immigration. we ll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i m joe johns. you re in the situation room. we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let s go straight to cnn s senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we re hearing it s already happened. why? what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for today to get released. they have been released and they are on their way to the airport. they were attending the american university in cairo and according to the egyptian police, they were involved in attacks on security forces during the demonstrations. of course, their lawyers and their parents deny that they could have done that sort of thing and clearly the fact that the egyptians who shadly s