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Unraveling. its hope of democracy obscured behind tear gas and bullets. egyptian security forces, which ousted the elects president mohamed morsi six weeks ago, moved in to finish the job and break up two camps of protesters who demand that the former president be reinstated. bulldozing into one at cairo university, it was over quickly. but at the other protest, they held fast. security forces fired on them with tear gas and then automatic weapons. egyptian security forces here are clearly using...

Erected by supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi. hundreds of people have been killed nationwide. thousands more are injured. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel was in the midst of the chaos this morning. >> security forces here are clearly using live ammunition firing into the side streets. there are frontline positions between protesters, security forces, all over cairo. and this one looks like it is about to get very ugly. >> egypt has declared a month long state of emergen...

And new battle of muslim brotherhood fighters pushing off a bridge. the bridge is a rallying point leading into the square. the images coming in and seeing now reflect precious inspiration but plenty of desperation. supporters have been living in the camp for the last month in a half since the president mohamed morsi was ousted, frustration growing making it clear for weeks they wanted them out. when the clearing of the camp started this morning, it came as no surprise but meant danger for anyon...

Force two separate pro morsi sit-ins in cairo, that action set off a wave of violence all over the city. >> egypt is unraveling. its hope of democracy obscured behind tear gas and bullets. at first light, egyptian security forces which ousted the elected president six weeks ago moved in to finish the job. and break-up two camps of protesters who demand the former president be reinstated. bulldozing into one at cairo university. it was over quickly. but at the other protests, they held fast. secu...

Welcome back to "hardball." cairo descends into what nbc reports characterize as a chaotic bloodbath as security forces moved in to take down protest camps that had been erected by supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi. hundreds of people have been killed nationwide. thousands more are injured. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel was in the midst of the chaos this morning. >> security forces here are clearly using live ammunition firing into the side streets. there are frontlin...

>> reporter: the streets are quieter and it seems quieter than they were earlier in the day. the riot police went in clearing those various sit in sites. they managed to clear the smaller one fairly quickly. we did witness clashes breaking out in the various side streets. the egyptian authorities announcing they had just cleared. not only were they dealing with trying to clear it, they were also dealing with pro-morsi demonstrators that were trying to breakthrough by a line of army soldiers tryi...

Protest camps that had been erected by supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi. hundreds of people have been killed nationwide. thousands more are injured. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel was in the midst of the chaos this morning. >> security forces here are clearly using live ammunition firing into the side streets. there are frontline positions between protesters, security forces, all over cairo. and this one looks like it is about to get very ugly. >> egypt has declared a...

>> thats martha radic. let me go back to richard engel my hero over there. what is the sense of people over there in terms of one to ten concern? from what ive been pulling together on this, this is really big. people really think somethings going to happen. is that the feeling in cairo and that part of the world? >> in cairo, people arent really focused on this at all. cairo is in the middle of its own domestic problems. there are protests in the streets. the muslim brotherhood was thrown out o...

Unemployment, which topped 15%. in what could be a key overture to the west, he promised to reduce international tensions over irans nuclear program. the white house says it remains ready to engage with the iranian government directly. it was a violent night in istanbul, turkey. turkish security forces stormed gezi park, using water cannons and tear gas to force antigovernment protesters out of the park and into side streets. and after hours of fighting, we see this, gezi park completely clear...

And a special welcome to our troops watching on the american forces network. im alison kosik. its half past the hour. the intelligence community is trying to justify its surveillance of american citizens, sending a letter to congress providing some details about its search of phone records. that letter said in part that searches must involve "reasonable suspicion" about a connection to a terror group that telephone records were searched fewer than 300 times last year and that all phone and int...