all, this is how this whole protest has been organized through these social media, through facebook, through twitter. it seems that that is what the egyptian government is tar gets and trying to crack down on. we appreciate you. and ben as well after what he s clearly gone through out there. being roughed up now by police. you guys be safe. certainly stand by for us fredrick. we ll continue to check in with you as often as we can. you heard them laying it out so clearly about just how much of a communication crackdown is going on there. internet access cut off. cell phone service disabled. it s all part of an egypt that is clearly erupting this morning, leaving social media even that as the key to communication. right now mohamed is monitoring that part of the story for us this morning. he s joining me live from the cnn international desk in atlanta. mohamed what are your seeing by
protests at all costs they have the orders to stop this from getting out to international audiences because otherwise they wouldn t attack you? they have been given the green light from somebody in the egyptian government to make coverage as difficult as possible. in addition to the violence that they are so liberally using, there s no cell phone service, there s no internet, you can t send an sms. it s a total crackdown. reporter: thanks, ben. for the moment things already kicking off in the egyptian capital. it s quite early. we do expect there will be more to come as the day goes on and as more and more protesters try to get to that venue. fredrick, great stuff there with ben. i have to ask you, though, how much more difficult is about it to become for us here at cnn and other journalists around the world to tell this story, because we had understood they are is hurting down internet service, shutting down be text message capabilities because they are trying to limit
soon, but quickly, the only way really to create millions of jobs is to get the economy roaring once again. the president is going to come up with some ideas. but how does he do that? i think that s the problem. he has said to his own staff how do we get this economy booming. fiscal policy is out because congress won t spend more money. monetary policy is out because interest rates are at zero. the only answer is innovation. that s why if you read the text to the speech that is now being distributed, on page 3 innovation crops up. creativity, innovation, technology. that is what the president wants to tell the american people. we must transition to a new foundation for our economy that will be a slow process, but he wants to help make that happen by investing. that will be the word he uses in technology and education and r&d and infrastructure. that is the way he will say this economy will grow creating millions of jobs down the road. and you know that when republicans hear the wor
noalse alarm here, a winter storm is bearing down on our area, this isooking to be the biggest sto so far this winter. and a warning as we look live at v-dot cameras, many o the highways and se streets are snow covered. it is a wild weather morning, we have a lot toell you about. conditions deteriorated so fast this morning, thapp.r.t.c. bus system said that will ben an emergenc plan. d andrews air for base is opening two hours lateoday. meteorologist tom kierein tracking the latest for us ight there at reagan national, sleetg with rain mixing in fartr north and west, where you see the white area, it is snow in northern virginia and maryland. a closer view, showing the snow, and prince gege s county, and loudouncounty, and panhandle of west virginia points north, it is still snow that continues to fall. that are of snow is going to be passing to the northnd it will change over to rain. the pink zo, sleet with rain. rther to the south. southern prince george s unty, andrince
district. i don t believe it. i don t believe those numbers will come true. maybe 2 1/2 inches of water that you could melt down from the storm in a cold storm and that could be 29 or 30 fluffy inches of snow, but this is not fluffy, because it is heavy and dense packed. if you get two inches of water, you could multiply it by seven instead of ten, and that is somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 inches of snow, but is it still going to paralyze d.c.? absolutely. baltimore? absolutely. philadelphia? even at 15 inches of snow, paralyzed for at least while and all of the way up to fredrick. it is going to be one large storm. hey, sarah, i have a question for you, the temperatures have not gone down at all tonight, it seems from what we have been seeing and usually at sunset the temperatures are going down, but the forecast in richmond and i know you can t see it, but i will describe for it viewers that the warm air is coming up. does it feel warmer than it should be? it is feeling warmer