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Ivan, can you tell us what the scene is there? yesterday it was quite explosive. >> reporter: yesterday was more of a scene of jubilation i would say, where you have tens of thousands of people free to demonstrate downtown in the street, right behind me. and tamp down the regime of hosni mubarak. today, shops are closed in cairo, businesses are closed. and the egyptian army employed on the banks of the nile behind me here are much more strict about pedestrians, people gathering, particularly close to the headquarters of egyptian state tv. an important development, randi, we're hearing the appa...

Time trying to organize everything from hotel bookings to flight bookings to get in or out of the country, given the fact that you can't really communicate over the internet. it shows you how depend we are on this means of communication. the tourist operators, businesses themselves, unable to make flight and hotel reservation bookings and we're hearing not only that the u.s. embassy is going to start organizing some flights out on monday for u.s. citizens here, but also turkey announcing that it's going to begin several flights to allow the evacuation of turkish citizens starting on sunday, ac...

What to do. >> difficulties of covering such a tremendous story. >> he's not just covering. he is living it. can you imagine your neighborhood. suddenly men popping up with ak-47s? ben wedeman, long-time cairo correspondent. president obama's response. the white house is working overtime. >> how will they deal with the surprise uprising? back in two minutes. >> people of egypt have rights that are universal. that includes the right to peaceful assembly and association. the right to free speech. and the ability to determine their own destiny. these are human rights, and the united states will...

Their partner, not as a threat. now, there is a great deal of concerns a in our government, mr. vice president, about the mining disaster that killed 21 miners in colombia. and we will have our translator translate these remarks about colombia as we go along. >> we've been listening to secretary of state hillary clinton addressing the situation that's going on in cairo. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel joins me live on the phone from cai cairo. richard, i don't know if our able to hear what secretary of state clinton was saying, but she was expressing the deep concern and cal...

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