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after a russian missile strikes a second nuclear power plant. cnn is on the ground right now tracking the latest on the war including efforts to exhume hundreds of bodies in newly liberated territory. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. we begin our coverage this evening in the united kingdom where mourners got one final chance to say good-bye to queen elizabeth ii at her state funeral. the emotional tribute to the late monarch filled with music and memories, followed by a private burial service at the family tomb. cnn royal correspondent max foster has our report. >> prime ministers, presidents, leaders and dignitaries from around the world. more than 2,000 inside london's

westminster abbey join together in chorus. the lord is my shepherd, reputably the queen's favorite hymn, sung during her wedding to prince philip in this very hall when she was a 21-year-old princess. the younger royal generation, charlotte and george, joined the procession. something the prince and princess of wales took time to consider. cnn understands. decades of meticulous preparation and centuries of tradition, the queen was instrumental in planning this funeral. her family escorted the coffin drawn by 142 royal navy personnel. the short journey from westminster hall to westminster abbey. draped in the royal standard and topped with the imperial state crown, the sovereigns orb and scepter. amid the wreath, a handwritten note from the king, in loving and devoted memory, charles r. >> few leaders receive the

outpouring of love that we have seen. >> after readings and blessings for two minutes, the attendees, the choir and the nation all fell silent. big ben tolled 96 times. guns unloaded as the procession continued on its final journey. crowds lined the streets all the way along the route from london to windsor. the military flagged the 3 mile long walk leading to the castle. at the end of the ceremony, the crown, the orb, the sector were removed by the crown jeweler, separating queen from her crown for the final time. for the first time performing the ritual on camera, the most senior official in the royal household the lord chamberlain broke his wand of office and

placed it on the coffin, symbolizing the end of his and the monarch's service. as the kocoffin lowered, the sovereign piper, who played for elizabeth every mortgage as h-- morning as her alarm clock, sounded the final request at her majesty's request. very powerful image of the king after the coffin was lowered. tears in his eyes, of course saying good-bye to his mother, but also realizing that it's all on him now. i think that was one of the most profound moments of the day. you could see it in his eyes. >> certainly could. max foster, stay with us. i also want to bring in our chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, and british tv presenter, trisha goddard, you were there to take in this truly emotional and

historic moment. >> reporter: well, we were very privileged, wolf, in that we were right outside westminster abbey this morning, and were able to come to windsor here in the afternoon, and i think one of the things that was the most striking was the sheer number of people lining the streets, not just of central london, but really along that entire drive from london to windsor. already the crowds had had so many opportunities to pay their respects when the queen's coffin was brought to buckingham palace, then when the queen was lying in state, and so i think there was some question as to how many people would come out today, the 10th day, the culmination of this mourning period, and yet we saw, even outside windsor castle and the long walk, that 1.5 mile long promenade, if you will, more than 100,000 people cheek to jowl, all different ages, hoping

to catch that one glimpse, and there was an extraordinary moment as the hearse was going by because on the one hand, it's this public collective of duty and honoring an extraordinary legacy, and yet people were able to get close enough and because of the design of the hearse by her majesty were able to really see her coffin and have also, i think, a personal moment of grief marking the end of an extraordinary reign, wolf. >> very extraordinary indeed. simon, as someone who actually worked for the queen, what struck you as you watched today's events unfold? >> it's years of planning, the queen's arrangements were agreed by the queen maybe 20 years ago, so the meticulous detail that we saw being played out today all being preplanned, just extraordinary. the second thing is what an open event it was. it was just people, as we've just heard, people were able to

get close to cortege, not checked as they went into the abbey. there was a sense that the authorities wanted people to get as much of an experience as possible, and the third thing is walking amongst the crowds, the diversity of the people who wanted to come and pay their respects, young, old. ethnic. it's very interesting. very much a snapshot of modern britain and indeed the global world. >> you're absolutely right. trisha, we saw a warm moment with the queen's beloved little dogs and her pony awaiting the procession at windsor castle. why was it so important for them to be incorporated today? >> reporter: well, the queen was a great, great lover of animals and her corgis and doggies, the crosses between the, simon would

remember with prince charles, you hear the patter of the feet first, and you know the monarch is on her way, and also with the fell pony, that was the pony she last rode, those ponies, because they're smaller, sturdier, and she was just crazy about horse racing and the horses, so i think it's really beautiful. it was a really beautiful, poignant moment and summed up her love of animals. >> certainly did. max, what did this gathering of presidents, prime ministers, many dignitaries say about queen elizabeth's leadership out there on the world stage? i think it's longevity. she was revered for her ability to stay love politics. that was her role, and she always did do that. she didn't take sides. she didn't support political parties. so therefore any head of state in the world could relate to her because she wasn't a divisive

figure, but because all of those images of her next to u.s. presidents, against uk prime ministers going back to churchill, i always, you know, got the sense that whenever they came to the united kingdom on a state visit or to meet the queen, it was a fair moment to get in the history books. having that picture next to queen elizabeth with being part of history and being in a long line of heads of state to have had that opportunity over the decades, so that was always something very important to any head of state, whatever their views, wherever they came from. >> you know, clarissa, simply put, i suspect we're never going to see anything like this in again in our lifetimes. >> no, we will not, wolf. on many levels, we will not see another queen of the united kingdom in our lifetime, and i don't think you'll see another state funeral of a monarch on quite this scale, just given the fact that you're talking about more than seven decades of

service. of course now we have the coronation of king charles iii, which will take place sometime in the next year, probably most likely next year, but, you know, king charles will imprint his own identity on his, you know, vision for the monarchy going forward, and so this really was a window in time, an extraordinary moment, and i think that's why you saw so many people from cross the world and here in the uk just talking to people in the crowds. some of them said, listen, we're not even that interested in the monarchy per se, but we wanted to pay our respects to this woman, to this extraordinary devotion and sense of duty that she had to her country. >> well said indeed. guys, thank you very much. just ahead, torrential rain, some 1,000 people rescued and more than 1 million right now without power. we'll go live to puerto rico for the latest on hurricane fiona and where the storm is heading next.

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cnn's layla eyla santiago repor. fiona struck five years ago to the day after hurricane maria devastated the u.s. island territory. >> almost the entire island of puerto rico remains in the dark after hurricane fiona slammed into the southwestern coast of the island sunday afternoon. pounding rainfall causing catastrophic mud slides and flooding, the storm coming just as parts of the island are finally recovering from hurricane maria's destruction five years ago. >> it will be ruough, everythin was destroyed, restaurants, houses everything was destroyed, and we just -- not all the way back, but just halfway back. a lot of people more than maria lost their houses now, lost everything on their houses because of floating. >> this tis the neighborhood where the national guard had to rescue people. still a lot of flooding.

i can hear generators powering the home. it is powering down with rain. neighbors looking out, wondering exactly what will come next as hurricane fiona, the remnants of it continue to demolish this area. the family rescued overnight now safely in a shelter. she says this was worse than maria. she's pointing out that they have already been under water for 24 hours, and the rain is still coming down. she's concerned about the 2,500 families that she says are impact bid this here. about a thousand people rescued from flood waters. more rescue efforts underway as emergency responders try to navigate to difficult to reach areas. in the interior part of the island, this 25-year-old watched the bridge come down in minutes, and wash down the river. surpassing its previous record height at 28.59 feet set during

hurricane maria, now gauging to over 29 feet, the national weather service said. while a few hospitals have regained power, emergency workers are racing to get electricity back to the island. >> it takes them so long to get things back up because so many of the systems are connected and some of the main lines go through the hills there, and if those main lines get damaged, they don't have the ability to get the other sections up and running. >> sunday morning, president joe biden approving an emergency declaration for puerto rico that authorizes all emergency measures needed including fema. >> there's 300 responders on the ground from fema working hand and glove with the commonwealth in natheir emergency management structure. >> reporter: and, wolf, tonight, i'm at a substation in san juan, puerto rico, all eyes on not just the flooding but the power grid, more importantly, how they will be able to respond if crews will be able to get power up and running again in puerto rico.

quickly. as for hurricane fiona, hurricane fiona is now a category 2 hurricane. it made landfall today in the k dominican republic, and forecast to pass nearby, possibly to the east of the turks and caicos islands tomorrow. >> stay safe, leyla santiago in san juan. thank you very much, let's get more on the situation. joining us, the former mayor of san juan, carmen cruz, thank you so much for joining us. i know because you and i have spoken. you're in close touch with officials on the ground, very close touch obviously with close members of your own family who are in puerto rico tonight. what are those on the island facing right now? >> wolf, first of all, it's -- we have a saying in spanish, it's raining over very damp terrain. it is very difficult, 1.3 million people are without electrical power, with all of the computatiolications that th

creates, 750,000 people are without water or clean water. apartment buildings are turning their systems and generators down because it's already taken more than 48 hours for systems to come back up. there are ripple effects that continue to happen from not having electrical power, and the fastest that comes back into play, the fastest that the health system, for example, will come back into play. it is with great pleasure that i heard new director of fema, chris, will mention that priority number one was to save lives and it just echoed what i said to president trump when i met him on october 4th of 2017, this is never about politics. it's always about saving lives. i think it's important that all hands on deck would move laser focus to return the power grid

back into function in an environment so that people can regain some sense of stability. i was listening to the person that was speaking before me. he said we had just almost finished getting everything back together from maria, and it wasn't that what he said, it was how he said it. his voice was quivering a little bit. this is devastation over devastation. the past four years, puerto rico y has had hurricane maria, hurr financial bankruptcy, two major earthquakes that devastated more than 10,000 homes on the southern part of puerto rico, and then of course the pandemic and now fiona, so there is a collective ptsd that goes on in puerto rico, which also brings people to the hopelessness of, oh, my god, are we going to be facing another year without

electricity. but we are resilient. i'm going back to puerto rico on friday. mayors are telling me what i need is machinery, because all of that santiago, wonderful compatriot, wonderful woman, will never forget those views from her almost being swept away by the winds in hurricane maria, but what she was mentioning of all of those mud slides, mayors now have to take to the streets to take all of that mud out before it becomes really really sticky and almost impenetrable in the next couple of days once it stops raining and, clean it out in order to ensure that appropriate and robust systems of aid can be created. the federal government has a great opportunity here, president biden, to show the world how things are done when they are done right, and then when they are done keeping one

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more now on our top story. the state funeral today, britain's queen elizabeth ii who has now been buried beside her husband and parents at windsor castle. the historic occasion is raising questions about what lies ahead for the british monarchy. cnn's brian todd is working this part of the story for us. brian, what are you learning? >> wolf, king charles iii is turning the corner to an uncertain royal future. his challenge is to keep his family relevant, especially among younger people in britain. ♪ a rendition of "god save the king" a piper walks away from the queen's casket, compelling symbols of a new era for the british monarchy, and new challenges for king charles iii. how can we persuade the british

people he's relevant, and he matters. >> his biggest challenge is winning over younger people. for a lot of younger people, i was speak to go friends and their children, the monarchy's relevance is something they question. >> reporter: to win the hearts and minds of younger britains, the 73-year-old king will need help from his sons, prince william, and harry. william as heir to the throne will have to lean into the role more heavily, take on a more public profile. prince harry who walked away from royal life could be more crucial to keeping the family relevant, with the potential for him and his american -born wife to keep younger people interested on both sides of the planet. >> for younger people, harry and meghan are exciting, they're modern, dynamic, he has the potential, i think to improve support for the monarchy but he also is a very divisive figure in britain. >> tensions between harry and his family illustrated in an interview with oprah winfrey last year could complicate the

effort toward a unified monarchy. >> when we were in canada, i had three conversations with my grandmother, and two conversations with my father. and before he stopped taking my calls. >> reporter: king charles iii is navigating a changing world with sovereignties, who recognize the queen as their sovereign and considering a clean break. >> we know jamaica is considering very seriously becoming a republic, then in australia, there has been a lot of movement toward becoming a republic. i think he may well under his reign lose a number of the realms that were there for his mother. >> reporter: including scotland and northern ireland. despite king charles's recent positive reception in northern ireland and his family's deep ties to scotland, their movements toward independence may only accelerate now. for king charles to succeed, royal watchers say, he'll have to make good on his discussions of modernizing the monarchy.

>> an element of public accessibility, social media, allowing the british people to feel they have an ownership stake in the monarchy as an institution. >> reporter: keeping up his campaign against climate change, engaging in programs like he did nine years ago to combat unemployment and gang violence would give king charles the appeal of a monarch who understands what matters to the younger people he'll have to cultivate, experts say. analysts say a big part of the discussion of keeping the royal family relevant is financial. they bring in a ltot of tourism revenue but costs a lot to maintain. >> thank you very much. joining us now, cnn's chief international anchor, christiane amanpour. thank you so much for joining us. how do king charles and the royal family now rise to this new challenge of this new era? >> reporter: it's a really good question, certainly, wolf, the

last ten days, culminating with the majesty and the hugeness of today's event certainly puts him in a good starting position. let's face it, he isn't just starting out. he has been preparing for this for the party part of the last 70-odd years. he has been the longest serving prince, you know, prince in waiting, crown prince or prince of wales and he knows the job. of course it's a very high bar to fill the shoes of queen elizabeth ii. she's the longest serving monarch, and her era spanning reign brought to her a very important significance and experience and gravitas, he will have a hard time of that. the majority of brits want to keep the monarchy. the monarchy is soft power, the projection of soft power. it's something akin to a cultural diplomacy in an institution that is not allowed to get involved overtly in politics and the like, so i

think that for the short-term, this event has kind of cemented the public's connection with the monarchy. the real big question is britain is a weakening power now on the world stage. how will it use this moment to perhaps reset and figure out how it can best be useful. for instance, it has really performed well with ukraine. it was an early supporter, sent a lot of weaponry, a lot of training to the ukrainians in their war against russia. maybe that can be something knack be used to push britain forward as a slightly stronger power going forward. >> yeah, very good point indeed. this moment as you well now christiane could bring major changes for the four nations that make up the united kingdom and the many commonwealth countries around the world, couldn't it? >> it could. and again, because the queen died in scotland, many believe

that, you know, the focus on scotland for several days, the immense about of pageantry and ceremony that happened in scotland, the fact that the first minister was involved in this and had to meet prince charles sort of, you know, may, it's never certain, may put the vote for independence perhaps push it a little bit further into the long grass. we'll wait to see whether that's the case, but certainly northern ireland, for instance, where the king went in the days following his mother's death. that is another situation where it's known that certainly the nationalists in northern ireland, at one point want to unite with the republic of ireland. so there's a lot of questions. i don't think those are in the immediate. as for the commonwealth, it's a huge group of 56 nations, only 14 or so of them actually have the queen as their sovereign. the rest of them don't.

they're independent, former colony, countries that have joined the commonwealth, you know, subsequent to the fall of the empire and decolonization. the real question is will countries like australia or canada or new zealand decide to become republics? even if they do, it doesn't really affect the commonwealth because they would still stay within the commonwealth. i think the most immediate set of countries and island nations would be in the caribbean, which are already moving towards a more independent sovereign elected and away from the monarch as sovereign, but again, it doesn't make a difference to the size or the cohesion of the commonwealth because they still want to stay in the commonwealth. >> christiane amanpour, as usual, thank you very very much. >> thank you, wolf. up next, president biden speaking out about seeking a second term and raising eyebrows with his remarks about the covid pandemic. we'll be right back.

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president biden is back here in washington tonight after attending the funeral of queen elizabeth ii, and he's making headlines of his own with remarks about the covid pandemic, the 2024 presidential election, and more. let's go to our white house correspondent mj lee. president biden made a lot of news in an interview with "60 minutes" including whether he'll speak another term. >> reporter: that's right, as we have gotten further into president biden's first term in office, there are growing questions about whether he is going to seek a second term in

2024 2024, and keep in mind, the president and white house officials around him, whenever they have been asked this question about 2024, they have been pretty consistent and emphasizing that his intention is to seek a second term but in this "60 minutes" eninterview, said more. take a listen. >> it's too early to make that decision. my intention is that i would run again. it's an intention. is it a firm decision that i would run again, that remains to be seen. >> reporter: so just this idea that it is too early for a decision, and also that a firm decision hasn't been made, both of those comments really catching a lot of people by a little bit of sprurprise and al just keep in mind, the context, first lady jill biden said in an interview, she hasn't gotten a chance to discuss 2024 plans with her husband and those discussions will be happening soon. all of this fueling the ongoing

2024 speculation, wolf. >> good point, he also said something about covid that surprised a lot of us. listen to this. >> the pandemic is over. we still have a problem with covid. we're still doing a lot of work on it. but the pandemic is over. >> do his health advisers agree with him, because hundreds of americans are still dying every single day from covid. >> reporter: yeah, you know you, might have noticed that in that part of the interview, this was actually taped at the detroit auto show last week, and he was making the point too at some point in the interview, you know, nobody around here is wearing a mask, and i happened to cover that event last week, and he's absolutely right that this was an event that really signalled that we were in a different phase and during the the pandemic a couple of years ago, and i think that's clearly sort of the point that the president was trying to make, that, yes, covid is still an issue but that we're at a very different stage, and this is the kind of rhetoric that we have heard from the president before.

white house officials making clear that policy-wise, nothing has changed and that this public health emergency still remains in place. >> mj lee at the white house for us, thank you very much. meanwhile, a potentially key day tomorrow in the battle over white house documents seized from former president trump's florida home by the fbi. our justice correspondent jessica schneider is here with the latest. jessica, tell us what you're learning right now. >> reporter: tomorrow is a big day for this entire case, and what we could see is two things. we could get an indication of how quickly the 11th circuit actually might move forward with this appeal. at the same time, we're seeing some of these first moves by the special master. so when it comes to the appeal itself, we know that doj is actually asking for them to be able to review these 100 classified documents they haven't been able to because the lower court judge put the brajs brakes on that. they want to restrict the classified information from

trump's lawyers as well as the special master. that's why the appeals court might have to move relatively quickly here. we know the special master's review is getting ready to move forward. we'll see a first hearing with the special judge raymond dearie. this is to get schedules in place. he'll be meeting with trump's team, and doj lawyers. he has to come up with a schedule to review the 11,000 documents, and it's interesting, we just got a filing from the doj in the last few minutes where they are coming up with some of their proposals as to how this will proceed. they want to employ a third-party vendor, that will be scanning all of these 11,000 documents. they want the fbi to be involved while this scanning is happening to make sure that the chain of custody doesn't get broken, and interestingly, they're proposing a protective order, which would make it a contempt of court -- it would be a contempt of court filing if anyone leaked details

of any of these documents that will be reviewed. so the special master has a big job in front of him, reviewing 11,000 documents, but crucially here, wolf, the judge below has said that the special master has to review the 100 classified documents first, and that's something that's at dispute here because doj doesn't even want the special master to be looking at these documents. that's why the appeals court might step in relatively quickly. >> an important date tomorrow, jessica, thank you very very much, jessica schneider reporting for us. just ahead, alarming developments in ukraine. a second nuclear power plant struck by a russian missile. our report from inside the war zone is coming up right after a quick break. to drive you happy. we'll drive you happy at carvana. here's to real flavors... real meals. real good. all of knorr's high quaty pasta and rice sides

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liberated izyum. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in ukraine for us. so, ben, what more are you learning? >> reporter: well, by this evening, wolf, about 146 bodies had been dug up from that mass burial site. among those bodies, two children. now, what we're hearing from officials is many of these bodies are showing signs of a violent death, of torture, stabbing, shrapnel wounds. some do have their hands tied behind their backs as well. now, officials say it's going to take about another two weeks to dig up all of the bodies. and of course each body will have to be forensically examined to determine the cause of death, and then their dna analyzed for positive identification. wolf? >> i know, ben, you were just in izyum. what did you see there? how were the people there coping? >> they're having a hard time, wolf. there's no water, no

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and there's that constant fear that despite these recent dramatic advances made by ukrainian forces, the russians can always counterattack. >> ben wedeman, stay safe, we'll be in touch, thank you very much. and to our viewers, i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thanks very much for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next. a final farewell. tens of thousands lining up here in london as the world pays its final respects to queen elizabeth. and now a new era begins with king charles iii. plus, catastrophic damage. hurricane fiona tearing through puerto rico leaving large parts of the island damaged and completely in the dark. now, the category 2 storm is closing in on turks and caicos. and a close call. a russian missile comes dangerously close to a nuclear power plant in ukraine as a popular russian figure turns on putin tonight. let's go out front