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A lot of people here have come after work, youre in the seeing a lot of international people, aside from those who happen to be in town for a holiday. this is, of course, an unscheduled event. so you -- we met lots of international people today from all over the world, and it just literally been up there for the last couple of hours. two hours, 7:42 that smoke came through. they have been inside for the past two hours. we werent expecting to see, lets face it, white smoke tonight. we may not hav...

Actually hyperaware of her son saying, you cant make it? >> an increased ability in perception makes you better at doing x, y and z job than a woman than someone else. have to leave it. we have to go to rome momentarily. thank you. your book is "the top dog: the science of winning and losing," thank you very much. we are watching and waiting to see possible smoke being emitted from this chimney this is vatican city, conclave day number one, as the search and the vote for the next pope here is on...

This conclave. there is a chimney somewhere amidst the night sky here in rome, vatican city. might there be a vote? might we see black or white smoke? well let you know any minute now. meantime, what women want, the question is top of mind after two very powerful women are flexing some serious muscle. you have on one hand, sheryl sandberg, coo of facebook, the latest "time" magazine cover star. she came out with new book it is every where the crux of her less message, lean in, pushing women to b...

Peters square, awaiting, perhaps a sign from this conclave on day number one. anderson cooper and chris cuomo are live in rome. gentlemen, hello. >> well, we are here, looking at about as you nunique a spectacl we have had. a chimney, but the significance is huge. on top of the sistine chapel, were waiting to see if ballots are burned tonight, if the color is dark, we know there is no pope. if it is white, we know there is. as simple as that. we must wait, with all the technology in the world we...

Even this kind of almost comical way of burning things. they used to use straw, and now we wait for smoke that we almost can never decipher, we wait for bells that ring incongruously and yet it adds to the mystique of the event, whether or not you subscribe to the faith is irrelevant. it is such an interesting spectacle that were sitting here looking at a monitor off camera now and wondering is that smoke? what color is it? >> for all of those assembled in the square, it is not easy telling, if ...

Technical benefits that come from that, benefits everyone, really. >> and, again, my thanks to all three of them for talking to me from space. and coming up, as we saw moments ago, no new pope. we saw the thick, black smoke billowing from the chimney high above vatican city. what does this mean as we enter into day number two of the conclave as it is evening time in italy? well check in with chris cuomo live in rome next. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi tha...

First vote a decision, any sort of white smoke. in fact, i spoke with an italian gentleman right next to me, i said, the smoke came out. i asked him, are you surprised? he said, no, actually, i had dinner with a cardinal last night, and i knew it would be black smoke. so not a lot of surprise here. but there were a lot of people. in fact, what is going on right now, betweif we turn the camera, theopened the barriers to allow all the people who were crowded into the square for this occasion to ge...

You have to just say, im willing to embrace it, whatever it is. >> valerie harper talks with piers morgan tonight at 9:00 eastern. thats it for me. "cnn newsroom" continues with brooke baldwin. ♪ hi there. im brooke baldwin. happening right now, the vote for the pope. the eyes of the world are on rome as we are watching the vatican. and that chimney that rises from inside this sistine chapel, we are waiting for the worlds most famous, most anticipated smoke. you know the drill by now. white ...

A surprise is how much smoke came out of that chimney. thats been something that is a constant source of consternation, with all the technology today, we have this chimney, cant tell what color the smoke is, that was not a problem this time. it is part of the majesty and part of the antiquity of this, it makes such great theater. so we didnt expect a pope tonight. there has been popes elected on the first vote of the conclave, but it hasnt been for a very long time. now, we wait for each vote, b...

Now they have a tandem stove system with one stove that has these chemical packets in it and they join the main chimney of the stove that burns the ballots and that chemical is supposed to change the color of the smoke, but even that gets very difficult to decipher. then on top of that darkness, humidity, rain and hail and all the other things we have seen today makes it very confusing. then what we do, brooke, is we wait for bells. the problem is bells ring a lot in rome. you dont know if this ...