watch those tax subjects start heading out to florida. [laughter] paul: all right. that's it for this week's show. i'm paul gigot, and we hope to see you right here next week. ♪ ♪ eric: and we start with some breaking news out of utah, two salt lake county sheriff's deputies have been shot. this just happened a few hours ago. the gunman in this was shot and killed, the incident happening in the parking lot of the sheriff's office a jail in south salt lake city. we'll bring you more details as we get them. this is the "fox news live," i'm eric shawn. arthel: hello, everyone. and we are following several major stories including that breaking news out of utah where, again, two sheriff's deputies have been shot. one of them is in critical condition. plus, the white house facing backlash over its handling of the border crisis with signs of

that not slowing down. in washington president biden is creating a bipartisan commission to study potential reforms to the supreme court. we're going to begin with the latest in utah. let's go to jeff paul following autodetails for us. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we're learning that one of the deputies who was shot in the eye in is in critical condition. the other deputy was hit in the shot, he is in stable condition. this is all unfolding near the salt lake county metro jail parking lot in south salt lake. sheriff rosie rivera confirmed the suspect was eventually shot and killed, but they haven't identified the shooter. investigators say the two deputies were part of a campus security team. what remains unclear is what led to the shooting or what possible motive was for the incident. sheriff rivera is hoping and praying her deputies will be okay calling the environment for law enforcement extremely dangerous right now. >> you know, it's devastating when anybody in law enforcement

is in a situation like this. for a sheriff's office deputies and all of our employees, you know, it's something that you don't really expect would occur on a saturday morning. so it's tough. >> reporter: we're hoping to learn more during a news conference held by the sheriff at the bottom of the hour, right around 30 minutes from now. arthel? arthel: okay. jeff paul, thank you very much. eric? ♪ ♪ eric: well, now to the southern border where the migrant influx continues this weekend. let's take a live look at the situation. right now la jolla, texas, officials have been saying the number of unaccompanied minors who are being sent across the border is now at a record level. nearly 19,000 last month, that's about 600 a day. many are being held at facilities and then being released to family members in our country.

rich edson is in la jolla, texas, following the very latest. what is the influx like today? hi, rich. >> reporter: good afternoon, eric. what you've got today is a very typical day according to border patrol, folks crossing the rio grande river which is about a mile from where we are, they're intercepted here, and that's where they're been i waiting since this morning. you've had department of homeland security buses taking these folks to processing and facilities over the last several hours. this is a scene that is repeated on a daily basis here in the rio grande valley. a 242% increase in this particular sector at this point in the fiscal year compared to the last fiscal year. of course, the last fiscal year did also include the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. also as part of this, and you mentioned this, you've got a 20-year high in unaccompanied minor if apprehensions, 19,000 in march alone. texas officials say that they are now dealing with accusations

and complaints of possible sexual assault. department of health and human services is now commenting on this. they're running a lot of these facilities. hhs says, quote: hhs has a zero tolerance policy for all forms of sexual abuse, sexual harassment and inappropriate sexual behavior at all uc care provider facilities. we will continue investigating any incidents affecting children's health, well-being and safety and will take the proper measures. all of this while you've had several congressional delegations, lawmakers coming down here touring the border, looking at these facilities. and on top of that now, a number of republicans are saying that these issues need to be resolved. >> there is an emergency medical technicians there, they do take people to the hospital. at the same time, they're getting food, clotheses, showers every day, but they're only supposed to hold them for 72 hours, and then they're supposed to be turned over to hhs.

hhs was spirally unprepared for what -- entirely unprepared for what came our way. >> reporter: the white house is floating investing an additional $4 billion in northern triangle countries as we have a saturday here that's concluding in an expectation that this is going to continue. back to you, eric. eric: all right, rich. in la jolla, texas, you can see we'll be on this throughout the hour. thank you. meanwhile, back in washington president biden signing an executive order to form a bipartisan commission to study potential changes to the u.s. supreme court including adding seats to the court and putting term limits on for the justices. you know, it's a very controversial idea. david spunt live on the north lawn of the white house. hi, david. >> reporter: hi, erin. controversial with implications that would literally last decades, and i'm not exaggerating there. we do know that in 2019 supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, a liberal icon on the high court, said that nine seems

to be a good number when talking about the amount of justices on the high court. other justices, though, both liberal and conservative have said over the years nine is a perfect number, leave it alone, don't mess with it. it's been that way, after all, since 1869, four years after the civil war. now, eric, during the campaign then-candidate bide when he was running for president -- bide when he was running for president multiple times said he would issue a 180-day commission to look at some of those issues including potentially expanding the high court. the white house this week is kicking off that bipartisan study. it's 36 people on the commission, both republican and democrat. and we know this idea offed a -- of adding more folks, in 1937, president roosevelt announced his plan. it was dubbed court packing, the plan failed. but criticismland lasted for decades including in 1983 when

then-delaware senator joe biden fiercely criticized president roosevelt's plan. >> he violated no law, he was legal listically absolutely correct, but it was a bonehead idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. >> reporter: fast forward almost 40 years, now president biden at least considering it. republicans, at least those in congress, are blasting the idea, taking aim at the democratic party, the party that currently rules washington in 2021. >> they also understand that for us to ever undo it, we've got to control both chambers and get the president -- presidency s and who knows when that might occur, and that's what i'm most worried about, is crafting that solution, those ideas once we get the chance again. >> reporter: i mentioned four years after the civil war ended, 1869, that's how long we've had nine justices. before that when the court

began, set up by president washington, just six justices. but when you think about it, since 1869 the same number, this commission will report back in october. eric? eric: we'll see what happens when with it lands on the president's desk and if he's told this is a bonehead idea like back in 1983. david, thank you. tomorrow we're going to have a lot more on this on "fox news sunday." the border crisis and the president's next specking bill. chris wallace will be sitting down with texas governor greg abbott and transportation secretary pete buttigieg tomorrow, 2 p.m. eastern, on the fox news channel. arthel: president biden is asking congress to approve a $1.5 trillion spending plan on top of the $1.9 trillion already approved for covid relief. the latest proposed budget calls for a wide range of expansions to domestic programs from education to health, research and climate change initiatives. lucas tomlinson has more from

washington. >> reporter: president biden thinks expanding, not shrinking the federal government is the answer to fixing the country's problems. white house press secretary jen psaki says priorities are changed from the previous administration in this new, first budget. >> our country is confronting a pandemic, an economic downturn, climate change and racial injustice. at the same time, we're also inheriting a legacy of chronic underinvestment, in our view, in priorities that are vital to our long-term success, so the president is focused on reversing this trend. >> reporter: the $1.5 trillion budget includes $14 billion to fight climate change. but the defense budget stayed flat and would decrease when accounting for inflation. republican senator joni ernst took issue with the perceived snub. quote: america's adversaries have steadily chipped away at our war fighters' technological advances, but it now is not the

time to slow investments in our national defense. congress -- with sufficient and responsible funding for the pentagon. president biden's proposed defense budget doesn't achieve that. the white house has proposed a separate $2.3 trillion plan to fix infrastructure. a more form formal budget is due later this spring which will include social security. arthel? arthel: lucas tomlinson, thank you. eric. ♪ eric: well, there it is, more dangerous weather is going through the southeast this weekend after a round of severe storms tore through the gulf states yesterday. trees were knocked down and hail dropped from the sky the size of baseballs. meteorologist adam klotz in the aptly-named fox extreme weather center. adam: hey, eric, those exact same storms moving across the

country. it's been a slow-moving cold front that we've seen at lot of severe weather over the last two or three days. there is your line of storms as we speak across portions of georgia, eventually florida today. but this is all the damage we've seen in the last 24 hours. the greens and the blues are hail, and that is strong winds, 60 miles an hour or more. those red areas, those are tornado-warned storms. we've seen some right along the gulf coast. maybe a couple more before the day's over, but we're seniorly going to see high -- certainly going to see high winds and hail. portions of georgia and florida. we've already seen some winds up to 60 miles an hour, some hail with this particular system. here's the highlighted area we're looking at for savannah down towards tampa, but there's a slight risk of isolated tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds. continuing to be with us, and there's also a lot of heavy rain. we've seen isolated flooding. that's something that could continue as we watch this move. as we get into the overnight

hours, this entire system runs its way up into new england. it's just so much cooler up there that those are thunderstorms, but they're not severe thunderstorms, just bringing a bit of a rainmaker. this is where we typically see the severe weather this time of year. we've seen plenty of activity across the gulf statements. it was actually the same -- states. it was actually the same in texas and oklahoma just a couple of days ago that brought big weather. it's spring, and i do think once we get through today, we do get a little bit of a break, eric. back out to you. eric: that's encouraging. folks, watch out to the skies. arthel? arthel: amazon responding to accusations that it intimidated employees after workers at a warehouse in bessamer, alabama, decisively voted against unionizing yesterday. charles watson is live with more. charles. >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, you know, the retail wholesale and department store union says amazon's anti-union

tactics led to an environment of confusion, coercion and fear of retaliation among employees at that bessamer, alabama, warehouse. now, amazon is pushing back on those allegations saying in a statement: it is easy to predict that the union will say that amazon won this election because we intimidated, but that's not true. our employees heard far more anti-amazon messages from the union, policymakers and media outlets than they heard from us. rwdsu is still accusing amazon of harvesting votes and says it has direct evidence to prove it. the union says it will challenge the election and the national labor relations board to set aside the results. >> we believe that a rerun election is going to be very likely. of we don't know when it will be, but i think under current labor law people feel that they can just break the law pretty much with impunity, without

serious repercussions. >> reporter: now, more than 3,000 employees at amazon's bessamer, alabama, warehouse mailed in ballots. employees voted in large numbers against forming a union, 1, 798 no votes opposed to 738 yes votes. there were about 500 votes that were challenged. however, the nlrb says those votes are not enough to change the results of the election. senator bernie sanders, who supported unionization and even visited alabama and supported those amazon workers, says there's a strong need for pro-labor laws. >> we need strong, pro-labor legislation which says that workers in america must have the constitutional right to form a union. and right nows it is so difficult whether it's amazon, whether it is walmart, whether it is any one of these large

corporations. companies have so much power to threaten and intimidate. >> now, the president of rdwsu says these union votes have reenergized the interest in unions. he says they may have lost this vote at the bessamer warehouse, but this is only phase one of a continuing process. arthel. arthel: okay. we'll have to keep a watch on that. all right, charles watson, thank you. and meanwhile, as border patrol sees record numbers of migrants streaming across our southern border, a troubling new report reveals how smugglers are using social media to lure hopeful migrants with phony promises. ♪ ♪ liberty mutual — they customize my car insurance so i only pay for what i need. 'cause i do things a little differently. hey, i'll take one, please! wait, this isn't a hot-dog stand?

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♪ eric: well, congressman dan crenshaw says he will take several weeks off after having emergency eye surgery. the texas republican said doctors had to fix a detached retina. he will be, quote, effectively blind, he says, for the next month. the former navy seal lost his right eye in an explosion while he was serving in afghanistan back in 2012. that blast also damaged his left eye leaving him, in his words, with half a good idea.

well, we, of course, wish the congressman a speedy recovery and all the very best as he recovers. ♪ ♪ arthel: well, smugglers are reportedly using social media to lure and rip off migrants wanting to come to america. some promise fancy hotel rooms, uber rides and asylum in the u.s. for $8,000. dr. kimberly mehlman ross sew is a human trafficking researcher and legal consultant. dr. kimberly -- if you don't mind if i call you that -- how can any governmental agency counter that kind of false hope that these smugglers are peddling? >> so it's important to distinguish smuggling from trafficking. smuggling is, essentially, the crossing of an international border through the use of fraudulent documents. it does cross over and cross over to a trafficking situation

when and if that person is forced, defrauded, deceived or otherwise threatened for the purpose of exploitation or anyone under the age of 18. i just wanted to point that out. these stories from the facebook ads, they're promised 100% safety when they cross and sometimes airplane tickets for as low as $4,500. it doesn't -- it seems tood good to be true -- arthel: so how -- >> as far as what law enforcement can to come a bat it, i think law enforcement is really struggling to find a way to effectively combat illicit interprize operating online. think of it as a virtual space. this is just the aboveground market. imagine the dark web which is even more hard and difficult to police. so so they're facing a monumental it is a thing. they're trying to keep up with different changes in technology,

and i think that as far as what they can do, we really need collaboration between private businesses and platforms like facebook, twitter, instagram as well as other platforms working hand in hand with law enforcement. but we also need to give them the technology to combat this issue. so i know some of these businesses in my working and dealing with them, they are using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to try to really automate the ways in which they surveil the platform and the postings by third parties. but it's really a game of cat and mouse, right? arthel: let me jump in there. >> sure. arthel: i want you to explain, you know this so well. how does it work though? do smugglers approach families? do i think intimidate them or do these families seek out smugglers? how do they find each other this. >> so traditionally if you're looking at the smugglers that operate in mexico and in other

countries, they generally, i mean, before the advent of the internet it was through pure referral. you're being referred through a family member or knew somebody who knew somebody who successfully crossed. it is more dangerous if you're connecting with anonymous person on the internet who can take your up-front money and not do anything or take your money and not bring you to the location that was agreed upon or, you know, deceived you as far as the peril expect danger and the risk of -- and the danger and the risk of crossing. so as far as how it operates, i know that, you know, these facebook groups that were recently reported on, that's something that's new. we're going to need to address that and become more innovative in how we're combating it, in particular if it's a private facebook group. but traditionally speaking, it was through peer-to-peer referral. arthel: and we keep focusing on illegal border crossings, which we should, but what happens visa overstays? >> yes, i'm glad you pointed

that out. that's something that is often to omitted when we're talking about unauthorized populations here in the united states. around 60 president of them are undocumented migrants who crossed the border through evasion of an immigration checkpoint. the other 40% are these overstayiers, people who came on a temporary visa and overstayed and remained in the united states. those people my greated legally, but -- migrated legally, but then they did violate our -- arthel: right. how do you track those people down and get them to leave? >> at a minimum, at least we know where they were going or where they said they were going. we have a name, we have an address, we have where they were working if they came on a guest worker visa, we know where they were staying if office a tourist visa so at least there is some information that needs to be followed up on, and we need to follow up on it, i think, more fervently than we have been. and those people are also at

risk of being trafficked. they are at risk of being victims to various forms of crime. arthel: right. because they become desperate to stay, perhaps making them result potential. listen, lots more to talk about, but i have to go for now. i do appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. arthel: absolutely, dr. kimberly. thank you. >> thanks. >> what's your badge number? what's your badge number? [inaudible conversations] eric: take a look at that disturbing video showing a group of men warming a new york city police department cruiser, as you can see, harassing the officers inside, cursing at them. leaders now placing the blame for these types of things on new york's politicians saying all those calls to defund the police are actually fueling anti-law enforcement sentiment in new

york city, making new york's finest the targets. laura ingle hive in new york looking for the latest. that's really disgusting. hi, laura. >> reporter: hi, everything. you know, this video is certainly very disturbing. it was shot this week in manhattan and actually released by the city's largest police union to show the public what its officers are up existence as they are patrolling city streets. and as you can see, some days it is definitely definitely a harrowing job. >> get the [bleep] out of the [bleep] car. >> people don't want to see you here. get the [bleep] out. >> reporter: now, that confrontation tuesday showed several men surrounding an nypd suv one with a megaphone hurling profanities while two officers is sit inside with the windows rolled up before they drove away

with. protesters and defund police groups continue to rally against law enforcement after the death of george floyd last year. in new york city crime has gone up in several major categories. murders have risen nearly 20% and shooting innocents over 56% so far in 2021 compared to this date in 020. the police union came out yesterday and said, quote: we know these haters don't speak for the community,, but the politicians think they do, and that's the problem. you might remember the new york city council voted to move $1 is billion out of the nypd's budget and move it to education and social services. many people wondering if it's having this kind of an impact. we have reached out to the mayor's office and the nypd for comment, haven't heard back yet. eric: it's no wonder one of the democratic candidates for mayor is calling for refunding the police for new york city. laura ingle with the latest on that, thank you.

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investigating congressman matt gaetz over accusations of sexual misconduct. gaetz and several other floridians are the subjects of a probe. the congressman has denied wrongdoing. women are accused of using the names of prison inmates to bilk a state agency. and deliveries of johnson and johnson's coronavirus vaccine are expected to plummet by more than 80% next week. this comes weeks after a manufacturing mishap at a baltimore factory that botched plans to make 15 is million dose -- 15 million doses. and for more on these and other stories, download the fox news app. use your phone to scan the qr code at the bottom of your screen to get started. eric: well, democratic senator joe manchin of west virginia's

been throwing a wrench into the democrats' plans saying there is , quote, no circumstance under which he would back the changes in the filibuster rule. it could also deal a blow to the president's $2 trillion spending package as manchin calls for a bipartisan compromise in the senate on legislation between both parties. he says we should do our job. is that possible? doug hyde's with us. so, doug, i mean, joe manchin, he's really become the man of the moment. he's standing up against in his party. -- many in his party. is he doing this for -- or politics? does he have a point? >> eric, thanks for willing me. these two aren't mutually exclusive. you can be doing smart policies and smart politics at the same time. that's probably what's happening with joe manchin. if he's able to force through some kind of a bipartisan deal which we haven't gotten yet in

the biden presidency, that'll be smart policy that benefits the country, good politics for him back home when he can go back to very conservative, very republican west virginia and say, look, i was able to improve this bill. i was able to work with democrats and republicans to get through a stimulus bill, an infrastructure bill that we need as opposed to just doing what the democrats want. but there's a problem here as well. this isn't necessarily just about getting through a better bill, it may be that you cause a problem, you throw a went wrench in the works, as you said, and you're always slowing things down just to improve things a little bit. if you're always doing that, that comes with a real risk. eric: you said the republican party should not only be the party of no, and he talk thed about the basic tenets and foundations of the greatest deliberative body on earth, how the senate should work together, how both parties should get together, he said.

do you think that's even possible in this day and age? >> it's really tough to do on the big things and has been for a long time. that's the fault of republicans, democrats, this president, past presidents, majority and minority leaders before that. it's hard to do the big things when you have divided government and when you have a senate that's at a razor-thin 50-50. it's a lot of what you're hearing from not just joe manchin, but krysten sinema as well. if they're able to do bipartisan things, my guess is aside from places like infrastructure where you should get some agreement, it's going to be more on the margins and the small things. it's hard to do in one-party rule when you have the senate so close. eric: senator elizabeth warren and others called the filibuster racist. it, of course, has that history in civil rights and voting rights legislation. mitch mcconnell says this effort by the democrats to scrap filibuster is, in his words, a

partisan power grab. here's what joe manchin recently wrote in that washington post editorial. quote: every time the senate voted to weaken the filibuster in the past decade, the gridlock has grown more severe. the political games playing out in the halls of congress only fuel the violence we see across the country. the truth is my democratic friends do not have all the a answers, and my republican friends do not either. this has always been the case. so who's he making mored mad? and who's he making more glad? >> certainly, he's causing more headaches for his party's leadership, chuck schumer, than he is for republicans. but he references mitch mcconnell's warning to harry reid several years ago with the nuclear option. don't do this, this will cause more problems x. it's one thing to want to do it when your party's in control, but in politics the other party can be in control quickly, and now they can use your tactics against

you. so be careful. eric: is he becoming, you know, the john mccain, the, you know, independent-spirited member of the nat who is willing to buck his own party, willing to go his own way, call his own shots, add his own tune for, in his view, the good of the nation? >> look, test certainly -- he's certainly trying to play that role. the 50-50 margin in the senate means that he or anyone else, for that matter, can gum up the works whenever he wants. you have to be careful and strategic, but that's his charge right now, and that's why we're all talking about him. eric: all right. yeah, that's the case. doug heye, maybe we won't have have one of those 21-hour overnight things for a while, butwell see. -- but we'll see. arthel: republicans accuse the white house of playing politics with the judiciary after

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stacked to provide a predetermined recommendation to president biden to expand the supreme court. they argue that biden has wanted this, and he is caving to progressive pressure here. but biden is boxed in on his past opposition to expanding the supreme court. he faced pressure during the 2020 race, and he did the not outline a specific position on whether he wanted to pack the court. that in itself became a storyline. so in a lot of ways biden could be potentially trying to have it both ways, to appease those progressive activists by taking the steps to form the commission, but he's not supporting the idea outright because he knows that's not popular broadly with voters. arthel: interesting point. you said what i was going to say, but you made an interesting point there. i want to share with everyone right now part of what senate minority leader mitch mcconnell had to say about this. it says, quote: this faux academic study of a nonexistent

problem fits squarely within liberal' years-long campaign to politicize the court, intimidate its members and subvert its independence. sarah, what we're going to do right now is rewind the tape a bit to this past november, you remember it. then-president trump nominated amy coney barrett five weeks before the presidential election. justice barrett was confirmed by republican-led senate three days before the election. by contrast, former president obama, you remember, nominated judge merrick garland to sit on the high court eight months before election day, but senator mcconnell and the republicans said, nope, not in an election year. sarah, could that be viewed as politicizing the court? >> that's absolutely one of the central arguments from liberals as to why they need to examine the question of adding more justices to the supreme court. they say republicans were the first ones to pack the court with conservatives or to

politicize the makeup of the bench. the problem with that argument though is with this 6-3 conservative majority on the supreme court right now, we haven't seen any landmark cases that liberals have lost that would give them a concrete thing to point to to say why this is necessary. and, in fact, when the supreme court faced its first big test when there were several state-level cases questioning the 2020 results, the conservative majority did not behave like an arm of the republican party. they rejected those challenges to the election results. so there's nothing that the supreme court has done so far since justice amy coney barrett was confirmed that would give liberals something to point to to say we are getting partisan outcomes from partisan nominees. arthel: well, that's good for the country. let me go back to what you were saying earlier, sarah, are conservatives really worried about a what may or may not come of this commission, or is the vocal outrage just an effective tool to use against president biden and the democrats?

and will president biden use this somehow? >> it could be a very effective tool for republicans because, again, this is so broadly unpopular. in fact, the washington examiner did a poll asking voters about their opinions on court packing just before the election and found that two-thirds of voters don't support the idea. so for republicans, they may love nothing more than for liberals to force this issue because with the split of the senate right now with the filibuster intact, it's very unlikely that biden could ever successfully add justices to the supreme court. but it energizes republican voters so much perhaps a heading into an election year next year, that could help republicans. meanwhile, biden does have pressure if from the left to enact these kind of supreme court reforms, but he doesn't really have the tools to make those a reality, and it could backfire in the form of energizing republican voters. arthel: so the white house released a statement and in part it said, quote, the topics it will examine includes the

genesis of reto formed debate, the court's role in the constitutional system, the length of service and turnover of justices on the court, the membership and size of the court and the court's selection rules and practices. so, again, it's a 36-member commission, and the argument again is about -- and it's certainly packed with intellectuals, both liberal and conservative voices according to the white house. but the question may be asked are these the right voices. >> that's one of the main criticisms that we have seen from the right, that there are maybe a few center-right experts on that panel, but it is being led by people who have poken out about adding -- spoken out about adding justices to the supreme court previously who have spoken out about allowing a conservative majority to continue on the supreme court. so there is that fear on the right that the outcome here is predetermined and that those recommendations will add a false sense of legitimacy to an idea that republicans say is just meant to dilute the power of the

justices, the three justices that donald trump was able to appoint. arthel: there's a lot to get done in washington. i hope these guys and gals, if you will, can get together and get some stuff going for our cup. what do you say to that the, sarah westwood? yes? >> we'll see. [laughter] it's difficult for anything to get done, particularly something as explosive as adding more justices to the supreme court. arthel: all right, sarah, we'll talk to you again, sarah westwood. eric? eric: thanks, arthel and sarah. queen elizabeth announcing eight days of mourning for her husband, prince philip. as you know, tributes are pouring in from the u.k. and around the globe. next we're live in london with new details on the funeral plans for the late duke of edinburgh.

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♪♪ [background sounds] eric: gun salutes across the u.k. marking the death of britain's prince phil in. -- philip. as military leaders honor the

husband of queen elizabeth. mourners gathering at buckingham palace to pay their respects. benjamin hall with more on the tributes and plans for his funeral. benjamin, it's quite a meaningful outpouring. >> reporter: it certainlies is, eric -- it certainly is, eric. we heard from buckingham palace about the plans for the funeral and, of course, it's changed greatly because of covid. we know it'll take place next saturday at 10 eastern, around 30 family members will be able to attend, and it will be televised. the arrangements, they say, will celebrate and reflect philip's life of service. members of the royal family will walk behind philip's coffin. the queen will travel separately to the chapel. speaking earlier, prince charles thanked the public for their support. >> my dear papa was a very special person who, i think above all wells, would have been

amazed by the reaction, the touching things that have been said about him. from that point of view, we are a family deeply grateful. >> reporter: there have been gun salutes around the world, and a stream of people offering condolences. members of the royal family have been with the queen all day following the duke's death. of philip will be known for his lifelong commitment to duty, service and charity and his straight talk and at times his politically incorrect sense of humor. he was a military man, one of the last remaining world war ii veterans in the u.k. keep calm and carry on. the palace also has announced that prince harry will be attending the the funeral, though meghan markle, on the add vice of her doctors, will not. she's expecting the couple's second child, and she will remain in california. eric? eric: keep calm and carry on, and they were married for 73 years. and an end to an era. benjamin hall, thank you. two sheriff's deputies in

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