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This. doug, thank you very much. doug mckelway reporting from the state department. bill. bill: watching this region for the past three weeks, it's been a tinder box, every country you see inrd has seen street protests. it started in tunisia, we know that, about a month ago, the eyes of the world have been an egypt for the past 18-plus days, and in all likelihood it will stay that way until we get something resolved. in yemen, we've talked about that before. there are big concerns for the country of jordan, located right here, just east of the country of israel, and also, in syria, we've talke...

Everything. all i can tell you right now on the ground is the crowds are continuing to grow, and the anger is continuing to grow, and we come up about 5:00 in egypt on friday night, it could certainly be another very long night. martha: lilland, quick question for you: we have heard reports of people going toward the presidential pal kwrarbgs at least in alexandra, we know according to reports that mubarek and left and went to sharm el-sheikh. what is the reaction is the fact that he apparently has left the presidential palace ? >> well, there's a lot of presidential palaces, one in alexandra,...

Call for the army to intervene during the so-called transfer of power. the chief fox report correspondent jonathan hunt is with us. the military must have signed off to this decision. that's how this works, isn't it. >> shep, it's absolutely inconceivable that president mubarak would have made that speech tonight, would have refused to step down until september unless he knew that the military was backing him. it's likely that the generals discussed their position as the meeting of the military council in cairo today and decided that the best way to transfer power was very slowly. and, accordi...

Injust, incompetent repressive regime? how do you get rid of them and put them in their place? tough work. the generals don't yet know how to do it, for sure. >> general barry mccaffrey. we appreciate your insight. we want to go back to richard engel who moved back above the crowd to our work location. now that you've had a moment, hopefully to catch your wrbreat richd ar, this is a part of the world you know so well. you lived in cairo. you covered this from the beginning. give me your thoughts of what you witnessed the last couple hours. >> reporter: it has been nothing less than breath taki...

Going to leave until the elections in september. he said he had transferred power to his vice president. again, we don't know exactly what those powers are. let's take a listen to what we're, again, what you're seeing. [ crowd noise ] [ praying ] >> they are defiant and they will say they will not go until mr. mubarak himself goes. now egypt's revolution began 18 days ago, not long after that, protests in tunisia forced that country's president to flee. demonstrators in cairo's tahrir square flew flags, boldly marking a day that seems likely