Police have indicated they will be ready to clear that encampment at some point. Thursdays classes have been cancelled as tensions remain high on the campus there in la. The chancellor of ucla announced an investigation after pro israeli demonstrators appeared to attack a pro palestinian encampment early wednesday. The chancellor says the investigation could lead to arrests and expulsions. Live now to Helena Humphrey on campus at ucla. Remind us what happened overnight . It is fairto it is fair to say the situation is becoming increasingly tense on campus, a minute before speaking to you we saw a considerable number of Police Officers come out here onto the campus and we did here a call from the encampment which you can hear and see over here, the call going out, calling on the protesters once again to disburse or face arrest. What you can also hear in the encampment as the sounds of hammering, we believe that inside the protesters have been trying to reinforce barricades with wood, wh
about that. what are you doing in the memory championship? what unfolds during a tournament like this? it is held tomorrow here in new york city, and it s a competition where they have competitors do four different tasks. one is memorize shoveled deck of cards. others name some faces random numbers like you were just talking about and how many can you do. you have tips on how to remember vocabulary. always a trouble growing up. what s your tips? an example is you could take the word superstitious and divide it up so you could have superman flying over italy, because it s a latin word, and holding sticks. is this something you ll remember short term for a vocabulary test or use that skill and be able to apply it ten years later? i learned superstitious a couple years ago. and still remember? you spent about ten minutes in the green room memorizing this deck of cards i have here
perimeter around there, holding sticks, locking arms. some are wearing karate type uniforms and say they will only go if they are pushed out, they re preparing to fight. they say what is happening here or seems to be happening here if something if the army does take decisive action is a coup which they say is illegitimate and dangerous. tense times in cairo, egypt, and around the country. could be a historic day here as we get close to 5:00 p.m. local in egypt. richard engel, thank you so much. we ll continue to be watching what is happening there with that ultimatum here on msnbc and, of course, we will also continue to watch what is happening in sanford, florida. they will pick up in about four minutes from now with the court proceedings there. a short break. thomas roberts is up next with continuing coverage of the george zimmerman trial and they ll be set to be back in just a little bit. well now i m her dietitian. .and last year, she wasn t eating so well. so i recommended boo
it s about 10:00 at night. the curfew imposed from 3:00 p.m. and people try to get to the airport, obviously, within the curfew. so they re standing around now, trying to get on a flight that they can to get out of here. it s about 2,000 americans or so, 2500 or so asked for help and over the next couple of days that s about the number they expect will get out of the country, as well as from other countries as well. we just left the airport grounds and trying to get to another area of the city to a hotel and we just encountered a couple of checkpoints. one a military check point which looked legitimate but a few miles down the road there was basically a bunch of thugs hanging around with a bunch holding sticks and clubs, what looked like knives and other things and it looked ominous, which is why i didn t call in a little while ago when i was supposed to, i wanted to get out of the area. it s unclear who is in charge in the city. it s a dicey place. and that s what people, residents