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46 past the hour with this breaking news. looting and lawlessness are ram pan in the cairos aprotesters gather for a sixth straight day. the situation is so critical that residents have boarded up their homes, they have armed themselves to protect neighborhoods against roaming groups of looters. more than 100 people have reportedly been killed in these protests. also in cairo, it looks like the military is trying to strengthen it's position there in that city. fighter jets are swooping low over the central square area where thousands of protesters are calling for egypt's president to step asid...

Helped the u.s. in the past and how good is its intelligence? >> alex, egypt's been a key ally with the nus in the war against terrorism. it's been a bit of a complicated relationship as well. the u.s. has criticized their security forces for abusing human rights, urging them to follow the rule of law as they work against their internal threats. they've been a key partner in egypt in stifling terrorism there and around the arab world and other parts of the world where egyptians play a very important role, for instance, in al qaeda's organization. they're a key ally. >> brian, i'm curious, is t...

You're just not going to feel it as much. >> but given unemployment out there -- >> that's the thing. we are going to feel a lot of pressure. there's only so much you can cut back on gas, you need to get to work. only so much to cut back on food. you have to be smarter on how you buy. >> i'll bring you more. it is nightfall on cay roy cairo. there's been a serious of significant developments today. stay with us, we have a live report from the open center of the turmoil when msnbc sunday continues. [ sneezes ] client's here.

Responsibility for this chaos lies squarely at the feet of the hosni mubarak regime. they've been in control of egypt for the past 30 years. what we've seen, at first he unleashed his security forces to brutally crack down upon a popular upsizing that -- egyptians of all backgrounds were rising against him. when he saw they were not going to give in, he pulled back the security forces. that's the reason for the looting. i know from family and friends in cairo specifically, they have had neighborhood watches to guard against thugs. or ex-cons who have been released. who was in charge of the pri...

Cross-section of egyptian society as if it had been selected specially, scientifically for it. but yes, i saw kids on father's shoulders, plenty of women, some western style dress. a lot of people wearing, you know, muslim-style dress. there are a lot of elderly men, a lot of young men. of course, there are a great deal of very well educated people down there. you get person after person coming up to you and talking to you in english. these are the middle classes of cairo who really, really want to get their point across. they are not going to go home until mubarak leaves the country or as one...