URGENT: Egypt's Mubarak may step down today

CAIRO (AP) — President Hosni Mubarak will meet the demands of protesters, military and ruling party officials said today in the strongest indication yet that Egypt’s longtime president may be about to give up power.

The military’s supreme council was meeting today, without the commander in chief Mubarak, and announced on state TV its “support of the legitimate demands of the people.” A spokesman said the council was in permanent session “to explore “what measures and arrangements could be made to safeguard the nation, its achievements and the ambitions of its great people.”

Gen. Hassan al-Roueini, military commander for the Cairo area, told thousands of protesters in central Tahrir Square, “All your demands will be met today.”