. >> we are now here with hafez al mirazi, a talk show host with al arabiya, formerly the bureau chief in washington for al jazeera. also here an old friend of this broadcast, roger cohen, columnist for "the new york times". he has seen a lot of the kinds of things that we are witnessing here in cairo. he was in tehran, for example, for the explosion that came after the election. but i want to begin this program this evening to give you who are watching on television, and television cannot describe the experience of being here. the sense of what it's like on the street. so i turn to people who help me because they have seen it from the street. i begin with roger cohen. tell me about this day since it was announced that hosni mubarak was leaving. >> well, charlie, from the moment the announcement came and after all the long speeches and evasiveness of mubarak it was a very brief announcement from vice president suleiman in the end, just that hosni mubarak had resigned and handed authority over to the army. and then there was this explosion, honking, fireworks, the scene right now out in