downtown. i m in my apartment in manira, which is across from basically the four seasons hotel and the embassy district where the american and british embassies are. right now we re hearing sporadic gunfire coming from what sounds like downtown. t is not clear to us again from this vantage point, whether that dpunfire is being fired at people or just in to the air to d disperse them. there was a curfew. when 4:00 rolled around there were still large numbers of people downtown on the streets. we heard that people are basically trying to storm the ministry of the interior downtown and the police and military units down there have reacted by shooting rounds, live rounds. i know that you sent us some ireports yesterdayp. what do you see in terms of a difference in the crowd or the anger or the trust rags, maybe even the level of violence from one day to the next?
downtown where there was a great deal of looting and no one was in control until the army units were moved in later in the evening. this morning things were a lot calmer. armored personnel carriers at intervals spaced out downtown. earlier in the day things were comparatively are you in the street or where are you? i m actually in an apartment where i live right now. i wondered who we hear there talking next to you. so we re now about an hour past when this curfew took effect, more than an hour past. any word on what will happen to the people who remain on the street and ignore this curfew? and obviously they re not concerned about that. right. well, the big issue is there is not especially for those of us who don t speak arabic fluently, it is difficult for us to get information. because we don t have internet access. we do not have access other than satellite television to news