now to alyson in south carolina this morning. alyson? >> reporter: chris i want to tell you about the remarkable scene we saw at the statehouse behind me yesterday. it was 98 degrees and there was a heat index, meaning how hot it felt it was 106. and yet thousands of people came here. they stood in an hour-long line that snaked all the way around this building all the way around the block. they were people of all types, old, young, black, white, they were standing shoulder to shoulder. they were sharing umbrellas to shield themselves from the intensity. they were sharing bottled water. it was just a remarkable show of love and unity and respect for their friend and leader senator clementa pinckney. they said that emanuel ame church was a place of love and not violence. the parking lot full at emanuel ame church wednesday night, the bible study resuming where the massacre took place one week earlier. they said this territory belongs to god. earlier in the day thousands lined up in the sweltering heat as a horse-drawn casen carried reveren