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tasted freedom. you ll experience all of that in the hour ahead through the eyes and minds of my colleagues and friends, where it happened right from the start. january 2011, the rumblings of an uprising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? he should leave tonight. mubarak has been egypt s dictator for years. and the growing crowd of protesters want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protest turns violent. this is an unmistakable show of military force. fighter jets flying low over cairo s tahrir square, liberation square, a symbol of defiance. here what are you hearing them saying is go, go. tracer fireflying in the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. pro-mubarak forces target the unarmed protesters. journalists come under attack. i m shaken. i was shoved out of the way there. this is completely surreal experience. okay. ok ....
through the eyes and minds of my colleagues and friends, where it happened right from the start. january 2011, the rumblings of an uprising in cairo. crowds begin to gather in tahrir square. a revolution has begun. what is your message to president mubarak? he should leave tonight. mubarak has been the leader for 30 years, and the growing number of protesters want him out. mubarak digs in and the once peaceful protest grows violent. reporter: this is an unmistakable show of military force. fighter jets flying low over tahrir square, liberation square, a symbol of defiance. what you are hearing them say is go, go in arabic. flying in the air. the demonstrators say that s the army firing to warn them to stay away. reporter: pro-mubarak forces target the protesters. journalists come under attack. it s completely surreal experience. okay. okay. i m not okay, i m being told to walk. don t stay okay. [ crowd noise ] we have been hit now like ten times. t ....