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demonstrations. president morsi called for dialogue. he also said he has no plans to step down. ben wedeman is on the scene. there's an anti-morsi rally, a pr pro-morsi rally where you are. what's the latest? >> reporter: the very latest is the army has deployed vehicles, military vehicles. none anything else we understand people are still entering the area and some people telling us that soldiers had deployed on the roof top. what we're hearing from the speaker behind me is the people saying their going to stand

their ground. they do not accept that morsi be ousted in a coup. i must point out that the numbers here are really warped by what we're seeing not. one poll was published a few hours ago. they found that 83% of e jipgs are in favor of this so called invited coup. this coup that has been slowly materializing for the last 48 hours. a coup with the faithful seems to be widely supported by many egyptians. wolf. >> it looks like the military is taking control of the largest

state run newspaper. what about state run television. has the military taken effective charge of those broadcasts as well? >> reporter: we understand they may have deployed additional forces around the tv station. i have to point something out. what we've seen over the last few days is that the state media clearly saw which way the wind was blowing so the nature of the coverage went from trying to been handed to quite clearly taking a position in support of the protests. the headlines were clearly indicating that the newspapers are in favor of a military coup. i don't think the military will have to do much to instruct the state media to change the nature of the coverage. the coverage has already changed

several hours, if not days before the offense this afternoon and this evening in cairo. >> ben wedeman knows. he's fluent in arabic. he totally understands what's going on. just had a fascinating interview with a top advisor to president morsi who acknowledged it was very telling to me he doesn't know where the egyptian president is right now. >> reporter: went onto stay they're going to stand their ground. it's been to cloak themselves in the legitimacy and they used the word over and over again. he said to me and you heard that all communications have been cut off. we don't know how to reach other members of the government or the president. what we understand is according to sources who are talking to

the newspaper that's attacking very close to the military is that he is, president morsi, under republican guard protection. those are the elements of the armed forces deployed to protect the president. we don't know what his fate will be. in the last few minutes said that president morsi is no longer part of the decision making process. it also said that the military is postponing its final statement trying to give a few more hours to reach some kind of national consensus. we don't know what that would look like. at the moment while people are using the word coup here and there. what we don't see yet is a full scale coup and we don't know what the military will do. whether it's going to put a military general in charge of egypt or whether it's going to stand to the side and have a hand picked group of people to run some interim reality.

just before the original deadline passed which is two hours ago president morsi put out a statement saying he wouldn't compromise. he could bring in a national reconciliation government, have members of different political factions. he could hold new parliamentary elections, but he wasn't going anywhere. that's where we are right now. we still do not know what the military is going to say and what egypt is going to look like tomorrow and who's gloioing to it. you've seen them use game over. they have spread that over various facades and i remember that being the slogan two years ago. >> it's amaidsing when you look at theeds tse two huge gatherin. what was really telling to me

the other day just 48 hours or so ago, maybe not even that long when the new billing, the headquarters of the muslim brotherhood was virtually destroyed, ransacked by anti-morsi elements and the e ji egyptian military and police didn't do much. i want you to weigh in. >> reporter: it's no secret the military has been against the muslim brotherhood for the last 80 years. this are historic foes. president morsi put the military back into the barracks just after his election. the last demonstration in egypt was against military rule. i asked one of the key members,

what are you saying? you want a military coup. you want the military to run the country because that is what you've been saying. they said we don't a military coup. we want the military to be on the side of the people. the military was roundly dismissed by the people after 17 months of running the country as being incompetent itself in trying to relaunch the economy and have some kind of democratic reality. this is a very fraught moment. there are crowds for morsi and for that conservative religious style of government but there are massive crowds against. he's considered to have squandered his democratic

legitimacy. what do they say if the military comes back to take over. this was a democratically elected president. >> this seems to be among the anti-morsi some anti-americans because the suspicion being u.s. was too supportive of president morsi and specific attacks against the u.s. ambassador. we'll pick up that. we'll continue to watch what's going on. ivan watson has moved to a different location. we'll have much more after this. i want to treat more dogs. ♪ our business needs more cases. [ male announcer ] where do you want to take your business? i need help selling art. [ male announcer ] from broadband to web hosting to mobile apps, small business solutions from at&t have the security you need to get you there. call us. we can show you how at&t solutions can help you do what you do... even better. ♪

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what the military may be saying about what's going on. a top advisor saying a military coup has begun. trying to remove the president morsi from power. ivan watson is in power. tell our viewers where you are and what you're seeing. >> reporter: i'm walking across the bridge in the center of cairo. there will be soldiers with riot controls who have formed a line across this bridge next to several military vehicles they have locked the traffic across the center of the bridge. there was a protest sit-in of the muslim brotherhoods.

50 security officers are in dark uniforms. probably police with riot controlled helmets and shields. i see a military truck wheeling around the rotary there. we basically are seeing the military deploying across parts of cairo right now. wolf. >> there's another report that's emerging and it seems to be accurate that the egyptian military has begun establishing barriers around the palace, the building where the egyptian president morsi seems to be located right now maybe working, maybe holed up. what, if anything, have you heard about this? rl c

>> reporter: cairo is an enormous metropolis. in this area very close to where there were deadly clashes last night between supporters of morsi who were holding a protest sit-in and anti-morsi activists left 18 people dead according to the health ministry. the military appear to be setting up in the direction of that muslim brotherhood encampment. i was there this morning. supporters of the morsi said they would lay down lives to keep him in office. they protected there would be violence if the military tried to remove him. at this point i don't see any signs of violence but i see a substantial amount deployments of the egyptian military and police being deployed in the heart of this city.

i've seen them at another direction at the nile river. we're seeing the military flexing its muscles. >> i assume they will be flexing more of those muscles in the coming hours. we're awaiting a formal statement from the egyptian military. it's now 7:15 p.m. on the local streets of cairo. we'll continue in one moment. this is what matters. the experience of a product. how will it make someone feel? will it make life better? does it deserve to exist?

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welcome back. we're watching what's happening on the streets of cairo. mas masstive protests. those are anti-morsi protesters. they're not that far apart. there's fear if the military takes steps to remove morsi that this could get more violent. what's your bottom line? what's going to happen? >> reporter: i'm waiting like everybody else is waiting. i want to make something clear. the revolution was about stopping military rule. we're in the situation we're in now because of morsi.

last year in november he assumed tremendous powers for himself to rush into effect a constitution that's brought us to this. this same constitution that he rushed into effect is the one that's allowed the military to remain this powerful. if he and his supporters complain about a coup, they have themselves to blame. the fact that you have millions upon millions in the streets is the fact he didn't bring any institutions to express our opposition to him. he left us no option but the street. we do not want military rule in egypti egypt. we want egypt to be free. >> this is the latest information we're getting. i'll be specific. i'll read it to you. morsi, according to this report, is working from the republican guard complex across the street

from the presidential palace. this is the egyptian state media reporting this. supporters say his embattled government is threatened by a coup. i was in cairo and interviewed morsi back in january. i'm surprised how quickly his presidency seemed to unravel. it looked to me like this military has decided they're going to do whatever it takes to get rid of him. yop if you like that or you don't like that? >> as i said, i do not want a military takeover of egypt. the millions of people that turned out will turn out if there's a military takeover. the military tremendously abused its powers.

we have not forgotten that we have beef with both sides. don't forget if the military wanted to step in and remove morsi he gave them a blank check to do so. the constitution that he rushed into effect last year after assuming tremendous powers left a safe passage so they were not accountable to their abuses. morsi has brought this in by not allowing the opposition into his government and allowing governments to be ruled and not a muslim brotherhood government which is what he is. >> the a statement released yesterday on president obama's phone call while in africa that occurred in monday. there's a line that said the egyptians have to be careful and not going after and attacking women that are protesting.

give us the bottom line. what was going on here. who in this group were attacking women? >> reporter: there are groups of men who many of us are set out there in an organized fashion to get rid of egyptian women from the public face and they are fighting back tooth and nail. there's been 100 women sexually assaulted over the past two days. we don't know who they are. the egyptian police do not and samefully the egyptian government now did nothing. this sexual asasaults are to ge women out of street. the millions include millions of women. they will remain there. >> kwlou can follyou can follow twitter. thanks very a much. we'll continue coverage in a moment. ference of the day. hi! hi, buddy! that's why the free wifi and hot breakfast are something to smile about. book a great getaway now and feel the hamptonality

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protests. thousands and thousands of people there. it's approaching 7:30 p.m. in cairo. on the right part of your screen the pro-morsi forces. they seem to be praying right now. 7:24 p.m. ben wedeman is right now the pro-morsi demonstrations. this is a fast moving story. enormous ramifications for egypt and the entire region and the world. at stake egypt being the largest of the arab countries. what's the latest you're hearing? >> reporter: we understand he's in this republican guard complex where according to the army he's working. i don't know if he's working or scratching his head wondering what's to do. this is a profound crisis.

the muslim brotherhood is the largest, oldest best organized of the islamist groups and to have been elected, had one of their men elected as president of egypt. the first ever democratically elected president of this country now just one year later to have him under house arrest by the army. millions coming out in opposition to him. they've been calling for days. we heard this same phrase over and over again. it's arabic for leave. they don't feel that way. they feel that he should have the right to rule the country as

the head of state. the people around here will tell you that they are going to stay here in the streets, continue their protests open-ended. they don't say what they want. they just want to reaffirm or make the point that he's the democratically lekked president of egypt. one man was telling me he's been ousted by his defense minister. a defense minister who was supposed to be taking orders from the president. now it seems to have been versed. a huge development that will have reverberations throughout the region. >> we're awaiting to hear the statement we expect to be coming soon from the egyptian military on what they plan on doing next. we'll have continuing coverage. we're also following other important news here in the united states. the george zimmerman trial is about to reconvene. you see the seal. the state of florida over there,

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with hundreds of protesters. oth some are for the president an others against him. they believe a military coup is under way. obviously very, very tense moment there in cairo egypt. an explosive situation. we're watching developments. as soon as we have more we'll take you to the streets. this july 4th holiday would be a wash out. on the same east the northeast got hit with heavy storms, severe storm bringing storms to the southeast. it's going to last for days. flash flooding will be a big threat from florida up to virginia. in the west a much different scenario. a heat wave making life miserable for california, nevada and arizona. temperatures well into the triple digits.

expect them to continue through the holiday. it's brutal heat making a difficult job even harder. this is for the firefighters battle that deadly fire. the yarnell hill fire burning 80 miles northwest of knphoenix. the biggest loss came sunday. you might recall 19 members of an elite fire fighting squad was killed. the reality still hasn't sunken in. >> keep waiting for him to call. i got lost in the woods. >> reporter: they still can't believe their son, 26-year-old shawn is gone. he was one of the 19 prescott firefighters killed. >> i never believed it until i

heard them read his name. that's when i first realized it was real. >> reporter: sean had fire fighting in his blood. tammy's father was a firefighter for 57 years. on the front lines of some notorious wildfires eventually rising to fire chief. tammy's brother, tim, retired from the rescott fire department in 2010 after 31 years. >> all i heard is that sean was doing an outstanding job being his first year. >> reporter: his first year in the elite hot shot team. >> that's what he wanted to do. he loved that. he loved his fellow firefighters. >> that's all he could talk about besides his wife and child. >> reporter: sean's wife of nearly a year, aman day is seven months pregnant with the couple's first child. >> there's no words. there's nothing you can say or do that can make things better.

we can only give her support and just try to help her through this time. >> reporter: the baby already has a name. >> jackson herbert misner. herbert after my dad what passed away on december 2nd. >> reporter: word began to swirl that this was threatening some firefighters. >> unfortunately, had to to let amanda know that our worst fe fefear, sorry, had come about. of course, i had to tell my sister. >> my initial feeling was how scared he must have been but i know that my dad arms were around him and saying sean you're going dom with me. you're going to come with me.

we're going to watch over our family together. >> reporter: this is a time of mourning for all of the families of the hot shot firefighters. for the misner's is a heart turning mixture of sorrow and joy as they await the arrival of baby herbert jackson. >> we're looking forward to seeing his precious face. we're just trying to keep amanda healthy and she's going to be a wonderful mother. >> reporter: the baby's grandparents say they want him to know just how much his dad loved him. >> even before you were born how much he loved you and wanted to teach you how to be a great man, a great person. >> stephanie joins us from prescott, arizona. it's heartbreaking to see the story. obviously that baby will know how much love his father had for him. the vigil last night in yarnell.

tell us about that. you were able to talk to people and see people there. >> reporter: one of the things everyone was wanting to see and put their arms around as the community was lone survivor of this hot shot crew. he was doing what he was supposed to be doing. he was there on a perch as a look out watching out for the fire to shift directions. he moved over and radioed the crew that's what he was doing. the fire moved. he put out statement through fire fighting officials. this man just 21 years old and dealing with survivor's grief and consoling his other firefighters families as well. just dealing with a lot at this point. >> i can only imagine. so many of those young men, they were young. they were really young. they were in their 20s. >> reporter: most of them.

i think the average age was in their 20s for these firefighters. very young. one of the things i was struck by talking to the misner family. tim misner who retired from the fire department. for 31 years he worked in there. his brother is a firefighter and his son who is a brother to sean is also a firefighter for the prescott fire department. his question that you toil with. you do this and live your life as a firefighter and you wonder why these young men just starting out, why they are the ones that are lost. a lot of confusion and mixed emotion here. they try to just figure out how to move on after a loss so huge as this one. >> absolutely. thank you so much. we appreciate it. you might wonder at the corner of your screen, that's the courtroom for the trial of george zimmerman. we expect they will go back into that room. they will again hear more testimony from the prosecution that that is going to be happening just moments away.

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going to take you back to live coverage of the george zimmerman murder trial when they return from lunch in a few minutes. we're expecting in about five minutes or so for them to resume and go back to work. i want to bring you up to speed in what happened this morning. jurors got a look at this. the gun that george zimmerman used to kill trayvon martin. a firearms expert explained how it works and how the bullet ripped through martin's sweatshirt. earlier today jurors heard from zimmerman's college professors as well as prosecutors tried to move he wanted to be a cop and acting aggressively on the night

he shot trayvon martin. i want to bring in george howell outside the courthouse. feder first of all, let's talk about the firearm analyst. explained how close these two were because o of what she learned from the residue of the gun. can you explain why that was significant. >> reporter: she explained the process. he did a distance examination where she took some of the live rounds that were in that gun that she was testing. i think there were seven. took some of those and fired shots into samples of clothing. samples of clothing from trayvon martin's sweater, hoodie and trying to determine the distance between the muzzle and the fabric. she came to the determination that the muzzle was in contact with the fabric. it was a close range, contact shot that was fired. i want you to listen to a bit of

what she said in court. we can talk about it on the other side. >> this is a close up shot of the tests i generated with the lighter color sweatshirt depicting a little better that you can see the tearing and the blackening of the fabric right around the hole. >> all right. are your findings consistent with the muzzle of the gun having been pressed into the dark hooded sweatshirt and fired through both the dark hooded sweatshirt and the lighter colored sweatshirt? >> it's consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching the outer sweatshirt and the inner sweatshirt being in contact with the outer one. >> reporter: prosecutors made a point this is a weapon that had a live round and fully loaded ready to be fired. the defense attorneys also insist they make the point this is the type of weapon that can

be helpful in case of self-defense. right after that we saw prosecutors saw it could be used in case of murder. >> let's talk about one of the george zimmerman's former college professors. there were a couple that took the stand. alexis carter testified zimmerman got an a in his criminal justice class and he also taught the stand your ground law. what was the significance of letting the jurors know he was very much aware of that type of law. >> reporter: specifically the stand your ground law. carter made the point in his class it was practical application. he showed his students video of what to do in different se fan e owes. it was a point that don west learned about this and this is not textbook explanation. it's more practical application of what to do in different scenarios and clearly it goes to

what prosecutors are trying to move that zimmerman knew a thing or two about law enforcement. he studied how to be a witness. also studied things about what to say in certain situations. what to do in certain situations. defense attorneys make the point that none of that is really relevant to this particular case. >> all right. we're going the bring live coverage as soon as it starts. also tonight 10:00 eastern, anderson cooper taking a look at today's testimony. is the prosecution's case falling apart. ac 360 airing tonight. we'll be right back. and right now we've got everything you need for a great summer. this 5-piece dining set on clearance, save over $49! marco! polo! this metal frame pool on rollback, you save $80! woo! fire up the savings. this 4 burner grill on rollback, you save $11. how bout all these bikes on rollback? like this mongoose adult bike, you save over $20!

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we're watching live pictures here. this is in cairo egypt. these are opposing protests. one in support of the president morsi and the other against the president. they want to see him go. what is happening now is there is tension that is rising as the two groups grow in these different areas and different sections of cairo. we're waiting now for the military to make a statement. according to one of the president's closest advisors he said there's a military coup

under way. an effort to oust this president. we're waiting. more official word from the military. we also are awaiting to hear from the egyptian president himself. we're also following another development, another story an that's the george zimmerman trial out of fl oridflorida. the court has resumed. >> we're provided with his report on june 4th. we've had no opportunity since we started the frye and other hearings and jury selection, no opportunity to take his deposition and any follow up there. we need to do that. we need to take his deposition. there are some other witnesses, if we had the opportunity, we would like to take their deposition. >> let me interrupt you. what is the availability of mr. benton? >> i believe he's available any time. i haven't heard of this.

i know in the past they talked about wanting to take their deposition. >> i know the state is planning on resting today. this court intends to begin the defense on friday and that's what i informed you yesterday. i have a jury that is sequestered. they are away from their home, from their families and to have to take off for 4th of july, which everybody has requested and the court is obliging because it's a national holiday to then also take off friday and have them there thursday, friday, saturday and sunday sequestered somewhere where they not occupied is just not reasonable. mr. crump has been available since we began this trial on june 10th. that was the jury selection process in he was sequestered as a potential witness from the courtroom. he was here for every day. i don't know what mr. blackwell schedule is but it's now been

almost a month since we started jury selection or even our frye hearing. i believe he was here on june 6th in the to have this court continue keeping a jury sequestered without having court time because you didn't coordinate that deposition within a month's period of time, i find that very hard to do. >> your honor? from a scheduling standpoint, we didn't know until late in the day on june 3rd that we would be allowed to take his deposition. >> well, that's a month ago. that's 30 days ago. >> your honor, we've been somewhat tied up for the last month. >> well -- >> beginning with june 6th, 7th and 8th in the frye hearing and the sanctions hearing that we haven't even finished yet. on june 9th we met with our jury consultant and mr. zimmerman to prepare for jury selection which

began june 10th. >> it's my understanding you had taken some depositions that were 5:30 last night. my understanding, there's more depositions scheduled for 5:30 tonight. there's not been a request from this court to conclude court a little earlier on any day for the purposes of taking any other depositions. so i want to start, if the state rests today, the defense has thursday, which is a holiday, that you could utilize for whatever purposes you need to get ready. but it was always this court's intention that as soon as the state rests, that the defense begins their case. that's how it happens in every case i've ever had. and it was my intention to continue to do that. and friday would be the first business day after the holiday. >> what we're asking for is a little more time given the way this case has proceeded.

as the court's aware, we were still litigating the admissibility of evidence after the jury selection began. we certainly couldn't have taken mr. crump's deposition during the trial day. the court doesn't expect either mr. o'mara or myself to leave the courtroom, i wouldn't think -- >> you've looked for other reasons. but i don't want to go there. i don't want to go there. and i don't want to get into a discussion back and forth about what times may have been available. but it's never been requested for this court to recess even a half hour earlier. i know during the frye hearings we recessed on a saturday because your witness wasn't available and the court had to continually ask when your witness would be available to finish it. i had to be the one who moved that forward. neither side moved that forward. because i wanted to get -- >> you've been listening to the judge there essentially denying

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for more information including cost support options, call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. we are watching the george zimmerman trial live. there you see him there. we're waiting for the jurors to come back. want to bring in sunny hostin to talk about the significance of this. the judge seems rather irked, annoyed by the position here, the request, they take friday off. she wants the state to rest today, this afternoon. defense to come back on friday. not to take two days off, the july fourth holiday and friday. why is that important, sunny? the jurors are sequestered, right? they'd have four days with nothing to do? >> yeah. that's why it's important. i've got to tell you, it's very expensive to sequester a jury. you've got to provide security, hotel rooms, food. the chief judge of florida, he's in charge of budgeting, has made

it very clear this is an expensive, expensive enterprise to sequester a jury throughout a trial and then also deliberations. so this judge wants to move things along quickly. and you have to keep in mind as she mentioned, the defense wants to depose ben crump. he hasn't been allowed into the courtroom because they need to depose him. and she allowed them a deposition with ben crump about a month ago. and it hasn't occurred. so she's not going to be inclined to keep this jury sort of sitting and twidling their thumbs in a hotel room when she could be here in court. >> do we have -- i know it's usually a surprise who they actually bring forth. do we have any idea basically who they would bring forth, the state, when they rest their case this afternoon? >> sure. i suspect that they're going to call the medical examiner that actually conducted the autopsy on trayvon martin. i also think that it is likely that one of trayvon martin's family members will testify that the cries for help on the

audiotape were of trayvon martin. and i -- i say that not because i've necessarily heard that or that, you know, but if i were prosecuting this case, that's the note i would end thissabrybs trayvon martin's brother testifying that that was their loved one's voice on that 911 call sf call. >> sunny, it seems like things are going pretty quickly. is that your assessment? >> absolutely. that's always been my assessment. because i could see that in jury selection. they chose this jury in less than a week. she indicated that she would be moving quickly. i can understand the pace because i've been in the courtroom. i've been in front of judges that move this quickly. she's a no nonsense judge. she makes her rulings very, very -- she's considerate, but she's firm. and she makes them timely. >> all right. we see that someone is being sworn in and is about to take the stand here.

let's listen in. let's watch. >> you may proceed. >> thank you, your honor. you state your name for the record and spell your last name, please. >> my name is anthony gor gone, g-o-r-g-o-n-e. >> what is your occupation, sir? >> i'm a crime lab analyst at the florida department of law enforcement in the biology or dna section. >> how long have you been working for -- i'm going to refer to it as fdle. but the florida department of law enforcement. >> i've been with fdle for a little over seven years. i started in march of 2006. >> could you briefly tell us about your education and training regarding your occupation, sir? >> yes. i received a bachelor's of science in molecular and microbiology from the university of central florida. graduated in 2004. i was hired by the florida department of law enforcement as a forensic technologist. in that position i screened items of evidence for the

possible presence of bodily fluids that may contain dna. i was promoted to crime lab analyst in july of 2007. i underwent a 13-month training program for that position. the first half of that training program was background readings, written and oral exams. the second part of that training was supervised case work. that would be actual case work under the supervision of a trained analyst. and that training -- that 13 months culminated in a mock trial. >> and have you kept up with the latest information regarding dna, sir? >> yes. i regularly read articles published in scientific journals as well as i'm required to attend at least eight hours annually of outside training. that's usually conferences and workshops and classes dealing with the field. >> have you previously testified in court as an expert in dna, and does that also include the significance of your finding regarding population stats?

>> yes. i've testified 28 times in different counties in central florida prior to today. almost every time that deals with statistics. >> your honor, at this time i tender the witness is an expert in dna and statistics regarding dna matters. >> he may so testify. >> no voir dire, your honor. thank you. >> everybody by now has heard of dna, but can you briefly tell the jury what dna is? >> yes. dna stands for dioxri, ribo deknew collieic acid. every person gets half of their dna from their mother and half from their father. it's the genetic blueprint that makes each person unique. it codes for everything about you. everything from the pigment making up your eye color to the enzis in your stomach breaking up your lunch right now. >> how is dna used in a forensic setting? >> forensically your dna is found -- a copy