now, for the past three years, we have all worked very hard to repair and renew and restore our beloved saint patrick s cathedral. thanks to the workers whom you saw outside and to the extraordinary generosity and leadership of so many people here. we have seen this repair and restoration as an invitation from jesus to the spiritual renewal of ourselves and his church as you have asked. your presence this happy evening renews all of us and provides a special blessing for all our work for this cathedral we so love. and now we ask you, holy father, at the end of this vets vespers to bless our
morning comes to give you thanks and praise. we ask this to our lord, jesus christ your son, who with you and the holy spirit one god forever and ever. amen. welcome to saint patrick s cathedral. [ applause ]
will be heavily patrolled, as i mentioned, fifth avenue with an 8-foot tall fence lining it. never seen anything like that. cross streets with no travel. around the residence, all the roads there will be closed for varying periods of time from now and the next couple of days. on the agenda tonight in an hour and a half evening saint patrick s cathedral, which the pope will find to be sparkling. our religion correspondent mentioned earlier she never realized it was a shining white. we thought it was gray. it has been cleaned up to the tune of $173 million of renovations and welcomes the pope with open arms. if you ve never been to saint patricks, you probably know you can walk up at any time, light a candle, and enjoy the splendor of the magnificent building. tonight about 500 people will wait on the steps and another
reporter: the u.s. military is keeping a close eye on all of this at home there is growing concern that as the winds begin to shift to the west, ash could fall on the northeast coast of canada and the united states. balooks like it was run overy a gravel truck or something. latino members of congress are urging the governor to stop a bill that requires police to question anyone if there is suspicion they are in the country illegal. we ll talk to a state lawmaker from arizona, on opposite sides of the issue. a missing florida boy turns up safe and sound at saint
appetite for spending, so we as american consumers don t have to cut our appetite for spending. greg gregg steve moore of the wall street journal, thank you, steve. see you soon. martha: a major explosion rocks on oil big that is 52 miles out to sea, this is the new video we re just getting in on this story. the coast guard is feverishly working to rescue workers, but there s a desperate search to find 11 workers who disappeared in this explosion after it happened, and they re trying to evacuate those. the coast guard will gave us the latest. gregg: a three-year-old scared and abandoned at saint patrick s cathedral. an amazing story. we ll tell you about it, coming up.