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>> and how are they defending? i mean, i know they've had these metal barricades set up. but what kinds of weapons to the anti-mubarak protesters have? because they've been searched when they go into the square by not only egyptian military troop, but they've been checking i.d.s, bodily searching them through multiple layers. we've all been searched. what kind of weapons did they have? >> sticks. you know, pieces of metal. they've been digging up the street and they had a whole system where teens would carry buckets of stones to use at the front lines in the battles where they really dug up a ...

>> and how are they defending? i know they've had these metal barricades set up, but what kind of weapons to the anti-mubarak protestors have? because they've been searched when they go into the square by not only egyptian military troop, checking i.d.s, bodily searching them. we've all been searched. what kind of weapons did they have? >> sticks. you know, pieces of metal. they've been digging up the street and they had a whole system where teens would carry buckets of stones to use at the front lines in the battles where they really dug up a lot of the roads here that you and i were walking ...

We will be able to bring you several different perspectives of the violence that you are seeing. let's bring back anderson. anderson, you have described the army as largely sitting on the sidelines. any police presence that you have been able to see? >> reporter: i have not seen any uniformed police presence. there are reports that there are undercover police in the crowd. that's certainly the feeling among the anti-mubarak protesters that there are instigators in the crowd. ben wedeman saw soldiers pulling aside people they believed to be undercover police checking i.d.s, but i have not witne...

Going on strike at post offices, textile mills, even at al raman, the main newspaper of open re volt there. a sign perhaps that at least a portion of the government propaganda machine may be crumbling. the lies from the regime continue. today egypt's foreign minister said the state of emergency cannot be lifted because they have 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets, and many police stations have been destroyed. and it sounds almost plausible at first. but then you remember that the mubarak regime has been ruling under a state of emergency for nearly 30 years. that man does not know how to rul...

Demonstrators to descend into an area where they could attack protesters, the military finally set a perimeter, a cordon, set out wire and checked people to try to prevent infill traitors from coming in. checking i.d.s, doing body searches. they helped it be a peaceful day. earlier reports of the shooting we heard a short time ago from the square, early reports indicate though i can't confirm it, early reports indicate some demonstrators were trying to get close and the military fired in the air to keep them back. >> it's been a remarkable 48 hours. i can't remember a situation like this where...