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Way of social media right now? >> the story right now is there's so little getting out from social media in egypt whereas in the past few days social media had been used, an integral part of getting people out in the streets. last night virtually completely shut down. you heard it talked about this, there's a complete crack going down. officials are trying to get people to stop using social media. let me show you what we've seen. here's a facebook page from one of the main groups that's been calling on supporters, to get out in the streets and to be protesting today. as of yesterday, thousands...

Therapists working with her, each working on different part of her recovery. 25 years ago today the space shuttle "challenger" lifted off and never came home. seven nuts died. they will be remembered this morning in florida. and we go there. john, its hard to believe it's been 25 years since that national tragedy. >> reporter: yeah, kate. it really is. i remember 25 years ago standing down by the countdown clock watching "challenger" lifting off, reporting for cnn on the launch and really was a day that, you know, none of us that were here will ever forget. this morning about 9:00 a.m. is a ...

President reagan was determined that the program would go on. were his dreams realized? >> for a while. we seem to have to relearn the lessons of history over and over again. we went through this in apollo and we remember the apollo one crew. i was in grade school in florida. we remember the challenger school, which i was an air force pilot. and then the lesson again most recently with columbia, all on similar dates, end of january-beginning of february. and we seem to learn from our lessons, get motivated, move forward be and then we don't actually carry through. the most recent example is ob...

Pouring into the streets today. >> in particular, let's sew you a couple of the pictures we are getting in. unconfirmed reports police have shot some 20 people. we are looking into that and have not been able to confirm it yet but those are some of the reports coming in. alexandria, demonstrators there throwing rocks through clouds of tear gas that are being fired at them by the police. also the city of cairo on lockdown right now. internet service has been shut down. cell phone service has been shut down as well. people having a hard time communicating. what you're seeing here now is a live p...

About how social media is playing a role in organizing these protests. we go live to the scene. mohamed, good morning to you. you were tasked this morning with keeping an eye on the updates from social immediate area on twitter, on facebook coming out of egypt. it was striking to talk to you this morning. there's not a whole lot you can report and there's a reason for that. >> reporter: that's right. social media has played such an integral role in getting protesters out into the street and demonstrating in egypt in the last several days. in the last several hours the internet has been shut do...