Top of the Hour: Wael Ghonim, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

Wael Ghonim, the Google executive who created a pro-democracy Facebook page, is now a sobbing revolutionary, apologizing for the dead and wounded in Cairo on Egyptian television. He has reinvigorated the movement.

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