captioning sponsored by cbs >> mitchell: and good evening. it is day two of what anti--mubarak protesters have called the new egypt and as the excitement continues, questions about the future of the country and its new leadership continue to grow. here's the latest: the military, now in control, promises to eventually hand over power to civilians and says it is committed to democracy. the new leaders also said they would honor all treaties, a move designed to reassure the u.s. and israel. and demonstrators have begun cleaning up tahrir square. once again, we have a team of correspondents covering the story and we begin with terry mccarthy in cairo. >> reporter: the square is finally emptying out tonight, but today is a day for egyptians to look to their future. for many in tahrir square, the daya began with rubber gloves gs and garbage sacks.

it was the great cleanup of a square that saw battles, bloodshed, and an 18-day sit-in. sue annual was swept into drains. stones prepared as weapons were put back into the sidewalk. as burnt out vehicles were carted away. >> all egyptians will be looking for to rebuilding this country. they will look forward to a better country, and they will do all that they can to their best to move ahead. >> reporter: the military quietly passed the message around that they wanted people to begin leaving the square, which is normally a busy traffic intersection. hundreds of volunteers are dismantling tents in tahrir square where people have been sleeping but these protesters say their movement is far from finished. like many egyptians, 20-year-old alia el-sadda doesn't know what will come next. >> of course i'm a little worried about what's going on, but the biggest step has been taken. >> reporter: we first met the el-sadda family yesterday afternoon as they marched

towards tahrir square, still not sure that mubarak would go. the father, mustapha, is an architect. his daughters persuaded him to take part. >> for mubarak to leave and his party, all his men. men. >> reporter: when the announcement came, they were overjoyed. >> it felt great. all the people around you celebrating together. >> it's like a dark room, and then full of light. everything full of light. >> reporter: the conviction that there is no turning back, now that they've ditched their ruler of 30 years. >> i think no one can trick us. no one can fool us any more. >> reporter: even amid all the celebrations there are still huge questions to be answered here in egypt-- how quickly the military will give up power as they promised and who will rise up to take their place in government. >> mitchell: tomorrow, sunday, marks the beginning of the egyptian work week. do you have a sense when the protesters will go home, go back

to work? >> well, russ, pretty much all of the protesters have started to leave the square, as we speak, and it is generally expected that most people will go back to work tomorrow. the people we spoke to today all said they will be back in their offices tomorrow. as you may have seen last night, our colleague harry smith was in the thick of the street celebrations that followed the resignation of president mubarak. he is back in the square tonight to talk about all he has seen and heard. harry, good evening. are they still celebrating out there? what's going on? >> reporter: it is-- it is remarkable. i mean, we keep using that word, but here we are, more than 24 hours later, and the celebration continues. you can hear the car horns honking behind us, and tahrir square was once again filled with people all day long. people are pushing their children up on to the tanks to have their pictures taken. we ran into a couple of young women from alexandria, and we asked them, "do you speak english?" and they said, "of course we

speak english. we're egyptians." >> like, the enthusiasm is pretty high today. and, like, happy day, happy day. >> mitchell: harry in your piece we saw last night, there were a couple of moments when you were kissed by people celebrating there. any more kissing going on tonight? >> reporter: i don't know what it is, but we walked out into the crowd again just a little while ago. people keep coming up to you and say they, "thank you, thank you, thank you." they're thanking the media for presenting the story these last 19 momentous days. so we were kissed a number of times tonight and at one point, even hoisted up on people's shoulders. i don't really know quite how to explain it. i've never experienced anything quite like it before. but i think this is egypt's way of welcoming the rest of the world, and welcoming itself into a community of freedom. >> mitchell: the moment of the baby kissing you last night, and

you kissing the baby, is all over the world right now, all over the internet. as someone who was in the middle of that electricity, you've been to a number of hot spots around the world. how would you describe it? how does it compare with other things you've seen? >> reporter: the fact is we've been all over town, all over the city today, and it's very much going back to tomorrow life. there were no riots in the streets. there were no stores broken into. commerce is continuing. we saw a fedex man in our hotel today delivering packages. >> mitchell: harry smith in cairo, thank you very much. at the white house today, president obama discussed developments in egypt in phone calls with leaders in britain, jordan and turkey. outside the white house, some are questioning whether u.s. intelligence missed key signals that a genuine uprising was under way. wyatt andrews has that part of the story. >> reporter: the administration clearly knew the end game was coming for hosni mubarak.

c.i.a. director leon panetta said so openly thursday morning. >> there is a strong likelihood that mubarak may step down this evening. >> reporter: but mubarak surprised everyone, including the egyptian military, when he refused to quit on thursday. u.s. officials said, "he called an audible." after he did leave on friday, the white house said it had known that mubarak's curveball was not the final word. >> we have gotten-- into last night, gotten indications that the last speeches may not have been given. >> reporter: but even if the intelligence was strong as mubarak was leaving, it's not clear what was known at the beginning. the c.i.a. compared its egypt intelligence to an earthquake, saying it knew about the grass- roots anger, but not when it might explode. >> people can tell you where the tremors are. they can tell you where the fault lines are. they can tell you what the past is. they can even tell you the threat of something happening is close, but they can't tell you exactly when an earthquake's going to take place.

>> reporter: critics, however, say the administration never focused on the rising heat of the discontent. >> they were aware of it. i'm not sure they took it all that seriously. >> reporter: michelle dunne is co-chair of the working group on egypt, a collection of ex- diplomats and experts that repeatedly warned the administration an uprising was coming and that it was time for less talk and more pressure on mubarak for reform. >> u.s. officials raised these points with the egyptian government in private, and they said these things publicly. however, they never formulated a strategy. >> reporter: for example, watch the money. during the obama administration, aid to civilian pro-democracy groups plummeted from $32 to $8.5 million. now the administration needs those pro-democracy groups to help form political parties. it all means that aide to those groups will soon become a much higher priority, and the question of how good u.s. intelligence is at street level in the arab world is under

review at both the c.i.a. and in congress. wyatt andrews, cbs news, at the white house. >> mitchell: taking their cues from cairo, demonstrators took to the streets in two other middle east countries today. in algeria, riot police tried to block thousands of demonstrators, demanding the president's ouster and reaching the main square in the capital. in yemen, police used clubs to beat back pro-democracy marchers demanding the departure of their leader. it's a very busy time in the middle east. for more perspective on what may lie ahead, we're joined by former undersecretary of state, nicolas burns. given the success of the demonstrators in egypt, what do you think? are these protests likely to become more intense in other parts of the region? >> well this was an extraordinarily important moment in the history of the middle east, and egypt's the heart and soul of the modern middle east, so i think it's bound to have an impact. and you saw today, in addition to algeria and yemen the palestinian authority announced new elections. the two countries to watch will be iran-- not an arab country

but a middle eastern country, where the reform movement might protest on monday and can this have an influence on iraq, on the democratic forces there? i think we have to look very widely throughout the arab world. i think we're bound to see an impact. >> mitchell: let's go back to egypt fair minute. the military is now in charge, the same military that brought you hosni mubarak and omar suleiman. as someone very familiar with that part of the world what, do you think? can the military be trusted? >> well, they had a good start today at the transition. they made a series of announcements that said they believed in democracy. they wanted to lead the country towards a democratic government through a transition. but the key question there is, is this government, this military government, going to be willing to give up parole crowell? will it provide for a transition that allows lots of different voices-- religious and secular and democratic-- to be heard? i don't think they've given any indications yet as to the details of how this transition can be run. >> mitchell: president obama

says this is the beginning, not the end. >> i think president obama has skillfully handled the situation until now, but it's going to get more difficult because now we've got to use the considerable influence that we have to try to push this military government to open up its system to reformers, and can the reformers translate all that passion and idealism in the streets in effective action at the conference table in convincing military leaders to give up the porthey've had for 60 years since abdel nassar took power. the united states will not be at the center of this. it's an egyptian drama but we're an influential country and we should stand up for reform but also hope that a moderate regime, one that will be at peace with israel, will emerge from this crisis. >> mitchell: nicolas burns, as always, thanks for your insight. >> thank you. >> mitchell: here's what else is

happening tonight. violence in two large mexican cities overnight took at least 13 lives. six died and dozens were wounded when gunmen opened fire and threw a grenade into a nightclub in guadalajara. earlier, soldiers killed seven drug cartel suspects in a shootout in monterrey. still ahead on tonight's cbs evening news, we'll have the results of an early presidential straw poll of conservatives. of conservatives.

>> mitchell: the conservative political action conference concluded today in washington with a straw poll of likely republican presidential candidates. texas congressman ron paul finished first with 30%. followed by former massachusetts governor mitt romney with 23%. the other candidates, including newt gingrich and sarah palin, trailed far behind. for more on the poll and the state of the republican party in general we are joined in washington by our political analyst john dickerson. john, good evening. >> good evening, russ. >> good evening, russ.

>> mitchell: it is very early in the game. so does this poll mean anything at all? >> it doesn't mean anything. in fact in the past it's sort of been the kiss of death. since ronald reagan in the early 80s, the winner of the straw poll, except for george w. bush has gone on to lose the nomination. that's true with ron paul. and mitt romney who came in second has won it several times. that didn't help him either. if a dark horse can come and done well, that might have helped with fund-raising. he could have generated some buzz. the g.o.p. is before the straw poll, confused without a front-runner. >> mitchell: of the four bills planned for votes this week only one passed and a republican congressman resigned in a scandal. as republicans gear up for this budget battle with the president, do all these problems this week lead to trouble down the road? >> what was most interesting this week was the little-- the push-back from conservative freshmen on republican leaders in the house. they said you've got to go for

more spending cuts. and that's a big deal because we're about to have a huge budget fight between the president who says he wants to shrink the budget, and republicans who say the same thing. the argument will be how can they convince the public, who cares about the economy and jobs, how all that cutting is going to help with the economy and jobs? a deal is going to have to be made between republicans and the president, and if that deal is made, those republican freshmen are they going to be the ones watching their republicans leaders and saying don't cut an easy deal or we'll bolt? >> mitchell: john dickerson in washington. thanks a lot. >> thanks, russ. >> mitchell: you may never see a more spectacular soccer goal than this one. >> oh, wonderful! >> mitchell: that was manchester united's wayne rooney with his back to the net. rooney used a perfectly timed bicycle kick to blast the ball just under the crossbar to beat manchester city. his manager said it was the greatest goal he's seen in 25 years. years.

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>> reporter: in the 1960s, father martin o'loghlen had an affair with a 16-year-old girl a student at a catholic church in the archdiocese of los angeles. he remained in active ministry until this past week. in 1996, his past came to the attention of church officials after o'loghlen contacted his victim. in this handwritten letter to her, he admitted molesting her saying, "i am deeply sorry for becoming involved and readily accept the fact i was the responsible one in our relationship." after she received the letter, she contacted church authorities, who investigated o'loghlen, but later that year, the l.a. archdiocese welcomed him back, saying there were no restrictions placed on his ministry within the archdiocese, even thanking him for his "willingness to serve on the sexual abuse advisory board." >> this is a pattern going on now. the cover-up and the mishandling by upper management has been a pattern.

>> reporter: father thomas doyle, an advocate for clergy sex abuse victims, says o'loghlen's case and others are renewing questions about whether top church officials failed to protect children. >> showed him pornography... >> reporter: this week in philadelphia, the district attorney took an unprecedented step, filing criminal charges against a high-ranking official in the archdiocese. not for committing abuse, but for shielding abusive priests he supervised. >> he lied to parishioners and went out of his way to put known abusers into contact with adolescents. >> reporter: also facing multiple counts, three other priests and a teacher accused of raping two boys. >> we're hoping that prosecutors across the country will recognize that if it's happening in philadelphia, it could also be happening in their locations. >> reporter: philadelphia's archbishop did not comment on the charges, but said the archdiocese is cooperating with authorities. >> it is my intention to consider carefully and take very

seriously any observations and recommendations of this grand jury. >> reporter: as for the los angeles archdiocese, in a written statement, officials say they have now barred father o'loghlen from active ministry there and accepted the resignation of a top church official who failed to conduct a proper background check on o'loghlen in 2009. russ. >> mitchell: elaine quijano, thank you. and still ahead on tonight's cbs evening news, the man behind the facebook page that helped depose a dictator.

>> mitchell: and finally this >> mitchell: and finally this evening, the same popular movement that toppled the president has created an international folk hero, though he would be the first to reject that label. seth doane has more on the internet executive whose message was heard in egypt and around the world. >> reporter: the peaceful egyptian revolution had a distinct goal, but no clear leader. yet, from the masses a handful emerged, including wael ghonim. his tweets offered both a narrative and a nudge to protesters. >> he's been sort of tweeting every day, almost every hour. and he's developed a-- quite a massive following. he's become a figurehead of this revolt-- i guess we can now call it a revolution.

>> reporter: it's generally acknowledged that ghonim's facebook page sparked the first protests. titled "we are all khaled said, it memorialized a businessman businessman who was beaten to death by police after threatening to expose corruption. the page called for protests on january 25. that became known as the day of wrath. as thousands pour on to the streets. ghonim's arrest by egyptian authorities january 28 and release twelve days later only added to his legend. when ghonim is mentioned, usually his company is, too. >> couric: google executive wael ghonim create a facebook page. >> reporter: he's the middle east and north africa marketing manager at google. so far, google has commented only briefly. wit"we can't comment on his personal live life beliefs." >> it's a little tricky this

relationship. this is an employee of google, yes, but he's acting on his own time. >> reporter: robert soloman says companies in emerging markets like egypt where governments are big customers need to be careful not to bite the hand that feeds them. is this connection likely a good thing or a bad thing for google? >> well, on the one hand it could be a bad thing to the extent ghonim's activities raise some questions, or jeopardize some relationships google has in egypt. however, it might be a good thing if people now view google as a good place to work and a place that allows young people to have a voice. >> reporter: a voice which ushered in a social revolution in egypt where the most powerful weapon was social networking. seth doane, cbs news, new york. >> mitchell: and that is the cbs evening news. thanks for joining us this saturday evening. i'm russ mitchell, cbs news in new york. i'll see you again back here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs

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