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Past the army checkpoint in front of state tv toward the square so appears that the army is simply acting as traffic cops. if nothing else they're doing nothing to stop these clashes that have been going on now for 14 hours. >> ben, two critical questions i suppose that confront us. one, is mubarak himself behind in orchestrating this vicious attack and, second, is the army changing its posture? is it now tacitly or almost overtly supporting mubarak's efforts to beat back with violence the demonstrators? ben? all right. i think you know what, we pay have lost ben wedeman over in egypt and we'r...

Aggressive posture. what was really striking is, we heard some reports, hey, the police were supposed to be back out on the streets. i saw a handful of traffic cops, really. instead, what was really striking, was seeing just how much the military had fanned out throughout the city, in force, all the way up until giza and especially in front of everything from telecommunications buildings, the cell phone buildings to parliament, and important intersections as well. apparently trying to fill in some of that law and order vacuum that ben was just talking about. >> nic robertson, you were in alexa...

Wouldn't let us come any closer. this is part of what has egyptians so scared right now, a number of hotels and casinos that were torched and looted in the first days of protests. >> it does seem, ivan, the egyptian military clamped down today, making it more difficult for protesters to get access and journalists to get access. was that your experience? >> yeah, they took a more aggressive posture. what was really striking is, we heard some reports, hey, the police were supposed to be back out on the streets. i saw a handful of traffic cops, really. instead, what was really striking, was seein...

Tourists, but the soldiers wouldn't let us come any closer. this is part of what has egyptians so scared right now, a number of hotels and casinos that were torched and looted in the first days of protests. >> it does seem, ivan, the egyptian military clamped down today, making it more difficult for protesters to get access and journalists to get access. was that your experience? >> yeah, they took a more aggressive posture. we heard reports that police were supposed to be back out on the streets. i saw a handful of traffic cops, really. instead, what was really striking was just how much the ...

President. the president getting updates throughout the day, and i should point out, wolf, that in addition to the national security team, president obama inviting experts on egypt from outside the administration to come in and help decide the way forward there. wolf? >> we'll be speaking with one of those outside experts who was invited into the white house momentarily, dan. stand by. after days of absence police are returning to the streets of cairo. frederik pleitgen is our man on the scene as well. fred, tell our viewers what you're seeing that is obviously a shift from yesterday. >> repor...