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>> horrible. it's just devastating to see all of the destruction of my school, my home. >> the world health organization is going to announce this hour whether radiation from cell phones should be classified as a carcinogen. a panel of 31 scientists has been reviewing studies on that subject. they're going to try to synthesize the inconclusive findings to make some kind of recommendation. president obama will step into the rose garden this afternoon to announce his new commerce secretary. two white house sources say the president will nominate businessman john brycen, a former ceo at edison ...

I guess the fact that they took place is disturbing and now the egyptian army, a senior general, is actually defending the case. >> yes, indeed. all this happened on the 9th of march when the army wanted to disperse the crowds from tahrir square and they rounded up 149 protesters and detained them. 17 women were among the detainees. they were electrocuted and some of them said they had to undergo virginity tests. as you said, at first they were denying, but now a senior general who doesn't want his name mentioned, he admitted that this in fact did happen. and his explanation is that these girl...

This happened to a protest on march 9 which of course was after hosni mubarak had stepped down, but when the protesters were pushing for more reform saying that the pace of the changeover with the military running the country was too slow. and what happened for the first time, you saw the military actually target protesters, and you can see it there, and they went in and arrested, and they arrested hundreds actually, but there was a group of women that were taken into custody, and 17 of them, and amnesty international raised the allegation a few weeks after this protest said that they had been...

Thousands injured in the revolution to get rid of hosni mubarak, we have replaced him with a supreme council of hosni mubaraks that goes by the name of the supreme council. >> that is an excellent point that you make, but i want to make sure there is no loss of translation here. we are talking about virginity check, and this is physically checking these women, correct? >> it is. and this is part of, you know, to by way of explaining why these so-called virginity tests happened is that egypt is a conservative country, and like many other conservative areas of the world like latin america and tu...

>> they are told to leave the hotel room if somebody enters, they are always asked to see somebody's card because you don't know if somebody says this is my room and they want to get in. there's a lot of protocol in place, certainly at the best hotels and usually protocols are established when there's a question or issue that has to be dealt with. so that's one of the reasons that these managers take it very seriously and these crimes are supposed to be reported right away, brooke. >> we were wondering if they were trained and they are. deb, thanks so much. >> yeah. and now globe trekking. h...