the cypress is in pieces. there is only this. the cypress is in pieces. . >> a poem i wrote shortly after 9-11. the terrorists for rachel cory and all those who were idealists and who actually believed that they could make an effect and social change. the terrorists who lives amongst us is not you, the terrorist who lurks in the shadows of our crowded city streets isn't me. he's not a demon with bulging eyes, a twisted mouth full of dirt, a crooked mouth, fangs driping blood. it's not the savage guner waiting for our school on their way to school. no, this heinous replica of satan doesn't look like a jew. dopt make a habit of supplying the motives of sin with colors of skin because it's skin deep. a student with dreams of statehood or a teenage girl driven by desperation and fear or a dentist or an apprentice of a dead soldier, who crouches in the wounds of the dead and the dying, who hurls stones at tanks and encroaching soldiers, who stands unmoved before a roiling tank, who stares with barbed eyes. the enemy is never one who k

they tell me oh, we just talked to lester holt so they're still waiting to get out to cypress. but that's the scene at this airport. lester, thank you for that aspect of this story. >>> this crisis of course being watched in world capitals and by world leaders very, very closely puts a lot of nations in a dicey situation. our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, watching that where the u.s. is concerned all day in d.c. andrea is in our washington newsroom tonight. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the obama administration is toughening its message to president mubarak, but this is an awkward diplomatic straddle, trying to support the protesters without undermining other arab leaders, fearful that they could be next. as the protests grow, so does the white house pressure on mubarak. without calling for egypt's leader to step down, the message is clear. >> i do believe orderly transition means change. what they have advocated from the very beginning is that the way egypt looks and operates must change. >> reporter: the u.s. wants mubarak to

we're actually deeply concerned about it. >> reporter: cypress' rodgers, who was once described as the "bad boy of silicon valley" for his outspoken views on the need to cut "corporate welfare," says that such government spending drives up federal deficits and taxes, making it harder for executives like him to invest in technologies which spur the economy. >> corporate welfare is bad. it not only takes money from people it shouldn't take money from to give it to some of the richest corporations in the world, like mine. it also hurts the corporations you give it to, because the minute you start lifting the weights from somebody, eventually, the day will come when they have to get in the arena themselves and lift the weights themselves, and they will be weaker and less competitive. >> reporter: rogers says a better alternative is the private sector venture capitalist model. under cypress's own roof, an incubator funds risky startups, and one investment turned into the second largest solar company in the u.s. but in other quarters, the president's proposals were welcomed. in a silicon val

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state department and cypress. >> we saw people looting. we saw gunfire. people shooting other people. >> two week in egypt we didn't get to see the pyramid. >> mom i'm fine i'll eat and shower and sleep in a bed. >>reporter: of course just getting to the airport is a dauntingó one person counted 19 checkpoint including 9 manned by civilians. >> in this sign of hope today in egypt a man flew a kite in the color of the egyptian flag over cairo. he said it was not a political statement just a wish for things to get better soon. is that other news. governor brown reference the unrest in egypt in his state of the state address today but focus his message on money. specifically how to deal with california budget crisis. capitol correspondent reports on the governor's call to action. >> honorable pishtion you could call governor brown state of the state address a kick off campaign for june special election to ask voters to extend the temporary tax hike. he targeted republicans who have consistently said they will block the move to put the proposal on the ballot.

they're putting them on charter flights, sending them to frankfurt, athens, cypress where they can gett and from there on the americans have to look after themselves to get back to the united states. >> it got kind of violent yesterday with the demonstrations and our apartment, our hospital, is right next to the river so we decided it would be safer and our parents were worried about us, it would be better. >> reporter: the protesters said tomorrow is the ultimatum for mubarak to leave. crowing fears across cairo if he doesn't, tomorrow could be major conflict across the city. terry mccarthy, nbc news, cairo. >>> at this morning's national prayer breakfast in washington, mark kelly, the husband of wounded arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords joined president obama and others for the event. as he began his remarks, mr. obama spoke to mr. kelly. >> we have been praying for mark's wife, gabby giffords, for many days now, but i want gabby and mark and their entire family to know that we are with them for the long haul. and god is with them for the long haul. >> kelly told the audience

for democracy and even as we see what is going on in the maghreb and and and humanitarian and the cypress in the balkans it still is a peace project, but i think the mage or challenge for europe today is to be a model of governance which is also sustainable towards green development, which in the end humanizes our globalized economy. the thing that i just want to make three points. one is on governance. the greek pelham is not a debt problem. it is a debt problem also but that is a symptom. it was a problem of governance and we have over the last year made major changes in a system which was nontransparent, there was ways. major changes cutting our deficit by 6%, reforming our pension system into a valuable and robust pension system today. opening up professions and we are doing that right now. we are to have done some. we have change the tax system, reform the local government and reforming central government by making everything on line very transparent. but, the markets haven't responded. the last year the question to me around was -- default? this year the question is will greece defa

for democracy and even as we see what is going on in the maghreb and and and humanitarian and the cypress in the balkans it still is a peace project, but i think the mage or challenge for europe today is to be a model of governance which is also sustainable towards green development, which in the end humanizes our globalized economy. the thing that i just want to make three points. one is on governance. the greek pelham is not a debt problem. it is a debt problem also but that is a symptom. it was a problem of governance and we have over the last year made major changes in a system which was nontransparent, there was ways. major changes cutting our deficit by 6%, reforming our pension system into a valuable and robust pension system today. opening up professions and we are doing that right now. we are to have done some. we have change the tax system, reform the local government and reforming central government by making everything on line very transparent. but, the markets haven't responded. the last year the question to me around was -- default? this year the question is will greece defa