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In mourning and celebrating the life of a freedomr helped bring down apartheid. nelson mandela will be laid to rest at a state burial in his ancestral village on december 17th. and we're streaming live from south africa. what is the scene like there? >> reporter: south africa has started?sug the official mournig process today. details are now coming out about the official mourning period and the funeral program in what will be the largest event of this kind ever seen on the african continent. the crowds are still gathering outside nelson mandela's johannesburg home, but these will be dwarfed b...

Aren'ts to the 22-year-old yeardley reynolds love, the woman found beat on the death in her offcampus apartment near the university of virginia on monday, which she attended. the hearse that carried love's body this morning arrived shortly before the service started. it was carried indoors by ten pallbearers and it was covered by pink flowers. the traditional catholic mass lasted an hour-and-a-half. family members spoke, of course, as did yeardley's lacrosse coach from the university of virginia. now, i have here the funeral program from the service. i want to share essay from inside, auautobi...

>> reporter: the tragedy is the dreams will never be realized. sobering and somber is quote on the front of the funeral program from love. it's her senior year quote from the high school yearbook where she wrote "truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget." surely those words are on the minds of the many who came here to honor love's memory this morning. her teammates were visibly upset when they exited the church. they linked arms. love will be buried in nearby towsend, maryland. >> brian: nicole collins on the job in baltimore. thank you. pope benedict ...

Yeardley. >> reporter: bright pink flowers decorated the casket of 22-year-old yeardley love for a celebration of her life in the wake of her tragic death. >> i was in her sorority. she was an incredibly sweet girl. kind to everyone. and made everyone feel special. >> i thought they did a beautiful job in representing her and what she meant to her school and to her family and what a tragic loss this is for everyone. >> reporter: hundreds of friends, teammates and loved ones gathered to remember the university of virginia lacrosse player who was found beaten to death in her off campus apartment...

Lacrosse team is charged with her murder. thousands gathered today to remember yeardley. >> reporter: bright pink flowers decorated the casket of 22-year-old yeardley love, for a celebration of her life in the wake of her tragic death. >> i was in her sorority. she was a sweet girl and just kind to everyone. and made everyone feel special. >> i thought they did a beautiful job in representing her and what she meant to her school, and to her family, and what a tragic loss this is for everyone. >> reporter: hundreds of friends, teammates and family members gathered to remember the university of ...