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Some point when the two crowds met. by and large, they were quite friend well each other. police officers telling protesters they now have -- >> all right. we lost fred pleitgen. we'll work to get him back, and when we do, we will let you know, of course. meantime, we'll continue to watch what happens in egypt. the anti-government sentiment is growing in other parts of the arab world. we have been watching protests there today. i talked with mohammed jamjoon who ended up in the middle of the protests in sanaa. >> reporter: the anti-government demonstrators who numbered about 400 in number ma...

Crowds met, and -- >> did you ever see soldiers trying to intervene one way or the other? >> not at all, no, not at all. initially the two crowds were coming together and talking to one another, shaking hands, arguing, but there was no violence. >> this was early on around 1:30, 2:00. >> briefly before the camels and the horses showed up. >> that surreal moment. we're going to take a short break. our coverage continues to midnight. we'll be right back. [ female announcer ] enjoy a complete seafood dinner for two for just $29.99 at red lobster. with fresh salads and biscuits. your choice of ent...

He was going through, trying to get medical aid to the demonstration site. he said ambulances were being stopped and turned away. so he had to hide medics just to get them on site to get them treated. >> ben wedeman, at one point it looked like buses or trucks were front in, in front of the egyptian museum to create barriers. i assume that was military doing that, but i never saw where they ended up going, because some of those vehicles ended up being turned over. >> i wasn't in that position. i was more sort of really right in the middle where the two crowds met, and -- >> did you ever see so...

They didn't do anything. and today being that -- actually late last night the pro-mubarak element started to come out in the streets, demonstrate in front of state tv, in front of our office, and so they've come out in massive numbers that we haven't seen yet. in a sense, the clash was inevitable. what was interesting, when the two crowds met, they talked. they debated. they debated passionately, angrily, but there was no violence initially. and then, of course, and you never know where -- it's a big crowd, what's happening and how it happened, but it quickly deteriorated into crowd mob violen...