opportunity to prey on people who are here doing serious work. ben, thank you. please stand by. but first, joining us now for an egyptian journalist perspective is shahir amin, independent journalist and former deputy head of nile english. first key question i want your take on is do you consider this a coup? well, it s increasingly looking like it is a coup, seeing the tanks deployed on the streets of cairo, the mass arrests of muslim brotherhood leaders, taking some channels off the air, the islamist channels, al ja zeer zeera. the offices were raided. it is increasingly looking like a coup. of course, the youth revolutionaries say that this is the peoples movement, that it s
0 provided to us by kgo. that is the san francisco airport. and i believe you are looking at members of the national transportation safety board. we call it the ntsb, walking across that runway where that plane crashed so spectacularly. two people dead in that. all in all, 307 people on board. we are awaiting a news conference by the national transportation safety board. so far as we know, they have begun some preliminary looks at the data recorder, for instance, those black boxes, as we call them, have already been shipped to washington. they are already downloading some of the data so they can know a little bit at this point. but what we also know is that the ntsb doesn t dribble out information it gets bit by bit. it tends to collect it and look at all of it before it gives you their kind of big-picture story. we do know some things that are happening, that happened as those, what must have been terrified passengers, came down on that plane. they said that there was absolutely no an