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and keeps the government open for business. the syrian government making good on the promise to crack down on demonstrators. yes, that's a sound of gun fire. dozens of people are killed. >> no means yes for some yale students when it comes to sex. but not to the feds who are now investigating claims of sexual harassment on the prestigious campus. going out tonight? want to avoid a dui check point? believe it or not, there's an app for that. but for how long. our tech expert weighs in. i'm don lemon in cnn headquarters in atlanta. there's a lot of news right now. so let's get you caught up. we'll start with this. a rare moment of agreement in washington. republicans, democrats, and president obama touting the last-minute budget deal as a big succe success. the agreement required days of marathon talks with plenty of back and forth and political posturing along the way. in the end, the deal cuts more than $38 billion in spending

through september. details from dana bash in washington in a few minutes. and mr. obama made a quick trip to the lincoln memorial this afternoon taking advantage of a chance to tell surprised tourists that popular parks and other dc attractions are open because of last night's bipartisan agreement. >> i just wanted to say real quick that because congress was able to settle its differences, that's why this place is open today and everybody is able to enjoy the visit. and that's the kind of future cooperation i hope we have going forward. that's what america is all about. >> then there's this, a ferocious wild fire in texas scorched more than 71,000 akers and showing no signs of slowing down. firefighters have not been able to gain control of the fast-moving fire that's burned two houses and threatens at least a dozen more. today the texas forest service said the fire was, quote, 0% contained.

air tankers have dropped at least 58,000 gallons of retardant on that fire. the prepping is done, now all residents in north dakota and south dakota is wait and watch. for a third year in a row, the red river is expected to crest above flood stage. today crews in fargo piled up sandbags and added to dikes along the river. it's expected to crest sometime tonight or tomorrow. >> absolutely astonishing. it's nothing i've seen before. and we're going to be dealing with a lot of the issues for, you know, a long time this year. >> it's going up an inch a day. at some point, we've got to reach -- i mean, how full can this lake get? you know? >> thousands of residents, thousands of them could be forced from their homes if the sandbags and dikes don't hold. dutch police say they have identified the gunmen in a deadly rampage in the netherlands. seven people were killed and 16 of them wounded when the shooter

opened fire in a mall outside of amsterdam before killing himself. police say the suspect was a 24-year-old dutch national who left a farewell note behind that claimed he had placed explosives around the town of alfin. some residents are not being allowed to return to their houses tonight. japanese authorities have announced new tougher regulations for the construction of nuclear plants. two backup generators will now be required for each reactor unit. the move is in response to the massive tsunami that crippled the fukushima nuclear plant in march. dramatic video is released. it shows the moment of impact when the wall of water knocked out generators and pumps at the plant needed to cool the reactors. >> the plant has been crippled every since. but help is on the way. two huge pumps left atlanta on friday. they're on a russian cargo plane headed to fukushima. the pumps can channel massive amounts of water in to the

reactors to help keep them from overheating. they're fully assembled. they weigh 190,000 pounds each and are used in bridge and high-rise construction. now we want to go to egypt. a violent military crackdown on protesters in cairo. it happened overnight when egyptian security forces raided a large group of demonstrators in the square. they stormed the crowd in the cover of darkness with guns, tear gas, and clubs. >> are you worried right now? >> yeah, i'm much worried about it. how can you see everything is stop the activity, nothing at all. that is no good for our stability. >> daylight reveals the raid's damage, torched cars and blood stains littered the square. demonstrators came to protest against a ruling military counsel calling for the prosecution of former president hosni mubarak. a mideast hot spot right now, syria. i want you to watch this.

>> here's what sources are telling cnn. 37 people were killed when syrian police fired on crowds following friday's prayers. the violence was triggered when thousands of protesters flooded the streets across several cities. today president assad's government promised to crack down hard on the unrest. in libya, rebels are tenuously holding on in hard fought gains in strategically important cities. fierce battles took place between opposition fighters and government troops. as ben wiedeman reports, the rebels may be gaining ground, but loyalist forces are getting

closer in their march towards bengha benghazi. >> on the outskirts of a city where there was a running battle for much of saturday between gadhafi's forces and the opposition fighters. the battle began earlier in the day with bombardment by gadhafi's artillery of positions to the west of the city. already we had seen most of the fighters and the soldiers of the oppositi opposition had pulled out of the city, as gradually, the forces turned further and further toward the city of benghazi. we were told that there were intense gun battles in the city which saw a helicopter belonging in the opposition flying in the direction of ajdabia. according to several eyewitnesses, there were nato air strikes around ajdabiya during the battle. but those air strikes don't seem to be able to turn the tide in

this seemingly end lesslessee s war. a crisis avert in the capitol. democrats and republicans avoid a shutdown with an 11th hour budget deal late last night. >> at the end of the day, this was a debate about spending cuts, not social issues like women's health and the protection of our air and water. these are important issues that deserve discussion -- just not during a debate about our budget. >> straight ahead here on cnn, we go to washington for a closer look at the deal. and many of you have been asking and sending information about stories that you've seen here on the air. you can reach out to us on twitter, facebook, cnn.com/don, and also on four square.

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pleased to announce that the washington monument, as well as the entire federal government, will be opened for business. >> the president and both parties were all claiming victories on the late-night budget deal. it calls for more than $38 billion in spending cuts through the end of september. we're going to bring in our senior congressional correspondent now, dana bash, to talk about the details. dana is working through this. she's working long hours up all night. let's start with the obvious here. what's in this deal. do we know which programs will be cut? >> we don't know the specifics yet, actually.

we're waiting for them to draft this legislation putting pen to paper. we're going to see most of it next week. we do know generally in the $38 billion what the big fight was over. it was really what to cut. and democrats were really concerned that there wasn't too much cut in programs that they felt were going to the most needy. they really fought back on that. and republicans pushed hard to actually keep some money in some programs that they thought were important, mainly, defense. >> so, the politicians are all saying this was very cordial. but i understand there was a lot of drama behind the scenes? how did they reach the deal? >> so much drama, don. it was interesting. i was down next to a meeting that house speaker john boehner was having with fellow republicans. started at 9:45. he walk in there -- p.m., he walked in there and said that he had the framework of a deal and he was beginning to give the details of that. as he was doing that, about four -- three floors up, top aides to him and to the senate majority leader and the white

house were finishing a deal. they shook hands. got word of that as it happened. they sent word to the house speaker and he announced the deal in the room with fellow republicans. it feels dramatic, it feels down the wire. >> harry reid made a big deal about the tea party. the tea party is grumbling about the deal. the debate is shifted to cutting spending rather than social issues. >> it has. it's remarkable. in a few months since november's elections and republicans were swept into power in the house, how much the debate has changed. we're talking $40 billion in spending cuttings. that's historic. and it's much more than the democrats have wanted. you saw -- very interesting. you saw that democratic leader in the senate, the president of the united states, come out and out the the deal as if it was the greatest thing in the world to cut spending. a very, very different message, especially coming from democrats. but you're right, some tea party activists, some of the more fiscally conservative lawmakers i talked to say they're still

not happy they want the speaker to hold out for more. in today's world with democrats controlling parts of this, it wasn't going to happen. >> dana bash, thank you very much. >> thanks, don. muammar gadhafi and the followers are in the midst of a deadly fight for forces for power in libya. the nato, libya, and the u.s. are trying to help restore peace. would you be surprised to know that american companies are getting rich from libya and gadhafi for years? we'll explain, straight ahead. i'm keith baraka and i'm a fire fighter. it's an honor to be a fire fighter. my job involves life or death situations and it's very physically demanding. if i'm sore, i have a headache, i'm not at my best. i've tried store brands. advil just works for me. advil is my go to. it's my number one pain reliever. [ male announcer ] make the switch. take action. take advil.

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. that's muammar gadhafi making the first televised appearance in five days today. the fist-pumping libyan leader was surrounded by students chanting anti-western slogans in a visit to a school in tripoli. african leaders are trying to find a solution to the violence in libya. the efforts come as rebels narrowly averted a setback in the libyan city. they gathered today ahead to a mission to libya tomorrow. the committee plans to travel to the strong hold of benghazi to meet with opposition leaders. it's been granted permission to

meet with muammar gadhafi in tripoli. long before the uprising against gadhafi, before the u.s. and nato bombing, there was money to be made from the regime. and brian todd reports on the u.s. terms that profited from muammar gadhafi's money. every day there's accounts from libya from the viciousness and brutality of this man. but before this war, muammar gadhafi announced terrorism and weapons of mass destruction and had conditions in the west thanks to those in the u.s. who made millions off of him. one of them is the livingston group which works out of this building headed by bob livingston, former republican. the firm made $2.5 million over two years setting up meetings with congressmen and looking after libya's interests in washington. a livingston aide wouldn't go on camera but they have acknowledged the firm's worth in libya. >> the firm stopped working for libya's government in 2009 to

protest the release of the lockerbie bomber from a scottish prison. another firm called the monitor group made several million dollars in its dealings with libya. according to documents posted on-line, the monitor group charged the libyan government $250,000 a month between 2006 and 2008. in return, according to the documents, the firm sent academics to meet with muammar gadhafi. some of them wrote articles about the libyan leader. the son saved on the thesis for the phd.. the monitor group wanted to include a biography for muammar gadhafi. the firm proposed helping gadhafi set up its own security council. did they avert u.s. law in dealings with libya? one person who went to libya for the monitor group, richard pearl, briefed vice president dick cheney after returning. contacted by cnn, pearl wouldn't

go on camera, but denied ever briefing cheney. we couldn't get comment from cheney's office. paul blumenthal of the sunlight foundation said if pearl briefed cheney, that part of the monitor's work in libya could be illegal because it's not a registered lobbying firm. >> what did the monitor group do that was deceptive in your opinion. >> the monitor group despite not being a traditional lobbying organization should have registered in a broader definition of who's a lobbyist and who should register than the traditional lobby law. and in this case, they were working to bring intellectuals to libya who had foreign policy ties in america to elites whether it feels dick cheney to people in the defense department. they wanted the intellectuals to be able to influence policy on libya. >> we spoke with amon kelly, a partner leading an internal investigation to the firm's dealings with libya. >> what are you saying of the critics who say you not only made money off of a brutal

dictator, but you did indirect lobbying for him and you should have registered and didn't do that. >> first of all, we were working in libya in a different time in history. the international community at the time we were undertaking that work believed, as did we, that it was an important possibility that serious and significant reform could take place and we believed we could support that. we were not working for gadhafi. we were working for libya. if we discover that there was anything inappropriate that we did, we will take all appropriate measures to remedy it. >> plenty of others made millions off of gadhafi. rhonda's lobbying firm got more than $1 million a year for three years to push for libya to be taken off of the list of terrorist sponsors, all registered, above board. >> you knew about the history. you knew about the chance he could never change. you made the deal with the devil. >> i didn't. the bush administration made a deal with the devil. i didn't agree, the bush

administration did it. i only implement the policy. >> the contract with libya wasn't about money, it was about u.s. national security, working with libya to denounce terrorism, keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of a dictator. if muammar gadhafi had the weapons now, he would be using them on his own people. brian todd, cnn, washington. pentagon fire. and a military crackdown in cairo. why did forces raid a group of demonstrators? >> plus, 16 students file add federal complaint against one of the most prestigious universities in the nation. why yale is under fire. coming up, why some say the school is breaking a federal law. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers.

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it may be an ivy league school, but yale's name was dragged to the mud this week, a band of present and former students sued the university saying administrators created a hostile sexual environment for women. the suit says they're not doing enough to prevent degrading acts against women on campus. >> reporter: yale university with the prestigious history and rigorous academic standards is now mire in a sexual harassment dispute rocking the ivory tower. 16 students and recent alumni including junior hannah zebin file add complaint alleging a hostile environment when it comes to sexual harassment and sexual assault. >> the 16 of us have said, look, this is what we see. we think it's wrong. >> what they've seen are several

offensive incidents. the 2009 e-mail circulated at the university offers, a, quote, scouting report of freshmen women rank bid ted by the numbe beers needed before a man will sleep with them. this picture shows fraternity pledges outside of yale women's center holding a sign saying we love yale slugs. the fraternity later apologized. this october video shows fraternity members chanting a vulgar slogan. >> it's offensive. as a woman, i was horrified. >> a common reaction from women and men on campus. but it's not these incidents that are in dispute. rather investigators are trying to determine whether the university responded to these and other private incidents appropriately. the university says it has. it issued this statement, quote, yale takes extremely seriously all allegations of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct, including

allegations of a hostile environment. the university's dean sent students a letter saying a new committee is being formed to address issues across the university, but repeated requests to answer questions on camera have been denied. hannah and others alleging a complaint they have not made public that yale is violating a federal law called title nine, mostly known for the equality in sports, the law protects students from a hostile sexual environment on college campuses. >> students who experience such assaults are not being given the correct -- the correct or right kind of redress. >> if the university is bound to be out of compliance and does nothing to address it, it could lose $500 million in federal funding. this week, while not naming yale directly, vice president joe biden made it known that his administration is focused on the issue. >> when it comes to sexual abuse, it's quite simple.

no means no. >> despite the controversy, some students feel the university has been responsive. >> it certainly seemed to me like yale was taking it seriously. >> still, others feel more could be done. >> it really doesn't say much when we create a committee but don't necessarily do anything about the situation. >> allowing the accusations being made are very fair. a lot of things have not been handled the way they should have. >> if the department of education agrees, changes could soon be coming to this elite school. alison cosik, cnn, new york. caught up now on the headlines. president obama is touting the deal as a big success. mr. obama made a quick trip to the lincoln memorial this afternoon where he told tourists that the deal represents what happens when political leaders work together. republicans are praising the deal too. it cut mrs. than $38 billion in spending through september. police in california say they're looking for a

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>> you know the saying, it's the cover-up that counts. that's no doubt ringing true where jurors have gotten the case with baseball star barry bonds. he's not charged with taking steroids but lied about it before a federal grand jury. bonds can get up to 40 years if he's convicted. editor alan duke is here with the latest on this case. where do we stand on the deliberations, alan? >> well, when we return to court monday morning, the judge is going to read some testimony, read back some testimony to the jury as they began their second

full day of deliberations. they got the case late thursday. it's been three weeks that they've started this trial. barry bonds there at the courthouse every day looked somewhat relaxed, actually. the closing arguments that we heard this past week were somewhat dramatic as well. and there were some fireworks. this has been a pretty dramatic case. and we're -- you know, we'll let the jury decide this thing. because they're doing it. >> yeah, you've covered this trial from the very beginning. so, as an observer, in your opinion, did the prosecution approve this case? would you convict or acquit? >> the nice thing about being a journalist is i'm not on the jury and i don't have to decide. because it is a difficult case. i can see how they can go either way on this. if they want to believe certain witnesses and there are credibility issues raised by the defense about key witnesses, including the former girlfriend of barry bonds and also his former childhood friend who was the key witness for the prosecution, or they could choose not to believe them

either way. that will decide this. but i -- i wouldn't be surprised either way, don. >> okay. this one is really making headlines as well. we're going to go now from the present to the past. the fbi, alan, just released documents of the murders of rappers biggie smalls and tupac s shikur. is there anything we didn't know before? >> the case was closed. it was closed six years ago by the fbi and the u.s. attorney in los angeles said we're not going to go after anybody. we're not going to do any indictments on this. the reason they were investigating -- the federal government, not the lapd, which is actually still officially investigating the death, is that there were suspicion, reason to believe that a rogue lapd police officer was behind the killing of biggie smalls back in 1997, possibly for revenge in the death of tupac shakur, a rap rival. that's why they were doing that.

is there any retaliation? they heavily redacted. they're blacking out the names but you can read between the lines based on what we previously knew, they were looking for this lapd officer who later went to prison for a bank robbery. >> now, alan, for something completely different -- you had, shall we say, a bizarre face-to-face or maybe i should say follicle to follicle with russell brand whose movie, "arthur" debuted this weekend. what's one that? >> viewers may or may not know, my hair is rather long. so is russell brand's. right now i have it back. russell brand is short in his answers. very sweet short answers. i posed him to the question, i said, why do you -- can you -- can you give me a longer answer to any question? and it was pretty funny what he said. >> some people would say, well, he's not taking this seriously. but you may be taking it more seriously than i am. >> that's right, just because it's funny don't mean it's

serious. lenny bruce, he was a serious man, also funny. >> and you keep your answers short? >> no -- you want me to do a meandering long answer? >> do one, could you? >> absolutely. >> give me any question. i'll take it. >> oh really >> oh really. >> that's not a question. >> it's got to gsh. >> oh really? >> oh really? >> yes, i can be incredibly loquacious, verbal, find humorous ways of phrasing and framing and presenting information. we could say this is an interview or a collision of souls, a couple of randy staggs locking horns. >> he's quite funny. and he called me a fabio after an alcoholic bing. i really enjoyed russell branld. lo -- brand. look forward to seeing the movie "arthur" but everyone said he 's the best one to reprize the role dudley moore made famous. >> your hair is amazing and so is russell brand's. have you ever had wanted to

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meeting on facebook later this month. how's this going to work? >> so obama is going to california where he will sit on a stage at facebook and a moderator will read questions to him that people have submitted to the white house's facebook page and to white house.gov/town hall. >> is it going to be a free wheeling on-line discussion? >> no, it's not like he's jumping in to the comment section on somebody's blog or something like that. he's not going to be typing. he rather is just -- it's the regular town hall but the questions are coming from people all over the country and they're trying to focus on the economy in this case, which is, of course, in the news right now with all of the budget negotiations. >> i wonder why this next story is getting so much play. about wikipedia website that we know that anybody can edit enough data and florida congressman david rivera's staff is keeping a close eye on the boss' wikipedia entry. politico has been reporting this. what are they doing? >> so, it was discovered that

rivera's press secretary went into wikipedia and she twice deleted the entire controversy section of his wikipedia page to make it look as though he had never had a scandal. and she was trying to replace sections about his legislative career with bullet points copy and pasted from his campaign website. that's against the rules of wikipedia. you can't use it as a pr platform. and she got found out. >> but isn't this a lost cause, maureen. anyone can edit these things at any time, right? >> it's true. although anybody can edit it, but there's always a record of it. so both the house and the senate's ip addresses have been caught plenty of times on wikipedia. joe biden when he was a senator, he and his staffers were messing around with his wikipedia page too. you get found out fast. it's a novelest buying a crate. it's on books that looks like he's selling the time. kind of embarrassing if anything. >> also a story making headlines now. bristol palin, the public pace

of the candies foundation speaking out and making appearances about teen pregnancy prevention. some expectations of what she's been paid and what the candies foundation spent on anti-teen pregnancy programs. >> the candies foundation said that bristol was not being compensated for her work. but they released their tax returns and it turns out they paid bristol $262,000 for a year's worth of making ads and doing handful of public appearances for them. whereas they gave anti-teen pregnancy initiatives a meager $35,000. >> interesting. so they paid her more than they spent the entire year on the campaign? okay. >> yep. >> did the candies foundation exist before it hired bristol palin? >> yeah, they did, actually. they were found in 2001. they had used celebrity spokespersons to discuss the negative consequences of teen sex. this is the first time they had somebody who got pregnant in her high school years discussing the

negative consequences of teen sex when we can see she had $262,000 positive consequences too. >> maureen o'connor from gawker.com. always interesting stories. thank you. >> yes. thanks, don. you know, it seems like there's an app for just about everything, apps that give you the latest on movies, locations of speed traps, and help you keep an eye on your kids while they're driving. now there's an app that will help you cheat on your spouse. we'll give you the lo down on black market apps coming up. and parents are signing up for a new --

parents are signing up for a new program in philadelphia schools designed to get them on the same page as their kids. it's called parent university helping parents to get caught up on math, computers, other skills to help their children in the classroom. steve perry checks it out in tonight's perry's principles. >> please take a colored marker -- >> you remember when we went to school, we did what was call the traditional method of multiplication. >> you have five minutes to complete this task. >> it's a busy night in the philadelphia classrooms packed with men and women hoping to connect with the most important people in their lives, children and grandchildren. >> that might be an issue that we have today in mathematics because we really do need to understand why we're doing what we're doing. >> it's a real challenge for parents everywhere. what they learned in school is

very different from what kids are learning today that's why superintendent arlene ackerman created parent university. >> not every parent has a computer. not every parent has access to the resources that many middle class families have. so in this district, we've really focused on engaging parents in this process. it's worked. >> what's the reason so many parents have signed up? >> they're free. all you have do is have a child in the public school system and you can come. >> jose ramirez has two boys in middle school. he's from el salvador. >> sometimes as an immigrant, we say the teacher can handle the classroom, my children are fine. there's a culture and the barrier is there and right now i feel like we're close in. >> what are some of the classes? >> connectivity development, computer classes. >> what changes do you see in your dad as a result of this? >> he seems more confident in doing things as he was before. >> octavia lewis, another parent university student is a grandmother and foster mother.

>> when your child comes home and they're in tears because they don't understand what the teacher just told them, to be able to give them the help they need is priceless. >> steve perry, philadelphia. we all know it's illegal to drink and drive. but now your iphone may help you avoid trouble with the cops. don't go out and break the law, but there's an app that will help you low case dui check points. black market apps, next. >> announcer: this past year alone there's been a 67% spike in companies embracing the cloud-- big clouds, small ones, public, private, even hybrid. your data and apps must move easily and securely to reach many clouds, not just one. that's why the network that connects, protects, and lets your data move fearlessly through the clouds

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apps that help you cheat on your wife, even spy on your friends. they're all available to use right in the palm of your hand. scott steinberg is here with the detail. this week the attention has been on apps, like this one actually called buzz, which helps drivers find checkpoints where police are looking for drivers under the influence. how do these dui checkpoints work? >> well, the way a number of these work, and you can look at things like trapster, for example, or phantom alert or fuzz alert. they help make you aware where dui checkpoints are coming up. people actually provide the info. as you find out about cops, checkpoints, possible stopping points, users share this information. you get updates on realtime. you can put it on your gps, your smartphone and it's allowing drivers circumvent many of the precautions used to keep themselves safe as well as others on the road.

>> several senators and attorneys general in maryland and delaware have requested google and android ban these apps, scott. >> hmm. yeah, and a number of them are still available. ripple, the folk who is make the blackberry smartphone have been kind enough to pull some at the behest of the providers. google says they don't violate any laws, specifically. that's the big question at the heart of this debate, is whether or not there's actually anything illegal about them. certainly impracticalical, because the issue is you may put yourself as well as other drivers at risk if, in fact, you choose to use them. but the legal status of these is the big question here, and because in many cases it comes down to free speech, because they do operate in the same way a radar detector would. proponents argue they help drivers more aware of the safety measures out there and therefore should not be banned and thus some of the companies are having trouble deciding which way to go. >> there's al an app out there

that will help you fool your boss, like this one that lets you send a fake e-mail. >> yeah, you can send fake e-mails to your boss, you can route phone calls. in fact, if you're in the middle of a meeting, you're having a review, you can schedule it so you get a call that can take you out of the meeting. certainly, it's a little bit dubious the use that these can be put to. but there are apps that can help you fool your boss, among others thing. there's others that will help you cheat on your spouse. plenty of apps out there that can help people think you're working when you're, in fact, sunning yourself in san tropez, and you have apps that if you want to have an affair, yes, they are out there. there's a variety of them and not all of them are put to good uses. >> let's talk about the affair ones, if you listen to satellite radar, especially if you've listened to howard stern, the one that lets you spy on your friends, the informant, and there's also the ones where you can, as you said, have an affair. ashl

ashleymadison.com which lets people looking for lovers outside their marriage connects. what's the concern with these apps here, scott? >> i think the obvious concern, apart from the immortality of it is the sexual encounters they can provide, facilitate prostitution, in much the same way you have services like craigslist having to be hyperaware of what's going on on their networks. but at the end of the day, the way their used comes down how users decide to use them. and many of them are designed to promote illicit affairs, which at the end of the day, i'm not sure you can argue that's a positive benefit, although many would say that certainly being able to keep it on the down-allow, is, in fact, necessary for their relationships, and of course, perhaps, and maybe there's an argument to be made that putting on your smartphone is actually better than putting it on your home pc where your wife and children may potentially stumble across it. but at the end of the day, there definitely are some questionable apps out there. >> scott steinberg of tech savvy

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we're going to talk more now about a story we reported on earlier. egypt and today's violent military crackdown on protesters in cairo. it happened overnight when egyptian security forces raided a large group of demonstrators in tahrir square. the attack was brutal and it was bloody. but defiant protesters say

they're not going anywhere. cnn's ivan watson reports from cairo. >> reporter: egyptians woke up today to once again barricades erected around cairo's landmark tahrir square. this is after clashes erupted here overnight under cover of darkness. what appeared to take place were demonstrators were trying to do a sit-in here in the central roundabout. included among the demonstrators were about 15 uniformed army officers and soldiers who defied a ban by their generals and joined protests here that took place on friday. around 3:00 in the morning, eyewitnesss tell us that the military tried to come in to force the demonstrators out of this area. it was after curfew. there were long rounds of gunfire, vehicles torched, and the people here, who are coming out here, very angry and confused over just what took place here. >> you think the people did

this? they're going to make us look stupid. >> they have been beating a lot of us, and pulled from three of us, three to six. >> reporter: a spokesman for the ruling military council is blaming what happened here, the tear gas, the bullets, the burned vehicles on remnants of the former regime of hosni mubarak. but in the eyes of some of the people we've spoken to, this may have struck a crippling blow to the credibility of the ruling military council, which took over executive and legislative powers in egypt after hosni mubarak stepped down on february 11th. and now we are seeing signs the demonstrators are going to continue their sit-in here, in tahrir square, instead of facing off against a former president hosni mubarak. they are now appearing to head towards a conflict, a standoff, with the ruling military. ivan watson, cnn, cairo.