billion to charity. he helped transform the city of seattle into the modern tech hub it is today. his co-founder of microsoft, bill gates, remembers allen this way. quote, paul was a true partner and a dear friend. personal computing would not have existed without him. just think of that. he s a name not as associated for many people with microsoft as bill gates, but he was so consequential. our thoughts with his family. i m poppy harlow. i m jim sciutto. at this hour starts right now. hello, i m erica hill. kate bolduan is off today. president trump sending his top diplomat to saudi arabia to get answers about a missing washington post journalist. this morning, the world is waiting for those answers. and what follows could be the biggest decision of donald trump s presidency. secretary of state mike pompeo meeting earlier in riyadh with the saudi king and crown
pyongyang. very difficult to see any progress whatsoever at this stage. michelle. one day you get stood up. the next day you get a date. thank you, andrew. ahead, the president starts his trip to the uk with less than kind words for theresa may. their meeting today and his visit with the queen and 50,000 protesters be expected on the streets. these are live pictures from london. we ll have the latest for you next on early start.
president your excellency multiple times. describes the summit last month a start of a meaningful journey. absent from the note is a reference to denuclearization. now we have cnn s andrew stevens live in seoul. it is hard to know if we are progressing with this or going backwa backwards. reporter: absolutely. if you look at what s happening on the ground, it does certainly look like it is not going forward. let s put it like that, michelle. let s say that is a modest view as well. interestingly, donald trump is saying great progress is being made in the denuclearization talks. on the ground, it looks to be a different story. there was supposed to be a meeting yesterday between the u.s. and the north koreans to discuss the remains of u.s.
that s more than hurricanes katrina, rita, wilma and sandy combined. ahead, the president says he got a very nice note from kim jong-un. who hasn t? not me. have you? tons. doesn t mean anything if pyongyang doesn t show up to a critical meeting. we are live in seoul with the latest. this is not a bed.
service members killed in the korean war brought back to the u.s. this was one of the key agreements that kim and trump did sign off on when they met on june 12th. that was supposed to be a meeting to get the momentum going on getting the remains home. that meeting did not take place because the north koreans did not take place. the u.s. was informed north korea wanted a meeting on sunday. mike pompeo looked like the meeting would happen on july 12th. obviously that did not happen. it is another thorn in the side of the negotiations that seem to be going nowhere at the moment. we got little out of pyongyang meeting which mike pompeo met the number two in north korea, including not getting a meeting with number one. kim jong-un himself. apparently touring a potato farm when mike pompeo was in