as big as yesterday s. what we have been seeing is a really harsh police crackdown on the demonstrations across the city running battles the police firing rubber bullets, tear gas, grabbing and beating protesters with billy clubs and arresting them. as many as 500 people arrested across the country in the last 24 hours. the pictures you are seeing at this moment. this is the cornice, a main artery that runs next to the nile. there are hundreds of riot police that have blocked the road to stop protesters from reaching the state television building and ministry of information, very much a symbol of the egyptian state. at the moment, many egyptians are not happy with that state at all. i was just wondering.
clear up so they can launch those helos and start looking for him again. the problem last night was this front that came through. it s been pretty mild there, that s good news as far as survivability goes but bad news as far as snow stability goes and that may be one of the reasons why that cornice gave way. however they re always, always pretty fragile this time of year. here s your front. it is bringing some snow showers to this area. rain in the lowest elevations. here s the lay of the land. just across the border north and west of portland by 50 or so or 100 miles right in through this area, so right now they are getting snow high atop mount st. helens. the snow level at about 5,000 feet, which would be well, the top of the mountain is about 8,000 feet. this guy would probably be above 5,000 feet. let s give you a little bit of the lay of the land. here s the pacific northwest.
and they are now hoping that he made it through the night and can hopefully reach him there today. that is the latest live from stephen son washington, back to you. alisyn: and what were conditions like overnight, was it snowing and very, very windy? reporter: we heard it was basically more of the same, they saw and are hoping for improvement but you can see in stephenson we are quite a bit south and seeing rain and likely could be seeing more snow, and nasty conditions up there today. we ll see what happens. alisyn: mark glyzewski, live, thank you. bill: and the guy who went over is really experienced and he was leaning over a wall of snow, call it a cornice and took off his backpack and jacket to get a look and, there is no support beneath him and you put a little bit of weight on that snow and down you go, and down he went. alisyn: imagine the terrifying position he s now in and they said, he s at a 70-degree angle and could slip down further.
aircraft and they can take and pull anything out of anywhere, but the winds were too strong yesterday, and the pilots could not keep the helicopter hovering long enough. let me show you here, let s go through one thing at a time. we will go through cornice and overhang. because it is easy to see here. this is where the rock is ending, and the snow on top of the rock. so it has been snowing hundreds of inches on top of the mountain, and the guy this is a stock photo from the usgs and this is couple of years ago, but you will get the idea. there is the snow overhanging, and they were on a ledge like that, when it let go and the one guy went all of the way down into the canyon itself. here is mount st. helens and i want to let this play, while i go to get a brand new live shot from the web can that literally just took a new picture. i will put it on the air. so here is mount st. helen s
climber blowing an emergency whistle yesterday afternoon so we know he was alive then. what would he have had to have done overnight to be alive today? i m sure he got a little too close to the edge there, sounds like a cornice was formed and curiosity looking into that crater brought him over to the edge, and falling n. i m sure that the most important thing for him to do would be able to treat his immediate injuries, anything that would complicate him from making a shelter an emergency shelter to prevent himself from going hypothermic in the night. alisyn: he has to build an igloo to stay warm? winds that prevented the helicopter from flying there are going to cool him off rapidly so it s most important to get out of the wind as quickly as he can, digging a snow pit, snow cave kind of thing would help him, you know, make his body heat, trap his body heat in that snow cave and