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And i flew back to cairo and our primary priority has been working in our district with all our neighbors, friends, taking care of over 3,000 of our employees that live all over cairo. making sure they are getting food and water and all the necessary medical attention that is required. that has been our focus for the entire 10 days. >> did you still feel it is a very dangerous situation? that people are not safe in your neighborhood. >> after the break of five prisons having over 11,000 criminal...

Keep back the crowd. overall, the protest was peaceful. the arm promising not to use force, calling the protesters demand legitimate. >> the goal of the thousands and thousands of marchers coming all over cairo to here, litigation square -- liberation square in the center of the city. this is again, determination. >> reporter: as activists bound the drum louder for mubaraks departure, calling the tune the increasingly dire situation here. egypt - minister offering food age. the question is what ...

Overall, the protest was peaceful. the arm promising not to use force, calling the protesters demand legitimate. >> the goal of the thousands and thousands of marchers coming all over cairo to here, litigation square -- liberation square in the center of the city. this is again, determination. >> reporter: as activists bound the drum louder for mubaraks departure, calling the tune the increasingly dire situation here. egypt - minister offering food age. the question is what will happen next? wil...

We heard from ben in cairo, people are most concerned about their personal properties, their businesses, they want those things protected. but alexandria and cairo are very different cities. can you kind of spell out the similarities and differences between these two big cities in egypt? >> reporter: alexandria is a city thats had a reputation for the police and the interior ministry to be particularly brutal against the people in terms of picking people up for questioning, in terms of torture, ...

This demonstration in tahrir square, but i can tell you, probably most cairo residents are more worried about their homes, their property, and their loved ones. >> ben, egypt has one of the largest militaries in the world, half a million men strong. it is a police state, and even though the police fully have been pushed back, you have to wonder why the police, such as they are, why the military is letting that kind of chaos, that kind of danger overtake the capital of the country. >> reporter: w...

Pictures from the army in tahrir square, on the street behind me, but theyre largely absent in many of the neighborhoods in cairo. ive seen people are setting up barricades, handing out sticks and kitchen knifes to the men and teenagers in the neighborhoods because people are worried about looters, about anarchy, theyre worried about prisoners escaping, and just creating havoc in the street. and by and large the army is enjoying the sort of lovefest in tahrir square. but people, were getting pho...

Their garb because weve seen police stations being torched, being burned down, but first looted. weapons have been taken from the police. that shield we saw a moment ago could have been stolen from a politician police station. alexandria has been going toward violence, away from violence, this was shot in the last 24 hours, that suggests things quieted down there and then got worse again, which is what we heard from our nic robertson. hes actually in that city which unlike cairo is on the medite...

Nic robertson is there. youve heard gun shots there and there were signs of tear gas and other indicators of real problems there in alexandria. >> reporter: the problems that are emerging are very much like ben describes in cairo. here the army only present in very small numbers in the center of the city and a very weak position, not prepared to take on the crowds, not willing to even stand up and stop them when they climb on their trucks, when they climb on trucks to celebrate. we have heard gu...

On the u.s. list after afghanistan, pakistan and israel. a key player in the middle east peace process, helping to get cease-fire agreements, they host operation bright star. president obama chose cairo in 2009 as the site of a major speech, an outreach to the muslim world. >> so first tunisia, and then algeria threatening also yemen and now egypt. will there be a ripple effect across the entire region? >> were already seeing some kind of resonance, but this is the concern for the obama administ...

That seems to be the impression of many egyptians. and it must be pointed out, the army has no training in restoring civil order. theyre an army. theyre an army thats trained to fight the enemies of egypt, not he egyptian people. the soldiers i can tell you, they dont know what to do. theyre out in their tanks, theyre enjoying all the back slaps, the hugs, the kisses and the photographs people are making of them, but theyre not really on sure ground when it comes to establishing law and order in...