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square. they are controlling access to the square and letting people in by one of the many entrances there. they re apparently trying to maintain some order. that, i think, is one of the big questions today is just how the military responds to this huge, huge presence of people in the street. the people remain determined. they remain in the same with the same concerns, same attitude, same bottom line that the president must go despite all the posturing that he and his government have been doing in recent days to try and make gestures that hopefully that they hope would be acceptable to the egyptian people and to their critics. that doesn t seem to be happening. but, again, the bottom line at this point in the morning, it s about 12:30 local time here in cairo. things are building, and i suspect that in a couple hours time, we ll see how the day s going to go. ron, we had a sense from a news report we just read that claimed that some egyptian officials, both political and military

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minister. for more on the situation on the ground, we re joined now over the phone by nbc s ron allen in cairo. ron, what s the temperature today on the streets in cairo? reporter: mike, it s still fairly calm here at the moment because many people are observing friday prayer in the mosques, and that should end in about a half hour s time or so. and then many more people will start streaming toward the central square. right now there are already perhaps several hundred thousand people there, and the initial reports say that the mood is sort of relaxed but tense. the concern is that the protesters today have said that they want to try and march through the city towards the government palace and towards other sites. if that happens, that would seriously escalate the situation perhaps. right now the military seems to be seems to have a good grip what s going on down there. they surrounded the central

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capital, and no one expected this to happen. ron allen in cairo for us. thanks so much. you know, egypt s vice president has just spoken, talking about beginning a dialogue for constitutional changes. nbc s foreign correspondent richard engel joins us. omar suleiman has spoken out? reporter: he did. he just spoke in a rerecorded statement that was released on egyptian television a short while ago. he s been offering more concessions. he said that he has been deputized to open a dialogue process with the opposition, to try to work out several disputes, including over past elections. we ll see if that will be enough. the egyptian government is trying to prevent major a major demonstration that is scheduled to take place tomorrow. opposition leaders are hoping to gather a million people in downtown cairo and then to march on to the palace of president mubarak. so omar suleiman, vice

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but they are very small compared to what was going on just a few days. it seems that most people, most workers are listening to the call to go back to work, get back to things as normal. this country took a huge hit during those weeks of protest and now people still have a lot of grievances, low wages, poor working conditions, but they re going back to the job and trying to get things moving again. that seems to be what s going on here now. we ll see what happens in tahrir square tomorrow when more protesters come out again. again, they re trying to get as many as 1 million people out. we ll have to see if there s that much energy and enthusiasm still in the crowd. there are still people determined to keep their feet to the fire in this country. ron allen in cairo for us. thanks very much. now we want to go to the capital of bahrain immediately. the new york times nick christophe joins us by phone. and i saw your tweet earlier about the crackdown that s taking place by the governm

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