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good morning to you. thank you for being with us. 6:00 a.m. in new york this morning. tuesday, july 19th. i was hearing that in parts of iowa the heat index felt like 130 yesterday. it s been brutal out there. even this morning on the east coast, it felt different. it felt hotter. we ll be covering that. we re watching that and millions are watching with a worldwide media empire hanging in the balance rupert murdoch is just hours away from facing his defining moment. in less than four hours, murdoch, his son and former top newspaper executive will appear before the british parliament. they will be asked what they knew about this phone hacking scandal that s growing wider by the day. it s threatening to take down news corp and perhaps murdoch himself. and the question is what they are going to be called upon to explain, what they re going to be compelled to explain and how that s different from being called before congress. who is going to be asking the questions ....
salaries. the military announced on monday that such demonstrations will destabilize the country and have a negative impact on the economy. it s hoping to first restore security and stability. the interim government reportedly told youth groups that a constitutional referendum will be held in two months to pave the way for democratic elections. those groups have been major players in the protests. anti-government protests are spreading in other middle east countries. people in bahrain and yemen continue their demonstrations. shia muslims in bahrain called for demonstrations through the internet on monday. a sunni minority rules the gulf country, which is 70% shia. thousands of people marched throughout the country. reuters reported in the village of new waidrat riot police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of 2,000 people. in yemen protests have been under way for four days in response to calls by opposition groups. thousands gathered in the capital sanaa. they re dem ....
change blowing through the arab world. from cnn center, this is cnn. it is february 12th, i m randi kaye. we would like to welcome viewers to our ongoing coverage of revolution egypt. i have been watching the tweets coming from egypt. we have one from the guy who is the face of this. wael ghonim. his tweet says good morning egypt. i truly missed you in the past 30 years. that is a big statement. certainly sums it up from a lot of protesters there and people from cairo and egypt. it is time to move on. that s the sentiment from some at the revolution. time to move past of thoughts of punishing former president has any mubarak. now, people with still gathering in tahrir square. now, the clean up has begun. people are urged to get back to work starting sunday. it was a very different scene last night. have a look. thousands celebrating the fall of mubarak, for many of them, the only leader they have ever known. reaction was swift, but mixed with emotions of elation ....
situation room. i m joined by cnn international anchor michael holmes who is joining us from the cnn international center. we ll get to michael in a movement first, an 18-day uprising becomes a full-fledged revolution. the egyptian army now in control of the country hours after mubarak finally gave in to the protesters demands for him to quit. take a look at the moment when the egyptians learned that mubarak was leaving, and they declared their nation is free. hosni mubarak now believed in the egyptian resort city of sharm el sheikh on the red sea. we re told that swiss banks have now frozen the ex-president s assets and his family s assets. still a lot of questions about what s next for the egyptian people, the egyptian government and the promised elections, but as president obama put it just a little while ago, egypt, he said, will never be the same. michael, this is a dramatic moment. history unfolding, all of us have been watching, and to think about it, michael, ....
struggles to make single digits. dallas-ft. worth could get one to three inches, but at least the super bowl is over. ed lavendara is back in his back coat in oklahoma. ed, is it feeling like winter now? they ve been bearing the brunt of this storm, but not as bad in the northern parts of oklahoma where in places like tulsa, they ve gotten 12 inches of snow again this week. so this is another brutal storm. really, it s been the story of temperatures and just how frigid cold it is. also the story of how dangerous it is on the roadways. check out the video of a poor guy we saw a little while ago on the streets of downtown oklahoma city. he kind of walks around and falls down. that s actually interesting. state officials have saying they ve had reports of 80 injuries, many of them people slipping and falling on the roads. not quite a laughing matter. i did that last week, as a matter of fact, and it took about a week to get the soreness out of my neck. very dangerous sit ....