let s go back to fred pleitgen. reporter: yeah, that s what a lot of people are doing. a lot of people right now are staying in their hotels. they re trying to obviously get in touch with their travel agent. a lot of themmer of course, are trying to get out as fast as possible. that isn t quite as easy. there s a lot going on at the airport. it s hard to get on a night. due to that, it s impossible to get to the airport so really there aren t any late flights leaving egypt, so it is quite difficult for people to get on flights. i ve also seen tourists there who say they don t want to leave, they re going to stay. the situation is a lot of people do want to leave. but it seems to be better in some places which are regular tourist destinations. but, of course, the tourism industry is so very important to this country here, and the picture of a tank in front of the pyramids is obviously not