speculations. reports coming out from various places suggesting that fighter jets have been firing on the people at the behest of gadhafi. do you have any evidence of that? did you know if this was true? reporter: what we re hearing from people here is that, indeed, that was the case in tripoli. and there have been occasional air strikes on the eastern part of the country. but just as the world is suffering from this news blackout out from libya, within libya itself, they have the same problem. many of the satellite news channels are blocked. for instance, the arabic signal is being jammed here. the official media is absolutely worthless in terms of conveying anything that approximates the truth. so a lot of it is by word of mouth. the local cell phone system,
this whole protest movement has just sort of popped up in the last week, so it s very difficult to say. but we know that people are walking to cairo from the nile delta. we know that despite the fact the government has cut the internet, you can t send sms s, blackberries don t work. and within moments we expect the cell phone system to go down. we know that word has passed just by word of mouth, throughout the entire country. i think we can anticipate a huge demonstration. a million, it could be more, it could be slightly less. this could probably be the biggest demonstration we ve seen in cairo yet. are you nervous about it? of course i m nervous. i m nervous, because i have a family here. we ve seen since this has begun, the security situation in cairo has deteriorated dramatically. this is one of the safest cities on earth. at the moment we see the police, even though they re back in small numbers, just disappeared. they were pulled out of the
if mubarak leaves you don t think the muslim brotherhood would take over? we re not going to allow them. tomorrow a massive protest has been called, the pressure keeps building. the protesters hope something soon has got to give. some of the people on the scenes we saw today in liberation square. as we said, it s just four hours until this massive protest is planned. i m joined now by ben wedeman and nic robertson. what are you anticipating is going to happen today? the job of anticipating has become very risky here, because this whole protest movement has just sort of popped up in the last week, so it s very difficult to say. but we know that people are walking to cairo from the nile delta. we know that despite the fact the government has cut the internet, you can t send sms s, blackberries don t work. and within moments we expect the cell phone system to go down.
keeps building. the protesters hope something soon has got to give. some of the people on the scenes we saw today in liberation square. as we said, it s just four hours until this massive protest is planned. i m joined now by ben wedeman and ivan watson in cairo. and also in alexandria, nic robertson who s there. ben, what are you anticipating is going to happen today? the job of anticipating has become very risky here, because this whole protest movement has just sort of popped up in the last week, so it s very difficult to say. but we know that people are walking to cairo from the nile delta. we know that despite the fact the government has cut the internet, you can t send sms s, blackberries don t work. and within moments we expect the cell phone system to go down. we know that word has passed just by word of mouth, throughout the entire country. i think we can anticipate a huge
shaking, a lot of things were on the floor. i think that s pretty much going to be prevalent throughout all of santiago. everyone that s come into the newsroom from different parts of the city is reporting pretty much the same thing. a big concern at this particular time now is first light arrives is are the buildings. we have collapsed buildings, we don t have any reports of anybody trapped at this point. and so slowly as the cell phone system starts to work, the telephone system begins to work, we re getting more and more reports. let me ask you this. as you were driving in, getting updates now with first light being about 8:12 there local time this morning, were you able to determine just how extensive the damage is in santiago, given the fact it s 212 miles away from the epicenter? there s no way for me to know that coming in the dark. and i was make a beeline for the office. what did you see? in the area i was, it was mostly dark and the power came