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Back their city. leland vittert joins us on the phone now. what is the latest, lee lan. >> reporter: it is fair to say we are now in the middle of a civil war. there is no question about that. you are looking at video of one of the main oil terminals going up today during a heavy barrage of artillery by qaddafi forces. we were on the air as it all went down. it appears right now as though they have been beaten back badly by qaddafi forces. we are hearing more power as it goes off. it seems we had hen rpg or stinger missile going off. planes right above us at about 2:00 coming in. you can see f...

Of staff if you will. it does appear the military is in control, that's what the protesters demand. then you move to free and fair electionses. they haven't had free and fair electionses in 30 years. you can see the people celebrating, they finally feel like they have a chance to vote and will have a voice in their own destiny. these protests in kicking president mubarak out was about a number of things. number one on the list was they wanted freedom of speech, they wanted freedom of assembly, they wanted simply their basic democracy. everyone who we talked to said we want to have an america. ...

It's on the top sulieman who is a general and directly below that all of the military. that means that once again, ever since 1952 the egyptian people are going to be governed essentially by a military group, which is something that the u.s. could live with quite happily, but it something that is inconsistent with what it is that the people in the square are now demanding. jon: dominic denatali is in cairo for us -- i'm sorry, leland vittert is still with us. marvin if you would be good enough to stay with us on the phone. lee lan, marvin was talking about the fact that the military appears to...

About, there have been worries that there could be some kind of renewed violence. the big question is what would the army do after tomorrow's protest. there hasn't really been any violence so far in the past couple of days. it has been very, very calm and peaceful. what happens if these reports are untrue? that is another big question mark. it seems like this protest, since it began 17 days ago has been a surprise every day. there's been something new that's happened every day that's taken everyone from completely off guard, including the fact that these protesters continued to grow and weren'...

Organizational goals is the destruction of the state of israel. jenna: lee lan, thank you. jon: he is the man who could emerge as the leader, mohamed elbaradei supporting the protesters calling for a new era. and wanting hosni mubarak to resign to save lives. erin shaun has more. >> reporter: he seems like an unlikely revolutionary leader. mohamed elbaradei is a bespecled and nobel peace prize winner. his asension could prove troubling for u.s. egyptian relations. mohamed elbaradei ahead of the u.s. atomic energy agency for 12 years and has long been accused as being biased toward iran at time...