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>> reporter: what does this mean for you, for egypt? what sort of changes will you see to your day-to-day life. >> end of corruption, freedom where potentially everything could happen. we've had our chains broken. it's very hard to understand what freedom means until you lose it and you try to find it. >> reporter: and you're a businessman with a number of closing shops around this very square so you've obviously taken a very severe economic blow. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: how are you going to begin recovering from that? what's the next step for people like you? >> i don't care how much i lost...

Years of a dictatorship. the revolution culminated three hours ago with a single sentence from egypt's vice president on state tv. >> translator: i, president mohammed hosni mubarak, has decided to step down as president of egypt and has assigned the higher council of the armed forces to run the affairs of the country. >> and with that three decades of fear and anger and discontent exploded in joy and relief, which has not abated to this moment. let's listen. . >> well, from all indications, president hosni mubarak had left the presidential palace in cairo some time before that announcement wa...

Relationship with the egyptian military, which at least during this transition to elections is going to be in charge. isn't that right? >> reporter: well, indeed they do and that's why the head of shin bat said omar suleiman once he gave his word he stuck by his word and a man that essentially israel could work with but everybody is really excited here as you can imagine but the dust has to settle and when it settles, eventually there will be questions back as to how the country is going to be run. will the state of emergency be lifted? will political prisoner, some ten thousand of them be rel...

Demonstration. he was saying that they can finally be positive that mubarak's regime had nothing but create negativity in the society. what they're finding that they felt they can be positive. with me right now, someone that wants to speak. i assume you've probably seen the worst of ha happened with the violence, had to treat many patients. what are your feelings right now? >> we have to be happy by the victory of our people. congratulations to all egyptians but also egyptians, we are -- our egypt, our country, love, love freedom. do things to our country, we hope that the region will be

Very positive atmosphere, very chaotic one, but a very positive one. this is definitely something that compares and the time frame is almost the same. i mean the berlin wall was up for 28 years. hosni mubarak was in power for 30 years so i can certainly relate to what the people down there are feeling at this point in time and just the sense of relief they have, the sense of exploring something new, exploring, as i said, these new freedoms, freedom of expression, being able to say whatever you want. being able to talk to our cameras. you witnessed it, as well, when you were in tahrir square, h...