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Government policy. >> intelligence officials say iran wants nuclear program for security and regional influenced ing that they just dont know whether a final decision will ultimately be made to build a nuclear weapon, shep. >> shepard: and al qaeda came up as well, right, cat? >> thats right. al qaedas core leadership in pakistan is on the decline. lawmakers were told ability to strike inside the u.s. in doubt. al qaeda ideology is finding new followers in north and west africa. with failed plot...

Elections do have cobs sequences. >> while repealing obama care fires up conservatives, so does a balanced budget. paul ryan says he thinks he can do it by 2023. shep? >> shepard: i mentioned two plans. the other one comes from the democrats who are blasting congressman ryans plan while showing their own, right? >> thats right. three years in a row, they do not like the paul ryan budget plan, senator patty murray is due to unveil her blueprint tomorrow. she would cut spending by $975 billion. sh...

Compromise candidate. somebody who wasnt strong in the beginning but came out winning. shep? >> shepard: amy kellogg off saint peters square for us this early wednesday morning in rome. archdiocese agreed to pay $10 million to settle four cases of sex clergy abuse. cases that happened under the watch of the former l.a. bishop mahoney who is now at the vatican to elect a new pope. timing is interesting it revolves around michael baker. is he right now in prison for molesting a little boy in 2007....

Saying 105 terror related arrests vitter actually all tried in criminal courts. >> shepard: catherine herridge in washington tonight. thank you. its now day two of the conclave here in rome. voting for the new pope is set to begin in just a few hours. while the cardinals may not know who will become the next leader of the church there are plenty of folks making decisions. book makers in great britain say people have spent a little less than a billion dollars betting on the outcome of the conclav...

System. its voyage of 100,000 years comes to a close tonight when we can see it and it will be visible with the naked eye for just about 15 minutes, shepard. >> steve harrigan in south florida tonight. steve, thanks. mars once had it all for life. thats what the folks at nasa are saying now. scientists reporting the mars recovery curiosity collected a ancient rock sample a month ago. new analysis support preemptive life. answers one of the missions fundamental missions the habitat planet flouris...

With anybody. i make sure they know what they are doing. >> shepard: he and the pilot trained together for two months. thats a fox watch across america. >> shepard: alligators make great shoes and great belts. one in arizona though had to learn to doggy pedal after another alligator bit his tail off. now it has a prosthetic tail? why i have no clue. that helps get along. 3 feet long and attached with my loan straps. the gator took it extremely well. >> the first time we put it on, he walked stra...

Course eats a golferna, is a press conference. shep? >> shepard: and with recent history as his guide, this guy was afraid the worse. >> yeah. because he had just seen that story about the florida man who died you were talking about there. he said when he was inside that sink hole, the dirt started coming in and he thought any moment the walls would collapse. and because he dislocated his shoulder, mark couldnt pull himself out with the rope or the ladder. one of his buddies went in after a him....

Can remember. staffers can tell us he can see the dome from his window and on 23 years on this plan met nasa t. has never gone dark it has nothing to do with the conclave. probably just an electrical problem. at any rate, tonight the lights on part of of the tower are back on but still dark right up there on top. amy kellogg though he in the light for us. amy, lots of disappointed people in st. peters square today but not a surprise, really. >> >> thats right. shepherd shepard. there was a reall...

Vaticanistaas thought. we wanted to find out what the faithful are looking as they look to the new upon terrific. -- i would like to see american catholics start to get back to church. it would be really good for them. >> and, you know, shep, the american cardinals here in town, the electors have said that they really think the next pope should be a pastoral pope, shep? >> shepard: a lot of talk, amy b rks who may be the top contender. of course, only the cardinals know because they are the only...

>> shepard: deja vu. mike emanuel on capitol hill. thanks. it could be another george bush in public office. george p. bush 36-year-old grandson of bush 41 and the nephew of president bush 43. today he toicially entered the 2014 race for texas land commissioner. a little known office but a very powerful one in the lone star state. others including the current lt. governor have used it as a stepping stone to higher state office. george p. bush is a spanish speaking attorney whose mother is from n...