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People of egypt, reaffirming what we had been told was happening, that the egyptian military specifically, the higher council of the egyptian military would now run the affairs of the nation. obviously this is a new development for the egyptian military, something they're not necessarily used to. they're going to have some serious meetings now on what that means, i was intrigued and, hala and anderson, if you want to weigh in on this on the appreciation that officer expressed to president hosni mubarak now former president hosni mubarak who made all these sacrifices, he said, for the egyptian ...

On the side of democratic change and using whatever authority we have or persuasion or suggestions we have to keep down that path towards this ultimate goal of free and fair elections. we shouldn't expect it to happen quickly. and we should signal to the egyptian military perhaps more privately than publicly that we are going to be watching that carefully and hoping and expecting -- i think the key word is "expect" here -- them to do what's necessary to allow a broad dialogue, to allow a discussion of all the relevant constituencies so that when and if this election happens that it was free an...

The white house. he'll speak out on his reaction to the historic moment in egypt right now, the revolution, which has succeeded. at 3:30 p.m. eastern, a half hour later there will be a briefing at the white house, as well. we'll, of course, have coverage here on cnn, anderson, all of this unfolding very, very rapidly. >> very rapidly and a lot of unanswered questions and, again, i mean the story obviously of today and tonight is this extraordinary celebration and the pictures tell that story, extraordinarily well, years of pent-up fear and anger and degradation exploding in just hours of joy, ...

Of people absolutely excited. one of the questions many people ask, when these democratic elections are going to be taking place, obviously a lot of people that i've been speaking to, hala, say that they're quite happy with the military taking over control of this country, at least for an interim period and then they want to see democratic elections. one of the things that i find the people who were down in tahrir square all this time had very little thought about was who their future president is going to be. every time you ask people who they think should rule this country after hosni mubara...

Thank you. >> reporter: and what is your emotion right now on this night and what are your worries for the future? what direction does the country need to go in? >> i think it will be a very good future and the country will be a developed country and there will be good education and good health and everything in egypt will be very, very good. old people also and -- and i can't describe. i very happy. i'm very happy. i can't tell you about my feeling. i'm very happy. thank you. >> reporter: thank you very much.