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their poise and grace and they are now realizing what lies ahead for them. thanks so much for watching. i want to hand it off to anderson cooper who tonight is at windsor castle. good evening from windsor castle which sits behind me with the lights now dark. about four hours ago britain's longest reigning monarch elizabeth ii was finally laid to rest. the chapel here named after her father king george vi. it was a private moment ending ten days of public grieving unlike anything this country has seen in 70 years or might ever see again. yet despite that possibility, despite the changing monarchy and the kingdom there was a timelessness about today. every sight and sound, every ceremonial step starting with the procession to westminster abbey was a reminder that this might just as well as been the 1926 of elizabeth ii's birth not the 2022 of her passing.
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the funeral was no different. ♪ 2,000 voices felling westminster with "the lord is my shepherd" said to be the queen's favorite song, at her wedding, also here 75 years ago. the archbishop of canterbury invoking another song and another bridge from past to present. >> her late majesty's broadcast during covid lockdown ended with we will meet again. words of hope from a song of vera lynn. christian hope means certain expectation of something not yet seen. we can all share the queen's
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hope which in life and death inspired her servant leadership. service in life, hope in death. all who follow the queen's example and inspiration of trust and faith in god can with her say, we will meet again. >> the funeral ended with a simple incantation and buglers blowing the last post the british counterpart to taps. >> the father, the son, and the holy spirit be among you and remain with you always. >> amen. ♪
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♪ ♪ >> there followed two minutes of silence throughout the country and commonwealth. big ben chimed once for every one of the queen's 96 years and
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the procession continued accompanied by troops from across the kingdom and the commonwealth and londoners saying their final farewells. ♪ and at wellington arch the king, princess anne, prince edward, william, and harry all
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at attention their children and grandchildren nearby as the coffin was transferred to a hearse for the final trip west to windsor castle. three decades ago fire consumed the castle ending a year of tragedy and scandal the queen herself lamented. 30 years later with the monarchy in flux she returned home. two of her beloved welsh corgies, sandy and mick, were waiting for her outside st. george's chapel where in yet another sign of continuity with the past some of the music was composed by sir william henry harris the organist here and taught young elizabeth piano when she was a girl. after a brief ceremony before the lowering of the coffin, we saw a sequence of steps and sights never before televised signifying the end of her reign and the beginning of the next.
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>> in the name of the holy spirit who strengtheneth thee in communion with the blessed saints. ♪ >> with me now jane fincher who has photographed the royal family for more than 25 years, is the author of "diana, portrait of a princess." thank you so much for being with us. >> it is a pleasure. >> for you to watch the images today, i mean obviously it brought back i'm sure a flood of memories from your career with
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the royal family but what did you think of how this day went? >> i thought it was beautiful really. i mean, it makes you very proud to be british on days like that. i think a time when britain is struggling with a lot of things, it sort of restored our faith in a lot of good things about this country. the beauty of the ceremony, i mean i've traveled the world so many years with the queen and this ceremony, the ceremonies, you know, they never fail to excite you and impress you because they are so immaculate but today's really surpassed everything. it was amazing. >> given all the troubles that, you know, faced us all in the world but great britain in particular right now, you look at windsor castle, a thousand years old. it has seen great troubles and great triumphs in that time. and it still stands. i feel like the continuity we saw today, the tradition on display, i found it hopeful sort of in the long run. >> it was really and to actually
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feel london and windsor to be so quiet. you know how mad everything is in the world now. there is always noise, planes, everything going on. just to have that peace and quiet and listen to the marching of the feet. it was something calming about it. very calming. >> you taught yourself photography taking pictures on polo grounds, prince charles playing polo. >> yes. >> got noticed. started to get published. you started working with the royal family. your first trip with the queen was to africa? >> i went on my first official tour with the queen. i was very young as a photographer, it was very daunting. >> you were 18 then? >> about 18, 19. very young. >> wow. >> and you were in zambia. >> botswana, maybe tanzania. >> i read she was flying on the very nice plane. you were in the plane with no seats. >> we were in the military plane at the back hanging on for the next -- with all the queen's
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luggage. >> the queen is in slacks. >> that was funny really because the queen went on safari and we were excited she was going to stand there and look at all these animals and absolutely not one animal turned up. there was nothing. she just stood there with the binoculars. nothing. she just stood there. but we got very excited because the day wasn't ruined because we got very excited the fact she was wearing trousers which sounds stupid but you never see the queen in trousers. when you're working in the royal circle anything like that would come up, photographers would get very excited because it was like oh, the queen's got trousers on. so the day wasn't really wasted. >> what was it like to see her on a frequent basis up close? >> it is really weird because you spend so much time staring at the members of the royal family but they spend a lot of time staring at you. so you have this sort of rapport where you notice things about them and then when you get the chance to speak to them they'll quiz you about something they noticed about you. one of us got a new car or has one of us got a new pair of shoes. it is quite astounding.
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you forget that. we stand there staring at them taking pictures but they're looking at us. >> sometimes they have a lot of time just standing around during ceremonies. >> yes. we often get questioned, has so and so got a new boyfriend or what's going on with this? you know, they were quite curious in the same way as we were about them. >> charles also noticed you early on when you were taking pictures at the polo grounds. there weren't many women photographers. >> no. most of my career there wasn't really any other women. i was this little pip squeak of a girl and he used to ride up and go hello who are you? i'd say i'm jane. he would stand and pose for me. i think over the years they quite liked having a woman because, you know, so many big photographers with all their cameras and pushing and shoving and i would just come along and stand quietly and they quite liked that. >> what did you make -- you spent a lot of time looking at charles. what did you, when the images of him today at st. george's, what did you see in his face?
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>> my heart went out pretty much today. i saw, yeah, a very broken man today wasn't he? and exhausted. he really needs a good break doesn't he? a good sleep. yeah, my heart went out for him. he does wear his emotions on his face. i mean, unlike the queen, you know, she was very good at controlling her emotions. i think charles doesn't hide them as much. you'll probably see that a lot, he'll show his emotions a lot more. but i did, yeah. my heart went out to him. he was really struggling with it. >> jane, thank you so much for talking with us. it was a pleasure. i want to talk more with our next guest about what lies ahead for the monarchy at the end of such a remarkable display of continuity with tradition. before we do i want to play a bit of footage today that would have seemed odd at least to our other, our own earlier traditions, an american president with scores of other world leaders singing "god save the king."
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♪ god save the king ♪ ♪ ♪ >> god save the king.
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joining us now cnn royal historian kate williams and correspondent max foster, chief international correspondent clarissa ward. what is the next, what happens tomorrow? i mean, there has been such focus on these last weeks, max, for the royal family, for king charles, obviously they have continued mourning period but for the monarchy, what changes? >> well, it was moving seeing prince charles, king charles sitting in the queen's seat. she has been sitting there for 70 years. today in the chapel, that was quite profound. then his tears in his eyes watching the coffin go down. i think what happens now is it's all on him. that's what that moment signified. they still have a week of mourning so we won't see much of them. we're not being told what they are doing tomorrow. we're told we won't see them. they have to recalibrate, look at their diaries. now the king is in charge of those diaries and will be stepping into what the queen would be doing in the past.
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i think that is going to take a whole load of recalibration because underneath him it all falls to the other two as well. you know, the prince of wales now has to get his head around the billion dollar estate and start running that and prince george was there today which was incredibly hard for him i think to see all this unfold but, you know, it is the reality. he is stepping up as well. >> how old? >> he is 9 years old. >> wow. so when you say he is stepping up, does he have lessons in this sort of thing? >> this is a lesson. these are the lessons. this is what happens at a royal funeral. a state funeral. that is the training. and, you know, he needed to see that. the greatest monarch that ever lived according to some historians. kate may not agree but probably put her in the top three, right? >> i think definitely we will look back on her in history as i think our most successful monarch and the monarchy will
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not be the same in the aftermath. i think what we have, historians will be looking at this great day we've seen today, an outpouring of emotion for the queen or for the monarchy and when you spoke to so many people, we've been chatting to people and so many are talking about their respect for the queen, their admiration for her. how does king charles translate that into support for his monarchy and that is his challenge i think. >> also so many people have alluded to it but the problems facing great britain, economic and other. there is a brand new prime minister. she is still finding her sea legs obviously. it is not smooth sailing ahead. >> it certainly is not. i think especially for prime minister liz truss because the country is basically on pause now for the last ten days. the last time she tweeted publicly about government issues was talking about a sort of energy tariff plan to try to deal with soaringen flags and energy prices -- soaring
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inflation and energy prices in this country. she has her work cut out for her starting tomorrow and has to define who she is and set her mark. there was a rather awkward moment during the service at westminster abbey today where an australian network incorrectly identified her as a minor royal, which granted she is relatively new on the scene and maybe not so well known to an international audience but this will really now be the moment where she has to step up to the plate, confront some of these major challenges facing the united kingdom, and really try to put her own mark on how she is going to tackle them with her government. >> how organized is the transition? obviously we've seen the funeral plans have been incredibly organized, but charlts waking up, king charles waking up tomorrow morning and does it all, is it already organized that he receives the daily diaries or -- >> there are different roles. you know, the head of the
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family, which he is now. so, you know, head of nation which is the more emotional side appearing in moments of celebration and grief and, you know, being identified as someone that is part of the patented daily life and you'll see him giving the christmas message as well as part of that. then there is head of state which is a very formal role. he is now already opening the red boxes and receives them every day from the government. these are government papers saying what is going on in government. he has to be completely across that. he's been doing that ever since the queen died. >> so he's been taking over, i mean, gradually duties that she normally would have done over the last year or so. >> yes, you never have a holiday as a monarch. you have to read the red boxes ever day. but i think the pressure is that the queen didn't have any sort of training. she just got dropped straight into it and that might have helped her. he had the longest sort of training, apprenticeship ever. but the pressure that comes with that you've been thinking about
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it all these years and suddenly you have to put it into action. it can be very overwhelming i imagine and a very lonely place to be, being monarch. he has to rely on the prince of wales as part of that but i think we've seen as well princess anne stepping up and prince edward. i think they'll have much more prominent roles going forward. >> clarissa, what is the expectation for king charles? how he will be different? >> well, i think that, you know, from people who work closely with him he is known for being incredibly hard working. i mean, at his desk until midnight, up at 6:00 in the morning. passionate about a lot of issues. you heard jane talking before the break about how he, you know, you can see the emotions on his face when he is moved, when he's cross. he's had these issues that he is very passionate about. obviously he has to pull back from some of those. it'll be very interesting to see what his coronation is going to look like. is it going to look anything like his mother's which of course was an extraordinary
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event. 8,000 people from 129 different countries. i think the expectation is that this will be somewhat leaner and more slimmed down. and also reflective of a very different britain. more diverse. more emphasis on multi faith which is something that king charles feels quite passionately about. i do think you'll see him really endeavor quite soon to try to put his own stamp on things. >> kate, his coronation will be do we know when? >> well, we expect it to be starting i'd say may, june next year. so hers was in june, 953. i think he does want to get started quickly but certainly coronations tend to be in the finer weather so i expect may, june. but certainly i agree with clarissa. i think he -- we will see some of the stamps of his reign in that coronation. the queen's, this great moment in 1953 coming out of the post war misery, the first televised coronation. this incredible moment of beaming all over the world. it was really a propaganda
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moment selling britain to the post war world and the post imperial world. and what charles will do i think is very different and it will have to be more slimmed down but, certainly, i think what he would expect to have is that camilla will be crowned with him. that he will have camilla crowned with him as queen consort and that will be quite significant because we haven't of course seen that the queen was crowned on her own. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. thanks for staying up. a long day. a live report from puerto rico next. at least two people are now dead and much of the island is still without power after hurricane fiona tore through the island. later 2024 presidential politics and the question is whether the current president will run again, a question he addressed this weekend without quite fully answering but giving some hints. and d find the answer that was right under their nose. or... his nose. ♪
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about a thousand people rescued from flood waters, hundreds more rescue efforts still under way as emergency responders try to navigate through difficult-to-reach areas. the interior part of the island, this 25-year-old watched this bridge come apart in just minutes and wash down the river. on the west side of the island, rainfall swelling the river, surpassing its previous record height at 28.59 feet, set during hurricane maria now gauging to over 29 feet the national weather service said. while a few hospitals have regained power, emergency workers are racing to get electricity back to the island. >> it takes so long to get things back up because so many of the systems are connected and some of the main lines go through the hills there and if those main lines get damaged they don't have the ability to get other sections up and running. >> reporter: sn morning president joe biden approving an emergency declaration for puerto rico authorizing all emergency
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among the world leaders gathered here today for the queen's funeral was president joe biden. he and first lady jill biden paid respects to the queen as she was lying in state over the weekend. they also signed condolence books or attended a reception that included king charles iii. before he arrived he recorded an interview with 60 minutes that aired last night and suggested there is still a possibility he might not run in 2024. >> look, my intentions as i said to begin with is that i would run again. it is just an intention. is it a firm decision i run again? that remains to be seen. >> we should note that biden cited election laws as the reason he is not announcing a firm decision. also if he does run he later mentioned he is in, quote, pretty good shape.
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>> david, president biden is often known to speak off the cuff. is there any political rationale for him to not commit to running for re-election? >> well, look. i think that there is. one is it is very early as he said to formally announce. there are legal reasons why you shouldn't. there are political reasons why you want to put that kind of announcement off. but he also i thought was very candid. look, we've never experienced this before. if he were 60 years old or 50 there wouldn't be any question about him running for re-election. he is not. he is going to be 80 in december. what he said was, i'm a believer in fate. it's my intent to run. i'll make that decision at the appropriate time. i think there was a certain honesty to that, that was commendable. >> there is this idea if president biden commits to only one term he could be more free to make difficult or unpopular
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decisions because he doesn't have to run for re-election. there are others who say if you say you aren't going to run again you lose a lot of leverage >> i mean, in this political environment i don't really know what the popular decisions would be. i mean, he's done a lot of things over the last few years and they have not really bumped up those numbers as high as he would like in terms of his approval. the other piece of context here is that, you know, it has taken him in the past a long time to decide to get in the race. in 2016, correct me if i'm wrong, david, he took so long he couldn't even really mount a credible race even if he wanted to jump in. he is one of those rare candidates who really would say out loud, well i'm not so sure about this. then lastly, he has to wait for midterms. that is really going to show whether or not his agenda and whether his term so far is something the party can actually run with successfully. >> david, if president biden chooses not to run for re-election what does that do to planning for democratic
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presidential hopefuls? how much advance warning would they need to start raising money and building an organization? >> well, i think a fair amount which is why his making a decision in the near term is important. not now. but certainly after the midterms and before the first quarter of next year because democrats, there is no obvious candidate for the democratic party. the democratic party desperately needs a primary campaign to surface a candidate. bill clinton was at 1% when he started running for president. barack obama was considered a very, very long shot when he got into the race in 2007. the campaigns are where you prove yourself. but if the campaign is short because the president decides not to run and he announces that late it really curtails the ability to have the campaign that the party needs. >> do you think if president biden does run again he would face a primary challenge from
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the left? >> you know, that is a really interesting question. it is hard to see given how loyal people are to him. i think he does have a good reputation inside the party. but that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be a challenger maybe with a, representing a generational shift so to speak. that is something biden himself has talked about. but, you know, right now the language is not there. it is a little bit like what you're seeing on the republican side, where people aren't saying i'm definitely going to run because trump isn't running. they're just laying the groundwork very publicly. and i think that when biden makes more space for people to do that if that is what he decides to do you will see people fill that vacuum. i think david is in a better position to say whether or not that would invite direct challenge. >> anderson, i don't think -- i think if joe biden runs, joe biden will be the nominee of the democratic party.
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one thing that's happened over the summer is his numbers which were lagging among democrats have bounced back in part because of the legislative victories he had over the summer. i think there's affection for joe biden within the democratic party. if he has a primary challenger i still think he is going to be the nominee. it will impede his ability to win. but i don't think his calculation, and i've said this many times, is a political calculation. i think his calculation is an actuarial calculation and whether he feels at his, you know, he would be 82 when he took office a second time. whether he thinks that's appropriate and whether he thinks he is up to that. >> yeah. really good conversation. thanks so much. just ahead i'll be joined by the young poet who became a sensation after an appearance at president biden's inaugural. today amanda gorman unveiled a
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a concern of the new king climate change was one of the many global challenges front and center at the united nations today. one of those on stage to focus on the societal concerns was american poet amanda gorman.
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you may recall the poem she read during president biden's inauguration where she spoke of, quote, a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished. in the following months she became the first poet to perform for the super bowl. her new poem is called "an ode we owe" and her words today focused on issues afflicting not just a country but a planet. >> how can i ask you to do good when we've barely with stood our greatest threats yet. the depths of death, despair, and disparity, atrocities across cities, towns, and countries, lives lost, climactic costs, exhausted, angered, we are endangered not because of our numbers but because of our
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numbness. >> and i am very pleased amanda gorman joins me now. amanda, it is so lovely to see you. and thanks for all you're doing. tell us about the background of the poem and what inspired you. >> thank you so much. it's great to be here again. and to tell you a bit about the poem, i was really excited at this opportunity to have poetry represented at the united nations and what's more to use it to speak to some of the most pressing issues of our time, whether it be the climate crisis, poverty, gender and equity, all of these issues are connected in making solutions means we need unity and solidarity. >> is there a particular part of the poem that resonates with you most, something maybe you could read or share? >> absolutely. for me, one of the parts that
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felt resonant for me was the ending because i wanted it to be a call to action. so here is an excerpt. this morn let it be sworn that we are one human kin, grounded, not just by the grieves we bear, but by the good we begin to anyone out there. i only ask that you care before it's too late, that you live aware and awake. that you lead with love and hours of hate i challenge you to heed this call. i dare you to shape our fate above all. i dare you to do good. so that the world might be great. thank you >> i love that. what was the line, the grieves not just grounded by the griefs we share but by the good we --
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>> begin. >> what was it? >> one human kid grounded not just by the griefs we bear but by the good we begin. >> i love that. i will think about that a lot tonight. >> thank you. what do you want people watching and listening to take from this poem and how do you write poetry? i mean, how long does it take you to do something like this? do you have a concept first or does it just sort of, do the words come and then they fit together? >> anderson, we ain't got time for my poetic process. but to give you a snapshot, really, my poems start with the heart of the matter so to answer your question, the things that i want people to take away from my poetry, that's where i begin. i begin with the wound. i like to think of it. i begin with the place of pain. and then i like to feel a movement toward what brings us
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together. where is hope in the darkest of hours. that dictates what i write and how. >> that notion, i begin with the wound. that is fascinating. you recited this poem at the united nations to draw attention to sustainable development goals. can you talk a little bit about what those are, what they mean to you? for people who may not be up on this? >> absolutely. the sustainable development goals are around 17 goals that have been highlighted by the united nations and they range from things such as, you know, facing, gender inequity, education for children, goals around poverty and hunger. and what makes them so supportive is these are aims that collectively are oriented for the world. so we're not just talking about towns, cities, countries here. we're talking about the globe. and more often than not these are goals that our governments can't get to on their own. they really need the activation
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and engagement of people. i think especially young people. so if you don't know about the sdgs, please look them up because we would love to have your leadership. >> amanda gorman, always a pleasure. congratulations on all you're doing. >> thank you so much. >> all right. coming up a reversal of fortune for the man profiled in the true crimes podcast "serial" why a judge threw out the murder conviction of adnan sayid and where the search for answers in the young woman's deatath goes from here. that is next. the lows of bipolar depression can take y you to a dark place. latuda could make a real difference in your symptomoms. latuda was proven to signgnificantly reduce bipolar depression symptoms. and in clinical studies, had no substantial impact on weight. this is where i want to be. call your doctor about sudden behavior changes or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion,
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back in the u.s. tonight, for the first time in more than two decades, sayid is not behind bars and he may never be again. you may remember the case drew national attention from the first season of the hit podcast "serial." what led prosecutors to their extraordinary reversal and why nothing about this case is closed. >> free from prison after 23
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years behind bars, a crowd swarmed adnan syed outside a baltimore court moments after the judge vacated a murder conviction against him. he's ordered to wear an electronic ankle bracelet until the state decides whether to pursue a new trial against him or drop all charges in the death of hay manley, his ex-girlfriend, a high school student strangled to death in 1999. her body was discovered weeks later. >> we're not yet declaring adnan syed is innocent, but we are declaring he is entitled to a new trial. >> reporter: syed has maintained his innocence since he was convicted in 2000. >> i felt like they've got to have the wrong guy. >> reporter: a popular hbo series raised new questions about the case in 2019.
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>> young lovers from different worlds. >> reporter: but it was the hit podcast "serial" that brought the case and the possibility there had been a miscarriage of justice to national attention in 2014. lee's party telling the courtroom, this isn't a podcast for me. this is real life. and tearfully adding, whenever i think it's over, it's ended, it always comes back. but the judge ruled in favor of the motion filed by prosecutors who are had asked for his immediate release following a year-long reinvestigation into the case against him that turned up a slew of failures cited in a 21-page court document. among them, the unreliability used in the original trial, advances in dna testing, and most critically, newly developed information about two alternative suspects and the state's failure to disclose critical information about those suspects to the defense at the time of the trial. >> our investigation uncovered that one of the suspects
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threatened ms. lee, saying he would make her disappear, he would kill her. we also received information that provided motive for that same alternative suspect. >> reporter: a final decision on whether to actually proceed with a new trial will likely hinge, according to prosecutors, on results of touch dna testing on some items recovered from the crime scene, a technology that didn't exist at the time of the crime. still, for throngs of supporters, this is the first victory more than two decades in the making. for the family of lee, a start for answers in the death of their beloved. >> this family is interested in the pursuit of justice. they want to know more than anybody who killed their loved one. >> alexander field joins me now. what recourse, if any, does the victim's family have now? >> the attorney that's representing the family now says they have options for an appeal. the decision to release syed
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from prison, they are considering whether or not to pursue that. it seems too soon for them. the family is very much in a state of shock. for more than two decades, they have believed that adnan syed was the murderer of their daughter. they feel this signals prosecutors have changed their opinion. they're also said to be disappointed with how this happened. prosecutors understand the family's disappointment, but they're holding up the fair and just process for the defendant as well, anderson. >> alexander field, appreciate it. we'll continue to follow it. coming up, much more from here outside windsor castle, as england says its final good-byes to queen elizabeth. the most unforgettable moments and a look at the special bond between the queen and her only daughter. that's ahead. >> allergy sprays take hours astepro starts working g in 30 minutes.
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