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>> ben wedeman has lived in cairo for years and knows egypt as well as any reporter on earth. we've been talking to him since the egyptian uprising began. and he joins us again now from the cnn bureau in cairo. ben, what's the latest in cairo? >> well, what we have here is about half an hour ago, several tanks from the egyptian army drove up here. basically, the army is taking over the city because the police have simply disappeared. we're hearing reports from -- from throughout the city that almost all the major police stations have been ransacked. the police as we saw in one of the police st...

He wee don't know if we say anything if it will help or hurt if that indigenous grassroots is big enough to overthrow ahmadinejad. the genie is out of the bottle in cairo. the numbers of people in the street, the organizational effort seems so big. nobody thinks mubarak can survive which then begs the question, who comes after him? will it be a radical islamic force? a moderate force? >> my take is that the muslim brotherhood, which is the islamist force in egypt is very well integrated into the system. they have the resources. they have what it takes to be elected the next government. but, of...

Cut short so that was disturbing. and since that time, we've had no information at all. >> what are her circumstances there? is she living in a dormitory, with a family? did she have an apartment? >> she's living with a family that she -- that was her host family last year. her senior year of high school, when she was there on an exchange program to be fully immersed in the arabic language. >> and have you reached out to the embassy? have you reached out to the u.s. government in any way to say how can we reach u.s. citizens who are living in egypt at this point? >> oh, absolutely. i'm a good ...

No internet. we've tried everything. you know, aside from a plane ticket. >> well, i assume courtney has lots of friends there. other american students perhaps and have you been in touch with other parents? >> i have been in touch with other parents and actually she has a friend that was supposed to join her in egypt for a -- they were going on a three-month trip through the middle east together and she and her parents are beside themselves. courtney has a lot of friends -- she went to prep school in massachusetts at dana hall and she has a lot of friends there and here in new hampshire as wel...

>> another molotov cocktail. >> we'll continue to cover the story throughout the week. cnn has unprecedented resources. more than anyone nels the region. stay with us for our continuing coverage. we continue with "parker/spitzer" right now. good evening. i'm kathleen parker. >> i'm eliot spitzer. welcome to the program. tonight, breaking news from egypt continuing the coverage you've been watching on cnn all day. what we've been seeing is nothing less than a revolution in realtime. we're looking at pictures from the street that runs right outside cnn's bureau in cairo. this video was shot ju...