were hazy blue early on and don t underestimate how big a security operation this is. we ve seen the streets being washed, and the street cleaners out. i ve been able to talk to some of the security team is here as well. the underwater confined space team from the metropolitan police, one of theirjobs today is to go down into the sewers to do a security sweep and into the westminster abbey crypt as well. 20 separate manhole covers, will be investigated. they will dip down into the sewers and then sealing those or not. it s all regular parts of the security sweep for big events like this. of course like the coronation, a team of seven going down and spending seven hours down there today so think of them if you are worried about the weather. the excitement is building ahead of the weekends events and people are coming together to be part of it. it s not just here in london that people are getting excited.
reporter: all right, we are being moved aside. there are a lot of police activity. the line here behind us right where the members of the media are getting their tickets. they have been camped out all night. as a matter of fact from yesterday afternoon holding those places in line to get a covenant seat inside the courtroom. the courthouse is about to open. they re going to start doing the security sweep. you can see here, take a look around how busy the city block is right now with police officers trying to corral everybody in the correct areas. we ll send it back to you. the eyes of the world are on that block. laura, when it was announced, there were some suggestion that there could be a lot of people head to the new york to protest or anything like that. they have not seen anything of influx of people. the mayor says we have no threats, people like
courthouse that s where more than 100 members of the press along with nearly 500 protesters are gathered, some of them since dawn once former president trump arrives at the courthouse, he ll be met by a member of the d.a. s office and notified he is under arrest pursuant to the indictment the former president will then be processed, fingerprinted and escorted to the courtroom for his arraignment. that s currently set for 2:15 p.m. east coast time we learned in the past hour, the upper floors of the courthouse are being cleared and a security sweep will be done before trump arrives. we should point out that much of this is going to be happening behind closed doors. we do expect to see the former president, though, as he heads into court if not before let s get right to our panel, nbc s dasha burns outside trump tower in new york city, yasmin vossoughian, barbara mcquaid, a former u.s. attorney, law
like president joe biden. parts of london have already become a fortress, with visible signs of security everywhere. but it s also what you don t see. simon morgan is a former royal protection officer. you have to have uniformed police officers and uniformed roles. but as many of those officers you ll see, you won t see a lot surveillance officers, intelligence officers, all building the picture of what is happening within that crowd. reporter: the security sweep includes windsor cas too, west of london, for the last procession and final service before the burial that evening, where the queen will be laid to rested about her husband, prince philip. prince william and prince harry will stand vigil at the coffin tomorrow. harry had been banned from wearing his military uniform, but the king has decided that both of his sons should be in uniform tomorrow. and, norah, we re learning tonight that police tackled a man to the floor when he tried
environment for bad actors to exploit those security gaps. incredible reporting. thank you, whitney for a look at where that is and how it all unfolded. let s bring in law enforcement analyst and former secret service agent under president obama, jonathan whackrow. thanks for being with us here. we re told there was a security sweep that day. so how does a vice president-elect get that close to a bomb? was this a security lapse? well, no, it s not necessarily a security lapse. and i think that what we do know is we have been told the secret service who was responsible for the vice president-elect on that day, they went through their standard protocols and swept the interior of the building, the driveway, the parking deck and the arrival and entrances of the building itself. but the reality is there s always going to be this line of demarcation between secure and unsecure zones. and while it s this device was uncomfortably close to the motorcade of the vice president,