Aids but also to guide england back to a position of strength day. In this second test. And hes hit an unbeaten joe root finds some century on day three. Form in new zealand. He hits an unbeaten century, as england edge themselves back looking much better for into the looking much betterfor the england captain. The captain has really struggled second test with the bat recently. This is just his second in hamilton. 100 in the last year. 0pener rory burns also got good morning. A cold and frosty a century as rain stopped start for many of play with england 269 5, us some sunshine 106 runs behind new later on but watch out for mist and zealand. Fog patches. All i think it was huge forjoe the details in and he has had a tough year with the 15 minutes. Bat so far, a lot of talk about him. When the government is reviewing you come under the spotlight like the licence conditions of every that, to respond in the convicted terrorist who has been freed from prison, fashion he in the wake of the
good morning. i m wolf blitzer in washington, and this is special live coverage of the funeral of former supreme court justice sandra day o connor, the first woman to serve is on america s highest court. the service over at the washington national cathedral is set to start right at the top of the hour. president biden left delaware for washington, d.c., earlier this morning. he is set to arrive at the funeral any moment now, we are told. and he is going to be delivering a eulogy along with chief justice john roberts. o connor first met them in 1981, and roberts helped her to prepare for her confirmation where biden was the top person on the judiciary committee. and she earned in 1952 a law degree from stanford university in two years, but despite graduating top of the class, her gender kept her from joining a law firm, so she opened up her own law firm. she was mostly known for being appointed to the high court in 1981, but she is quickly one of the most influential justice
served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justice s son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, it s remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was working in the reagan administration, in the white house, he was helping to prepare her for her confirmation hearing, and then, of course, senator biden was somebody questioning her as part of the process, and who engaged with her and even told her that she should use the fact that she was going to be this trailblazer, this first woman to serve as a supreme court justice as something she could use to go out and push the equal rights amendment forward, for instance, and that s something sandra day
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