so pro-democracy lawmaker in hong kong is telling cnn that the city's chief executive is expected to announce that she is postponing the extradition bill that sparked massive protests in the city. carrie lam is set to speak to reporters any minute now. we'll bring you that live when it happens. journalist steve chow is in hong kong. he's monitoring that for us. so steve, run us through how that decision process would have happened. would that be with carrie lam's cabinet? would that be with pro-beijing lawmakers? how would that work? >> well, cyril, it's likely with a number of people on different layers. we understand from our sources that carrie lam has been meeting with her own pro-beijing lawmakers as to what to do over the last few weeks, especially as we saw those mass demonstrations where organizers say more than a million people took to the streets against this extradition bill. at the same time there is no question that carrie lam would be speaking to people in