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Thousands and thousands of people out of streets, to get them to stop demonstrating there in cairo? >> reporter: for the president to stand down. and that is it, sure and simple. it seems as if people have reached a breaking point with the regime of hosni mubarak. they are not going to settle for anything less than his removal from office and also for the removal of anyone associated with him from any position in government. these demonstrators today are looking for concrete ranchange. they say that change is only going to come about by putting new people into power, people into power they say...

Atmosphere. i don't know if you can hear the cheering starting right now. >> i can. i can. and it's amazing looking at pictures of children. i mean, clearly these demonstrators, young, old, as you said, intellectuals, secular. again, live pictures there of cairo. i imagine arwa is somewhere in the thick of that. arwa damon, i'm going to let you go for now. of course we'll check back in with you as you are in the midst of these crowds in tahrir square. arwa, thanks. >> we're going to take a short break now. we're keeping an eye on egyptian television to see when that statement from hosni mubara...

Continuing to watch cairo, egypt, which is pretty much the center of all breaking news at the moment, waiting to see when the egyptian president hosni mubarak will speak on state television. we're expecting that to happen -- well, we've expected it to happen for the last 90 minutes or so. the television station itself actually put up a font on the bottom of the screen a short time ago that said "important announcement from the president soon." we're still waiting and you'll see it when we do. in the meantime, it may be worth going back and have a look at who hosni mubarak is and how he got to ...

As, as well as not-so-friendly countries like syria or libya for that matter or maybe even iran. does this spark the protesters on the street elsewhere in the region as well, so this whole middle east region is really going through a thunderous change right now, one that few of us could have predicted only a few weeks ago. that's how quickly this has spread. it really is amazing. >> and here we go eight days later. it is amazing. wolf blitzer, we'll see new one hour's time hosting "the situation room" from washington. thank you, sir. >> and indeed, that's right. there have been momentous chang...

Listening for is the transitional government. it's still eight months until september, and it sounded to me, michael holmes, that he plans to oversee that trance sdpligs that's it. that's what we've been predicting was going to happen based on what we knew, and that is something that is not going to be acceptable to a lot of people. this is a pivotal moment, obviously. a happy people in tahrir square. people in this uprising and, indeed, as you said, in modern political egyptian history, if you like. one crucial thing that i thought came out of that was he said i was not intent on standing for...