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Were seeing clashes between morsi supporters and residents in various neighborhoods where these sit-ins, the marches are taking place. additionally to all of this, neighborhood watch. young men in various neighborhoods taking batons, bats, setting up checkpoints, searching vehicles. its a very unpredictable situation right now, especially here in cairo. >> you have both sides pointing fingers at each other for the violence. based on what you saw, what can you report about who is responsible for ...

In various neighborhoods where these sit-ins, the marches are taking place. additionally to all of this, neighborhood watch. young men in various neighborhoods taking batons, bats, setting up checkpoints, searching vehicles. its a very unpredictable situation right now, especially here in cairo. >> you have both sides pointing fingers at each other for the violence. what can you report ant who is responsible for the deaths? >> reporter: well, the vast majority of -- over 250 deaths is the mohame...

It is 5:00 a.m. in the east. the bloodiest violence in two years. at least 421 people are dead, thousands more injured after police moved in to try and dispurse two sit-ins with morsi. supporters fought back. reza is live with the latest. >> reporter: it is eerily calm. it has a lot to do with the emergency law that went into effect last night. you can feel the cloud of uncertainty hanging over this city and this country a sense of dread after yesterdays awful events. many are describing what ...

What it means for your bottom line. are you smarter than an eighth grader who lived 100 years ago? a test uncovered from 1912 showing just what the kids were learning and it had lots of us growing up in 2013 completely and totally stunned. right, jon? big questions and answers coming up. its all happening now. now this fox news alert on new protests in egypt hours after the deadliest day in that country since the start of the arab spring and the 2011 uprising that toppled the ruler. were glad yo...

Military backed government targeting two sit-in demonstrations going on six weeks in support of the ousted president, morsi. they threatened they were going in 6:30 a.m. yesterday morning it happened. when we talked to the two sides, very different accounts. the ministry, they claim they tried to use non-lethal weapons using water cannons and tear gas to disperse people. they claim protesters shot first. when you talk to the muslim brotherhood and supporters of the ousted president, morsi, they ...

Anyone from entering. they are claiming that they were shot at first by these demonstrators and then the situation rapidly escalating from there. people who were at these demonstration sites saying that these security forces barely issuing any warning whatsoever, moving in immediately beginning to fire intense volleys of tear gas and live ammunition, as well. anderson, we did not see any of these demonstrators carrying weapons. thats not to say they werent. however, there are more than 40 people...

Gives egypt every year, about $1.3 billion of it goes to the egyptian military and a lot of that is actually spent right here in the u.s. on weapons, fighter jets, et cetera, et cetera, which are then sent to egypt. arwa damon is standing by live in cairo. arwa, whats been happening today? >> well, if you compare it to the levels of violence that we saw taking place yesterday, it most certainly has been relative speaking fairly quiet. earlier in the day we actually went down to one of the church...

Heard what he thought was a sonic boom to see what he described as a fireball. any injuries on the scene, obviously the neighborhood around the north part of the airport is still closed while investigators are trying to put that fire out. its a brand-new image of the front half of that plane as he described it. it blew up in the middle and came down. the debris covers a half mile. the small craft was en route to louisville, kentucky. no word and what caused that crash. well get developments on t...

Least one journalist is among those killed today. my first question to you is one would think that the governments goal here in acting clearly so forcefully as to go ahead and quash the uprising, but you reported today, arwa, this is the beginning of a long and bloody battle. why do you say that? >> thats the sense that one gets quite simply, because throughout the course of the day, even after they initially cleared the areas we saw clashes growing and spreading and becoming more intense throug...

E eian, what can you tell us right now? were seeing the pictures there. we dont have ian right now. overnight, troops from the government, the military, moved in from the sites of the two sit-ins. at the sit-ins they have been fortifying the area lately, protesters, theyve been building stone walls, storing rocks, even gathering bird shot to use against the police in the military, in the event, that the authorities moved in to break up the protest. that now has apparently happened. as we said, w...