Helicopters hover as protesters gather in heart of Cairo.
Cairo, Egypt - Thousands of Egyptians who go to the streets across the country for the seventh straight day defied the curfew the government on Monday afternoon, despite a bulk deployment and proactive military scattered around the country in crisis.
Several thousand people gathered Monday to Cairo Tahrir Square, a hub in the protest. Some of them said they had spent the night and the smell of campfire smoke lingered in the air.
Alexandria, an armored vehicle fired warning shots at about 2,000 and 3,000 people gathered in apparent attempt to intimidate the protesters near the hotel.
A government imposed a curfew would begin at one o'clock Monday morning - 15 hours (08:00 EST), Nile TV reported. But these restrictions have been largely ignored by the protesters in recent days.
Helicopters hovered above the Cairo collectively held signs and chanted: ". Egyptian people that the government in autumn"
But the police had planned to start operation and resume their functions in all of Egypt on Monday, a state Nile TV reported.
Activists said the Cairo and Alexandria, organized the Million Man "march in the city on Tuesday, weeks after anti-government demonstrations began.
The proofs are inspired by the insurgency Tunisian and years of social, political and economic, complaints build the population. The lack of opportunities, corruption and poverty in a coalition effort to hunt longtime President Hosni Mubarak in power.
Although it is difficult to establish a strong balance sheet during the violence, the staff at Human Rights Watch has confirmed 80 deaths in two hospitals in Cairo, Alexandria 36 deaths and 13 killed in Suez, according Morayef Heba, a researcher for the group in Cairo.
The unrest has paralyzed daily life in Egypt, with the closure of many grocery stores and local food shipments.
Egypt's stock exchange and banks were also closed on Monday and a credit rating agency Moody's downgraded the rating because of the turmoil.
In Cairo, there were long lines outside bakeries and supermarkets, ATMs and gas stations were closed, and there was minimal police presence. In one district, health workers is garbage collection.
In Alexandria, people have been queuing for long outside bakeries and supermarkets. Nile TV set up a hotline for citizens to call and report the shortage of bread in the country. A private company has seen sanitation garbage collection there.
Shops and businesses were looted and abandoned police posts were torn from their arsenals. Men with improvised weapons patrolled the neighborhoods that create checkpoints to fill the void left when the police stopped patrolling the streets.
Cairo police arrested six journalists from Al-Jazeera news network in Arabic, and confiscated their equipment.
The unrest has forced the evacuation of foreigners. At least 219 Americans have left the two plans, said the State Department.
Suez Canal authorities have said they do not change operations and the army is under control.
Mubarak - who has ruled Egypt with an iron fist for three decades - gave no indication of abandoning its 30-year reign.
Although it was widely believed he was grooming his son Gamal to succeed him, the plans have been complicated by the demands of democracy.
Mubarak has appointed his trusted and powerful intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as his running mate on Saturday for the first time an authoritarian regime has had a message.
The President has appointed new cabinet to be formed by newly appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, to restore security in the country, as well as the Egyptians believe in their economies. Mubarak also appeared to criticize the Muslim Brotherhood, the largest country in the opposition bloc.
Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel laureate and former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is one of the politicians of the opposition of many, whose name surfaces when the protesters are talking about possible future leaders of Egypt . Among other names are Amr Moussa, Arab League chief.