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People talking to relatives. but in total, the internet has been working fine as has mobile phone and sms. that was not the case a couple weeks ago when everything was cut off as the regime attempted to cut down these communications thinking that it might stop people from coming here but of course, it never had, wolf. >> halah gorani, you were just there in egypt. they have a very sophisticated mobile phone network in egypt, dont they? all right. well, i continue to watch these pictures. just a ...

People very, very angry. >> i think what weve seen in the last two weeks or so in the statements from mubarak and his vice president, this is a regime which believes they are egypt. mubarak it seems ahas come to believe he is egypt. what the protesters are saying is you are not egypt. you are part of egypt, yes, you are part of -- you are the person that ruled us but this is the real egypt. this is what egypt can be. the government has fought back by saying, rhetorically saying that no, these pr...

That the curfew is now two hours and 45 minutes old. people are still coming to that rear square from across the bridge and other parts of cairo. according to jazeera, there are 3 million down there in the square. that may be a slight overstatement, but it certainly is packed down there? >> so of course, this is a difficult question to answer, but with so much expectation coming from demonstrators that hosni mubarak will step down, if he doesnt, if he simply transfers some of his powers to the v...

Two options, under the circumstances mubarak or chaos. he continually in this speech tonight said the change we have started will not be retracted. we cannot do anything to damage our economy. he continually talked about getting out of the crisis and restoring the economy, have safety for people so they can get on with their lives. what has damaged the economy is the mubarak regimes attempt to isolate and kill these protesters. its the mubarak regime who shut down the internet, shut down the ban...

Is there -- is there a tv monitor theyve put up to watch mubaraks speech or listening on cell phones or how are they going to hear it? >> well, a lot of people are listening to it on cell phones. the scene here, anderson, is a little bit different than when you left a couple days ago. the place here has become more sophisticat sophisticated. i havent seen the big screen that was here before. theres one screen that sort of -- >> clearly having problems with freds connection. him saying obviously ...

Anderson, with ben, with ivan the real possibility that president hosni mubarak might say well, i am handing over some of my powers to the vice president to the head of the military but not all of my powers. i will remain the emblematic figure head of this regime. this reem led by president mubarak and his close associates for 30 years. an interesting point there about about the opposition, about the muslim brotherhood, about the youth movement also in the square. what will they do in how will t...

If theyre going to try to push through barricades. >> ivan, how many people are we talking about? this is five or six miles away from tahrir square, as opposed to the parliament, which is much closer. how many people dyspeel off from the main crowd? . >> reporter: they seemed to be funneling out past the egyptian museum right now. it is not, by far -- there does seem to be another column of people pushing through as well. the only way to keep an eye on this, probably, is to step out of the squar...

Over the world will be in an important way. >> there you have it, wolf. as you can see people, i would say its getting a little more edgy as this drags on. people were expecting hosni mubarak to speak about 40 minutes ago. it hasnt happened yet. it is getting more edgy. however, as you can see, they are still very, very confident. one of the other things thats worth mentioning is that i have the impression, im sure ivan that the square is getting a lot fuller by the minute, wolf. >> im sure it i...

Foreigners trying to influence events on the ground in egypt. none of that obviously is the case, but he is clearly trying to appeal to many of the egyptians whose voices who have not yet joined these protesters when people are concerned about stability. well call on you to think about the future. there is a deep strange in europe that yearns for stability, and mubarak has provided that for years. hes touching those buttons of national 3r50id, of the desire for stability, and he keeps calling th...

If he does not do that, this will grow. we cant say whether or not violence will immediately break out. but certainly, the momentum will only build more people, entirely now given all these signals that he is going to step down, peoples expectations have been raised. theyre tasting in that square, wolf, i know, maybe the pictures after awhile start to look the same to everybody watching around the world, but every day is different in that square. it really is this extraordinary place where peopl...