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Our control. that was a very frank acknowledgement from the new chief of staff. this is not something that will be determined by washington. try as the president has to bluntly, candidly and frankly tell mubarak that he has to get out now. now means yesterday. >> in thinking about the u.s. role here, it was brought home to me all over again. i moments ago asked richard angle what would make the biggest difference now about whether or not mubarak's reign ends. he said u.s. pressure. what could advance u.s. planning have done here given the way that these -- the way this has fallen apart so quic...

They will have breakfast, and i think there will be a lot more people in this square. night time for you, but today is just beginning here. it will be a very long one for cairo. hard to forget what will happen when this fighting gets really big again. this is almost a foregone conclusion that this is not done. >> richard, let me ask you about the action today. the u.s. embassy reading their statement. they continue evacuation efforts on thursday for assessing the need to continue flights after that. all remaining u.s. citizens who wish to depart on a u.s. government flight and are able to do s...

Even if the administration doesn't push it itself. the final point that brian and richard were making correctly is military to military communication. admiral mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs was in direct communication. and at every level you have office here's have been trained or have done advance training at our military academies and at our universities. and those are the communications and relationships that exist and can be utilized to tell the army turk stage if mubarak doesn't leave, if the curl of advisers, the small circle of advisers can't persuade him to leave, the militar...

By the military. what will happen tomorrow? will they employ a different type of webber and? >> what we are seeing is live images, richard angle these are pro mubarak forces on higher ground over the square and on and near the october 6th bridge throwing molotov cocktails down to what they see as the other side of the protests below. >> it is a crude, old and effective tactic. the managing editor of nbc's nightly news is on scene right now. do you feel like there is a qualitative escalation of violence that this is a qualitatively different type of

Force markings on the lockheed c-130s out at the airport. >> nbc "nightly news," we are grateful for you guys staying up through the dawn with us from cairo. stay safe, you guys and thank you. >> thanks, rachel. >> brian williams and richard engel live joining us live from cairo as dawn breaks over a remarkable scene. one thing that was evident and incredibly alarming for those in the news business today was to see the protests and the protesters and in particular the pro-mubarak forces which you can call protesters or not depending on your perspective seeing them to turn to target journalists...