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About a thousand people on monday took them up on that. about 500 or so on tuesday were evacuated. why did the number drop on tuesday? >> they said of these street demonstrations that you've been involved in, have been having an effect, at least in cairo. so the state department is saying the numbers did slow. the latest ones, they got 460 people out on four government charters, and that was today. and the destinations were istanbul and athens. they will continue that tomorrow, because there are probably about 3,000 people who do or have expressed an interest in getting out, anderson. >> and t...

About 500 or so on tuesday were evacuated. why did the number drop on tuesday? >> they said of these street demonstrations that you've been involved in, have been having an effect, at least in cairo. so the state department is saying the numbers did slow. the latest ones, they got 460 people out on four government charters, and that was today. and the destinations were istanbul and athens. they will continue that tomorrow, because there are probably about 3,000 people who do or have expressed an interest in getting out, anderson. >> and the airport in cairo is still open, and there are commerc...

Well, welcome back. we are live in cairo. our continuing coverage, we are now starting day nine of these protests. even though president mubarak has made the announcement that he's planning to stay in power, it's likely the protests will continue today, tomorrow, the protestors say it will continue until president mubarak leaves office that day. we want to talk about some of the americans who have been evacuating from egypt, on all points around egypt. it's believed there are about 52,000 americans living in egypt, though it's not known how many are in country right now. the state department h...

The news again, bp oil that number bumped up. will the number drop back down? we've had the conversation before a lot of the numbers on the economy are beginning to turn around and look upward. people aren't feeling it yet. when people start feeling it i think the number will move. >> you wouldn't argue with the fact that this is about independent voters and disappointed independent voters who, you know, gave their votes to barack obama, and now feel like he's not coming through for them in the ways that they hoped? >> no, certainly independent voters are a part of it. the fact is democrats ar...