in the early hours of this morning, they practised the processional route for the lying in state. this soon the sombre reality for those inside and outside the palace. lucy manning, bbc news. jane hill is outside the palace and we canjoin her now. just in the last few minutes we ve seen the king arrived back at the palace after that visit to northern ireland. there were cheers and applause from the crowd as he was driven in through the gates of the palace, and there are still thousands of people standing here, i have to say, despite really very, very heavy rain now, but i have been watching the crowds as the rain has got heavier and people are not moving. nobody budged, and in fact, as the royal car was driven through, you could see a surge of umbrellas as people rushed towards the gates of the palace and try to get another glimpse of the still new king. and we know that tonight that the king and queen consort will be here, in a couple of hours from now, they will welcome his
become the third american president in history to be impeached. david? mary bruce with us again tonight. thank you, mary. and we turn to other news. the powerful storm system barrelling across the country tonight, after slamming into the west. now arriving in the midwest. treacherous roads and snow and wind there in duluth, minnesota. storms triggering this multivehicle pileup. this is i-80 near altoona, iowa. traffic shut down for hours. and tomorrow, that front stretches from texas right up into the northeast. snow and rain for several days. chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all. hey, ginger. reporter: hey, david. a mild night with this heavy rain now, but we are going to be snow and bitter cold by wednesday morning. that s the big story. i want to take you to the maps, because that cold front is going to be responsibility for a lot of this mess by tomorrow evening. you ll even see snow flying, potentially, in northern alabama, right through central tennessee and into
and the trends we re looking at. the one good thing is the storm is no longer intensifying. it s beginning to slow down and weaken. we need it to drawn into we still have a lot of strong winds. the one good thing is dry air is working into the back side of the system, so we re not getting that heavy rain now, and that will be the trend. don t expect a lot of rain in texas because of that dry air, but the bands on the front cipher this front storm are still very impressive. this is where new orleans is finding itself. that s where the heaviest rain is, where the strongest winds are, as we go through the next couple hours. we don t want to leave our friends out here, anywhere from gulfshores to biloxi, numerous bands are on the outside skirts. not as frequent as the new orleans area, but you still have the potential for losing power and isolated tornadoes as we go