robyn kurnow, christiane amanpour, fareed. tell us -- it's 1:00 a.m.africa, but people are in the streets paying their respects. >> reporter: they are, and they're sings that anti-apartheid song, nelson mandela, nelson mandela, there's no one like you. just like nelson mandela himself, south africans are pretty pragmatic. they have known at least for the last six months he was gravely ill. when you have spoken to people some of the supermarkets or there was another health care, i think a lot of south african say let him go, it's time, father needs to rest. i think there's been a slow railroadsization in this country it was inevitable and the time was going to be soon. so i think you won't see huge outpourings of trauma or, you know, over-emotional. i think you will see south africans quietly gracious, quietly thankful. i think you they will sing songs. south africans sometimes sing their way through the saddest of times. so you will see these images of people coming together. it might look like they're celebrating, but that's the way it's done here. th

later, nelson mandela found his family still there waiting for him. >> and from johannesburg, robyn kurnowur panel. robyn, in south africa today the anc is facing great divisions right now. >> reporter: absolutely. the anc of today, of democracy 20 years on after mandela became the first black president, it is in many people's view not the vision, not the party that mandela envisioned. there's a lot of corruption. there's a real sense that the party perhaps has lost its way. many people still deeply devoted and still reliant on the fact that this was the liberation party. there's still an emotional attachment to the anc. but a lot of people here and within the anc are starting to question where this party will take them in the next 20 years. and i think it's going to be a very difficult road, not only for the party but for this country, as it navigates i suppose the post-mandela era. and i think there are, depending who you speak to, there are challenges. there are complexities. and south africans are very much aware of that. >> sort of the young firebrand leader who's broken away from the

robyn kurnow, doing yeoman's work in the early morning hours of south africa, thank you very much. >>or more on mandela's charitable legacy and how you can get involved go to cnn.com/impact. >>> well, take a look, little rock, arkansas, under a severe weather emergency right now. several inches of snow fell onto a layer of sleet and frozen slush, making driving incredibly dangerous. it also looks just like this across central texas and most of oklahoma. a line of winter storms is stretching from memphis to the great lakes this evening bringing temperatures 10 to 35 degrees lower than the average. >>> and the weather has paralyzed many parts of the country, but not, of course, cyberspace, because people are inside and warm. people have been posting pictures of the nasty weather on their social media sites and sending them to us here at cnn. rosa florez has been collecting all of them. what are you seeing? >> you said it well, people are staying inside, so a lot of time snapping photos and submitting them to social media. but it is treacherous out there, one i-reporter submitted this ph

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but first let's go to cnn's robyn kurnow in johannesburg, south africa right now. robyn set the scene. it's a new day in south africa. people right now just waking up. what's the latest? >> reporter: many south africans will be getting that news on their radio in remote rural areas. some will pick up a paper on their way to catch a train into work. others will have picked it up on social media. but today is the first day in south africa's democratic history that south africans will be without the man that they knew as the father of this nation. he went, the announcement that he died came just before midnight on thursday south african time. jacob zuma confirming that he had slipped away after a long illness. this was not a surprise. as we all know he's been gravely ill with this lung infection. and i think towards the end the drugs, the antibiotics just didn't work. his body just too frail. and he's surrounded by his family, we understand. but i think what is key moving on now, we know nelson mandela's body has been moved from his home to a mortuary in pretoria, to a

want to take you to johannesburg where we find our own robin kurnow who covered nelson mandela all his life and works for such a lodge time. robynere speaking to someone in prison on robben island for six years in the last hour. he said when he heard the news, he was still shocked even though he had been ill for such a long time and he along with many south africans knew this day would come, but it has not lessened the shock or the pain. >> reporter: you know, i think it's true. even us journalists have also prepared for this. we also knew in the last 48 hours he had really taken a turn for the worst and we were prepared for this in many ways. and throughout this year, south africans have consistently heard how he's deteriorated, you know, by middle of weren't, by june, he was on a ventilator. then his kidneys failed. he is on dialysis. he was constantly on antibiotics trying to fight infections. despite all of that, south africans still had this sort of programs naive hope that he would never go and i think there is that sort of mystical sense to him that this was a man who created miracles. the miracle nation in 1994. so there