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Immigrant visa candidates, people that supported the u.s. military and state department for two decades in afghanistan. if the push now is to get americans there, is there effort to get remaining afghans, potentially thousands of them, to the airport. will there even be time or ability to get them through the gates. we have seen this crush of people at the gates but because of the new effort, what they're doing is sending americans in intervals to the gates. there actually has been less of a crowd at the gates in the past 24 to 36 hours. and that's because of this new effort. they're sending t...

The population and the crowds down, or will something else? we had a video released last night. stephanie gosk standing by to talk to us about it. and stephanie, a lot has been said about the imagery in this isis video, whether it's looking to recruit aspirational individuals, whether it's just a taunt, a tweak, recruitment tool. bottom line, the crossroads of america there behind you has got to stay open, and there's got to be visible nypd presence there. >> reporter: yes. and there has been today. but there is nypd presence in times square every day. you know, we were talking earlier, brian,...

>> reporter: that's certainly a good questions. the egyptian military has clearly over the last couple of hours not been trying to prevent any pro-mubarak protesters from getting into the square, and in the early hours before it escalated to this level of violence, when it was a smaller crowd, they were not seen doing anything to try to keep the two sides apart and when violence was breaking out early on, it was individuals punching out other individuals and reporters were being attacked, they did not intervene in any way to cool the crowds down. this thing has been escalating now, and we have...

Government shutdown. this isn't like the protesters shutting down the rail. the national rail service will be shut down. ben was telling us that a few minutes ago. that's likely to be an effort to keep the crowds down. >> also anecdotally you talked to ben earlier and talked about his family. he doesn't just work out of there, he lives there, works there, his family. >> some of the correspondents, two, three, four, years. ben has lived there over 15 years with a couple of breaks elsewhere. this is home for him and he's got the wife and the kid and the neighborhood is one where the looters were...

Correspondent mike to bein joins us. great to see you. dominic, let's start with you. what is the latest on this report of gunfire after what was mostly a peaceful day? >> it was a mostly peaceful day wex saw families returned to the square. the military is set up tanks and reinforced troop lines. the army has heavy mcguns. and we've seen it in the past few days when the military wants to calm the crowds down, particularly the pro-government supporter who's have been aggressive of the two sides tends to fire shots over the heads of those that it feels are the most threatening. and maybe that w...