live from istanbul, turkey. ivan, i want you to tell us what did the women protesters say to you? reporter: well, we spoke with one in particular, a young woman named salaa husseiny, and she s one of 17 women arrested by egyptian military police that cracked down on a protest that took place on march 9th in cairo s famous tahrir square. she said initially they were taken into the famous egyptian museum, which is right in that square, and that s where she was beaten and hit with electric prods and frequently insulted. she was called a whore by her interrogators. that was treatment that about demonstrators experienced at that time on march 9th. we spoke to a male demonstrator who showed us the wounds over his back. he couldn t even walk after that experience. later in the course of events, both men and women were transported to a facility on the
taking on islamic militants who have overrun a coastal town. it s a case eerily similar to the one against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. an egyptian businessman could be arraigned in new york today, charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. 74-year-old mahmoud abdel salam omar is accused of groping a maid at the pierre luxury hotel. she says she went to the room at omar s request to drop off tissues. call it a bin laden bounce. strong performances on national security and international relations are driving president obama s overall poll numbers even higher. a new cnn opinion research survey finds that 54% approve of the job he is doing. that is up six percentage points since early april. when are you planning to announce you ll run for president? what do you think the odds are you ll run? are you going to run? that is the question. there is no public schedule, but sarah palin s bus tour seems to be headed for philadelphia today. now palin v