beated the drum, moving the stiffest of upper lips betting the drum, moving even the stiffest of upper lips. the coffin carrying to westminster, and the guards, they lifted it on a raised platform, in medieval timber and a few tennis balls from the days of hen i have viii and you can notice the sweat on their brows, the cof en is lined in lead. and they sing the queen to her rest, as king charles put it, quoting hamlet, these guards, these men must first lift a quarter ton with a crown on top. the queen lies in state for four days, her coffin will be watched over constantly until her funeral at westminster abby on monday and the line to see her stretches two and a half miles. here is the map, the wait is up to 30 hours. joining me now is nbc news correspondent molly hunter. a wait of up to 30 hours is truly incredible. what are folks telling you about why they felt that they needed to be there, why they were willing to wait in a line like that? yes, not only willing to
we begin with a blistering and dangerous heat wave and a stranglehold across the western united states. millions of people are sweltering this weekend. more than 40 million are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal. for the fifth day in a wroe, electric companies in california are asking customers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances in order to save electricity during the late afternoon and evening hours. cnn s chris winn reports from los angeles. reporter: across the west, the scorching heat is showing no signs of cooling off this holiday weekend. our ac at home can only do so much when we re in these triple digits. reporter: in glendale, california, residents are seeking refuge at the galleria shopping mall, taking advantage of the free air conditioning. getting out to the mall and just getting out of the house to get some sort of cool release is nice. reporter: california is in the midst of its longest heat wave of the yea
return to the campaign trail. cnn s joe johns joins us from the white house. joe, what does biden have on his agenda for this week? battleground states. he s about to go to wisconsin, pennsylvania, also ohio to a groundbreaking for a semiconductor plant there. a huge $20 billion semiconductor plant. so this time of year the labor day weekend is traditionally the time when campaigns start bearing down. the voters start focusing on the candidates. joe biden s name, of course, nowhere on the ballot. but the fact that he s going to these three battleground states tells you a little bit about what the biden people are thinking. it wasn t very long ago that there were real concerns about the challenges faced here at the white house by the biden administration challenges including inflation, the president s approval numbers, the price of gasoline. now some of those challenges have started to ease up and democrats are thinking things might not be as bad as they first thought they c
the law. in fact, he was charged with kidnapping more than 20 years ago. rosina coleman is live in a west coast impure with more on this, christina. hi molly. yes please identify the suspect is 38-year-old cleotha abston for the vehicle in this case is dark-colored suv, it was also located as for the victim 34-year-old eliza fletcher is still missing. she has not been found. the tennessee teacher was last seen early friday morning around 4:20 a.m. police believe she was jogging near the university of memphis campus when she was of ducted and forced into the suv. fletcher is reportedly a billionaire heiress for the suspect accused of kidnapping her was arrested a day after she was reported missing. what s the police have worked very quickly on this. probably getting the vehicle and looking at one comment dna that might ve been in the car they have that belongs to him. and secondly, the cell phones, look at cell phones now. there is a triangulation laws for you can see the la
decades ago. retired detective and former fbi joint terrorism task force member is standing by with his expertise. first to christina coleman live with the latest on this case. today we learned disturbing details on this investigation from the nucleus released newly released arrest affidavit. police believe the suspect, 38-year-old cleotha abston is a man seen in that video who rushed her and violently forced her into a black suv. the two struggle during that incident. several witnesses including his own brother added he try to clean out his suv with floor cleaner and he was behaving oddly. they believe he is trying to clean blood out of his vehicle and fletcher was seriously injured. trying to get away from u.s. marshals yesterday when they found him in his suv. he was taken into custody. he has now charged with tampering with evidence and what is called especially aggravated kidnapping. the police have worked very quickly on this. probably getting the vehicle and gett