hi, everyone i'm kate snow. >> i'm aaron gilchrist "nbc news daily" starts right now. today, wednesday, september 14th, 2022 britain in mourning, thousands pay tribute to queen elibeth as she lies in state at westminster hall today's emotional celebration of the life of the monarch. driving change, the detroit auto show shifts into high gear with president biden starting the ignition why your next set of wheels could look a lot different pillow talk, the ceo of my pillow says the fbi took his

cell phone at a hardee's drive through. why agents -- what agents want to know about what mike lindell was speaking about. and lesson plan, with students back to school across america, what can parents do to set them up for success? we'll ask an expert about the best ways to keep stress out of the classroom. we begin this hour with great britain once again, they're saying their final good-byes to their longest serving monarchs >> we want to show you pictures from westminster hall now. thousands of people are expected to file into this room between now and monday to pay their respects to queen elizabeth. the hall will be open 24 hours a day to accommodate really an overwhelming number of people who just want to honor the queen there. the wait to see the coffin is at least 35 hours >> i think it is important that we say good-bye to the queen before she goes. >> the queen was escorted to westminster this morning by king charles and other members of the

royal family giant crowds lined the streets there. people had to be turned away because the official viewing areas were filled to capacity. leading us off this hour, matt bradley and sky news anchor and nbc news contributor wilfred frost. matt, i'll start with you here the number of people waiting to see just a glimpse of the queen's coffin, just a tremendous number of people, how are security services handling all these folks? >> reporter: aaron, that's a good question. to put it mildly it a logistical nightmare for local london authorities. they're expecting nearly half a million people to file past the queen's coffin when it is lying in westminster hall formore than four days we keep saying four days but it is actually four days from tomorrow morning. so it is more like four days plus, like four and a half days. and when you're bringing in members of the public, all of this is snarling traffic throughout all of central london, and in addition to that, they put up all these barriers,

waiting for this procession that happened today, earlier, right behind where i'm standing now, they're going to have to take all of that down and put it all back up again on monday and that's when the real challenge comes in the palace said to the public, this is supposed to be kind of an intimate affair what happened this morning this isn't this is what you and i would consider a major event in the huge global city they're expecting that monday's events are going to be even more large and will attract even more people the added element to that, of course, is that it is going to include foreign heads of state, who need their own protection, in addition to protection from the british government so this really is a very big deal but that doesn't diminish the emotion of the people. i spoke with some people earlier today before that funeral proc procession here's what they had to say. >> amazing occasion. and i wanted to come out, we wanted to come out, you know,

the life of an amazing queen. >> she has been part of our lives, my children's lives, my parent's lives, and it is the least i can do >> reporter: so we don't know that it is going to take 30 hours if you're waiting in line to see the queen's coffin, but it looks like there are quite a few people here and coming from abroad who are willing to spend the time 30 to 35 hours waiting in line, snarling the streets of downtown london, waiting to see that coffin just to catch a glimpse. >> it is that important to all these people wilfred frost, let me bring you in here. for those who didn't get to see this morning's events, it was something. it was streets lined with thousands and thousands of people as her coffin went by can you describe it, can you put into words the significance of this moment? >> reporter: it was incredibly moving when the coffin left buckingham palace just behind me earlier today. and the tone as has been the

case throughout these last six days of mourning was very, very respectful it was a silent crowd as the coffin passed. but then in fact, once it had passed the crowd broke into applause, so you had this wonderful balance of emotions at play, but respectful throughout. just quickly the ceremonial reasons for this particular procession was so that the family could hand off their mother to the officers of state. and from here on out, things are state organized, leading up, of course, to that state funeral on monday, the first state funeral since sir winston churchill in 1965 >> wilfred frost and matt bradley in london, thank you, both. back to the u.s. now where the detroit auto show is revving up the event is back for the first time in three years, and it is getting super charged with an appearance by president biden. >> the president getting behind the wheel of not one, but two cars today take a look, first, an electric

corvette on the showroom floor there. but he also drove an electric cadillac, right down the blue carpet, the president is there to announce a $900 million investment to build electric charging stations across the country. >> i think maybe he's just happy to be behind the wheel, right? he doesn't get to do that much kristen welker is in washington for us and technology correspondent jake ward is in detroit. kristen, first to you, he did look pretty happy to be behind the wheel there. what did very to say about electric cars during the visit >> reporter: he sure did seem to be enjoying that ride. that's for sure. president biden touting that announcement that you talked about, $900 million in funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law to build ev chargers across 53,000 miles of highway system in 35 states. take a listen to what he had to say. >> today's electric vehicles for the long range, you can buy one made in america. the great american road trip is