Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Palm sunday terror in egypt. Dozens dead after isis strikes during sunday mass. Here in the bay area, a message of defiance tonight from the coptic christian community. Terrorists will never win. This action makes us very strong. This action makes us very united. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Tonight egypt has declared a state of emergency after the two suicide blasts. One tore through a church as a choir was singing. [ explosion ] that video feed cutting out as chaos erupts at the church in the city of tanta about 70 miles north of cairo. Hours later in alexandria, security cameras caught a suicide bomber detonating his bomb right at the security checkpoint outside the building. In all, at least 44 people were killed and more than 125 injured. And isis is claiming responsibility tonight. Evening prayers went on as scheduled tonight as a Coptic Christian Church in the east bay. They worry about whats next for egypt. Abc 7 News Reporter leslie br
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Jordan . If they do become democratic countries like egypt did briefly would that be better for us . Guest the question is not whether this is better for us or not. The ideal and the goal is a good one. The question is how do you get there and how long do you take it or what measures do you take . You mentioned egypt. Egypt was ready. Look at the United States. Were rewriting for an an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States boat . Our founders didnt think so. They limited the people who could vote in an election. You say its horrible and terrible. Maybe it was maybe it wasnt that it was a decision that was made to make sure there was continuity and stability within government that was consistent with the values the government was founded upon. We cant go out and say the objective is a free election. I shouldve never been the objective. We have to work with individual situations to ultimately even though may take 100 years to get there but the
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