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>> i was thinking about roman times when the demonstrators created this shield made out of corrugated tin or steel as they advanced toward the museum. i'm trying to get an answer, and if anybody knows the answer to this, join in. the american -- young american men working as a medic, he was able to leave the square. do we know if the anti-mubarak protestors, if new ones can come into the square? >> no, actually i was just to the south of the square, as it was building up just before it went dark. and the army was quite firm. you could leave, but you could not go back. nobody was allowed to ent...

To replenish their food supplies and water? are they able to get more protestors into the square to support them or are they hemmed in on all sides? >> reporter: i believe they're hemmed in on all sides. we've been holed up in a building here really since about -- more than 12 hours now not feeling safe to go out, having barely gotten into this slightly safer place in the square. but i don't think there's any room for reinforcements to come in to support these people. they are surrounded and unable to leave. >> and certainly the pro mubarak people in the morning will have no problem getting re...

For our safety we've been advised to turn off the lights and get on the floor. that's why we're broadcasting like this. i want to go to ivan watson, who is in liberation square, where we has been all day and all night. ivan, i understand the camera has been -- it looks different. explain what we're looking at. >> this we're looking towards the south of the square, which has been further away from the front lines of the egyptian museum. there are a number of tents in that circle, that kind of lawn there, and you can see how people have been milling around back and forth. basically throughout th...

The square. there are protestors still holding the square. we're told there are still pro mubarak demonstrators either there or in the area. we haven't gotten an update on the security situation we are in, but we are maintaining the situation of us being on the floor and having turned off the lights in our location trying to make it as safe as possible. i want to show you some of what happened to our team, my team on the streets outside the egyptian museum today as we were on our way to report. we're showing you this not because what happened to us is particularly important, because it's not i...

Seeing the faces of 18, 19, 20-year-olds, regardless of what side they were on, determined the future of an entire region on this planet, that really matters politically, militarily, strategically, to all of us. >> when we come back, we're going to also talk with john king and dr. ajami and show you some of what happened on the streets today. my team was attacked. we're going to -- we're getting new pictures i'm told. ivan, what's happening in the square? what are we seeing? >> reporter: we got another pair of ambulances and seeing pictures of another wounded man, his head bandaged that was be...