down as well. once it did begin to clear after that, several minutes of pitch darkness what did you see in the streets? a very deep gray smoke. it looked like a bit of a nuclear winter. the type of thing you see in the movies with ash all over the ground, on top of cars, on police karkss on windcars, on windows. i made my way into a building and stayed there until a couple of police officers and a few others in the building were able to get into a vehicle. we picked up a few injured people along the way and dropped them off at the hospital. one policeman had a deep gash in his forehead. he was all right. and the young lady had shrapnel in her arm. don t know whether it was part of a building or glass from another building. it was truly the most intense and frightening experience i ve ever had in my life. it was literally pitch black on the streets. and people were you know, obviously, inhaling a great deal of this material. so many folks having difficulty breathing and wearing fa
a.m. here in tahrir square. there are tens of thousands of people here. this is almost 24 hours up to the brutal assaults by the mubarak regime on the peaceful protesters here at tahrir. they managed to hold the square, but they suffered terribly. you can t walk ten yards here without seeing someone bandaged up with, someone bruised, someone with a cast on or someone limping or with a deep gash. so they re pretty proud they ve been able to maintain occupation of the square, but they did suffer for it. it s unclear what s going to happen today. some people have said they are planning a march on the presidential palace, even though hosni mubarak is [ inaudible ]. some people are saying they should hold their ground here. they re afraid they re going to lose the square. but regardless of what happens, many expect the numbers to be vast. but to call it a day of departure, are they going to have trouble marching on the palace?
hello? hi, sharif, this is ed. they are calling it a day of departure. hello? does that mean that tomorrow something really big is going to happen? how do you see this? well, it s unclear exactly what is going to happen. i would say today, it is 6:00 a.m. here in tahrir square. there are tens of thousands of people here. this is almost 24 hours up to the brutal assaults by the mubarak regime on the peaceful protesters here at tahrir. they managed to hold the square, but they suffered terribly. you can t walk ten yards here without seeing someone bandaged up with, someone bruised, someone with a cast on or someone limping or with a deep gash. so they re pretty proud they ve been able to maintain occupation of the square, but they did suffer for it. it s unclear what s going to happen today. some people have said they are planning a march on the presidential palace, even though hosni mubarak is [ inaudible ]. some people are saying they should hold their ground here. they re af
were you close enough to survey the scene? i was within about a half a block of the building as it started to come down. can you tell us what you saw there? it was fairly clear. there were some areas along the reet that did have bloodde and debris. there were no longer people in the area except for a couple of journalists andff police office who were quarantining containing the area so people wouldn t cut through. once it di begin to clear after that several minutes of pitch darkness, what did you see in the streets then? it was a very deep gray smoke. in honesty, it looked like a nuclear winter, the type of thing you see the movies with ash all over the ground on top of cars, on police cars, on windows. i made my way into a building because it was the one light i could see and stayed there until a coup of police officers and a few other people inside the building were able to get into a vehicle. we picked up a few injured people and dropped them off at the hospal. what w
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