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Main protest points. on the map, if youve been to the area, a lot of american tourists have throughout the years, heres your ramses hilton, members from all over the world make up -- make that the point of staying in cairo. heres one of the main bridges over the nile river, we talked about the traffic that is enclosing -- that has clogged roads throughout cairo, heres another bridges that crosses the nile river here. up in this area, it was a week ago today, where you saw the greatest clashes be...

How you determine and define "shortly" is anybodys guess it was about two weeks ago where the world waited for hours literally on a friday afternoon before mubarek made a statement, well after midnight local time in cairo, his first statement since the uprising began and then yesterday in the afternoon we were told tile and again that a statement was coming and a statement was coming and we waited for hours, until we finally hit the air waves at 4:00 eastern time, thats 11:00 in cairo. so an imp...

Also getting supplies throughout the day. its a 24-hour operation to make sure they can stay there and be comfortable. we talk about the importance of egypt in the arab world, its headquarters, by the way, for the arab league is this building along the nile river, just to give you a view of what were seeing in cairo now. twenty-five past. back to that now. martha. martha: all right. the family of a pair of missing six-year-old twins from switzerland says that their hopes of finding them alive ar...

Based party. will they be allowed or will only secular parties be allowed in egypt? and so what i would expect now is it wont be long before you see, for example, an american envoy, perhaps european envoys flying to cairo. it wont be long before u.s. officials are phoning their military or defense counterparts to try to start getting answers to these questions and exerting some pressure. remember the head of the egyptian military was actually in washington at the pentagon when all this broke out...

The fact that this country, this administration embraced hosni mubarak until a few weeks ago? >> yeah. i think that is also critically important point. you know, the united states for 30 years backed the mubarak regem. i think that for at least 15 of them it was very clear that egyptian people were desperately unhappy with their lives under hosni mubarak. yet this is a wakeup call that the united states has gotten time and again whether its marcos or pinochet or the shah of iran. when we back di...

Came, it was erupting, everyone singing, chanting, waving flags. pure happiness. >> has there been any sign of the pro mubarak forces who were so menacing in staging the attacks last week? have they simply melted into the wood work? >> they really organized themselves. its a volunteer force to stop people that they dont deem peaceful to enter this square. it is an egyptian party celebrating democracy in the square tonight. >> chapman bell reporting from central cairo, thank you. we have a former...

The -- after the soviet empire fell. its a very mixed picture. today is a great day of jubilation. and now the hard work begins after the hard work of the revolution. it can go in any kind of direction. what does this mean for the united states in terms of how the rest of the arab world is going to react? the rest of the arab street is going to react to these events. is it going to keep focus on democratization or is it going to become obsessed again with israel and zionism and the devilish unit...

Are doing. nor do i assume that that military supreme council has thought through what are they going to do next. this is a pretty staggering problem. 80 million people impoverished, 350,000-person secret police and police force that is despised. what do you do next? >> and, you know, at the beginning of this a lot of us were saying how important the militarys role would be in all of this. have they really kept a lid on? >> well, i mean so far. to be honest, it is astonishing to me. i repeat, 18...

Bill: hes one of more than 30 officers sleeping on a house cot. the watchdog group wants the government to crack down on them, claiming theyre violating the rules and possibly violating federal law. give me break. martha: i dont think thats what they intended, right? for the guys to sleep there? i dont know. we just saw him, hes a big budget cutter. i think hes making a statement on that as well, right? well, thousands of protestors gathering in cairo there. there is a the current live shot ou...

Resigned. nbcs chuck todd is watching events at the white house where we expect to hear from the president. chuck, has this become the orderly transition the white house was looking for or is this something much different? >> reporter: theyre hoping it is. it was interesting this morning, lester, when word came out that hosni mubarak left cairo, a senior official made it known publicly that the white house believed this was a great first step, almost getting ahead of the eventual event that, of ...