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From the regime. >> all right. that was lisa sylvester reporting. well, a group of american very experienced travelers were actually heading for safari, but instead their tour group ended up in the middle of protests in egypt. we talked to a few of them just last weekend by phone, and now the seasoned travelers are back home in the u.s., and here is how one of them described their unplanned vacation. >> we got there, and it seemed okay. we got there in the evening and then the next day we were -- we went to see the sphinx. we were supposed to see the kay row museum. we got to alexandria, the...

The anti-mubarak protests. rallies are taking place in cities across the u.s. today. protesters in washington, d.c., are marching to the white house, and in new york they're gathering outside the u.n. to show solidarity with protesters overseas. and great britain is still trying to get its citizens out of harm's way. many british nationals were evacuated from cairo earlier this week, and now the british government is setting up another charter flight. the u.s. state department is urging americans to take advantage of u.s. charter flights out of cairo as well. other nations are evacuating the...

Jordan depends on that pipeline to meet energy demands and it looks like it will be shut down for about a week. the same day egypt's president hosni mubarak said he won't run for re-election, the king of jordan fired his entire cabinet. anti-government protests were beginning to flare up there though not nearly as violently as in egypt. the two countries are not that far apart, but as brian todd reports, you can't really compare the two situations point for point. >> reporter: his capital is only about 300 miles from cairo. his major cities like egypt's have seen upheaval in the streets in r...

Keeps up, the u.s. might be forced to intervene. then we'd have egypt as well as afghanistan to deal with. listen to this from garrett. he had something i thought was pretty profound for a high school student. he's laughing at half the time they talk about egypt they bring up what is america going to do about it, as if america has become the international babysitting service. and then one more comment from you, andrew, who personalized this sort of lamenting the fact he was 16 in these times of high gas prices. >> it's a drag filling up your tank right now. >> yeah. >> everyone is feeling it. ...

Pro-government member of parliament who said egyptian security should use live ammunition against protesters. here, however, the normally heavy-handed egyptian police are taking a gentler approach. the sidewalks in front of the egyptian parliament have become something of a speaker's corner. everyone with a grievance, big or small, now comes here. this man has enlisted the help of his three children. he said he couldn't afford to enroll his 6-year-old daughter in a government school where education is supposed to be free. the teacher wanted me to pay her 4,000 pounds, around $700, he says. whe...