in the businesses and banks coming back and at the tahrir square, people selling popcorn and popcorn vendors, a carnival atmosphere and the center of the square is a city made of tents and plastic awnings and people are laughing and singing and dancing and night falls and a lot of people pull away and the family and women pulls away and hard core male, and a more peaceable approach to that. harris: dominic denatale we appreciate the latest from there and the breaking news in the fact that things have changed a little on the ground. dominic, thank you. it s 93 million miles away, the center of a planetary system, the source of our heat and light, light on earth. nasa with a huge break through. the first complete look at the sun. we can t wait to show it to you! good day sunshine
which could bring about and whether that already happens and i m sure that people after associated being under a dictatorship. and ask you even furtherment and suddenly the changes are underway and we ve sent some people who, we re very much split with regards to just where the country is going to go, and an opinion about everything egyptian and very much remaining divided, harris. well, i understand that there s been i understand that there s been a big change in the atmosphere in cairo, something that people had wondered would come after such talks between the transitional people and now the opposition, what is that big change, dominic? it s been remarkable and people try to get back to business as issue as quickly, and astonishing the number of people busy and the amount of traffic driving in and people
were just mad, furious, the government, very, very easily provok provoked, it doesn t matter that monday is the beginning of the working week, all bets are off what happened in the morning. harris: the tanks moving in and we continue to hear them. dominic denatale, thank you very much. new response on the evolving crisis in egypt and president obama sending a message to the embattled world. and an idea of quote, orderly transition and hearing more out of the state department. officials there reaching out to americans that may be in danger. peter doocy is live in washington with that part of our coverage, peter? reporter: harris, the state department said on a conference call this afternoon, it s tough to tell how many americans are in egypt as many didn t register with the u.s. embassy and because there s limited phone and internet access, but he they did say there are thousands of u.s. citizens still there and they should
coming in the next few days, and dominic denatale is here with the latest on the ground for us, dominic? harris, it s 3 a.m. in the morning and there is some 5,000 people gathering in the main square, and in the square, remaining defiant against the government s curfew, designed to hold them back and stop them from rallying against the authorities that they want to see come to answered. they want to see the president, hosni mubarak, been in power for 30 years, to resign and to actually leave the country, but no indication of that is going to happen. and the army caught in the middle, trying to keep them from revolting and turning the scene into one of violence and also the government having to hold back more than the army to fire upon the public, which would be catastrophic, given the stalemate. no real winner until we know what happens with the government.
weeks ago and that killed troops, probing weaknesses in iraqi security apparatus and stokes ethic he thinks its. dominic denatale. after president obama announced the official end to the combat mission in iraq. the al-qaeda has a blunted, in a audacious attack and a strike in baghdad. a column of clouds could be seen off the massive boom across the city around 11 a.m. this morning, a suicide bomber dead nated an i board a mini bus east of the capital. and two gunmen attempted to storm the compound and held off in a military gun battle that lasted an hour. the attacksers were shot before they could get close to the belts they were later found to be wearing.