pictures of and the storm is still going strong. chad meyers is standing by with the latest on the track but we begin with laila santd ysantiag on the scene for us. reporter: on the southwest part of the island hurricane fiona made landfall. we are dealing with rains and wind gusts and flash flooding right now on the ground. but the big story in terms of impacts to the u.s. citizens on the island is there is an island wide power outage going on for an hour and they don t expect that power as this natural disaster comes in. the timing here is part of the story. remember nearly five years ago to the day i stood here as hurricane maria left the island without power for months. the video is dark because there s no power but listen to the exchange. [ speaking nonenglish ] she says when the power goes out she gets real anxious and tense and worried. she is worried what she will find at her house. reporter: the governor saying that mud slides are part of the concern and urging
it s also a strategic appeal. just for perspective here, we remember doj seized 11,000 documents out of mar-a-lago. they don t like the special master ruling as to any of it. they lost on all 11,000 documents. what they re doing is saying okay, let s carve out the most important to us doj 100 of those documents. they ve given up on there being a special master for the other 10,900 other documents but with respect to those classified documents, those should not go to the special master, we should be able to use them in the criminal investigation and national security investigation, by doing that they limited the upside and won t get the special master kicked out all together but limited their downside because if you take an appeal and lose on the whole thing in the 11th circuit, that s really bad for doj and sets a worse precedent for doj so i think they re trying to be tactical and strategic in what they re choosing to go after here. this whole process is getting dragged ou
investigation. by doing that they ve limited the up side. they re not going to get the special master kicked out altogether, but they ve limited their down side because if you take an appeal and lose on the whole thing in the 11th circuit that s really bad for doj. that sets an even worse precedent for doj. so i think they re being tactical and strategic. this whole process is being dragged out. is trump getting what he wants especially if this works its way all the way up to the supreme court? to be sure, don. we have seen donald trump use delay as a tactic plenty of times before often successfully. here we are six weeks after that search was done at mar-a-lago and the special master hasn t gotten started yet and now he has until november 30th to get this done, and we ve got a pending at least a request for stay going up to the court of appeals. yes, it s moving slowly, and yes, delay is to donald trump s benefit. phil mudd, does it make any sense to you this judge can
stand vigil by her coffin. we re seeing world leaders beginning their journeys to pay respects to queen elizabeth. president joe biden and the first lady departing the u.s. this morning to attend the queen s funeral, which is scheduled for monday. earlier today, canadian prime minister justin trudeau and his wife paying their respects to the queen as she lies in state at westminster hall. arlette saenz, max foster covering the story. the royal grandchildren holding vigil a short time from now. what will that be like? reporter: i think it will be very powerful. prince edward s children are particularly young. they ll gather around the coffin. this is something they wanted to do. they ll include princes william and harry. i don t expect to see the spouses there, the princess of wales or the duchess of sussex, but it will be a powerful moment seeing those children come in. the queen was dedicated to her grandchildren. they all had different relationships with her, different
through the years, as a grandmother, the queen revelled in prince william s successes, enjoyed a good joke with prince harry. as the queen s grandchildren stand in tribute, so does the public. countless mourners stand in the line to see the queen. there is no casual act of reverence on display here. the line stretches for miles across london. wait times skyrocketed 24 hours. and the weather has been cold. king charles iii and prince william recognizing the moment, surprised the public there earlier today. the new king summed up this incredible show of love telling one mourner his mother would have been so touched. as cnn s richard quest joins us from london. richard, in all your years covering all of this, have you ever seen anything like this? reporter: no. and yet it was one and the same time the event that we had prepared for and dreaded at the same time. i was saying to colleagues earlier even now, jim, i can t sort of quite believed it s happened. and i m 60. you ve al