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Incredible the scenes that we saw of the troops fanning out, the egyptian army and special forces riot police fanning out in parts of central cairo in the two hours that led up to this momentous announcement by the head of the egyptian military. also, if you put 2 into context, i mean, the military was running the show here more than a year ago, and the demonstrators were gathering in this square, were actually attacked on multiple occasions by the military police action and those times you had terrible confrontations. now we have this incredible scene of what could very much be described as a...

Military in some kind of sure force. because if that happens the military will have to decide whether they're going to clear the streets of cairo using force. and that's not going to be pretty. the brotherhood, i know somebody who belongs to the brotherhood who said to me, we are going out there with our shrouds. in other words, we are ready for death. >> and if that happens, this situation, we have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people on one side versus hundreds of thousands on another side not very far from each other in a major metropolitan area, namely cairo, a huge city. who knows ...

Know how long this period will last nor how long it would be until new presidential and parliamentary elections, but certainly tonight here, the hundreds of thousands in tahrir square absolutely delight ed. becky, we'll come back in a minute. ben wedeman is standing by in a different part of cairo with supporters of the muslim brotherhood and president morsi. ben, how aprilry are the demonstrators there? >> reporter: very, jake. when they heard this announcement that president morsi has been officially deposed, a huge chant, a roar of anger came up, and people started to chant "down down wit...

Around barracks where mohamed morsi is currently. we're awaiting a statement from the military. what will they say? what is the road map for egypt as we look ahead? we'll take you live to cairo here momentarily. in the meantime, back to sanford, florida. back to this crime scene technician talking specifically dna and blood at this crime scene from february of last year. here you go. >> it's somewhere in between. i can't include them in the mixture. i can't exclude them based on what i'm seeing. so i'm not able to make any kind of determination for that person to that mixture. >> sometimes whe...

Extensive discussions. the president, president obama, on monday spoke with president morsi. we know chuck hagel, the defense secretary, spoke with general asisi, head of the egyptian military over the past 24 hours. how the u.s. reacts to what has just been announced in cairo is going to be very significant. what do you anticipate? >> you put it exactly right, wolf. the crucial question is, is this described as a coup or not? you notice that the military is trying very hard to make the case that this is not a coup and that, therefore, those triggers that you talked about, the cutoff of u.s. a...