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New vice president and prime minister in closed-door talks. here's what the excitement in the square sounded like before word of a possible military takeover. today's fast-moving developments came as pressure mounted for president mubarak to step aside. in addition to the mass demonstrations in cairo, anti-government protests were also held in other major city as cross egypt and for the first time numerous labor group s thrw their support behind the pro-democracy demonstrations by going on strike. the obama administration, of course, is following all of these developments. the cia director leo...

Address will be live, which is unusual for president mubarak. it's been a few years since he gave a live address, the last time was 2003 he was opening parliament and he collapsed during that address, so he hasn't had such a live speech since then. now, i did speak with a senior egyptian official who said that it's early to speculate that the decision to resign is president mubarak and president mubarak's alone, and so we're hearing conflicting things, some ministers apparently saying that he will not be resigning, but all indications are that he will make a major address with potentially a de...

The hopefully orderly transition in egypt takes place. >> many of the extraordinary events have been centered on cairo's tahrir square, but they've also spread to other areas in the city as this map indicates. to the right of the square is mubarak's presidential palace, that's about six miles, ten kilometers away. another key site, the parliament building over recent days, though, protesters have spilled out out of the square, marched to these two sites voicing their demand that mubarak must go and must go now. ben wedeman is on the scene for us. he's been in the thick of things from day one o...

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