chris jansing picks it up from london. >> good thursday morning. in london thousands of mourners are lining the streets here inching forward mile by mile to westminster hall just to catch a glimpse of the queen lying in state. a line that is now 4.2 miles long, takes about nine hoep hours to get to the front. this morning we're learning new details from buckingham palace about what to expect at the funeral monday. and we'll have all of that for you coming up in a very short time. but we start with the breaking news at home, all indications are that the high stakes crisis has been averted. any moment now we will hear from president biden in the rose garden. the white house says a tentative deal has been reached to overt a railroad strike and a potential derailment of our economy. the president is giving

negotiators their due. he is meeting with them in the oval office. this case down to the wire with a source familiar with the negotiations telling nbc news the deal was reached early this morning after 20 hours of talks. there was, quote, a basic handshake at 2:30 a.m. and approval by the teamsters board at 4:30 a.m. it couldn't come at a more critical juncture as the biden administration tries to tame red hot 40 year high inflation with the midterms now just 53 days away. for some context about what a strike would mean for our economy, our web of railways are responsible for shipping about 40% of goods from grain to cars long distance across the u.s. a strike would cost our economy $2 billion every single day leading to empty shelves and higher prices for a public already feeling a price pinch. and just the last 45 minutes, transportation secretary pete buttigieg addressed the news

while speaking in detroit. >> my appreciation to all of the parties that stayed at the table and got to a result preventing the shutdown of our rail system that would have been devastating for our economy. not a lot of us excellent much last night, but we got good new as into the wee hours of the morning and are so pleased. >> i want to bring in kelly o'donnell at the white house. calipari is at glendale metro amtrak station. and also with me, ashley parker, political correspondent for the "washington post." and ben white, chief economic correspondent for politico. kelly, talk a bit about the deal, what it means to the president. this is someone who has a long history of good relations with the unions. i'm remembering that on election day in fact, his last stop was at a union hall in his home state of pennsylvania. but he is right now inside the

oval with some members of the teamsters, is that right? >> reporter: well, and that is the highest show of respect that president can really extend when he creates space for an oval office meeting. this was added to the president's calendar, it was not a part of the plan for today. but it shows you that this is that kind of a priority for the president today to meet privately with those who are a part of the negotiations and then the president will make remarks in the rose garden. this tells you how significant this is on many levels. certainly for the economy. the economy has been fragile, we've seen how prices have been a real pain point for many americans. and we've been through the covid experience of supply chain issues. so the kinds of shutdowns that might have come from there are a little bit more familiar to americans now. imagine if the rail system had come to a halt and what that could do all across different sectors of the american economy. that is what was at stake here. you are talking about different rail companies, more than

100,000 rail workers, and so this kind of an negotiation paramount. there is a cooling off period here where there is team before it is ratified, so it is not entirely a foregone conclusion yet, but there is a good feeling on all sides. workers will get higher pay, more guaranteed time off, more control over their health care, and the rail companies will have more flexibility in their hiring. so that is the nature of compromise. we don't have all the details about the particulars here, but certainly this came to a head at a point when it could have certainly been a crisis for the american economy and the president inserted himself very directly along with top cabinet officials and that is why you will see the white house talk about it with such energy and with such relief today. chris. >> ashley, let's talk about the crisis averted.

labor secretary says rail company, unions and the biden administration engaged in 20 hours of negotiations. i was struck by how quickly they put out statements praising the agreement as it came down. how important was this for the white house, for the president as well as the economy? >> well, this was incredibly important for the president. you know, if it ends up being averted which it looks like it will, there is a tentative deal, it is a victory, but it is less the victory that matters than the avoidance of what could have been cataclysmic. yet another sort of crisis for an economy already under tremendous stress which with we know would have exacerbated inflation and supply chain issues just two months before the midterm. and president biden had to walk a very delicate line here because he is someone who is a big proponent of labor both politically important for him, but also just where his gut and

his heart is, it is something that he believes in genuinely. but he is also amtrak joe. and so you can see the headlines had this gone a different way and how bad it would have been not just politically, but actually again for the economy and for americans who can barely bear to pay the already high prices. >> yeah, you can see the ads or press releases that would have gone out from the republican side. so cal, amtrak says that they are trying really fast to restore canceled trains. they had canceled them obviously because of the pending strike. they are reaching out to impacted customers. so tell me what is going on where you are. >> reporter: yeah, so amtrak is trying to reach out to those customers that were booked on some of the long haul journeys like from chicago to los angeles. they are trying to get them booked possibly as early as today. where i am, this is a station that uses national amtrak rail plus regional rail plus freight rail. so it is one of those places that would have been majorly

disrupted. when you look at metrolink which is the commuter rail here, it services 11,000 people every day. people who would otherwise be driving on los angeles highways. and now they don't have to do that. and we spoke to some people this morning about how they were getting to work and their relief about the strike being averted. take a listen. >> just happy that i'm actually going to get to go home and sleep in my own bed tonight. i'm feeling lucky, so maybe i should buy a lottery ticket today. >> reporter: so much of it is not just about getting to work, but not having to make those alternate plans, having to rent a car, having to spend money on gas, having to sit on the highway. and you heard there about the cooling off period, that will be huge for people here as well hoping to avoid that last minute having to make alternate plans. >> cal pir doing a great job

talking over all those sounds. and the woman breathing a sigh of relief, the labor secretary tweeted our rail system is integral to our supply chain and a disruption would have had catastrophic impacts on industries, travelers and families across the country. is he overstating here or could this have been truly devastating had it happened? >> it would have been really bad, chris. i think to think that the biden administration is really happy to hear all those dings and bells and things making it hard for cal to talk. absolutely, $2 billion a day hit to the economy had this strike actually happened, we've got 30% to 40% of all our freight goes by rail. and that is food, it is coal, it is chlorine for drinking water, essential backbone to the economy and we would have been back to the period where shelves were more bare, prices going up again. and as ashley laid out, we're at 8% inflation as it is, which is

historically high. very difficult for people to deal with not coming down as fast as we'd like. add to that national rail strike that hits both passengers and all of these goods that need to get to plants and stores, and it would have been a nightmare. just an absolute lgistical and economical nightmare. so that is why they had 20 hours of talks and the biden administration scrambled everything they could to stop this because they needed, a, the win on it, but, b, just the economic hit. that is the more important point. and it hopefully looks like we avoided that. but, yeah, it would have september inflation higher andm. >> and in your latest piece, you say the biden administration keeps getting punched in the face on the economy. and you know that there is a concurrent labor dispute on the west coast where unionized court workers are negotiating an expired contract with employers that operate some of the largest terminals in the world. we've seen havoc from backed up

ports. what vulnerabilities still remain for our supply chains even if this deal finally goes through? >> yeah, it is a good question. and it would have happened just as the supply chains were starting to improve. if you look at some of the studies from the new york fed and elsewhere, companies are just starting to say that they are getting parts faster. this would have derailed all of that obviously to use a bad metaphor. we still have supply chains not moving particularly smoothly, which is why inflation is still high, why prices are still high and not coming down as fast as we'd like. so the west coast is just one issue. there are delays in shipments from all over the world, not as bad as they were. we're getting better. a lot of work the administration has done with companies directly has paid off and helped. but there is still trouble out there, they still need to work a bunch of kinks out and this is the last thing they would have needed to throw all that

progress off and delay it. so we still got issues on supply chains. better than it was. and now we have thankfully not this enormous disruption to a huge amount of traffic in all kinds of products around the country. >> ben, kelly, cal, ashley, thanks to all of you. and we'll keep watching the white house and bring you the president's remarks as soon as we see him. but up next, the line here in london for people to pay their final respects to the queen stretches for more than four miles. why members of the public were willing to spend a long chilly london night in line just to say good-bye. plus what vladimir putin was hoping to achieve with his meeting today with xi jinping as russia grows more and more isolated from the west. and could the fbi get access again to those classified documents seized the at mar-a-lago? what a federal judge could decide as soon as today. what a federal judge could decide as soon as today.

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right now the line of mourners waiting to pay respects to the late queen elizabeth shows no sign of letting up. the way to catch just a brief glimpse of the coffin topped with the imperial state crown is upwards of nine hours long exceeding four miles today. the queen is lying in state in westminster hall until her funeral monday.

and for many, this moment is an extremely emotional one. >> she was the glue that kept the monarchy together. >> she's been immortal, i think. and it is hard to believe she's gone. >> once you're in westminster hall, the hush, the quiet, the peace. then your heart takes over. >> the sound of bagpipes rang out in the streets of london early this morning as the military held a dress rehearsal for monday's funeral complete with a black coffin being pulled by scores of marchers. ♪♪ >> i want to bring in molly hunter with me in london, tim york form erd it tore for itv

news, and also the royal correspondent for "the sun." i've been struck how emotional people are about saying good buy to the queen. what are you hearing from people you talk to? >> yeah, emotional because i got to say, so the line, look, it just filled up behind me, it goes all the way down the road. and you can see i'm across the river from westminster hall. people are emotional, but there is also a giddiness. there is reverence, but also an energetic kind of moment. people are making friends in the line. a woman we just spoke with said one of queen elizabeth's greatest legacies might be all these friends that people are making in line because they are coming for the same reason. now, we spoke with people the very first night who were camping out overnight in the rain, nobody was complaining. everyone was willing to wait for as long as was necessary. and the people here are lucking out. it is actually not raining, it is mild temperatures. right now, and i'll check, how long have you been waiting here?

four hours? okay, four hours to right here and they still have to go down the side, over the bridge and back to westminster hall. but it is not the 30 hour ten mile long waits that the met police had prepared people for. but if it was, people are saying anything is worth it, this is the least that they can do for their queen of 70 years. >> unbelievable really. and emily, the front page of your paper today has photos of an emotional prince william and king charles who have really barely betrayed their emotions, but they continue do their duty. we saw william and kate out today looking at some of the flowers and notes that were left. the princess royal anne was out as well. they continue do their duty largely with what we in america think of from the brits which is that image of the stiff upper lip. talk about that. >> that is an interesting point because, yes, on the face of it,

the images very much suggest a stiff upper british lip. but we've been getting some reports of what prince william, the new prince of wil women why is saying to the crowd, and he said i'm learning that the queen was everyone's grandmother the way people reacted. and he also talked about how walking to the beat of that drum in the funeral procession from buck going of -- buckingham palace to the house of parliament where she will stay the next four days, that that very much reminded him of that very same walk 25 years ago almost to the day when he and his brother harry had to follow the funeral procession of their mother. so i thought that was brave of him to say that, bringing up

what we journalists and commentators thought might be quite a triggering time for him and harry to have to do the same thing for their grandmother as they had for their mother. and william is obviously -- he's always been quite good with his emotions but we've seen a lot of emotion from king charles as well. he has had hugs with the crowd, a real solace i think from the crowd and the kind of congratulations of him being king. >> we're going to have this cut this short. i want to thank my guests, we appreciate you being with us today. but we want to go to the white house now because we are seeing president biden at a time when he has something to celebrate which is a deal with the rails. let's listen.

>> -- big win for america. and for both in my view. i want to thank the lead negotiators from the labor movement, brother of locomotive engineers and trainmen, international association of sheet metal, air, rail and transportation workers union and other labor unions engaged. this is a win for tens of thousand of rail workers and for their dignity and the dignity of their work. it is the recognition of that. during these early dark uncertain days of the pandemic, they showed up so every american could keep going. they worked tirelessly through the pandemic to ensure that families and communities got the deliveries they needed during these difficult few years. because of the labor agreement, those rail workers will get better pay, 24% wage increase over the next five years. improved working conditions. peace of mind around their health care by capping the costs

workers will have to pay. and it is about the right to go to a doctor or stay healthy to make sure that you are able to have the care that you can afford, it is all part of this agreement. they earned and deserve these benefits and this is a great deal for both sides. the agreement is also a victory for railway companies. i want to thank the lead negotiators from the railway, national railway labor conference and our major rail companies. these companies also played a critical role in keeping america moving during the pandemic. and that is not hyperbole, it is a fact. with this agreement, railway companies can retain and recruit workers, they will be able to continue to operate effectively as a vital piece of our economy. they are really the backbone of the economy. i have a visual image of rails being the literally. so i thank the unions and rail companies for negotiating in good faith. they have been up for 20 straight hours.

and for sicking with it it -- sticking with it. in fact i don't think they have been to bed yet, so i don't want to keep this very long. having to stand besides. together you reached an agreement that will keep our critical rail system working and avoid disruptions of our economy. i'm grateful for the members of the administration who worked tirelessly on both sides to help get this done. i especially want to thank labor secretary marty walsh, card carrying union member and first union labor secretary in decades. [ applause ] this agreement is validation, unions and management can work together for the benefit of everyone. they are traveling now a number of them, but i want to secretary pete buttigieg and tom vilsack

who were deeply involved and also deputy labor secretary, and also brian deese and also deputy national director of labor celeste drake for this commitment and hard work. to the american people, this agreement can overt a significant damage that any shutdown would have brought. our nation's rail system is the backbone of our supply chain. everything you rely on, and it is hard to realize this, everything from clean water to food to gas, to every day -- i mean liquefied natural gas. every good that you need seems to be on a rail. with unemployment still at record low and signs of progress at lowering cost, this will allow us to continue to rebuild a better america with an economy that works for american families. today is a win, and i mean it sincerely, a win for america. so i want to thank you all for

getting this done both business and labor. thank you, thank you, thank you. and may god protect our troops. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> president biden calling this deal a big win for america, big win for americans. what we do know is that if they hadn't reached a deal, it could have cost americans $2 billion every single day. with me, peter alexander from the roed rose garden and politico's ben white is with us as well. i suppose not a surprise at all given the president's history that he started out by praising the unions, praising the hard work that they do, praising the work that they did during the pandemic. but you could also say i think that in that sense, marty walsh, we don't talk about cabinet secretaries very often, but marty walsh might have been the right guy at the right time. what do you think? >> yeah, a union guy.

somebody who obviously comes out of the labor movement and can identify with all of the leaders who were arguing for some pretty simple things in this contract. i think if you look at it, you know, they wanted some paid sick time, they wanted to be able to go to the doctor and not be criticized for it or docked for it. so marty walsh could get into the details and he was the right guy. and then they have pete buttigieg working on contingency plans. but this is like the economic and political sweet spot for biden. rail guy. he's obviously amtrak joe. when he talked just now about the actual physical backbone of the country, it made me smile because i think that he thinks that way and it is true. i mean, we don't all you and i don't think that much about the importance of freight rail, it seems sort of old fashioned, but it is the critical backbone 6 of moving all the things he said. chlorine for water, coal for electricity plants, and food,

bread, grain to get into our stores. so had he failed on this, it would have been a disaster both politically and economically. so there has to be a lot of relief in the white house this morning. i know there is, i've heard it. and, yeah, if it had gone another way, it would have been bad for biden and the economy obviously. >> and peter, you would know about the relief at the white house. i think there is clearly a sub text here when you have less than two months to go to the midterms, there is a message that the white house hopes people take away which is, you know, this administration can work, government can work, here we go again, 20 hours when you think about the potential complexity of the negotiation like this, may not be that long. tell us what you are hearing from white house folks and what it means. >> reporter: i think what struck me is what we heard from the president and he was walking away from the podium along with the representatives, reporters like myself asking them a series of questions. he was asked about the inflation

numbers we've been seeing. he celebrated the "inflation reduction act" earlier this week same day that the inflation numbers remained high. highest they have been in 40 years. and the president said the rails are moving again and those prices aren't going to go up. they knew this was critical especially within two months of the midterms to avoid the potential of more supply chain backlogs. so this is certainly a welcome relief, major relief for this administration. those 20 hours of negotiationew handshake at 2:30 in the morning. and it came together on so quickly that i'm ready to some of the board members from the unions needed to be woken up at the last moment because it happened in the waning hours before the potential for a strike. now they have to untight pretzel

a little bit. amtrak had canceled some routes. and they will reach out to passengers trying to get them on the first available routes and get those routes back online as soon as possible. >> all good news on that front. peter, ben, appreciate both of you. thank you. up next, the in-person meeting today between two authoritarian leader, vladimir putin and china's president xi. what it could mean for the war in ukraine and growing tensions in taiwan. plus ukrainian families forced to evacuate their homes after what officials say was a russian missile strike on a critical dam. we're live from kyiv for the latest. latest veryone's doing on their phones? they're investing with merrill. think miss allen is texting for backup? no she's totally in charge. of her portfolio and daniel g. she's building a greener future and he's... running a pretend restaurant. and phil? phil has questions, but none of them are about his portfolio.

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this morning vladimir putin sitting down across, albeit quite a distance from, chinese president xi jinping. they met on the side lines of a summit in uzbekistan. the war seems to suddenly have reached a turning point after ukraine's major counteroffensive in the east. russia though now retaliating launching several cruise missile attacks wednesday including one on a dam they're president zelenskyy's hometown. more than 100 homes were flooded.

let's go to janis mackey frayer. what do we know about the meeting and what these two leaders discussed? >> reporter: this was a reunion between these two dozens of ti time had more of a formality than before. last time they met was here in beijing when they declared had partnership with no limits and then weeks later russia invaded ukraine. we know china has never outright supported russia in its war, but it hasn't gone so far as to condemn it either. and so when putin conceded that china had, quote, questions and concerns about the war in ukraine, it was a rare admission that suggests two things. first of all, that material support from beijing is not going to be unequivocal or guaranteed. and secondly, that beijing doesn't want to back a loser. this heating is coming at a crucial time for russia as it is

losing ground in ukraine, giving up territory that it months capturing. so there is a sense that there might not be as much in this for putin as he had hoped. he did acknowledge china's balanced position on the war in ukraine. xi jinping in the readout said china is willing to work with russia on core issues, already they are buying a lot of russian oil and gas, they are offering diplomatic backing at the u.n., they have been amplifying russian propaganda here and giving rhetorical support for the war. but how far xi jinping is willing to go for putin still remains unclear. he doesn't want to trigger secondary sanctions. and we have to continue the timing with just weeks before the communist party congress here when xi jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term in power. so he is looking at this meeting as a chance to bolster his

foreign policy credentials and not take any policy risks. >> and so meagan, russia is on its heels and now retaliating. tell us what is the latest from there. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. just within the last 24 hours, we have seen three attacks in the same central ukrainian city which as you mentioned happens to be the hometown of president zelenskyy. now, first attack that we saw overnight taking out a dam, so we're talking about floodwater rushing through the streets, filling up buildings, filling up people's homes. we know over 100 homes were impacted. knocking off water to thousands of people in that area. but this is what we're seeing from the russians. they are hitting critical infrastructure. just a couple of days ago on sunday, we saw them fire missiles at a power station plunging millions into the dark. this is being seen as retaliation because the ukrainian military is on the move. they are pushing past the

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little information as to where they were being sent. also this morning, a separate group of migrants were dropped off outside vice president harris' washington, d.c. residence. forcing a last minute scramble there as well. >> i think it was intentional. i think the plan was from last night from what i'm hearing from agencies that the plan was to drop them off here, but not give anybody a head's up. >> why did they come here? >> i'm not aware. that is a better question for the governors. >> well, texas governor greg abbott has been busing migrants to washington, d.c. for months sparking a public emergency in the capital. we're watching for potential developments today on the future of the justice department's investigation into those classified documents seized at mar-a-lago. the doj has asked a federal judge to decide by today if she will put a hold on the part of her order that exempted 100 plus classified documents from their

investigation. how the judge rules will determine the legal avenue the department takes next. and there is urgency behind it. the department warned tuesday the investigative delay could cause, quote, irreparable harm to our national security. plus we have new details on the doj's january 6 probe. it involves former trump doj official jeffrey clark who promoted trump's false election claims and who had his house searched in june. he revealed that he is under investigation over alleged violations of false statements, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice charges. and ken dilanian is following the latest for us. also with me, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, now our legal analyst. and so ken, the judge doesn't have to a abide by the deadline, so what options do they have depending on what happens today? >> that's right, chris, the judge can do what she pleases. but the justice department has told the judge that if she doesn't rule by the end of

today, they will make the same request to the appeals court in atlanta. so there is a number of scenarios that could happen here. she does grant the doj what they want, they still intend to appeal her whole order. they filed a notice to do that. but this would give them the latitude to start using those classified documents in their investigation and resume the damages assessment which they say is on hold right now and which is harming national security. she could rule against them and decline to grant the stay in which case they will take it right up to the appeals court. i guess it is also possible she could modify her ruling in the face of powerful evidence that there is really no way that these classified documents could be subject to executive privilege or attorney/client privilege, they are not really presidential records, they are government records and there is not really a claim that the president has to shield them from fbi scrutiny. so we'll just have to wait and see. but one thing is clear, the justice department is saying very strongly in their court

pleadings that they believe national security of the united states is at risk the longer they don't have access to these documents to figure out whether any of them got into the wrong hands or for example what was in those empty documents marked classified that they seized at mar-a-lago. >> just to be clear about this, joyce, though, is this really about not if they will get the documents but when? >> so it is about a number of issues, and timing is a big one. as regards the documents that are part of doj's stay request, ultimately those issues come back to the government. i've watched a lot of legal analysts and former government employees struggle with how we express something as fundamental as the fact that the former president is simply wrong here and the judge seems to have bought something that is so incredible it is hard to believe the 11th circuit if the issue comes to them won't promptly say doj of course you're entitled to classified materials.

trump has no possessory interest. you can use them now. so that is the timing issue on the classified documents. for the remainder of the documents, there could be a little bit more time. but i think that you are correct to classify it as a time issue. when will they get the documents, not will they get them. they were seized purchase support to a legitimate search warrant that was backed up by probable cause. federal courts really don't have any business interfering with criminal investigations like this judge has done. and again, it is tough to see an outcome in which doj isn't permitted to proceed albeit with delay which is of course always the trump game in litigation. >> and joyce, new and noteworthy, the january 6 committee says they have acquired thousands of secret service records. and i will play what she said. >> there are texts, emails, radio traffic, all kins of information, teams meetings. so we're going through

everything that has been provided. more is coming in. as i say, some of it is not relevant and some of it is. and it is a huge slog to go through it, but we'll go through it and the members of the committee themselves have been involved in this and we hope to have that completed soon. >> yeah, whatever soon means, because i'm curious when you have thousands of documents, some relevant, some not, what is the process like to sift through that volume of documents and what remaining questions do you have surrounding the january 6 secret service situation that might shed light on them? >> well, this is obviously a lot of work, but the committee is blessed with an bun dant resources including many staff members. and so one suspects that they will divide them up and go through them meticulously to see if there is a smoking gun or at least corroborating evidence. the committee has done a really

good job of without having any sort of outcome that they are looking for, simply pursuing the facts and presenting those facts as they learn of them. and so one suspects here that they will review the documents to see if the secret service messaging traffic either corroborates or tends to disprove any of the testimony that we've heard to date. i think that it will be most interesting to hear whether some of the testimony regarding the former president's movements on january 6 is corroborated. if he in fact took an aggressive posture towards the secret service, that is likely reflected in these documents. >> joyce advance, ken dilanian, great to have you both on the program. right now, the line to pay respects to the queen is stretching for miles. but the fascination with the royal family goes way beyond london. why people all over the world are streaming, listening or reading stories inspired by the queen. ading stories inspired by queen. [school bells]

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nine-hour-long line to pay their respects to the let queen elizabeth. fascination with palace life has long been a pop culture mainstay, embodied most recently by netflix's emmy-winning hit "the crown." this morning, actor matt smith who portrayed a young prince philip talked about what his real life counterpart thinks about the show. >> a friend of mine sat next to him at dinner once and i think philip asked my friend if he made "the crown." by the end of the meal, i have to ask, philip, have you watched the crown? apparently he turned around and said don't be ridiculous. >> nbc's kelly cobiella is here in london with more on the royal fascination in pop culture. honestly we always have been, but obviously the death of queen elizabeth has amped up the interest. >> of course.

the british royal family has been the inspiration for so many tv shows, documentaries, movies, and people are tuning in. they're rediscovering all these pieces of work, wondering if what they see on the screen really is what it was like behind palace gates. here in london the streets are flooded with thousands of mourners paying their final respects to the queen. her death shining a renewed spotlight on the monarchy and the powerful family behind it, with millions turning to tv and movies to try to learn more about them. >> when i ascended the throne, i was just a girl, 25 years old. >> netflix's "the crown" logging 17.6 million hours viewed, launching the drama back up to number four on the platform's trending list in the u.s., and the top ten in 26 other countries. the show's popularity even rising past the new season of

"stranger things," imaginings of the queen's life and love recapturing audiences once again. >> lay down the law, know who you are. you're the queen of england. >> reporter: beyond the royal's reign on streaming, movies inspired by her majesty are seeing viewership skyrocket, too. >> you know my job better than i do. >> well, you're my tenth prime minister, mr. blair. my first was winston churchill. >> reporter: "the queen" breaking into i tune's top 40 music chart. music lovers are listening to skongs about the queen as well, streaming numbers from the beatles "her magistery" and the sex pistol's "god save the queen" are up from 260 to 650%. even books about the royal family are turning pages. the palace paper which examined the turbulent times around

princess diana and beyond reached number four of amazon's list of best sellers in world history. >> i think what people are interested now in seeing is what made queen elizabeth tick. >> it's so interesting, isn't it? the streaming giants wouldn't tell us exactly how many more people are watching all of this content since the queen's death, but you can bet people are tuning in once again. >> absolutely. who do you know who hasn't watched "the crown?" >> actually matt smith said on the "today" show that prince harry might have watched it and even the queen. hmm. >> do you believe they didn't watch any of it? come on. it's so great to see you, kelly cobiella, in person. thank you for coming on the program. we appreciate it. that's going to do it for us this hour. i'll see you right back here at

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