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>> ben wedeman has lived in cairo for years and knows egypt as well as any reporter on earth. weve been talking to him since the egyptian uprising began. and he joins us again now from the cnn bureau in cairo. ben, whats the latest in cairo? >> well, what we have here is about half an hour ago, several tanks from the egyptian army drove up here. basically, the army is taking over the city because the police have simply disappeared. were hearing reports from -- from throughout the city that almos...

He wee dont know if we say anything if it will help or hurt if that indigenous grassroots is big enough to overthrow ahmadinejad. the genie is out of the bottle in cairo. the numbers of people in the street, the organizational effort seems so big. nobody thinks mubarak can survive which then begs the question, who comes after him? will it be a radical islamic force? a moderate force? >> my take is that the muslim brotherhood, which is the islamist force in egypt is very well integrated into the ...

Cut short so that was disturbing. and since that time, weve had no information at all. >> what are her circumstances there? is she living in a dormitory, with a family? did she have an apartment? >> shes living with a family that she -- that was her host family last year. her senior year of high school, when she was there on an exchange program to be fully immersed in the arabic language. >> and have you reached out to the embassy? have you reached out to the u.s. government in any way to say ho...

No internet. weve tried everything. you know, aside from a plane ticket. >> well, i assume courtney has lots of friends there. other american students perhaps and have you been in touch with other parents? >> i have been in touch with other parents and actually she has a friend that was supposed to join her in egypt for a -- they were going on a three-month trip through the middle east together and she and her parents are beside themselves. courtney has a lot of friends -- she went to prep schoo...

>> another molotov cocktail. >> well continue to cover the story throughout the week. cnn has unprecedented resources. more than anyone nels the region. stay with us for our continuing coverage. we continue with "parker/spitzer" right now. good evening. im kathleen parker. >> im eliot spitzer. welcome to the program. tonight, breaking news from egypt continuing the coverage youve been watching on cnn all day. what weve been seeing is nothing less than a revolution in realtime. were looking at ...

Taking some heat right now for making controversial comments that are raising new questions about the future of the u.s. space program. brian todd is monitoring the story. >> a nasa official tells us they think this has been blown way out of proportion but in this post mcchrystal atmosphere in washington public comments from administration officials overseas are razor edge sensitive. the head of nasa is now getting some back lash. the white house moves quickly to dial back comments from nasas ad...

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