(29 Jan 2011) HEADLINE: Protesters across US offer support to Egyptians
CAPTION: Thousands of people in Egypt who flooded streets in riots calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down were joined Saturday by relatives and supporters at protests in major American cities.
(Jan. 29)
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Relatives and supporters of people in Egypt who are calling on President Hosni Mubarak to step down -- took to the streets in the U.S. Saturday.
They are all echoing the same message.
Protesters gathered in outside the United Nations in New York.
In Chicago. (pause)
Atlanta (pause)
Los Angeles (pause)
San Francisco. (pause)
And Seattle.
when people ask me how I feel...i feel two things....sense of happiness about what's happening....change...i also feel concern about family and friends we've left behind."
President Obama has issued a plea for restraint in Egypt and called on Mubarak to democratize his government -- and refrain from using violence against his people.
But many protesters are calling on Obama to make a more forceful statement in support of the protesters.
In cities around the U.S. -- demonstrators said they were not placated by Mubarak's decision Saturday to name his intelligence chief as his first-ever a vice president -- a move that many see as Mubarak possibly picking a successor.

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