cnn's clarissa ward joining us now from outside westminster abbey. at is where the action is, as it were, over the next couple of hours, clarissa. we do expect to see dignitaries, heads of state and government arriving in the next 45 minutes. just describe the atmosphere where you are. >> reporter: well, it's certainly a gray morning and a somber morning. but there is also a degree of anticipation here. presidents, prime ministers, princes and emperor all expected to begin arriving really in the next half hour and 40 minutes. although the service, as you mentioned, started at 11:00. we have seen already a couple of buses pulling in. in fact, you can see one behind me right now. the vast majority of people, guests who were invited, some 2,000 will be attending the funeral service, will be arriving on these sorts of buses. this is for very understandable, logistical reasons. there are some notable exceptions. among them, u.s. president joe biden. and basically the guests will be arriving, going in to the knave. this is the same knave westminster abbey w

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cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward joins you now.e seeing there. >> reporter: so as you can see this area has been completely devastated and people are moving their life stock down the road trying to get to higher ground. this is one of the few roads that has not been completely submerged under water. and there's just a steady flow of people coming here, you can see they're crammed into buses, they are on rickshaws, they are on motorcycles and they just tried to grab whatever they possibly can salvage from their homes and move it to higher ground but the fear is this isn't going to be higher ground for that much longer. even though there is no rain forecast here for the next five days, the water levels here are still rising and that's because this is essentially a catchment area, this is right between the indus river and a lake and the end result is there is nowhere for this water to run off to. all the rain coming from other parts of the country in the north is kind of running down here and swelling into this area. what is so pronou

and now, let's go to cnn's clarissa ward. e is here in london at westminster abbey where the mourners have been arriving for the funeral service and camping out here for days in many cases. clarissa? >> erin, that's right. well, the doors opened two hours ago. and really it's in the last half hour that we have seen some of those foreign dignitaries starting to arrive. kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers from all over the world. we have seen the french president emmanuel macron arriving with his wife. also the german president walter steinmeyer as well as the brazilian president, bolsonaro, arriving. you also heard that bell tolling. that is the tenor bell that has been tolling every minute and will continue to do so for a total of 96 minutes, those 96 minutes or 96 tolls commemorating the 96 years that queen elizabeth ii lived. we are waiting for u.s. president joe biden to arrive. we're expecting that to happen quite shortly. he is one of the few who will be arriving in his own vehicle. many of the world leaders had be

. >>> joining us now from buckingham palace, cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward, and royal commentator emily nash for us. clarissa, give us a sense of how things are there at buckingham palace. >> well, there is no question about it, this is a historic moment, and you can feel that in the air. you can feel that in terms of the logistics that nina was just touching on in that story. the incredible herculean effort going into funneling all the crowds to avoid there being choke points or people being pushed too much. and trying to make sure that everybody gets to have a moment to pay their respects. and then beyond that, of course, you have the anticipation of the moment. the emotion of the moment. talking to people who have already been waiting for hours, some of them carrying chairs, they're intending to camp out and wait for this moment. and all of them saying the same sort of idea, we wanted to come to say thank you. it is the only thing to do. she was here for all of our lifetimes for most people who are here. and this is what makes great britain great. it is this o

let's bring in cnn's clarissa ward. arissa, we understand the queen has been officially buried now? >> reporter: that's right, jake. so, there was a private ceremony for the royal family at about 7:30 p.m. and we are now learning that the queen has been laid to rest in her final resting place now, in a sort of annex in that chapel, in the king george vi memorial chapel. she's buried there with her sister, with her mother and father and her beloved husband of 73 years, prince fillphilip, been moved to be buried alongside her. this was something, jake, the queen had really participated heavily in the planning for her own funeral. every single detail carefully choreographed over many years to make sure it was just exactly as she wished for it to be, jake. >> and clarissa, we saw the queen's crown removed from her coffin today. the next person to wear it will be king charles at his coronation, presumably after it's been adjusted to better fit him. do we know when that will happen? >> reporter: well, that's the big question,

cnn's clarissa ward has been talking with mourners as they make their way toward westminster hall. joins us now. clarissa, i know you've been talking with people waiting to see the queen, lying in state all day. what is the scene tonight and what have you been hearing? >> reporter: well, anderson, as you know it's after 1:00 in the morning here now, but the crowds are not showing any sign of slowing down. you can see behind me there's a pretty long line here of people who have been waiting for quite some time although not as bad as some of the estimates had been. in fact, i just talked to this man here. you can tell exactly how long you've been waiting here, can't you? you've timed it exactly. >> i have indeed. 3 hours and 40 minutes. >> reporter: 3 hours and 40 minutes, which actually considering they were warning people might have to spend the night is not as bad. do you have a sense when you'll be able to get to westminster hall. another couple hours? >> they've been saying about two hours for the last four hours. >> reporter: two hours for the last four hours, okay. what's inter

from buckingham palace cnn royal correspondent max foster, cnn chief international correspondent clarissa wardd cnn royal historian kate williams. max, all of these plans, the movement of the coffin, the various vigils and ceremonies, they've been in works i understand for years. these truly were the queen's final wishes, right? >> yes. a very detailed plan, and it's really playing out to the minute, really. if you look at what was originally planned and what we're seeing play out now, there has been some movement because of the way the days have fallen. but broadly speaking, it's exactly to the plan, which i know was signed off by the queen. so therefore, yes, this is what she wanted. particularly poignant today, we were informed that the state hearse that you see in these images was actually designed by the palace. and she was part of that design process. she decided what it should look like. the primary thing that she wanted was the opportunity for people to say as much of the coffin as possible. so you see all the glass on the hearse there, and each a light on the roof to allow people to s

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cnn correspondent max forester, clarissa ward. what happens tomorrow? -- what happens obviously, these last weeks, for tomorrow? there's been such focus on king charles, obviously, they've obviously these last continued a morning period. weeks. max, for the but for the monarchy, what changes? royal family, for king charles, obviously, they have continued mourning period. but for the monarchy, what changes? >> it >> at that moment, wasn't, it was moving to see prince charles, king chiles, sitting in the queen seat. she has been sitting there for 70 years, that was quite profound. seeing the tears in his eyes. watching the coffin goes down. i think what happens, now it's all on him. and that's what that moment signified. they've still got a week of mourning. so we won't see much of them. we're not being told what they're gonna do tomorrow. we were so we want even see them tomorrow. they have to recalibrate, look at their diaries. and the king is in charge of those diaries and will be stepping into what the queen will be doing in the past. i think that wil

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clarissa ward joins us live from a shelter for the displaced in karachi. right now. >> reporter: well, john, you heard the secretary general, he said the support that they have received so far for the u.n. is just a drop in the ocean of what is needed. we are here at one of these makeshift camps, they have sprung up all over this area to try to accommodate the millions of people who have been pushed from their homes. you can see it is a desperate situation here. this used to be a girls school, people are sleeping on the floor, there are flies everywhere. there are 50 families sharing a single bathroom, a lot of the people we've been talking to have been here for weeks, they're sick many of them. they are lucky to get food, but simply put, this is not a sustainable situation and this is also an incredibly expensive situation for the government of pakistan, the army chief telling the u.n. secretary general that they have spent roughly $30 billion, that number is only going to go up because, guess what, john, the people we are talking to here say that even wh

. >> and max foster joins us now along with our chief international correspondent clarissa ward, whoo been tracking today's events. i understand you have some new details about some of what went on tonight at buckingham palace. >> so we know that the coffin was received by the whole family. so all the queen's children and grandchildren, including william and harry and kate and meghan. i've also been told tonight they all had a dinner together. that's quite a unifying moment when you consider all the eruptions, you know, prince andrew, prince harry, meghan, all the eruptions in the family over the last year, and they're all sitting having dinner tonight in the name of the queen. and i think the standard is still up. i can just about see the yellow. the protocol is the king would leave first. the suggestion is that they're all at the palace tonight. what time is it? nearly 2:00. >> so that would be the first time they've all probably had a meal together in some time. >> yeah. all of the movements behind the scenes, but certainly i don't think harry's sat down for dinner with william fo

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. >> i don't know if we're able to go to clarissa ward who is in the crowd. clarissa, we're seeing extraordinary images of people, the lights of the cell phones illuminating the darkness as well as lights of the television cameras and lights of the palace itself. what have you been hearing, seeing around you? >> reporter: oh, yes, i'm sorry, anderson. i wasn't sure if you were addressing me. just an extraordinary moment. ripple of anticipation and then the spontaneous outburst of jubilation. you saw people cheering, clapping. everyone you can see behind me holding up their cell phones hoping to capture this moment of history to punctuate this extraordinary moment. we heard also the crowds chanting hip, hip, hooray! so many people had been waiting for hours, it's raining, it's getting chilly. yet this is the moment they've been waiting for. i don't think it disappointed. there was a sort of bolt, current of electricity that really rippled through this entire area. i had goose bumps in fact because it did feel like this spontaneous outpouring of a debt of gratit

cnn's clarissa ward appearing in studio with stephen colbert and offering her analysis in russia's warr saber-rattling. >> is he bluff ing? i thought i had more than that. >> that's it. i pray he's bluffing but no one should assume he's bluffing and everyone should be prepared for what happens. i have talked to hard liners in russia to say they support it. >> it would provide them enough time to get this mobilization going because if it is the, you know, chaos that you've described, then they need something to keep ukrainians from advancing. >> the irony is none of this is likely, even the most extreme nuclear use, for example, none of that is really fundamentally going to change the dynamics on the battlefield. i think what russia is really hoping to do in the long run or certainly many analysts believe this is they just want to keep this grinding and grinding and grinding for as long as they possibly can because the one thing they are better at than most others is suffering. and so they have a very high pain threshold and they're really hoping that if they can maximize this, keep it

back with max foster, kate williams, and clarissa ward.the planning, which i think is extraordinary in itself when you see all the people involved. i thought it was obviously very moving. i think that image of prince charles as he was king charles now, but i think of prince charles because he was looking at his mother being lowered into the royal vault. who knows what those tears were about, but you wonder if it's as a son or combined with the fact he's got this weight now that was the final good-bye for the public. they now look to him. and i thought that was very defining. i thought it was also very defining to see george and charlotte watching all that unfold so they could then use that to inform their own future royal roles. and i just think, you know, i didn't know the queen personally, but i knew she was involved in all of this. i know how it played out and it must have been so heartening to her looking down to see the family come together, to focus on her. and for the public to come out in the way that they did, the way there were p

cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward and matthew chance are out among the mourners. ot more people come closer to buckingham palace. >> reporter: that's right. you can start to see. this is buckingham palace behind me. but the line of people, anderson, goes all the way right down here. this goes all the way. this is constitution hill. it goes all the way down to hyde park. you can see people are lined up, they are waiting. what's so striking as you just eluded to, they are waiting patiently. they are waiting quietly. we haven't heard any jostling. we haven't heard any shouting. people want to mark this moment. they want to have their front row seat on this historic event but they are comporting themselves with such decorum. it's really pretty remarkable to see such a large crowd standing, some of them for hours, in the rain. it's getting chillier and you don't hear anyone, not a cross word. no one squabbling. no one pushing. no one shoving. everyone just marking this momentous occasion. you can hear the helicopters overhead as people wait for any moment now the queen'

clarissa ward reports from one of the hardest hit provinces in southeast pakistan. >> the rains are stoppedrovince, but the waters are not subsiding. the city had been something of a sanctuary for some of the more than 6 million people displaced by the floods in this region. now, the main highway has become a waterway. smaller roads into the city are choked with traffic. you can see there's just a steady stream of vehicles pouring into this area. these are all people who are desperately trying to escape their villages which are now completely submerged underwater. pakistan is responsible for less than 1% of the world's emissions, but it is paying a stiff price for global warming. heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers have left nearly a third of this country under water. wiping out villages like seta. when the floods hit, residents carried whatever they could save to a narrow strip of land by the roadside. so this is how you're living now? this person has been living in a makeshift shelter for over a week. there's no gas to cook what little food they have left. outside aid has yet to arri

i want to get now to cnn's clarissa ward. e people who are waiting in line to get into westminster hall to pay their respects to the queen. clarissa, hello to you. what are they telling you? >> reporter: so, don, i just wanted to give you a sense of where we are. you can see in the background there, westminster hall, big ben, houses of parliament. the line starts all the way on the other side of the bridge, it snakes around, comes back over here. they've tried to clear this thoroughfare, but there's a whole other line and there are many lines behind this line, as well, where people have been gathering, some of them arrived here 9:00 this morning. you can see some people taking photographs. sorry to get in your photograph, guys, forgive me. and this long line of people are going to wait patiently. they're hoping the line will start moving around 5:00 p.m. they're supposed to be given wristbands. some of them have come from far away, from london. hi, guys. hello! how are you? where have you come from today? >> we've come from pe

royal historian kate williams and correspondent max foster, chief international correspondent clarissa wardwhat happens tomorrow? i mean, there has been such focus on these last weeks, max, for the royal family, for king charles, obviously they have continued mourning period but for the monarchy, what changes? >> well, it was moving seeing prince charles, king charles sitting in the queen's seat. she has been sitting there for 70 years. today in the chapel, that was quite profound. then his tears in his eyes watching the coffin go down. i think what happens now is it's all on him. that's what that moment signified. they still have a week of mourning so we won't see much of them. we're not being told what they are doing tomorrow. we're told we won't see them. they have to recalibrate, look at their diaries. now the king is in charge of those diaries and will be stepping into what the queen would be doing in the past. i think that is going to take a whole load of recalibration because underneath him it all falls to the other two as well. you know, the prince of wales now has to get his head a

cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward has been among the crowds on westminster bridge.at you're seeing there. what is the mood? >> reporter: well, it's a pretty extraordinary scene. i'm not going to lie. there are thousands of people who have been waiting many hours but upbeat and the lines are moving. it's incredible to see the organization that's gone into this but it is like a well oiled machine. they're lining up behind me. then they're funneled down and they go down onto the river bank, if we can pan over, you can see that river bank and then they go all the way over to the next bridge across, they then cross that bridge and then swing around towards westminster hall where the queen's coffin is lying in state. and we've seen people opening up a bottle of wine, having a glass of wine. they're making friends. they're talking to each other. people seem to be in agreement that of course, this is sad and there is an element of it being a somber moment but there is also a real feeling, alisyn and victor people celebrating this moment, celebrating the tradition, celebrati

we spoke with president biden today, cnn's clarissa ward has been talking with mourners as they make estminster hall. she joins us now. clarissa, i know that you have been talking to people waiting to see the queen, wanting to see it all day. what is the scene there tonight, and what have you've been hearing? >> well, anderson, as you know it is after one in the morning here now. but the crowds are not showing any sign of slowing down. you can see behind me, it is a pretty long line here of people who have been waiting for quite some time, although not as bad as some of the estimates have been. in fact, i just saw this man here, he told me exactly how long he has been waiting here. >> timed it exactly. >> i have not eight, in three hours and 40 minutes. >> three hours and 40 minutes. which actually, considering that they were warning people might have to spend the night is not as bad. do you have a sense of when you will be able to get to westminster hall, another couple of hours? >> about two hours for the last four hours. >> two hours for the last four hours. okay. have you come her

i want to bring in our chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, cnn contributor trisha goddard former communications secretary to the queen, simon lewis. you know, i want to start with you, trisha. let's talk about what we're seeing. you heard max foster report that the royal family had dinner at buckingham palace last night. how important is it for them to have these private moments to break bread, for example, and possibly mend ties? >> it's really, really important. i mean, grief is something that separates people, but one hopes, especially with harry and william, that it brings them back together again. and every single time they're out in public, they are so scrutinized. you've got body language people watching how they react to each other. you know, how did meghan look at kate? i mean, can you imagine? all families have fallouts, every single family has a fallout, but for everything to be so scrutinized would be very, very difficult. so, to actually get somen peace at such a time when they're grieving and they're coming together and it must be very reminiscent for the bro

i also want to bring in our chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, and british tv presenter, trisha goddard, you were there to take in this truly emotional and historic moment. >> reporter: well, we were very privileged, wolf, in that we were right outside westminster abbey this morning, and were able to come to windsor here in the afternoon, and i think one of the things that was the most striking was the sheer number of people lining the streets, not just of central london, but really along that entire drive from london to windsor. already the crowds had had so many opportunities to pay their respects when the queen's coffin was brought to buckingham palace, then when the queen was lying in state, and so i think there was some question as to how many people would come out today, the 10th day, the culmination of this mourning period, and yet we saw, even outside windsor castle and the long walk, that 1.5 mile long promenade, if you will, more than 100,000 people cheek to jowl, all different ages, hoping to catch that one glimpse, and there was an extraordinary moment as the