >>guest: the fact that yesterday and the day before that, some of the thugs were put into cairo and basically maki...