from fires to floods, the extreme weather out west. cbs s mark strassmann has the stories of evacuees. we don t know if we even have a home. o donnell: and, biden s cancer moonshot. the president tonight channeling j.f.k., announcing new steps to fight deaths from the disease. d. this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from london. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us from just outside buckingham palace. and as we come on the air, long lines of mourners are paying their respects to the late queen. the monarch s coffin, with a 500-year-old crown atop, is lying in rest at st. giles cathedral in edinburgh. earlier, we witnessed a solemn tradition king charles iii and his three siblings stood guard. and here at buckingham palace, we saw the first changing of the king s guard in 70 years. it has been a busy day for the new king.st he said today he felt the weight of history, but today, you could almo
st. giles. it s really interesting because as max is talking about, the family trying to heal potentially in making very public glue over the schisms that have arisen other the last several years, so too is the country. it is trying to also heal to come to terms. it has lost a matriarch. and i think interestingly, i have been listening to a lot of commentary from scotland, officials much better aware of the politics there, of the culture there, historians and the like, for the scottish people who will come out and line that royal mile there, as we saw yesterday, will be incredibly close to the people of the royal dynasty, to king charles and his brothers and sisters. it s sort of divided into three layers for them, i m told. first, allegiance to the queen and affection for the queen who is part of their everyday lives. she went to their farms, to their churches, to their town halls. she was in the villages. she was known up there very, very well. then comes the monarchy and t
guarding the coffin for their mother as mourners pass by before returning to london. as we talked about, tomorrow evening that plane is expected to land at 8:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m. eastern time. so about 24 hours from now exactly. it has been quite a day. imagine that it has been an extraordinarily long day for king charles and the rest of his siblings. ingrid seward is joining me now. she s the editor in chief of majesty magazine and a frequent guest here and fox news contributor. good evening. good evening. martha: very good to have your with us today. what stands out to you as you watch charles and camilla as they head back to spend the evening at the royal residence in edinburgh after a long and meaningful day packed with emotion? the thing i found the most emotional is when they left holly road house with the queen s coffin loaded on to the car and they worked very slowly behind. i think it was incredibly moving. it was completely silent. i imagined there might have be
continue to flock here, where the king charles the third has held meetings with diplomats from the 1a countries that recognise him as head of state. also ahead on the programme. ukraine s military says its forces have tripled the amount of territory it has retaken from russia in a little over 48 hours. and in sweden, voting in the country s general election has ended with an exit poll indicating that the prime minister s party may win slightly more seats than rivals. hello and welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. the coffin of queen elizabeth is being taken on itsjourney to herfinal resting place. it left balmoral, where she died on thursday, and has now arrived in edinburgh. crowds gathered along the route, as the cortege made the 175 mile journey to the palace of holyroodhouse where the coffin will remain overnight. as that was happening, proclamations formally announcing the accession of king charles iii took place in cardiff, edi