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Upper peninsula, an event surrounding efforts to have a wireless network around the country. he's going to marquette, michigan. we do expect to hear what we call a press gaggle from the press secretary traveling aboard air force one. obviously it could be delayed as the white house struggles to make sense of what we're hearing coming out of cairo. obviously over the last two weeks the white house trying to stay ahead of the curve as event rapidly unfolded on the streets of cairo. when we first saw those demonstrators there in the wake of tunisia, we saw the vice president say that mubarak was ...

Central cairo at the moment. it is some 5:00 p.m. there. more than two weeks into the uprising and we're still seeing this, massive, massive amounts of people. now egypt's foreign minister saying if protesters remain there in the streets, the military will be compelled, and i'm quoting here, to defend the constitution and national security, end quote. we'll see what that means. plus demonstrators are sending out text messages to organize for even more protests tomorrow following friday prayers. of course friday has been a key day.ç whenever we see a change in what's happening in egypt. the...

Gathering, to prevent more labor strikes, an to hold this country together as the basic pillars of society appear to have been falling down over the last 24 hours. >> richard engel with the breaking news coming out of cairo at this hour. thank you so much for visiting with us and we'll visit with you throughout the next hour to understand what is going on. let's go back to our company, brendan, mark, kelly joining us right now. let me start with you, brendan. when you are hearing these pieces of information coming into us right now, 10:43 a.m. eastern time, it's in the evening there in cairo. ...

They were chanting something. what has been said on the streets? i'm not sure you can hear what they're saying. >> reporter: word of this information is just now spreading out in cairo. it is developing very quickly. we again, once again, have been told by two sources within the presidency that president mubarak will step down. the prime minister's office is telling us that president mubarak tonight will decide, but protesters are now hearing this information for the first time that president mubarak is going. today a military meeting, the highest levels of the military, we were told that pres...

Maneuvering the entire situation and haven been talking to the president and the people, keeping them apart and trying to manage the situation, effectively orchestrating a transition, as fast as possible, once it became clear with the protests 17 days, clearly something had to change here and the force are still very much print in tahrir square and they are all around and an increased number of tanks in the city as we were moving around, and, extraordinary, all of a sudden, all of this armored personnel carriers, maybe they knew some hours ago, something will be happening today and most clearl...