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good morning. i'm wolf blitzer in washington, and this is special live coverage of the funeral of former supreme court justice sandra day o'connor, the first woman to serve is on america's highest court. the service over at the washington national cathedral is set to start right at the top of the hour. president biden left delaware for washington, d.c., earlier this morning. he is set to arrive at the funeral any moment now, we are told. and he is going to be delivering a eulogy along with chief justice john roberts. o'connor first met them in 1981, and roberts helped her to prepar...

Co-religionists being killed in these attacks. in december there was an attack on the church of st. peter and st. paul, there 25 people were killed. in february you had a series of attacks on christians in a town in northern sinai, attacks by an isis-affiliate it's believed. many of them fled to the suez canal and ian lee reported on them and many of them were angry. they felt that they had been let down by the egyptian government, that they had put so much faith in. and that seems to be a complaint we are increasingly hearing from egyptian christians that simply this government has failed to ...

And the government of el sisi, the military government. >> reporter: that's correct. and it's not only sunday today, it is palm sunday. so that church was absolutely jam-packed. fan ta tanta high schoolas a large chr population, obviously many of them were at that church at the time of the blast. and what is interesting is one arabic channel was actually broadcasting live from that church at the time of the explosion. and of course their signal disappeared after that. and yes, as you mentioned, this has been a very difficult period for eghiypegypt's christian min. there was the attack in decem...

That is what the conclave is all about. we'll be waiting for the live pictures to start, as the cardinals go from the pauline chapel, obviously, the two patron saints of rome, st. peter and st. paul, they go into the sistine chapel. and that's where the work of this conclave will begin. this has been a very energetic follow-up to this. what we saw in these ten general congregations, and what we heard from the cardinals was that the foreign cardinals, those who don't work in the curia, they're not part of the vatican specifically, wanted time to talk. big issues on the table. fiduciary responsi...

Saint peter's basilica. they receive red hats and rings with st. peter and st. paul on them. in addition to the new cardinals there were also other members of the cardinals, high-ranking church men and a lot of lay people as well, basically fans and parishioners, people who have known the priests over the years. pope benedict xvi in his address reminding the new cardinals what the color red means, a willingness to spread their blood and to lose their life for the faith n the pope's words, to have the courage to be martyrs. finally on a personal note i first met archbishop bowllan, now cardinal...