is this reporter is in cairo. he joins us by phone. it is my understanding that home near you have been ransacked. tell us more about that. what you've been seeing and hearing. >> reporter: hello? >> if you can hear me -- >> reporter: can you hear me? i can hear you. i'm in cairo right now in the district which is traditionally a very safe district. we're ten minutes walking from the president's house. there is absolutely no safety here whensoever. we've been hearing gunshots left and right all night long. and we've been here. the men of each household have come down and form our own group militias. holding down security for every building. we have our loved ones upstairs. women and children and elderly are sitting by. we don't have any police and we keep hearing thing in the street. so we've made our own little militias. everyone is standing. people have brought down knives. people have brought down whatever they can find in their