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glory, forever and ever. amen welcome, sir. >> for our brother james, let us pray through our lord jesus christ, who said, i am the resurrection, and i am life. lord, you consoled martha and mary in their distress. draw near to us who mourn for james, and dry the tears of those who weep yes, lord, you weep at the

grave of lazarus, your friend. comfort us in our sorrow. hear us, lord. you raised the dead to life. gir brotr eternal life. hear us, lord. you promised paradise to the thief who repented. bring our brother to the joys of heaven. hear us, lord. our brother was washed in baptism and anointed with the holy spirit. give him fellowship with all your saints. hear us, lord. lord, comfort us in our sorrows at the death of our brother. let our faith be our. consolation, and eternal life. our hope. hear us, lord.

>> father of all, we pray to you for james and for all those whom we love. but see no longer. grant to them eternal rest. let light perpetual shine upon them. may his soul and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of god, rest in peace. amen

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sh. >> all right. a very moving funeral. state funeral for president jimmy carter. we just saw president biden greeting prince edward and canadian prime minister justin trudeau. we saw former president bush shaking hands with president elect. trump. there is vice president mike pence and vice president al gore. interesting moment that pence told gore that when he decided to follow the constitution and preside over the awarding of the electoral votes to joe biden back in january 2021, it was al gore who he took some inspiration from. al gore, who presided over the counting of the electoral votes in his own

defeat. despite many members of the house objecting, and gore said to him, that means more to me than you can know. and anita mcbride, one of the things that's so remarkable about this is the presence of first families. and you told me just a minute ago that there are individuals there dating back to the family of president franklin roosevelt. right. >> exactly. one of the granddaughters of franklin roosevelt, along with representatives of every presidential family from that point forward, are together in that moment of national significance. but they were also together this morning at the white house. and the bidens had invited the carter family and presidential families to be together before going on to the church, and particularly for the carter family to see president carter's portrait draped in black, which is a tradition and a really wonderful. moment for the white

house to honor an occupant who had lived there. >> and jamie, we heard from the president carter's grandson, jason carter, which was a human and loving address, and also one where he spoke as a member of a presidential family, thanking all the other presidential families for being there. >> he is a remarkable speaker. it was poignant. it was moving. he brought his own family to tears. you could see them react, but he also made people laugh. he was self-deprecating when he talked about his grandfather's house in plains, being very humble and modest. he said it looked like a house he might have built himself. referring to his work at habitat for humanity. he also talked about how when his grandfather would answer the door, he might show up in 70 style short shorts and crocs, and that going back to being a

depression era kid, that next to the sink, his grandparents had a rack where they would dry and then reuse ziploc bags. so he really gave just an incredible personal portrait that both celebrated his life, honored him, but gave that personal touch. >> and we also heard abby phillip from former congressman carter, administration ambassador to the united nations, and reverend andrew young. i think he's 91 years old, 92, 92 years old. technologies and giving a seemingly extemporaneous speech about his experience with president carter. and also something of a of a history lesson on the civil rights movement during that era. >> yeah. i mean, i thought it was really remarkable. we were sitting here watching him. he was delivering a homily, but then delivered a speech about this man that he says he's known for 50 years. what's so

interesting about andy young, first of all, is that they are talks so movingly about how extraordinary it was for him to even conceptualize a person, anyone from plains georgia an almost backward of georgia being elected president of the united states. but even more remarkable, plains georgia is a place where he described jimmy carter as being among the minority. black people were the majority in that part of georgia. you know, one thing to note about jimmy carter is that and andy young is that andy young was essentially fired from the carter administration. and and he was fired in a way, because of pressure, because he had an unauthorized conversation with the palestinian liberation organization. but jimmy carter was regretful about that. he had chosen andy young because of his ties to the civil rights

movement. jimmy carter never met mlk jr., who was also a georgian, but spent so much of the rest of his life doubling down on the principles of the civil rights movement, expanding it into a human rights movement. we talk about human rights because jimmy carter made it so, because he made it part of american foreign policy. so it's extraordinary to hear from this man who is was not quite as old as jimmy carter, but is in his advanced years and was able to to to take us back to this era that jimmy carter tried to close in his inaugural address. he said the time for racial discrimination is over. it's it's really it was the end of that era. thankfully, at the beginning of the end of that era for this country and dana bash, we also heard from president biden, of course, i think he has 11 days left as president. >> it is an interesting bookend for his presidency that he's giving the eulogy as president

for the very first presidential candidate. he endorsed as a u.s. senator, joe biden, elected to the senate in 1972. he endorsed jimmy carter with some risk. jimmy carter was not the leading candidate when he did so, and he said jimmy carter's friendship taught me and through his life taught me that strength of character is more than title or power, that we hold it to strength to understand that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect. >> and the fact that you have an 82 year old president talking about his own endorsement in 1972 really speaks to the endurance and the length of both of their careers. and it makes me think of this line that i will never forget from stuart eizenstat, who also spoke here. and he was a longtime aide to from georgia and then into the white house to jimmy carter. and what

ambassador eizenstat said was, it's not the number of years they served, but the duration of their accomplishments. speaking of presidents. and so here you have jimmy carter being eulogized, being celebrated, even though he was a one term president. he obviously had so many years, a half a century afterwards of accomplishments and standing there in that beautiful cathedral were five presidents, four of whom did get two terms, one, the one who eulogized him. joe biden, was just defeated for his second term. and yet he can certainly claim, as he alluded to, with the fact that he has known jimmy carter since the early 70s, that he has a duration in years of accomplishments, reminded in this age we live in today, where we rush to judgment, where we are supposed to post

immediately in the second of the value of time in history and context. >> when jimmy carter left office, the political rap on him in this town was that he was weak, right? because of the hostage crisis or because of the energy crisis. i think we heard a lot today about an incredibly strong person of dignity and character. the proverb is that you judge a man by the company he keeps in washington. much was made that he was not a fond member of the president's club, that he didn't like to hang around with those who came after him. well, listen to who we did hear from today. his family. just remarkable. and how it was so much important, much more important for him to be with plains georgia all the work he did for poor and disenfranchized people in this country and around the world. stuart eizenstat, one of the icons of public service and what public service is supposed to be. and then reverend young as abby noted himself a civil rights pioneer and someone who was a confidante of doctor king at an incredibly important time in american life and american history. world history, you could argue the civil rights movement and the example it

set. and so if you judge a man by the company he keeps, then president carter should be and will be judged quite well. >> our friend and colleague wolf blitzer was inside the national cathedral for the service. wolf, you just you just came out. tell us what you saw and heard what it was like in there. >> you know, i've been fortunate enough to attend several funerals of prominent individuals here at the at the cathedral. this was one of the most moving, if not the most moving. it was so well organized. it was so beautiful. the eulogies, all the speakers were really powerful, really moving, really excellent. and what they did was they separated the eulogies, the speakers with music and prayer. and it was just i could sense in the room. and there were at least a thousand people who were gathered inside the washington, this cathedral here in washington, there were at least a thousand people there inside, and everyone was so

silent during the speaking. they were so moved by the prayers. they were so moved by the the singing and the the choruses and and all the music. and i was moved as well. and it was just a wonderful tribute to jimmy carter. and i must say it was it was beautifully done and i was so impressed. let me get caitlin and casey into this conversation. i'm sure you were as well, wolf. >> i wonder what you thought of jason carter's eulogy for his for his grandfather? because i just loved what he said. you know, i'm from the south southern grandparents, and we see them coming out now just over our shoulders, um, saying, all right, let's listen in for a minute. >> as they moved the coffin.

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asked and now the motorcade will leave the washington national cathedral and eventually head back to joint base andrews, just outside of washington, d.c., for the journey back to georgia to atlanta and plains georgia, where jimmy carter will be buried. >> and they just played hail to the chief wolf, a song that jimmy carter famously did not like and did not allow to be

played. when he first took the white house, and then finally aides convinced him, you know, no, the american people like this, they like this part of the presidency and the majesty that comes with it in that sense. but he was just such a man of the people from his walk down pennsylvania avenue as they closed that final door, that he didn't like it to be played. he did later change on that. but but, wolf, you know, hearing from jason carter talking about, you know, his his southern grandpa and letting ziploc bags drive by the refrigerator. but it was the words of gerald ford that i thought were so amazing to hear. i mean, he wrote that eulogy. he passed away 18 years ago. and so to hear his words read by his son, steven ford was just it was really something. >> it was really moving. i know you're going to be speaking to steven ford at some point in getting his thoughts, and i'm looking forward to that as well. casey, what what when you saw this really moving funeral unfold, what was going through your mind? >> yeah. well, you know, for

jimmy carter and for joe biden in many ways, this is something of a generational conclusion to the way politics used to be done here in in this country. and just even when you reflected on what it was like to have all of the current living presidents together, it really in many ways underscored that because there are realities around those relationships that haven't existed in the recent in american history, for example, the greeting of mike pence by donald trump, the first time those two men have been in the same room since. of course, what happened on january 6th, 2021, when there were supporters of donald trump who were urging the killing of mike pence? we've never seen a dynamic like that then play out in public and personal way. and i was struck by president biden talking about the character of jimmy carter. you know, i think his character is something that a lot of americans, even if perhaps you didn't think his

presidency went very well or you disagreed with him policy wise, his character was very much on display, especially during the decades of his post-presidency, and became something that was so widely admired. and to hear president biden really talk about that, considering how the character of others who are now on the public stage is often talked about, viewed by others, i thought that that was a remarkable, very generous to carter. but a sharp contrast that says something about our politics today. >> and i thought stuart eizenstat, who was the chief domestic policy adviser to carter when he was president of the united states, was really powerful because he made the point that a lot of people nowadays say, well, jimmy carter was really a great ex-president, did amazing things as a as a former president. but his four years in office really didn't do much. and i thought that stuart eizenstat made some really excellent points. he did some create some really important things in his presidency. and stuart referred to that.

>> yeah. and he defended their record and said talked about the duration of that and how he's changed the presidency and listed off a lot of that, that maybe a lot of people don't remember. because you do talk people talk about the iran hostage crisis or inflation or the other measures that marked his presidency. and he spent that time talking about those moments that that also defined the carter presidency and have still shaped it, because after we heard from from gerald ford's words from his son, we also heard walter mondale as well, and jimmy carter fundamentally reshaped not only walter mondale's vice presidency, but but for jd vance sitting in there, what it's going to be like for him in the next four years, he'll have an office in the west wing. that's because of jimmy carter and that relationship between presidents and vice presidents. speaking of trump and vice president pence, just that entire dynamic, and obama and biden shifted because of jimmy carter. and so i think stuart made a great point, saying a lot of the things he did had lasting change on the presidency. >> it's not the number of years he said. stuart eizenstat

said that you serve as president, but the accomplishments that you achieve as president of the united states, and he helped create the department of education, the department of energy, a peace treaty between israel and egypt. at the time, this was just a few years after they were at war, and he spent 13 days at camp david working around the clock to achieve that deal. and it certainly came through. it did, wolf. >> and, you know, the other thing that's interesting, too, about how carter's presidency is reflected upon now, part of why his relationships with others in this presidents club was a little bit fraught was because for a long time, president obama, for example, when he was in office, didn't consult carter about things, especially in light of the financial crisis. there was almost a fear of association with his presidency that obviously was set aside for today, you know. but speaking of president obama as well, and kind of the threads that connect all of these men, one of the most interesting moments during the beginning of, you know, ahead

of the service was when and caitlin, you and i were sitting here watching it together when barack obama sat down next to donald trump, they had what seemed to be a lengthy end to the eye anyway, pleasant conversation, some back and forth. it was actually a pretty sharp contrast to how, at the at least at the beginning of the service, donald trump seemed to not interact with president george w bush at all. it seems like they shook hands at the conclusion of yeah, we did see them shake hands later on, but a really kind of remarkable moment that that really i mean, you have to wonder what the two of them were said. and actually, an official told me that these presidents, when they come into an event like this, there's actually a very small room inside. it's near one or the other of the chapel. uh, another one of the chapels there. they all are expected to wait together. now, we don't know the details of what happened this time around. if someone was in the hallway or, you know, president biden was a little bit later than the others. but i think it's worth noting that they also do get

private time together. and, you know, wolf, i'm sure you've covered or been there for. i remember when i was a pool reporter for the associated press, when you i was in an elevator with every republican running for president in 2012. at the same time, those moments where they are together privately are also can be in many ways more remarkable than the ones we see in public. >> it was really a significant moment these these former presidents of the united states all gathering together to pay tribute and to honor jimmy carter. it was very moving to see it. i was inside and i could see it up close. and it was really it was really a really powerful moment. and so now this casket draped with the american flag is leaving the washington national cathedral and making its way, as i said, towards joint base andrews outside of washington, to head back to georgia. this is a significant development indeed. let's listen in for a moment. john berman you're watching all of this unfold as well. let's let's bring you into this. >> yeah. i was watching along here with three historians, biographers and my fellow

civilian audie cornish. i think what we were struck by was the presence of history on that stage. andrew young himself, the embodiment of history in the last half of the 20th century, said that jimmy carter is a miracle. then again, america is a miracle. i think that's the point that andrew young was making. and jimmy carter's life away, an embodiment of that. >> well, it was a miracle he was talking about the first time he met him during the height of the civil rights movement. and what an improbable journey jimmy carter had coming from plains all the way to the white house. you know, this this underscores, you know, 30 years ago i wrote something about carter for the first time, and i quipped that he was the only man who who used the oval office as a stepping stone to greater things. and then i learned much later that carter actually resented this notion

that his ex-presidency was such a success and that his presidency was a failure. and i can, i'm reminded in the eulogy by stu eizenstat, he was brilliant in precise in laying out the long litany of legislative accomplishments that changed america, from coming back to andrew young's statement from race to climate change to human rights, to israel-palestine. he was a prophet. he was this sort of southern baptist born again prophet who was led a most unusual presidency. and he has proven to be actually quite prescient about many of these same issues that we are facing this very day. >> it's also intriguing to think of him in the context of today as a servant leader, which is a kind of leadership style that people talk about having biblical roots, but also later proper roots in leadership theory, where it's not about only amassing power for power's sake, it's actually

about being a servant to the people around you, which is why you could see how he might have ruffled feathers about what you were saying. kai. right. because to him he's like, no, no, i went there to serve. i went there to accomplish a lot. and that legacy shouldn't be ignored. and today you very much saw the burnishing of a legacy, trying to kind of re rewrite the parameters of how he has been talked about. >> there was some resume repetition there from stuart eizenstat ted mondale a little bit, and there was the presence of five presidents in the room. but to me they were overshadowed by one former president not in the room. and that was gerald ford. when steven ford began speaking, reading the eulogy that his father, gerald ford, had written. i think all of us sat here and got chills. >> it was beautiful. steve ford said that they respected each other as adversaries, but cherished each other as friends. and i thought that was beautiful, that, you know, these are two men who didn't,

on paper, have much in common. they grew close. they helped each other in the post-presidency, raised money for each other's libraries. gerald ford did some some work for the carter center. um, jimmy carter did some work for the ford library. and to me, it really makes the point that, as dwight eisenhower said, the country is far more important than any one of us. and i think that these former presidents, we saw that today. it was a rare moment where we see them coming together. and i think you can look at every single one of these men and make and make these comparisons. i mean, bush and obama, for instance, after bin laden was killed during the obama administration, one of the first calls president obama made was to george w. bush and said, we did it. that's the continuity of the work that goes on in the presidency. that's not about one administration, one man or another. it's about american democracy. and it's not about ego. it's about generosity. and i think that we see this kind

of bygone era, you know, it's not completely gone. there are still signs of it. we saw some of it today. >> tim, i agree with kate. um, this was a celebration of a man, but it was also a celebration of an era. and in a sense, it was a coda for an era. just think about this. the last president of the silent generation said goodbye to the last living president of the greatest generation, the last of the senior lieutenants. no, sorry. one of the last senior lieutenants of martin luther king evoked martin, doctor king and the era in saying goodbye to this miraculous white landowner from the black belt, who was a progressive on civil rights. we were walking through the history of the last. 80 years of our country's existence through the speeches directed to the memory of one

man. so jimmy carter contained multitudes, but his era contained multitudes. president biden talked about the fact, as kate mentioned, that those values will, he hopes, outlive carter. one can only hope. but on this day, we won't think about. the next day. we'll think about those days before, when jimmy carter was among those walking this earth and celebrating certain values and living them. >> as andrew young said, he is gone, but he is not gone far. stay with us. as president jimmy carter returns to georgia for burial beside his beloved wife, rosalynn. plus, we're going to have much more updates from los angeles wildfire disaster unfolding before our eyes. much more from cnn after a quick break.

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herself. >> it's armageddon. i'm driving through a war zone right now and i don't even know what to say. i'm speechless. i'm shocked. i'm just so sad for our devastated community. we lost 600 homes in the woosley fire, one of which was mine. and now i don't even know how we're going to be able to recover from this. >> at this hour, firefighters are battling five major blazes, and while the winds have decreased, the danger is far from over. cnn's kyung lah is live in altadena. so kyung altadena, for people who aren't familiar with the geography is inside where that eaton fire is. and again, officials say it is 0% contained. we see what's behind you on the ground there. what else do we see? >> i want you to just get a snapshot because we're talking about these big numbers, about acreage. this is also very much about human beings. this is yvette anderson's home, and she

invited us to come here and walk through it with her just a short time ago. this is her front stoop. this is her kitchen. she even wanted to point out her pots and pans, her appliances are charred. she is a nurse at the va. she has lived in this home, building it for 25 years. back in the distance, you can see where her 80 year old mom lived and she raised her children. here. she has grandchildren here. a three bedroom, two bath house that's now just reduced to nothing. and 24. a little more than 24 hours ago, she thought all of this was going to be fine. the fire came so ferociously and so quickly through. you can see that it didn't even burn up parts of this front lawn and then walk out this way. and this is yvette's entire neighborhood. it's almost completely gone. this is a middle class community where you have nurses like yvette. you have firefighters, you have police officers, a working

class community that knows each other. and this is a special place because of that. and what they are now experiencing is, you know, you're hearing choppers in the air. this firefight is very much happening as we speak. it is a dangerous, deadly fire. more than 10,000 acres. five people here in altadena have died. so when we talk about what this means, this is going to mean millions upon millions. as people like yvette try to figure out how they're going to rebuild their homes. and what all of this means. it's going to mean a struggle with insurance and trying to, right now, figure out which hotel they're going to have to move to, because the hotel rooms here are all being filled up. so we have two things happening the human story, but also very much this dangerous wildfire that right now is pretty much pushed into those hills behind me. you can see how hazy it is.

that's because the air is so dangerous. it's filled with toxins. and some of these folks, as you know, they're getting through to try to look at what's left. they're trying to figure out, you know, is their home even here anymore? dana. >> yeah. and i mean, it's it's personal for for everybody who lives there, including including you. kyung. i know you don't live too far from there, and you're just one of tens of thousands of people who. you're not sure if your house is still there. and just on this note, i mean, we obviously have all seen and know of los angeles as the home of hollywood and a lot of celebrities and famous people have unfortunately lost their homes, but so have people like yvette. and you showed us what's left of her pots and pans. a nurse at the va. this is something that is affecting people no matter what their notoriety is, no matter what

their socioeconomic class is. >> but this is not a community of fancy folks, okay? this is a community i know extremely well down in this area. homes just like mine. you know, you're raising your kids. my kids, their teachers have lost homes. my favorite coffee shop just went up. you know, so this entire commercial stretch is completely gone. what we had here is. and i can tell you, because when my home just the other night, the night before last, it was shaking so hard, we thought that the windows were going to smash in. it was felt like a hurricane. mix that with the dry brush, because i don't remember the last time we had a rain here. and then you have all of that wind dry brush and it is just out of control. this area just we're just going to walk a little bit further because it's making me crazy when people talk about why do you live here? this area is flat. it's

not supposed to burn. the people who bought these homes. again, normal, average homes. these people bought. watch out for the line there. these people bought their homes thinking, okay, the wildfires typically happen up there. they don't come down here. these are the foothills. and the expectation was and the belief was that there was going to be some type of control. no one predicted that all of this climate disaster would happen suddenly and within 24 hours. >> yeah. i mean, we think of wildfires. we think of, you know, fires in the wilderness where there are a lot of people. but i don't remember who said it yesterday. one of our colleagues said, this is an urban. and even as you're showing suburban wildfire, which is, you know, just devastating. kyung. you're amazing. thank you so much for showing us this and giving us all that information. these wildfires are disrupting so much, including you just heard kyung talk about the schools

and her children being out of school. that's true for thousands and thousands of students. 19 school districts in l.a. county are closed today. four have already canceled classes for tomorrow as well. i want to go to nick melvoin. he is a member of the los angeles unified school district, the nation's second largest school district. thank you so much for being here. you are obviously very much dealing with schools, but you're also a local leader. you've been involved in the crisis leadership conversations. where do things stand right now? >> yeah. well, thanks. thanks for having me. >> i mean, i think to end on the the weight of the situation is hitting us. you know, we've been in a triage mode. and so not only our not even hour to hour, but minute to minute when it came to making sure kids and families are safe. what's our school plan for first tuesday? as we evacuated some schools, then wednesday as we close the handful of schools today where all schools in l.a. unified.

nearly a thousand schools are closed and then thinking through tomorrow, but also next week and next month and next year. we have two elementary schools in my district and the palisades that are completely destroyed. we have a high school that luckily is mostly intact, but we have thousands of families that are displaced. my district director of palisades, resident and parent, lost her house. and so we are, you know, today schools are closed in l.a. they'll likely be closed tomorrow. we're trying to make announcements soon. we the bar for school closures is incredibly high, as it should be, not only because kids have missed too much school in the last few years, but also we have a population in l.a. where 85% of our kids in public schools are living in poverty, so they rely on the schools for meals and for child care. but we also realize that with 5 or 6 fires raging and air quality, we need to we need to take that into account as well. and then, you know, as the. yeah. >> no, i'm just how do you even do that? your your goal is understandable for, for lots of reasons learning. and as you said in many cases for basic

sustenance. but when you have we're looking at images of the fires still burning this morning in pacific palisades, the, the, the challenge to even find a place for kids to go to school. i can't even imagine yeah. >> and i was, you know, i'm grateful for for everyone who's working on this issue. i was at some of our elementary schools last night at midnight, and there were first responders there still putting out fires. but the the scope and scale of the devastation is, of course, mind numbing. and when you take a moment, as i've only had few of. but to think about it, you also know not only does your heart break, but you think about exactly what about those students who are displaced next week and next month? we are trying to be methodical when it if your school is destroyed and then next air quality, but also trying to keep vehicles off the roads so that emergency vehicles can get where they need it to be, whether that's at altadena, pasadena, the valley, hollywood hills, also in my district, and the palisades, and then making sure

that we have continuity of instruction, online learning for kids. and then exactly. i have a meeting just after this on what are we going to do for the kids in the palisades next week, next month, next year? >> i mean, it is just overwhelming to think about. thank you so much for coming on. please come back. we're out of time now, but unfortunately, as you said, we're going to have a lot of time to talk about this as never mind. you try to contain the fire, but then try to rebuild, which we know that. yeah. >> thanks for having me. and, uh. yeah, happy to be back. and we'll talk about we will rebuild. and our students are resilient and they're inspiring me, as are their parents and teachers. so thanks for having me. >> nick melvoin with the los angeles unified school district. thank you so much. and please stay with cnn. there is a lot more breaking news coverage out of california with cnn news central, which will start after a break. >> this part changed my life. superman crazy. just that simple little thing over the

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