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Been told to keep the engines running so they could have a speedy takeoff. those private jets have left the country. we do not know who was on thosents. airport personnel were not allowed to see the people as they were loaded on to the plane but it's a very interesting development, dylan. >> how long is the list of people earth in the financial or government elite in cairo, in egypt that would be qualified to travel the way you just described, richard? >> reporter: not very many people at all. to have this kind of heavy escort, to have a convoy of luxury sedan, to have three private jets wait ...

Try to solve the problems and form the communities that we do have. i thank you guys for sharing your stories. we'll see you tonight at the town hall. i want to get back to cairo. richard engel, a place with far less privilege, far more oppression and some more breaking news this evening. hello, richard. >> reporter: hello. some interesting developments are going on right now at the cairo international airport. the timing, of course, very sensitive much people watching the future of this regime, the future of president mubarak him several. what we know at this time from sources at the airport ...

Well as to tap down islamic extremism. how many days before we see the president? >> they are not sure. they are watching events carefully trying to see which way this thing turns. trying to see how the egyptian government handles it going forward. trying to see if hosni mubarak will step forward and speak to the egyptian people in the future. >> mike, thanks so much. that will wrap up this hour for me. i'm thomas roberts. we go straight to dylan ratigan show in breckenridge, colorado. >> breaking news as you surely know by now half a world away, egypt the heart of the arab world on the brea...

This is an important opportunity to institute concrete and legitimate political reforms. to address the deep concerns of the egyptian people. and make some substantive progress. we thank ambassador ginsburg for his time. we let him go as well as the administration as you can see say now is the time for egypt top address the concerns ever its people, corruption, poverty. cairo has been engulfed in protests on another violent day of clashes between thousands of young people and riot police. the mass demonstrations, the result of outrage over years of high unemployment, poverty and corruption. ...

Jazeera play to in effect draw the kinship relationship between different countries even though they speak arabic there's different cultures at work. egypt is more islamic than secular tunisia. there's millions of disenfranchised youth who saw what took place in tunisia as an opportunity to replicate the same thing in egypt, jordan and elsewhere. >> i want to go richard engle who is in cairo. richard, can you give us any insight as to the fromagility o mubarak? >> reporter: it's hard to say about mubarak himself. we don't know where he is at the moment. he hasn't made any public statements. no...