the queen mother, in 1937. a personal moment between king and heir, william wishes his father good luck with a kiss. i, william, prince of wales, pledge my loyalty to you as your liegeman in life and limb, so help me god. after the ceremony the royal couple headed back to buckingham palace as the crowds cheered on along the mall. and the weather causes a scaled down fly past, but the red arrows delighted the crowds. good evening. the lightjust faded here at buckingham palace. there is queen victoria holding the orb in the memorial at buckingham palace with winged victory shimmering above her in these dark skies. still the rainfalls. most people have now left, some stragglers still soaking up left, some stragglers still soaking up the atmosphere of the day. there s been no event like it in seven decades. king charles iii has been crowned in a ceremony rich with music and symbolism at london s westminster abbey. the king took an oath on a bible promising to do fulfil the dut
Out was roosevelt . [laughter] i realize with this crowd you probably were her neighbor. [laughter] so nonetheless i will try to set the context for the reading that my coauthor coauthor, marc peyser will do. I may be going over the familiar territory but for the sake of the crowd of one to take a minute to make sure i cover up the details. You will see behind me a family tree that appears in the book that is the expanded version and it is actually simplified. The actual line because we start with the american founder of the family neck and was quite literally has tens of thousands of descendants at this point so really we just highlight the story and provide you with the two branches of hyde park and Oyster Bay Branch and those to become symbolically very important in the story. This year roosevelt senior, the father of fear roosevelt was really the person who pioneered that civic minded his of the family and he was a remarkable man who founded hospitals in museums in charitable cause
Right now tensions are building in a highstakes operation in the waters near yemen. U. S. And allied warships poised and at the ready ready for a potential standoff on the high seas. Senior defense officials tell nbc news an iranian convoy appears to be on its way to yemen. Those ships are expected to be carrying weapons for the Houthi Rebels who seized large parts of yemen from its exiled, u. S. Backed president , but there are forces waiting for them. In addition to the u. S. Coalition in addition to the u. S. , i should say, a coalition of warships from egypt, saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates have a blockade in place to intercept any armed shipments. Potential military confrontation could not come at a worse time as the u. S. And other countries try to reach a final agreement on Irans Nuclear program. The penalty phase of the boston bombing trial begins today. The same jury that convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing will now decide whether he receives
Day, she has a weird way of showing it. Violent shows elsewhere and down south. Texas can expect more severe storms today after this yesterday major flooding. A foot deep in corpus christi. Rains dumped on the fields below. A man was mowing the lawn when this happened. Trees and power lines snapped across the area. In new York One Trade Center turned into a giant lightening rod, but if that is bad, australia is dealing with heavy rain and wind. Nbc bill joins us later in tell us what we can expect today. Now a political storm in washington could be coming to an end. Its five months but in just a few hours the senate is expected to vote on the confirmation as attorney general. Five have voiced the support for the nomination and join 46 come crates making up the 51 votes needed. That was resolved by a political battle. Yesterday the Senate Approved a bill i am ed at battling human trafficking. It stalled over an anteabortion rate. The bill and lynches confirmation can move forward. Now t