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It's called the group of ten and it includes mohamed elbaradei's national association for change. it is calling for president mubarak's immediate resignation and legalizing peaceful demonstrations. and thousands gathered in cairo's main square for a 12th day of protests. opposition demonstrations formed a human chain to prevent egyptian army tanks from crossing barricades into tahrir square. a witness says scuffles broke out there. now to cairo, egypt. arwa damon is on the phone with us. give us an idea of how significant the changes are, the resignations in this democratic party. >> repor...

>> internally we have a saying we're a service company that just happens to sell shoes. >> reporter: you realize nobody in america who sees this is going to want to go to work tomorrow. so they can laugh at comments like that because everyone here seems eager to come to work every day. building up this runaway success. tom foreman, cnn, henderson, nevada. we're going to shift our attention overseas again along with everybody else around the world. there's a lot of young americans who have been watching the event unfold in egypt. what do you suppose they have to say about all this? ♪

Recapping the latest developments in the crisis in egypt. first, on a political front, top leaders of the ruling national democratic party have resigned. among them hosni mubarak's son, gamal mubarak. today's announcement means the younger mubarak is no longer eligible to take over from his father. a coalition of opposition forces have been formed and it's called the group of ten and it includes mohamed elbaradei's national association for change. it is calling for president mubarak's immediate resignation and legalizing peaceful demonstrations. and thousands of protesters gathered in cairo'...

All of whom have turned this street outside the egyptian parliament into a stage for protest. these workers have been keeping it up around the clock for more than two weeks. their agriculture machinery factory was privatized and sold to foreign investors, production was hapted, and it's been months since anyone have been paid. empty promises are all we've gotten, he says. this man used to work for another privatized factory. the workers haven't been paid in four months, and the owners won't budge, he says. this is the spring of egypt's discontent fueled by political stagnation, rampant corrupt...

Democracy in that region or in that country, what? >> they have been. and, you know, it's gratifying to us to see how closely they're paying attention to what's going on in egypt, particularly with president hosni mubarak. many students we have spoken to feel it is time for him to go. however, they're split, as you're going to see in the comments we have for you today, about qul he should go immediately or if the egyptian people should wait. this came from jessica again at our face booik site saying egyptians need to stop the protests for the country's good. the president said he's not going t...