with russ mitchell. good evening, day 13 of egypt in crisis has proven to be historic and tonight across the country there are signs of every day life returning amid the chaos. here s the latest. egypt a new vice president met with opposition groups today. a first. the government is making a new offer of sweeping concessions and some banks and schools have reopened. cbs news and a team ofcover corrs on this ever changing story and we begin tonight with elizabeth palm never cairo. reporter: as you may be able to hear behind me, the demonstrators are still in tahrir square. it is a rather blustery, rainy evening but they ve put up shelters and tents and they are going to spend the night there. for thousands of egyptians coming down to the square really means having a share in national history. 50 years from now, thousands will be able to say proudly i was there. but only a few, that s where we tied the knot. this is more than i can imagine and it s more than a wedding, th
this is the cbs evening news with russ mitchell. good evening, day 13 of egypt in crisis has proven to be historic and tonight across the country there are signs of every day life returning amid the chaos. here s the latest. egypt a new vice president met with opposition groups today. a first. the government is making a new offer of sweeping concessions and some banks and schools have reopened. cbs news and a team ofcover corrs on this ever changing story and we begin tonight with elizabeth palm never cairo. reporter: as you may be able to hear behind me, the demonstrators are still in tahrir square. it is a rather blustery, rainy evening but they ve put up shelters and tents and they are going to spend the night there. for thousands of egyptians coming down to the square really means having a share in national history. 50 years from now, thousands will be able to say proudly i was there. but only a few, that s where we tied the knot. this is more than i can imagine a
happening in cairo. we are seeing v ining more viol clashes. you are looking the pictures from earlier today. a lot focused on tahrir square, liberation square, but not the only place. we will get awe full report and give you an idea what it s like on the ground inside. days of peaceful protests. our mark strassmann is in cairo with the latest on the demonstrations going on there. mark, good morning. reporter: good morning, chris. already, bad blood is spilling over into a second day of fighting in downtown cairo. we have seen this morning fighting, scuffles, brawls between mubarak supporters and mubarak protests throughout the morning and a carryover from the ugliness of yesterday s mayhem. they are back. more mubarak supporters heading to liberation square and a second day of confrontation with mubarak protesters but waiting for them is a heavier presence by egypt s military and using piles of wood to build up buffer zone. a no man s land designed to keep the two opposi
today to consider start, the strategic arms reduction treaty with russia. democrats this afternoon turned back one republican effort to amend the treaty but final ratification is still anything but a done deal. bob orr has the latest. reporter: with adjournment and the holidays looming,. senate will be in order. reporter: backers of a new nuclear arms treaty with russia took to the senate floor in a lame duck sunday session urging an 11th hour ratification of the deal. we 2k07b9 want to do damage to the treaty and kill a treaty which does so much for the security of this nation. reporter: vice president biden predicted the obama administration has the votes. i believe we do. reporter: for the so-called start treaty which would cut strategic nuclear warheads were the current level of 12200 to no more than 1550 for each side within seven years. every former republican secretary of defense, secretary of state, national security advisor, and head of strategic comm
sunday over new startling documents from the website wikileaks. thousands of classified state department cables were released by the website today. among the disclosures, that the u.s. has made secret efforts to remove enriched uranium from a pakistani research reactor fearing it could be used to make a nuclear device. u.s. and south korean officials have made game plans to deal with a possible collapse of the north korean government. and china has conducted computer hacking attacks against the west. some of the most gripping disclosures involve iran, as we hear now from national security correspondent david martin at the pentagon. reporter: when a ahmadinejad was elected president of iran, the then commander of u.s. forces in the middle east general job abizaid met with arab military leaders, all agreed with abizaid that iran new president seemed crazy. that cable one of a quarter million state department documents released by wikileaks details a meeting in the united arab