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>> reporter: what does this mean for you, for egypt? what sort of changes will you see to your day-to-day life. >> end of corruption, freedom where potentially everything could happen. weve had our chains broken. its very hard to understand what freedom means until you lose it and you try to find it. >> reporter: and youre a businessman with a number of closing shops around this very square so youve obviously taken a very severe economic blow. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: how are you going to begin...

Years of a dictatorship. the revolution culminated three hours ago with a single sentence from egypts vice president on state tv. >> translator: i, president mohammed hosni mubarak, has decided to step down as president of egypt and has assigned the higher council of the armed forces to run the affairs of the country. >> and with that three decades of fear and anger and discontent exploded in joy and relief, which has not abated to this moment. lets listen. . >> well, from all indications, presi...

Relationship with the egyptian military, which at least during this transition to elections is going to be in charge. isnt that right? >> reporter: well, indeed they do and thats why the head of shin bat said omar suleiman once he gave his word he stuck by his word and a man that essentially israel could work with but everybody is really excited here as you can imagine but the dust has to settle and when it settles, eventually there will be questions back as to how the country is going to be run...

Demonstration. he was saying that they can finally be positive that mubaraks regime had nothing but create negativity in the society. what theyre finding that they felt they can be positive. with me right now, someone that wants to speak. i assume youve probably seen the worst of ha happened with the violence, had to treat many patients. what are your feelings right now? >> we have to be happy by the victory of our people. congratulations to all egyptians but also egyptians, we are -- our egypt,...

Very positive atmosphere, very chaotic one, but a very positive one. this is definitely something that compares and the time frame is almost the same. i mean the berlin wall was up for 28 years. hosni mubarak was in power for 30 years so i can certainly relate to what the people down there are feeling at this point in time and just the sense of relief they have, the sense of exploring something new, exploring, as i said, these new freedoms, freedom of expression, being able to say whatever you w...

Just using your force to hold them down, but rather responding to it in a very professional way. >> youre encouraged that the military over this transition period towards elections and democracy is in charge. >> im very confident on a temporary basis, well see as enevolutionary process whereby the egyptian people will expect this military to maintain control and stabilize situations until such time as the building blocks for a true democracy can be established. theyre very confident with that mi...

Will, to use an arabic metaphor, in our hands as we watched these people stand up to the state that had terrified them, bullied them, exploited them, scared them, took away from them their sense of respect and then they regained their self-respect and spirit and were reminded of the love of egypt, that this is their country and if they have to rescue it, they have to go out and do it on their own. they couldnt wait for anyone. no one was coming to the rescue of the egyptians. no one was coming t...

Police torture, and that kind of thing, especially in egypt. really, taking huge personal risks in doing so. and i found it interesting that we should all look to social media to see where the next revolution will take place. what did you make of what wael ghonim said? >> well, i think hes absolutely right. i think social media is a critical tool, organizing tool, for the activists. but we also have to remember a place like egypt only has about 20% internet penetration so this is an important to...

That chant, if you can hear me, means keep your head held high, you are egyptian. >> egypt, egypt, egypt! >> reporter: hold your head up high. thats the chanting all around. >> egypt, egypt. >> hala, if you can hear me, its wolf. hala, you can speak to some of these people in arabic, if they dont speak english, speak to them in arabic and translate for our viewers. thats fine, too. [ speaking in arabic ]

Intelligent to know that this is not a revolution of the military. its a revolution of the people. so i dont think theyll stay for a long time in the regime. >> reporter: did you ever imagine this would be happening in egypt? >> one month ago i would never imagine. for me, im a young man and i always believed my generation will never make history for egypt. >> reporter: thank you very much. there you have it. you can see the crowds here still very, very active, very much out there relishing this...