naval assets that are in the mediterranean. there are 11 u.s. navy ships. two are destroyers and three are submarines and missiles fired from a britain submarines and all of the rest from the u.s. naval assets. there are five coalition members. britain, french, canadian and italians and u.s.. they are waiting for two arab state to step up and join the assistance. qatar and united arab emirates. interestingly enough ei didn t want and saudi arabia not part of the coalition, john. john: and the air defense system they are trying to take out. what is it? it is the same kind of soviet era air defense system that saddam hussein had exactly eight years ago when coalition forces took out his sa 5 air defense radar systems and when the coalition forces
missiles are fired and they are the one that is are in command and control. this picture was taken off of the uss mount whitney before prages began. it is on board that command and control trip in the mediterranean that the u.s. admiral is in charge on board of the whitny and this was taken on the assault trip. showing that the missiles are fired off the uss berry. britain, u.s. and france and canada and italy . arab countrying will announce publicly. qatar and united arab emirates. the pentagon is waiting for them to announce that publicly. they are considering joining the coalition it is notable that ei didn t want and saudi arabia are not part of the coalition. you talk about the unique
of egypt support the muslim brotherhood. the fear for israel is they get into power and that could cause them problems. the muslim brotherhood said it s only interested in democracy. not parliament. tonight in gaza there were demonstrations by people in gaza celebrating what s taking place in egypt. this was capitalized upon quickly by hamas who controlled gaza. they issued a statement saying they welcomed what happened in e i didn t want this evening and immediately called on the authorities. so i think this is a situation, michael, where we have to watch and see how it live works out. a lot of focus on the military government. what does it do? a lot of focus here will be, is
demonstrators thought we have to hear it from mubarak himself . establish establish that will probably not happen. tens was thousands and hundreds of thousands. what is happening in that box there could be the biggest protest in the history of the ei didn t want and the president himself hosni mubarak who a lot of people want to march to the presidential palace, he s not there. according to judith miller, fox news contractor has sours in israeli intelligence. he has left cairo for char malshake with which is a sea side resort. they would like to march on the television tower that is controlled by the state and controls the images and these images are not seen on egyptian television. brian: what will the army do? they will stick by mubarakdecision to step aside and let vice-president
uncertainty. there is no problem with supply at the moment. no, it is all auk and the fear of it and that is usually what sets the markets. that s enough to get them going. we ll be keeping our eyes on this. ei didn t is one of the top three oil producers in the world but most of theirs is used do mostically, not shipped out. it s really about getting it from the other places in the region. stephanie, appreciate you this morning. thanks. countries across the globe scrambling this morning to rescue their citizens from egypt. we ll tell you what washington has planned for the men, women, and children who are trapped in that chaos. and a police shootout inside their own precinct was actually caught on surveillance video. we ll show you the shootout that led to four officers being injured. it s 27 minutes past the hour.