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Main protest points. on the map, if you've been to the area, a lot of american tourists have throughout the years, here's your ramses hilton, members from all over the world make up -- make that the point of staying in cairo. here's one of the main bridges over the nile river, we talked about the traffic that is enclosing -- that has clogged roads throughout cairo, here's another bridges that crosses the nile river here. up in this area, it was a week ago today, where you saw the greatest clashes between the promubarek supporters and those who want mubarek out. the antigovernment protestors. t...

How you determine and define "shortly" is anybody's guess it was about two weeks ago where the world waited for hours literally on a friday afternoon before mubarek made a statement, well after midnight local time in cairo, his first statement since the uprising began and then yesterday in the afternoon we were told tile and again that a statement was coming and a statement was coming and we waited for hours, until we finally hit the air waves at 4:00 eastern time, that's 11:00 in cairo. so an important statement coming soon, that's what television says from hosni mubarek, and we believe again...

Also getting supplies throughout the day. it's a 24-hour operation to make sure they can stay there and be comfortable. we talk about the importance of egypt in the arab world, its headquarters, by the way, for the arab league is this building along the nile river, just to give you a view of what we're seeing in cairo now. twenty-five past. back to that now. martha. martha: all right. the family of a pair of missing six-year-old twins from switzerland says that their hopes of finding them alive are starting to fade. look at these two beautiful little girls. the mother of these girls who are na...

Based party. will they be allowed or will only secular parties be allowed in egypt? and so what i would expect now is it won't be long before you see, for example, an american envoy, perhaps european envoys flying to cairo. it won't be long before u.s. officials are phoning their military or defense counterparts to try to start getting answers to these questions and exerting some pressure. remember the head of the egyptian military was actually in washington at the pentagon when all this broke out. so the confidence i think that we can have is that this is an institution that we know well, tha...

The fact that this country, this administration embraced hosni mubarak until a few weeks ago? >> yeah. i think that is also critically important point. you know, the united states for 30 years backed the mubarak regem. i think that for at least 15 of them it was very clear that egyptian people were desperately unhappy with their lives under hosni mubarak. yet this is a wakeup call that the united states has gotten time and again whether it's marcos or pinochet or the shah of iran. when we back dictators and allow them to oppress their people, it explodes in our faces. the obama administration ...