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Ships with special antimissile systems so they could intercept the rocket if it does go towards japan. back to you, jon. jon: david piper keeping an eye on north korea. thank you. jenna: we'll stay with overseas news and go straight to egypt. egypt plunging deeper into turmoil as the military acting on orders of the president there out in force and giving new power to arrest civilians ahead of this week's vote on that draft constitution that is so controversial. this as thousands of protestors take to the streets near the pre in cairo demanding the fall of the new regime. conor powell is live ...

>> thanks so both of you. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. dramatic rescue. americans were kidnapped in afghanistan. they are freedly u.s. military coalition troops. they took him on wednesday in the district outside of kabul. six people were killed. two arrested during the dangerous mission. dr. joseph is seen here in this video posted on youtube. there's no word on his condition or if he was harmed in captivity. in egypt, a call for new protest against president morsi today. his attempt to diffuse weeks of unrest failed. last night's announcement did not satisfy opponents on a draft...

And is that at the heart of this and demonstration that is we're seeing not only by the secularists and the moderates and christians, they're concerned what's going to happen to their freedoms? >> exactly. this draft constitution that's supposed to be voted on still on december the 15th is sharia friendly and i think people are worried that mohammed morsi has in mind what turkey's prime minister once said, democracy is like a street car. you ride it to the stop you want and then you get off. that's a pretty chilling prospect. >> chilling indeed and you can't do anything to prevent this? >> i t...

But let's remember that when parliamentary elections were held some months ago, the muslim brotherhood and radical groups got three quarters of the seats and morsi himself in the run-off election won to be sure and both of those were characterized as free and fair, but it's also clear that fighting in the streets isn't exactly a democratic process either and i think that the military does not want to get back in the business of government, but they're not prepared to see the chaos continue. >> ambassador for those of us living in the united states and the western world and not really fully und...

Declaration and perhaps in light of that new constitutional declaration he would mitigate some of the new powers that he has assumed and perhaps meet the demands of the protesters on this one central issue, craig. >> and this presumably would be in direct response to the tens of thousands of protesters that we have seen behind you over the past ten days? >> reporter: absolutely. there's no doubt about it. the protesters have said that the presidential decree that was issued on november 22nd was a power grab, it allowed him to make legislation without any type of judicial reviews, and that his ...