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change. >> ever since then the camera has been a feature of every protest. ♪ "caught on camera: revolution." thousands of egyptians storm a bridge, fighting for freedom. 2011 is an historic year as revolutions sweep across the middle east in an unprecedented wave of political uprisings known as the arab spring. >> there are essentially uprisings and revolutions for freedom and dignity. some of them have been against monarchies. some of them have been against republics or republican presidents. but at their heart they're about freedom and dignity. >> reporter: january 25th, 2011. galvanized by the successful overthrow of the government in nearby tunisia, egyptian

activists put out a call on the internet for a large protest against police brutality. >> the call went out on facebook, went out on twitter but also went out among the activist community. and a lot of people thought this is just another call, and who sends out a facebook invitation anyway for a revolution? >> reporter: the organizers are stunned by the response. more than 10,000 egyptians answer the call, filling cairo's tahrir square. >> and they started chanting anti-mubarak when they saw mubarak's police go out there and beat people brutally and start shooting people dead. and so you had ordinary egyptians going out there and say mubarak must go. >> hosni mubarak is egypt's president, who's held power over the people for more than 30 years. images of the demonstrations and the police response flood the internet. >> mubarak basically unleashed his security forces all across egypt. so for four days he unleashed

everything he had. >> four days into the uprising, hoping to stop the flow of information among the protesters, the government cuts off the internet. >> mubarak thought he could wreck the revolution by putting egypt on information lockdown. so he literally shut down the internet. >> nora younis is a reporter for the "egypt independent," an online and print news source. on the morning of january 28th nora and a colleague hear about a hotel in central cairo that still has internet service. they try to get a room with a view of tahrir square. >> they said they have orders from state security not to sell any rooms overlooking tahrir. so we said okay and we settled for a nile view room. >> while organizing their coverage of the day's events nora notices something happening outside their window. she grabs her camera and begins to film a chaotic scene coming into view across the nile river. >> we heard many bombs. and we couldn't see anything. and the bombs were just going and going and going. and then we saw smoke coming out from the other side of the river. >> nora's footage shows a massive crowd of protesters engaged in a growing battling with police.

>> the people wanted to get across the bridge, across the nile to tahrir square to join square. >> a line of riot police led by two armored vehicles races across to meet the crowd. >> and the riot police and their armored vehicles were determined to push them back. and it literally became a battle for this bridge. >> protesters determined, marched forward on foot. police halt the crowd about halfway across. and the demonstrators begin praying. police spray the crowd with high-powered water cannons. and then drive their vehicles directly into the crowd. >> i could see cars running over people and a man getting shot in his chest from two meters. demonstrators carrying other demonstrators and running back. >> the demonstrators prevail and push police into retreat. >> and then the protesters came onto our side, and it was amazing, their numbers. >> nora's footage, like so many of the powerful images that are

captured during those first weeks of revolution, ends up on youtube and inspires others in egypt and beyond to join the revolution. >> i think it was really the most documented event in our lives. >> just 18 days after it begins egypt's revolution succeeds in pushing hosni mubarak from power when on february 11th, 2011 he resigns. thousands of egyptians celebrate the end of his regime. but for many egyptians the situation does not improve. mubarak is merely replaced by a council of military rulers. and in a few months' time

clashes begin again. in november and december 2011 fighting rages between demonstrators and security forces in and around tahrir square. >> translator: we heard about the disturbances and the gunfire. so we ran to see what was happening. >> on december 17th, 2011 an engineering student named mohammed gamal zadan is with a group of friends outside a hotel in central cairo. >> translator: that time i went up in the hotel and i thought i would try to go in with my colleagues and try to see what's happening and see it from above and try to film it. >> looking through the lens, mohammed sees a group of protesters fleeing from security forces. two of the protesters, including a woman dressed in the traditional muslim abaya, fall down. and are beaten by baton-wielding soldiers. the soldiers stomp on the woman. as the beating progresses, her

clothing falls off, exposing her undergarments. >> translator: i couldn't believe it when what happened to this woman happened. how did this human being do this? he didn't think that this could have been his sister, his mother? >> it's basically soldiers just gone absolutely insane. there's just dozens of them around this one woman. and a few people who tried to come to her rescue. and they're just beating and stomping on her like she's some kind of wild animal they're trying to control. it's just horrendous. >> after the beating security forces storm the hotel looking for photographers. but mohammed escapes from the area and under a pseudonym uploads the video to youtube. >> if i hadn't done what i did, nobody would have known what happened. even if i had said this and this happened, nobody would have believed it. >> the blue bra woman, as she becomes known, survives the

attack but is never identified. the images of her beating provoke outrage and appear in newspapers around the globe. her story also sparks widespread condemnation of the egyptian military. in the end the ability of ordinary citizens to upload their videos and share them with a global audience is one of the most powerful tools of the arab spring. >> before we had access to the internet, before we had the ability to upload these videos, you had to somehow be able to gain access to the media, to the regime. and so the people who most benefited from the internet or video are the most marginalized because what it's done for them is it's allowed them to say i count. and when all these is unite together against the regime, that's when you know the revolution succeeds. because for the longest time the regime has worked very hard to tell them you don't count, none of you count, i count. now the people are saying it, and that's why the revolution

will succeed. >> coming up -- >> the occupation is here to stay! >> demonstrators occupy oakland. until police take action. >> medic! >> when "caught on camera: revolution" continues. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy.

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protesters occupy cities all over the u.s. >> occupy! >> most of the occupations are peaceful. but in oakland, california one clash with police takes a terrible turn. >> medic! >> occupy wall street, a grassroots political movement opposing the influence of banks and corporations in american life, begins in new york on september 17th, 2011. protesters stage a giant sit-in just a few blocks east of wall street in lower manhattan's

zuccotti park and refuse to leave. >> i don't really see how it's our fault and why we should be paying the bills for the bankers. >> the occupation of the park is extensively documented by photographers and videographers, and their images spread via the internet and ignite a national movement. >> the message is clear. people have been watching us, and we watch the internet, and we have given a voice to the 99% who feel outraged toward the system that is working entirely for the 1%. >> occupy movements take root in cities all over the u.s. one of the largest crops up in oakland, california. on october 10th, the oakland protesters set up their camp in frank ogawa plaza, the public square in front of oakland city hall. hundreds join in and occupy the plaza 24 hours a day. including berkeley tenants

rights lawyer jesse palmer. >> i think people in society feel very isolated. but when you realize that many other people have the same ideas you have and are having the same problems that you have, then suddenly you realize, actually, we are powerful, we the people are powerful. >> every hour, every day, the occupation is here to stay! >> after two weeks the oakland mayor orders the plaza vacated because of health and safety concerns. before daybreak on october 25th oakland police raid the encampment, clearing out the occupiers with tear gas. protesters agree to reconvene later that day and march back on the plaza. >> the crowd was a focused crowd. we were there because they had taken occupation and the occupation was something that had been very valuable to a lot of us. we weren't going to just go home. >> police order the protesters to disperse, but they refuse. standing directly in front of the police barricades are two men dressed in military uniforms, including a

24-year-old ex-marine named scott olson. olson had served two tours of duty in iraq during which he turned against the war and began speaking out. other protesters, including jesse palmer, are nearby when police decide to act. >> we were in the intersection, and it was actually fairly calm, and then all of a sudden the explosions went off and the tear gas was kind of all around us. >> protester ernest doty, a local artist, is there too. >> kind of out of nowhere the whole mood changed. it got very violent very quickly and just got really chaotic. >> in addition to tear gas, police also fired bean bag projectiles and flash-bang grenades, both considered non-lethal crowd control measures. >> then people of course started panicking. and then to the right of me i saw scott olson get hit. i didn't know who he was at this time.

he was just a stranger. and when i seen him get hit, i whistled at another guy, and we ran in and grabbed him by his backpack and tried to pull him out. >> scott olson is lying on the ground, bleeding from his head and mouth. >> and that's when that other percussion grenade or tear gas canister came in and blew up. and it blew up right next to his face. >> that was the moment when somebody yelled this guy is hurt and he needs to be carried. >> jesse, ernest, and a few others carry scott out of the street in search of medical help. >> medic! medic! >> what happened? what happened? >> he got hit. >> but he had blood coming out of his forehead and his eyes, his nose, his mouth. and i looked into his eyes, and i spoke to him, and i said, you know, you're going to be okay, we're going to get you to safety, what's your name? >> what's your name? what's your name? what's your name?

>> what's your name? >> he didn't respond in any way. and at that point i realized his eyes are open but he's very non-responsive. we were choking on the tear gas ourselves. we just had to get him out of there as quick as we could. which is what we did. >> scott is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. >> my injuries were a fractured skull, a fractured vertebra, a fractured orbital bone in my face. i have a cut resulting from it, which has a scar. and then the trauma caused brain hemorrhaging as well as a lot of swelling. >> the swelling causes a traumatic brain injury. and scott's memory of the night is cloudy. >> i was laying down on the ground, not entirely certain what hit me. and when i woke up, i didn't think how badly i had been hurt. >> what's your name? what's your name? >> especially when they kept

asking me my name over and over. i could not muster up an answer. i could not do that. aside from me getting a shot, the part that really blew my mind is that they threw a flash bang at the people who were trying to help me. i couldn't believe that this was happening in the united states of america. >> for those involved the actions of the police and scott's injury only strengthened their commitment to the movement. >> from that day on i became way more involved in the occupy movement. i actually brang a tent down there the next day and i stayed there for about two weeks. >> i think occupy is revolutionary in terms of how it affects human consciousness because a lot of people were at the end of their ropes and i think they look at occupy as a way to fix the problems that are facing us. >> when people think of

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the death of a dictator captured by a rebel fighter's camera. in 2011 revolution spreads through the arab world. from bahrain to algeria to yemen. landing next in a very unlikely place. libya.

citizens there live under one of the longest-ruling dictators in the world, colonel moammar gadhafi, who's held power for 42 years. >> libya was one of those countries people never imagined it would see the revolution spread to. because gadhafi was so in control. but i'm a revolution junkie, and it succeeded in tunisia. it succeeded in egypt. i wanted it to succeed everywhere. >> for decades gadhafi was one of the world's most eccentric leaders, known for his flamboyant outfits and his all-female bodyguards. but he was also an open supporter of international terrorism, with links to the lockerbie bombers, the i.r.a., and other militant groups. >> he kept libya under very, very tight wraps. he would disappear people. there was no freedom of any kind. massacres in prison. so he was a horrendous, horrible, brutal dictator. >> anyone who spoke out against him at all would be arrested immediately, sometimes tortured, sometimes killed. >> tracy shelton is a 34-year-old freelance journalist

from australia who heads to libya to cover the conflict. >> it began with protests, as in many of the arab countries, inspired by egypt and tunisia. people started protesting for more freedom. but the reaction from the gadhafi regime was to shoot protesters, to try and stop these protests with violence. >> the violence that gadhafi unleashed on them was a violence of another order altogether. we're not talking now mubarak's security forces. we're talking about mercenaries. we're talking about jets. we're talking about tanks. so with the libyan revolution the idea of non-violence had to be laid to rest for the sake of libyans. >> the war rages for months. in late august 2011 the rebels, with the help of nato forces, gain the upper hand and advance on tripoli, libya's capital. >> tripoli just fell.

within three days they had control of the entire city, which no one had expected. and gadhafi and his whole family fled. there was a lot of excitement in the country because it seemed like it was over. >> but it isn't over. not while gadhafi and his sons remain in hiding. until october 20th, 2011. that day tracy shelton is with a group of militia fighters she's been profiling for months. >> that morning some of the guys from the battalion had gone into surt, and i'd gone in with them. >> around 8:30 a.m. a heavily armored convoy of around 70 vehicles is seen leaving surt, gadhafi's hometown and his last remaining stronghold. >> there were snipers all over the city that were set up to protect the convoy. everybody knew there was somebody important in this group. >> nato forces bombed the caravan from the air. dozens are killed. >> there were a lot of survivors that had run into bushes, into

houses in this area. >> as rebel fighters prepare to head to the site of the convoy bombing, shelton asks if she can go along. but they refuse. >> that was the only time they ever said no. they told me no, you can't come with us. it's just -- it's really too dangerous in there. >> but as soon as the rebels discover who was in the convoy and what has happened, they send for her. shelton is the first western journalist to arrive at the scene. rebels tell her that gadhafi has been found hiding in a storm drain and captured. >> by the time i got there, i think he was probably already dead by that stage but they were taking him away in an ambulance. the scene was still quite amazing because people were still celebrating. people had -- there were guys who had chunks of gadhafi's hair. they had bits of his clothing, going this is gadhafi's. i mean, the people -- everybody of course was shooting in the air. i asked among the guys, did anybody take any photos, any footage, or anything? one of the guys i knew came straight to me and said yes, i got the whole thing on my iphone, look.

>> a rebel named ali algati has captured the entire incident. >> he filmed it from the very start. and he said do you want to -- >> [ yelling in foreign language ]. >> the footage, graphic and disturbing, shows gadhafi, wounded, bleeding, and being beaten by an angry mob. rebels cry "god is great." >> allahu akbar! >> stumbling and disoriented the libyan leader appears to ask for mercy as he is dragged, punched, and stabbed repeatedly. rebels hold guns to gadhafi's head. >> they call him a dog and an animal, and they're saying his name over and over again. >> eventually, they lay gadhafi

on the ground. blood pouring from his head. later photos are released of the former dictator, dead. >> there's no clear answer to exactly who pulled the trigger, but it's obvious it was because people -- they wanted it over. they wanted it finished. >> shelton transfers the footage to her laptop and drives three hours to the nearest internet connection, where she uploads the footage to her editors. soon after, the rest of the world is watching. and reacting. >> the capture and death of colonel moammar gadhafi marked a sudden and unexpected end to the libyan revolution thursday. >> i really did not want them to kill him. i wanted them to put him on trial. i wanted this to end not with revenge but with justice. but a certain part of you also has to feel sorry for this man, surrounded and outnumbered and pleading for his life and yet being killed. but i also saw, unlike all the

other tapes that we'd watched in which the regime was attacking the people, here it was the people attacking the regime. which was very unusual. >> the video of gadhafi's capture and death shocks the world. it also alters people's perception of the rebels and their revolution. >> people looked at that and they saw the brutality. but before this, they're being reported on as rebel heroes, these civilians fighting for freedom. and then people see this video, which is very graphic and very disturbing, and it changed the way people viewed them. >> many of us tried to remind people who gadhafi had done to libyans. not as a way to justify his murder, because it is murder, but as a way of saying remember what gadhafi had been doing to people for 42 years. >> coming up -- angry rioters

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the st. louis rams have confirmed they have cut michael sam, the first openly gay player drafted by an nfl team. he's not on the final roster the team submitted to the nfl. he had been in a down to the wire battle in one of final roster spots. let geese to the news conference right now with the rams coach jeff fisher. >> again, a difficult couple of days. we've got to 53 as everybody has. i can't say that we're done. we're going to see if it's possible for us to upgrade our football team. questions. >> can you tell us what mike's

reaction was or what he said to you? >> he said yes, sir. e said thanks for the opportunity. i said i'm looking forward to visiting with you tomorrow. >> how hard was that decision? >> it's a football decision. it was a football decision back in may to draft mike. once again, it's been all about football. i was pulling for mike. i really was. i don't say that very often. mike came in here and did everything we asked him to do. he got a chance to play a lot of snaps. the second most snaps on the defensive line to ethan westbrook and was productive. as we said on the front end of this, of whole, e when we drafted mike we mentioned that it's going to be a tough road.

those four defensive ends that we have on the roster are good. they play a lot and productive. it was a football decision. [ inaudible question ] >> it happens at times. most clubs will start on friday and finish on saturday and saturday by nature of the scheduling is the player's day off. sometimes you can't get in touch with them. we communicated last night, mike and i did. i knew that he had plans that was not in town and would be in columbia. >> what's the likelihood of him being -- >> i can't go there right now. coaches don't talk about practice squads.

the practice squad is heavily depen dent on what you do in other positions. we have, it's well noted that tremaine will be down for a few weeks. we may have to go heavy in the other positionings. we have five linebackers. we need linebackers on the practice squad. i'm not going to go into what his odds are and what the opportunities are until we sift through things tomorrow. >> part of this decision, too, and you're up front about it from the beginning. ethan westbrook is a heck of a prospect. >> yes, he is. he was very productive in the pre-season for us and played all four spots and is a very, very talented young player that has a really good future. >> was that simply competing toward the end for westbrook or

was he competing against the entire? >> i think it's a little bit of both. it's a significant number especially when you're a four-down team. whether you go with ten. if you go with ten then you're going to be short someplace else and we're just not there. >> michael didn't make the team but by all accounts this is a very positive experience. for all the concerns about h historical impact and what it could mean to team and d distractions, what's the take away here? >> there was no distraction. if someone perceived or thought

there may be a distraction, they weren't in the building. this was a football decision. mike fit in very, very well. he was fun to be around. he was a good teammate. it was no issue there. >> does this represent progress in that he had a good camp. he fit in and everything went really well. for the next michael sam and the one after that, does this send a message to the league about there's nothing to be paranoid about? >> there's a lot of things that were said around draft, right after he drafted him this was a historical moment for the league and everything. we're proud to be part of that, but it was a great experience, but there were no issues. that's the thing. no issues in this team meeting room, on the field, any place.

i just think there was a lot more made of it than there should have been. i'm just, obviously, as i said back at draft time i was proud to be part of that and enjoyed the experience. mike played well. he has the ability to play someplace. it's got to be the right place. it's got to be a fit. someone told me years ago the difference dweenbetween a good r and average player is just snaps. it's reps. he's a much better player than when he got here. >> you did whatever it took to make mike feel comfortable here and so did the 53 players, 95

players. what challenges would another team have if they bring mike in? >> there will be no challenges. no challenges whatsoever. he's not about drawing attention to himself. he kept his head down and he worked. you can't ask anything more out of any player. there's no challenge with respect to mike sam and the second opportunity that lies ahead. >> you mentioned after the game thursday you thought he had the ability to play in this league. what assets that might put him in good stand? >> it's his motor. mike was defensive player of the year because of his motor. he plays hard all the time. he's learned to use his hands better. he's gotten better in the pass rush. the plays he made were effort plays.

i think he's got skills to fit in someplace. >> you talked about you hoped it works out. when you went through the decision when you came to that decision, to this decision, how hard was that? >> it was not a difficult decision. we had four seventh round picks and none of them are on the active roster. we made football decisions with respect to our draft choices and drafted free agents. >> is that something you're

comfortable going into? >> we've got into most games with two quarterbacks on the active roster. that's not an issue. the quarterback is a position that we're going to address that we're going to monitor. the picks went in 45 minutes ago. we'll get the list and see what's out there. i'm sure there will be work outs and try outs and potential to do some things at the position. right now, as i said, a couple days ago we're not going to overreact. we're going to apply patience to this situation. >> any possible trade talks? >> there's always that possibility. we have not engaged at any point. >> you said it was not a difficult decision to waive michael. why did you wait until about an hour ago to let him know? >> we have internal discussions, but that's typical that you may

be pushed up against a deadline. it has to do with other positions and other players, things like that. >> how initial is it to have five tight ends on the roster at this point? >> probably heavy at the position. there's going to be some movement on the roster. we felt like this year's roster going in may be heavy here and there. we've got additional spot unfortunately because stead won't be with us for four weeks. you can go heavy here or there. >> what was it about marcus roberson? >> good football player. he picked the defense up. he made plays. he got ball skills.

>> we're listening to st. louis rams coach talking about the final decision on the roster today which does not include 24-year-old michael sam who played for the university of missouri who came out as being openly gay. the first pre-draft nfl hopeful to do so. let's bring in rob of nbc sports on today's decision. what is your reaction to this? >> it's disappointing for michael sam. he performed well enough in pre-season to make it to the very final cut. that's disappointing for any player to get that close. that said, i don't think this is by any means of the end of the line for michael sam. you see this happen in the nfl year end and year out. guys get cut very late in trainitrain i camp right before the season starts. they end up being picked up by another team. they have more of a need for someone at that position or

skill level. i think there's really good chance we'll see michael sam land on an official final nfl roster sometime in the next year or so. for now he'll have to decide whether he wants to stay with the rams and be a part of their practice squad or try his luck somewhere else. i wouldn't be surprised if he really did the ladder and tried to find team he could latch on with sometime this season. >> the st. louis rams coach was just saying the same thing. he had nothing but good things, positive things to say about michael system as a person calling it a very highly competitive process of making this roster or not. saying he was very productive in the pre-season and there was no distraction by him being openly gay. i know there a lot of factors that go into making the roster or not. the fact there may have been too many players like him.

there are other teams specifically that might have a need for the kind of player that michael sam is? >> i can't say because i don't know which teams are looking for players like michael sam. he came out of college as a guy that a lot of people thought he was an in between player. he led the rams in tackles in their last pre-season game. he clearly showed he belongs on an nfl field and knowing how important it is to build a good defense and a versatile defense, i think a lot of teams will be looking at him. obviously, the question will be whether teams see him as a potential distraction. as you said, the rams did not see him as a distraction. it was really and maybe the

biggest story was a non-story it was to have him on that squad and in those pre-season games and at the practices all camp long. >> the rams coach was going out of his way to say that. he was saying he's not a distraction. sam thanked him for the opportunity and this coach clearly thinks highly of him and wishes him well. >> i think that's a message he was sending to other teams out there which is this guy a not a distraction. it's not an issue to have a gay player in your locker room and really just trying to put that whole issue to rest in a way. who better to do that than the head coach of the team that's just spent a month plus with michael sam in their locker room. i think we're going to see a

happy ending to this story. i know it's going to be disappointing for a lot of people but this is not even close to the end of this story. >> do you think we'll hear from michael sam at some point? do you think he will keep his head down and focus on his next move move? >> i think he'll come out and react whether it's on twitter. if i were him i would stay away from doing anything too big here. i wouldn't sit down for an interview or make a big deal out of this. it should be all about normalcy and continuing what jeff said which is it was normal to have him in the locker room. a normal seventh rounder who got cut doesn't sit down with espn. they might just send out a tweet and say thank you for the

opportunity. >> there will be conferrings about this. >> i think that's why it is important to see michael sam have a happy ending to this story. i think he's already done a lot to really alleviate that problem because the fact that he was drafted and the fact he did make it to the very last cut and played in pre-season game and played effectively and didn't have players coming out saying we can't have this guy on our team, all of those things will make it easier for the next player who is thinking about coming out. >> thank you very much for joining us. we're talking about the st. louis rams decision to not put michael sam, who is openly gay

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the iron curtain begins to collapse, and nbc news anchor tom brokaw has a front row seat to history. >> you're seeing the destruction of the berlin wall. >> 1989 is a year of seismic change as political revolution spreads across

communist-controlled europe. in early november tom brokaw travels to berlin to report on the political situation. >> i went because it was a good story. it was this kind of percolating situation. it was simmering. and you could feel it was going to boil over. >> the giant imposing berlin wall splits the city in two. >> the wall was this sinister symbol of the division between east and west. when you went to see it in person, i'd been there several times before, you could never adequately convey the coldness of it on camera. it was this ominous piece of slab of concrete. and we knew obviously about all the people who had paid for their lives trying to get over it. >> the day after arriving in berlin brokaw attends a press conference called by the

minister of information for the east german republic, a man named gunter schabowski. >> the room was about half asleep at the time, and then he read this statement from the politburo that all citizens of the gdr would be able to leave and return. and it was as if it had arrived from the moon. did we hear what we thought we'd heard? >> nbc news arranges for brokaw to interview schabowski after the press conference. >> do i understand it correctly, citizens of the gdr -- >> i had an interview with him, ran upstairs, got him to reread the statement -- >> it is possible for them to go through the wall at some point? >> it is possible for them to go through the border. >> i ran downstairs, and some of my newspaper colleagues were standing there still puzzling over the statement, and i said, i think the wall is down. >> joe alacastro is one of nbc news's field producers in berlin during the week. >> we knew right there we were probably sitting on the biggest story of the latter half of the 20th century. >> then there was a competitive situation, you look around saying cbs is not here, abc is not here, cnn is not -- we've

got it. this is our story. >> and the discussion was how do we handle this? and we agreed ultimately we have to go live. >> we interrupt this program for an nbc news special report. here is garrick utley. >> and good afternoon again. >> so we call the bureau and say set up, we're going live with "nightly news" from the brandenburg gate tonight. >> by nightfall the news spreads through the city and crowds gather at the wall. brokaw and his crew set up with a view of the unfolding scene. >> are we ready, cheryl? >> back in new york senior producer cheryl gould races to prepare for the 6:30 broadcast. >> we had to put all this news into the allotted half hour. and that's stressful as it is. and then being ready at 6:29:59 so that when 6:30 comes and tom says "good evening" that you're ready. >> if the bird is up i can just throw it to him.

>> with minutes to go until the broadcast the crowds and cheers reach a fever pitch. >> there's a guy coming across. cheryl. yeah. after you get done with segment 3, they're coming across the wall right here. >> i remember tom saying to me at one point, "cheryl. cheryl. they're coming over the wall!" and i still get goosebumps when i remember that. he was there to record this, to report on it. >> it's amazing. >> we didn't know if they would shoot them. with bullets. that had been the history of that wall. instead, they shot them with water cannons. and so people came over the wall drenched, wet with water cannon fire. they came over the wall with champagne bottles. and west germans greeting east germans. >> they should break the wall down just any moment, i think.

>> with no time left to prepare, brokaw must improvise. >> we'd better go live because they've just seen me with this crowd behind me. >> and i said to the control room back here, i'm just going to have to ad-lib this broadcast because i can't follow the script. you know, it's chaos. i can barely hear myself. >> cheryl. >> and right before i went on the air i thought to myself, that old astronaut's line that they had right before lift-off, which was, don't screw up. >> nbc "nightly news" with tom brokaw. tonight, from west berlin. >> good evening. live from the berlin wall on the most historic night in this wall's history. what you see behind me -- >> i remember being in the control room watching this, saying can i believe what i'm seeing? there was tom, saying this is happening. he was saying this is stunning, this is just a stunning phenomenon. >> what we were seeing was the destruction of what we had all grown up with in the 20th century. we'd all grown up with the

soviet threat. we'd all grown up with democracy versus communism. >> on the other side of the wall young east germans have rushed through the brandenburg gate undeterred by water cannon -- >> we were on the air for five straight hours. >> for almost 30 years now these people have been confined living in a prison-like state governed at every step of their life by the east german government. >> tom did not have a prompter. tom did not have a script. he just had the entire history of the 20th century in his head. and it all came out that night. >> sometime after midnight at the berlin wall one of our computer technicians ed lee came running up wide-eyed and he handed me a big chunk of the berlin wall. and he said they were taking it down right before our eyes. so i keep a small kind of iconic piece of it on my desk

constantly. i think it represents the shattering of the divisions between people and the collapse of the soviet union and communism as a political philosophy. you can build a wall, but the people will take it down. ♪ cameras are rolling all day every day. you'd be surprised what they catch. unlikely thieves. >> let it go, let it go, let it go! >> heroic bystanders and downright brazen criminals.