overseeing security for demonstrators in tahrir square. no reports of the violence that was here earlier in the week. opposition leader is in the square. his association for change tells cnn he will make his way to the podium and speak to the crowd. we don t know exactly when that will happen. meanwhile, hosni mubarak met with the minister of finance, oil, trade and ministry. no word on exactly what they discussed. let s get to cairo. fred, if you can, good morning to you. describe the scene there. caller: absolutely, randi, good morning to you as well. there are still thousands demonstrating on the square. i was at the podium moments ago.
and to start a new phase. that s elbaradei tonight. along with thousands of who defied a state-asked-for curfew. earlier today, elbaradei talked with fareed zakaria, specifically stating that mubarak s reign over egypt is at an end. i think this is hopeless, desperate attempt by mubarak to stay in power. i think it is loud and clear from everybody in egypt, that moub rec has to leave today. and this is nonnegotiable for every egyptian. people have been saying or demonstrating for his, for him to leave. other developments today, egyptian fighter jets flew over protesters in cairo in an effort to enforce the curfew. tens of thousands of protesters were in the main square there. the jets so low their cockpits
access, to our internet sites, to convey information to friends and family who are in egypt right now and we strongly encourage people to use those, the contact information that i believe is on the screen right now, both the email address and the phone number. ms. jacobs, if you were going to give advice right now. it s coming into the late evening, early-morning hours over in cairo, egypt. you re not telling anybody at this point to go to the airport. you re not telling anybody to leave wherever they are and head somewhere, is that, that s correct, right? that s correct. we right now we are asking people to limit their movements as much as possible and to weight for the additional information that we will have very short-termly on these charter flights that will be leaving. all right. ms. jacobs, thank you for coming out from the state department. and we thank laura murphy as
i went with my sister to celebrate her 66th birthday. it was a trip organized by several of her friends, with 14 women. and from what i gather, you have seen some of this uprising or at least traveled through these areas? caller: i have. in cairo, i saw a truck being bombed. in the evening. on saturday evening. rather, friday evening. and i also saw all day friday, a fantastic peaceful march across a bridge near our hotel balcony. we were sent to alexandria because we could not get into the egyptian museum. once we got to alexandria, we were turned away and all tourists not based in alexandria were asked to leave the city. so we drove two and a half hours from there, from cairo to alexandria. and then had to go back to
keep the peace in the streets. and foremost, to try to keep their families safe. i was in one man s home today. and he says, my wife and my daughter are absolutely terrified. he and his 15-year-old son are on the street the whole night trying to defend their neighborhood. they said they had guys with automatic rifles trying to attack their place as well, drew. thanks, fred. all of the people in central cairo essentially breaking the law. the government slapped a curfew on the city. 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. nobody allowed outside. as you just saw, plenty are people are ignoring the curfew. cnn s ivan watson was in the middle of the crowd when two things haened. the curfew time arrived and egyptian fighter jets shot across the sky. take a look. this is as unmistakable show of military force. fighter jets flying low over cairo s tahrir square,