we'll go live now to the prime minister's residence and office s here where chris mohr is standing by. we've been waiting for this announcement for hours now since this morning. do you know anything more on your end? chris: not much more, and now apart from an ever mounting crowd of journalists and ever increasing speculation to the urgency of who the p.m. might eventually be and something macron was tight-lipped on during his campaign and marine le pen forced his hand on it and he kept his name under wraps saying it would be revealed later and a number of people he said potentially had in mind. you heard about edouard philippe whose name was mentioned a lot this morning by the french media and another couple names with speculation, gouda who is an m.p. from the centrist movement and morisse who is in the main center right party in france. emanuel macron saying in his campaign he would prefer to install a woman here if to the all possible. local media was announcing the fact that macron would make his decision this morning and obviously has not been the case. he may have to get his sk