. >> erica pitsy, al jazeera. >> and once again, the street ruled in favor of those fair housing advocates today straight ahead paying their respects. mourners come out for the first funeral for the nine murders at the emanuel church. >> one took place this morning, the other starts next hour in the charleston area. morgan radford is live for us in charleston, morgan, set the scene for us, what is going on. >> that's right. well to my left here you can probably hear the live gospel band, doing a little bit of praise and worship this afternoon. and it got free signs that say free hugs and love will win. they are also passing out water bottles for anyone who wants to come and mourn and offer words of encouragingment, what is interesting is we have been standing here all day and every hour, people have been coming up saying when is the president coming. so there's a lot of anticipation for the arrival and the answer to that question is tomorrow. he h be delivering the eulogy and he is expected to be accompanied by the vice president joe biden as well as the first lady. but lisa, today there a