comrades and all the faithful departed, we pray particularly for his closest and dearest, for graca machelfor his children, grandchildren and all his relatives, may you surround them with your loving arms, embrace and comfort. in this dark time of mourning, at this perfect time when you have called him to rest and a perfect end. accept his soul and remember him with the company of the redeemed in heaven. console and comfort his family. console and comfort south africa, africa and the world. may his long walk to freedom be enjoyed and realized in our time by all. may he rest in peace and rise in glory. amen. ♪ nelson mandela ♪ nelson mandela ♪ nelson mandela ♪ nelson mandela ♪ nelson mandela ♪ nelson mandela ♪ ♪ madiba ♪ madiba ♪ >> lester holt, this is coming after some of the organized prayers. a little musical interlude. >> and we'll soon be hearing from the friend and family of nelson mandela here. and you see that picture right there captures so much. people of every color who have come to represent what we call the new south africa here, a true tribute to mandela as you look across th

on his 80th birthday mandela married his third life, graca machel, widow of president machel.dela announced his retirement from public life. >> don't call me.[ laughter ] >> i'll call you[ laughter ] >> but even in his later years,. joined by his wife in their advocacy for the world's children and boldly making up on the silence in hiv and aids dade dating back to his own time in office. mandela began to realize the disease was threatening the freedom he sought to assure, not to mention taking the life of his one son. talking about the ability that others of high position to join him though few did. >> because the people, that isw. where so there is no difference whatsoever to turn somebody who is hiv positive and my son. >> mandela was equally positives own and graca mavhel. honor him from far and near as he becomes an ancestor. buried in the mandela family cemetery in his quiet village, free at last from his epic journey, free to take a moment of rest on his now long walk to eternity. >> that's charlayne huntergault. >> ifill: for that we turn to three people knew or watched

he is survived by his wife, graca machel, and three children. joining me now is a close friend of mandela's. rick stengel was the author of "long walk to freedom." we will also be joined by david dinkins. you knew him 25 years. godfather to your daughter. >> 22 years. >> tell me how they are handling this. >> i think it is clear to see that, especially with respect to mrs. machel, is a unified women. they have been graceful through this process. ofre is a profound sense saddness. you finally get the word that the chief is gone, it is overwhelming. i think there is an equal amount of joy in festivity. now this major event has happened. i think the family is actually very dignified and holding up well. >> what we know about what is going to happen between now and the funeral day? >> there are a series of protocols that have been put into place that the south african government are executing. on the 10th, there will be a huge rally. the funeral is on the 15th. i would anticipate is one of the largest gatherings of heads of state in modern history.

we saw winnie mandela walk over and embrace graca machel. on a day when there will be hundreds of moments that we recall, years from now, stephanie, that immediately is the first i will never forget is the moment moments ago when the two women came together in a hug and embrace. >> that's what they call ubuntu in south africa - being human. on days like this we put differences aside. we embrace people we love. it happens in families, many families, so for me it's not unusual. south africans expected that. there would be no animosity between these two. >> there would be no hard feelings. historically in the family there'd not been animosity. they celebrated birthdays, christmases together. special days together. this is not unusual. it's not like a surprise like together's happening when they both say goodbye to the man they love. i heard graca machel as recently as yesterday saying that nelson mandela was the love of nelson mandela's -- that winnie mandela was the love of nelson mandela's life. >> yes, he played a role for so many years. we

throughout this period of mortgages, graca machel and 1ie mandela, have been gracious. they are again together. so they will be among the first to view the body, as i said accompanied by the state president. other dignitaries will then follow what we will be seeing in the course of the morning and day are speeches from the podium in what has been renamed the nelson mandela amphitheater. that is a huge area of serrated steps in front of the union buildings itself. there will be a series of speeches. we are told by protocol officials that there simply was not enough time for everybody who wanted to speak to have a say. particularly the many international guests who are here including heads of state and including possibly the queen's representative prince charles. >> and mike anybody who makes it there will pass so many buildings and monuments that have played such an important part in south africa's history. >> well, when the cortege moved through the area, that core tajtcortegepassed through placef history. most importantly the palace of justice, opposite the central squ

to graÇa machel and the mandela family, to president zuma and members of the government, to heads ofstate and government, past and present, distinguished guests -- it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. to the people of south africa -- people of every race and walk of life -- the world thanks you for sharing nelson mandela with us. his struggle was your struggle. his triumph was your triumph. your dignity and hope found expression in his life, and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy. it is hard to eulogise any man to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person -- their private joys and sorrows, the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul. how much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process moved billions around the world. born during world war one, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by elders of his thembu tribe -- madiba would emerge as the last grea

>> graca machel: very. to be next to him when he is angry. >> simon: and it's not just anger. graca, who called her husband "madiba", says he was stubborn, too trusting, and excessively loyal to people who did not deserve it. >> machel: i am one of those who says he is not a saint. madiba is a normal human being. >> simon: a normal human being. >> machel: absolutely normal. >> simon: excuse me. he spent 27 years in jail. and when he got out, he forgave the people who put him in jail and who stole his life from him. this is not normal. >> machel: let me try to explain. madiba understood the importance of suppressing his own feelings against those who had jailed him. so, even when he would be angry, even when he would be very hurt, but he will always try to put up a face which they wouldn't read through it. >> simon: he kept wearing that stone face for the rest of his life, even when his eldest son died of aids in 2005; and five years later, when his favorite great-granddaughter zenani, who you saw at the beg

mourning mandela has been a worldwide phenomenon, with the tears of his window graca machel were no less personal for that .. >> president jason zuma's speech was less a all i didn't than to bolster the flagging popularity of his ruling anc party. the military handled the trance part of mandela's body, complete with fighter escort. the convoy to his home area of kutin formed up, mandela's former wife win any and his widow graca united in grief only they could measure. the funeral allowed ordinary south africans to say good-bye in their own unique way. and the message they sent made it clear that nelson mandela was coming back to where he belonged. >> the people of mandela's home village lined this road when he came out of prison to welcome him home but now they are here to say good-bye to wish him on his way, at the end of what is called his long walk to freedom. > in the streets, it was enough for her. >> reporter: even children here know what mandela did. it means that now when they head back home, it is to what is theirs. thanks to their neighbor who made such a long walk for their fr

." >> when i broke to graca machel, i asked what is her husband's legacy going to be? she said, a visionary leader. and it is the quality, the quality of leadership. >> robin went on to say that mandela wanted to right the wrongs and give each one of us the feeling that we could do the same thing, too. >> mandela showed the world the meaning of true forgiveness. by the time he walked out of prison, he had formed an unlikely bond with one of his jailers. abc's david muir explains. >> reporter: cristo brand peers out over the water, to the former prison on robin island, where he first reported for duty at 18. >> they informed us we're going to meet the biggest criminals in the history of south africa. >> reporter: nelson mandela was nearly 60. forced to sleep on the floor. the young jailer's family was afrikaner, the party that supported apartheid. but when the young jailer met mandela, he met an elder who would treat the young white man with respect. and the jailer would slowly offer the same in return. cristo brand told us of one of winnie mandela's visits. >> just lea

on behalf of my party, i send the deepest condolences to his widow, graÇa machel, the mandela familyand all the people of south africa. we mourn with them. today is an opportunity to remember the extraordinary life and the extraordinary story of nelson mandela. he led a movement, the african national congress, that liberated a country. he endured the suffering and sacrifice of 27 years in prison -- a son unable to attend his mother's funeral, a father unable to attend his son's. but in the face of such oppression, his spirit never bent or broke. offered the chance of release in 1985 after more than 20 years in jail on the condition that he give up the armed struggle, he refused. "i cannot sell my birthright, nor am i prepared to sell the birthright of my people to be free", he said. we honour him too because of the remarkable person the world found him to be after he walked out of prison in 1990 in those scenes that we all remember. as his old comrade archbishop desmond tutu said, "suffering can embitter its victims, but equally it can ennoble the sufferer." there can be nothing more

, his daughter, maki mandela, spoke to the bbc about his last moments, surrounded by his wife, graca machel and his family. >> the children were there, the grandchildren were there. graca was there so we're always around him. ♪ nelson mandela nelson mandela ♪ >> reporter: mandela touched so many, so deeply. this afternoon, we met a young entrepreneur in a shanty town near pretoria. he built his internet cafÉ with his own hands, and despite the desperate poverty here, he's dreaming big. >> twenty years in the future, maybe, i might be another mandela. >> reporter: you can feel it here, at this spontaneous memorial outside his home, mandela's presence in the lives and dreams of so many. and tomorrow, at the unprecedented gathering of presidents and princes and ordinary people, the whole world will say good-bye. diane? >> thank you so much, terry. later on byron pitts will have more on mandela and a powerful moment that shook a racist culture to the core. >>> and from south africa we head now to some strange pictures out of north korea, the mysterious nation has confirmed a shakeup at the very

and the struggle against apartheid and saying even then he had a bold vision and when i spoke to graca machelthe woman he married on his 80th birthday and i asked her, what is your husband's legacy goes to be and he said a visionary leader and it is the quality, the quality of leadership. >> the quality of it. i remember his saying once that there is nothing more powerful than the phrase it is not right. >> and he wanted to right the wrongs and give each of us the feeling that we could do that, too. that's so powerful. >> that's right. in our lives, not just in the political world. >> right. >> thanks so much, robin. it's great that you are here with us tonight. >>> we want to go to south africa right now where not long ago president zuma, the president of the country with a simple sentence broke the news to his countrymen. >> our nation has lost its greatest son. >>> as a nation, salutes a life with fearlessness and foifness, a life that changed history. abc's alex marquardt is right there as south african's in the middle of the night are absorbing this news. alex? >> reporter: good evening,

his health has been critical but over the past few days it got even worse, prompting his wife graca machel to summon the family to his bedside and in this home they were able to say their final good-byes last night. but the story of his life is really being told on the streets here. rich and poor, young and old, black and white are gathering, some to sing, some to cry. i just saw a white housewife with her black domestic worker, madam and servant, walking arm and arm, sobbing uncontrollably, a fitting legacy to a man whose entire life, his enduring legacy, is one of reconciliation and frillness. forgiveness. his body was taken to one military hospital in pretoria last night and it will lie in state for public viewing and then be flown to his rural home for a private family burial. that's about a two-hour flight from johannesburg, and that is undisclosed to take place in about ten days. anne-marie. >> debora patta in johannesburg. thank you very much. >>> well, mandela went from prisoner to president becoming one of the great presidents of our time. cbs news anchor scott pelley has more on

one which details an argument with current wife graca machel. >> there's a sense of carrying a burdenin relation to a saintly image of him. he was the face of the struggle. increasingly he felt uncomfortable with that. >> this is the office since 2002. >> he used to come in almost every day. as he retired in 2004 he reduced the amount of time he came. re reduced the amount of time. few knew the complexities of a man millions looked up to. the center of memories office is a look at the man and the myth. >> well, a number of you have been impacted by a winter storm that is making its mark into some areas of new england. we have video to show you. out of indiana where a number of people were impacted and we'll dig out from that, five upwards to nine inches of snow falling across northern indiana. much of the north-west clearing up to much of upstate areas of new york. snow sticking around. let's go ahead and take you to the video and show you what we've been dealing with. white-out conditions at times, making travel slow and messy. better to stay clear. that'll be the case. continue to h

. >>> to graca machel and the mandela family, to president zuma and members of the government, the headsgovernment, past and present, distinguished guests, it is a singular honor to be with you today to celebrate a life like nelson mandela. to the people of south africa, people of every race and every walk of life, the world thanks you for sharing nelson mandela with us. his struggle was your struggle. his triumph was your triumph. your dignity and your hope found expression in his life and your freedom, your democracy, his cherished legacy. it is hard to eulogize any man, to capture in words not just facts and the dates that make a life but the essential truth of a person, the private joy and sorrow, the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul are much harder to do so for a giant of history who moved a nation toward justice and in the process moved billions around the world. born during world war i, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by the elders of his tribe, madiba would emerge as the last great liber ray toator 20th cen

graca machel, his third wife, was at his side through his battles with prostate cancer and lingering lung infections that hostized him near the end. >> never, and never again, shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another, and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. the sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement. god bless africa. i thank you. [ clapping ] >> >> nelson mandela spent 27 years behind bars. 27 years. 18 of them spent on robben island, a prison off of the coast of cape town, the southern tip of south africa. there he was subjected to daily humiliations. in an astonishing act of forgiveness he would later invite the same prison gaolers to attend his first state dinner as president. here is andrew simmonds. >> cut off near the southern tip of the african continent, an island chosen for one reason - it's isolation. >> nelson mandela described it as a prison within a prison, a harsh regime where racism ruled. this man was to become a confidante of nelson mandela. they were political prisoners under the s

unfortunately, nelson mandela was not able to go as they thought, so i sat down with graca machel, againarried on his 80th birthday, many would say the truth love of his life and i asked her the lasting impact, the powerful impact of her husband. >> madiba will be remembered as the visionary leader who with humility was able to take the challenge of bringing together parts which had been by history and the making of people so far away from one another. it takes a lot of courage and persuasion to say we have no other way. we have to accept one another. that's precisely where his leadership made a huge difference. to take into account every single life of a south african was important, it needed to be protected. he laid his own life for that. >> because he did, that resonated with the south african people, because they realized what he went through. again, for him to come from that and not be bitter and to want to reconcile and want peace and equality for all races, that really has stayed with the south african people to this day. >> it's wonderful to see graca talking and to remember how

in the few minutes i was with him at the request of his wife graca machel, it was a time of bringing warmth and support and feeling draet fully sad. i wanted to remember the strong upright tall inspirational leader. he clearly was fighting for his life and i said then what is fighter he is. but in the end the body is weaker than the mind. what was it like? i'm filled with sadness. will he be replaf. we'll find a way forward. we have brilliant people. nelson mandela, in my view was a rear person and we have a lot of rare people and leaders around him, together with him. he may have been the greatest among the great. we don't have great leaders. what they did was mobilise millions of team to bring our freedom. people have brought the freedom with leaders leading them. >> i'm glad you had a final visit. we express our deepest condolences for the nation. we appreciate you joining us. >> time to see what is trending on al jazeera's website. aregawi. >> a study out of north western universityie shows how damaging smoking marijuana can be to a brain. they found irregularities on the part of

letters to his wife winnie, and diary entries, one detailing an argument with his current wife graca machel. >> it's the sense of carrying a burden in relation to the saintly image. he became the face of the struggle. as he's grown older he felt uncomfo uncomfo uncomfortable with that. >> this is madeba's office since 2002. he used to come in almost every day, and as he really retired in 2004, he reduced the amount of time he used to come. >> mere nelson mandela was surrounded by people who inspired and influenced him. famous faces filled the shelves. few now the complexities of a man millions look up to. this is an insight into nelson mandela the man and the myth. >> joining me now is douglas foster, a journalism professor at north-western university and the author of "after nelson mandela, the struggle for freedom and post-apartheid south africa", thanks for joining us. you have written a lot about the country. figuring out how to train his people. unlike most, trained to convince us that they are indispensable, that the world will end, nelson mandela did the reverse since he stepped away

then within the foo minutes i was able to be with him at the request of his wife graca machel. there was no time for a political discussion. it was just a time of trying to bring warmth and support and feeling dread fully sad. i wanted to remember the strong upright, tall, inspirational leader and he clearly was fighting for his life, and i said then what a fighter he is, and he fought to the end. in the end, you know, the body is weaker than the mind, i think, and it gives in. so what was it like - i'm filled with sadness about it all. and will he be replaced. collectively we will find a way forward. we have brilliant people, and nelson mandela, in my view was a very rare person, and we have a lot of rare people and great leaders who were around him together with him. he might have been the greatest among the great. but we don't have to have great leaders, what those leaders with nelson mandela did was mobilise millions of people to bring our freedom. it's our people that brought the freedom with great leaders leading them. >> i'm glad you have a final visit with your friend.

you can see nelson mandela's widow graca machel openly weeping and his ex-wife winnie.ecause it's an interesting combination of state funeral, military honors and traditional. each time his body is moved, clan elders go beside the coffin and grow an aromatic herb that's associated with cleansing and they talk to mandela's body as if he's sleeping. they're speaking to his spirit and explain what's going on next. even if that doesn't happen he was baptized a methodist, he's still the cause, a man of the people, over 7 million. his spirit has to know where it's going or it will not rest at peeft with his ancestors. all of that is long and a very detailed process. very, very interesting and very very moving. anthony? >> allen pizzey. thank you. >>> tomorrow on "face the nation," bob schieffer will have a final look at his life legacy and the historic importance of nelson mandela. he'll also discuss the budget deal with john mccain and richard durbin a democrat of illinois. >>> there's a lot going on in space this weekend including china's first attempt to land a robot explo

. >> his third wife, graca machel, former first lady of mozambique, was at his side during prostate cancer and lingering lung infections. >> never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. the sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. let freedom rain. god bless africa. >> nelson mandela, an enduring father of the new south africa dead at 95. >> nelson mandela's life work extended behind the native south africa. we sat with civil rights leader the reverend jessie jackson, and he drew parallels with his movement and the struggle in the u.s. >> there was a sameness about the struggle there and here. both faced persecution in 1953. king was gaoled and bricked and stabbed at 39. nelson mandela was gaoled and put on the terrorist list by the u.s. government and emerged as a moral authority, both have that moral character. barack obama on the other hand - he was the ben factor of the struggles. he's a generation behind. >> nelson mandela and the king were transform

at the age of 80 he married graca machel, a famous figure in her own right. a yunion celebrated by all. >> my wife and eye... [ cheering ] [ cheering and applause ] >> a union that lasted for the rest of nelson mandela's life. >> my wife and i say thank you very much. >> but before he died there was a chance for the world to thank him. on a chilly winter's night nelson mandela made his last major public appearance, acknowledging the roars of the crowd and stirring hearts around the globe as a world cup final was held for the first time in africa, the staging a couple of miles away from the modest sowetto home where nelson mandela began his struggle. >> as nelson mandela's health failed he was in and out of hospital spending his 95th birthday. the principal cause of illness a lung infection while works as a prison in the stone quarry of robin island. he spent 87 days, they be the government announced he'd return to his johannesburg home. until the last breath nelson mandela fought the odds as he had done all his life. >> nelson mandela's legacy were emblazoned

letters to his then wife winnie, and diary entries, one detailing an argument with his current wife graca machel> it's the sense of carrying a burden of this image of him, a saintly image. increasingly he felt uncomfortable with that. >> this has been his office since 2002. madeba came in almost every day, and he really retired in 2004. he reduced the amount of time he used to come. >> here nelson mandela was surrounded by people who inspired and influenced him. famous faces filled the shelves. few knew the complexity of a man who million looked up to. >> nelson mandela - the man and the myth. >> and al jazeera america airs a special program on his live "nelson mandela remembered" begins at 8:00 pm eastern. >> the results are in, michelle bachelet has won another term as chile's president. she has promised major changes in income and taxes and equality. >> what is another michelle bachelet term mean for chile. >> that's a good question, a theory, an equal society, a country where the wealth is distributed evenly at the current - at the moment chile has a successful economy, low unemployment, hig

we saw graca machel openly cry as she made her way to see the remains of her husband.a one of sadness here in pretoria. >> isha, inow they need their privacy but for us, it was great to follow it all. >>> 40 minutes past the hour. police in ukraine moving to push protesters out of kiev's main square. barricade set up in independence square and essentially dividing up the protest camp. but the demonstrators are fighting back, they have spent more than two weeks calling on the president to resign. >>> a mixed reception for secretary of state john kerry after pressing house and senate committees to not impose new sanctions on an. the senate banking committee voted to hold off new sanctions for now. the chairman exercised that. the lawmakers for the house and foreign affairs committee told him no. they say they will act with their committee to create sanctions with a built-in six-month delay if a comprehensive deal is not reached. >>> attacked by a shark at a florida beach. one surfer explained how he managed to fight off the beast. that's when we come back. just by talkin

>>graca machel, to winnie mandela, the family -- [ cheers ] and the mandela family, the people of souths and gentlemen, this stadium holds tens of thousands of people, but even the arena as big as a continent could not contain our pain today. south africa has lost a hero and father. the world has lost a friend and mentor. president mandela was more than one of the greatest leaders of our time. he was one of our greatest teache teachers. he taught by example. he sacrificed so much, was willing it give up everything here from freedom and equality, for democracy and justice. his compassion stands out most. he was a -- she was a marvelous individual. she hated hatred, not the peo e people. she showed awesome power and that was a unique gift. and that was a lesson she shared with all of mankind. she has looked around the stadium and the stage, we see many point of view and all walks of life. [ cheers ] >> all are united today. there are deep roots. your excellency, ladies and gentlemen, south africa's democratic transformation was a victory by and for south africans. but the triumph and yest

and others formed a group called the elders, of which i'm still a member, and so is his wife, graca macheli think the last public meeting he had was with the elder members of the elders so nelson has meant a lot to me. obviously when he was still in prison, he was an inspiration, a courageous and embattled person who didn't want to fight back and continue with violence. he's just a very close personal friend whom i've known for many events. used to come over here and go with me to give an annual human rights award. by the way, i remember that the first time i met nelson, the first thing he did was congratulate me on my daughter amy, who had been arrested three times in college for demonstrating against apartheid in south africa. so we got off to a good start and we maintained our friendship right up until the end of his life. >> he was obviously a very controversial figure, considered a terrorist by the u.s. government in the past, labeled one because of waging armed resistance against the apartheid government. some called him a communist. he has praised people who are probably in many way

you know, for me, i was just so struck by this amazing portrait of grief that was the face of graca machel, nelson mandela's widow. she is such a beautiful woman. they married very late. he was 80 years old when they got married. she had been widowed. she had been previously married to the freedom fighter, a great liberator of mozambique who cast off portuguese colonialism and became the first black president there. to think of all that time she spent with mandela in his last years, this beautiful face in this real grief was quite something to see. >> yes, of course. behind it all, a human being with loved ones. christiane amanpour, thank you so much. >>> coming up on "the lead," he defended his company's sheer yoga pants by suggesting the women wearing them might be too fat. now he is out of a job. >>> plus, president obama reaches in to bill clinton's inner circle for a little help. can a democratic heavyweight turn things around after a rocky start to president obama's second term? every day we're working to be an even better company - and to keep our commitments. and we've made a big c

compatriots, comrades, and friends, we extend yet again our deepest condolences to mama graca machel,, the children, grandchildren, great- grandchildren, and the entire extended family. [speaking in foreign language] our father, madiba, has run a good race. he declared in his own words in 1994. he said, "death is something inevitable. when a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. i believe i have made that effort, and that is, therefore, why i will sleep for eternity." [speaking in foreign language] rest in peace among our father and hero. thank you very much. you will take waste you are located in the eastern cape robbins of south africa. as many as 5000 are expected to attend the service. a smaller number compared to tuesday's memorial service at first national bank stadium which is estimated to have 90,000 attendees. tomorrow's burial will bring an end to 10 days of events that have been held since nelson mandela's death. on newsmakers this weekend, kentucky congressman harold rogers is our guest. he is the chair of the ho

unforgettable moments from this morning's memorial service for nelson mandela, president obama giving graca machel africa. >> welcome back to "cbs morning news." coming up in this half hour, us airways swallowed american airlines to become the biggest name in the sky. but now, only four carriers control more than 80% of the domestic market. american's new ceo explains what the merger means for you. >>> and our special coverage of the memorial for nelson mandela continues. one of his closest american friends is at this morning's service. he met with the mandela family and he will tell us how they're holding up this morning. that's ahead. >> and right now, we want to go back to soweto. bill whitaker joins us from inside fnb stadium. bill, good morning. >> good morning, charlie, norah and gayle. well the rhetorical and even emotional high point of this day so far was the speech by president barack obama. just when his image and his face and michelle obama's face was shown on the jumbotron, the crowd went wild. and when he stood up to speak, he had numerous applause lines. the crowd here sees him as a

south africa's first black president, they divorced and two years later, mandela married grac graca machelieved most of his goals in life. he is really a deep, deep, deep fighter for freedom and feels freedom for his country is here. >> do you think he has had or had regrets? >> yeah, there is only one i know of. you feel he would have really liked to have much more input in the develop the of his children. >> i come from a divided family, and when you come from a divided family, there are things that -- not everything runs smoothly. there are struggles and things, and so sometimes we don't see eye to eye. it's just that, you know. for me, i couldn't understand for a long while, a really long while. >> couldn't understand what? >> i couldn't understand why he would choose politics over his children. that's how i saw it. >> she's the only surviving child from mandela's first marriage. >> in a sense, we had a father who was there who -- and in an actual sense he's never been there because he's been in politics and when he retired, you couldn't relate. i have children now robin. being a paren

so on behalf of my party, i send a deepest condolences to his widow, graca machel, the mandela family and all of the people of south africa. we mourn with them. today is an opportunity to remember the extraordinary life of the extraordinary story of nelson mandela. .. >> he truly was, as archbishop tutu said, an icon of magnanimity. that is why he became not just the leader of a struggle, but truly can be described as the father of a nation. as we've seen in the tributes and emotion that he's inspired since his death in the black and white communities of south africa, and we honor him, too, because for him the struggle against injustice was a story that never ended. having been an activist who became a president, he was a president who became an activist once again. campaigning on causes from debt relief to hiv/aids to the war this iraq. in iraq. and we honor somebody, too, who wore his extraordinary heroism with the utmost humility. a year after he gave up the presidency, he came to the labour party conference and described himself as an unemployed pensioner with a criminal record. [

to graca machel and the mandela family, to president zuma and members of the government, to heads of to celebrate a life like no other. to the people of south africa. [cheers] people of every race and every walk of life, the world thanks you for sharing nelson mandela with us, his struggle was your struggle. his triumph was your triumph. your dignity and your hope mount expression in his life and your freedom, your democracy with his cherished legacy, it is hard to ulogize any man, to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person, the private joys and sorrows, the quiet moments and unique qualities that iluminate someone's soul and how to do a giant of history and moved a nation towards justice and in the process moved millions around the world. born during world war i, fired from the corridors of power and raised with cattle and pride, mediva would emerge as the last great liberator of the 20th century and like gandhi he would lead a resistance movement, a movement that at its start had little prospect for success. like dr. k

. >> we saw him comforting the widow, graca machel. there are those who are outside.you can blame the terrible weather conditions for the crowd outside. a steady stream of people are leaving the stadium, marking their way out. i guess they wanted to come and that they came and witnessed and paid their respects and paid their respects to nelson mandela. to touch on what you were referring to, the african word of ebuttu. that speaks to why people came to sit in these conditions in the fnb. mandela was in his efforts, there is that interconnectedness with the people and nelson mandela. there is a sense of intimacy between the people of south africa and the past president. and then you see that in the fact that so many people who made their way here, chris, were wrapped in fabric with mandela's image on it. they refer to him as tata, the word for father. he is the father of their nation, to many of them, part of their families and their lives. he changed their lives forever and the course of this country. it's been a remarkable day here as we've seen the people marking th

compatriots, comrades, and friends, we extend yet again our deepest condolences to mama graca machel,nnie madikizela- mandela, the children, grandchildren, great- grandchildren, and the entire extended family. language]in foreign has run a madiba, good race. he declared in his own words in 1994. he said, "death is something inevitable. when a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. i believe i have made that effort, and that is, therefore, why i will sleep for eternity." language]i thank you. [speaking in foreign lanuage] rest in peace among our father and hero. thank you very much. reports a budget agreement could be reached. patty murray are hopeful striking an agreement as early as this afternoon. this morning, open quote -- "washington journal" got a report. host: thank you for joining us. when are we expecting to hear the details of this budget deal? > guest: this morning the budget chairs are planning to meet. by all accounts they are close. the real question going forward if the deal will be able to pass. we have seen i

the bride was graca machel, a union celebrated by all. >> my wife and i... [ cheering and applause [ cheering and applause ] >> a union that lasted for the rest of nelson mandela's life. >> ..my wife and i say thank you very much. >> but before he died there was a chance for the world to thank him. >> on a chilly winter's night nelson mandela made his last appearance. acknowledging the roars of the crowd and stirring hearts as a world cup final was held for the first time in africa, the staging a couple of miles away from a soweto home where nelson mandela began his long struggle >> as nelson mandela's health failed. he was in and out of hospital spending his 95th birthday in intensive care. countless millions paid for him. the principal cause of illness a lung infection. he spent 87 days during his final stay in hospital, then the government announced he returned home, his condition stable but critical. until the last breath nelson mandela caught the odds. nelson mandela's legacy found in the colours of a democratic south africa, emblazoneded in the sky. above all the legacy is foun