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Coming out on the streets. you are looking now live at the picture. you see the paramilitary, military units there. ben wedeman, you can hear me to tell us what is happening now, live? >> reporter: those are police. those are police. okay. those are the riot police that youre seeing, rushing to get inside those trucks which brought so many of them to the heart of cairo. it seems that they are being redeployed, but its not at all clear where or for what purpose. but, you know, theyve been battlin...

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This regime that some of us here joke was as solid as the pyramids seems to be shaken if not stirred. jim? >> reporter: i know theres a very long delay here, but the question of the hour has to be this -- as you noted at the top of this hour, just about six minutes ago, curfews went in place in suez, alexandria, and where you are in cairo. have the demonstrators given up the streets, or do they remain to confront police? >> reporter: from our vantage point, it appears theyre still out, but theyr...

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Imposed on three different cities. our ben wedeman is live from cairo. ben, the latest. ben wedeman? ben wedeman, if you can hear me, can you tell us what the latest is that is happening? were not able to communicate there with ben. youre looking at ea live pictue there. just about 100 meters from state-run television. >> reporter: dramatic developments. they cant hear me. they cant hear me. >> ben, we can hear you. go ahead. >> reporter: can you hear me, jim? >> yes. go ahead. >> reporter: im t...

Egyptian riot police and plainclothes policemen who have cracked down so violently on -- >> obviously were having some problems here with communication. communications all across cairo have been disrupted this day. the internet has been taken down, people unable to text message. ben wedeman -- youre looking at pictures now from earlier in the day. its now nighttime. this has been branded a day of rage. 80 million egyptians make up the country that is really the fulcrum of the arab borld, the ful...