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Anyone from entering. they are claiming that they were shot at first by these demonstrators and then the situation rapidly escalating from there. people who were at these demonstration sites saying that these security forces barely issuing any warning whatsoever, moving in immediately beginning to fire intense volleys of tear gas and live ammunition, as well. anderson, we did not see any of these demonstrators carrying weapons. that's not to say they weren't. however, there are more than 40 people who were kid, members of the egyptian police force in all of this. so presumably there were peopl...

Gives egypt every year, about $1.3 billion of it goes to the egyptian military and a lot of that is actually spent right here in the u.s. on weapons, fighter jets, et cetera, et cetera, which are then sent to egypt. arwa damon is standing by live in cairo. arwa, what's been happening today? >> well, if you compare it to the levels of violence that we saw taking place yesterday, it most certainly has been relative speaking fairly quiet. earlier in the day we actually went down to one of the churches that had been looted and burnt by an angry mob of islamists, as eyewitnesses were describing the...

Heard what he thought was a sonic boom to see what he described as a fireball. any injuries on the scene, obviously the neighborhood around the north part of the airport is still closed while investigators are trying to put that fire out. it's a brand-new image of the front half of that plane as he described it. it blew up in the middle and came down. the debris covers a half mile. the small craft was en route to louisville, kentucky. no word and what caused that crash. we'll get developments on that throughout the show. a journalist, a skycam aman is among the at least 95 people who have been...

Least one journalist is among those killed today. my first question to you is one would think that the government's goal here in acting clearly so forcefully as to go ahead and quash the uprising, but you reported today, arwa, this is the beginning of a long and bloody battle. why do you say that? >> that's the sense that one gets quite simply, because throughout the course of the day, even after they initially cleared the areas we saw clashes growing and spreading and becoming more intense throughout the entire city and in fact, in other parts of the country as well. the security forces weren...

E eian, what can you tell us right now? we're seeing the pictures there. we don't have ian right now. overnight, troops from the government, the military, moved in from the sites of the two sit-ins. at the sit-ins they have been fortifying the area lately, protesters, they've been building stone walls, storing rocks, even gathering bird shot to use against the police in the military, in the event, that the authorities moved in to break up the protest. that now has apparently happened. as we said, we're getting conflicts reports about the number of dead and injured. anywhere from a handful to m...