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
going down just across the burrow market. there would be a lot of people there. this is not what people would be expecting. it s not like a couple of years ago where there have been a number of attacks and people were on tenterhooks. it s not like that. i think as well we see so many police on the scene so quickly. there was a sense last time, 2017, they were slightly lucky there were some officers, fast response officers armed in the vicinity at the time. this time the police seem to have swarmed quickly and very effectively. there s much more to break down. we are still waiting on a press conference from scotland yard from the london metropolitan police. we ll take a break and have much more after this. when it comes to using data, everyone is different. which is why xfinity mobile
ago there was a terrorist incident where eight people were killed on london bridge and at the nearby burrow market. the british authorities had recently lowered the terrorism alert from severe to substantial. severe means an attack is highly likely and substantial means the risk lower. the this does turn out to be terrorism, british authorities will have to kind of explain why they so recently lowered the alert to that level. that said, you know, isis has been largely defeated and the number of people who have been kind of radicalized by isis ideology i think is lower. seen that in the united states where there are fewer incidents now. and i think it generally in europe, isis isn t quite what it was several years ago.
have died from injuries sustained in that attack by an aoun known or unidentified suspect at this point in london. the police saying that, in fact, it is being treated as a terrorist incident. that police were on seen and able to confront suspect. credited the public s support in helping with this incident. you will see more police armed and unarmed on the streets of london as they work to determine what happened here and to try to prevent it from happening again. i do have some information from law enforcement sources on the attack itself. the subject, i m told, is described as middle eastern. stabbed at least four victims with a knife in london s burrow market and made his way to london bridge where he stabbed a female victim before being tackled by a number of by
to scare people but stabbings are better than very large bombs. i want to think this was contained and could have been worse. three attacks in one month just in england. the manl che the manchester attack, and this that we re sort of talking about as one because they re happening right now. and this is the london bridge where a van drove over people and burrow market. and this is ramadan and less than a week beforer the british elections. it s clearly go to have an impact on the political crisis there. but two attacks seem to be inspired people using vehicles, very crude attacks.