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At phoenix.edu. day six of the uprising in egypt there and is no end in sight. protesters filled the streets again today and tonight, demanding president mubarak resign. let's go live now to cairo and cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman. ben what is the scene like there right now? >> reporter: okay. well, i'm not southern subbouvs cairo and it's a lot different from the heart of the city. what we're hearing now is sporadic gunfire for at least the last four or five hours. this is a suburb that is better off than most in cairo and it's seen constant probing by looters trying ...

>> they kill people? >> they kill people in kai row. >> we spoke yesterday, didn't we? you are the professor of the politics? >> yesterday in cairo, they killed people. this is what we are seeing that we haven't seen before as well, foreign governments, stop hip pock crisis, stand for egyppings and freedom. people say they are getting frustrated. they want president obama, they want other leaders to come out in support of them. they feel the united states, european leaders are not coming out strongly enough in favor of the people. and that's what the callsome the call is to come out to the peo...

Hooligans. so, this is a sense of security to us and it is sort like a joint of working together, the military and the citizens. >> mohammad sidky, we wish you and your family the best and you have given us, even through all of the bad, a little grim over hope there in terms of security in cairo. thank you so much. >> thank you. there is a big warmup in had parts of the country on a late january day but not every where. a winter storm is threatening the nation's midsection. jacqui jeras tracking what is ahead. doesn't look good, jacqui? >> it doesn't look good. this is a potentially cripplin...

Places like can cass city, st. louis, chicago, cleveland, possibly pennsylvania and upstate new york down the line. >> a heck of i wanter so far. >> this could be the worst storm for the plains maybe in ten years or so. >> jacqui jeras for that thank you for that. social media a galvanizing force in egypt for the protest and josh leaves has been collecting of the best i reports from the u.s. and egypt. josh? >> our i reporters on the scene have done a he tremendous amount to help cover this from the very beginning when it happened. coming up, we will day pay a testament to that. take a look ...

Revolvers, samurai swords, baseball bats, any sort of club people can find. people are staying out all night in the street, put out fires, bringing their dogs with them because their real fear is that despite all the excitement in the middle of town that on the outskirts, there are people who want to loot and steal and burn. so, lots of tens here. drew? >> ben, we just talked with mohammed sidky you an egyptian-american businessman who was noticing that the military was assisting civilians in arresting some looters. i'm wondering from your vantage point, in your section of cairo where you live...