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Out. there's no doubt that tunisia and other protests in the region have given a big jolt to egypt, but it's still too early to tell whether this really is the beginning of a change. alex marquardt, abc news, cairo. chicago politics have taken another strange turn. the illinois supreme court ordered election officials to keep rahm emanuel's name on the ballot for the mayor's race while they decide if he can run. absentee and early voting begin over the next few days. if the supreme court agrees with a lower court that emanuel is out, anyone who has already voted for him will lose their vote....

David. >> you're quite welcome. bad weather is being blamed on a fatal crash involving an ambulance in minnesota. police say that ambulance slid into and then sideswiped another vehicle, hit a guardrail, then landed on its side. tragically, the 76-year-old patient was killed and the two workers on board were take on the hospital. and one person was killed with three other injures after they were struck by lightning. right now you're looking at the cell phone that was destroyed in the strike. police say the four fishermen saw that lightning while they were fishing from a jetty. they were st...

I don't think they were necessarily wrong. they had a tsunami, it just happened to be three feet high opposed to six or eight feet high. even a three-foot tsunami if you are standing there on the beach it would hit up to your knees, that would be enough to knock you ducown off your feet. it is very dangerous. any huts or businesses along the beach, they could have been washed out today. i wouldn't say they were wrong, they just overestimated it a little bit. >> larry: rolando on the phone. rolando is gone. we'll ask jacqui, 6.9 aftershock. isn't that an earthquake? >> absolutely that's an eart...

>> at 3:00 was the first big jolt. that wasn't as scary as the aftershocks. the first jolt, i'm from california, i've been through earthquakes, no big deal. i actually went back to bed. it was the aftershocks, 6.2 to 6.3 earthquake shock just an hour or so after the main shock. that woke me up again. that's when people started getting nervous. i heard my neighbors saying, gracias when the aftershock stops. they were saying, thank you, god, thank you, god. they kept coming throughout the morning. >> explain why you have been living in chile the past 2 1/2 to three months or so? >> i picked chil...

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