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Helping the residents in queensland and that sort of thing. she's been right in amongst it, helping where she can. we've had a lot of support. they were talking of evacuations and getting supplies and everything, helping them evacuate. we're not doing this alone. we've had amazing help so far. >> melissa capocchi, thanks for updating us from cairns, and you keep safe. >> not a problem. back to egypt. protesters appear to represent just about every social and economic background. coming up, we'll hear from a middle-class family camping out in ta hers square . [ male announcer ] plans...dreams...

To continue to play, he is unfortunately going to extend the agony here for another six, seven months. he continues to polarize the country. >> that was the voice of mohamed elbaradei speaking to anderson cooper. that's where many protesters have set up tents to continue their demonstrations around the clock. i van watson spoke with some camping out in the square to find out why they're so angry at hosni mubakar. >> reporter: sincemo monday thi demonstration has turned into a sit-in. they've declared tahrir square as their focus. why did you decide to sleep here last night.

Of the people on tahrir square are a mixed bag of people. most are voluntary. it's a very interesting scene down there. what's going on is the people trying to keep the peace are people in the area. we were down there on tahrir square and we actually saw them get a couple of people who were in there out of the square. they were saying they were police officers who, of course, had been on the streets before all of these demonstrations took place. so it does look as though these two sides seem to be clashing. it appears to be a mixed bag. there are people from the brotherhood, the university, pe...

Government that's not only grounded in democratic principles but is also responsive to the aspirations of the egyptian people. >> president obama there, of course. well, it's 11:00 a.m. in cairo right now and people are once again gathered in tahrir square. are there as many people as we saw on tuesday, fred, where, you know, people were talking about this million man march? >> reporter: oh, by far, manisha. it's far less than it was yesterday, which is not really surprising because the million person march was one that was scheduled for yesterday and now sort of the day after, though the risk...

What's going on down there on the square is they're chanting ant anti-mubakar slogans. they want to see him go right now. the other interesting thing that's actually happening here that morning is we're seeing more and more pro-mubarak demonstrations. there are several dozen quite vocal people. one of the demonstrations, just to give you a little bit of flavor, what happened is we had a demonstration where people told the country they couldn't survive without mubarak. and then others said they were actually employees of the natural petroleum company who were told they were forced to go there a...