territory where we are precisely right now. i can t give our exact position. it s dangerous for foreigners to be here. the taliban has taken full advantage of pakistan many times before. most recently during the summer floods, it gave more support to local people than the authors actually could. the epicenter was just a few kilometers away from the afghanistan border. a porous frontier where the taliban come-to-to and fro. some of the opportunities just happened a few hours ago. communications are not easy even in the best of times. we don t know exactly just how the area has been affected. but this porous frontier taliban so close they will be the people who get to those who have been affected first as a result who knows what kind of contact they have with them. early hours, it s not dawn yet. we will see what happens in the first light of day in a few hours time. shepard: hour and a half from sunrise there. or dominick dinatale on scene.
exception than the rule today. witnesses say that was, at least in part, thanks to the egyptian military. soldiers were on the scene in the square today. guarding protesters and searching people as they entered, keeping them apart. the area apparently so safe that some families brought their children to the square for this latest administration. and so those children may some day be able to tell their own kids they were there when it all happened. they were there when the people of egypt struggled to breathe free. team fox coverage tonight. mike emanuel with developments from the white house. dominick dethat the owe dinatale. describe what you saw today. as you can see from the live pictures we were getting out of cairo right now. that is it was relatively calm. you were describing how families and children were scene in the square. a father with his son holding him on his shoulder as they walked towards the square to join the protesters. i saw a group of three women
so the government, perhaps looking to buy a little loyalty. and maybe a little more time. dominick dinatale streaming live from cairo tonight. dominick? shep, it certainly seems strange that the government is giving money to those who have jobs unemployment in the first place it was a big trigger for this crisis. there are many more people who are losing work as the government digs its heels in even further other the protests. some of those people are facing seriously tough times, shep. plotting through the mahmoud hasn t seen visitor for days. we don t take salary. there are thousands like him who have now seen their livelihoods vanish. some earning as little as $300 a month, many now earn nothing. those despairing most can t afford to feed their horses which are left to die in the street. so angry mahmoud and fell lower
they are talking about another million man march in a couple of days time. that could escalate things again, shep. shepard: dominick dinatale early this saturday morning in cairo. we heard today that officials from the obama administration has been speaking with their egyptian counterparts to consider how a possible power transfer would work. that, in case president mubarak does agree to step aside before the september elections. team fox coverage continues. mike emanuel at the white house now. mike, what do you know behind the scenes talks. one proposal would have assume power with the backing of the military until elections could be held. white house aides are emphasizing that the egyptians really have to make the decisions about the way they want to go. that the u.s. is not forcing one particular plan. we do know that there is a lot of this talk is focusing on the egyptian military, which is widely respected and has worked closely with the u.s. military over the years. in fact,
country s border with afghanistan. the latest video shows people running from buildings while other stand in the streets. we re told people could feel the quake in cities hundreds of miles away. during studio b today, our fox news producer in pakistan described what he felt just after it hit. by far the worst we have felt in about five or six years. this earthquake still has me, you know, shaking. shepard: as you just heard pakistan no stranger to this type of disaster. in 2008 a magnitude 6.4 urk earthquake in the same region killed nor man 200 people. in 2005 a massive magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit the northern part of the country and killed some 80,000 people. dominick continue tally streaming live tonight. this is taliban territory. shep, the biggest concern here is not just what happened in terms of the scale of the earthquake, but actually where, specifically this has happened. it s happened deep in taliban