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Discrimination in egypt many of them live in the slums around cairo on street a living from sorting through garbage. because they live and work in garbage in the sweltering heat surrounded by an overpowering stench to trust them gorga sort plastic bottles every day from 5 in the morning until sunset they have to quit school to support their families meaning they will probably never find a way out of it. if i had the chance to go somewhere else of course i would do it a little a little. buttons have a good place so much i used to wish for but it will never happen for me in the land . it's the f...

My family for three generations. my grandfather my father my brother and me there were always been silver merchants now half the family sell silver or gold. or the profitable part of the business is the trade in silva. we have traditions to maintain. i can't always do whatever i might please since there are certain ways of doing things. that's how we've evolved. unlike the market district there are many other places in the sprawling capital that tourists rarely venture. like the slum known as the garbage city.

The governments of turkey and saudi arabia, making arrangements to get people home. the u.s. state department offering to fly american citizens out of egypt as well. american flights should start leaving tomorrow. let's take you live to cairo and the situation there this hour. ivan watson joins us live from the egyptian capital. we heard from ben wedeman a few minutes ago about what citizens are facing. men with ak-47s walking around. the danger from looters. what are you seeing in terms of the citizen there in egypt trying to protect themselves from what's happening? >> reporter: well, one ...

About. bank machines are out of money or been broken into by looters, gas stations are shut. let's quickly recap what else we know. protesters returning to the streets in some places in some places for the sixth straight day of anti-government demonstrations. protests getting more dangerous with dozens killed the past two days. mostly the bloodshed has come at the hands of the police. those same police have largely abandoned the streets. they are being replaced in some places by tanks and soldiers. adding to the chaos, more than 1,000 escaped prison inmates. people around cairo are asking the ...

The police principally. some government institutions, the rest of the city untouched. today, we're not seeing any fires, but, again, it's difficult to underestimate how much they anger their company to surface. it really is a city that builds on the edge of the moment. >> nic robertson from alexandria, egypt. thank you. >> nic was talking about anger. some are taking advantage of the chaos. a group of thugs stormed a museum, ripping the heads off mummies and tossing relics onto the ground. that particular museum is home to the relics of king tut. officials say nothing that turns out to have be...