unable to transmit live reports because satellite phones are being blocked. and it s getting worse. here s part of a report from ben wedeman last hour. reporter: basically, right now i can smell the tear gas coming from the road behind me. there are hundreds of people on a bridge, main bridge over the nile, hundreds of security forces trying to stop them. behind this building there are several columns of black smoke coming up on one of the major thoroughfare of cairo. it seems everywhere you look in the neighborhood there are demonstrations 0 going on. the interior ministry as it did the other day said it would not tolerate none straigss. what we re seeing is violence everywhere to put them down. most of the protesters are not violent, but by and large the violence is all coming from the state. ben also told me that the police have turned on the media,
storming the foreign ministry office and state television offices in cairo. meanwhile there is new reaction coming in from egypt online describing the deadly protests raging in their streets right now. you might have just heard our secretary of state hillary clinton urging the egyptian authorities to unlock social media, facebook, twitter, and the like. rick leventhal is monitoring some of the sites from across the newsroom. egypt we understand shut down internet access, cellphone service as well, rick, how are people communicating? reporter: jon from what we can understand apparently through satellite phones and satellite internet service. egypt has four primary internet providers. all of them were shut down at 12:34 a.m. it s apparently unprecedented as you heard the secretary of state say, some of the internet experts we talked to said they never saw this before that an entire country would be disconnected. we are seeing tweets possibly
for man $450,000 for cell phones and satellite phones. megyn: independent bp czar ken feinberg is getting an earful in louisiana at a town hall. angry gulf residents looking for relief they say is not coming fast enough. we don t have an answer from you to explain why we can t get the rest of our money. 30 days? we all could be out of our homes. 30 days we could have no lights, no food, nothing. i m together best i can. if the best i can is not good enough, i m sorry. it s not a lie. i ll do the best i can. i ll try to give you the maximum amount i can give you. megyn: mr. fineberg.
unmarked floor inside the hospital, completed since katrina with federal grant money, the room houses a four layer backup communications system including satellite phones, land lines, and cell phones weren t reliable during the storm. what we wanted to do, if we had cell phones with out of state area codes, 205 or one from arkansas or tennessee, we could get past the logjam. reporter: they built a well 750 feet deep and this is the holding tank for it and during katrina, the original 250 foot wells provided enough water to keep the hospital operational throughout the storm. the hospital has since developed what executives call the oxner navy, comprised of a fleet of nine boats and two army transport vehicles. also, since the storm they ve purchased four other hospitals in the area and have taken on the role of disaster regional coordinator, orchestrating 16 hospitals and three parishes,
international. we know that the chief of police in the province where the ten people were murdered actually said he thought it was a robbery. we understand he says that on the basis of the fact that they had been stripped completely of any valuables, no money, pass ports, satellite phones, no nothing. that is the only thing we know at the moment. reporter: were members of your team physicians or missionaries? they were not missionaries. we have been working here since 1963. we registered with the government of afghanistan as an ngo. we abide by the afghan law. again, we will continue to update you on this fast-moving developing story this morning. again, six americans among ten dead. also, two afghans, a brit, and a german. they were all killed in