here, reported that he said no news yet, and he is also he s in york, which is a ways away as well. so the family is waiting for the news, as we are out here with, you know, hundreds of members of the press spread all outside st. mary s hospital. back to you guys. hey, martha, have they ruled out brian? reporter: brian is so regal, you know? i mean they really do need to include brian on the list. i haven t seen brian. i think the odds are really long on brian and steve and gretchen, i m afraid. first blown up on romper room when they looked into the mirror and now i see ryan but no brian. i never got gretchen off romper room. martha, you probably heard your name. actually martha would be on the list, probably. you re scottish, right? reporter: yes. i haven t seen martha on any of the lists. isabel has been climbing on the list a little bit.
nbc s jim maceda joins us now from outside st. mary s hospital and nbc s keir simmons joins me live from buckingham palace where the royal birth will be officially posted. first to you, jim, at the hospital. it s been 12 hours but we know that this can be a long process for a first child especially. any signs of anything changing out there? no, not yet. i wish i could tell to the contrary, andrea. but it is still any minute or any hour or maybe even into tomorrow. you re right, it has been a full half a day now. 12 hours since some paparazzi around the corner tweeted that they d seen a convoy of cars, no ambulance, swing in to a side entrance of this hospital. that was followed, as we know, by that short statement from kensington palace confirming that kate was inside st. mary s
quite literally were on him. he had a sheepish expression like okay, i just want to deliver it to the waiting car and then get back inside. kind of a cute moment. because there is a lot of pageantry involved here. it s sometimes a little quirky and clumnky world because you r balancing an official piece of paper attacked to a piece of paper outside the palace with e-mails and tweets. it s an odd mix sometimes but it s a fun one. that added to the excitement among around all the people around the world, viewers waiting to see the same kinds of information we re waiting for out here. michelle kosinski outside st. mary s hospital. we re now joined my chris jansing who is also with us from london. where are you, chris? and can you describe what s going on? i m actually just down from michelle, martin. i ve been watching groups of families coming in and people
eep the veriables in london are resounding to the celebrations of a new royal baby. that is the london post office tower, a very tall building at the heart of london near oxford street. that major shopping area with delightful graphics playing it s a boy. easy to see from anywhere in the city. and in that city is nbc s michelle kosinski still with us from outside st. mary s hospital. michelle, i have to ask you this question. you ve been following this royal pregnancy from the very beginning. now, as you well know, you americans do not have royalty as such. or dukes and duchesss. what s it been like for an american following this story?
everybody is camped outside st. mary s hospital in london. but now there is speculation that the duchess of cambridge might give birth to a hospital closer to her parents. queen elizabeth says she doesn t mind if it s a boy or girl am she just wants the baby to arrive soon. yeah, because she s going on vacation. going on holiday, she says. very important, possibly historic speech from the president yesterday. his deeply personal remarks on race igniting a mixed reaction on social media today. many applauding the president for the personal remarks. others calling them inflamatory. yeah, no matter how you view them, president obama s comments made against the backdrop of the trayvon martin case were his most extensive on race as president. here is jessica yellen. poppy? victor? white house officials tell me president obama has been watching the reaction to the verdict both in the african-american community and in other communities across the nation all week. they say he s talke