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46 past the hour with this breaking news. looting and lawlessness are ram pan in the cairos aprotesters gather for a sixth straight day. the situation is so critical that residents have boarded up their homes, they have armed themselves to protect neighborhoods against roaming groups of looters. more than 100 people have reportedly been killed in these protests. also in cairo, it looks like the military is trying to strengthen it's position there in that city. fighter jets are swooping low over the central square area where thousands of protesters are calling for egypt's president to step asid...

Quickly so that it occurs sooner. >> okay. as to former u.s. ambassador to morocco, you are privy to what is likely going on behind the scenes. our u.s. ambassador to egypt, margaret scobey, who is she doing? to whom is she reaching out? will it be beyond the mubarak government? will there be other people, high profile people, other entities, that we'll say we're going to start here, hedge our bets here. >> she's a talented, qualified, expert professional. i think her number one priority is the safety and security of american citizens. that's the number one job in -- for any ambassador. >> let...

And so we really don't know what comes next. there's no obvious solution or replacement to any kind of -- either whether he installs his best friend or there's a continued military government, something that doesn't please the people who are rising up right now. it's still -- it is still so, so dangerous for us to have an unknown situation open up there and the truth is, though, there's no -- there's no support for mubarak coming out of statements from the white house. the concern is we don't know what comes next if he falls. >> what do you think in terms of expectations from u.s. citizens? ar...