prize lawye. he was hit by water canyons and escaped into a mosque. later he was detained by police, then let go. now we understand he is under house arrest. waepbts to come back here and run for presidenarrest. he wants to come back and run for president, but he s having a hard time because the elections are a one side affair, one side of hosni mubarak. we are hearing on the street complaints about the economy, also a call to the united states, also a call specifically to president obama to act to say something, to do something, so, the u.s. not really a target of a lot of the people
tonight, a country that was until now america s most stable ally in the middle east. thousands of protesters took to the streets for a second day calling for the rest significant in addition of hosni mubarak. they were met by police using water canyons and tear gas. more than 100 are injured and things appear to be getting worse. what will it mean for america? joining me is ben wedeman. ben, thanks for joining us. reporter: my pleasure. so, ben, fill us in. what is the latest? what is happening in the streets and what happened there today? reporter: well, today started off fairly quiet with just a few scattered demonstrations, but the interior ministry made it clear early in the day that no protests would be tolerated. so we saw around town small groups forming, trying to reproduce the massive demonstrations cairo saw yesterday, but the crackdown was severe. the police, no restraint today
of them bac back-to-back. one of them has been retrofitted to withstand severe weather. the other one is standard construction the type of home you would expect to see in the u.s. for that matter in much of the country. they have similar lated a severe thunderstorm blasting these houses with water canyons, as we move later into the hour they are going to increase the speed on the fans bringing winds into this giant test chamber to anywhere between 110 and 120 miles an hour to simulate a hurricane and see how these two houses stand up. this research center is part of the institute for business and home safety. it s a nonprofit group that is funded by the insurance industry, trying to come up with better building technology, and advocating better building codes as well as just actions taken by individual consumers to protect their homes and businesses, and a whole array of severe weather, not just hurricanes, megyn.
concentrating on containing this violence. they ve been using water canyons canons to try and contain the rioters, batops, plastic bullets, trying to contain them. they are concerned if they made arrest, that would make things worse, that the rioting would become more intense, if that s at all possible. but the police, the head of the police in northern ireland, has made it very, very clear that he and his officers will be making significant arrests over these riots, they are identifies people by cc tv cameras, they are using that to identify the people and to pick them up and they re planning to go and arrest them over the next few days. jon: vicky hawthorne from northern ireland, thank you. jenna: next, an incredible story. his father is dead and his mother wants this little boy
poverty and to do it within shot of the world leaders they hold responsible. the other thing they had in common, what do you think about president trump? well, personally, we in germany just like we hate him. i personally, i think he s sexist, he s racist. he mocks people with disabilities. most of the protesters were peaceful but others self-styled usually dressed in black were looking for a fight and they got it. police are sweeping through this entire area. they have been spraying water canyons and pepper spray and pushing people out of the way. the police came in heavy. the protesters never managed to breakthrough the massive conference center with a trump putin meeti ing took place. we were allowed but corralled into a media center where we interviewed each other about the meeting that was happen income a