to live their lives as best they can unsure of what they should do, unsure of their own safety. our own ben wedeman is in a neighborhood in cairo in which he live. he joins us. ben, what is it like where you are? >> well, actually this evening, anderson, it is much better than the previous two or three nights. i went out with one of the neighborhood patrols, people there that i know who just live around the block have got their pitch fo pitchforks, knives, their samurai swords. some have more serious weapons like resolvers and shotguns. they're all walking around the streets. throughout this area they've set up barricades at the end of every road. there's also some army special forces in the area, as well as tanks on the outskirts. so everybody is basically up all night patrolling to make sure that nothing happens in this area because what we've seen throughout the outlying areas of cairo, as opposed to the center