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The pro-mubarak agitators have been pushed out pretty much, and they are gathered on an overpass overlooking that side street. they are throwing molotov cocktails and fire bombs. they have set substantially a very large fire right in front of the barricades behind which are the anti-regime protesters but we're not seeing clashes the way we were a few hours ago. there's a military helicopter surveying the scene overhead. i'm still seeing some smoke coming out of some sections of the street where molotov cocktails were thrown just a little bit earlier so it's still very, very tense here in cairo...

>> let me interrupt for a moment, fred. this building that's on fire right now, do we know what this building is? >> reporter: i'm not sure what that building is, but it is one that was heavily contested throughout the day. and you're absolutely right. it's just across from the egyptian museum, which is a very important building in its. and there's actually a little fire in front of that as well. we're also hearing now what might be gunshots again into the city. there's also a fire in front of the museum. but this building was heavily guarded throughout the day because it seems to be something...

And fire bombs that are being thrown. but you have the egyptian museum reportedly on fire, the repository of all those art facts from king tut's tom, that is the -- tomb, that is the main stop for visitors to egypt, tourists, et cetera, a big part of their economy based on tour im. if you lose something like the egyptian museum, and i'm not saying they're going to lose it, we don't know how bad the fire is, but if there's damage to something like that, you have really disrupted that nation's economy, the army or something is going to have to step in and restore order, aren't they? >> i think r...

That this would be going nowhere and they would he not wouldn't be caught by surprise. where else in the region should we be looking, then? where do we think that it's quiet but it may not be quiet? where could things bubble up and spiral out of control? >> and would that potentially lead to growing terrorism concerns that the united states needs to be critically worried about snm. >> absolutely. the number two of al qaeda, squ zawahiri is egyptian. you can just imagine now how some of these groups may want to capitalize on this chaos. there are many forces here inside egypt, outside of egypt,...

Pro government demonstrators, those who support the government of hosni mubarak apparently broke into -- dash broke through the police lines in tahrir square earlier today, and have been battling by the thousands with antigovernment protestors who generally have made that square their own. you can see protesters on both sides are throwing seasons, fire bombs, swinging at each other with metal pipes and pieces of wood. it is absolute bedlam in cairo, egypt right now. fire bombs have been raining down from the roofs of building apparently tossed generally by the proceed government demonstrators ...