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Suleiman, the vice president that was only recently named to that spot will take over as president. this as it is getting close to 6:00 p.m. local time. you can see the tents, you can see the people there in liberty square, tahrir square, as they are just getting the news as well. we got it here about 30 minutes ago. they are also hearing the news as we were speaking with a former parliamentary member there with the demonstrators saying they could not believe it. they cannot believe that preside...

This movement. that has been their request. one would assume if he does in fact step down, and we are waiting for some sort of official announcement for that, it would be -- well, it probably would be enough to stop this movement or at least change it significantly. a protest movement could very, very soon become a victory cry all across cairo. >> richard, please stand by. i know youre watching the situation there. we want to go live to a member of parliament, the vice president of one of the op...

As well as of late the entire cabinet to step down, the entire leading group of that country to step down because president mubarak not being sufficient enough at this time. originally at the start of these protests that weve been watching live coming out of cairo, the request from the opposition, which has been numerous, although you have heard of the muslim brotherhood as well as god and waft, all of those comprising groups that have come together saying they do not want president mubarak to b...

More breaking news this hour. we are hearing at the moment that senator jon kyl will announce his plans to retire at a press conference in arizona at 10:00 a.m. local time. that is about 12:00 p.m. local time here on the east coast. thats about an hour and 10 minutes. again, senator jon kyl, the republican from arizona, saying that he will step down as he is serving his third term in the united states. of course the battle there in the senate is for the balance of power. this as just three or fo...

Then last friday at a joint press conference with the canadian prime minister, the president again leaving little doubt, although not publicly calling for mubarak to go, said that it was time for mubarak to do the patriotic thing and move his country in the right direction. and then over the course of the last several days after that, some thought that perhaps the white house was back sliding a bit, that they were buying into the argument that the more he was going to dig in and the less likely ...

Rights watch in a report it issued yesterday. he said when they first came out on the streets on january 25th here in cairo behind me, they were going to try to negotiate with the police. then he said that the egyptian government responded that night with rubber bullets, with tear gas and with truncheons. at that point, he said the time for negotiation was over. there is too much blood, he said, on the hands of the egyptian government right now, and now that this movement has spread, has grown a...

Protests that continue to go on in the square over my shoulder day after day after day. suzanne? >> i understand we actually are getting that sound in now. lets go ahead and play that for our viewers. i understand were going to have it in a little bit, but let me ask you this. this is an exclusive, right? this is an exclusive. tell us, give us a sense of what he was like. >> reporter: well, this was a very intense young man. hes 30 years old, born and raised in cairo, went to university here. he...

He is the baseball player who received that kidney from his coach, coach walter. both of them will be guests in the cnn newsroom at 2:30 eastern today. well, you voted for it, now were going to air it. choose the news winner, this is egypts famous pyramids fenced off now and deserted. we report on the toll it has taken on tourism after the deadly protests in cairo. >> reporter: moses the camel has no trouble lifting me up. hes well rested. im one of the first foreigners on his back since egypt...

From cairo is in. and talks between the two koreas will collapse today. the meeting in the demilitarized zone was the first between the two countries since the north shelled a south korean island in november. now, the talks were designed to lead to high-level discussions between the two militariemilita. critics are questioning the governments report on runaway toyotas. engineers found no evidence in a glitch that caused toyotas to speed out of control. rather, misplaced floormats or driving ...

Well, this is the scene outside egypts parliament in cairo today. they have opened a second front in their campaign to bring down the government. the square is packed today even though organizers did not call for a formal demonstration. angry protestors say they are not going home until mubarak goes away. >> its over! there is no america, there is no hezbollah, its his fault! its not good for the americans, its not good more hezbollah, its good for him! >> also from cairo, this cnn exclusive cor...