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People's ability to organize there and communicate. what ben is reporting seems to be another new and concerted effort to not get this story out of the country now. >> reporter: absolutely that seems to be the case. from ben's experience his camera getting taken way. we're monitoring social media here in egypt and heard from other camera crews they had similar experiences, that they had their tapes taken away, that they've had their camera equipment taken away or broken, things of that nature. of course we're also hearing more about how they are trying to censor the internet, how internet serv...

They would attend. we don't know if all of these people are inside egypt. they were accepting this invitation to attend the protest. the last post on this website was wednesday. let me take to you a twitter page for a user in cairo from last night 14 hours ago all internet is being cut in here. this may be a last tweet. we're seeing tweets like this being echoed around twitter. we're seeing a lot of people that were very active in the last few days. they quieted down since last night. let me take to you twitter trends. this is out of cairo, egypt. . let me show you for the last several hours. ...

Gather and protest because social media over there and the internet has played such a key role in getting people out on the streets they are concerned about that. that's one of the reasons this is trying to be blocked right now. >> all right. we appreciate you. great respect for people to understand what's happening. we'll continue to check in with you throughout the morning. thanks so much. up next on "american morning" former be south african president nelson mandela going home from the hospital after a health care. we'll tell you what the doctors are saying. take a look. there's been a ...

Awkward truce with the police. very interesting developments but we're definitely seeing it ramping up today. they will told us it would but we're definitely seeing that happen throughout the country. we talk about cairo, the capital city but this is happening throughout the country. >> we talk about the internet service being shutdown. now it's gone beyond that. if you will. i believe we are back to the picture of state run nile tv. it's trying to shut down the internet or twitter or facebook. we are beyond that now. the word has got out. no matter who is sitting at a computer trying to get t...

Set up there by the police force. clearly trying to keep these protesters from getting into something. we'll get more details of that four. these protests are passionate. you can even call some of them angry. but not necessarily overly violent. there have been clashes and some violence we can fwtell you abou. some protesters throwing rocks. police responding in kind with tear gas. we're bringing these pictures and we bring them as we get them. sometimes we get them on the signal. again, it's been a developing situation today. the one that's called a dave anger. the internet has been shut down ...