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Smoking in restaurants. now new york's council has voted to ban smokers from taking a puff in parks and on beaches. they defend the move saying it will prevent children from being exposed to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. now look at a tweet from a guy who makes a living tracking journalists in dangerous places. i'm going to speak with him live in a moment. here's one of his tweets. he says this is a dark day for egypt, a dark day for journalism. we are overwhelmed documenting detentions. it was followed by this one. cpj board member laura logan escorted by her hotel in egypt at gunp...

Joel simon with cpj, i appreciate it. i recommend anyone to follow you on twitter. you are posting updates about journalists at joel cpj. thank you so much. from egypt to yemen, protesters are filling the streets. you remember, this is where kid terrorists we talk a lot about aqlp, al qaeda in the asian peninsula. what does the fight mean in the case against extremists. live there next. plus a manhunt under way for the people who robbed this gun store. they stole more than two dozen firearms and now they're on the run. that's ahead. it's dif - t adththod easy-to-swallow petes. thanks, i alre...

know, it happens to be my profession and those are our colleagues, but because the signals of violence, the violent turn of this government crackdown maybe about to intensify in cairo. ian, i was watching last night and things were very, very vicious, extremely vicious around tahrir square. tell me what's happening there right now. >> reporter: brooke, right now i heard a gunshot go off right when you were asking me that question. things are tense. they're not as bad as the previous night. things are a lot calmer, at least down at the southern end of tahrir square. the northern end i...