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Wound, stab wounds, many of them saying they were going to be heading right back to the square as soon as they were released from the hospital. the country really bracing itself for today for maybe more of what happened yesterday, if not worse. >> that's unbelievable. arwa damon, of course, we will keep an eye on it as we have these live pictures and have you there. thanks for joining us. >> well, in many respects you could call egypt, the entire country a museum. just priceless artifacts all over that country that now becoming collateral damage in this uprise. take a look here. some of the pi...

With the museum, a lot of people are nerved at the antiquities in there. either being damaged or destroyed. you see the fires burning down on the square. and the state department, the u.s. state department, issuing a new warning to americans there, via twitter, all remaining u.s. citizens who want to leave should report to the airport immediately saying that further delay is no longer advisable. everyone appears to be at risk, including a number of journalists, among them our anderson cooper. >> reporter: i was shooting this video on my flip camera so as not to attract too much attention. sudd...

24 minutes past the hour now. a lot of the violent images we've been seeing in cairo's libber racing square were actually playing out directly in front of the egyptian museum. this museum contains priceless artifacts. many of those themes of years old, some already damaged. >> looters have smashed a couple sculptures of king tut. reports of historic dig sites being looted. egyptians themselves, though, banning together to try to protect the sites on their open. dr. bob briar is an egyptologist for the largest number of artifacts assembled ever in milwaukee. he's with us. good morning, sir. is ...

Phone from the egyptian capital. arwa, we saw this yesterday, the military by all accounts just standing by and watching the clashes take place yesterday. today, they're now separating the two sides. what has changed? >> reporter: well, from our vantage point, we do see a handful of foot soldiers who have basically placed themselves in front of that makeshift metal barricade that the anti-government demonstrators set up after they managed to push the pro-government demonstrators out of the square. but they're still not doing an active role to bring about any shape or form of establishment. jus...

The violence that happened overnight, saying that it is entirely unacceptable. the issue here is that there is not one group that is actually leading this demonstration. remember, this is a demonstration that began across twitter, across facebook. it was the youth of egypt that went out in the square, from there, it took on a life of its own. when we speak to the demonstrators themselves, they're not looking towards one specific leader or one specific opposition group. even if the opposition was able to broker some kind of an ilk with the government that would not guarantee an end these demons...