members of the muslim brotherhood who supported ousted president say it was a massacre. we ve seen people coming up today and thanking the egyptian police and soldiers for launching this very vileant but what they describe as necessary crackdown. that was nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel reporting from egypt this morning. as the country braces for more violence. the muslim brotherhood started today s protest march from a cairo march where the bodies hundreds killed in thursday s violence are being held. lisa lovelock is a freelance journalist with the global post now in partnership with nbc news. i understand you spent some time in that mosque. can you tell us what you saw? i did, yes. in the mosque this morning, human rights watch has counted 235 bodies lying there. from what i saw, i certainly can t dispute that figure. these are bodies not counted in
0 building here, near the capital, cairo. it is in a district called giza, one of the major metro areas. there, dozens of protesters attacked the governor s office. they used molotov cocktails and set the building on fire. we understand fire trucks trying to get to the scene were block from doing so by the protesters. hundreds of employees in the building itself have been evacuated. police are using tear gas to push back protesters. these are initial reports but it does highlight the volatility of what is unfolding here. where supporters of the muslim brotherhood are continuing their protest despite the crackdown that took place yesterday on those two major squares that you were talking about. so a tense situation. keep in mind that the country is under emergency law. that effectively means that no public demonstrations or protests are allowed to take place. so it is going to be a quick test for the government here how it plans on dealing with these acts of disobedience by supporters o