DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: I want to get back to our developing story out of Gaza. Ben Wedeman's there outside the home of Mahmoud Abbas and a very tense situation -- Ben.</s>BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thanks, Daryn. Well, it appears that with the arrival of Mohammed Dalan (ph), the senior Palestinian Authority official, the situation has calmed down significantly. The crowd -- although you can hear they're still shooting, some of them -- seems to be heading back to the legislative council. I think they've been told to calm down their protests and take it elsewhere. That looked like it is happening right now. But they are still noisy.</s>KAGAN: Ben, are they just expressing themselves? Are they trying to get the president come out? What exactly do they want to happen by showing up there at the president's house?</s>WEDEMAN: Hold on, Daryn, I couldn't hear a word you said. Go ahead again, please.</s>KAGAN: I'll try one more time. The demonstrators -- are they trying to get the president come out? Or are they just expressing themselves?</s>WEDEMAN: No, our understanding the president isn't even in Gaza City; he's in Ramallah, on the West Bank, where he was overseeing the election process. So really more than anything it was a symbolic demonstration outside his house, but nonetheless, Palestinians security went into fast high alert, deploying around the house itself. Now the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is expected to come to Gaza, or was, at least, either today -- or rather tomorrow or the next day. But it may be given the emotions that are very apparent on the street here, he might not feel now is the best time to come.</s>KAGAN: Especially if he's watching these pictures, live on CNN. Ben Wedeman, on the phone from Gaza, thank you. And we'll have a chance to talk with leading Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss live from Davos Switzerland in just a moment. We're back after this.
Tense Demonstration in Gaza City