definitely does not want to be seen as intervening in a north african country turning what has been unpopular unrest against the united states or the europeans. getting the arab league in favor of a no-fly zone was essential. it s gone beyond that the europeans, the u.s. has been encouraging arab countries to kick in more resources against qaddafi. charles levinson just put up on a story on our web site saying egypt is now supplying the rebels with the u.s. knowledge. that s a very big move. that s that s a solid move by an arab country. shepa: our new friends in egypt after the fall of a regime there. john bussey from the wall street journ. levinson s article available right now at wsj.com. back now to the developing situation here in japan as we are covering two breaking stories tonight. one week after the earthquake triggered the tsunami, the government s official stand on the death count is at 5300. but factor in the number of people still missing all this
ground. part of the effort to cool down those fuel rods and reactors. even as japanese responders continue to do heroic work, we know that the damage to the nuclear reactors poses a substantial risk. shepard: and officials say what happens in the hours ahead is absolutely critical. plus, a new move to pull americans out of the danger zone. i m concerned because i really don t know the situation about the radiation. shepard: tonight, the escape from japan. and good friday morning from tokyo where there is breaking news at the fukushima nuclear plant. multiple reports now indicate crews have successfully hooked up an emergency power cable to one of the plant s reactors. they have call it unit 2. we are waiting for them to turn on the juice. the cable stretches, they tell us, about sixth tenths of a mile from the power grid itself. the reuters news agency reports that it is the world s largest extension cord. if teams can get it working, it would conceivably let them res
greta: a strange direction by egypt s vice president, he told protesters to leave the streets go, home and get back to work. that seems to have angered the protesters more. wall street journal reporter charles levinson joins us on the phone from cairo. tell me would the protesting going on is there any sense that any of them are giving up or is this just getting fiercer? i think there is no question going to get fiercer. i think you re going to see a big turn out today. people are angry and want more from this government in terms of kons yegss. greta: did the broadcast this to the the tv speeches by president mubarak and vice president on big telephone tv screens out? so protesters could see it? word of mouth? twitter? how are they getting that? they had it on big screens but had people listening on
world is if the people move on the presidential palace, the parliament and other places, will the military stop them on join them. they move on the parliament, the presidential palace, i think, is the big one, and that s sort of the, you know, that s the ace in the hole for the protesters that s really going to put the army into the corner where they have to choose sides. shepard: is it your sense, charles, that the president was going to resign and changed his mind or something else? that was everybody s sense. not just mine. that was the senior government official, western diplomat here. opposition leaders, you know, as of 5:00, 6:00 p.m. this evening. everybody was certain he was going to resign and then something happened between then and when he came on tv at 10:50. shepard: it almost sounded like he decided i m not going to do what foreign powers tell me to do. i m not resigning. he decided there was some sort
greta: a strange direction by egypt s vice president, he told protesters to leave the streets go, home and get back to work. that seems to have angered the protesters more. wall street journal reporter charles levinson joins us on the phone from cairo. tell me would the protesting going on is there any sense that any of them are giving up or is this just getting fiercer? i think there is no question going to get fiercer. i think you re going to see a big turn out today. people are angry and want more from this government in terms of kons yegss. greta: did the broadcast this to the the tv speeches by president mubarak and vice president on big telephone tv screens out? so protesters could see it? word of mouth? twitter? how are they getting that? they had it on big screens but had people listening on