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Thousands and thousands of people you see the police, you see those who are part of the demonstrations. they have been fired upon by rubber bullets. there have been water cannons, and this is primarily within the capital of cairo. but it also has spread much, much farther than that. i'm going to get that in a moment. here's the bottom line as we look at all these pictures. people in the streets, they want this guy out. this is america's friend, this is egyptian president hosni mubarak in power now for 30 years. he's our guy. and a lot of people in egypt are saying washington needs to wake up b...

Ben wedeman, cnn. and now i'm joined over the phone from cairo by an egyptian student named ahmed nagib. before we show some of your video and talk about what you saw and heard, i want you to explain why you wanted to call in versus be on television. are you fearful for your safety? >> well, yes, of course. who isn't? it's a frightening experience to be on tv. nowadays entirely with all that's happening in the streets. >> of course. and i'm hearing some of the video. guys, let's play some of the video full and ahmed, we'll talk in a moment. i just want to hear this and see this. so, we're he...

Pivotal moment. it's not certainly whether it be. >> i think perhaps because of that lack of fear, one cannot predict the momentum as we move forward in egypt. fred pleitgen, thank you so much for us live in cairo. i want to pass this along to you. actor charlie sheen was rushed to a hospital in los angeles this morning. what we know so far is that his rep has told cnn sheen has been suffering some sort of abdominal pain. we do have a crew enroute. as soon as we get more information on the actor out of l.a., we'll pass it along to you live right here. do you remember that story we covered ...

Outside cairo's journalists union, they put notice practice the government's latest decree. after tuesday's passive demonstrations across egypt, the ministry of the interior announced it would have a policy of zero tolerance for any kind of demonstration. like this one. >> this crowd didn't get the memo or e-mail or twitter as the case may be. they chanted mubarak, saudi arabia's waiting for you, referring to the country where depose the to younecian president bin ali was granted refuge. the model of tunisia and its revolution increasingly inspiring protest serious like magazine editor noor za...

Today. my question to you there in cairo was, was that message heard there on the arab street? >> reporter: well, it certainly was and it's certainly a lot of people i've been speaking to have been telling me for a long time. i was in one place that had a lot of clashes today, the town of suez and they were telling me again and again they feel that america has been backing the wrong horse for i along time. they said that while leaders like hosni mubarak are on america's side, for them it's been really difficult. they don't have any jobs here and say inflation is so high, they can barely live o...