frederik pleitgen now in warsaw. who is in charge of this government now is the question. >> reporter: hi, don. for the moment it is going to be the speaker of parliament, a man named bronislaw komorowski who has 14 days to announce a new election date and then another 60 days for those elections to actually take place. the interesting thing about the political climate here in poland now is that there were going to be presidential elections taking place here in poland in october anyway. now, of course, those presidential elections are going to have to be moved forward substantially in the face, of course, of this tragedy. there really is a lot of guessing if you will in this country as to what sort of influence this incident is going to have on those elections, certainly before his death. it looked as though president kaczynski would have been unseated in elections. now we would see what political successors there are going to be. let me show you a little bit of the scene that is happening here. i'm standing right in

our frederik pleitgen is in warsaw. an entire generation of poles admired this prowestern president. what are they telling you? >> reporter: people are still coming in here. this is a working day here in warsaw. still, if you look behind me. you can see that there is literally hundreds, if not thousands of people in the presidential palace right now. as you said yesterday, when the coffin was brought here, there were tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people lining the street. the interesting thing that people are telling me here is that they said even if they didn't agree with president lech kaczynski on many political issues, he is someone who was very conservative and a staunch ally of the united states, very instrument in bringing polish troops into iraq. also, just recently, very instrumental in increasing the polish contingent in afghanistan. someone who was always very pro-american. if they didn't agree with it on some issues, everyone in the country right now is simply in very, very deep sorrow o