welcome to bbc news. here in the uk, preparations are well under way for the coronation of king charles iii this weekend. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the route. it s only a shortjourney, but people are already camping out to get the best viewpoints. a royal correspondent tells us more. the route would be a familiar one, past some of london s most famous landmarks. and for the king and queen consort, the most significant 1.3 miles they will ever travel. along the way, flags have been raised and finishing touches added for a ceremonial event not seen in this country for seven decades on saturday morning for thousand specially invited people seated here will get the first glimpse of the queen and king as they depart buckingham polish through the centre gates at 1020. the couple will travel in the diamond jubilee state coach. electric windows, air conditioning, and hydraulic stabilisers should make for a bump free, comfyjourney. there will be space for te
investigation. also this morning, we are on the ground following a growing humanitarian crisis on the southern border. as the secretary of homeland security heads to the border in anticipation of a mass influx of migrants. border towns looking for answers, migrants looking for help. are you desperate? i m very desperate she tells us. i don t have anything to eat. we have people sleeping on our streets. this isn t sustainable. it s not normal. please help us, and enough with the politics of it. and new controversy with justice clarence thomas. first it was reporting about luxury trips and yachts and a real estate deal, and now propublica has new reporting about a billionaire gop donor paying private school tuition for a thomas relative. i ll talk to the reporter behind that story, how that donor is responding and the larger ethical questions it s raising. but we begin with the suspect in a georgia mass shooting in custody this morning as we learn more about the inves
new alzheimer s drug has - our historical responsibility. and a new alzheimer s drug has been i our historical responsibility. and a new alzheimer s drug has been shown to slow the disease by about one third. there are two days to go to the coronation of king charles and camilla the queen consort. the king will be the 40th monarch crowned at westminster abbey since 1066, and millions of people are expected watch the event in this country and around the world. final preparations are under way. our correspondent charlotte gallagher reports. two days to go, and the coronation campers are ready to celebrate. some of these people have been here for days already, so determined to get a good view on saturday. great britain and america. for donna and maryjane, it s also a chance for a catch up. they met 12 years ago at the wedding of the prince and princess of wales and have attended royal events together ever since. we started yesterday and we ll be here, you know, through saturday
distorting the truth. it began with court documents revealing fox s tucker carlson was privately skeptical of election lies, contempt youts yous of the former president, texting someone saying i hate him passionately even as he indicated to viewers the opposite. a dominion voting systems lawsuit, carlson was on the air lying about january 6th. reporter: the crowd was enormous, a small percentage of them were hooligans, they committed vandalism. you ve seen their pictures again and again, but the overwhelming majority weren t. they were peaceful. they were orderly and meek. these were not insurrectionists. they were sight seers. that spectacle using cherry picked footage house speaker mccarthy released only to him was just the beginning. the former president claimed that city, state and federal prosecutors are practicing good old election interference, all caps, and then there was something else that happened that didn t get as much attention, but is important, it involves
taylor greene who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, she stated she s coming to town. while you are in town be on your best behavior. okay, then, new york city mayor eric adams control yourself. just going right there with that warning ahead of a historic day in manhattan. donald trump, former president, will become the first former president to face criminal charges. we will get a live report from outside the courthouse in just a moment meanwhile, there is new reporting this morning on how the manhattan grand jury is impacting the fulton county da s investigation into election interference in georgia. also ahead, we will break down what is at stake today in wisconsin as voters head to the polls for an election that many are calling the most consequential in decades. that is a huge state supreme court race that has national implications regarding gerrymandering, regarding just the laws of that state, which has become the most consequential swin