leaving clothes behind at a laundromat. unbelievable images. tell us about that experience. what was it like one year later? it was haunting. i have never been to a place that has been completely destroyed. made uninhabitable by accident by mankind. it was one of these almost extinction level events. nobody is there. nobody can live there for decades, and it was done by us. it was caused by nature, but by science that we didn t contain properly. and if you go to a war zone or you go to the natural disaster zone, there s a lot of grief and there s a lot of horror. but you can eventually bury the dead and mourn them and rebuild. and move on. this you can t do that. and it s gone, and it s going to be that like for a long time. i hadn t seen anything like that. it s so and you had on a mask and a little was that safe? the radiation i had a
and the minds from my colleagues from cnn international who were there when it happened right from the start. january 2011, the first rumblings of an up rising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in the city s central tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? reporter: whose hosni mubarak has been egypt s dictate for for 30 years. a growing number of protesters want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protests turn violent. reporter: this is an unmistakable show of military force. this has been a symbol of de defian defiance. reporter: they re speaking in arabic, go, go. reporter: firefighting in the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. reporter: promubarak forces targeted the unarmed protesters. journalists come under attack. i was shoved out of the way. this is just a completely surreal experience. i m being told, walk, walk. don t stay. okay. been hit now like ten times.
streets but then tasted freedom. you ll experience all of that in the hour ahead from cnn international who were there when it happened right from the start. january, 2011, the first rumblings of an uprising in cai cairo. crowds begin to gather in the city central square. a revolution has begun. egypt s dictator for 30 years, and the growing crowd of protesters want him out. but mubar digs in and the once peaceful protest turned violent. this is an unmistakable show of military force. fighter jets flying low over cairo s square, liberation square, which has been a symbol of defiance. in arabic, it means go, go. fire flying through the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. forces target the unarmed protesters. journists also come under attack. i m a little bit shaken because i got shoved out of the way there. this is just a completely surreal experience. okay. i m being told, walk, walk. okay. i ve been hit now, like, ten ti
i want to saepbd shoutout to my wife in eureka, missouri, i want to say happy thanksgiving and happy birthday to my wife! i love you guys. heather: thank you to all of our troops and families on this thanksgiving day. other news we re following for you, more than five dozen homes have been destroyed in an out of control wildfire raging in western australia. at least 64 houses are gone, all together, another 32 are damaged. fire crews thought they had things under control, but the high winds today have apparently whipped up the embers, authorities say hundreds of people have been evacuated. the area has been declared a natural disaster zone. the cause is under investigation, but a controlled burn in a nearby national park may be to blame. gregg: all right. you re not going to believe this story. a nine-year-old girl, home