. >> reporter: and tourism is about to percent of the egyptia economy. visitors are down 40%. the state department just warn that americans should put off travel if they can. this political unrest slows sectors across the egyptian economy, but your reading reports of folks staying away from the cities. some of the resort towns almost like little oasis with no idea that is going on "what's going on. tourism, there is a tangible effect. has fallen a significant amount and is a good chunk of the egyptian economy. tracy: that's an important point. some of this is not happening in the tourist towns. you have an awesome weekend. thank you. >> reporter: youtube. tracy: let's get back to our panel on all of this. i want to go to you first. why do i care? look, we oen see images of these guys riding, these guys throwing out some president, bringing in a new one. this seems to be what they do. >> they don't do it that often. the country as important as egypt. look. happened last year. it happened again. you could say it is not ideal for military coup to oust an ele

economy is in ruin. unemployment has skyrocketed. there's no tourism in egypt right no which was a source of so much currency and work for egyptia egyptians. this is an awful situation. it looks like president morsi will have to step down and call for new elections or this escalating tension will get way, way out of control. >> wolf, we know the president has options. is it possible he could use that aid to egypt as a tool, as leverage to force the president to either have early elections or step aside? >> most of that u.s. aid and it's significant, more than billion and a half dollars a year goes to the egyptian military. there's some foreign aid for economic development and social needs and stuff like that. that's a few hundred million dollars basically but most goes to the egyptian military and right now it's the egyptian military that the u.s. is counting on for all practical purposes to try to get stability and try to get coordination. a lot of those egyptian generals many of them spent quality time in the united states over these past several years training whether at ft. hood or these other places. thst the egyptian military that t