craft bobbing in the water there. not going anywhere today. most of the entire central and north part of the state is right now under a tornado watch, not a warning but a watch. a good indication of just the breadth of this storm, tropical storm debby and how far its reach. from tornadoes to water spouts to flooding in the tampa area, to the one death in venus, florida, reported so far. heavy rainfall. maybe up to 20 or 25 inches before all is said and done. we re going to continue to get pounded for at least the next couple of days. soledad? you ll be in the middle of it. john, thanks for the update. we ll keep checking in. tornado and flood warnings are still in effect today. let s get right to meteorologist alexandra steele, in for rob this morning. he made really great points, john, did, because what we re looking at is this is the tropical storm and it is stationary. that s been the biggest problem with this thing. there s no momentum. there s no movement because t
really is pressure on the government and i think that s the main point we saw made this week and they do never learn, again, in answer to government s repressed tyrants don t ever learn. and the second point i d like to make from this week of turmoil between the journalists and the mubarak forces i should say the pro mubarak forces, is that the week s coverage really shows the difference between anchors and correspondents. and really pointed out how unnecessary it is to parachute in an anchorman or woman in a situation where the guy on the ground. the guy who has been in the area, the guy who covers foreign news every day, is a much better authority. and brian williams of nbc to tell us to interview richard engle, and a former reporter for years and had a very good grip on the story and we certainly didn t need diane
from army positions. i would say this is an eerie calm before what is expected to be a storm that is pause you ve heard this call for the friday of departure. that the anti-government demonstrators are expected to take to the streets following friday prayers tomorrow. particularly in the capital of cairo. the call has gone out for them to take up every inch of the capital. they will be met, to some extent by the pro mubarak forces. in alexandria we have seen the pro mubarak forces standing by the side of the demonstrations and not engaging with the kind of violence you are seeing in the capital. you ve seen it now in the capital with the stones and molotov cocktails. there is no question as you talked with charles a short time ago, reporters are being attacked. the question is whether it is orchestrated? the majority opinion is that it indeed is orchestrated with the intention of preventing journalists from getting the story out to the world. preventing journalists from getting the vis
from army positions. i would say this is an eerie calm before what is expected to be a storm that is pause you ve heard this call for the friday of departure. that the anti-government demonstrators are expected to take to the streets following friday prayers tomorrow. particularly in the capital of cairo. the call has gone out for them to take up every inch of the capital. they will be met, to some extent by the pro mubarak forces. in alexandria we have seen the pro mubarak forces standing by the side of the demonstrations and not engaging with the kind of violence you are seeing in the capital. you ve seen it now in the capital with the stones and molotov cocktails. there is no question as you talked with charles a short time ago, reporters are being attacked. the question is whether it is orchestrated? the majority opinion is that it indeed is orchestrated with the intention of preventing journalists from getting the story out to the world. preventing journalists from getting the vis
generation, all the youth that have been dying out there that are paying the price for my generation s decision to stay silent. i want to show you some of the most dramatic developments that we have seen over the last frankly i m not sure how many hours that this has been going on, certainly more than 12 we ve been reporting on. just some of what we have witnessed today throughout the day, sort of a compilation. take a look. we found something here we haven t seen a lot of before. this is a pro mubarak demonstration, which is also happening in downtown cairo. we are seeing something in the streets of cairo that we haven t necessarily seen over the past week of protests. this time we are seeing clashes. the egyptian museum is behind me. that is now kind of ground zero for the confrontation between the pro mubarak forces and the anti-mubarak forces. there are hundreds of people below me engaging in a vicious street battle. throwing rocks at each other.