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very good thursday morning to you and welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. i m jim sciutto. and i m poppy harlow. we re glad you are with us as we follow breaking news, buckingham palace says 96-year-old queen elizabeth is under medical supervision because doctors are concerned for her health. her son and the heir apparent prince charles arrived to be by her side. her other three children along with princes william and harry are also headed there right now. and you our reporters and correspondents are standing by. anna stewart, kate williams as well. and kate, i wonder if i could begin with you. we ve been speaking in the last hour about the enormous span of her leadership, the longest serving monarch really in history, certainly in the uk history, more than 70 years celebrated earlier this year. we came across something she said at the young age of 21 on a visit to south africa before she assumed the throne, can which struck us as telling of the
max, anybody under the able of 72 or so, has never known a world without queen elizabeth. what happens now? what do the next few weeks look like? i think the images you ve been speaking to and the ones we re looking at now really express the now. people are shocked, saddened, they sort of saw this coming but didn t know how it was going to feel. you have thousands of people coming down here to buckingham palace to mill about, to talk to each other, it s quite celebratory at times. i think that s quite heartening in a way, because i know that the queen wanted people to celebrate her life and not necessarily mourn her life. but people just, you know, pouring down with rain and people are flooding here. i think that s going to be the story of the next few days. as the palace, the government, and various public bodies tried to organize a series of events that could last up to two weeks after the funeral to somehow try to not just express the queen s legacy, but also to look ahe
we have extensive live coverage up. there you see the president of the united states, president biden is at the british embassy right now paying his respects. he s signing the book of condolences at the british embassy in washington. you see him there with the british ambassador to the united states, karen peterson, the first lady of the united states, dr. jill biden as well. we ll monitor what the president is doing at the british embassy. we anticipate he ll be seeing something about queen elizabeth, expressing condolences, paying his respects to the united kingdom, to the british monarchy. live coverage coming up. i want to bring in max foster who is at buckingham palace watching all the history unfold for us. max, truly, truly significant moments unfolding. the longest serving head of state in the world, longest serving monarch in british history, something people are struggling to take in even though we knew the inevitable would be coming at some point. the crowds behi
Queen in an ever changing world, she was stability. And a link to a proud past. As britains longest reigning monarch, she saw unprecedented change. Womens empowerment, the fight for racial equality, and lgbtq rights, technological revolution, the decline of the church of england. She was admired worldwide for her lifelong dedication to his subjects, following a pledge she made by her 21st birthday. I declare before you all, that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our Great Imperial family, to which we all belong. At the age of 96, her death was not unexpected, but it nonetheless shook the nation to its core. And raised an existential question, can the monarchy survive the passing of the second great Elisabeth Ian age . I went to Balmoral Castle within hours of her death. The 50,000 acre retreat in the Scottish Highlands was the queens favorite summer residents. Hundreds game to pay their respects. This is all still very fr