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Im zoraida sambolin. Starting point with Soledad Obrien starts now. Good morning, welcome, everybody. Starting point this morning, the popes final audience. Leader of the Catholic Church addresses 50,000 followers in st. Peters square, a day before he officially resigns. This historic moment and what it means for the Catholic Church. Christiane amanpour joins us live from rome. And thousands of people waking up to a snowy mess and canceled flights and bracing for more ice and snow. Two days away...

Plus three years and counting that is how long american pastor abidini has been jailed in iran because of his christian faith. His wife is back on capitol hill pressing the Obama Administration and congress it make his freedom a nonnegotiable part of any nuclear deal with iran. My conversation about his condition coming up. Welcome to americas news ahead quarters from washington. Nice to be with you. Im leeland vittert. Thank you for spending your sunday with us. Two convicted murderers are stil...

A bad name . I was clear i was not happy about the title. Chicago plus iraq equals chiraq. The director is dodging complaints that the title glorifies street violence. Lets talk. Live in the cnn news room. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. We begin with an International Manhunt to try to find two coldblooded killers. Authorities scrambling to find richard matt and david sweat who made an escape from the upstate new york prison. The inmates used power tools to saw thr...

This is todays Worldwide Exchange. Im ross westgate. European stocks plunge as the prospects of political gridlock in italy sends jitters through the market. Italian banking stocks leading the way lower. The center Left Coalition win tess lower house, but no one has secured an obvious majority in the senate. Sylvia berlusconi has hinted he could be open to an alliance. Japans big exporters like sony and rico take it on the chin. And ben bernanke heads to capitol hill today to try to provide some...

Automatic spending cuts known as sequester, the remarks hours after Speaker Boehner called on the white house and Senate Democrats for a plan to avoid the deep across the board cuts. The house on two occasions has passed a plan to replace the sequester. Its time for the Senate Democrats to do their work. Its time for the president to offer his ideas about how to replace the sequester. There is no reason that the jobs of thousands of americans who work in National Security or education or clean e...

Thank you, andrew for that. Also scorching tonight for baseballs annual allstar game hosted at home of the mets. New york city field. Hometown hero. The david wright launched five home runs in last nights home run derby. That wasnt nearly enough when it was all said and done. A guy who isnt even on an allstar roster was a really big winner. Oh, no. This name will be coming up. Oaklands hey, jack, help me out. Whats the name . Yoenis that guy you see on the screen, he hit a total of 32 home runs ...

Creator of the app proved a challenge. We eventually located him in northeastern china where he was visiting. By skype he shared his reaction to finding out his app was used in an oscar nominated film. Its crazy. We are pretty thrilled. Reporter hearing about his apps connection to the film inspired him to watch searching for sugar man. What did you think . Its quite a touching film. Reporter hong is a fan of the movie by beng lou is a fan of the app. Nischelle turner, cnn, hollywood. Pretty coo...

Chemical weapons. And does he think the United States will actually strike. A live report from the middle east ahead. Also, Congress Gets back to work tomorrow. Ill ask one congressman why he is still on the fence. Ill ask a senator who backs a strike. Why now . Good sunday afternoon. Im craig melvin. We start in washington where the white house is working hard to convince congress and the American Public, white house chief of staff, the white house chief of staff, denis mcdone now, and charlie ...

What their scandals and responses say about all of us. And see something, do something. A new group helping ordinary people perform extraordinary acts for strangers. Were going to meet the 22 founder of todays big idea. First, though, we start with that deadly shooting in florida. Police are right now trying to figure out why a gunman shot and killed six people at an apartment complex overnight. Two other hostages were rescued by police. Very bad night for these people in this building, for this...

The boarder. Tens of thousands of children from Central America arriving illegally swamping the system for holding them determining if they can stay here, if not, sending them home. Their arrival bringing protest to the streets of the Southern California city of march yietta sparking a brush fire. President obama taking heat from republicans who say the actions caused the crisis and his inaction is worsening it. Some are calling this president obamas katrina moment for the western swing and no p...