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And the chaos at another bread line, a woman tells us they want mubarak to stay. the men angrily yell at us to leave. this is the second neighborhood that we have come to seeing people getting incredibly aggressive, not wanting to be filmed in this kind of a situation. the same woman meets us at the car and apologizes for the way we are treated. it's because of this terrible situation that we are in, she explains. we're good people. we're sorry. most shops in cairo are shut. it's not just food shortage that is are of rising concern. another problem that egyptians are facing is just getting mon...

Millions. anti-government protesters taking to the cities across egypt as the unrest enters the eighth day. tensions are running high but demonstrators in cairo have taken a lot of steps to reduce the risk of bloodshed. they have set up checkpoints around tahrir square to keep weapons out of the area. as opposition groups prepare for today's massive demonstrations, police returned to cairo streets. on monday, over the past several days, authorities had shut down a number of police facilities in the country. nic robertson toured some of those abandoned stations in alexandria. >> reporter: thi...

>> reporter: where are the guns? >> electric here. >> reporter: electric shocks? >> yeah. >> reporter: where are the guns now? >> people -- >> reporter: the people taken all the weapons? everything from here, the guns stood in the armory here, the electric weapons that were here. >> and here. >> reporter: all been taken is what we're being told. >> nic robertson reporting there. with the turmoil gripping the country, no surprise tourists are beating a retreat. i guess hoping for a retreat and getting out of egypt is no mean feat as fred pleitgen reports. >> reporter: tourists visit the sphinx ...

Reinforce the u.s. position on egypt. now the very latest on the situation in cairo. anderson cooper joins us now on the phone. is there a sense you're getting a momentum of these protests? >> reporter: we have certainly not seen anything like this, this is the largest crowd i have certainly seen in liberation square. it is just packed. i'm not sure the pictures we're showing do it justice. i 'm in a hotel overlooking the hotel. i was down with the crowd before and shoulder the shoulder, people packed into the square. it was -- the demonstration called for about 9:00 a.m. which is pretty early...

Time tuesday to 10:00 a.m. wednesday. local newspapers are saying all rail service across the country have been halted and highways are open. eyewitnesss say traffic is substantially reduced. banks, stock market and many businesses are closed but the suez canal is reportly operating normally. past peek of protests is sure to have taken a heavy toil on egypt's economy. and we have heard about businesses grinding to a halt or just staying shut as a precaution. in cairo, many shops are closed. long lines for food. gas stations have run dry and banks have been shut for days which means the atms ru...