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Brian Williams prepares to anchor the broadcast from Cairo
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Lester Holt and NBC Producer Paul Nassar prepare for the evening broadcast in Cairo.
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Lester Holt, Paul Nassar and Brian Williams in Cairo
Photos from the field: NBC in Egypt
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Brian, Great pictures of you and Lester and also coverage of The Middle East in Crisis with all countries there
with problems like Egypt. In this crisis, can The Middle East become a Nation at last? Who knows! but
I would like think so. Keep safe! Phyllis
Was satellite uplink down, or was it disallowed by Egyptian authorities? Otherwise, great reporting,
I've already posted for tonight's under Ann's post, but I echo everything I wrote there. Thank you all SO much for broadcasting from Cairo tonight despite the obvious technical downgrade. Your dedication and willingness to go with the broadcast despite these technical imperfections just reminds me why I love journalism as much as I do, and why I am a very proud loyal viewer of NBC Nightly News. You all inspire me and make me proud of what I want to be someday. Thank you! Please stay safe and take care out there, and we'll continue to watch your excellent coverage.
-Cary
I'm concerned that both Brian and Lester are in the same place at the same time. It is like putting the President and VP on the same plane. Stay safe out there, people!
Good Evening Mr.Williams, Incredible broadcast from Cairo this evening. Even with a slightly different airing it is excellent. NBC has a fantastic team of reporters in the region and with the situation reaching a such a crucial point it is truly great to have such experienced reporting from Richard and analysis by Mr.Fletcher along with all the other reports.
Now on to the broadcast. Richard's report from Cairo showed how the Egyptians are bracing for the million march tomorrow into Tahir Square on towards to presidential palace. As Richard showed tens ot thousands of people converged on the square today from provicnes all across Egypt. The army sealing of the Tahir square tomorrow to contain the protests may be helpful, yet if becomes too chaotic the army could intervene in the situation. Richard's interview with a top leader with the Muslim Brotherhood who does not support Mubarek and would rule from the " back" so to speak supporting teachers, lawyer groups and much influence in mosques. Wanting an open election without Mubarek on the ballot and weaken to role of the president. The brotherhood has grassroots ideas for the region and would wannt to have authority as one of the parties. It was interesting to hear the leader had just escaped from prison and went directly to the square with the protestor which was the reason he had lost his voice. The march tomorrow will certainly be a massive historic turning point.
Excellent reporting Richard! Your experience of living in the region at the start of your career is invaluable! The Best!
The report by Mr.Holt concerning the exodus of people from the region tells of so many tourists, academics, workers and business people who want to leave the region fearing for their safety. It must have been difficult for the woman who runs a business to leave the region as she stated it was hard. Many people vacationing are relieved to be getting out and going to other European destinations in order to go back to the United States. A long journey home from a chaotic place.
The analysis by Mr.Fletcher about these revolts spreading all over the Middle East tells of the frustration and anger of the people over so many years. The rulers of all these regions are certainly feeling the tension from Yemen, Jordan, Libya and so many others. Beginning in Tunisia the flame had been lit and the revolts spread all over. One hopes all these countries will calm, but the pent up tension of the people has been ingnited and it will take major change in governments to quell.
The report by Erin Burnett told of how businesses are suffering and with all kinds of businesses closed such as banks, gas stations and just businesses being padlocked during the unrest. The residents are doing everything they can to protect their neighborhoods from looters and say that Egypt is better that this situation. Seeing the kites being flown and the men singing songs was nice, yet their is so much turmoil. Good to know the treasures in the museum are safe for now.
On a weather note the major storm affecting around 30 States looks massive. No need for more snow and ice for these States anymore. Enough is enough. Keep extra warm and safe everyone!
Thank You for the broadcast from Cairo Mr.Williams. Excellent job by the entire NBC team. Looking forward to the broadcast tomorrow from the region. Please Stay Extra Safe and Well! Peace to You and to All!
Be Well Everyone!
Stay Extra,Extra Safe and Well Richard! Excellent Reporting As Always!
Take Extra Good Care Richard and Crew!
Lisa
re Egypt - what are the Chinese and Russians doing
Just one look at these photos tell the heavy weight/burden Egypt carries at this very moment.
Sobering.
A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case..a MILLION!!
Missed the live broadcast..but the pics say IT all!
wow, you guys, i wonder if hundreds of thousands of the egyptians that died when moses and god dropped the plague on egypt are going to be in those crowds tomorrow. i did use the middle eastern spice 'ras el hanout' from williams-sonoma on that pot roast. i put it in the flour mixture that i rubbed all over the piece of meat and then pan-fried for 10 minutes on each side before i put it in the oven with some water in the dutch oven. i threw extra cumin, cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, black pepper, white pepper, nutmeg and cloves in the flour rub, too, the ras el hanout spcie has all of those spices in it. it even has rosebuds in it. i should get ground coriander. i just got the coriander and cedarleaf hand lotion from target, the caldrea line, for the coriander. the egyptians would use coriander in their mummifying process, i bought coriander perfume, once, back in 1994. i am using the hand lotion as a body lotion, too, and i even put three pumpfuls on my scalp today since it was quite dry and getting itchy yet again. i bet those mummies in the museum are REALLY itchy! they could probably use some boric acid, almond cream soap from caswell and massey, too, for all of those eons of dustmites! cedarleaf makes me think of the cedars of lebanon that solomon used to build the temple. so, an interesting combination cordiander for the egyptians and cedarleaf for the jews. did they finally have to release the innocent muslims from gitmo? i'm sure glen beck, rush limbaugh and co., including kkk are all upset, they were probably abusing them as an energy vortex. i hope rupert murdoch is impotent, it would serve him right, watch out glen and rush and tom palin, it might be catching. amazing what it takes to 'let my people go', in this instance being the muslims in egypt. egypt has a nasty history for enslaving people. take care, you guys. best, anna martina
Rush, Beck and the klan????? You mean you fell for the lies of the rich white progressive race baiters in New York? New York? Really????? The city that ripped off America???? You fell for that garbage? sad sad sad
hey, when i did my finance degree at asu and i got a second scholarship for 'excellence in the field of investments' to take a graduate class, to specifically do a paper analyzing 3 texas oil/real estate banks and the same of 2 banks in oklahoma, for dr. harold stevenson, head of the finance dept. by the time i analyzed the 5 years of annual reports for the 5 banks and did the micro/macro economics study, it was 50 pages. i sent it to robert torray, who was an oil bank analyst at the time. by the time dr. stevenson, the gentleman who gave me the scholarship, the dean of the business college and the president of asu, russell nelson read it, they realized that the kkk took down those banks. you would say 'laissez-faire'. and they SHOULD have been much more cautious, but who wasn't then and who wasn't now. no, i don't namby-pamby with the rich, although they press me to. somebody's got to hang with the bottom of maslow's pyramid. there's big daddy's in this neck of the woods who i've helped out when they get hit with strokes, diabetic comas and collapsed lungs from smoking. that's because they're hanging out with the bottom of maslow's pyramid, too. somebody's got to do that work. there's klan infighting in cochise county. there are klan jerks who get the drugs across the border, here, and distribute them. there's good and bad in every sect. in another realm, the old south is coming back. i did flush jude law, here, in sierra vista, back when he had just done 'cold mountain. he knew that i was giving a fair amount of time to the issues of the old south, so don't give me no lip. the south are people, too. that old south has tractors and cotton gins, they don't need slaves, the south does produce excellent cotton and organic cotton gets high dollar these days. and i have the same gripe with the bankers and wall street that you do. if i had $, they would not be in the stock market. there may be alot less of those egotistical bankers by this spring. who knows how many of that hedonistic class are deader than a doorknob from accidental overdoses of recreational drugs and sexually transmitted diseases. the hecklers, rush and beck, waste considerable energy when there is serious work to be done. serious work requires quiet time. there'd be alot less crap in new york if they just kept their noses to the grindstone.
egypt must have been a poverty vortex. shame on the united states of america.
brian, white cliffs of dover, wasn't that the movie 'das boot'? i imagine that there is that kind of submarine stress in israel right now. of course, our top cia and fbi agents, armed forces officers and homeland security agents are muslim. since there are bad people everywhere, the u.s. may have to watch out that israel doesn't use it's missiles against us since we are not sending troops to defend mubarak. richard, if your mother has to be jewish for you to be jewish, where does that leave the tribes of jacob? rachel was a pagan and she took the graven images of the red tent of her childhood with her. those boys of jacob were raised pagan, by their mothers. oh, and a little publicized fact, benjamin was really a baby girl, they didn't dare tell the evilly egotistical rachel. the tribe of benjamin was inherent in 'sodom and gomorrah'. edom, the land of esau, whom jacob disenfranchised from his rightful inheritance, was a prosperous land, nothing like war-torn israel. i imagine that's how set got osiris to get into that box that became his coffin. set and his 72 recruits probably threatened to violate his sister/wife, isis. who he knew was just a few days pregnant. so, he would have lost his wife and his child. that's how they convinced the captured african-american slaves and ex-slaves who were jumping on the soapbox and showing excellent leadership skills to quietly submit to lynching and becoming a human torch. they died to save their children, what a choice. like i told susan brew, of the lunar and planetary lab at the university of arizona once, in 'les miserables', how many times do you think the evil innkeepers sold poor collette to pedophiles? she was probably deader than a doorknob from syphillis and gonorrhea. victor hugo being the pragmatist that he was, in 'the hunchback of notre dame', esmeralda really does die by hanging and the hunchback dies when he finds her body in the mass uncovered burial pits of paris and lays himself down to die there. in that novel, victor goes on and on about the underground sewers of paris, which have not kept up with the exponential growth of the city. human waste and excrement, how dead was paris from the methane gas? a molotov cocktail with some carpenter nails and human excrement and those were very dead american soldiers in vietnam. in the meantime, the legislators of afghanistan have been inaugurated. i imagine, that in the magic system that is democracy, that means something.
Sorry to hear what is now becoming a too-common mistake in broadcast journalism -- misusing "flaunt" when you mean "flout." The demonstrators didn't "flaunt" the curfew in Cairo -- that would mean they were showing it off, as in "if you've got it, flaunt it." To "flout" something is to ignore or disobey it, as in "flouting the law." Surely that is what the demonstrators are doing, and what you meant to say. Get a copywriter with a full command of the language!
W O W !!! That is SOME team you guys have assembled, both in front of and behind the cameras.
Outstanding, comprehensive, and informative work by all, but especially, by the intrepid Richard Engel whose reporting has been superb.
Tomorrow will be "must-see-TV" with the possibility of a "million-man-march" to the Presidential Palace.
I wish Mubarak would see the hand writing on the wall and go. I don't think dragging this out is good for Egypt's future. It is too destabilizing.
Great thanks to all for your extraordinary efforts on our behalf.
Please, you guys, be safe and be sure to take care-
Celine
discrimination. The US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts called the decision wrong and would be dismissed if it came to the high court. Obama based the Health Care Bill on decisions made on the Civil Rights Bill, Social Secuirty Act and Woman's Rights. To find the Health Care unconstitutional it would mean all of those Bills would have to be repealed also. With the major Southen States fighting the Health Care Bill, when all they have to do is op out and take care of their own citizens without Federal Funds. One local police officier told us if the Health Care is wrong to have all Americans have some kind of insurance, then why is it a law to have car insurance and why do we have to pay into Social Security.
Paul Ryan the high ranking Republican in charge of the Budget, spoke on how he wants to reduce or get rid of Social Security/Medicaid. As a 16 year old he lost his Dad and his Family lived off of Social Secuirty. His Mom was able to go to college because of the SS benefits and it helped him get his college education. What a great story of an American Family helped by SS benefits but Ryan doesn't feel others should have that help. Michele Bachmann's family of 23 kids get Federal Funding but feels other Americans should be denied any Federal help. It seems Law Makers forget how they benefitted from the US policies as they look to cut services. Don't bother to ask Weeper Speaker Boehner who is more interested in helping Corporations and getting that drink then doing the job.
Once again, we were informed that Monday's broadcast was a "special edition" of Nightly News. Why? Because they covered the riots in Egypt? Because Brian Williams was in Cairo? That's ridiculous. Nightly News is supposed to be covering the events in Egypt. That's their job. They don't get to label a broadcast as a "special edition" just because they're doing their job. My garbageman comes by every Thursday to pick up my garbage. He never tells me that this is a "special garbage collection". He's doing what he's supposed to be doing when he's supposed to be doing it. There's nothing special about that. Now, if he came by on a Tuesday, that would be considered a "special edition" of garbage pick-up. If Monday's Nightly News had been on at a different time than usual, or if it had been on for longer than usual, then it could be considered a "special edition". But a broadcast that comes on at 6:30 PM eastern and lasts half an hour is not a "special edition" of Nightly News. That's just weaselspeak from the NBC marketing team who want us to think that Nightly News is somehow "new & improved". It isn't. It's the same old, same old.
And why was Brian in Cairo, anyway? He stood there and read the teleprompter and introduced the correspondents. He needed to go to Cairo to do that? I'm no news expert, but it seems as if he could have done that just as well from New York.
I would also like to know why the Nightly News producers are intentionally trying to deceive us. On Monday's broadcast, Erin Burnett told us that, "In the outdoor market today, the effects of the chaos are hitting home. Food supplies are dwindling. People waited more than five hours for bread." As she says this, we see a crowd of people trying to buy bread at a bread shop. Although Burnett used the word "today" (meaning Monday), the bread shop footage had already been shown on Sunday. The producers tried to fool us into believing that this was the scene Burnett was describing. It wasn't. They tried to pass this off as new footage when it was actually old footage. In fact, much of Monday's footage had already been shown over the past few days. With so many NBC News people on the ground in Cairo, why are the Nightly News producers recycling old news clips? That doesn't seem very "special edition-like". If there's anything worse than day-old bread, it's day-old news footage.
Once again, Nightly News has managed to spell the same word three different ways. On Sunday, as Kate Snow introduced a story about media censorship in Egypt, the word "Aljazeera" was on the screen to her left. A minute later, Abderrahim Foukara was identified by a Nightly News graphic as the "Al-Jazeera" Washington Bureau Chief. On Monday's broadcast, Foukara was identified as the "Al Jazeera" Washington Bureau Chief. Three different spellings. But it's not as if this is unusual for Nightly News. On Jan. 10, Nightly News spelled Glenn Beck's name two different ways on the same screen at the same time. Last Dec. 27, one Nightly News story told us that airline flights had been "cancelled", while another story told us that airline flights had been "canceled". On June 11, one "Meet the Press" promo identified David Axelrod as a presidential "advisor", and eight minutes later another MTP promo identified Axelrod as a presidential "adviser". And who can forget Jan. 5 & 6, 2010, when Nightly News graphics alternately spelled the Yemeni capital as Sana'a, Sanaa and Saana. Were those also "special editions" of Nightly News?
Concerning the above "Photos from the Field": Are you kidding me? All hell is breaking loose in Egypt and someone thought it would be nice to show us some photos of Brian Williams and Lester Holt? Who selected these photos for posting? Their agents? Did it ever occur to anyone at Nightly News to post some photos of what's going on in Tahrir Square instead of posting photos of the anchors?
Can't find anywhere else to post this warning to Alex 'Orby' Orbison so just have to put it here and pray it gets to him. Please don't delete this - think me a crackpot if you must but this might be the only voice to speak the truth in the months to come and it needs to be available. I am not talking out of ignorance - I am a registered, practising psychologist and my gut is telling me Orby needs to be warned.
Orby needs to look to his alibi for Monday night because I believe Kat Von D set fire to her own house and that an investigation will show the fire was deliberately lit.
I predict Kat will claim she would not, could not, be involved based on her supposed love for her cat and I strongly suspect she, or whoever she hired to do the job, will have left clues that will implicate Orby.
"In order to gain everything, you must lose everything" Kat wrote about the fire. I think she hopes to gain revenge on Orbison for calling her a "psycho" on his myspace page, get public support and sympathy for her losses and put herself back in the spotlight for something other than a new romance.
Police need to investigate this one very carefully because I am betting Kats best loved possessions, apart from the cat, will turn up undamaged.
Again, I appreciate the photos of Brian and Lester. Sure I want the news being a news junkie but at the
same time I want to see Brian and Lester. Otherwise I would switch to CNN and its anonymous anchors.
Phyllis Kunz