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♪ a very warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm becky anderson. at buckingham palace, the final journey for britain's longest serving monarch continues in edinburgh in the hours ahead. queen elizabeth ii is currently lying in rest at the royal family's official scottish residence. on monday, her coffin will
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proceed from the palace of holyroodhouse to the cathedral. king charles iii and the queen consort will travel from london to the scottish capital for that service. the public will also be able to pay their respects when the queen's coffin remains in the cathedral until tuesday. in the days ahead, the queen's casket will travel to buckingham palace in london and then to westminster hall, where the queen will lie in state until her funeral next monday. edinburgh marks the first leg of the queen's final journey, then. there are crowds of mourners on the streets on sunday to pay their respects. [ applause ] those who have gathered clapped as the queen's casket passed by after it made a six-hour journey from balmoral estate, where the queen died on thursday at the age of 96.
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many are still grappling with the loss as they bid their longest-serving monarch a final farewell. >> she's the only queen i've ever known. i think she done really good for us. i think she held a lot together. otherwise, we could have lost a l lot. i think she's brilliant. >> when somebody gets to that age, you know it's going to come. but i think when you see the co coffin and the cortege go by, that will just mean it's real. and even today, saying god save the king, it was strange so kind of emotional. >> neil mcintosh is editor for the newspaper the skotsman and
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he joins me live from edinburgh. how did you go about trying to encapsulate what was such a momentous day? >> good morning. it was a huge task. clearly the queen had a very close relationship with scotland. she was here a lot. we wanted to try and capture that, that final journey coming through from balmoral through aberdeen down through dundee. so really we were looking to, on the front page, try and capture the singular image that showed the degree of affection that the scottish population had for her and capture a sense of that journey arriving in edinburgh. >> the photo of the pallbearers moving the coffin yesterday, such an emotive shot. i just want you, if you can, to explain the queen's legacy in
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scotland. what does her death mean for the country? >> well, she had a very close relationship. let's be clear. the balmoral estate was quite remote. she was extremely well known and seen often there. she spent about a quarter of the year in balmoral, so she was there a great deal. for the rest of us, most of the population was in edinburgh and gl glasgow, we didn't see her every day. i guess the legacy is that she ensured that the royal family was not seen as a royal family that was remote, that was in england, that was in buckingham palace, sandringham, windsor, but also very much present in scotland. that counted for a great deal in these slightly fractious times, the sense that she wants to be here. she was very affectionate
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towards scotland and scots. she was appreciative of the culture. she came here from baby every summer all the way through obviously until her death. so there was a sense that she was very close. she rarely intervened in domestic politics, but when she did, occasionally it was to defend the union that kept scotland and england together. >> the ascension of her son, king charles iii, then, an important moment. let's talk about what he means for the future of scotland as part of the uk because, of course, the queen's death comes amid a renewed push for scottish independence. the king will meet with the first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, and other leaders late today. as he takes on this role, what does king charles iii need to do
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to shore up support in scotland, as it were? >> he has to play a fairly steady game. there have been a few suggestions that the kingdom is on the verge of breaking up almost because of the death of the queen. that is not something that's going to drive it straightaway, and the issue of independence for scotland has been something that's been around for a good long while now. there was a push starting in the 1970s. an independence referendum took place in 2014. the queen lived through all that. she might have had some influence in keeping things pulled together. but there is an issue risen as to whether or not she was there, whether or not she was intervening. so prince charles can expect to have a direct impact also because expected to be above political matters. but i think the scottish will certainly be looking him to continue that close association
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with scotland. he was in scotland in the days before the queen's death, so he certainly is here also a great deal, and i think he will want to keep that sense of togetherness going. the scottish national party, of which nicola sturgeon is head and she's first minister of scotland, has never sought to be a party to replace the queen as head of state even in an independent scotland. king charles iii will be wanting to continue that. >> neil macintosh, it's likely to have been a very long night for you. we very much appreciate your time, sir. thank you very much indeed. another emotional day ahead in edinburgh and indeed in scotland. cnn's salma abdelaziz joining me now here at buckingham palace with more. just walk us through what we can expect in the hours and days to
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come. >> reporter: absolutely. so another packed day, of course, for king charles iii and the queen consort. they're actually going to start their events here in london today. they're going to be at westminster hall. they're going to be receiving official condolences from both houses of parliament, both the house of commons and the house of lords, and the king will respond in kind, of course, this very public showing of condolences for the queen. it is after that event at westminster today that the king and the queen consort will make their way to scotland, will make their way to edinburgh to, of course, be a part of that very important procession that's going to take place today along the royal mile, walking on foot that royal mile behind the queen's coffin, taking it to saint giles cathedral, attending that prayer service, starting that 24-hour period where the queen's body will lie in rest at saint giles cathedral. but tomorrow, of course, is the homecoming, becky, right? that's the moment we're going to see the queen's coffin come back
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here to buckingham palace, come back home. the body will be accompanied by princess anne tomorrow. you have that 24-hour period, so sometimes in the late afternoon tomorrow, flown from edinburgh here to london with princess anne and then brought to buckingham palace where king charles iii and the queen consort, of course, will accept the body, will accept the queen's remains. and then the huge day, that big poignant moment we're expecting is on wednesday. we're going to see the queen's body taken to lie in state, right? it's going to go to westminster hall. we're going to see it all along central london here, this huge p procession, again by foot. you can imagine how powerful a moment that's going to be. crowds lining the streets of central london. we saw what it looked like in scotland. people throwing flowers, people putting pictures of the queen in their window, bidding their final farewell. then of course the body lying in state at westminster hall for
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four full days. that will be open for 24 hours if you can believe it. people can line up any time of the day or night, and there will be long queues. there will be long lines for hours so that people can say their final good-byes there as she lies in state. so you have a packed period here before, of course, the funeral, the official funeral on monday, and then her final resting place, of course, being westminster abbey. and very much at the heart of this, you have to remember there is the family there that is saying good-bye, but they are saying good-bye in this very public way, in this very communal way, right? so that homecoming tomorrow is going to be huge. another packed day of receiving condolences here in westminster and then as well in scotland, and that anticipation of the queen's arrival in london for the final good-bye. >> a very, very sort of what will probably be quite a private moment at the chapel in windsor monday evening next week where she is interred, of course, with her husband, prince philip.
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thank you very much. >> thank you. >> salma abdelaziz. we will have more from london in just a few minutes. first, let's bring in michael holmes, who has some of the day's other important news out of atlanta for you. michael. >> good to see you, becky. we'll check in with you a bit later. we'll take a quick break. when we come back, ukraine's president says the world is impressed. the enemy is panicking. more of volodymyr zelenskyy's message to his troops as they drive russian forces out of northeastern ukraine. also a look at how some of the kremlin's allies are now publicly criticizing vladimir putin's special military operation. we'll be right back. if you think you have dupuytren's contracture, there's a simple test you can take—from anywhere.
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welcome back. a bligs tering ukrainian counteroffensive is pushing russian forces out of the kharkiv region and setting up what could be a new front in the battle for the donbas. but as the russians retreat on the ground, they are launching missile attacks on key infrastructure. firefighters racing to douse the flames in kharkiv on sunday
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after a russian strike hit a power plant. at least one person was killed. electricity knocked out in the donetsk and kharkiv regions. but those missiles aren't reversing stunning russian losses on the ground. ukrainian officials say their forces have retaken more than 40 settlements. they entered izyum over the weekend, a former key logistics hub for russia. video shows troops raising ukrainian flags and celebrating by firing shots in the air. ukraine's president addressing his forces directly, urging them to keep up the fight. >> translator: today everyone sees and notes your actions in the north, south, and east of ukraine. the world is impressed. the enemy is panicking. ukraine is proud of you, believes in you, prays for you, and is waiting for you. the path to victory is a difficult one, but we assure you, you are capable of it. you will reach our border, all
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its sections. >> but ukrainian advances don't mean, of course, that is the war is over or close to it, and officials say they are already finding evidence of more russian war crimes. cnn's melissa bell with more from kharkiv. >> reporter: two missile strikes on kharkiv city tonight where there's a total electricity blackout this sunday night. another electricity blackout in donetsk region as confirmed by the ukrainian president, president zelenskyy, in his nightly address this evening. it comes even as ukrainian forces have been able to take control of some villages here in kharkiv region. we were able to travel with ukrainian police as they showed us those areas that they believed were now entirely under their control, first of all to a village that was liberated these last few days on wednesday where even now, they've begun exhuming the bodies of civilians, the first evidence, they say, of some of the war crimes that were committed in the very early days of the invasion. remember it was in bucha and borodyanka, places that had only
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a month of russian occupation that we saw some of those terrible war crimes emerging just a few months ago. now as the count inter offensiv progresses, we're able to see what has gone on. things not clear as we'd imagined where even this sunday we saw more fighting going an as russian forces try and retake control of a town that is crucial to their supply lines to the front lines in the donbas. melissa bell, cnn, kharkiv. >> the pro-kremlin leader of the chechen republic has offered some rare public criticism of russia's defense ministry and its handling of the war. he's calling for changes in russia's military tactics in the coming days, saying mistakes have been made on the battlefield. his comments posted in an audio message on his telegram account. the chechen leader has supplied thousands of fighters to the russian campaign.
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joining me now from new york, a staff writer for "the new yorker," also the author of the book "surviving autocracy." great to see you. thanks for making the time. it was interesting, the chechen leader and computin supporter s he would be forced to speak with the russian leadership to explain what he called the real situation on the ground. he called these developments astounding. what are you seeing among loyalists on twitter, telegram, and elsewhere? >> there seems to be a fair amount of disarray. i mean it is perversely pleasurable to watch because what is being attacked in a way, or what is being hit, rather, is this sort of culture of reporting upstairs, of always building up the successes, which is part of what led putin, i think, and his advisers to believe that they were going to
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be able to conquer ukraine so easily, was this habit of reassuring each other that they're the strongest, the best, and no one else exists. and so now this nation that they imagined as -- or that putin has claimed doesn't exist and whose army they certainly imagined to be negligible has not only not allowed them to conquer the country over the course of a brutal, absolutely brutal six-month war, but is now counterattacking and managing to, within hours, liberate towns and cities that took russians days and weeks and months of brutal attacks to conquer. and so how do you square that with this entire political culture that rests on reassuring one another that we're the strongest and the best and that nobody else exists? it doesn't square. so what we're watching among the
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propagandists is a state of total disarray and confusion, and they're waiting for directions, and they're waiting to be told what to say and how to frame this. >> one pro-kremlin blogger on telegram, i was readying today, said this. quote, lord save the russian soldiers from blows from the front and even more from blows in the back. is there or could there soon be any, in your view, realistic threat to putin if the current path of the war continues and these opinions get expressed? >> i would not rush to conclusions about that. >> mm-hmm. >> the biggest fallacy that we engage in, in the west is sort of creating this imaginary picture of russia where putin can be brought down by becoming suddenly unpopular, by losing the people's trust, and by causing people economic hardship. all of that has happened, right? he has caused untold economic hardship over the course of the
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six-month war. he has caused the deaths of at least tens of thousands of russian soldiers, quite possibly more. he has caused other untold grief, and yet support hasn't wavered. so the only way that support for putin can actually waver is if the propaganda machine collapses. and the collapse of the propaganda machine is not directly related to military defeat or any kind of military losses, right? so that's what we really have to be watching is, is something going to happen to the propaganda machine? and that's going to take more than military victory of ukraine. >> to that point, as you were saying earlier, we've got to remember at the beginning of the war, the russians said they'd take kyiv in a matter of days and we've seen how that went. in a recent appearance, putin said that russia had, quote, lost nothing during the war. how will these losses in recent days make the war a harder sell to the russian population if and
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when that propaganda wall is broken down and they start hearing and seeing some of the things that are out there? >> i don't know that the propaganda wall will be broken down because putin now has an absolute monopoly on the airwaves on the internet, on basically everything that's out there. and so, you know, is it possible using the propaganda machine to conceal these losses or spin them in really bizarre ways? yes, it's possible. what also scares me is that russia is very much in the habit of sort of falling back on this position of the heroic victim. and that can happen here too. even as russia was waging this unprovoked, aggressive, illegal, brutal war against ukraine, even while it was on the offensive, it was spinning it as a defensive war against ukrainian nazis.
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so in that sense, it doesn't actually take that much to sort of be able to spin these military defeats. and we really have to be thinking about that now. we really have to be thinking about how to help ukraine defeat russia not only militarily but also encountering russian propaganda inside russia. that is a huge task, and it requires some really creative thinking. >> yeah. and as well as the battlefield goes, taking territory is one thing. holding it is another. it will be interesting to see how the russian military responds. i wish we had more time. thank you so much. really appreciate you coming on. >> thank you for having me. comiing up here on "cnn newsroom," the next leg of queen elizabeth's final journey begins in the hours ahead. what's ahead in scotland and much more after the break.
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♪ it's just before half past 6:00? the morning here. i'm becky anderson outside buckingham palace for you. the uk bidding a long farewell to its longest-serving monarch, queen elizabeth ii. the queen left her balmoral retreat in scotland for the last time on sunday, making what was a six-hour journey to edinburgh along a route lined with mourners. her coffin now rests in the throne room at the palace of holyroodhouse. in the coming hours, that casket will be moved in a procession to saint giles' cathedral for a service of prayer and
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reflection. members of the royal family, including king charles, will attend that. crowds across the uk now saying good-bye to one monarch while welcoming another. cnn's nic robertson has the details. >> reporter: at buckingham palace, massive crowds greet king charles ahead of some of his first meetings as the nation's new king. in wales, northern ireland, and scotland, celebration as his royal proclamation is read out sunday. >> god save the king! >> reporter: a more muted tone in balmoral, where his mother passed away on thursday. the queen's coffin began a six-hour journey to edinburgh, all part of a ceremony approved by the queen herself. crowds lined the streets as the queen's casket passed them by. the cortege accompanied by the queen's daughter, princess anne,
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wound its way through remote villages and cities of scotland. [ applause ] edinburgh's royal mile packed with mourners. the crowd gently clapping. and there goes the queen's coffin around the corner. people of all ages straining at the barriers for a better view, all coming to say good-bye to britain's longest-serving monarch. some had even saved spots along the road since news of the queen's death first broke. >> a lot of people have been here for hours, and the mood's been quite somber, but also quite nice. people talking fond memories about the queen. >> reporter: and this young girl will always live with the queen's legacy. >> she was actually named georgia elizabeth after the queen, so we thought it would be nice for her to grow up and be told that she was here today. >> reporter: people even
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bringing their pets out to pay their respects in memory of the queen's beloved corgis. journey's end this day, the palace of holyroodhouse, the queen to lie in the throne room. a memorial service monday in nearby saint giles' cathedral is next. in death, as she lived her life in service. >> this is her last royal engagement, and this journey has symbolized her duty, her service, and also her life. >> reporter: nic robertson, cnn, edinburgh, scotland. well, people from all walks of life are mourning the late british queen. the only monarch many of them have ever known. more now from edinburgh. >> when somebody gets to that age, you know it's going to come. but i think when you see the coffin and the cortege going by,
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that will mean it's just real. and even today, saying god save the king, it was strange, quite emotional. >> god save the king! ♪ >> i really, really like charles. he had a lovely documentary. i think he comes across really, really well. i think he's also aged like fine wine. i think he comes across really, really nice. he's done a lot of work for charity. >> i think king charles will do an unbelievable job, and it will be just as good as the queen
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hopefully. >> no, i think the queen is always going to be best. >> she used to be considered like a relative to every establish family basically. even we felt like a member of the family is gone basically. it's really shocking news. >> i'm so grateful to have been alive for 24 years during your reign, and it gives me such pleasure to be a current student at the royal academy of music where you are our patron, sort of a grandmother to us all. it's not just the loss of a monarch. it's a loss of someone like a family member. i think the last time we really felt this was with princess diana. >> she's been through quite a lot with the country, and then probably not going to see another queen again in our lifetimes.
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>> we'll have more from here just outside buckingham palace in london in a few minutes for you. let's, though, first bring in michael holmes who is in atlanta. mike. >> we'll see you then, beck. thank you very much. coming up here, a day of remembrance in the u.s. as americans commemorated the anniversary of the deadly september 11 terror attacks. we'll have a report when we come back.
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remembered the tragic event. cnn's polo sandoval with the story. >> reporter: here in new york city, it was a day of solemn remembrance as 9/11 families came together at the site where the twin towers once stood. as they led not only the country, but the world, as they marked 21 years since that awful day. we saw dignitaries coming together, including vice president kamala harris, chuck schumer, the senator of new york, as well as new york city mayor eric adams as they read out loud each one of the nearly 3,000 names. many of those family members still struggling through the tears, but at times, even smiling as they celebrated the legacy of their loved ones. also on hand, alejandro mayorkas, the secretary of the department of homeland security, an agency that actually was established after the events of that day. the secretary, in a conversation with me, talking to me about how the threats that the agency is monitoring, how those threats have evolved from not just international ones but also some
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that are domestic in nature. >> the threat landscape has evolved so dramatically. it is extraordinarily dynamic. you know, back 20 years ago when this department was formed, the greatest terrorism-related threat that we faced was the foreign terrorist who tried to come into our country and do us severe harm. we then began to focus in the second decade on the individual already resident here in the country, radicalized by a foreign terrorist ideology. now we are seeing increasingly the threat of domestic violent extremism, individuals, you know, driven to violence because of an ideology of hate, anti-government sentiment, false narratives. 20 years ago, the cybersecurity threat by criminal actors, adverse nations, wasn't top of mind. now it's something that we're very, very focused on. [ bell tolling ] >> reporter: and the tributes will continue into the overnight
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hours. the iconic tribute in light, the installation with those two powerful beams of light that shine into the sky from lower mau manhattan, those will be shining from dusk until dawn. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. southern california's fairview fire was temporarily held at bay over the weekend thanks to tropical storm kay, but officials aren't sure how long it will help containment efforts. cnn's camilla ben all with more from california. >> reporter: cal fire tell meg that sunday was a test day. what that means is they were trying to figure out whether or not the rain actually helped them and will continue to help them advance when it comes to this fire, or whether they're back to square one because it is so dry and so hot. one of the firefighters i talked to telling me, look, it may rain, but just an hour or so after the ground is dry again. now, on saturday, there was cloud cover, and that helped them in the sense that the fire didn't grow in size and
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containment did grow to at least 45%. but it is, again, hot and dry once again. so what authorities were able to do is continue their assessment of the homes. so the number of structures destroyed grew significantly on saturday to at least 30 structures destroyed, and families come back to an area that looks like what you see here behind me. it is cars that are melted, aluminum that is melted, and literally what you're just left with is ashes. it's also important to point out that two people have been killed as a result of this fire, trying to escape. and on saturday, a helicopter crashed here in the area. we know that this was a helicopter that essentially told other helicopters what to do, coordinates the drops around the area. and as it was finishing its assignment for the day, it crashed in a residential area. no one in that area was injured, but the three people inside of the helicopter were injured. it was one private pilot and two
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cal fire employees. we know that one of the cal fire employees was released from the hospital. we are still waiting to hear on the status of the other two that were injured. but in the meantime, this is just a reminder of how dangerous these fires can be for the residents and for the firefighters. camila bernal, cnn, hemet, california. the hottest european summer on record is melting snow in the alps at an alarming rate. a ski resort in western switzerland says a rocky path has now emerged between two glaciers that hasn't been seen in at least 2,000 years. think about that. one expert says it is all happening very quickly. >> ten years ago, i measured here with georadar. i still measured about 15 meters of ice. so more than 15 meters of ice
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have melted during the past ten years here, and actually the pass is not an ice pass connecting two glaciers anymore, but now it is separating the two glaciers from each other. >> extraordinary. one report says the alpine glaciers are headed for their biggest loss of ice since recordkeeping began more than half a century ago. scientists say meanwhile, one of the most unstable glaciers in antarctica, known as the doomsday glacier, is holding on by its fingernails. it's about the size of florida or great britain and got its nickname because of its high risk of collapse and its potential to drastically lift sea levels. in a study published in the journal nature geoscience, researchers say the glaciers underwater base has dislodged from the seabed and is eroding because of warming waters. in the near future, they believe
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it could recede even further and at a faster pace, which could eventually splinter the glacier. i'd like to bring in a senior research scientist at the university of colorado to talk more about this. he's joining me from boulder. thanks so much for doing so. i know you don't like the term "doomsday glacier," but just how worrying is what is happening to this glacier in antarctica? what if it disintegrates or substantially retreats in the years ahead? >> yeah, we are very concerned about the glacier and its potential for really rapid retreat in the next few decades. the main thing that thwaites represents is the possibility of a very rapid increase in the rate of sea level rise, and that, by itself, is going to put a lot of people in a position where they have a lot to do in order to protect their coastlines or protect port cities around the world.
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and unfortunately the work that we've done near thwaites has verified most of the aspects of the scenario that would lead to faster retreat and faster increases in ice in the not too distant future. >> and what would be -- how much of a domino effect would its collapse or massive retreat be? what are the dominoes? >> yeah. the main knock-on effects, if you will, from thwaites really beginning to accelerate would be that it would draw in some of the surrounding glaciers, the surrounding ice, and add to the amount of ice that gets dumped into the ocean. thwaites by itself has about two feet of sea level rise. that would take centuries to completely empty out west antarctica. but part of the problem is it's going to set in motion a lot of retreat from the surrounding gl
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glaciers, drawing them into the glacier as it expands and deflates over the next several decades to centuries. and that's -- that's mainly the domino effect that it's going to have. >> which would be catastrophic obviously. >> absolutely. >> i saw you say two or three years ago, i think it was, you said there's nothing like reality to convince people. even now with the myriad catastrophes around the world, do you think people and perhaps more importantly, governments get it, get how serious the situation is, what's at stake, what's to come? >> i think there's been a real turnaround just in the last few years. i'm finding it much easier to explain people and get them to accept the fact that there are huge consequences for continuing to put greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. you know, in the past, it was hard to get people to even accept that there was a problem or that science understood the problem well enough to make
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forecasts about it. i don't get that impression anymore. yes, there's still a minority of people that are not going to be convinced no matter what, but in fact, in general, i think people are ready to take steps, and i'm really pleased with some of the steps that have happened at the city level, at the state level, and now at the federal government and the u.s. taking major action in order to address this. i'm very optimistic about the future now. >> making those changes in time? >> i would say that we are in for a rough ride. the rest of this century is going to be terrible, and in fact, i'm afraid it's going to be quite discouraging. people are going to say, why are we doing these things? why are we investing this way if we're not going to have an instant effect because it's going to take decades for things to change. what's more is there's going to be a sort of a perception of shouldn't the weather never be bad again, and that, of
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course -- you know, we've always had extreme weather. but some of what's happened particularly in the last decade i think has convinced people there's a serious issue. that's going to be with us for a long time. what we will be avoiding are things like more rapid sea level rise, even worse disruptions in ecosystems and weather, and we'll be setting ourselves on track for a better 22nd century than we've had in the 21st century. >> it is worrying. it's nice to hear a note of optimism there from you. but, yeah, a lot of work to be done, and it is an urgent situation. ted scambos, thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> oh, you're very welcome. thank you. now, in addition to being britain's longest-ruling monarch, queen elizabeth was also known, of course, for her love of horses and her passion for her corgis. so what's to become of her majesty's beloved dogs? some answers coming up next on
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a tribute fit for a queen. the world's tallest building in dubai lights up with an imagine of queen elizabeth ii and the british flag. the 828-meter tall building is the latest in what is a string of iconic landmarks around the world to mark the death of the 96-year-old monarch. it's been a day since her death. piles of flowers and other moe men toes momentos have been placed outside. a reaction to the 96-year-old's recent efforts to connect with her youngest subjects.
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>> with eight grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. queen elizabeth was not only the matriorch of her family but her family. mourning the death of many people throughout the country is turning out to be a family affair. >> the queen made the uk shine. >> and do you think charles can do the same? >> yes. >> queen elizabeth reigned for 70 years. and even the youngest of her loyal subjects are getting a chance to say goodbye. by leaving handmade cards and drawings at memorials or laying flowers with their parents. i think that loads of people will want to wave at the cars when it goes by. >> reporter: the father of pippa says that she always shared a special tie to the
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queen as they shared a birthday. detailthere's a simple wisdom in some of the children's responses on why so many people are waiting for a glimpse of the late queen's coffin. sometimes it's about the simple fact of showing up. >> it's about the queen and the possession. >> kate is heard telling a group of children that her son george tried to comfort her by saying that the queen was with
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grand dad. some children were holding stuffed bears. perhaps one of the way queen elizabeth's youngest generation will remember her. there's been much speculation and concern since the queen's passing is to. what would happen to her beloved dogs. the a source tells cnn, the corgies will go to live with queen andrew and sarah ferguson. a source close to the pair says the dutchess shared a connection with the the queen for their love of dogs. the news will continue after
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