to the broadcasters. i m getting soaking here. come on, hurry up. so am i! there has been a coronation plan for years but, in recent days and weeks, things have intensified. i m just trying to fine tune balance it. ..knowing an event on this scale has to be perfect, even ensuring buckingham palace is properly dressed. march plays we are the very front horse of the entire king s procession from buckingham palace to westminster abbey and then back again safely. it s absolutely incredible. it s not only a once in a career opportunity, but it s a once in a lifetime opportunity. pipes play for the military, the final rehearsals happen under darkness, when central london can be closed, when the precision timing of a procession can be tested, when everyone involved can be sure of their place. you re on the streets you re going to be parading on on saturday and, therefore, for each person on parade, they re looking for the small details, the small markers, the ground that they ve got
for the king s coronation by those planning it, from buckingham palace to the broadcasters. i m getting soaking here. come on, hurry up. so am i! there has been a coronation plan for years but, in recent days and weeks, things have intensified. i m just trying to fine tune balance it. ..knowing an event on this scale has to be perfect, even ensuring buckingham palace is properly dressed. march plays. we are the very front horse of the entire king s procession from buckingham palace to westminster abbey and then back again safely. it s absolutely incredible. it s not only a once in a career opportunity, but it s a once in a lifetime opportunity. pipes play. for the military, the final rehearsals happen under darkness, when central london can be closed, when the precision timing of a procession can be tested, when everyone involved can be sure of their place. you re on the streets you re going to be parading on on saturday and, therefore, for each person on parade, they re look
paula reid in for jim acosta. you re in the cnn newsroom we begin this hour with a potential new milestone in russia s war in ukraine. ukraine has announced that it has used a u.s. made patriot air defense system like this to bring down a russian hypersonic missile. if true, it would be the first time ukraine was able to intercept a missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. cnn s sam kiley joins us from kyiv with the latest. sam, how significant is this? reporter: i think it s very significant indeed, for two reasons. first of all, it s kind of proving the need for highly sophisticated weapons such as the patriot missile that the ukrainians have been asking for effectively since 2014 when they were first invaded by the russians. but then on a technological level, paula, this is a very significant development because patriot was never designed for hypersonic missiles because they didn t exist when patriot was designed. this is a missile that can travel up to te