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Egypt. today, the scene is different. nic robertson was hit by tear gas yesterday. he joins us live from alexandria. what is the scene there today? calmer? >> reporter: there are still protests going on, but peaceful protests. about 5,000 people. again, they are asking for president mubarak to leave. when we ask people if what he said last night was enough, they said absolutely not. the chant is we are out, we are not going back. that means they are not going back until he leaves office. people are worried about the situation. president mubarak said he would change the government. that means t...

Away. egypt, one of the more stable countries in the region and important u.s. ally. lisa joins us to talk about a possible ripple effect. are we looking at others taking to the street and demanding change? >> certainly we are. if you look at what happened in tunisia, they think it's what is happening in egypt. you have seen protests in yemen, protests in jordan, and algeria. egypt is considered the heart of the arab world. if mubarak were to go and were to be overthrown, it's the bellwether of what's going to happen in the region. everyone in the region, especially the youth population, which...

Go? certainly, a lot of the people are saying the only direction this could go is mubarak has to step down. there's a man with a sign that says mubarak, good-bye. so, it's clearly what the protesters want. the other thing, if you look at the protests, the people in the protests are women, younger people, fathers with their sons, fathers with their daughters, people in suits, people who appear to be students who are all coming here. it's a call to have mubarak step down. >> frederick, great to have you there, fred and have a seasoned veteran take a look at what's happening on the streets there....

All right. so, what was life like under mubarak? for many in egypt, he is the only leader that most egyptians have known. 29 years in power. only a handful of world leaders have been in that position longer than that. >> let's bring in the director of research at the center. good to see you. glad you are with us to give us perspective. what do you make of what's happening in the streets of egypt today? is this something you had expected? >> no. no one saw this coming. i think what we learned the last couple weeks, it's difficult to make predictions. i don't think anyone expected how successful...

The streets. as you said before, the fact the internet was shut down, the anger is there. the ability to argorganize is there. it was unprecedented in the history of the internet. the four days before that, the internet was used so heavily to find ways to circumvent what the government was doing to quell the protests. they were trying to get the word out. it's a key role in getting the word out there was so much support in this region and in the country of egypt. >> thank you. this just coming into us from nile tv, the political crisis is having a dramatic