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reporter: eight students from u c davis, alex from u c santa cruz and a teacher had been planning their trip to egypt since the first of the year to study old egypt and the new. judging from alex s facebook posting, they were having a pretty good times before that, they managed to climb a pyramid, ride some camels. go on a boat cruise. reporter: she said she was surprised given egypt s instability that u c actually went ahead with the trip. reporter: was he at any point frightened for his safety? no. reporter: were you frightened for his safety? yes. [ laughter ] reporter: the students apparently were reluctant to leave and u.s. authorities had to prompt them to get out. they sent another note that said this evacuation is mandatory. nobody can stay there. reporter: students wanted to stay? yes, some of the students wanted to say. reporter: did your son want to say? he was hoping to go to europe and stay there. reporter: why not make a summer out of
words for the united states after his presidential jet was held. morales says the united states would never be able to intimidate or scare bolivia and called on european countries to, quote, liberate themselves from the imperialism of the americans. snowden was not on the plane, just to reiterate. he s still at the moscow airport, for all we know, and he s applied for asylum in 21 countries, including bolivia. the u.s. postal service is tracking your mail. the postal service photographs every single piece of mail processed in the united states. it s not known how long the government keeps those images. you might want to grab a raincoat on your way to watch fireworks. much of the eastern half of the country could see rain today. a weather system stretching from alabama to pennsylvania is expected to bring several inches of rain. egypt has a new interim president, the military has installed adly mansour.
with cheers. also fireworks that looked somewhat like the fourth of july all over cairo, fireworks shooting up into the air. people celebrating on the ground. you saw people waving flags, driving their cars around, playing music. quite celebratory atmosphere. something i haven t seen before. we also saw police officers waving flags and dancing in the street. a lot of people celebrating, but also people very angry at the pro-morsi rallies. they say they felt cheated and they felt that their legitimate leader had been removed illegally. ian, what happens now with the government? there s an interim leader that is been put into place. will egypt hold new elections? reporter: so the interim government, we have a new president now, adli mansour. his job is going to be to create an interim government of te technocrats to solve some of the
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