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Time. about 11:00 eastern time. so that window as i said has passed. nothing has happened. that is the good news. for now those tens of thousands of students who attend the university of texas at austin are still out of class. rhonda weldon the communications director there. we thank you for the phone call. jenna: as we continue to watch the situation in texas there is also a new flashpoint in the growing wave of anti-american violence overseas. the protests right now taking a deadly turn in one...

Communications from the office of the vice president there. is the evacuation still underway, rhonda? >> yes, it is. jon: because it was our understanding that this caller with a middle eastern accent claimed to be from al qaeda and said they had placed bombs all over campus that were due to go off in 90 minutes. do i have that right? >> i do, thats correct. jon: but this came in at about 8:35 your time. so the 90 minute window has passed right? >> thats correct. but law enforcement is investiga...

lit himself on fire on the street in protest of the government. so thats one of the reasons why were watching tunisia, to see again where is this arab spring headed? the other thing is the timing. it is 4:00 p.m. now in tunisia. 4:00 p.m. is around the time where afternoon prayers begin. we expect to see in the next hour or several hours after the expectation violence will get worse not better. you can see the live feed switching to local news. a lot of things happening in the entire m...

street in protest of the government. so thats one of the reasons why were watching tunisia, to see again where is this arab spring headed? the other thing is the timing. it is 4:00 p.m. now in tunisia. 4:00 p.m. is around the time where afternoon prayers begin. we expect to see in the next hour or several hours after the expectation violence will get worse not better. you can see the live feed switching to local news. a lot of things happening in the entire mid-east. something were wat...

we have good information driving it and given the stakes involved we hope to keep the pressure on as long as we can. the u.s. officials say the threats come from a variety of sources. bill: im losing count here, how many strikes in the past few weeks, steve. >> reporter: its hard to count exactly. they dont give us the exact numbers, but there has been some assessment over there, according to the "wall street journal" there have been at least 20 drone strikes so far this month in the ...

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