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Israeli channel 2 camera crew, coming to, i think we are the only crew who came to film peaceful story about the peaceful life beneath burning cairo. we arrived on monday night. tuesday morning, we left the square which the hotel was just nearby and drove out about 20-kilometers from the central cairo. we were just filming the peaceful life and families and i mean, normal life beneath the burning surface. eventually around 2:00 noon, we were approached by motorcycle with two people who snatched the camera and told us to come over to the closest police station. they didn't really tell us.

Israeli channel 2 camera crew, coming to, i think we are the only crew who came to film peaceful story about the peaceful life beneath burning cairo. we arrived on monday night. tuesday morning, we left the square which the hotel was just nearby and drove out about 20-kilometers from the central cairo. we were just filming the peaceful life and families and i mean, normal life beneath the burning surface. eventually around 2:00 noon, we were approached by motorcycle with two people who snatched the camera and told us to come over to the closest police station.

And one of the things that becomes very evident is that social media and the use of the technology that we have, whether it's twitter or facebook, the skype that we were just able to use in order to talk to these two young activists there in cairo, creates a whole new capacity for people not only to communicate with each other but to communicate to the rest of the world. and it is bringing about an entirely new way of bringing protests and bringing to people who otherwise voice at all. will always have their place. new media that is having dramatic impact help create the very mood for such an ...

Have you been in war zones. first of all, a the love americans, we just want to know, what the heck are you thinking when you go into these places that are filled with danger? >> well, that's where the pictures are, it's like that bank robber who said that's where the money is if you want to see a country flip over. if you want to see history made before your eyes, and there is a lot of people who do like that, that's really where you want to go. i remember when tanks fired on the russian white house in '93, it was just unbelievable to the eye to see. i'm watching from a distance the amazing w...

Some of them have been 12 days now without receiving their salaries. they have been living under curfew. the basic necessities of life like food and fuel are getting more difficult and more expensive to obtain all the time. governor? >> mike: mike, tell me, is the situation beginning to ease up at least in terms of the violence? i mean, we have had journalists who have been brutally assaulted, arrested. there have been extraordinary scenes that have come from you and from other correspondents. is it getting safer there? >> it really did seem to get better on friday. today it looked a lot like ...