Where despite the rain crowds have gathered outside Buckingham Palace to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth. The 2nd you case longest serving monarch has died at the age of 96. The queen was on the throne for 70 years. One of the longest reigns in global history and was a familiar face to hundreds of millions of people around the world. But here in the u. K, many saw her as a rock of stability, seeing the country through times of turbulence, like the 2nd world war. And the end of the British Empire, and more recent political upheavals like breaks it. She seen 15 Prime Ministers during her reign. Buckingham palace as she died peacefully in the afternoon at her scottish estate balmoral. The queens family rushed to her side when doctors said they were concerned about her health earlier on thursday. The crown has now passed to her oldest son, who be known as king charles the 3rd. He issued a statement saying, the death of my beloved mother, her majesty the queen is a moment of the greatest
Gmc y. Continuing with all special coverage of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd state funeral. The ceremony ended with a show of solemn pageantry reflect from brittanys royal traditions. A convoy carrying the queens coffin in the house is made its way now to Windsor Castle, as you can to see. The other side of the screen. O king charles, now the members of the royal family adjoining a procession along the long walk into a house at the bottom of the west of Saint Georges chapter. A service will be held at Saint Georges chapel van. Be laid to rest in the coming out in a private ceremony with awe. Here. All right, were watching those live pictures, obviously from Windsor Castle where alan fisher is standing by for us live allen, this is the final part of the funeral procession. Talk us through what happens at Windsor Castle now . Well after the long car, john knew from balmoral through the east coast of scotland and on to edinburgh than the germany by plane to london and through the london suburbs
This is today in the bay streaming live on roku, amazon fire, apple tv and online. And a good morning to you. Thanks for allowing us to be a part of your wednesday morning. Im marcus washington. And im kris sanchez. Laura garcia has the day off. Good morning to you, mike. Good morning to you, kari. We want to start with the forecast that feels so fresh. We opened up the front door and the back door and let the breeze come through the house. It was so great yesterday and its not going anywhere. Nice. Thank goodness who is your favorite today . As we take a live look outside in San Francisco starting out with the fog rolling over the city so more of that today as we heady. Were up to 75 degrees in san jose. 79 in gilroy. For the east bay some low 70s for walnut creek, and for oakland today 70 degrees. Near the coast were keeping it foggy in half moon bay. Sunshine in palo alto. San francisco at times seeing the fog throughout the morning. Our north bay highs reach into the mid to upper 7
Those. Not all of those probably will be here, as will also be saying that little we not the children of the queen holding a vigil at the beginning of her lying in state. That was about that. Yeah, this is called the vigil of the princes and actually you saw Something Like it instant giles is cathedral in edinburgh because what you saw, i think in scotland is in some ways going to be repeated in london. It was the chance for scotland to pick, bid farewell to the queen of scotland, which has a very distinguished time as its own kingdom before it joined with england. And before it joined the united kingdom, that is being extended a longer period for people to pay their respects here in england and in the capital of the whole of the u. K. London. And you will see senior members, the royal family, take the 4 corners of the coffin as it nice and state in Westminster Hall a place where this has happened many times before. The queens father george the 6th lay in state before his funeral in We
Looking ahead to the coming days, the queen will lie in state for 4 days in Westminster Hall before her funeral, which will take place at Westminster Abbey on monday. And we can see that to the right of the screen, Westminster Abbey, to the left. We see the houses of parliament and the elizabeth tower. Big ben. I think that was just such a church we just saw who was her 1st Prime Minister back in 1950. She famously called winston. Yes. I wouldnt of the 1st a 15 Prime Minister. Shes kind of a final one being appointed just 2 days before her death. The new british Prime Minister lives truss. And that also as the sense of a slight uncertainty beneath all of this ceremony is that we, weve got a completely untasted Prime Minister, an untested government and now an untested king as an extraordinary time in, in the, in the u. K. Right now, i mean, last week for us drunk and step down less trust became the new Prime Minister. 2 days later, the queen died. And it is, its really challenging time