in rest at the palace house. the royal family official scottish residence. king charles iii along with other members of the royal family will attend that service a little later this morning. the coffin will then be flown from edinbrook to london on tuesday evening and the queen s funeral will be held on september 19th. britain s longest serving monarch died on thursday peacefully at the age of 96 at a scottish estate in balmoreal. what we can expect in the days ae head haeud ahead at that funeral. that service for the queen will be held in the coming hours. what s the atmosphere where you are at this point. it s similar to yesterday. it s quiet, there are few people out at the moment. the stores are just beginning to open. there are a few joggers going up and down the royal mile here. this of course is where the queen s procession bringing her coffin to st. giles procedure will run up and down. i think we can expect to see thousands of people up and down the street a little
the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified that they were going to storm the building. putin was a junior officer. but the boss was away. he was in charge. the berlin wall in come down. police weren t going to help. and he called for instructions. desperate for help, putin dialed kgb headquarters in moscow. over and over again. finally one official told him simply, moscow is silent. and i think it felt like a deep betrayal to him. vladimir putin was on his own. he went down into the bowels of the building and fired up the furnace. he finds himself in the basements at a furnace shoveling documents as he hears demonstrations
supreme court. now, i know there s a draft opinion, and it was leaked and it purports to say that, yes, the writing is on the wall. and no one should be naive to the prospect that roe v. wade may, in fact, be overturned. and yet, roe v. wade, again, sitting here today is still supposed to be the law of the land until the supreme court officially says otherwise. but for some governors and abortion clinic operators, the leaked opinion was enough. it s given license to governors to try to anticipate that overturning roe v. wade, according to that opinion, will allow them to decide the issue. remember, alito wanted it to go back to the states. it s about having the individual states being the one to decide how their state will operate. and because of it, some governors are now signing legislation accordingly or hoping to be able to soon. and for some abortion clinic operators, well, state abortion bans have made them stop providing the service entirely out of fear of being sued.
at this hour the u.s. president is holding talks with his newly inaugurated south korean counterpart on his first trip to asia as commander in chief. last hour joe biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the south korean national cemetery. before arriving at the korean ministry of national defense for his meeting with yoon seok-youl. we re expecting them to give their remarks soon. on friday mr. biden says the future of the world will be written in asia, and the region will prove to be critical in the years and decades to come. we re standing on a reflection point in history where the decisions we make today will have far-reaching impacts on the world we leave to our children tomorrow. now, the threat posed by pyongyang is expected to be a main focus of mr. biden s bilateral meeting with south korea s leader. we ve also learned that beijing is holding military drills in the south china sea during this visit. the u.s. says pyongyang could conduct a missile test w
military and economic might in the region and escalating provocations from north korea which u.s. intelligence thinks may be planning a missile test while mr. biden is there. let s bring in cnn s paula hancocks live in seoul for us. good morning, tell us what is the underlying purpose of the president s visit there? reporter: what the president is here for and what he would like to be talking about is alliances. and talking about economic prosperity and partnership with south korea, talking about security ties. what he might find creeping up the agenda though is north korea. as you mentioned there, we have heard from both u.s. and south korean intelligence sources that they do leave that an icbm test, intercontinental ballistic missile test, may be imminent. this is the kind of missile that if fired at a normal trajectory could potentially hit mainland united states. at this point we re hearing from a u.s. source telling cnn s barbara starr that they believe that they may e