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>> here is your shot of the morning, st. patricks day pets all dressed up, whether it is your dog, cat, rabbit. what do you find a hat that small? you can e-mail us your pet pictures or tweet us. send in your pet photos this morning. tucker and ali, the more ridiculous, the better, right? >> that is the only criteria. >>alisyn: they need to wear sunglasses. while we are celebrating st. patricks day we are also celebrating a foundation named by combining st. patricks and bald raising money for ch...

Our vatican expert and cnn contractor is also the news director of catholic television network. and roberto sid from miami beach, florida. he is also from argentina and you met the man who is now pope last week. and father hillgardiner is here with me at st. patricks. raymond, let me start with you. he came in second last time. youve always talked about this as a horse race. now he is pope francis. who is this man? >> well, i think he called himself pope francis after st. francis of assisi. the ...

Time, not this time. so when he walked out to that balcony, i thought wow. this group saw something in this man that they think the church needs now and they said were going to give him to you. >> he wasnt in discussion. earlier chris cuomo said on our air he talked to a retired cardinal and the retired cardinals advice to chris was you need to focus on bergoglio. youre missing out that you havent been discussing him. i dont know the source, which retired cardinal it was. he was certainly right ...

St. patricks. hes still a young man. he dismissed his own chances but whats the mood there? >> a lot of new yorkers were hopeful. even though the archbishop of new york, timothy dolan, was not one of the top possible front runners, boston preceded him, he was spoken of as being a humble man but catholics of new york city are very excited. theres a huge population of catholics in new york city but also a huge populations of tourists. we spoke with argentinaians in their glory. people from latin a...

20/20. you can go back to the unprecedented surgeries within a year which elevated about almost 30 cardinals which will be his successor. one of them among the cardinals but more telling might be an interview he gave about three years ago to a german journalist which the journalist asked if he would consider resigning and the pope said, yes, if a pope clearly realize he is no longer fiscally, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office and he has the right and un...

Great to be back with you. the 85-year-old pontiff says his poor health is the reason for his resignation. that could leave rome without a pope for nearly a month. martha: lauren green outside st. patricks cathedral with how catholics are reacting today. what is the clergy in the united states is reacting to this? >> reporter: the realization they could have a new pope by easter which is march 31st. global population of 1.2 billion catholics is trying to absorb the news that pope benedict will s...

atlanta georgia. in all, more than two dozen victims. most of them strangled. by may, 1981, the police and f.b.i. were hiding in the brush beside and below theiver bridges. this was toe be the last niekt. almost the last hour. >> i heard the splash. >> reporter: bob campbell, a police recruit, jumped to his feet. >> i was really startled. it sounded like a body entering water. >> he looked up at the bridge. >> and i saw brake lights of a car. i saw red lights. the car started slowly mo...

So nothings alien to me. im part of you. im part of your family. and by the way, i had difficulties in my life as well. i happened to be born homeless. there wasnt room for me. all the angst, all the suffering, all the tears thats associated with the human condition, god took on in what we call the incarnation, it was what christmas is all about so were not alone. we need god. god is with us. he knows what were going through. if that doesnt give us consolation and hope, i dont know what does. >>...

Were thrilled when the world celebrates christmas with us. >> and this, of course, christmas week and it is always a pleasure. >> thanks, glad you feel this way! dont wait until easter to have me back, all right? >> all right. what are you doing on valentines day? >> how about st. patricks day? >> all right. >> well be busy that day. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. blessed christmas, steve. >> thank you, merry christmas to you, sir. >> all right. straight ahead, wow, this is a change. the ...

Mccain will be on the show, the man who presided over that uproar at the house yesterday, hell be on our show. congressman fitzpatrick. >> christmas is a couple of days away and the guy that presides over st. patricks cathedral, archbishop dolan is in the house and sharing his christmas message to our vast audience. >> everybody pales in comparison to archbishop dolan. hes amazing. >> ill put a good word in for you. >> ill need it. >> nato revealing what caused a deadly coalition attack that kil...