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There are barricades. there are switch k bas. and there are guard posts at every place you might get inside this giant blast wall designed to protect it from any sort of attack. the man presiding over all of this is ambassador steven becroft. he lived inside here. there are half a dozen apartment buildings for staff. offices handle everything from trade deals to visas to agriculture. there are about 5,600 workers who labor each day behind these fortified walls, troops standing by to protect them in the event of an attack. they can't leave without heavy guard. as a result, this is a place where...

Those tough calls and understand all the various confluences, and i think she does come off as someone who would be very tough, but very measured on foreign policy. >> you see her changing her tone on benghazi, what happened there? >> that's right. we saw before that she was talking about, you know, i'm not in charge of -- i can't look at blueprints and figure out where a blast wall should be. well, today she talked basically about kind of looking back, maybe sort of second guessing, but she didn't really get into details, so we see i think she realized the first answer wasn't so great, she ne...

>> that is another example of the potted plant view of things. no body said she is supposed to be experts on blast wall. but she should be an expert on how dangerous the situation in libya is. the environment we created. something that was the right thing to do. then we forgot about libya and didn't seem to be concerned about the terrorist buildup particularly in benghazi. this is an example of a lack of secretary leadership. it is not enough to say experts that handle this. a real secretary of state is prepared to get his or hands dirty. she should have been the desk office on libya was of it...

Carefully. in cairo thick blast walls are blocking roads against the u.s. embassy. first of all, there's a lot going on there. what do we know about the impact. the u.s. embassy now closed. >> reporter: at this point the impact seems minimal. we should point out the blast wall has been erected for a long time now. that's because the u.s. embassy is blocking the square, a place where we have seen so many demonstrations. that was has been erected a while ago. the embassy is closed. the neighborhood seems to be calm and quiet. we can tell you the most

Caught with its guard down. one point here, to make as we conclude. that this is the last week of ramadan, a time for prayer and reflection for muslims. the security officials suggest a moment for al qaeda to regroup and perhaps attack. and this is also weighing heavily on the minds of those who made the decision in washington. fredericka, back to you. >> thank you so much, john. moving to cairo where the u.s. embassy was also closed. arwa damon is there. >> reporter: fredericka, behind this blast wall, the u.s. embassy in cairo. we are not allowed to film in there. this location may be of par...