our own brooke baldwin is in london for the festivities. i stlulgts love that. en in doubt, take a poll. >> why are americans so in love with the queen? >> i think it's the whole story. it's so row mant sized for americans especially with this rejuvenation of the monarchy. you talk to people in london and they say it was the duke and do you chess of cambridge, william and kate that re-energized the monarchy now. to much was about the royal wedding last year. walking around the streets of london as i have the last 24 hours, people here say basically if you thought the royal wedding was a big deal, this is an even bigger deal. 60 years on the throne, only one other queen can claim that, and that was queen victor ra in the 19th century. you mentioned the duke and duchess, we saw awesome twit pics from your stay. do you care to share? >> let's share, shall we, kate? i don't know what to begin with. are we looking at -- >> we're looking at you with the duke and duchess themselves. what are you doing? >> of course. as we are working on the big exclusive with queen eliz

congratulations to -- >> it's all good. >> brooke baldwin live from london, thanks. rrow join brook and piers morgan, they will be live for the royal extravaganza. our coverage begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> a baby in a runaway stroller headed toward a busy intersection. you'll hear from one of these people whose quick thinking got the baby out of harm's way. ♪ >>> good morning, washington, d.c., there is the big house. rough weather last night, didn't you? more calm weather expected today and those that got damage last night, you'll enjoy some more tranquil stuff to clean up. >>> checking stories around the country this morning, let's get to it. 11-year-old boy who attended president obama's rally in minnesota on a school day was shocked when the president offered to write him an excused absence note. >> really? he's going to really write me an excuse note? mr. acreman, please excuse tyler he was with me, barack obama. then i kind of want to brag at school and tell them look at what i got! >> if that doesn't do it, i don't know what will. hold on to that note

. >> i'm brooke baldwin. we are perched by the tower bridge as we are watching history unfolding. this is the largest flotilla of its kind and we will bring it to you live. >> this is the biggest i've ever seen. an extraordinary explosion of patriarchic glee. 7 million are lining the streets all to watch what is the greatest river thames extravaganza we've ever had in the country and to go through every one of those boats we have richard quest who has claimed to be a boat expert. >> the boats you're looking at now, narrow boats and dutch barges that, of course, further back up the river -- >> we have video pictures earlier of the queen as she arrived, obviously all about her today. >> here's my question, richard. here she is looking lovely in white. i know a lot were papanticipati would she wear white or pink? was she wearing white during her coronation? >> no, my understanding is why she's wearing white is so she clears out. >> notice her hat. >> this is on the "spirit of chart well." the duchess of cambridge looking magnificent with alexander mcqueen. prince william in his raf m

i'm with brook baldwin here and richard quest. what a day.hard. >> this one is brimming. you're bursting at the scenes as well. >> my bossom is overflowing with pride today. >> no, it's interesting because i was reading sfw you were writing yesterday about how traditionally the brits are stoic and with a very stiff upper lip, but this is the perfect excuse to show that emotion, to brim with pride, to go gaga over the diamond jubilee. >> that's a reason why. look at it. who else does it this? >> the spirit of chartwell. >> the british do this pomp and circumstance. this is the spirit of chartwell. one of the greatest vessels that i think i've ever seen on the river thames. >> in the old days, of course -- >> off with your head. >> if you were married to king henry xv, you would be taken down there and beheaded. right now we're at tower bridge. there are tens of thousands of people here. imaging this for eight miles, i would say there are well over a million people lining these streets. an extraordinary spectacle. >> those are the boats of the

brooke baldwin, cnn, london. >> we all need assignments like that. that's incredible.re excited about the diamond jubilee as so many of us happen to be, i know you'll want to commemorate the event. what do we have here? people are wondering what this is doing on the table. >> this is the queen's signature drink and we will partake, a little lemon. she has it with two blocks of ice and that is what they call the queen's favorite signature cocktail. cheers, reynolds. >> is this the real deal? >> of course it is, reynolds. enjoy. if we are coherent after this -- >> this tastes like water. it's not the real deal. se seriously, it's not. >> there's other amazing memorabilia. for example, this chess set, now the chess set we see comes from the royal collection shop and it is hand crafted. it is quite magnificent. you're seeing pictures of london now and the flags and all kinds of things so you can buy the chess set in london and, for example, you have the queen who is wearing the sovereign robes. you have them modeled after the windsor castle and choir boys in georgia's chap

hello i'm kate baldwin in for brook baldwin today. a busy hour ahead of us, so let's get straight to the news, shall we? prosecutors want to see the man that shot trayvon martin back behind bars. they filed a motion to revoke george zimmerman's bond, but right now we're looking at live pictures inside the courtroom as i'm speaking. right now both sides are in this courtroom arguing for the same thing, keeping evidence sealed from the public. we're talking crime scene photos, names of witnesses and photos. trayvon martin was unarmed and walking back from a score when he crossed paths with george zimmerman on february 26th. i'm sure remember this. zimmerman was suspicious of martin and followed him. minutes later martin was dead from a gunshot wound. zimmerman claims he shot in self-defense when the teenager attacked him. martin savidge is in florida where this is happening. >> reporter: this hearing is involving the defense. it's also involving the state and it's involving attorneys that are representing the media. one of the few insta

i'm piers morgan along with brooke baldwin.ts here. welcome to you all. max, what are we going to see today? >> you're going to see -- it's cliche. pomp and pageantry. a thousand members of military lined up. bands from all of the services. 1902 -- >> do we know for sure that's the one they are riding? >> with possible rain, this may change. >> the weather is variable. we don't know what will happen. at the moment it feels okay. >> there's a backup plan. there's an australian state coach with a roof they'll pull out if it does rain. reminiscent of last year. >> i've been in one of those. i do know we won't get the coronation carriage because it moves too slowly. that's only for when the queen is crowned. we won't see that today. >> what does that feel like when you are coming up with all of these people who have come from not just around london but the commonwealth and world to crane their necks to see the queen. >> it's extraordinary to think that you are being pulled by horses. it is a cinderella moment. my mother tells a sto

i'm brooke baldwin. we are about to hear from president obama who is on the ground in colorado for this firsthand look at the damage by the wildfires. the fire in colorado springs is the worst in the state's history consuming nearly 350 homes. now we have learned one person has been killed, another person is missing. this fire is not even close to being contained. eight c-130 planes will be joining the fight. it's been four years since all eight of them aircraft were called into action. i want to go straight to jim spellman in colorado springs. talk to me about what you've seen today. we have talked to someone that has lost everything. it's horrendous. >> reporter: it really is. they made a lot of progress. only 15% contained. this is the third good day in a row where they have been able to get in there and make progress against the fire. it's also allowed them to do assessments through the neighborhoods and figure out which homes have been lost. that's what led to the search that discovered the deceased

. >> and i'm brook baldwin.t is so nice to see you here from this sunday afternoon here in london, and we can begin to hear the crowds behind us. just to give you a little geographical layout, we are right next to the tower bridge, and we are beginning to hear the crowds screaming from the river banks of the river thames as this flotilla, all 1,000 boats. take a look at the map, and can you see the progression here along the river as it winds around. heading towards us, heading towards london bridge and then tower bridge right where we are. >> celebrating, as i say, 60 years of queen elizabeth ii's reign as the queen of great britain and the commonwealth. she is here today with all the senior members of the family on a special barge, the spirit of chartwell, that is coming down the thames towards us here at the tower bridge. joined by richard quest. he is just -- >> i am turning around like a topsy-turvy thing because i'm waiting now. we are looking at the pictures on television. they've passed london bridge, so

this is nowhere, brooke baldwin, i would rather be -- >> than right here in the rain with me lookingn, right? >> my goodness. this is one of those lifetime moments i don't think i'll ever forget. >> we should mention this is a boat. this is the spirit of chartwell. this is something that they, the royal family, basically commissioned for this precise event, and they really worked it inside out. it's like this 17th century meets art deco kind of boat and you see these -- i kept looking at the flowers. there are something like 6,000 flowers here as part of this boat, and when you look at the front of it, is it turning? >> oh, my goodness. >> it's turning. it's pulling a 360 that we had only heard about. richard is nodding. >> the royal barge is now performing a rapid fire 360 turn. >> i have never seen a boat do this. >> i have never seen any boat that size do this. this is absolutely remarkable. >> so if you get a moment, when you see the front -- here she is. we were talking to dickey arbiter, who had been a spokesman for the queen for two decades. a decade and a half. i said what in

i'm brooke baldwin at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. gins right now. >>> brooke, thanks very much. happening now, a bitter constitutional showdown between the president of the united states and republicans in congress. it's exploding as a house committee prepares to vote on holding president obama's attorney general, eric holder, in contempt. this hour there are dramatic new developments in the election year fight over the botched operation called fast and furious. plus, the fed chairman lowers expectations for the jobs market and the u.s. economy and takes new action to try to boost the recovery. erin burnett standing by. she'll join us live this hour. she's got a new perspective on the economic suffering that's coming up. >>> and big pizza chains are taking on the federal government so they don't have to tell consumers just how many calories they'll pack -- they'll get on every single slice. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room".

i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with the word big footed. big footed by the president of the united states. republicans say they will go ahead with a contempt vote against attorney general eric holder even after president barack obama invoked his executive privilege to with hold these documents about the botched fast and furious gun running investigation. these are the very documents that republicans wanted holder to turn over and they are fuming over this. >> bringing about one of the worst disperchments on the history of the department of justice is indeed an injustice to the congress, the american people and this important investigative arm of the house of representatives. this is a very sad day for the united states of america when the president would engage himself at the last minute and try to exert executive privilege. >> that was florida congressman john mica speaking. he's joining me live. welcome. you have the president using executive privilege for the very first time during his presidency, we should remind our viewers of that to

our brooke baldwin is in the middle of it all in london. >> reporter: it's almost like a party atmosphereondon. you can see union jacks hanging from building to building really as far as the eye can see. and i want you to see this. her majesty completely made of leggos. everything in these store windows is the color of the union jack. every store. it's the white, it tees blue. it's the red. >> the atmosphere is much happier than what it normally is. flags everywhere. it's just -- it's just really, really brilliant and everyone is so happy. that's the main thing. >> this year with the olympics over the jubilee. i don't know. the euro football as well, wimbledon. so much going on. it's good to be british this year. >> look. it's all the corgis because the queen loves her corgis. corgis, of course, on the diamond jubilee. look. here's the cab. the union jack cab right there. here at henley's toy store you have the union jack flag. you can hear the "national anthem." bears. queen on bag. pocketbook. even key chance. it is everything diamond jubilee. >> i get excited because she's the second q

being gay is that type of celebration. ( laughter ) and brook baldwin, in my opinion, the most attractist of the baldwin brothers, knows, this is not about watch lorets having parties. she knows what this really is. >> if you're banning the heterosexual, you know, pastime of bachelorette parties from happening in your club in west hollywood, i mean, on a level, it is discrimination. >> stephen: discrimination. damn straight, pun intended. ( laughter ). so, wag of my finger at discriminating gays who are victimizing america's drunken, horny, shrieking bachelorettes. and, folks, unlike being gay, bachelorette partyying is not a choice. even if you don't want to go, you have to go. i mean-- ( cheers and applause ) you do. you kind of have to go. because you know janet's been planning it for months and if you don't go she's going to turn it into a whole thing. by the way, she says you're supposed to take in $75. and, sure, gays say it's insensitive to their lack of rights, to which i say yeah. that's the point. the most sacred part of getting smaerd taunting gay people that they can't. ( laug

"cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> candy, thank you so much.i'm brooke baldwin. what a day. a huge day of news and a lot happening live during this hour. first, this historic ruling from the united states supreme court today. the health care law championed by president obama is deemed constitutional. and this is really widely seen as the biggest supreme court decision in more than a decade. it could be a defining moment in the campaign for president, as with we look toward november. we're going to have the political back and forth from president obama and the presumptive republican nominee here, mitt romney. both of them spoke today. but i want to get straight to the nation's highest court, to kate balduan, who's been covering this, really, since it broke this morning, and kate, i want to break down the vote here in just a moment. but first, just the nuts and bolts. how did they rule? >> this was a 5-4 split decision, as our viewers and you well know. this was a bombshell case, a very complex opinion and a very interesting journey in getting th

. >>> top of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin. happening right now, we are getting late word that any minute the prosecution may be resting in the case against jerry sandusky, the former penn state coach accused of raping boys. it has been one week of incredibly disturbing testimony, so as soon as that news breaks, we're going to bring you, of course, live, reporting from that courthouse there in pennsylvania. but first, same state, nearly the same time, wildly different messages. president barack obama and his republican challenger, mitt romney, delivering competing economic visions in opposite corners of ohio today. the president just wrapped up momentsing moments ago. >> i want to recruit an army of new teachers. we won't deport hard-working, responsible young immigrants who have grown up here or received advanced degrees here, we'll let them earn the chance to become american citizens. so my plan would end the government subsidies to oil companies that have rarely been more profitable. let's double down on a clean energy indus

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hosted by brooke baldwin and piers morgan. >> from the paumomp and circumstance of the uc to the recognition of the u.s. navy's newest marine. the uss mississippi was commissioned into service in the port of tas cugalla. it cost about $2 billion to construct and it's part of the virginia class, which is billed as the navy's next generation of attack submarines. let's go back to sanford, florida. our martin savidge is there. and at any moment now, it's expected that george zimmerman would report back to jail, martin, how much longer does he have? >> well, we figure it's less than 24 hours. the judge, of course, made his ruling yesterday about 1:30, 2:00 in the afternoon. he gave 48 hours. the clock is ticking down. that's the receiving intake area of the seminole county jail. same door he came out six weeks ago. same door he's going to enter to get back into the facility, and over here f you look at the tents, that's the rest of the media party as we wait 24 hours a day. they have been sitting here to try to catch a glimpse and maybe a word as george zimmerman returns to the facility here. fr

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. >>> "cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. y, suzanne, thank you so much. i'll take it from here. hi, everyone, i'm brooke baldwin. developing right now, the fate of jerry sandusky in the hands of a jury. closing arguments wrapping up as the defense and prosecution made their cases today. the former penn state coach faces 48 counts, including the rape of children. the verdict, it could come down quickly. we're monitoring that for you from pennsylvania. >>> meantime, politics, fresh from taking on the gop over immigration policy, moments ago, president obama really stepping up pressure here on republicans to renew a low-interest student loan program before it expires the first of july. >> we've been talking about it for a long time. if congress does not get this done in a week, the average student with federal student loans will rack up an additional thousand dollars in debt over the coming year. if congress fails to act, more than 7 million students will suddenly be hit with the equivalent of a $1,000 tax hike. and that's not s

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i'm brooke baldwin. >> no the fenext two hours you' see a marvelous celebration honoring queen elizabeth ii 60 years on the phone. minutes from now her majesty will leave parliament and end up on the balcony of buckingham palace. >> we want to show you what you can expect as you are with us on cnn over the course of the next hour. right now as we mentioned, she's actually at westminster hall having this luncheon with her son, prince charles, along with his wife, camilla and also there two of her most famous grandsons, prince harry and prince william of course. the duchess of cambridge. that's all happening at westminster hall. >> there's a map. this is my hometown. let me guide you through this. >> go for it. >> we have houses of parliament and big ben and then the procession moves up to trafalgar square and it will come into the mall up to buckingham palace. what will be remarkable scenes right behind us just here and already you can feel the crowds building. they expect up to a million people in the streets and we've been seeing a procession of bands and guardsmen. >> you can hear it o

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cnn's brooke baldwin is live in buckingham palace. we are taking a look at the pictures. her car and head into saint paul's cathedral. what can we expect, brook? >> reporter: good morning. first let me take you back ten minutes here at buckingham palace. it's hard to think of any kind of comparison, zoraida. we saw the queeneave certainly sur roublded by security. she just left and the crowds are already out. and they're so excited. you can hear the peels of the bells as she is, as they say here in london, en route to st. paul's cathedral. we've been seeing some of the pictures. you can see prince charles is already there, his wife camilla. you can see william and kathryn and harry, but as you mentioned, we are 12i8 waiting for her to actually arrive at st. paul's. >> brook, she has arrived and she's entering. she's greeting. >> you have better pictures than me. >> i do. it's happening live. i know you're in a different location. there is a lot of pomp and circumstance happening. she is greeting everyone as she enters. can you talk us through what is going to happen? i hea

i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with the word big footed.contempt vote against attorney general eric holder even after president barack obama invoked his executive privilege to with hold these documents about the botched fast and furious gun running investigation. these are the very documents that republicans wanted holder to turn over and they are fuming over this. >> bringing about one of the worst disperchments on the history of the department of justice is indeed an injustice to the congress, the

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"cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >>> hello to all of you.s story out of afghanistan. eight insurgents got inside the security perimeters. take a look at the map. you know the area is a hot spot for militants. we know shots rang out. seven of the insurgents are dead. no u.s. soldiers were killed. there's word the insurgents might have had some help from afghan security forces. we're live at the pentagon with that story, coming up. >>> first, two pennsylvania because the person who we presumed, knows jerry sandusky better than anyone may soon take the stand in his defense. his wife is at the courthouse today. one of the very few times we have seen her since this trial began. i want to go to susan candiotti. what are the chances we hear from dottie or jerry sandusky himself? >> reporter: both are possibilities. signs point to hearing from dottie sandusky. she was seen entering the courthouse late this morning. she hasn't been here before the opening day. she hasn't heard any testimony after that. she stayed away from the courthouse. the fact th

. >> "cnn newsroom" with brooke baldwin. >>> hello.nt obama and mitt romney on the move raising money. the president is making stops in the south today bringing in campaign cash. he arrived in atlanta a short time ago. check this out. he arrived at the varsity at institution in atlanta. folks shout what do you have. about a couple of chili dogs. a couple of onion rings. >> the american people understand that we're not going to make progress by going backwar backwards. we need to go forwards. they understand we don't need to re-fight this battle over health care. it's the right thing to do that we got three million young people who are on their parents health insurance plans that didn't have it before. it's the right thing to do to give seniors discounts on their prescription drugs. it's the right thing to do to give 30 million americans health insurance that didn't have it before. >> that was the president a short time ago. also, mitt romney on the road today as well promoting his energy policy at a virginia business that sells machine

i'm brooke baldwin. now to wolf blitzer. ght now. >>> brooke, thanks very much. happening now. >> you leave me no alternative but to join those that call upon you to resign your office. >> there's fury and fireworks on capitol hill. a showdown as attorney of the united states eric holder rejects public calls to quit and accuses of playing politics. the campaigns aren't letting accuracy get in the way of a good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of t

i'm brooke baldwin. in the meantime, let's go to washington to wolf blitze eblit.m" gib begins right now. >>> a superstar who could do no wrong apologizing to congress after his firm lost billions on a bad bet. does he now think the megabanks need more regulation? president obama can't stop talking about president clinton. can he somehow ride clinton's old coat tails to a victory in november? >>> and one of america's most valuable assets is its image around the world. there are now some surprising results in a new global survey about the united states and president obama. and a lot of it is not pretty. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room".

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