ABC Reporter Caught In Middle Of Egypt Protests (VIDEO)

The biggest protests in over three decades are engulfing Egypt, and ABC News' Alex Marquardt was swept up in the middle of one of them. He and his crew even got tear gassed by the Egyptian police along with the crowd around them. Below, see Marquardt's report from Cairo--including the moment when he was gassed.

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[1donewrong]

11:46 PM on 01/30/2011

any chance that our state dept is even in the country?

[kenhamlett]

08:59 PM on 01/28/2011

As we watch history unfold, it should not just be about the journalists. There is far too much concentration these days on journalists making themselves or their fellow journalists the story. There are as many stories on this page about the journalists covering the story as there are about the story itself. The focus should be on the news.

[femmyror]

04:42 PM on 01/28/2011

This is all so fascinating! We're watching history unfold here.

[Zebrawalk]

10:30 AM on 01/28/2011

Any chance a HP journalist will get "caught up" in a news story? Doubtful.

[westreal]

10:19 AM on 01/28/2011

The volume on ABC's player will damage your eardrums. Why won't they allow me to control the volume???

[William Watson]

08:18 AM on 01/28/2011

The headline and tone of this Huffpo text imply that this guy should have been somewhere else. He was "caught up." Excuse me: He is a journalist. He is right where he belongs. He is right where a thousand more journalists ought to be, right in the middle of what's going on and, one hopes, taking in as much information as he can to find out what these angry, frustrated people mean by "democracy" and what they mean by "social justice." What's the matter with you people at Huffpo, have you completely forgotten what first-hand journalism is supposed to be about? It's supposed to be about being where important things are going on with no purpose for being there except to report it to other people who aren't there.

[KsWrangler]

09:12 AM on 01/28/2011

You are so right. It isn't just the guys at HP who have forgotten what real journalism is. Many journalists have been wounded and killed in pursuing the story.

[INDIVIDUALTERRY]

12:45 PM on 01/28/2011

Can't forget what you never knew.

[evster610]

06:32 AM on 01/28/2011

If the people of Egypt are being repressed, who are the soldiers fighting them in the streets? What is wrong with them? History repeats itself again, another people turning against themselves.

[ken607]

07:43 AM on 01/28/2011

soldiers make money from their actions. just like if this happen in the USA. our troops would do the same or a subsiderary of black water! its always about the control! never about freedom.

[sixtoes]

06:18 AM on 01/28/2011

And Biden's saying that Mubarak is not a dictator? Well then, I guess those tens of thousands of protestors are all terrorists, eh Joe?

[VintageMary]

04:35 AM on 01/28/2011

Hope he & his team stay as safe as possible.

[NorquistNemesis]

03:38 AM on 01/28/2011

Can't explain why...but this 'unrest' in Egypt makes my me more uneasy than stories about Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Somalia, Chad, Rwanda, etc. It's a gut thing; unexplainable.

[NanaMex]

07:20 AM on 01/28/2011

Been having the same feeling since the story broke.

[WJR4]

07:28 AM on 01/28/2011

Perhaps it's because Egypt is arguably a significant portion of "the cradle of civilisation" we all came from long ago, and you're feeling a primordial twinge that something is terribly wrong at your "home".

I too felt very uneasy and even sad last night as a saw the first reports of the internet shutdown and subsequent escalation of police action. My thoughts go out to all those suffering under the crack of a baton in Egypt...

[Scott Albert Johnson MS]

11:23 AM on 01/28/2011

Very well put, WJR4.

[Jase84]

02:29 AM on 01/28/2011

This story didn't get reported much, but a British journalist was beaten and hauled off in a bus. This report has a audio report, that quite eery.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/26/egypt-protests

[DevilNymph]

02:17 AM on 01/28/2011

But every hair stayed in place.

[kgb999]

05:49 AM on 01/28/2011

Moussed into helmet form!

[DavidBeckham]

02:12 AM on 01/28/2011

Thank god his hair made it through OK...

[DevilNymph]

02:18 AM on 01/28/2011

Sprayed into a stupor.

[MilesToGo]

01:42 AM on 01/28/2011

We can hope Alex will remain safe and report factually on what is happening in Egypt. It is becoming tiresome to constantly have to get real news from Al Jazeera, while watching and reading the American media claim that Al Jazeera is biased and purveyors of propaganda.

[Pod-gers]

10:50 PM on 01/27/2011

Unfortunately journalists have been targeted and killed in "collateral damage" incidents at an alarming rate recently. remember, in Iraq, two unarmed Ruters journalists were murdered by US helicopter pilots. The video of this is called collateral murder, it was published by WikiLeaks, and is reportedly leaked by Bradley Manning.

We will have to see how this turns out in Egypt.

[INDIVIDUALTERRY]

12:48 PM on 01/28/2011

You don;t have a clue do you ?
Manning had nothing to do with it.
And the reporters imbedded themselves with insurgents.
It was a case of wrong place and wrong dum idea.