simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. welcome back to our special coverage. i m woman blitzer in college station, texas, the home of texas a&m university and the home of george h.w. bush presidential library and museum. right now the 41st president of the united states is aboard a special train, bush 4141 left houston, texas a little while ago making its way here to college station. you see live pictures right there. you see the map on the screen of the various towns it will pass. people have been standing alongside the tracks throughout this time. they re trying to get a glimpse
i people felt it was important to come out here, bring their kids out here, just a to be he and people wanted to see that. they know that president bush tlfd so i think he s getting close. we ll keep our eyes on the rail. and i love that little boy. he knows all about pressure there s going to be a lot of snow when the train really gets there. i want our viewers to see what s going on. the train is going to continue coming to where we are, the final stop, which is college station, texas. dana, it s so sweet to see
funeral procession for all of you wondering why a train. perhaps that part of the answer. ed lavandera is in texas, stephanie elam is in texas where this train is approaching. stephanie, can you tell me about the crowd where you are? reporter: well, people here are definitely excited. it doesn t matter peopleit s st to pour a little harder. people are lined up, they have their flags and their pins. you can feel the anticipation of it. a lot of people felt it very important to come out here. some folks i ve been talking to felt it was very important to be out here today, to witness this moment in history, to say their final good-byes as the president makes his final journey. and the train route is being like you were saying, it s a very president bush type of thing being able to see this and to also just experience this with their children. kids were let out of school early. so you see a lot of kids out here as well lined up in both
who exactly is he, and what was his role here? well, we re still learning about him. he s a political operative in eastern north carolina. very well known in bin laden county and in that part of the state. he s been hired by eight or ten political candidates over the years. he is a convicted felon, and he has been paid a good amount of money to help get out the vote, and so the question, is you know, how exactly did he get out the vote, and there s a lot of reason to think that there were some suspicious dealings there. taylor batten, keep digging. thank you. will do it. coming up next, we re following the final journey of george h.w. bush. live coverage with wolf blitzer in texas as a very special train prepares to pull into college station texas and texas a&m, his final resting place.
couple of hours away from whery are here this afternoon, brooke. let me stay with you as you see this beautiful brightly colored train traversing texas from, as you pointed out, houston to texas a&m and college station, texas. the world watched the funeral and national cathedral and all the presidents present and the beautiful eulogies. tell us about where this train is headed and the private ceremony to ensue. reporter: this is really just carving a kind of quiet path through this southeast part of texas. so it s a very quaint countryside that takes them to college station and the texas a&m campus where the presidential library is held, where his wife, barbara is buried and their 3-year-old daughter, robin, as well. it is a very pictuturesque endi,