LIVE VIDEO: Carter’s Body Arrives In Washington DC

CBS News reports:

Former President Jimmy Carter’s casket arrived Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., for a military tribute and other ceremonies before he will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Carter’s family is accompanying the 39th president’s remains on a flight — dubbed by the U.S. Air Force as Special Air Mission 39 — to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where an arrival ceremony is set for 2:30PM.

Carter’s casket and his family will stop at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington, where his remains will be transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson for a funeral procession to the U.S. Capitol.

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