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President is an indication that the military has taken these steps notwithstanding hesitations that constitutes this provisional government right now. finally, most importantly, the question is where does egypt go with respect to the vast majority of egyptians who wanted to see the military take action against these encampments by the muslim brotherhood but probably is revolted by the sheer magnitude of the attacks and bloodshed taking place not only in cairo but across egypt. >> ambassador, you're talking about these encampments that the muslim brotherhood had set up. they were quite extensiv...

But these are members of the muslim brotherhood firing at the security forces. this refutes the muslim brotherhood's claims that their protests have been peaceful. it's unclear in terms of how many people have died but also at whose hands did they die? were they shot by the muslim brotherhood gunmen you see here or by the army as they moved in? there were two protest camps the army says they control. the muslim brotherhood has been there for six or seven weeks camping out saying in the mohamed morsi, the democratically elected president of egypt was reinstated they would stay in camp. the airp...

Muslim brotherhood members as well firing back at the army in the streets in cairo. so all of this continues to have a lot of question marks along with it. earlier, deputy white house press secretary john earnest was asked about how the administration is planning to react to all of this. >> over the course of the last several weeks, senior officials in the obama administration have been in touch with our counter-parts in egypt. we read out to you a couple of calls secretary kerry has made and calls between secretary hagel and his counter-parts and the military in egypt. d deputy secretary of s...

A news corp colleague gunned down in this fighting early this morning in cairo. the violence and the bloodshed exploding across that country now erupting in nearly a dozen other cities including alexandria. no signs right now that any of this is letting up. covering this developing crisis from our bureau in jerusalem is leyland. what a difference the last 24 hours has made. >> reporter: incredible how much it changed in the last couple of hours. right now there's a state of emergency declared in cairo and as we speak a nighttime curfew is going into effect. one of the first of "extreme" measur...

Syrian, and american nationals. in addition to the month-long state of emergency and tonight's curfew, the military has expanded power to help local police say they will restore order. just 30 minutes ago, in fact, u.s. secretary of state john kerry said the promise of the arab spring itself in egypt has now been deeply damaged by today's violence. >> violence will not create a road map for egypt's future. violence only impedes the transition to an inclusive, civilian government, a government chosen in free and fair elections that governors democratically, consistent with the goals of the egyp...