record high and a milestone. stocks soared yesterday, 14,539. one reason is encouraging news on jobless claims and new numbers show fewer americans are seeking unemployment than expected. over the last four weeks the lowest since march 2008 just before the recession began. pope francis kicked off his tenure as leader of the catholic church. in his signature no frills style. celebrated his first public mass delivering his off the cuff homily in italian rather than traditional latin and wore a simple white cassock instead of the fancy red cape worn by pope benedict at his first mass. cardinal timothy dolan says humility is what this pontiff is all about. it was a great sense of joy and peace and resignation. just sort of a sense of boy, god got us through this and provides for his church.
press it down. oh. and then give this a good cut in half. oh, yeah. i know you like things on a stick. so when you eat these things when you eat these you get all messy. i got it. getting messy now. little bites, put it on a stick. so it won t run all over you. these are a mess. cut them up, party favors. dunk it in sauces. you know what i love about this whole thing. food from my favorite city, new orleans, made by my favorite guest on the overnight. thank you, tim. absolutely. a man of many talents. we will look back at major breaking news stories you have covered throughout the years. this guy can actually be serious, if you can believe it. we did do some news now and then. we re going to keep partying. there is a whole lot going on here we have to take advantage. come on back! advantage. come on back!
to get here to do this. tim, i am forever grateful. i wouldn t miss this for the world. you are good people. so is willis. he came out of retirement for the tenth time to come here and be at the bar. sunny hostin, one of my loves. absolutely fantastic. yes, cannot wait to have the robarita coming up. a little side note, guess what? i will share this quick. the first suit and tie that i wore on this show july 12th, 2010. and i wore it again tonight because my, my, my thought on life is no matter where you end up never forget where you started. look at you. i wanted to come full circle tonight. we are doing it going back to the beginning. it still fits. it s been tailored a little bit. you gained 800 pounds on this shift. you will see. you will see. all right, we got to get to some news. start with the running of the bulls, wall street hitting a
she received an award last week for saving the pilot s life. quick thinking. wow. all right, still ahead. you probably already know this. this is rob s last day. go on. you know you want to go. all right. and sending him off in style and with alcohol of course. there he goes. off to the bar. and the party is just getting started. you are watching world news now. whoa! what? what? yeah! announcer: world news now weather brought to you by finish quantum powerball. quantum powerball. it s happening now. people are switching to finish.
this morning on world news now a new beginning. pope francis opens his papacy with prayer. this morning, we re getting a sense of who he is and what his priorities as pope might be. it s friday, march 15th. announcer: from abc news this is world news now. good morning, everybody, on my final day, this final friday of the show. hard to believe it is slowly, i think, sinking in. i m rob nelson. how long has it been? 2 years, 8 months and 3 days. not that i am counting. 4 hours, 3 minutes, 22 seconds. all of it i have loved. that s right. we have a whole lot in store. stick with us. absolutely. rob. no idea what is coming on. bring it on. let s go. i m diana perez. we ll have much more on the pope s first day. and what may lie ahead. and first a look at the other stories this morning.