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shep: president obama speaking out about the crisis, white house calling the attacks on journalists unacceptable and joe biden is speaking directly to the egypt s new vice president and an al-qaeda hang out, u.s. officials there were terrorists to take advantage of the situation. live coverage coming up but first, drug cartels sent a violent message to that country s government. nobody is out of bounds and nobody is safe. across the u.s. border in laredo gunmen murdered a retired army general as he took off a city as chief of police. we are told two bodyguards were killed and a personal secretary.
assassination of egyptian president anwr sadat that is when hosni mubarak came to power and reinstated the state of emergency that has been in place in egypt ever since. it s the state of emergency that really has been the iron fist for mubarak that is tha has seen 30 years of political representation, censorship, corruption, economic exclusion of some 42% of the 80 million strong population and brutality of the interior ministry police force. all of it s boiling out with people on the streets saying they want a shot at real democracy. its critical moment for egypt. it s very important moment for the united states. an author that wrote a book called the last pharaoh. he says the arab world is watching what happens but also
against all about essential travel to egypt. even the iraqi government sent three planes to rescue its citizens from the turmoil and bring them home to the relative calm of iraq, a sure sign of the changing geopolitical landscape. shep: we re getting this in, moments ago out of san francisco listen to this google incorporated has just announced that it has launched a new service for people in egypt to send twitter messages without an internet connection. they have shut down the internet all over that country in the middle of the protest to calm them but google has figured a way around it. what they are going to do, it allows them to dial a phone number, leave a voice mail and that voice mail is automatically translated into a message on twitter. so we should be getting more information out if only the people in egypt can learn about it.
what basically happened all the hedge funds, big investors were cutting their bullish bets in oil. investors were getting out of oil and gold but now all this political unrest in egypt has all of them running back into the oil market. it hit a 27-month high today. shep: $93? yeah, on the way up. shep: but they are concerned that it s spreading to the neighboring countries? jp morgan released a note on this saying if this civil unrest were to spread to other middle east countries, possibly northern african countries it could have a significant impact on oil prices, presumably put them higher. meanwhile, shepard, the oil operation in egypt is continuing as usual today but some