president of the muslim brotherhood party. his rival, the former prime minister for ousted president hose nyeny mubarak came up about 1 million votes short. as the results were announced, this was the reaction of the crowd in tahrir square. they were exuberant. cnn s senior international correspondent ben wedeman is standing over tahrir square on a balcony there. crowds are still pretty sizable even with nightfall? reporter: in fact, with nightfall the crowds are only getting bigger. in fact, when the announcement was made, i d say there is maybe one-third of the square was full. now it s absolutely jam-packed and more and more people are coming and i spent this celebration is going to go on well into the night. now it s cool and breezy, so most people if you look at the roads down below, people are pouring in. in fact, fredricka, i have not seen so many people in this square since february 11th, 2011, when of course hosni mubar mubarak, that s the day when hosni mubarak
back sharp hrefplt that s why it s the long term solutions. everyone agrees or more or less what they are. it s not simp it s simply but it s not easy. jenna: and we re at the mercy of the politicians for that. is there anything we can do? ultimately when the debt gets big enough, if it becomes enough of a front burner issue that nobody can really escape it, and people kind of vote in that direction, i guess you can get there. the other thing to keep in mind is, you know, stronger economic growth does something on the revenue side of things to improve the government s position, so if the economy does strengthen, corporate profits will be strong. jenna: the markets, the dow is up 24 points. any reaction from egypt? clearly tpr r s decline in the dow was a major reaction from egypt but i think egypt is an excuse for more of a market that was kind of ready for a selloff to have one. clearly today it s showing the follow through because the economic numbers have been okay. jenna: int
gee, i d hate to lose this opportunity to visit with you every tpr r! jenna: there you there you go. you could always do it here in the hot seat, if you wanted to announce it! it would be a hot seat if i did that! jenna: thank you, appreciate it. remember, this weekend, we have a big show coming up, huckabee does, 8:00 p.m. eastern time, that s the tile, right? the hero on the hudson, kathleen sullenberger is going to join the governor, and are our planes safer two years later? that s a great question. what can we do to protect federal officials from acts of violence? all those topics on saturday and sunday, right here on fox. thank you again governor. thank you jenna. jon: jenna, a little more on a story we brought you yesterday. hockey fans give some big help to a little girl who was singing the national anthem. all of the sudden, a microphone mishap turned elizabeth hughes into a
old-fashioned way of doing it where people have a stake in their home, they put equity into it, i think that s ultimately the solution. bill: is that a rule sorry, is that a rule that s set up by the bank individually, or is that a rule that, you know, has to face legislation on the hill? i m not talking about legislation, i m saying good, sound underwriting practices. i mean, this is the way it was done in the 50s, 60s, 70s, you wanted to buy the house, you had to have the cash to put down so you could afford to buy it and the other idea to get rid of is this idea of tpr pl and freddie mac and fha providing 100 percent fax pair guarantee on these mortgages because remember, bill, the tragedy for people who are just taxpayers watching this, when we talk about this massive amount of foreclosures, who do you think is going to underwrite a lot of the lawsuits? unfortunately it s going to be you and me and taxpayers. bill: and we re going to tonight to foot the bill until the plac
in the bahamas. meteorologist janice dean is watching the system in the weather center. what do we see, janice? reporter: tropical depression, it was upgraded as of 11:00 a.m., we knew it was going to happen and this storm is predicted to become a tropical storm, not a hurricane, though. several days out we have a lot of variables to worry about. let s look at the tropical satellite, we have two systems we re watching, across the bay of tampeche, and then the other one, our newly christened depression, number three, across the southeastern bahamas. you can see it s starting to get better org need. there s the track as we head out further in time. we ve got a pretty good indication of what s going to happen within the next, say, couple of days, into tpr er, but into saturday, a lot of uncertainty, we have a low pressure system, an upper level low north of the system that is going to act to tear the system apart a little bit. as you can see it s going to remain a tropical storm in the