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Basic. preferred. at meineke i have options on oil changes. and now i get free roadside assistance with preferred or supreme. my money. my choice. my meineke. this story keeps developing. egypt, the protests and the possible announcement by hosni mubarak that he will not stand again for president. we've got the story covered from all over. joining us now, longtime cairo bureau chief ben wedeman, also hala gorani. anderson cooper is on the line also. ben, i've got to start with you, my friend. your take on this, and will the presidential elections in september be enough for the people standin...

Way or another the era of hosni mubarak is coming to an end, whether it's soon or in september. but that seems an almost inevitability. >> do stick around. >> we also have hander son coop cooper on the ground in cairo. he's joining us by phone. anderson, just set the scene where you are and if you're seeing massive, massive crowds forming in anticipation of the announcement. >> reporter: there's still crowds obviously in liberation square, where we spent most of the day today. now we're literally standing by a television waiting fort president's anoungsment that we anticipate as you said maybe...

Years saying hang on a second. i think a president should have term limits. >> exactly. i guess what you would expect from amr moussa at this point. sort of waiting and seeing. mohamed elbaradei, the nobel peace prize laureate, former head of the iaea, will probably throw his hat in the ring, too. we've been watching the scenes in cairo but another major city is having demonstrations, huge demonstrations, and amid the people there has been nic robertson for several days there. nic, joining us. nic, i don't know what reaction you saw there. were the people listening to the speech, and what was ...

Nothing left to do except tell mr. mubarak it was time to do something different. >> let me quickly follow up on that. is this anticipated move on behalf of hosni mubarak a direct result of the u.s. sending wisner to cairo? >> i think that would underestimate the reaction of president mubarak's own people. there's no question the administration wanted to send someone president must bark trust out of the fear that the people closest to him weren't giving him kand itd and blunt support, that he had lost the bond with his people and that the united states shaw that, other key players in the weste...

Welcome back. as we continue to watch these live pictures there from tahrir square in cairo, we are waiting -- we were told, what, an hour ago now that we'd be hearing a taped recording from egyptian president hosni mubarak on egyptian state television. we're still waiting for that. in the meantime, we're checking in with our correspondents on the ground in cairo. >> arwa damon is among them, she's in tahrir square, getting a sense of what's going on. arwa, i know earlier on you were talking to people about the deprivation they've been having in terms of closed down atms, no food, things diffi...