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We are following thebreaking news happening out of cairo, egy egypt. you can see from pictures earlier today it is now nighttime. violence erupted on the street as demonstrators throw molotov cocktails. fires are being ignited and forces there, trying to put out the fire with hoses. we know there are people who have been wounded. we know our own anchor anderson cooper also experiencing on the other end of some of that violence there. obviously, it has become a chaotic and frightening scene there as people are trying to figure out who is in charge, if anyone is in charge at this moment. i want ...

Anderson from your vantage point. >> reporter: a truck is now on fire and i'm hearing repeated automatic weapon fire now several blocks away. i can't tell the exact location of it. it looks like one molotov cocktail found its way to a truck. water it being put on it. that's the area where the anti-mubarak supporters are in. to the right of that vehicle, that's the side where the anti-mubarak protesters are. there is another molotov cocktail. we are being launched by pro-mubarak protesters against the anti-mubarak protesters. are there women and children there? yes. absolutely. there are famili...

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Americans to shelter in place after gunmen attacked a radisson hotel in the country's capital city. nbc news is reporting there are 170 hostages, and right now, police are sealing off the area. automatic weapon fire could be heard outside the hotel. nbc's ron mott joins us now with the latest on this developing situation. good morning, ron. >> good morning, shannon. i apologize for the alarms you hear behind me in the building here. this is a developing situation, obviously, and information is sparse and rather conflicting so far. here's what we know. nbc news has learned at least 170 people w...

We are hours after curfew and behind me, still thousands of people in cairo central square, still chanting, still waving egyptian flags though now some of them have built camp fires under the palm trees here for warmth. now, we have heard some gunshots, some automatic weapon fire, weapons fire in just the last 15, 20 minutes here, crackling in the distance and that is a hint at the problems that are being faced in other neighborhoods of the egyptian capital right now. i've been on the phone with men who normally have day jobs. one man an account manager for cis coker another a real estate brok...