of national mourning for britain s longest serving monarch. well, the public viewing of the queen s coffin has now officially ended, and westminster hall is closed to the public as preparations begin for her funeral. over the last few days thousands have waited for hours in lines stretching several miles along the river thames just to pay their respects. well, in the hours ahead a procession will take the queen s coffin from westminster hall to westminster abbey where the funeral will take place. that service will be conducted by the dean of westminster. following the funeral the queen s coffin will be moved in a procession through central london to wellington arch where it ll be placed in the state hearse and travel on her final journey to windsor. from there a committal service will take place at st. george s chapel. well, cnn correspondents are following all of the developments for you. scott mcclain standing by in london where the final mourners have been waiting to pay t
estranged from the family. it was a very public sign that they are together in mourning. this is coming as we are learning for the first time the plans for the funeral for the queen. a state funeral at westminster abbey, and week from monday with the position to london afterwards. a service backup when they will mark the end of this morning period in london. today charles officially proclaimed us king, and a day filled with the kind of ceremony you would expect for a moment like this. prince charles, philip and george is now by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory, become our only, lawful and rightful each law, charles the third. by the grace of, god of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. and if this other realms and territories came ahead of the commonwealth. god praised the king. three cheers for his majesty, the king. hip, hurray. hip! hip! hooray! hip! hip! hooray! all right the new king hosting top of uk officials at buckingham pala
was greeted with a ton of applause and cheers in the crowd. now it is more somber. very respectable tone here and when we heard from the king today, he promised to renew the queen s vow of lifelong service. he also said that he sympathized really with the whole world. and he mentioned that the queens selfless service was unequaled induration, but also in dedication and in devotion. and i want to bring into people who really feel that she did in body that. first jeremy, and then pays a. and jeremy, you actually tell me about what this moment means to you, and what you almost remember about. it is an important day for the country. and you can see that many tens of thousands of people we have this evening the little feeling that the people of the uk have got towards the new king, and also the level feeling to wards the late queen. i think for all of us, this is a moving moment and for my me and my family to come out this morning in to see it all is an important part. you s
last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannon s order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trump s defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an understanding of the complexities of executive privilege. all of it and the bid to continue to use the classified documents from mar-a-lago in the investigation amounts to a bold gamut from doj. once again, from politico, quote, they re going forward with an appeal despite the risk of cementing an awful precedent. we re getting an even worse ruling from an appeals court dominated by trump appointees and they re daring cannon to double down on analysts that legal analysts on the right and left
life. her successor and son king charles iii is in london, and making his way right now to buckingham palace for the first time as king. upon his arrival, he ll be greeted by thousands lining up to pay their respects, laying flowers and cards outside the palace honoring the queen s seven decades on the throne. elizabeth became queen february 6th, 1952, she was just 25 years old. her reign spanned 14 u.s. presidents, seven popes, and 15 british prime ministers. she was a witness to history and an indelible part of it during her time on the throne, she led her country through wars in korea, the falklands and afghanistan. her reign spanning global events as is well, from the first moon landing to 9/11 and the coronavirus pandemic. the queen was a global fixture, a beacon of stability, for some seven decades. overnight, many parts of the world came together to remember queen elizabeth from new york to paris, australia, to brazil, buildings lit up, flags flying at half-staff. an