mubarak exit. they are telling americans to get out now, it s the last chance. state department says it s unlikely there will be further relief flights after today. u.n. has ordered its people out, too. in yemen 40,000 demonstrators have taken to the streets there. equal numbers are said to be anti-government and pro government but that s always difficult to figure out who s doing what. meanwhile, with conditions in cairo deteriorating, the egyptian army has stepped in again. for the latest, let s start live with dominic on the phone from cairo. yes, we are at the pivotal what happens next moment here in cairo. the pro government supporters who had started the fight yesterday appear to have completely pulled back. and the pro democracy protesters are stuck in the middle of the square. they are digging their heels and they ve built up a series of barricades around them and they are going absolutely nowhere. we are hearing that the military is intending to plan some form
warning shots trying to separate government supporters and opponents. some people are armed with machetes, razors, clubs. molotov cocktails are flying. and this surreal scene. government supporters charged the square on horse and camels swinging clubs at protesters. it is unclear how many have been wounded. following the lead of egyptian president hosni mubarak, yemen s president announced today he will not run for office again when his term ends in 2013. ali abdullah salei also pledged he would not turn power over to his son. they say their protests will go ahead tomorrow as planned. and a powerful category 5 cyclone is slamming northeastern australia today.
cairo. 400 injured and at least one killed. mubarak supporters sealed off the main square and trapping the opposition inside. it is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now. former u.s. bread nicholas burns, professor at hard harvard school joins us. you know our point person and ambassador on the ground. what is wisner likely telling mubarak and those around mubarak who are listening to the united states? isn t he being told that his time is up? well, andrea, what a disastrous day for all egyptians and u.s. policy toward egypt.
september but he did not say he was going to step down now. the army was asking the people, please stop the protesters, let s try to get life back to normal. they don t have food in their grocery stores and there is in fuel, no water, no deliveries, no a.t.m. s, and it is beginning to descend into an unworkable environment. and then, all of a sudden, the thousands of government supporters, pro mubarak people, came into the street and the violence was ranched up to a level we have not seen and the military saying we will not move on our people. we are united egypt and we will not move on our people. well, now, it appears in this one spot where this one camera is watching, the military, indeed, has moved in and the violence has escalated into the square. are you getting any intelligence on what is happening on the ground? who is fighting with whom? why this is happening now?
cairo, has announced that they are closing off the square and potentially clearing it of the anti-government protesters. u.s. officials telling us that there seems to be a division between the security forces and other nonuniformed mubarak supporters who went out on the streets today attacking unarmed protesters and the armed military, the uniform services which seems which seem to be still showing restraint. robert gibbs at the white house. let s go to the white house briefing. the president s personal reaction to the bloody chaos in the streets. the president has been updated throughout the morning on this. both as a part of his pdb, as well as some written updates throughout the morning on some of these images. the president and his administration strongly condemn the outrageous and deplorable violence that is taking place on the streets of cairo, that s taking place on the streets in cairo today.