CAIRO—President Hosni Mubarak will address the nation as as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to call for an end of his rule. Top U.S. officials spoke to both Mr. Mubarak and Mohamed ElBaradei, the central opposition figure. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians filed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, forming the largest crowd yet in eight days of demonstrations.
Estimates of the crowd varied, with the Associated Press reporting that more than a quarter of a million people were in the square to demand an end to President Hosni Mubarak's regime. Other estimates ran from 100,000 to Al-Jazeera's estimate of one million on its website.
Top U.S. officials spoke to the two players that could determine the future of the Egyptian government, as the Obama administration began more publicly working toward a resolution of the crisis in the world's largest Arab nation.
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