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good morning to you. welcome to early start. aim zoraida sambolin. i m ashleigh banfield. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east and 10:00 a.m. in london. live pictures to bring you from london. this is a climax of a weekend of events marking the queen s diamond jubilee all getting underway in london. we re getting ready for a service called the thanksgiving service at st. paul s cathedral. the motorcade is filled with the junior members of the royal family. they re the first to depart their various palaces. they re going to arrive shortly at st. paul s. at the same time, the senior members of the royal family will be getting ready to leave for st. paul s cathedral as well. at 5:15 eastern time the queen herself will leave buckingham palace for st. paul s. remember, the duke of edinboro won t be with her. he s in the hospital under observation. she ll be on her own. she s expected to take 13 minutes. she ll arrive at 5:28 a.m. eastern time. two minutes later because you just do ....
They re expecting a half million people to come out here today. now, it s a bit of a two-fold thing. yes, will and kate are here on their first international tour as a married couple and so many people want to see them and see what she s wearing, of course, but of course it is also canada day. this is this nation s national holiday on july 1st, and there is so much entertainment going on here in the nation s capital. so much i must say that the prince and his bride are actually going to be coming over here to take in some of that entertainment in very short time. they re going to be arriving in a horse-driven landeau. the prime minister has arrived, perhaps you can hear the pipes playing in the background. there is a huge crowd here already on a very sunny, hot, humid day. everyone here just hoping to catch a glimpse of the new newlyweds. kevin tibbles for us in ottawa. that s going to do it for me today, i m going to see you back ....
That s 9 minutes. that journey has been timed after she leaves the goring hotel. and an hour and a half later they will be husband and wife. the duke and duchess and cambridge and they will leave the abbey together in a carriage procession. we now understand and we now know the cairmg they will be the carriage they will be in will be an open topped landeau. it will travel through the streets and that means it is open topped and it gives people a chance to see the couple before they arrive at buckingham palace. despite a drizzle or two is forecast, wet or not, we will get a good look at them. at 25 past 1, the moment millions of people have been waiting for and the image that will live on forever more, the bride and the groom appear on the balcony of the palace. this is where it is hoped, and we are pretty sure their first kiss will be photographed and ....
They have been camping out overnight, people from all around the world, all around the country. many of them say that prince william is the most popular member of the royal family. they were out there waving flags. they had all sorts of interesting memorabilia. they were excited to see all of the pomp and circumstance, too. i mean, no one does it better than the brits. they ve got the horses. the lead horse, by the way, was daniel. he s the one that doesn t get stressed out in big crowds. but the 1902 state landeau was taken out. there are about 5,500 applications for street parties around london. a lot of people are just having a good time and they get a day off to celebrate today, too. so the excitement is still here and it s been a boost for the monarchy. it is, zain. tell us about those double kisses there. what was that about? people went crazy over that. reporter: i know. ....