what s your policy? oh, it is getting exciting and near the bottom of the hour. i m brooke baldwin and maybe not exciting for duchess of cambridge because nearly 14 hours she has been in labor, and catherine went into labor early this morning and the world awaits word whether it is a little girl or a little boy. traditionally the announcement is posted up on the galts of buckingham palace, the sex and the weight on a framed gold easel just outside of the palace doors, but now we are hearing that suddenly, a change of plan. a change in protocol and now a formal press release containing the details of the birth will be released before the traditional easel announcement. th max foster is our royal
baby william. we will see a similar scene at some point in probably the next 24 to 36 hours, william and kate and the baby boy. indeed. high times in buckingham square. this really is a great picture you are seeing there. you can see the crowds pushing up and the media there and everybody waiting for the announcement to come. i want to bring in royal watcher imogen lloyd webber. she is clearly one of the experts on this. imogen, give us an idea of when you first heard this and what you think is the next big step. is it the picture? is it duchess kate coming out holding the baby? what is next for the pomp and circumstance that is involved? joy it it is of course a world of media, so we are waiting for the picture which i understand will be first thing tomorrow morning, them leaving the hospital. she will be staying overnight.
they go. we will wait and see. i think it is funny everybody seems to have figured out what their plan is. they are going to have a part-time nanny and they are going to have date nights now that baby makes three. but we don t know yet. we will wait and see and learn. this easel moment is a nice touch, a traditional touch in this time of twitter and texting and all of that. it is nice they kept to this. the easel is the oldest form of social media. this is not something we normally see with an easel announcement. keep in mind that the pr machine out of clarence house is a completely new fangeled organization. they got it right and they understand what they have in william and harry and kate and now this baby. and no doubt they will make the most of it. they have had so many rough yores between the divorces with charles and diana and andrew and sara ferguson and they wanted to put all of that behind them in a big way.
since we heard the duchess had gone into labor. around 6:00 a.m. local time, that was 1:00 a.m. eastern here. a long labor in all, but a healthy 8 pound 6 ounce son. now, of course, trace, all of us brits and the rest of the world waits for the name. george was favorite and james was there. this is a modern couple and they may go against tradition and we shall see. we waited a week when william was born. in fact 31 years ago and we could wait a few days again yet. they are going to come out and make an announcement and we will carry that live. we will find out exactly what they say. we are told they will make an an announcement. you can see the frenzied crowd and they are putting up
something was up. we knew something was up. it told me the fact they put out an e-mail that said we are going to have a press announcement before we do the royal announcement told me that everything was okay. i felt that the fact that they were planning how they would make the announcement definitely gave as you a sense that things were okay and they were ready to say something, and that it would come shortly. and then in very quick succession we got the news. it is exciting it is a boy and a surprise. everybody did think this baby was going to be a girl. as amy was saying or imogen was saying kate said she hoped for a boy, and she got her wish. now it remains to be seen what the name is. i don t think it will take a week to announce the name. they have had time, and there has been a wait, i think we may learn the name sooner rather than later. and the betting is on george. we will see if that s the case. there is tons of betting going