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Been told to keep the engines running so they could have a speedy takeoff. those private jets have left the country. we do not know who was on thosents. airport personnel were not allowed to see the people as they were loaded on to the plane but its a very interesting development, dylan. >> how long is the list of people earth in the financial or government elite in cairo, in egypt that would be qualified to travel the way you just described, richard? >> reporter: not very many people at all. to...

Try to solve the problems and form the communities that we do have. i thank you guys for sharing your stories. well see you tonight at the town hall. i want to get back to cairo. richard engel, a place with far less privilege, far more oppression and some more breaking news this evening. hello, richard. >> reporter: hello. some interesting developments are going on right now at the cairo international airport. the timing, of course, very sensitive much people watching the future of this regime, ...

Well as to tap down islamic extremism. how many days before we see the president? >> they are not sure. they are watching events carefully trying to see which way this thing turns. trying to see how the egyptian government handles it going forward. trying to see if hosni mubarak will step forward and speak to the egyptian people in the future. >> mike, thanks so much. that will wrap up this hour for me. im thomas roberts. we go straight to dylan ratigan show in breckenridge, colorado. >> break...

This is an important opportunity to institute concrete and legitimate political reforms. to address the deep concerns of the egyptian people. and make some substantive progress. we thank ambassador ginsburg for his time. we let him go as well as the administration as you can see say now is the time for egypt top address the concerns ever its people, corruption, poverty. cairo has been engulfed in protests on another violent day of clashes between thousands of young people and riot police. the ...

Jazeera play to in effect draw the kinship relationship between different countries even though they speak arabic theres different cultures at work. egypt is more islamic than secular tunisia. theres millions of disenfranchised youth who saw what took place in tunisia as an opportunity to replicate the same thing in egypt, jordan and elsewhere. >> i want to go richard engle who is in cairo. richard, can you give us any insight as to the fromagility o mubarak? >> reporter: its hard to say about m...

Pennsylvania. this stimulus bill kind of support that the united states has been giving to the egyptian government. even though they said they have never backed mubarak and calling for reforms egyptians dont see it that way. >> richard thank you so much for the reporting. we look forward to not only benefiting it from but you have all of our wishes and your need and our desire for you to stay safe. please do so, richard. thank you so much. richard engle with us live in cairo. ill keep ambassador...

The midst. >> riot police. enough to the corruption. saying mubarak must go. theres nothing less than chaos in the streets of down cairo. this city has not seen anything like this in decades if ever. >> protesters emboldened by the return ever mohammed el baradei, a pro democracy advocate, before being put under house arrest mohammed el baradei called on hosni mubarak to step down. >> he has to leave. the fact that we have to have a new egypt no question. the egyptian people will be the ones who...

Years, hosni mubarak out of power. the steel on wheels tour themes of inequality, corruption and power used in a corrupt manner without question is what is playing out before our very eyes at its very worst in egypt today. well get into steel on wheels later. but first to the crisis in cairo. its just after 11:00 p.m. local time there. a curfew now in effect after another day of violent protests. the army called in after tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators poured into the street...