ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square are jubilant as an army ultimatum given to the Egyptian president expires in less than 24 hours<br/> <br />Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi took to the airwaves early on Wednesday pledging to continue to carry out his democratic duties and to defend the legitimate order enshrined in law.<br/> <br />Responding to a military ultimatum to share power with his opponents by later in the day, Mursi made only passing reference in his 45-minute speech to the army, urging Egyptians not to harm the institution he said was a mainstay of the nation.