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Me at the moment. it is absolutely thronged with people at the moment. tens upon tens of thousands of people celebrating in the area as we've just been talking about. it's been the scene of pitch battles, people being wounded, desperate situations. now it couldn't be further from that. scenes of joyous rapture. people pouring in from all angles, tens upon tens of thousands of people. hala? >> nic robertson -- >> this is anderson cooper. we have wael ghonim on the phone. i just want to get him because we lost him twice on the phone, wael, your thoughts on this extraordinary moment. >> i'm proud...

See what kind of procedures and other steps that will be taken. but what i want to assure you is that all of us here in egypt, old and young, north and south, women and men, everybody, is looking forward to a future, a better future. we will try to do everything we can in order to do things in the right way. >> this is suzanne malveaux, if you can help us understand, to clarify, if you will, who is now in power? would it be the armed forces, the military now, that is running this country? or is it the vice president? >> according to the short statement read by the vice president, it is the hig...

Sound, that are solid. you have a middle-class, an upper class. you have business people, very prosperous, but at the same time, what is that going to look like? how are they going to get to the democracy that they are demanding? i want to bring in our own wolf blitzer to talk a little bit more about this. wolf, i mean, you're looking at this sea of humanity and emotion and determination by a people, and yet what will tomorrow look like? >> you know, those are excellent questions, and i don't think people are focusing in on that yet. right now they're savoring in this moment, this truly histor...

She's watching all of this unfold, as well. >> it's 7:37 p.m. right now in cairo, egypt, a country that's gone through a revolution, the power of the people taking down this dictator in power for more than a generation and nic robertson is overlooking tahrir square. the beating heart of this pro-democracy movement. what are you seeing from your vantage point? we're looking at these pictures along with the rest of the world, nic, truly an historic, historic moment for that country and for the rest of the region, as well. tell us what you're seeing. checking that nic robertson is can hear me as ...

Quoted an egyptian there on the street as saying egypt now has a chance for freedom and democracy, and i think that is exactly the right way to phrase it, because there will be institutions and people trying to undermine that chance. i think first among them will be iran and iran working with the muslim brotherhood the way they work with hamas in gaza. and the egyptian military because of its traditions and its being a draftee army has good relations as you see with the egyptian people and i think they will not be the problem. the problem will be exactly, anderson, what you drew the allusion t...