south carolina. where robbers attack two people who were leaving a walmart. in kissimmee, florida, a fight breaks out at a big box jewelry counter. turning to l.a., a woman actually used pepper spray to fend off her fellow shoppers. and in north carolina, an off-duty police officer pepper sprays an unruly crowd. happy shopping season, folks. these of course are just the exceptions. the one thing mostly the shoppers are out there trying to fight is just maybe some fatigue. the only thing they want to attack is their chris pass list. but still, 152 million people. that s the number the estimated number of people that will be shopping over this thanksgiving weekend. also roughly the population of france, italy and saudi arabia combined just to give you perspective there. still not impressed? a cnn poll finds 23% of americans plan to shop today, just today alone, on black friday. we re not going to know until much later how much they re actually spending and if that s going
live from istanbul, turkey. ivan, i want you to tell us what did the women protesters say to you? reporter: well, we spoke with one in particular, a young woman named salaa husseiny, and she s one of 17 women arrested by egyptian military police that cracked down on a protest that took place on march 9th in cairo s famous tahrir square. she said initially they were taken into the famous egyptian museum, which is right in that square, and that s where she was beaten and hit with electric prods and frequently insulted. she was called a whore by her interrogators. that was treatment that about demonstrators experienced at that time on march 9th. we spoke to a male demonstrator who showed us the wounds over his back. he couldn t even walk after that experience. later in the course of events, both men and women were transported to a facility on the
taking on islamic militants who have overrun a coastal town. it s a case eerily similar to the one against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. an egyptian businessman could be arraigned in new york today, charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. 74-year-old mahmoud abdel salam omar is accused of groping a maid at the pierre luxury hotel. she says she went to the room at omar s request to drop off tissues. call it a bin laden bounce. strong performances on national security and international relations are driving president obama s overall poll numbers even higher. a new cnn opinion research survey finds that 54% approve of the job he is doing. that is up six percentage points since early april. when are you planning to announce you ll run for president? what do you think the odds are you ll run? are you going to run? that is the question. there is no public schedule, but sarah palin s bus tour seems to be headed for philadelphia today. now palin v
president. the speaker we should be hearing, the negotiations are continuing even at this movement. meanwhile, other news involving libya. its opposition wants answers from nato. for the second time, an opposition strikes rebels. plus, tens of thousands of egyptians packed cairo s famous tahrir square again today as soldiers defy the threat of arrest to join them.
there still seems to be april sense of revolution in the air. what are you feeling? reporter: well, certainly what we re seeing here, the revolutionaries who helped topple a dictator during 18 historic days, trying to capture that energy again and reinject themselves into a political process that they feel they are being marginalized from. there s the world famous tahrir square where you have more than 10,000 people gathered right now. many of them criticizing the current ruling, egyptian military council that is running the show right now and has been entrusted with managing what is supposed to be a transition to democracy. and the demonstrators here worried that some of the decisions taken by the ruling military council are not in line with what they manage the future of egypt should be. there s a carnival atmosphere down there despite violence crackdown on previous protests