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That we're in right now, downtown, and the outside areas in the rest of cairo. so right now in effect i wouldn't call it a breakdown of authority, but it certainly is an absence of any sort of law enforcement in that area. and this is something that i think is very, very troubling, also speaking from what i know about other places that have had troubles, is we're seeing the emergence of illegal vehicle check points, where people are trying to stop cars and it's not clear whether or not they're trying to either take the cars or rob the people in the cars but just blasted through three of these ...

For a lot of people tweeting is something you do to tell a friend you're going to grab a cheeseburger, it's serious business. people get thrown into jail and beaten up in egypt for using the internet in the wrong way and they're turning to it now to try to change that. >> yeah, and try to get a better understanding of what is happening currently right now. >> well, egypt's president is still in power, but there have been some changes. >> we're hitting the streets of cairo with live updates on the changes in the government and we'll have more on that after this. ! i could go to quickenloans.com...

Crisis unfolding in egypt. egypt's national airline carrier has suspended flights from cairo for the next 12 hours. if you want to get out of cairo by air, it's not happening. military tanks also moving through the crowded streets right before our very eyes. according to our sources, more than 800 people have been injured. that's just so far. we just updated that. that was double from what we just saw. alex barrington, author of "the midnight house," a best-seller an expert on egypt. you were in egypt last year. you have worked for "the new york times" for many years and covered this region. w...

Support the universal human rights of the egyptain people, including the right to freedom of expression, of association and of assembly. we urge the egyptain authorities to allow peaceful protests and to reverse the unprecedented steps it's taken to cut off communications. >> reporter: speaking about the free flow of communications, as we look at live nighttime pictures coming to us from cairo, egypt. we're hearing reports that protesters have stormed the state tv channels there. that should have some impact on communications in egypt. secretary clinton urged the mubarek regime to seize the mo...

President hosni mubarek. we are getting word of gunfire in cairo and elsewhere in the country. we are getting reports protesters have stormed egypt's state television building. we are look at compelling video from earlier as the crisis unfold in egypt. one of the biggest drivers behind the angry demonstrations is a group known as the muslim brotherhood. you have heard us mention that term. it's credited with the group of al qaeda and hamas and it's linked with some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. jamie, thank you for being here.