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barriers set up to prevent more outbursts of violence. all in an effort to restore order without appearing to take sides. instead of rocks and molotov cocktails, chans and prayers coming from the crowds. protestors vowing to stage a sit-in at cairo's main train station if mubarak does not abandon his post. ron alan joins me live from cairo with the latest. ron, you've been there for many days. compare what you saw late yesterday to what we saw today, even what we might expect to see tomorrow. >> reporter: well, there's no comparison today and yesterday when we had all of the violence...

Things have been very peaceful. almost festive out there through the day. tonight i can hear helicopters. a sizable crowd in the streets. a lot of anticipation of what the president will say and reaction to it will be. >> ron alan in cairo. as ron pointed out we are expecting breaking news of the president hosni mubarak to speak coming up throughout the hour. stay with us. also, in other news, u.s. envoy arrived in egypt to meet the mubarak government on behalf of the obama administration. retired diplomat and former ambassador to egypt, frank wisner, arrived in cairo monday. today, both oppos...

U.s. ambassador to egypt, margaret scobey there, and she's spoken to mohamed elbaradei yesterday in the daily briefing, which we're waiting on now, robert gibbs was vague about contact the administration had with elbaradei. >> reporter: he was. it was -- he didn't want to confirm that they had talks with elbaradei. the fear publicly that they have, they don't want to look like they're picking a successor, that's why they keep walking a tightrope. he was all but confirming they were having conversations with leaders in egypt. he kept talking about people in the business community, people that p...

Federal government, when that goes into effect and ultimately transitions into more of a state role. even then a reduced state role. the stimulus bill in '09 provided states extra money to keep people on the medicaid rolls and that money's running out this year as well. the underlying problem, and it's at the root of this, psych of risiing costs and declining access. every year that bush was president the share of americans receiving care through their employer, receiving insurance through their employer, declined and that has pushed people both into the uninsured ranks but also into the ranks...

take part in the election. several steps he's taken back in the past week, appointing of the vice president, reshuffling his government, saying he will not run for re-election. mubarak 82 reported in poor health, expectation is he wouldn't be a viable candidate. his critics don't see this as a major concession. they want to see an end to the regime today. a day full of expectations, high hopes in liberation square. thousands of people out there camping out. they set up tv screens, radios where people can listen to the speech which we believe is going to happen in about 10 to 15 minut...