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President's office telling us here at nbc news that tonight is the decisive night and that mubarak will step down. now, omar suleiman, the vice president, will take over as then the leader of the country, although within recent days, within recent, i should say hours, within the last 24 hours, there have been calls from those within the country that even omar suleiman, who is the vice president, and according to what we're hearing at this moment, if he were to become president, that the opposition still would want him down. again, watching those live pictures coming out of cairo. let's go to j...

Take the scary out of life with travelers. call or click now for an agent or quote. now coming out of egypt. as you know, it's been a powder keg there in cairo and other parts of that country. live pictures here coming from al jazeera. it's 5:25 p.m. local time. as you can see, protesters still in the streets. what we are hearing at this moment, according to the associated press, is that the head of egypt's ruling party saying that he expects president mubarak to respond to protester demands. these protests that now have been going on for weeks. the question is what might that response be comi...

Is in cairo, do we know if he will make a statement live? >> reporter: the egyptian state television is saying that it will carry it live. now that done mean -- it's unclear if they will be playing it live so it will be coming out of their offices for the first time. we really doesn't flow about that. they describe it as live. but when they say that, it could mean that it is just, you know, direct and uninterrupted. how the actual speech will be begin is unclear, but generally they give the speeches in a -- generally they're prerecorded. >> is there a dueling banjos going on over there the off...

Ron allen reporting live there in cairo, egypt, noting that the crowd, not all of the crowd has been able to hear the news of this potential stepping down of president mubarak. richard engel has been watching this story as well out of cairo, egypt, as we have our coverage there. richard, one of the questions that's been out there is if this is not enough, what will be enough? >> reporter: well, we're not even sure what this is yet. what we have been told, just to be very clear, by two sources is that president mubarak will step down and will step down tonight. we have also seen recently a brie...

Millions of people around the world so watch what could be his most humiliating moment. >> it seems like he's setting up midnight in times square moment. getting near midnight in cairo. do you think he's holding off for midnight? why this late in the evening if he's made up his sninds. >> reporter: i'm not sure if he has made up his mind. if you sit down, writing the speech, we speech we are told legalistic, discussions of changing certain articles in the constitution, most likely, though we haven't confirmed that handing power over to omar suleiman for transition. we've seen the military hear...