Embattled president expected to announce he won't run in upcoming elections (Mubarak)

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak will give a speech after at least 1 million people rallied across the country Tuesday clamoring for him to step down, Al Arabiya television said. There was no official confirmation.

Mubarak was expected to say he will not run in the upcoming elections scheduled in September, Al Arabiya said.

NBC News learned Mubarak will offer "a good solution."Al Arabiya also said Vice President Omar Suleiman had started meetings with representatives of parties.

Cairo's Tahrir, or Liberation, Square was jammed with at least a quarter-million young and old people ranging from lawyers and doctors to students and jobless poor, the crowd spilling into surrounding streets. Crowd estimates varied widely. Many defied a government transportation shutdown to make their way from rural provinces.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41363935/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa

MHO.

They'll probably be right, too.

Will there be institutional reform--economic, social, political--or simply new vinegar in old flasks?

This man cannot be trusted to keep his word.

--d!