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what else is happening? reporter: absolutely. this is day one of this two-day election. people are lining up despite the awfully hot egyptian summer heat. they re here to cast their ballots. people tell us that they re still excited they have a choice in who will be the next president. it is not a right they had after decades of dictatorship in this country. there are two candidates they can pick from. one is a former air force general and the former prime minister are appointed by the former dictator. another is a candidate from the muslim brotherhood. and earlier today, we got a sense of what people think voters think about these two candidates. take a listen. who did you vote for? for shavic. yes. i know that many people like him because he s from the previous government. at least he has connected to be president, you know? who did you choose? i want democracy. i hate any man like hosni. reporter: the problem here is this is coming at a very tesh lent ti ....
impossible to try to achieve at this stage. and then there was a mass funeral in syria. what took place there? that happened in the southern province. if you remember, this is the prove convince where the uprising all began. there were pretty intense shelling that killed at least 19, 20 people, and another funeral going out for them that was streamed live by activists. this is where one really must admire the opposition. even though they re in the process of burying someone, who was killed at hands of government forces, for voicing their desire for regime change, they still, while the fine rals take place, capitalize on that to make it opportunity to call out against the government. this is the kind of determination we ve been seeing from the onset of this uprising, but it it s also the kind of determination that has polarized the syrian uprising to a point where getting both sides to any sort of negotiating table that would result in a peaceful resolution are again ....
them from treating the wounded. the child sex abuse trial of former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky starts monday. eight of the 12 jurors have some connection to penn state. but that doesn t necessarily guarantee sympathy. legal experts say the jurors may blame him for tarnishing the university s image. sandusky faces 52 counts of sexually abusing ten boys. he has pleaded not guilty. a series of flashlight bombings prompt police to put up these billboards in phoenix, arizona. they warn people not to touch big yellow flashlights. the bombs have been rigged so that when you turn on the flashlight, it explodes. five people have been hurt in three bombings. officials have ruled out any connection to terrorism. sports racing fans who were looking toward history being made today at the belmont stakes will have to wait at least another year. i ll have another, the winner of the kentucky derby and the preakness won t have another. the colt was scratched from the ....
we re going to to to work out the audio and get back to martin in sanford, florida. all right, meantime, let s go to egypt now and look at the live pictures coming out of tahrir square in cairo. thousands of demonstrators are gathering as they have been all day as they re protesting the life sentence given to hosni mubarak earlier today for his role in killing hundreds of anti-government protesters last year, adding to the unrest, two of mubarak s sons were convicted of corruption charges. and the first day marking the queen s diamond jubilee celebration begins with a bang. a 41-gun salute was fired at the tower of london while other similar salutes echoed across the united kingdom marking the 60th anniversary of the queen s coronation. hundreds of thousands cheed as areaved as a race course in london. her first engagement of the four-day celebration. we ll have much more tomorrow. be sure to watch a royal celebration, elizabeth s 60 years as queen. hosted by brooke ....
infuriated opponents screamed mubarak should have been sentenced to death. mubarak supporters were also in the court and were angry mubarak was not acquitted. demonstrators outside the courtroom scuffled with riot police. their anger intensified after mubarak s two sons and six former aides acquitted of charges during the same court proceeding. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live at tahrir square where the crowd only seems to grow. ben, these demonstrations while very boisterous, a lot of people, considered peaceful? well, so far, yes, fairly peaceful. we see a steady flow of people coming into the square. earlier we did see them burn the poster of one of the two presidential candidates running in the runoff election in the middle of this coming month. he s considered a protege of hosni mubarak. so he s very much the brunt of the earning. many people were angry. there s a certain amount of satisfaction that hosni mubarak got life imprisonment, a ....