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In rome, cardinals around the world are gathering for the first round of talks before electing the first pope. the cardinals who began the meeting with a prayer will pick the date for voting and identify the top candidates to lead the worlds 1.2 billion catholics. amy kellogg live with an update from rome. >> reporter: hi, megyn, the cardinals didnt give any indication that they want today speed this up at all, but they did say that they would like to be back in their dioces in time for holy wee...

Violently one way or the other and then you have the potential for the wing tip tanks to strike the ground and potentially be punctured and sparks fly and then a real problem. >> megyn: this is just breaking were getting word the lear jet with the nose gear problem is diverting away from this airport to lambert airport. i want to get to trace gallagher with more, trace? >> reporter: were trying to find out where lambert airport is, megyn and-- im sorry? so, st. louis international airport. we we...

Plane to be light and to be able to slow down to a very good speed before it actually touches down gently on the nose gear. >> megyn: and jon scott, were told that thats exactly an lear jet that the landing problem is doing, circling and burning off fuel i imagine in that scenario how donning would it it take? and any danger to those below with the fuel? >> no danger really on the ground. as long as youre able to dissipate that in the air. and, yeah, theyre going to -- as trace said, you dont wa...

You, possibly, and of course, its going to cause some major delays on the roads and across the air. and here is your march snowstorm for tuesday. theres the travel impact, the heavy snow for chicago, minneapolis through portions of the ohio river valley and then the bulls eye between west of the d.c. area, although some of the computer models are saying 6 to 12 for d.c., west of that, 18-24 inches and then were going to have to watch this storm very carefully as it kind of lingers off shore, so,...

Warming would probably be the presidents most important legacy project so she is carrying with him, his hopes and the hopes of liberal america for making this historic change. >> megyn: well, and then, so the third way is using the epa and thats what the president is now going to do in his second term, but his push on green energy projects and the loans hes made to these green companies and so on, it really hasnt been that successful in many cases. i mean, weve seen that in the news for four yea...

That turned out not to be true and "the washington post" gave it four pinochios. and the president himself said this about the janitors at the capitol last week. >> starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the capitol, now that congress has left, somebodys going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. theyre going to have less pay, the janitors, the security guards. they just got a pay cut and they got to figure out how to man...

Manuals it to he see what else might be available to them. not clear to me whether this is more than just a light on the dashboard, on the panel. >> megyn: this could be an electrical malfunction telling there was a problem when there isnt. >> i hate to he remind people. there was an eastern airlines jet that crashed in the everglades in the 70s because the pilots, they had a light off, the indicator light at that tells them the nose gear wasnt done and got so distracted by that, bumped a couple...

What you dont want is the rear gear collapsing and the wing tips coming down and striking one of the fuel tanks on the tip of that lear jet. >> megyn: just as we look the at the plane and you can see the bubble on the wing, thats the fuel tank, jon? >> thats the fuel tanks on this design of the jet. >> megyn: looks like theyre going back up and its another fly-by. stand by one second because weve got trace with breaking news on this, trace. >> reporter: i just wanted to jump in here quickly megy...

Either left or right, however, theyll be able to, i think, control any. and keep it pretty much on the runway. i dont-- im not worried about that at all and if they do lower the nose without the nose gear down, there could be sparks, a slight danger of fire. looks like everything is down and they should be okay. >> megyn: this doesnt scare you. >> no. >> megyn: everybody is concerned watching something like that, but as airplane problems go, you dont view this as potentially very severe one? >> ...

This on the belly of the airplane, which is very possible, im sorry, toss it back? >> yeah, trace, well take it back to new york for one minute here and tell our viewers, listen were going on a seven second delay like we do in these situations often, lest anything happen, we certainly hope it does not. bear with us, as we put the feed on seven second delay. all right. and the question is, trace. what kind of -- where is the fuel in this lear jet? our own jon scott is a pilot, just e-mailed me, s...