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Very quickly time to move aside and make room for a civilian government in egypt. because one of the demands of everyone in egypt who joined this pro-democracy march and revolution was to get rid of mubarak and his regem but also to make egypt a civilian state because weve been ruled by army men since 1952. i think its important to get the moral support from the outside. i want everyone in the united states and across the world to recognize what a turning point this is, how peaceful it was. thin...

>> yes. >> reporter: what is your reaction today? how are you feeling? >> i am feeling that freedom is now born. now. and all these people came here to take -- down. and come back to egypt. now egypt is being saved now. >> reporter: come back to egypt. weve been hearing that a lot. people want tourism back, they want business back. maam, what do you have to say? how are you feeling? >> i cant describe my feeling. im very happy. and i think that the victory in egypt, we have life filled with oper...

>> reporter: hes saying hes very happy that -- >> so many are eager to come to the camera live to share their joy with the world. hes saying the people are very pro proud. >> reporter: theyve been able to accomplish all of this, been able to bring down the entire government and hopefully god willing -- we are hoping that in the future the power will be able to hold the country together. long live egypt. long live egypt. >> reporter: hes congratulating the free youth of egypt.

The two countries where this happened, tunisia and egypt, are countries where there has been always a certain degree of tolerance, where the military essentially wouldnt fire on its people. unfortunately thats not true in iran, in libya, in syria, in saudi arabia. so i think we should be careful not to draw grand conclusions. in the near term, however, the most important signal is what the military does about emergency powers. if this party continues, i would expect for a couple of days, and peo...

A joke hes sharing, after victory friday in tunisia and liberation friday in egypt, kadafi has decided to abolish all fridays. now is time for a bit of chuckle after all the drama that led to this historic moment. lorne, we appreciate your take on things. >> my pleasure. >> well take a short break. well be right back. stay with us for more of our coverage of this historic day in egypt and around the arab world.

Gone. mona, hes gone. im going to start crying now remembering it and went back on the radio show and bawling my eyes out telling them i cannot express how ecstatic we are. there is a long road ahead no doubt but the happiest day of my life and stop and celebrate and salute the courageous egyptians who in 18 days in a beautiful and peaceful way brought down a dictator of 30 years, its a wonderful moment. i cannot be hannier. so proud to be egyptian. >> and so what do you say about president -- n...

Lets go to arwa damon, on the streets of cairo, where the partying, celebration continues. >> reporter: hi, wolf. the celebrations here most certainly do continue. as im speaking to you, there are fireworks erupting on top of tahrir square, the people here forgetting about the fact that theyve been keeping this up for more than two weeks. now just relishing in the fact that truly they are making history not just in egypt but around the entire region. this is dina joining me right now. dina, what...

It that made mubarak finally and vice president suleiman finally face reality? was it the military coming to them? was it some sort of new assessment of what was happening on the ground? again, at this point we dont know. we have just gotten a report that a swiss shorts -- this has just crossed the wires, the swiss government has asked banks in that country to freeze any assets that might belong to egypts president hosni mubarak or his family. this according to a spokesman for the swiss embassy ...

I can see and probably for the better part of tomorrow, as well, of course, some work here so certainly a day families will go out anywhere. as far as the square is concerned, i believe the things in the square will go on for a couple of days to come simply because the square itself has become so much more, you know, sophisticated. the whole infrastructure there, people were building houses, people were building toilets and wash areas for the people so i think that will go on for a little bit th...

They know -- you look at the past two weeks, the idea that the military is with the people, that were here to protect the people is kind of the dominant theme. but again you also have to remember they moved in quickly to establish control even though parliament will be suspended, the last time military took over in egypt, you had sadat and then mubarak. sot military move toward democracy has not exactly been very good for us. but everyone -- maybe tonight everyone is just a little too optimistic...