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And that hosni mubarak has given most of his powers, but not all of them, to the vice president. one power, which is to dissolve the parliament has been given to no one as the egyptian ambassador put it. the de facto president is now the president's security chief omar suleiman. the ambassador to the united states says he is de facto and that even though hosni mubarak continues to hold the title of president, head of state from a legal perspective, he, quote, has no effective authority. again, that's from egypt's top diplomat in the united states. that ambassador joins us live on the phone now...

Sleepless demonstrators of the past 18 days even an individual thought 18 days ago that a scene like this was possible, ever, in egypt, much less today? >>reporter: this is more like a dream come true. and i think people never thought a month ago before this happened in tunisia, and even three weeks ago they never thought this could happen today. they probably knew this was going to happen at some point but for it to happen this fast, this is the part that is unbelievable and this is, really, what the youth, the part the youth played in it, the social media, this is incredible >>shepard: the r...

Mahmoud ahmadinejad celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the islamic revolution there saying these protests below me here and throughout the rest of the country could result in the end of what he calls u.s. and israel's interference in the region. a big question now what happens in countries like jordan. several hundred people demonstrating in jordan, two counts, one on one side of the egyptian protesters, the muslim brotherhood, they said the arab world is on fire and on the other side of those protests, a rival group calling for the ouster of the recently appointment of the jordanian prime mi...

For the people in that square, the demonstrators throughout egypt to force the resignation of what people thought was one of the most stable autocracies in the middle east. 18 days. 19 days ago it was almost impossible to imagine this scenario. but today we're seeing the people of egypt celebrating. many when we asked them what comes next sort of wanting to bask kind of in the joy of the moment and think more about the detail tomorrow, but there are challenges ahead. frederik pleitgen joins us now live. what's your vantage point there, frederik? what have people been telling you about what com...

What's our future? who will be in charge? what are we looking for, working toward? these are all questions that will have to be worked on and really flushed out because it's kind of like you're starting from scratch, which is a really great opportunity. we just have to make sure that we don't mess it up or that we don't ds-- you know, you have t revolution, a lot of promises are made. then things went back and you had people imprisoned and things happened. we have to make sure things move forward and this is a step forward to our people. this is also the anniversary of the iranian revolution. ...