clear the streets of protesters who support morsi. he was removed from power last month by the egyptian military. morsi was the first democratically elected president. since he s been toppled you have had fighting in the streets that s killed hundreds of people. a lot of u.s. em bbassies a conulates will be closed. this is across the middle east and africa. cnn has learned the decision was based on an intercepted message. officials are concerned about the cent prison breaks that freed hundreds of terrorists. i want to bring in nick payton wal walsh. tell us what do we know about
number two and the u.s. extends this. appreciate it very much. coming up we re going to talk about those prison breaks that were mentioned there and whether or not they have something to do with these u.s. embassies shutting down for the week. the white house making a new move to try to end the political chaos in egypt. we have senator john mccain and lindsey graham going to egypt to meet with leaders. they re making this trip at president obama s request. supporters have been camping out for weeks in cairo. you re looking at pictures there. the military backed interim government is threatening to clear the streets of morsi s supporters. morsi was removed from power just last month by the egyptian military and he was egypt s first democratly elected president. since he was toppled there s
we re keeping a close eye on breaking news. this is out of cairo egypt. this is according to reuters. there s one person dead and seven injured. this the fighting between those who support morsi and those against him. the anti-morsi protesters have been gathered over the last week. the opposing camping throwing stones and shooting fireworks at each other. the pope arrives in rio on
but seemed to act in very much the same authoritarian way, and just wanted to be more legitimate, that is to say more freely elected form of the old regime. certainly if you re walking in the streets of cairo, you would think that this was a new revolution, people are waiving flags, blowing horns and cheering everywhere you go. the question now is, what is next. a caretaker government was announced. the constitution s been suspends, early parliamentary elections, they have not been announced when it s going to happen, that is the road map forward. in the short term, we know that morsi gave a taped speech to members of the muslim brotherhood urging them not to shed blood. are there fears of violence in the wake of the cataclysmic events of the last 48 hours? certainly. since june 30th, at least 39 people have been killed. five people have died tonight. there s certainly fears of violence coming in to the coup. there was a lot of talk from the
part of this are also the optics of this. the most cynical way of viewing the announcement by the white house today, while the president is flying back from his africa trip. that basically, okay, big employers were ticked off about the reporting requirements this would impose on them. they lobbied behind the scenes and it got away. that doesn t quite seem the way this whole role out should go, which is that if you re big enough and powerful enough, and ticked off by having obama care. i don t think it s a big influence, it s the medium size. the big employers have 98%. that graphic has a the companies with employees between 50 and 100. 50 and 200 are the ones that are affected by this, now, 94% of them are giving coverage. it s great you knew that off the top of your head. we have a chart showing that data right now, if you got that wrong, that would have been