europe vowing to back the protesters. the egyptian government then arrests a prominent leader of the opposition group, the muslim brotherhood. the obama administration is alarmed at the growing intensity of the crisis but reacts with caution. i want to be very clear calling upon the egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters. reporter: as the unrest spreads, protesters take to the streets in qatar and jordan. mubarak goes on television to tell egyptians his government will resign but he will stay in power. his offer does not quell the angry and growing crowds. they break out of a prison in cairo and looters ransack businesses and vandals tear off the heads of mummies at the egyptian museum. journalists report a dangerous power vacuum. reporter: the army is sort of controlling the street. politically, there s a complete
calling upon the egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protesters. reporter: as the unrest spreads, protesters take to the streets in qatar and jordan. mubarak goes on television to tell egyptians his government will resign but he will stay in power. his offer does not quell the angry and growing crowds. they break out of a prison in cairo and looters ransack businesses and vandals tear off the heads of mummies at the egyptian museum. journalists report a dangerous power vacuum. reporter: the army is sort of controlling the street. politically, there s a complete vacuum. reporter: president obama is trying to focus on key domestic issues this week including immigration and education. but they re keeping a close eye what happens in the egyptian streets, whether or not president hosni mubarak survives. suzanne malveaux, cnn, atlanta.
end of an era here in egypt. most egyptians i have spoken to, said it s impossible for hosni mubarak to carry on under the pretense that he s the president of all egyptians. anderson? there is a report the police may come back tomorrow, monday, on the streets here. and we have to wait and see on that. are secret police, the plainclothes police, the ones who roughed you up several days ago and roughed up a lot of people and dragged people away, are they still out on the streets? reporter: it appears they are, although i think they re keeping a fairly low profile. aware at this point that egyptians have learned that they are powerful, too. and that they can fight back. in my neighborhood, speaking to my neighbors, there s a new awareness that what the police
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connect with the aspirations of the egyptians for a change. there is something wrong with our secretary of state saying the egyptian regime is stable when she knew better. there is something wrong with our vice president biden saying that hosni mubarak is not a dictator when every child in exwi egypt we see and every reporter is showing you hosni mubarak is a dictator. there is chaos not only on the streets of cairo but chaos on our end, what to do about egypt and how to understand egypt. what should the u.s. do? i think, look, it s a long story and we have come to this this egyptian protest is happening without any inspiration from the united states. i mean, if you really look at what s happening, not only in egypt but if you widen the lens, and you take a look at the arab world as a whole, you see there is a kind of ir relevance of american power because the