Just a short time ago. He and the first lady boarded air force one to go to wilmington. The white house says mr. Obama will honor delawares former attorney general as a remarkable son, father and public servant. Cnn National CorrespondentSunlen Serfaty is going to be with us in a bit. But we do want to get right now to Douglas Brinkley and talk to you, douglas, if we could, please about beau biden and the legacy that he leaves. Well in some ways its fitting that todays dday. Because day of we think of as a great day of military service and beau biden, who had an opportunity to stay in politics stay in delaware make money, work in a law firm decided to dedicate his life to public service. In his mind that meant joining the national guard. That meant becoming a major in the armed forces and serving overseas duty in iraq. So doods funeral will have a military feel to it. But its also he was a religious man. A child of Roman Catholicism. Somebody who believed in god and jesus christ. And so its its really a very sad loss. And you have to feel for the Vice President , losing a child, while he has the pressures of the world on your shoulders, and having to kind of soldier on. And at previous moments in American History. Sitting president s or Vice President s have lost children. But its always the darkest moment. So todays a very sad day. In fact i was reading some of the comments that are online. One person wrote even though i dont agree with Vice President bidens politics my heart breaks for him, god bless this man and his family and give them strength. When you read about how people are embracing this family. Not just people in delaware but people all over the country. Possibly all over the world, what is it do you think about this family that makes people care so much . Well joe biden has been in american politics for a while. Hes our Vice President , hes beloved. And the fact of the matter is we always think of the Kennedy Family as being surrounded with tragedy. But if you look at what joe biden has had to go through, you know in what beau had, beau had lost his mother in an Automobile Accident which he was injured along with his brother, hunter. And you know they lost he lost a sister. And so the Vice President is not new to loss. But he was so incredibly close to beau so proud of him. And beau biden was a bit of what we used to call in america, a boy scout. He wanted everything to be right. He believed in oldfashioned public service. He joined the Justice Department to get bad people out of the public sphere. As i mentioned, he served in our armed forces and was, a very shining light in delaware politics. I mean beloved as attorney general. Was going to be almost a shoein to become governor in his political potential was just skyless. I mean he was going to be going far. And any time you lose somebody thats in their 40s to cancer in this case brain cancer i think reminds everybody watching were all, cancer has, touches all of us and how heinous it is and how deeply the bidens and the obamas are in the bidens extended family and all of america are feeling right now. Theres a lot of love going towards the biden family this afternoon. A tremendous loss. Douglas brinkley stand by for us we want to bring in cnn National CorrespondentSunlen Serfaty. Shes outside the church in wilmington. Well have to go back to sunlen in just a moment. Well get to her in a moment. Ill stay with you, douglas. Put into larger context the role and of the president coming. Not just to eulogize a friend he had in beau biden. But to support his Vice President. And weve seen this throughout history. Well you know what president obama loves joe biden. Its not a word we often talk about in the political sphere. But theres a huge amount of love. This is a president and Vice President who get along exceedingly well. Joe biden is someone who usually brings comic relief to the president. He has a great sense of humor and is usually somebody that helps the president kind of laugh through some of the day. In this case you see president obama coming to really probably give one of the most stunning eulogies imaginable. And the very fact that hes arriving there and honoring beau biden and beaus service is very meaningful. Remember beau biden was the one who introduced his father at the democratic convention. The whole family narrative of how joe biden when his first wife was killed. How joe biden would take the train back to delaware to make sure he was raising beau and hunter biden and his children properly. And i think we have to think of beau bidens children. His two kids who now are fatherless suddenly. And so its a very important funeral i think in American History today. The last time you had a death of a sitting president or Vice President was john f. Kennedy back in august of 1963. When they lost patrick. Patrick was only born for two days was born premature, weighed five pounds and died. So we really havent had since 63, a signature president or Vice President that lost a Family Member like this. You know you mentioned how he used to take the train back and forth in his Yale University commencement address this past year i want to read you something that joe said. Joe biden said. He said looking back on it the truth be told the reason i went home every night was that i needed my children more than they needed me. And he was saying this about pundit who is suggested his absence from washington would wreck his political career. He went on to say i realized i didnt miss a thing. I never lacked having ambition but ambition without perspective can be a killer. Theyre such profound words that come from joe biden. I want to go to Sunlen Serfaty. Were looking here at whats happening inside the church. Shes got a perspective outside the church. Sun sunlen we had heard at one point the lines to get in from five blocks long. What are you seeing there at this hour . Thats right, christi. Today is no exception to those long lines we saw at the public viewing here yesterday. Today at this fufrl, people started lining up at 4 30 a. M. And the line really stretched around the block. You can see behind me some people still making their way inside the church. Which as youve been looking at live pictures inside the church. The church is packed holding hundreds. President obama, and the first family including the first grandmother, Marian Robinson they have landed here in wilmington delaware theyre making their way to this church in the little italy part of wilmington delaware. We know that president obama is feeling this loss very personally. According to his press secretary we know that president obama is taking a personal role in writing his eulogy. That he will deliver here later today. And in addition to president obama well hear from members of the biden family beau bidens sister ashley and beau bidens brother, hunter will also give an address, as well as general ray odierno. He was the commander in iraq when whew biden served. We understand sunlen that you have the program now, that attendees of the ceremony will receive. We do have the program which they are of course giving to everyone as they come in here. I want to make reference to just this picture thats on the cover of the program. As you can see, a very casual photo of beau biden. It looks like hes on a fishing trip. I imagine this is probably how the family wants to remember him. Not in any formal picture from when he was attorney general or perhaps when he was serving in iraq. But a casual picture of him enjoying life and certainly we will hear many details of that life today. We know that among the pall bearers are his uncle and. Sunlen serfaty outside the church in wilmington delaware. Thank you and our thanks to Douglas Brinkley for putting much of this into context for us. Lets switch gears now and turn to dana bash with republicans who are now running another lap in 2016. Gop candidates are in iowa this morning. Are we going to that . Okay. All right. Taking part in the first annual roast and ride in the city of boon. Its part of a memorial motorcycle ride. And its also conservative campaigning. Cnn chief Congressional Correspondent dana bash is in the mix. Dana tell us whats going on there . Well were still actually in des moines. Because this is where the ride part of the roast and ride is going to begin. You see behind me, this is a harley barn and what joni ernst, the Freshman Center from iowa a harley rider decided to do is to make this perhaps the first annual tradition. Of making this kind of fun day for harley riders and also a very political day for wouldbe republican president ial candidates. And of course since this is a president ial year actual president ial candidates. Lets just start here. Theres going to be a gathering of a lot of harley riders and there are groups who have been gathered from Police Officer groups from veteran groups. They are going to be riding from here 38 miles to the town of boon iowa. It is there that the president ial candidates are going to be speaking. Were told that they are only going to have eight minutes each to speak, seven of them are going to come. But there actually is going to be one president ial candidate who is going to take the ride along with joni ernst. Hes not officially a candidate. But we expect him to be soon. And thats scott walker the governor of wisconsin. He is a harley rider, a harley lover were told. And hes been talking with his aides, very excited to be riding in the race not just speaking at the event later. Victor and christi . Dana weve been talking about the debates that are coming and the attempt to crack into the top ten. And what does does a candidate have to do specifically to get into that top ten, to get into the debate . Its very difficult and theres a lot of angst here frankly, among supporters of those like Lindsey Graham like carly fiorina, ben carson all of those who will be at the event today, who are barely more than asterisks in the polls right now. And because there is such a huge field and the first debate at fox is saying only 10 people on the stage and it will depend where you are. There is so much effort right now. Going into getting support early to bump themselves up. And this particular event is is a very good forum for a lot of these candidates. Or potential candidates to get themselves noticed. To get themselves more support so they can be on the national stage. But the thing about places like iowa is that it really is still about oneonone campaigning. And a lot of the candidates who are kind of at the bottom of the polling tote em pole. They say that even if they dont get on the stage nationally that they are hoping that by spending a lot of time here gripping and grinning and going to house parties and meeting people oneonone that when it comes to the caucuses which is really kind of a personal and organizing experience, then that may be at least in the shortterm will matter more than the debate stage. But the debate stage is important for the donors where they look at the candidates and say, is this somebody who i can put my money behind. This will be a long slog. Dana bash, thanks. Theres another revelation in the Dennis Hastert scandal. A third victim now accusing the former House Speaker of sexual abuse, this after a woman reveals her brother was molested she says. By hastert during high school. We have some you this details coming up, stay close. Beau bidens funeral is expected to begin in just about 12 minutes from now. Mourners lined up for blocks in wilmington delaware to pay their respects to the former delaware attorney general yesterday. For the wake today, for the funeral as well. We know the president obama will eulogize beau biden this morning and look at the right side of your screen here. The American Flag at the white house is at halfstaff in honor of the vpsice president s son. Who died last week of brain cancer. The president is going to be leaving the funeral to attend a g7 summit in germany. This is what he may be greeted with demonstrators protesting against world leaders, saying the leaders have failed to act on pressing issues. Cnns interNational Correspondent carl penhall is there. Help us understand whats going on right now. Are we still talking about thousands strong in terms of the protesters . Absolutely christi, right now the demonstrators are taking a little breather. But theyre not letting their guard down. Thousands of people are out here on the streets, in one common aim, and that is to try to disrupt or shut down the g7 summit. That includes when president obama tries to come here to the south of germany and meet up with the leaders of the other richest, most industrialized nations on earth. Why do the protesters want to do that . They say the group of seven is a club of elite fat cats intent on dividing up World Politics and the World Economy for their own benefits. And not the benefit of the citizens or the global community. Now, if you look around you look at the signs, you talk to people its quite clear. There are many different groups there are greens leftists of different stripes there are anarchists and simply concerned citizens. Some want tougher action on global warming. Others want an end to the refugee cries i some want tougher measures to combat the divisions between rich and poor in the world. So many ideas are motivating these demonstrations. But as i say, their first goal is to close down or disrupt the g7 if they can do that and they say this system is broken. It needs to be changed. They have a common dream, and that is building a Better Future that includes everybody. Christi . All right. Karl penhall, i appreciate that look. Thank you so much. Now listen i want to also tell you and share with you, something that was said earlier today. Now president obama as we said is getting ready to ask eu leaders to maintain sanctions against russia over its aggression in ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin said this today there is no need to fear russia. 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Beau bidens funeral expected to begin in six minutes, mourners were lined up for blocks. Heres a live picture inside the church there. As we wait for things to get started there. But president obama we know is going to deliver the eulogy and we understand that he took special care with this writing good portions of it himself and look at the righthand side of your screen. The American Flag at the white house half staff in honor of the Vice President s son. He died last week after a battle with brain cancer well continue to follow it throughout the morning and certainly as thoughts and prayers are sent to the biden family. Pope francis is in the bosnian capital of sarajevo. Look at the thousands of people who just came out to mass to listen to him and his message of global peace as were told his visit comes 18 years after Pope John Paul ii travelled to the city. In minnesota, prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the Roman Catholic archdiocese of st. Paul in minneapolis. 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