Kurtz : Lara Logan Being Released From Hospital Today!!!

Egypt last Friday, Howard Kurtz reports.Kurtz says that Logan had left Egypt, but had returned to interview Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who became a leading face of the Egyptian revolution. She then went to Tahrir Square in Cairo after the news of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation broke, and was separated from her crew. It was then that she was surrounded and assaulted.

Logan was saved, according to CBS, by a group of women and Egyptian soldiers.Kurtz says that Logan had left Egypt, but had returned to interview Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who became a leading face of the Egyptian revolution. She then went to Tahrir Square in Cairo after the news of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation broke, and was separated from her crew. It was then that she was surrounded and assaulted. Logan was saved, according to CBS, by a group of women and Egyptian soldiers.

In its statement, CBS had only said that Logan was “recovering” in an American hospital. “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric echoed that statement during her Tuesday broadcast, saying Logan was “recovering well.”Logan endured a harrowing few weeks in Egypt. The week before her assault, she was detained by Egyptian police. As she told Esquire, she and her crew were “arrested, detained, and interrogated. Blindfolded, handcuffed, taken at gunpoint, our driver beaten.”

Anderson Cooper - Attacked In Egypt Latest Photo & Videos ! Camera Rolls As Cooper,Crew Attecked By Mob In Egypt Breaking News

Anderson Cooper was attacked in Egypt by government supporters who turned on him and his crew Wednesday in the protest-torn streets of Cairo.When he then began to attack Cooper's crew, people in the crowd began to join in, at which point the team decided to leave the square. Cooper said that he and his crew had been trying to go to a neutral zone between the two groups."We never got that far," he said. "We were set upon by pro-Mubarak supporters punching us in the head." Cooper said that he and the crew tried to escape, but that the crowd only grew: "the crowd kept growing, kept throwing punches, kicks...suddenly a young man would look at you and punch you in the face."


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ABC anchor Christian Amanpour was also accosted by angry demonstrators while reporting amid the chaos today.Ms Amanpour had calmly tried to speak to the people on the street but as she got closer to the mobs she was told: 'Don't go there, don't take your camera otherwise you will meet your destiny'.One angry man said to her: 'I want you to go from here. We hate you. We hate Americans'.the story today is not me being attacked, it's the melee that continues," Cooper told Show Tracker. "This is a stunning development, and it's not clear what kind of impact it's going to have.Check out the Cairo clip above and get more on the situation in Egypt here.

"An angry mob surrounded us and followed us into the car, shouting that they hate America," said Amanpour. "They kicked in the door of the car and smashed the windshield of our, as we left."Egyptian state television reported at least one death from the protests on Wednesday, along with more than 400 people were injured. The clashes followed the last days of relative calm protests in Egypt, where anti-government protesters calling for Mubarak to step down.Mubarak, 82, said Tuesday that it will not interfere with elections scheduled in September, but the protests continued to ridicule the president and demand that he resign immediately.

Arianna Tells : Obama Should Embrace 'The Vital Center' :- Video

Obama's recent rise in favorability, Arianna explained that the tragedy in Tucson and the president's speech that followed brought Americans together. "The poll really captures the mood of the country," she said. "This is a good country, an optimistic country, and we all came together."

Arianna continued by saying she doesn't think he can sustain his higher polling numbers. "There's no way this is sustainable when you look at the underlying facts about the economy," she said. "And the fundamentals of our economy are not good, period."

Arianna continued by saying she doesn’t think he can sustain his higher polling numbers. “There’s no way this is sustainable when you look at the underlying facts about the economy,” she said. “And the fundamentals of our economy are not good, period.” O’Donnell then asked Arianna what she hoped to see Obama lay out as an agenda in his State of the Union address next week. Arianna responded that she hopes that instead of fighting for his own interests or those of the Democratic party, the president “pushes the right agenda for the country.”


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